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- James Madison (15187 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Madison
14: | wife=[[Dolley Madison]]
18: '''James Madison''' ([[March 16]], [[1751]] – [[June 28]], [...
21: ..., helping to draft their declaration of religious freedom and persuading [[Virginia]] to give their no...
23: ... states would be represented in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state repre... - Dolley Madison (2896 bytes)
1: [[Image:Dmadison.jpeg|right|frame|Madison in 1848]]
2: ...America|President]] [[James Madison]], who served from 1809 until 1817. She also occasionally acted as...
3: [[Image:First_lady_dolly_madison.jpg|right|frame|]]
5: ... was born in New Garden, a [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] community in what is today [[Guilfo...
7: ... Madisons had no children but raised Dolley's son from her first marriage, John Payne Todd, whom they ...
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
72: | [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]
200: | [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]] - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...nt) and Ira Pittman, a poor mill worker who moved from town to town in search of work. As a child, Bes...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled...
10: ..., and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made up ...
16: ... is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique Internationale]]....
18: ...She was also the first woman to land and take off from an [[aircraft carrier]]. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
5: ... encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, including sex. "We w...
7: ...ning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shooting golf in th...
10: ... check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got a degree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mis...
12: ...atonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn wa... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ...er work in [[movies]] and [[television]] and who, from the [[1980s]] to the present day, has been rega...
5: ...Vassar College]] and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the [[Yale]] School of Drama. She appeared in ...
7: ...tiated in court) that a [[dingo]] took the child. From [[1984]] to [[1990]], Streep won six [[People's...
9: ...of the Spirits]]'', [[1995]]'s ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]'' (largely regarded as her great comebac...
18: ...e]] (link below). Summarized below are her awards from the best recognized institutions. - Cartography (10500 bytes)
3: ...ses. Current trends in this field are moving away from analog methods of mapmaking and toward the crea...
6: [[Image:Radkarte_MKL1888.png|thumb|World map from the [[Middle Age]]s.]]
7: The oldest known map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The oldest maps emp...
9: .... An engraved map of the holy city of [[Nippur]], from the Kassite period ([[14th century BCE|14th]] &...
14: ... map.JPG|thumb|[[Muhammad al-Idrisi]]'s world map from 1154. Note that south is at the top of the map.... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
1: [[Image:French-horn.png|right|]]
2: ...e'' or hunting horn, and has been known as the '''French horn''' since at least 1750, although this us...
4: ...alian language|It.]]), ''cor'' ([[French language|Fr.]]), etc.
6: ...e typical [[playing range]] of a French horn goes from the written F at the bottom of the staff in [[b...
12: ...ne hand was needed to play and the other could be free to guide his steed. The only way to change the... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...t was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, m...
14: ...ciety. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because they were not born U.S. ...
25: ... concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising drive...
29: ...titution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen...
38: ... the office due to death, resignation, or removal from office (by [[impeachment]] and conviction). Th... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...e was initiated as a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] in Fredericksburg on [[4 February]] [[1752]]. On Lawren...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...nternational incident, and helped to ignite the [[French and Indian War]], which eventually became the...
33: ...ition]], which successfully drove the French away from [[Fort Duquesne]].
37: ...en. In that year, he was chosen as a [[delegate]] from Virginia to the First [[Continental Congress]] ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]]
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... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Madison
14: | wife=[[Dolley Madison]]
18: '''James Madison''' ([[March 16]], [[1751]] – [[June 28]], [...
21: ..., helping to draft their declaration of religious freedom and persuading [[Virginia]] to give their no...
23: ... states would be represented in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state repre... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[James Madison]]
22: ... the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law in [[Fredericksburg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monro...
24: ...-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with [[Robert R. Livingston]] a...
30: ... State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept Monroe from adding an outstanding Westerner. Both of these ...
34: ...iring Missouri as a slave state with [[Maine]], a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Mi... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...e first president who had lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associa...
22: ...trust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favo...
24: ...began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state milit...
34: ...ackson's election represented a significant break from that past.
36: He was also the first President from a state west of the [[Appalachian Mountains]]. ... - U.S. state (14432 bytes)
3: ...of education, health, transportation, and other infrastructure are generally the responsibility of the...
34: ...'<td>Ky.<td>[[Kentucky]]<td>[[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]</tr>
69: ...<td>Wis.<td>[[Wisconsin]]<td>[[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]]</tr>
79: ...arianas]]) which do have a legal status different from the states.
85: ...ee to organize their judicial systems differently from the federal judiciary, as long as [[due process... - Alabama (10792 bytes)
59: ...the province of Carolina. Nevertheless, when the French took over [[Louisiana]] they also took over t...
61: The state of Alabama seceded from the Union and became a [[Confederate States of ...
71: ...ico]]. Alabama generally ranges in [[elevation]] from [[sea level]] at [[Mobile Bay]], to a little mo...
88: -26.9% [[African American|Black]]
107: -26.0% [[African American]] - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
43: ... permanently in Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, ...
49: ...rrently has five [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Connecticut|representatives in the House]].
56: ...strial cities, located along the coastal highways from the New York border to New Haven, then northwar...
65: ... the state, and at times there are minor cultural frictions between the regions and their major cultur...
79: ...les (tv)|Miracles]], the protagonist took a train from Boston directly to Hartford, causing Connecticu... - Indiana (20194 bytes)
47: ...n]] as part of the settlement at the end of the [[French and Indian War]], given to the [[United State...
60: ... 475 mile long [[Wabash River]] bisects the state from northeast to southwest and has given Indiana tw...
71: A high percentage of Indiana's GDP comes from manufacturing, and much of this activity is hea...
75: ...bably best known for its decorative [[limestone]] fron the southern, hilly portion of the state. One o...
83: *8.4% [[African American|Black]] - Iowa (24205 bytes)
45: *French explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marq...
47: ... in June [[1833]]. Primarily, they were families from [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[New York]], [[Ind...
51: ...e [[Iowa General Assembly]] passed a [[women's suffrage]] amendment in [[1870]].
55: ...ary industry is agriculture, it also produces [[refrigerator]]s, [[washing machine]]s, [[fountain pen]...
128: *2.1% [[African American|Black]] - Louisiana (26375 bytes)
12: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]] de facto |
13: ...glish language|English]] 91.2%, [[French language|French]] 4.8% |
45: ...the main language of everyday life, but traces of French survive in local dialects.
57: *The northeastern parishes of Tensas, Madison, and East and West Carroll were occupied by the '...
60: ...avelier de La Salle]] in honour of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] in [[1682]]. The first permanent... - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
10: Capital = [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]] |
40: ...e English. Other theories are that the name comes from words meaning "Gathering of the Waters" or "Gre...
47: ...] became Wisconsin's first European explorer. The French controlled the area until [[1763]], when it w...
51: ...ocialist, [[Daniel Hoan]], was mayor of Milwaukee from [[1916]] to [[1940]]. During both the [[2000]] ...
53: ...thousands of miners—many of them immigrants from [[Cornwall]], England—flocked to southern... - 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: ...overnor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[V...
50: ...a is one of the states that [[secession|seceded]] from the Union to become the [[Confederate States of...
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