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- 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... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...on, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with ...
5: ...carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that c...
8: ... carbon. This process, known as [[smelting]], was first applied to metals with lower [[melting]] point...
11: ...dy-centered cubic to a [[face-centered cubic]] configuration, called '''[[austenite]]''' or '''γ...
13: ...cally [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the strength of ferrite. Martensite has ... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
17: ...on d'Abbadie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - 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 of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...y, especially during State occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her ...
13: ...s May was close to her mother and acted as an unofficial secretary, helping to organise parties and so...
17: ...d sense of duty. Albert Victor was Princess May's first cousin once removed; May was the daughter of H...
29: ...r><td>[[Mary, Princess Royal]] <td>[[25 April]] [[1897]] <td> [[28 March]] [[1965]]<td> married Henry La...
42: ...ng [[Australia]], the Duke and Duchess opened the first session of the Australian Parliament, when the... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...the [[United States Senate| Senate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at...
5: ...use of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband,...
11: ...the Maine voters rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate ... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...eties (the [[NUWSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
9: ...the sister of [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], the first English female doctor, and the mother of [[Phi... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1902]]) was a social activist and a leading figure of the early [[women's rights]] movement in t...
6: ...Anthony and [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]] published the first of three volumes of the ''[[History of Woman S...
14: ...as the daughter of Colonel James Livingston, an officer in the Revolutionary War. Elizabeth Cady Stan...
19: *''Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897'' ISBN 1591020093 - Ouida (1938 bytes)
13: * ''Findelkind'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1...
16: * ''Held in Bondage'' (1863) (first published with the title ''Granville de Vigne'...
23: * ''Muriella; or, Le Selve''(1897) - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
9: ...r]] to King [[Charles V of France|Charles V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴienne du Castel, who bec...
11: ... 1405, as she herself declares, she composed some fifteen important works, chiefly in prose, besides m...
13: ...eurs du sayge roy Charles'' (1405), valuable as a first-hand picture of Charles V and his court.
15: Her ''Mutation de fortune'', in which she finds room for a great deal of [[history]] and [[phi...
25: ...''Chaucerian and other Pieces'', ed. W. W. Skeat, 1897). A translation of her ''Epitre d'Othda'' was mad... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...ornia]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkins Medical ...
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
21: ...as four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
50: ... in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...ious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocean]].
6: ...ility to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mothe...
8: ...om some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her first [[airplane]], a [[Kinner Airstar]]. After her ...
10: ...the [[White House]]. From then on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the C...
16: ...he took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started plann... - 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...
9: ... London]]), which was opened to women in 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the ...
11: ... 1908 she was elected mayor of [[Aldeburgh]], the first woman mayor in the whole of England. The move... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
2: ...g wrapped into a coiled form. The instrument was first developed in France in about 1650 from the ''c...
10: ...mile of a Miniature in the Manuscript of Phoebus (Fifteenth Century).]]
14: ...lements of a harmonic series. This interpolation finally made the horn a true melodic instrument, not...
21: ...roduced a prototype of the "'''double horn'''" in 1897.
32: ...flat double horn with an F-alto descant, adding a fifth valve to an already complex instrument. While... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...d is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was ...
7: ...head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nation...
11: == Requirements to hold office ==
14: ...mmigrants to American society. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because ...
16: ...wo four-year terms or a maximum of ten years in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency prev... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>
10: [[March 4]], [[1893]] – [[March 3]], [[1897]]</td></tr>
16: [[William McKinley]] ([[1897]])</td></tr>
21: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (siste...
25: ...], [[List of leaders who died in office|died in office]])<br> - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
1: ...roposed by a ''[[The Times|Times]]'' article in [[1897]].
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
61: ... established coastal ports for the increasing traffic in [[slave]]s destined for the American continen...
67: ...tal destruction of the Biafran populace, Philip Effiong, Chief of Staff of the rebel army accepted the...
71: ...elected [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] as President in its first elections in 16 years. Obasanjo and his party ... - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[English language|English]]
46: ...rs of the [[Shona]], who account for roughly four fifths of the country's population today. Ruins at [...
52: ... encroachment on their native lands in [[1896]]-[[1897]].
60: ...rrilla]] activities fighting minority rule intensified, the Smith regime opened negotiations with the ...
62: ...h Africa]] as well, lacked credibility among significant sectors of the African population. The Muzore... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom...
46: ...inority Languages]]. In each of these, the UK's official name is as follows:
52: ...>6</sup> Official estimate provided by the UK [[Office for National Statistics]]. As of April 2005, th...
54: ...untry" to "state", "nation", "union", etc, please first contribute to the extensive discussion of this...
58: ...ded Wales]] as a [[principality]]) with those of, first, [[Kingdom of Scotland]] and then [[Kingdom of... - Flag of Connecticut (1242 bytes)
3: ...ecticut General Assembly]] approved the flag in [[1897]].
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