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- Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
1: [[Image:Danielwebster2.jpe|thumb|right|Daniel Webster]]
3: ...itics of the United States|U.S. politics]] in the first half of the [[19th century]]. Like [[Henry Cla...
9: ... an orator, he is recorded as having been so petrified at school that he simply refused to stand up an...
11: ...]]. In [[1807]] his father took over the Boscawen firm when Webster opened a new practice in [[Portsmo...
13: In [[1808]] he married his first wife, Grace Fletcher, who died in [[1828]]. Wi...
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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: '''King Arthur''' is an important figure in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]], wh...
7: ...nthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not ...
9: ...e reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...to [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]].
19: Arthur first appears in [[Welsh literature]]. In a survivin... - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
18: ...is performed to actually clean food; some studies find that raccoons engage in it when water is not av...
24: ...ressively trapped for their fur. People such as [[Daniel Boone]] and [[Davy Crockett]] are well known for ... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...ngdom of Great Britain|Kingdom]], Anne became the first Sovereign of [[Great Britain]]. She continued ...
15: ...ames, Duke of York, (afterwards James II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Ed...
17: ...Catholicism. Princess Anne, however, declared her firm adherence to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continue...
22: ...te monarch), Mary II dismissed him from all his offices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed fro...
24: ...our by restoring Lord Marlborough to all of his offices. In return, Princess Anne publicly supported W... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century. She immigrated ...
13: ... with [[Alexander Berkman]], who was an important figure of the anarchist movement in the United State...
21: .... After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinement for several weeks, they were released due t...
32: ...y may even have shared an apartment (see also the film [[Reds]]).
38: ...n]] to support the [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]], known as the... - 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... - 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...
21: ...heart of ''[[Middlemarch]]''. By the time of ''[[Daniel Deronda]]'', Eliot's sales were falling off, and ...
43: * ''[[Daniel Deronda]]'' (1876)
49: She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...ns accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost nothin...
8: ... [[Eastern Orthodox]] traditions built around the figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult der...
13: ...mp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three months Mary returned to her ...
17: ...is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, an...
31: ...and Eastern Orthodox tradition, between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension, in either Je... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
7: ... (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
15: ...tent with new science may be considered to be the first instance of what is now called [[New Age]] thi...
54: *''The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky'' by Daniel Caldwell [http://esotericworld.net]
59: ...by [[Manly P. Hall]]), [http://correiorosacruz.netfirms.com/blavatsky.htm]
67: ...s a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, wi... - Violet (plant) (3474 bytes)
24: ...merica, such as the [[Yellow Pansy]] of the [[Pacific]] coasts.
31: ...icolored. In addition, the shape of the petals defines more species; for example, some violets have a...
33: ...ksii'', first collected by [[Joseph Banks]] and [[Daniel Solander]] on the [[James Cook|Cook]] voyage to [... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ... York]] since [[January 3]], [[2001]]. She was [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1993]] to [...
12: ...e Rose Law Firm in 1976. Her partners at the law firm included Webster Hubbell, who would serve in th...
14: ==First Lady of Arkansas==
15: ...r]] of Arkansas, and Hillary served as Arkansas's First Lady for a total of 12 years. In [[1980]] the...
17: ...s part of his successful campaign to regain the office, Hillary Rodham changed her last name to Clinto... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
8: ...fe conditions for trade and manufacture, and a unified cultural and educational milieu of far-ranging ...
19: ...d were sometimes mutually contradictory). The benefit of feudalism however, was its resiliency, and th...
21: ...uered by [[Belisarius]], but this was a political fiction under Lombard rule and became strongly dispu...
23: ... a first European "identity," [[Christendom]], unified until the separation of [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Or...
30: ... previously pagan regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation o... - Bess Truman (3712 bytes)
1: [[Image:First_lady_bess_truman.jpg|right|frame|]]
3: ...an'''", was the wife of [[Harry S. Truman]] and [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1945]] to [...
5: ...rld" for him. They attended the same schools from fifth grade through high school.
7: ...gaged before Lieutenant Truman left for the battlefields of France in 1918. They were married on [[Jun...
9: ...ho managed to look on with composure, was the new First Lady. - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
6: ...slightly at the end. However, there were only six finger-holes and two keys.
8: ... some regions "curtall", as it was shortened significantly). The English name of "bassoon" comes from...
10: ...omposer-performers—spurred on the further refinement of the bassoon. Increased sophistication bo...
16: ... the finger holes are drilled obliquely to aid in fingering, and wooden instruments are lined with a h...
20: ...even [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s famously difficult opening solo in [[The Rite of Spring]] only a... - 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... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...ary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first [[President of the United States]] under the [...
21: ...generally recognized as one of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolut...
26: ... he trained as a [[surveyor]] (obtaining his certificate from the [[College of William and Mary]]) and...
31: ... now commissioned a [[lieutenant colonel]] in the First Virginia Regiment, led a mission into the Ohio...
33: ...ton was acclaimed as a hero, and he commanded the First Virginia Regiment throughout the rest of war. ... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
16: | vicepresident=[[Daniel D. Tompkins]]
18: ...], [[1758]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[President of the U...
24: ...alist]]s in the [[Virginia Convention]] which ratified the Constitution, and in [[1790]], an advocate ...
38: ...lso Russia must not encroach southward on the Pacific coast. "... the American continents," he stated,...
42: ...ntation to pay off the debts, since then he never financially recovered. As a result, he and his wife ... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ... lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associated with one of the origi...
22: ...When he refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the irate redcoat slashed him with a sword, g...
26: ...ave been "tough as old hickory" wood on the battlefield, which gave him his nickname. The war, and par...
32: ...lection, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first nominee of the [[Democratic Party (United Stat...
34: ...John Adams. Jackson's election represented a significant break from that past. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March...
14: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
22: ...n-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|English]...
27: ...nued in active and successful practice for twenty-five years.
29: His practice made him financially independent, and paved the way for his e... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
15: ...be re-elected since [[James Monroe|Monroe]] and [[Daniel D Tompkins|Tompkins]] in the 1820s.
17: ...ent. Also in his second term Marshall became the first Vice President to conduct [[United States Cabi...
19: ...scertain his condition until their final day in office.
29: ...uipped, "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar."
31: ... He was known to greet citizens walking by his office on the White House tour by asking them to "be k...
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