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- 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 - November 4 (10686 bytes)
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]])
58: *[[1923]] - [[Freddy Heineken]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] businessman... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chu...
11: ...n.jpg|right|250px|thumbnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painti...
13: ... 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about 130 kilometers) from Nazareth; and while there they found shelter in...
15: ...|Matt. 1:21]]), because he was to save his people from their sins. This was followed by the presentat...
19: ...Acts 1:14). From this time she wholly disappears from the historical biblical accounts, although it i... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
5: Pipe organs range in size from portable instruments having only a few dozen pi...
11: <!--This section is the target of a link from the "organ pipe" article. If you update the tex...
15: ...ue organ]], the [[English romantic organ]], the [[French classical organ]], the [[symphonic organ]] an...
27: The word ''organ'' originates from the [[Latin]] word "[[organum (musical instrume...
31: ... Hungary (the ancient [[Pannonia]]) a Roman organ from the 3rd century AD was found. - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ..., helping to draft their declaration of religious freedom and persuading [[Virginia]] to give their no...
25: ...the thinking of what Thomas Jefferson (who was in France at the time) called an "assembly of demi-gods...
31: ... States_House_of_Representatives|Representative]] from his home state of [[Virginia]]. He successfully...
33: ..., Madison was the nation's shortest president and frequently ill. In [[1794]] Madison married [[Dolley...
38: ...th any nation that would not remove the blockade: France did, and Britain did not. - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...the [[Indian Ocean]], off the eastern coast of [[Africa]]. Madagascar is the [[List of islands by siz...
13: ...[[Malagasy language|Malagasy]], [[French language|French]] |
38: established_dates = From [[France]] <br> [[26 June]], [[1960]] |
53: ...] established trading posts along the east coast. From about [[1774]] to [[1824]], it was a favorite h...
57: ...ion of spheres of influence in the area. Absolute French control over Madagascar was established by mi... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...[[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[Lux...
13: ...[[German language|German]]: Unity and Justice and Freedom)
15: ...tschen]]<br>3rd stanza (''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit'')
51: ...[[Romany language|Romany]] and [[Frisian language|Frisian]] are officially recognised and protected as...
61: ...[[prince-elector]]s of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. From ''Bildatlas der Deutschen Geschichte'' by Dr Pa... - 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... - 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]]
133: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
15: ...8]] - [[Bouvet Island]] is discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de ...
20: *[[1804]] - [[France|French]] rule ends in [[Haiti]].
22: ...] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first ...
25: ...m under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]].
26: *[[1869]] - [[Sigma Nu]] fraternity is officially founded at the [[Virginia M... - Invention (2863 bytes)
7: ...ersons likely to adopt it or spur its adoption. [[Gabriel Tarde]] also dealt with the adoption of innovatio... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
15: *[[Antoine Baum]], (1728-1804), French chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
31: ...Skłodowska-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist - Louis Bleriot (3099 bytes)
2: ...2]] – [[August 2]] [[1936]]) was a [[France|French]] inventor and engineer, who performed the fi...
8: In [[1903]], Blér teamed up with [[Gabriel Voisin]], another aircraft designer, to form the ...
11: ...eloped planes with various configurations ranging from box-kite biplanes to a [[canard]] (tail-first) ...
14: ...er, England|Dover]] in 37 minutes, delighting the French and worrying the British, who felt that they ...
19: ... War I]], SPAD built more than 5,600 aircraft for France and exported some to Britain and other countr... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
1: ...ramento from Riverwalk.JPG|thumb|175px|Sacramento from near the Sacramento River]]
2: ... [[1848]] by [[John Sutter, Jr.]] Sacramento grew from [[Sutter's Fort]], which was established by Sut...
36: === The lost frontier ===
37: ...entiful [[oak]] trees in the region and by eating fruits, bulbs, seeds, and roots throughout the year.
39: The Spanish explorer [[Gabriel Moraga]] discovered and named the Sacramento Vall... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Islam (36809 bytes)
6: ...ion." [[Etymology|Etymologically]], it is derived from the same root as, for example, ''Salām'' m...
26: ...to act or live a certain life. God has given the free will to do and make decisions.)
29: ...he Final Day; and in Fate, that Good and Evil are from God, and Resurrection after death be Truth.
38: ...or you! Allah is only One God . Far is it removed from His transcendent majesty that he should have a ...
40: ...ibutes in the sense that Muslims repeat them most frequently during their ritual prayers (called [[sal... - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ... a period of 23 years by the Angel [[Jibreel]] ([[Gabriel]]).
6: ...umbers, but by an Arabic name derived in some way from the sura. (See [[sura|List of sura names]].) Th...
14: ...1; Arabic. There are few other examples of Arabic from that time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspen...
24: ...e, exhortation, and legal prescription. The suras frequently combine all these modes, not always in wa...
46: ...-final consonants. Some suras also include a [[refrain]] repeated every few verses, for instance [[ar... - Fahrenheit (3867 bytes)
2: ...amed after the [[Germany|German]] [[physicist]] [[Gabriel Fahrenheit]] ([[1686]]–[[1736]]), who propo...
4: In this scale, the [[freezing point]] of [[water]] is [[1 E2 K|32 degrees...
9: ... with 96. He then observed that plain water would freeze at 32 degrees and boil at 212 degrees.
11: ...temperature (which he took to be 96 degrees); the freezing point of water was adjusted to 32 degrees s...
13: ...rate the scale with 32 ?F and 212 ?F as the exact freezing and boiling points of plain water. This res... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
8: ...ld and silver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and have been ...
11: ...f [[mysticism]] and [[magic (paranormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and belie...
13: ...son to separate the chemical (material) dimension from the interpretive, symbolic or philosophical one...
17: ...uml;ve interpretations of some alchemists, or the fraudulent hopes fostered by others should not dimin...
19: ...istry, which provided a more precise and reliable framework for matter transmutations and medicine, wi...
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