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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: ...rst to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
47: ...1499), [[Italy|Italian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [...
57: *[[Thomas Cavendish]], (died 1592), English sailor and explorer.
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
179: *[[Douglas Mawson]] - [[Australia]]n explorer of [[Antarct... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
7: ...e, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
15: ...itions, including the first discovery of the [[Single-leaf Pinyon]]. The standard [[Binomial nomenclat...
22: ...ncoln]]| years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] (lost)}} - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
6: ...edicine]] and [[theology]] at the [[University of Glasgow]]. While working in [[London]], he became a...
8: ...ough she was pregnant – but returned to [[England]] with their children.
12: In the period [[1852]]–[[1856|56]], he explored the interior, discovering [[Vic...
14: ...gation of the [[Zambesi River]]. He returned to England to try to garner support for his ideas, and to... - Steel (28384 bytes)
54: ...s system, high-purity wrought iron, charcoal, and glass were mixed in crucibles and heated until the i...
60: ...resulted was also beyond the capabilities of a single man. To this end, [[waterwheel]]s were employed...
66: ...Spanish ones has been credited as one factor in England's [[1588]] defeat of the [[Spanish Armada]].
68: ...inent. One difference he observed was that the English ore contained some calcareous material, and so...
76: ...content compared to most ores (notably those in England), which allowed for a finer and stronger cryst... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
12: ...ward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...olphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
44: *[[Douglas Adams|Adams, Douglas]], (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker'...
87: ...[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
7: ... temperance society in America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
9: ...works, but when in [[1856]] she first visited [[England]] the critics received Schumann's music with a...
14: ... husband. However, her compositions are increasingly performed and recorded. Her works include songs... - Dye (6033 bytes)
9: ...d by [[William Perkin|William Henry Perkin]] in [[1856]]. Many thousands of dyes have since been prepare... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...trument]] invented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to compete with the [[saxophone]] as a replacemen... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ...ighty Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at the [[Atbara ...
50: Speke was part of a 1856-1858 expedition led by [[Richard Francis Burton]]...
85: *[http://www.photoglobe.info/spc_nile_delta.html Nile Delta from Space... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
51: ...who was not born a [[British subject]]. Interestingly, he is also the first president not of British d...
241: ...ates]] and [[Jimmy Carter]]'s current career as a global [[human rights]] campaigner and best-selling ...
335: ...ar vote in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856 election]]
372: ...hile most presidents have been of substantially English descent, there have been a few who came from a...
418: ...s by counties of the presidential elections since 1856] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his...
31: ...the Stamp Act was a part of the never-ending struggle between individualism and corporate authority; i...
67: ...f John Adams, with Life'' (10 vols., Boston, 1850-1856) - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ...e [[first language]] was not [[English language|English]].
49: ... avoided entanglement in the Jackson-Calhoun imbroglio.
53: ...tions to Louis McLane, the American minister to England, regarding the opening of the West India trade...
117: ...[[Okay|OK]]''', the popular expression in the [[English language]] and other languages of the [[Wester... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ... as a strict state-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especia...
51: *Robert Fitzwalter Tyler ([[March 12]], [[1856]] - [[December 31]], [[1927]]).
60: For two years Tyler struggled with the Whigs, but when he took [[John C. Calh... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
9: ...Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, ...
21: ... Buchanan]]|after=[[Charles Francis Adams]]|years=1856-1861}} - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
26: ...th-making)|fuller]] to learn that trade. He struggled to obtain an education under frontier condition...
41: ... throwing leadership upon Senator [[Stephen A. Douglas]] of Illinois. At this critical juncture, Pres...
45: ...Breaking up Clay's single legislative package, Douglas presented five separate bills to the Senate:
62: ...can Party |Republican Party]]; but, instead, in [[1856]] accepted the nomination for President of the [[...
120: * [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]] - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
20: ...ic nomination, Pierce continued his lifelong struggle with [[alcoholism]] as his marriage to [[Jane Me...
45: ...with four competing contenders—[[Stephen Douglas]], [[William Marcy]], [[James Buchanan]] and [[...
49: ...lity, plus his helpful obscurity and lack of strongly held positions, helped him prevail over Scott, w...
63: ...measure, the handiwork of Senator [[Stephen A. Douglas]], allegedly grew out of his desire to promote ...
65: ...glas' plan in a closed meeting between Pierce, Douglas, and several southern Senators, with Pierce con... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
61: ...ster to the [[United Kingdom]] from [[1853]] to [[1856]], during which time he help to draft the [[Osten...
64: ...ited States in [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1857]], to [[Mar...
72: ... the Senate by Northerners led by [[Stephen A. Douglas]]. Eventually, Congress voted to call a new vot...
76: ...e memories of the caning of [[Charles Sumner]] in 1856 by a Southern Democrat still burned.
142: * [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]] - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
61: ...]'s four-volume ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]'', he taught himself the law, and was admitt...
65: ...hig Party]]. In [[1856]], both men joined the fledgling [[United States Republican Party|Republican Pa...
79: ...Knox Polk|President Polk]]'s desire for "military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in...
85: ...was superior and less expensive, and that accordingly the corporation had a right to sue Mr. Barret fo...
87: ...xes on the railroad notwithstanding. In January [[1856]], the Illinois Supreme Court delivered its opini...
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