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- John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
1: [[image:JohnCFremont.jpg|frame|John C. Frémont]]
2: ...dash;[[July 13]], [[1890]]), born '''John Charles Fremon''', was an [[United States|American]] [[milit...
4: ...mb|left|200px|Modern marker for site where two of Frémont's men were lost in Colorado]]
5: ... Sierra Nevada, it is generally acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view ...
7: ...e first pair of [[United States Senate|Senator]]s from [[California]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican ... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ... born into [[slavery]]. (later changed to '''Baumfree'''). Other sources list her name as "Isabella V...
10: ...and Industry. When the association disbanded in [[1846]], she remained in [[Florence, Massachusetts|Flor... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attendi...
8: ...es. She translated Strauss' ''Life of Jesus'' ([[1846]]) and began contributing to the ''[[Westminster ...
12: ...mooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal on the...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her:
21: ...'', Eliot's sales were falling off, and she faded from public view to some degree. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...y in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
13: In [[1846]] she visited [[Kaiserwerth]], a pioneering hospi...
19: ...ted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Ni...
33: ...anizing patient care. Although she met resistance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly im...
45: ...r030502 CBC story: 'Florence Nightingale suffered from bipolar disorder'] - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
1: [[Image:Baritonesax.jpg|right|frame|Saxophones of different sizes play in differen...
7: ...legated to military bands--this despite his great friendship with the influential Parisian composer [[...
11: ...of Sax's patent. For the duration of the patent (1846-1866) no one except the Sax factory Paris could l...
16: ...instrument to learn, especially when transferring from other woodwind instruments, though a great amou...
20: ... number of saxophones being commercially produced from materials other than brass. Silver, copper and ... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...tate-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especially by Jackson...
46: *David Gardiner Tyler ([[July 12]], [[1846]] - [[September 5]], [[1927]]).
58: ...g office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one excepti...
63: ...itution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opinion that the 'lawles...
65: <blockquote>"I freely confess that I should experience great reluct... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
17: | [[Franklin Pierce]]
50: ...criticized for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American ...
53: ...uri]]. Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
55: ...nan then vowed to never marry. Buchanan was close friends with senator [[William Rufus King]], and for...
57: ...by the resignation of William Wilkins. He served from [[December 6]], [[1834]]; was reelected in [[18... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
44: ... States House of Representatives|Representative]] from [[New York]] and the nineteenth [[Vice Presiden...
46: ...0]] and [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate from [[1858]] to [[1860]]. He was elected as a [[Un...
48: ...77]] and served until March [[1881]]. He retired from public life and active business pursuits becaus... - Nepal (22444 bytes)
58: ...epali groups known to historians, having migrated from the east in the [[7th century BC|7th]] or [[8th...
62: The Shah dynasty was cut short in [[1846]] when Jung Bahadur Rana seized control of the co...
85: ... five climatic zones based on altitude that range from subtropical in the south, to cool summers and s...
111: Suffering from "[[Nepal_Civil_War|People's War]]" between the ...
118: ... multi-ethnic society. The data below are derived from the 2002 <i>Nepal Population Report.</i> [http:... - Flag of California (3028 bytes)
1: [[Image:California_flag.jpg|0px|right|framed|The modern Bear Flag of California. Image pro...
5: ...y [[William B. Ide]] who said he wished to "bring freedom to the Spaniards". He was made President of...
11: ...s on the lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific, "from sea to sea" in the [[1600s]].
17: ...l it perished in the fire that followed the [[San Francisco earthquake of 1906]]. - California (63989 bytes)
91: ...a|San Jose]], and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], and is responsible for many legal and t...
93: ... shown on early maps as an island. The name comes from ''Las sergas de Esplandián'' (Adventures of Sp...
101: ...tions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harbingers o...
105: ...ck plague|plague]], caused because the area lacks frosts to kill mosquitos and fleas.
107: ...] of the [[United States Navy]] sailed into [[San Francisco Bay]] and claimed California for the Unite... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 28|Dec 28]], [[1846]] |
36: ...]], having joined the union on [[December 28]], [[1846]]. The official name of the state is "State of Io...
45: *French explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marq...
47: ... in June [[1833]]. Primarily, they were families from [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[New York]], [[Ind...
48: ...th</sup> state in the union on [[December 28]], [[1846]]. - Washington (20186 bytes)
45: Prior to the arrival of explorers from [[Europe]], this region of the Pacific Coast ha...
49: ...sh explorers [[Manuel Quimper]] in [[1790]] and [[Francisco Eliza]] in [[1791]], then by British Capta...
51: ...the northwest territory to explorers and trappers from other nations, most notably Britain and then th...
53: ...ain and the U.S. that lasted until [[June 15]], [[1846]] when Britain ceded their claims to this land wi...
55: ...hat same year [[Washington Territory]] was formed from part of [[Oregon Territory]]. - Virginia (23198 bytes)
38: ...ate state in [[1792]] while the latter broke away from Virginia during the [[American Civil War]].
40: ...aylor]] round out the list of American Presidents from the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Historical footn...
46: ...America]], eventually applying to the whole coast from [[South Carolina]] to [[Maine]]. The [[London ...
48: ...United States|U.S. Congress]] dated [[July 9]], [[1846]], the area south of the Potomac that had been c...
50: ...a is one of the states that [[secession|seceded]] from the Union to become the [[Confederate States of... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
53: ... [[United Kingdom]]. The border was resolved in [[1846]] by the [[Oregon Treaty]] after a period where i...
61: ...fornians (or outsiders in general). State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political ...
68: ... that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the ...
69: ...m the word ''oolighan'', referring to grease made from fish, which the [[Native American]]s of the reg... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...[[Hispanic]] ancestry, many of whom are descended from [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[colonist]]s. It al...
46: ...ld. Dispatched from [[New Spain]], conquistador [[Francisco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] led a full-scale exp...
50: ..."The Royal Road" as a 700 mile (1100 km) lifeline from the rest of [[New Spain]] to his remote colony....
58: [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] of [[France]] sold the vast [[Louisiana Purchase]], which...
60: Small trapping parties from the United States had previously reached Santa ... - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
7: ...n. Many contemporary houses in the city are built from lumber, concrete blocks, and other materials bu...
43: ..., or "The Royal City of the Holy Faith of [[Saint Francis of Assisi]]".
45: ...1848 New Mexico was acquired by the United States from Mexico, and in 1912 New Mexico became that coun...
49: ... all over town. The styles run the whole spectrum from [[Baroque]] to [[Post-modern]].
54: ...age:Santa_fe_nm_1846_47.jpg|thumb|300px|Santa Fe, 1846-1847]] - 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]]
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