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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
69: | [[1866]] — [[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — ...
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
6: ...[[Blantyre, South Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]] and first studied [[medicine]] and [[theology]] at the [...
12: ...d Kingdom|Victoria]]). Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey ...
19: ...of the time, and Livingstone experienced great difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa...
22: ...rce, but the matter was still debated vigorously. Finding the [[Lualaba River]], which feeds the [[Con...
25: ...nley]], who had been sent in a publicity stunt to find him by the ''New York Herald'' newspaper in [[1... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
5: *[[Jeppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
11: *[[Aaron]], (ca. 1300 BC), [[Bible|Biblical]] figure - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
42: ...es Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth...
27: ...ng unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonies. In [[Cana... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...e [[Old Masters|old masters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ...ly, but art supplies and models were difficult to find in the small town. Her father continued to resi...
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [[1872]]. ...
20: ...]]). [[Mary Cassatt]]. Oil on canvas. [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].]]
21: ...orward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified herself with any art movement and experimented ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of the "Scenes of Clerical Life" in ''[[Blackw...
15: ...of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness reside...
33: * ''[[Felix Holt, the Radical]]'' (1866)
49: She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry. - Ouida (1938 bytes)
12: * ''Chandos '' (1866)
13: * ''Findelkind'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1...
16: * ''Held in Bondage'' (1863) (first published with the title ''Granville de Vigne'... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
3: ...eminist]], the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
5: ...inburgh]] Extra-Mural school. She had no less difficulty in gaining a qualifying diploma to practise ...
7: ...gree of M.D. The same year she was elected to the first [[London School Board]], at the head of the po...
11: ... 1908 she was elected mayor of [[Aldeburgh]], the first woman mayor in the whole of England. The move... - Matthew Henson (1087 bytes)
2: ...as an [[American]] explorer who may have been the first to reach the [[Geographic North Pole]] with [[... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
7: ...[[clarinetist]] working in Paris, and was first officially revealed to the public in the patent of [[1...
9: ...s the most likely origin (doing so results in a definitely saxophone-like sound). Sax worked in his fa...
11: ...re or modify the instruments. After 1866 many modifications were introduced by a number of manufacture...
16: With a simple fingering system, the modern saxophone is commonly c...
25: ...ich more easily "cuts through" a big band or amplified instruments. While high baffles (and the resul... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t...
53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
10: | '''Term of Office:'''
27: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''
42: ...impeachment|impeach]] him in [[1868]]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently...
48: ...n of the Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses).
53: == National office == - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1869]] – [[Mar...
13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Julia Grant]]</td></tr>
32: ...nd although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon graduatio...
39: ...e agent in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], and finally an assistant in the leather shop owned by hi...
41: ...r|Fort Sumter]], Captain Grant arrived in [[Springfield, Illinois]], with a company of men he had rais... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...d resulted in the consensus that the country's *official* name is now "Canada", not anything else. If ...
10: ...ench language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] population estimate for [[as of 2005|June 2...
15: ...Minister]], who is the head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
17: ...f Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism in Canada|bilingual]]:
21: ... and [[hydroelectric power]] capacity. Its diversified [[Economy of Canada|economy]] relies heavily on... - Romania (19812 bytes)
14: official_languages = [[Romanian language|Romanian]] |
68: ...]]. [[Union]] of Tranylvania with Romania was ratified in the [[Treaty of Trianon]] in [[1920]].
74: ...resident on [[December 12]], [[2004]], and took office [[December 20]]. Traian Băsescu managed to...
86: ...ve branch, is also elected by popular vote, every five years (until 2005, four years).
164: ... major [[agriculture|agricultural]] and [[finance|financial]] sector reforms. - Hungary (18459 bytes)
14: official_languages = [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] ...
57: ... other provinces, was affected by the migrations. First came the [[Huns]], who built up under [[Attila...
65: ...om]] and secured civil rights. The Austrians were finally able to prevail only with Russian help.
67: ..., [[1859]]) and Prussia ([[Battle of K?gratz]], [[1866]]), Hungary would eventually, in [[1867]], manage...
69: ...y. In June, the [[Treaty of Trianon]] was signed, fixing Hungary's borders. Compared with the pre-war ... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' |
43: ... English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundamental Orders of Con...
49: ...Lieberman]] (Democrat). Connecticut currently has five [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Connectic...
56: ... to the rolling mountains and farms of the [[Litchfield Hills]] and the casinos of [[Southeastern Conn...
65: ...sts, new residents, and internal state pride. Fairfield County's "[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
39: ...variant of the name that became ''Tennessee'' was first recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish ex...
41: ...rtain. Some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier [[Yuchi]] or possibly [[Creek...
43: ...South Carolina]], who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the [[1750s]]. In [[178...
46: ...e cultural groups that inhabited the area between first settlement and the time of European contact ar...
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