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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Am...
77: ...ns|Russian]] explorer, first European who sailed through [[Bering Strait]]
230: *[[John Rae]], (1813-1893), travelled widely through the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
232: *[[James Clark Ross]], (1800-1862), Scottish explorer - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ..., [[empiricism]] (through observation), and even through [[leap of faith|leaps of faith]], hope and in...
7: ...which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period of the early [[20th centu...
12: Other thinkers and schools appeared throughout Greece over the next couple of centuries. ...
20: ...eason for military defeat. He proposed instead a three tiered structure of society, with workers, guar...
27: ... in this time was to prove the existence of God, through logic alone, if possible. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
5: The effects spread throughout [[Western Europe]] and [[North America]], ...
69: ...ffect that these new [[machine]]s were seen as a threat to employment, and early innovators were attac...
83: ...n]], [[cast iron]] and [[wrought iron]] improved through the exchange of ideas (although this was by n...
94: ...umping water back to a reservoir that had passed through a water wheel. [[James Watt]]'s invention of ...
96: Until about 1800, the most common pattern of steam engine was the ... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
20: ... a term used by pipers to describe an unintended shrill sound made by the chanter, and is usually prod...
23: ... it seems likely they were first invented in pre-Christian times. [[Nero]] is generally accepted to h...
42: ...n Ireland before the [[1700]]s, but in the late [[1800]]s a number of Irish pipers revived it in Ireland...
53: ... as a half-set. A final occasional variant, the three-quarter set, omits the bass regulator. A "full ...
60: ...sible to add enough keys to produce a two-octave chromatic scale, but this is rarely done. The presen... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure
100: *[[Abraham of Alexandria]], (died 978), [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic]] Pope - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
11: ...e mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ...bet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
15: ...] and [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]]. Her mother was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-...
17: ... to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle, HRH [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom|The Prince o...
23: ...heiress presumptive]] and was henceforth known as HRH The Princess Elizabeth. She was thirteen years o... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...er father was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Pol... - Rose (15436 bytes)
18: ...enus]] '''''Rosa''''' and the [[flower]] of this shrub.
21: .... The species form a group of generally thorny [[shrub]]s or [[liana|climbers]], and sometimes trailin...
27: ...y fruit-eating [[bird]]s such as [[Thrush (bird)|thrushes]] and [[waxwing]]s, which then disperse the ...
31: ...disease]]s. The most serious is [[rose rust]] (''Phragmidium tuberculatum''), a species of [[Rust (fun...
63: Roses are one of the most popular [[garden]] shrubs, and are also among the most common flowers so... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
11: ...[organ (music)|organ]] from the period circa 1400-1800 can be played on the clavichord; however, it is t...
13: ...exponents of the instrument include Derek Adlam, Christopher Hogwood, Paul Simmonds, Richard Troeger, ... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
14: ...r leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into three branches into the low-lying [[Nile Delta]] regi...
20: ...polis]] of Memphis on the Giza plateau, with its three large [[pyramid|pyramids]], including the [[Gre...
30: A small town mostly of [[Coptic Christian]]s slowly grew around the fort. Arab inva...
41: ... Kasr-el-Nil Bridge which traverses the Nile at Tahrir Square. European architecture and urban design,...
43: ...rge. Kl颥r was [[assassinate]]d in 1800 and the three-year [[France|French]] occupation had little la... - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
6: ...nstrument. Three valves make the trumpet fully [[chromatic]], allowing the player to play in all keys....
16: ...t E) immediately below [[middle C]], up to about three octaves higher. Standard repetoire rarely call...
19: ...er notes which are otherwise hard to obtain on a three-valve instrument. Among its best-known propone...
28: ...larly after the addition of valves (after about [[1800]]), and its use and instruction became much more ...
49: ... abdomen to push a steady, full column of air up through the mouthpiece. There does not have to be a ... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
10: ...itted inside a holder plate, and as air is drawn through the hole in the holder, the reed vibrates, pr...
15: *Activation of sound through air ([[Bernoulli effect]])
16: ...d tone pitch is given by the reed itself and not through a resonator tube (as opposed to [[woodwind in...
20: ...haracteristics were first used in Europe around [[1800]] AD for organs. People used their knowledge and ...
22: .... It is thought that a traveler to China in the [[1800s]] brought this idea back to Europe. However, the... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
10: ...ld start his sole reign. The co-regencies lasted throughout the Twelfth dynasty and provided great sta...
24: ...aohs of the [[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|Twelfth]] through [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt|Eighteenth Dyna...
26: * [[1800 BC]] - [[Timeline of mathematics|Berlin Papyrus]]
27: * [[1800 BC]] - [[Moscow Papyrus|Moscow Mathematical Papyr... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...onventional Egyptian chronology]] is a type of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[E...
5: .... Scholars consider the creation of an Egyptian chronology a difficult task. As Dr. Robert A. Hatch o...
7: ...CI-REV-Teaching/HIS-SCI-STUDY-GUIDE/0006_egyptianChronolgoy.html]
9: ...d 106), has properly called it "the rather fluid chronology of the [[Pharaoh]]s and the [[Hittite]]s,"...
13: ... radically modify the prevailing modern Egyptian chronology, so the previous "firm" dates cannot be su... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by America...
16: ...s completing his predecessor's term. Since then, three presidents have served two full terms: [[Dwight...
19: ...y four years. Presidents are elected indirectly, through the [[U.S. Electoral College|Electoral Colleg...
25: ...cess is concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertisin...
53: ...01 marked the first year of the 19th century, not 1800. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
28: ...[[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through his work as a constitutional lawyer. Impetuou...
48: Throughout the negotiations Adams was especially dete...
61: In [[1800]], Adams ran again as the Federalist presidential...
88: ...[[Timothy Pickering]]'''||align="left"|1797–1800
90: ...lign="left"|'''[[John Marshall]]'''||align="left"|1800–1801 - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
27: ...e of his collection (the Library was founded in [[1800]]; Jefferson sold his third library to the Congre...
32: ...ce]] ([[1784]]-[[1789]]) he took extensive trips through [[France|French]] and other [[Europe]]an wine...
39: ...Aaron Burr]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1800]]. It was resolved on [[February 17]], [[1801]] w...
131: ...ellectual. He was singularly sweet-tempered, and shrank from the impassioned political bitterness that...
137: ...[[religion]], but to be understood, if possible, through [[reason]] and [[science]]. - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
24: ... family. He came to [[Tennessee]] shortly after [[1800]], as a young lawyer. Since he was not of a disti...
32: ...al]] votes, but not a majority. The election was thrown into the [[United States House of Representati...
73: ... one of whom he had bought for her and the other three of whom were household servants.
77: ...ion]]. He died at the Hermitage in [[1845]], of chronic [[tuberculosis]], and [[heart failure]]. Fitt... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
29: ...Republican Party|Republicans]] were divided into three factions, followers respectively of [[George Cl...
41: ...nited States of America|vice-president]]; but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy whic...
138: ...]| before=[[Nathaniel Pitcher]]| after=[[Enos T. Throop]]| years=1829}} - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
9: ...><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[January 7]], [[1800]]</td></tr>
20: '''Millard Fillmore''' ([[January 7]], [[1800]] – [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteent...
26: ... the New York legislature. He worked his way up through the Whig party, eventually being selected as ...
41: Clay, exhausted, left Washington to recuperate, throwing leadership upon Senator [[Stephen A. Douglas...
62: ...ng movement |Know Nothing, or American, Party]]. Throughout the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] he op...
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