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1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
   6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
   7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
   8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
   11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
   25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
2. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
   1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
   3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
   7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
   10: ...itain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effic...
   12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh...
3. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
   6: ...ale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
   7: ...d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
   10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
   14: ...ari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
   15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
4. Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
   1: ...hers, who was the queen consort of [[Louis XIV of France]].''
   3: [[Image:MariaTheresa.JPG|frame|H.I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Quee...
   4: ...stria]], and Queen of [[Hungary]] and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when ...
   8: ...g of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him,...
   19: ...nand of Parma|HRH Duke Ferdinand of Parma]] (1751-1802); had issue
5. Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
   2: ...orothy Dix]]) was a tireless social activist who, from the early [[1840s]] to well after the [[America...
   4: ...er as a reformer before the first woman graduated from a U.S. [[medical school]].
   10: ...f the time as a teacher and writer. In any event, friends arranged to have her sent abroad to recover....
   12: ...the healing power of a family-like asylum removed from the pressures of daily life. When she returned ...
   16: ..., following this presentation, the representative from Little Compton announced that Simmons had died....
6. Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
   18: ...nd an American [[statesman]], [[ambassador]] to [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosoph...
   23: ...0]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from families who had settled in [[Virginia]] for se...
   25: ...ch included Jefferson, [[John Adams]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livin...
   27: ...[curriculum]] of which Jefferson also designed. [[Frank E. Grizzard]], Jr., a scholar at the Universit...
   30: ...at the layers of occupation, and draw conclusions from them.
7. John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
   22: ...e]] at the [[University of Leiden]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was ele...
   26: ...list]] to the [[United States Senate]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1803]], until [[June 8]], [[1808...
   28: ...814]], and Minister to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] from [[1815]] to [[1817]]. During this time, Adams a...
   30: ...cquisition of [[Florida]] and in keeping the U.S. from becoming dependent on [[England]]. He is someti...
   37: ...val [[Andrew Jackson]]. Adams served as President from [[March 4]], [[1825]] to [[March 3]], [[1829]]....
8. Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
   25: ...;[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
   27: ...e study of [[law]], completing his preparation in 1802 at [[New York City|New York]], where he studied u...
   29: ... of [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from [[1808]] until [[1813]], when he was removed. I...
   33: ... a Federalist. He had already, in [[1808]], moved from Kinderhook to [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]], and ...
   39: ...ion, where he opposed the grant of [[universal suffrage]]. His course in the Senate was not altogether...
9. Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
   3: ...entative]] and a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Kentucky]] and the ninth [[Vice President of ...
   5: ...as a member of the state House of Representatives from [[1804]]-[[1806]] and again in [[1819]]. He wa...
   7: ...ohn J. Crittenden]], and was reelected and served from [[December 10]], [[1819]] to [[March 3]], [[182...
   9: ...rican-American woman. He served as vice President from March 4, 1837, to March 3, [[1841]].
   11: ...oon after taking his seat. He is interred in the Frankfort Cemetery.
10. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
    8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
    26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
    112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
    134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]]
11. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    46: *[[Frank Yates|Yates, Frank]], ([[1902]]-[[1994]]), statistician
    48: ...[[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
    57: *[[Yazdegerd I of Persia]], from [[399]] to [[420]].
    58: *[[Yazdegerd II of Persia]], from [[438]] to [[457]].
    59: *[[Yazdegerd III of Persia]], from [[632]] to [[651]].
12. Asteroid (24334 bytes)
    1: ...is picture of [[433 Eros]] shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its...
    4: ...tar" + ''-eidos'' "form, shape"), was coined in [[1802]] by Sir [[William Herschel]] shortly after [[Hei...
    8: ...larger than 50 m in diameter, distinguishing them from [[meteoroid]]s, which are typically [[boulder]]...
    14: ...Earth's solar system. As of [[May 23]], [[2005]], from a total of 277,090 minor planets with calculate...
    24: ...s, whereas families are much "tighter" and result from the catastrophic break-up of a large parent ast...
13. Meteorology (19082 bytes)
    10: ...' goes back to the book ''Meteorologica'' (dating from about [[340 BC]]) by [[Aristotle]], who combine...
    14: ...Franklin]]'s kite experiments with [[lightning]]. Franklin was also the first American to keep accurat...
    18: ...ntroduced their systems for classifying clouds ([[1802]]) and wind speeds ([[1806]]), respectively. The ...
    20: ...]], introducing the idea of [[front (meteorology)|front]]s, that is, sharply defined boundaries betwee...
    26: ...sable tool for studying a wide range of phenomena from forest fires to [[El Ni񯝝.
14. History of biology (3053 bytes)
    3: ... by [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] (''Hydrog鯬ogie'', 1802). The word itself appears in the title of Volume ...
    7: ...ought in the field by the independent work of [[Alfred Russel Wallace]].
    9: ...t of evolutionary theory|opposition and support]] from different parts of society.
    11: By [[1953]] [[James Watson]] and [[Francis Crick]] clarified the basic structure of [[D...
    18: .../genomics/human/watson-crick/ James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick. "Letters to ''Nature'': Molecular...
15. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
    12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
    17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
    29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
    59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]])
16. Cloud (9947 bytes)
    14: ...g [[weather_front|warm]] and [[weather_front|cold front]]s,
    22: ...e rapid growth of ice crystals, which precipitate from the cloud and melt as they fall. This process t...
    24: ...front ([[ana-type]] or [[kata-type]] warm or cold front). Orographic uplift also creates variable clou...
    28: ... This system was proposed by [[Luke Howard]] in [[1802]] in a presentation to the [[Askesian Society]].
    31: [[Image:Clouds1.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Clouds (from above)]]
17. Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
    1: {{History of France }}
    3: ..., Restored|restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France]].
    5: ...ugh rarely these days) referred to as the [[Great French War]].
    8: [[Image:Napoleon1.jpg|left|frame|Portrait of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]]]]
    11: ... as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]].
18. List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
    201: [[Context-free grammar]] --
    272: [[Fragmentation]] --
    273: [[Free On-line Dictionary of Computing]] --
    274: [[Free Software Foundation]] --
    275: [[Free software movement]] --
19. Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
    13: ...from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture.
    14: ...al law]], and quickly restored order. He resigned from the army in March 1779 on account of ill health...
    18: ...fe were married for twelve years, until her death from [[cancer]].
    20: ...umel. When she realized her fortune was dwindling from her husband's land speculation, they separated ...
    24: ...n]]. He served in the [[New_York_State_Assembly]] from [[1784]] to [[1785]], but Burr became seriously...
20. History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
    9: ...borough]], [[Leicestershire]] (in [[1789]]). In [[1802]], Jessop opened the [[Surrey Iron Railway]] in s...
    27: ...reetcar|electric railways]] as [[Frank J. Sprague|Frank Sprague]] built the first working electric str...
    36: ...tates, but railroads remain important for hauling freight in the United States, and for passenger tran...
    46: ** [[History of rail transport in France|France]]

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