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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...pg|thumb|right|200px|'''Victoria''' <br>Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empr...
7: ...Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
9: ... [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].
12: ...ince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on ...
14: ...er educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]]. - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
1: ...|Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra]]
3: ...fe did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
5: ...r and was buried in the [[Winchester_Cathedral|cathedral]].
7: ...f young, unmarried, upper-class English women in the early [[1800s]].
9: ... with [[Sir Walter Scott]] in particular praising her work: - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: ...ynasty of Egypt|Eleventh dynasty]] to the end of the [[Fourteenth dynasty of Egypt|Fourteenth dynasty]...
4: ==The Beginning==
5: ...lfth dynasties]], and date the Middle Kingdom to the beginning of that dynasty.
7: ==The Twelfth dynasty==
8: ...r as a palace coup by Amenemhat that resulted in the death of Mentuhotep IV. - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
5: ...during the 20th century but not including any of the major revision proposals that have also been made...
7: ...ten there are also several possible spellings of the names.
9: ...he combined chronology presented below, which is the “Conventional Chronology” that is quo...
16: * The dates of Dynasties 1 to 10 are from Baines and Ma...
17: ... Age", in Astrom (ed) ''High, Middle or Low'' (Gothengurg, 1987), taking his low chronology. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ...sdent.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ...deral government]] and [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States armed forces|armed forces]].
5: ...dent was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today...
7: ...]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] o...
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - James Madison (15187 bytes)
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1817]]
18: ...n as the father or mother of something|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]]''.
21: ...day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Tennessee]]) to the [[Continental Congress]].
23: ...resented in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state representation depen...
25: ...adison's arguments were powerfully influenced by the political thought of [[Charles de Secondat, Baron... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1817]]
18: ... of the [[United States]]. He is the namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United...
22: ...f William and Mary]], fought with distinction in the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law in [[Fred...
24: ...sident [[Thomas Jefferson]], he helped negotiate the [[Louisiana Purchase]].
28: ...ial election, 1820|re-elected in 1820]]. Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]] veteran to se... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
14: | wife=[[Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams]]
18: ...tes|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First Lady [[...
22: ...ta Kappa]]. He studied law, then was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachus...
24: ...s after George Washington. (As of 2004, Adams is the only U.S. President to do so.)
26: ... elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist Party. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[William Henry Harrison]]</td></tr>
14: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica...
17: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''</td><td>[[Uni...
18: <tr><td>'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>[[Rich...
22: ... the first of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English l... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
7: <tr><td>'''Followed:'''</td><td>[[William Henry Harrison]]</td></tr>
13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letiti...
17: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''</td><td>[[Uni...
18: <tr><td>'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td> ''non...
21: ...irst to assume the office of President following the death of his predecessor. - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...nsylvania]] and the eleventh [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]], serving under [[J...
5: ... a candidate for reelection. He was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs.
7: ...s elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket in [[1844]] with [[James K. Pol...
9: ... Churchyard. The city of [[Dallas, Texas]] and others are [[Dallas (disambiguation)|named in his hono...
11: ...]. He is also the uncle of [[Alexander Dallas Bache]]. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
33: | '''[[List of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''
36: | '''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''
42: ...he United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican Party...
44: ...ithin their boundaries. These events soon led to the [[American Civil War]]. - Australia (39438 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Country|the=|
14: leader_names = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Michael Jeffer...
27: established_events=-[[Commonwealth of Australia Constitution...
28: established_dates=From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 January]] [[1901]]<...
35: national_anthem=[[Advance Australia Fair]]| - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...he [[lemur]]s. Madagascar and [[Mauritania]] are the only countries not to use a [[decimal currency]].
10: ...osoana <br> ''([[Malagasy language|Malagasy]]: Fatherland, Liberty, Progress)'' |
12: ...nindraza nay malala ô'' (Oh, Our Beloved Fatherland) |
37: established_events = Date |
38: established_dates = From [[France]] <br> [[26 June]],... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
1: [[Image:Spinx.jpg|right|140px|thumb|The Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt. Image courtesy
3: ...au on the west bank of the [[Nile River]], it is the largest single-stone statue on Earth.
5: The Great Sphinx faces due east, with a small temple ...
8: [[Image:Spinx_2.jpg|thumb|left|220px|The Great Sphinx.Image provided by [http://classroomc...
9: ...his]], the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]]. - Flag of Texas (2443 bytes)
2: The '''Flag of Texas''' is defined by law as follows:
4: ... the star is equal to three-fourths the width of the blue stripe.
6: ...ad a naval flag, and the previous national flag (the [[Bonnie Blue Flag]]) became an [[infantry]] [[st...
8: ...ag of Texas as when they appear in the [[Flag of the United States]]. Blue stands for loyalty, white s...
10: The [[pledge of allegiance]] to the state flag is: - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
6: ...y 6]], [[1817]] he married Henrietta Edwards and they had four children.
14: ...wed for the African [[slavery]] system in the Southern United States to become more sustainable at a c...
16: ...concepts and designs were readily duplicated by others. Whitney's company that produced cotton gins w...
18: ...hat she associated with Eli Whitney (along with other historical figures such as [[George Washington|G...
20: ===Other innovations=== - Koala (10686 bytes)
12: ...rctos'''''}}</br>{{Taxobox authority | author = [[Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville|Blainville]] | da...
15: ...r = [[Georg August Goldfuss|Goldfuss]] | date = [[1817]]}}
18: ...al]] [[herbivore]] endemic to [[Australia]], and the only representative of its [[family (biology)|fam...
20: ...ect, since koala is not part of the bear family. The word "koala" comes from an [[aboriginal]] word me...
22: ...ring the early part of the [[20th century]], but the state has since been repopulated with [[Victoria ... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Mount Rushmore State |
30: HighestElev = 2,207 |
38: ...of the northern Middle West. It is named after the [[Lakota]] ([[Sioux]]) [[Native American|American...
39: ... 2]], [[1889]]. [[North Dakota]] was admitted on the same day (see '''Trivia''', below).
41: ... and [[Montana]]. It is one of the six states of the [[Frontier Strip]]. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...actical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ... of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
19: ... 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
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