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  1. Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
    1: ... and [[French Navy|naval officer]], who explored the south and western [[Pacific]], [[Australia]], [[N...
    4: ...n the world. The [[Venus de Milo]] now stands in the [[Louvre]] in [[Paris]].
    6: In [[1822]] he sailed on a voyage around the world under [[Louis Isidore Duperrey|Captain Dupe...
    8: ...her islands, and found out the probable place of the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérouse|La Perou...
    10: ...area of Antarctica that he named the [[French Southern Territories|Adélie Coast]] in honor of his wif...
  2. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    6: ...|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
    18: ...die, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
    21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
    36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
    46: *[[Abd-ar-rahman III]], (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain
  3. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
    3: ... Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
    4: *[[Andrew Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
    6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
    13: ...[Sarah Aaronsohn|Aaronsohn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[spy]]-ring
  4. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
    19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
    34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
    38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
    41: ...son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
  5. Carpet (15753 bytes)
    1: ...ables. Only with the opening of trade routes in the 17th century were significant numbers of [[Persia...
    3: ...icates a covering that is affixed to a floor and the latter a floor covering that is loose-laid, most ...
    8: [[Image:Swatches of carpet 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of machine-made carpet]]
    12: ...ps of cloth such as wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as burlap. This type of ...
    14: ...not types (see below) to form the pile or nap of the carpet.
  6. 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]].
  7. John Adams (18716 bytes)
    12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1826]]
    18: ...[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]).
    22: ...], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
    24: ...ions of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
    26: ...ional]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]].
  8. Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
    12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1826]]
    14: ...tha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
    18: ...[slavery|slaveowner]], [[author]] and founder of the [[University of Virginia]].
    20: ...residency include the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]].
    23: ...e founding his own vision of higher education at the [[University of Virginia]].
  9. 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.
  10. 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...
  11. Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
    18: ...es Electoral College|electoral vote]]. He became the youngest president up unto that time.
    20: ...cy]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
    22: ...handsome. And he was genuinely religious. And yet he was a timid man with a shallow, rigid, old-fashio...
    25: ...had six older and two younger siblings, four brothers and three sisters.
    27: ...g friendship, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also met [[Calvin E. Stowe]], [[Sargent S. Prenti...
  12. Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
    27: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''
    32: | '''[[List of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''
    35: | '''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''
    40: ...150;[[1869]]), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of [[Abraham Lincoln]].
    42: ...e was subsequently acquitted by a single vote in the [[United_States_Senate|Senate]].
  13. Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
    8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Rutherford B. Hayes]]</td></tr>
    13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Julia Gr...
    15: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''</td><td>[[Uni...
    16: <tr><td>'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>
    18: ;[[Henry Wilson]] ([[1873]]&ndash;[[1875]])</td></tr>
  14. Malaysia (27892 bytes)
    1: ... consists of two geographical regions divided by the [[South China Sea]]:
    3: ...y and the second-link bridge]] on the south with the island of [[Singapore]];
    5: ...sia]] and borders the Sultanate of [[Brunei]] on the east, south, and west.
    43: | From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[August 31]], [[1957]]
    54: | '''[[National anthem]]'''
  15. New Mexico (31079 bytes)
    31: HighestElev = Wheeler Peak, 13,161 ft, 4,014 |
    38: ...[[Spain|European]] [[Spanish language|Spanish]], the state's name would be spelled ''Nuevo M骩co''.
    44: ...00s]], constructing small towns in the valley of the [[Rio Grande]] and pueblos nearby.
    46: ...lley led to long-standing hostility that impeded the Spanish conquest of New Mexico.
    50: ... governor of the new [[Province of New Mexico]]. The Native Americans at [[Acoma, New Mexico|Acoma]] r...
  16. 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]]
  17. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    12: *[[Alexander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
    21: ...nese lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines
    25: ...9995;, 1883-1936), famous [[T'ai Chi Ch'uan]] teacher
    34: *[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
    39: *[[Kerri Yascheshyn|Yascheshyn, Kerri]], ([[1985]] - [[2003]]), [[cancer]] p...
  18. Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
    1: ...''equal suffrage'' (abolition of graded votes) rather than ''universal suffrage'' (abolition of discri...
    3: ...[[United States]] became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women.
    4: ...t led by [[Kate Sheppard]]. Women first achieved the right to stand for public office in [[South Austr...
    11: ...at various times in various countries throughout the world. In many countries women's suffrage was gra...
    13: ...estricted women's suffrage in the latter half of the nineteenth century, starting with [[South Austral...
  19. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painte...
    10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian...
    16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
    22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
    27: *[[Andreas Achenbach]] ([[1815]]-[[1910]])
  20. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
    14: ...n]] Department of Agriculture &mdash; instant mashed potato flakes
    24: ...hn Bardeen]], (1908-1991) &mdash; co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
    29: *[[Henry Bessemer]], (1813-1898), [[England]] &mdash; [...
    31: *[[Bi Sheng]] &mdash; primitive movable [[printing]] types

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