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- Jacob Broom (291 bytes)
1: ...ntion]] and a signer of the [[U.S. Constitution]] from [[Delaware]]. He was a farmer and a surveyor, a...
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- List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
58: *[[Francisco de Almeida]]
77: *[[Francis Drake]]
79: *[[Martin Frobisher]]
80: *[[Humfry Gilbert]]
82: *[[Jacob Le Maire]] - 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 - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
26: *[[Franz Ackerman|Ackerman, Franz]] (c1330-1387)
34: *[[Georg Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
19: .... He renewed his relationship with Cleopatra, and from this point on Alexandria would be his home. He ...
35: .../penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html Cleopatra VII&nbs...
36: ...HTM Cleopatra] - a Victorian children's book by [[Jacob Abbott]], 1852, [[Project Gutenberg]] edition. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
6: ...stor, 1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of [[John Jacob Astor III]].
12: ...t easy because they were avoiding the real war in France and the future invasion. The allied soldiers ...
20: # [[David Astor|Francis David Langhorne Astor]] (1912-2001)
22: # [[Jakie Astor|John Jacob Astor]] (born 1918) - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
9: ...actory, and in 1887 married fellow factory worker Jacob Kersner. The hanging of four anarchists after th...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
18: ...f of the testimony of one invididual, a Detective Jacobs. [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] gave the lecture ''[[I... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attendi...
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.
32: * ''[[Brother Jacob]]'' (1864) - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n origin.
4: ...] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to ...
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
11: ...s of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the ...
13: ... Lily Briscoe; "The Waves" present a group of six friends whose reflections (closer to recitatives tha...
22: ...ayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
33: *''[[Jacob's Room]]'' ([[1922]]) - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...xpanded upon by [[Switzerland|Swiss]] historian [[Jacob Burckhardt]] in the [[19th century]]. ''Rebirth''...
12: ... concentrate on the Renaissance as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
21: ... the humanist method of learning. These new ideas from the past (called the "new learning" at the time...
49: ...cumstances which helped these geniuses to come to fruition.
51: ...Burckhardt|Burckhardt]]. This argues for a change from collective neutrality towards the ''lonely geni... - Recorder (12954 bytes)
1: ...note produced) is modified by finger holes in the front and back of the instrument. Because of the fix...
5: ...since the early clarinet was, in a sense, derived from the recorder, at least in its outward appearanc...
7: ...njamin Britten]], [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Gordon Jacob]], and [[Edmund Rubbra]]. It is also occasionally...
13: ... Fork fingerings have a different tonal character from the diatonic notes, giving the recorder its cha...
15: Today, high-quality recorders are made from a range of different hardwoods, such oiled [[pe... - 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... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
45: ...hnson was born in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], to Jacob Johnson and Mary McDonough on [[December 29]], [[...
48: ...as a member of the State House of Representatives from [[1835]] to [[1837]] and [[1839]] to [[1841]]. ...
51: ...a|the Confederacy]], Johnson was the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in...
113: ...o nineteen for acquittal. He had avoided removal from office by a single vote. There were two votes ...
121: ...a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from [[March 4]], [[1875]], until his death near [[E... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
32: ...ging that the "S" stood for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class...
34: ...[August 22]], [[1848]]. They had four children: [[Frederick Dent Grant]], Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr....
39: ...pultepec]]. On [[July 31]], [[1854]], he resigned from the army. Seven years of civilian life followed...
48: ... attack until the enemy surrendered or was driven from the field. Such tactics often resulted in heavy...
50: ...in which the destruction of an enemy's economic infrastructure that supplied its armies was as importa... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines o...
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by t...
60: ...ncia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Philistine]]'' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ...
68: ...], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the s...
73: ...nd. The Jewish population in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
10: ...Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding up bat, in baseball uniform, on field...
12: ...itcher. Brother Matthias promptly switched George from catcher to pitcher to teach him a lesson. But, ...
15: ...rs, placed a team in Baltimore, across the street from minor league Orioles, and the competition hit O...
25: ...9 his physique had changed from the tall athletic frame of 1916 to a rotund shape with which he was us...
29: ...e the [[Black Sox Scandal|1919 World Series]] and Frazee's own failings as a theater promoter meant th... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
49: ... the area. In [[1811]], New York financier [[John Jacob Astor]] established [[Fort Astoria]] at the mouth...
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... - 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]] - 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]]) - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
17: ...e. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a syste...
19: ...as a stand-in for 4/4 time is actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common ...
21: ...emensis), [[Johannes de Muris|Jehan des Murs]], [[Franco of Cologne]], [[Johannes de Garlandia]] (Joha...
27: ...hant]] was used and shows the influence of North African music. The Mozarabic liturgy even survived th...
32: ...lodies]] that make up the repertory probably come from several sources, some as far back as the pontif...
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