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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
3: [[Image:Coronado expedition.jpg|thumb|500px|The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.]]
7: ...expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
14: ... at all, the village consisted mostly of thatched huts, and not even small amounts of gold could be fo... - Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
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10: [[Image:LightningVolt Iron Ore Pellets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets wi...
28: ...have been found in archaeological sites more than 1000 miles (1600 km) away. When the [[United States|A...
32: ...m Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Iron axehead from Swedish Iron Age,... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
1: [[Image:Bagpipe performer.jpg|right|thumb|150px|A bagpipe performer in [[Amsterdam]].]]
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
20: ...y produced when the chanter reed is too easy and thus the chanter is overblown. Sometimes the term is...
25: ...arity seems to have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by [[Robert Burns]] for "[[Scots W...
53: ...es not have a completely closed end, like the Northumbrian smallpipes, the player can press the end of... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]].
28: ...ngary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revolution]] that started on [[October 23]...
37: * 1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern [[California]], causing between...
39: * [[2001]] - [[Hurricane Michelle]] hits [[Cuba]], destroying crops...
50: ...9]] - [[Will Rogers]], [[United States|American]] humorist and entertainer (d. [[1935]]) - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
52: *[[Hussam Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornithologist]]
114: *[[Absalom]], (circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...veral powerful political groups which opposed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on cur...
16: ...Buberel Coronation coach Catherine the Great.jpg|thumb|250px|Catherine the Great's coronation coach is...
25: ...Olof Cronstedt]], had 200 larger and minor ships, 1000 guns, and 12,500 men. The Russian ships had some...
27: ...narchies. Catherine took advantage of [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] impotent government, before t... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[human rights]] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wif...
5: ...', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ... his late brother in giving Eleanor's hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six c...
13: ...Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but that Franklin, and now Eleanor, were me... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
15: ...ford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling is gone." She wa...
16: [[Image:Pickford01.jpg|right|thumb|183px|Mary Pickford]]
24: * [[1915]]: worked for various companies, $1000 to $2000 a week
28: ...iffith]], [[William S. Hart]], and her soon-to-be husband, Fairbanks, and became its first vice presid...
35: * [[1949]]: Pickford and her husband form Pickford-Rogers-Boyd, a radio and telev... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...one of the earliest and most famous [[novels]] in human history.
3: [[Image:KyotoRozanji.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rozanji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto...
8: ...bu Collection]]'' were arranged and published posthumously. The Murasaki Shikibu Collection was a com...
16: * Lady Murasaki, [[Arthur Waley]] (trans.). ''The Tale of Genji'', publish... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
7: ... began to play the piano and attend her father's church every week. By age 5, she had written her firs...
23: ...to some fans, and the instrumentation, including church bells, bagpipes, and a gospel choir, kept it a...
33: ...elatively subdued piano sound. Its closing track "1000 Oceans" was much closer in spirit to her early so...
43: ...ading of the album, Amos, in conjunction with her husband and crew, invented a special kind of glue to... - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = ''[[Helianthus]]''}}
12: ...ple | color = lightgreen | binomial_name = Helianthus annuus}}
15: The '''sunflower''' ('''''Helianthus annuus''''') is an [[annual plant]] in the Famil...
18: ...[Europe]] early in the [[16th century]]. ''Helianthus'' is from the [[Greek language|Greek]] for "sunf...
21: ...used to refer to all plants of the genus ''Helianthus'', many of which are [[perennial]] plants. - Cootamundra wattle (1558 bytes)
15: ... Fabaceae]]. The Cootamundra is but one of nearly 1000 species of ''Acacia'' found in [[Australia]].
18: [[Image:Wattlecloseup.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Close up of flowers of a Cootamundra... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...ion and diffusion of printing, and the [[Humanism|humanist]] revival of the Renaissance in the [[15th...
5: [[Image:MCD_001.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Romanesque]] [[architecture]] flourishe...
6: ...Prominent among these peoples were non-Germanic [[Huns]] and [[Avars]] and [[Magyars]] with the large ...
12: ...nts an incomplete portrait of a complex time of [[human migration|migration]]. In some important cases...
14: ...rging societies of Western Europe. The Christian Church, the only centralised institution to survive t... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...most famous of the surviving mosaics is in the [[Church of the Holy Wisdom]] in former [[Constantinopl...
3: ...rt''' covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of [[art history]] in [[Western art history...
9: ...ire and upon the legacy of the early [[Christian church]]. These sources were mixed with the vigorous ...
27: ...to natural disasters and the re-appropriation of churches to [[mosques]]. - Glass (26176 bytes)
18: [[Image:Glass-Ball.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Glass can be made transparent a...
22: ...ive. This type of glass can be made so pure that hundreds of kilometres of glass are transparent at [...
30: ...compound, which lowers the melting point to about 1000 ?C. However, the soda makes the glass water-solub...
35: [[image:bristol.blue.glass.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Metallic additives in the glass mix...
42: ...compounds and mineral oxides to produce brilliant hues of red, green, and blue - the colors of gemsto... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
9: ...inent. Personal [[adornment]] seems to be a basic human tendency.
35: * [[1000 BC]] - [[Iran|Persian]] sheet [[bronze]] work 0.0...
36: * 1000 BC - The start of true [[engraving]].
43: * [[325 BC]] - Animal or human-headed hoop earrings were popular.
47: * [[100 AD]] - [[Sulphur]] fills hollow gold items throughout the [[Roman... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
32: ... by modifying the [[Phoenician alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications, is still used...
269: ... np is pronounced /mp/ or, more accurately, /b/, thus producing the sound /to batera/. It should be no...
354: ... eisenenkēis hēmas eis peirasmon, alla rhusai hēmas apo tou ponērou. - Imhotep (3367 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classro...
5: ...C but may perhaps go back to texts written around 1000 years earlier. - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ... who had lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associated with one of t...
41: [[Image:andrew_jackson_20bill.jpg|thumb|right|Andrew Jackson is depicted on the U.S. $2...
68: [[Image:JacksonAssassinationAttempt.jpg|thumb|right|200px||The etching of the assassination a...
73: ... President. She had supposedly divorced her first husband, Col. Lewis Robards, but there were question...
76: [[Image:Andrew Jackson Portrait.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Portrait of Andrew Jackson]] - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
12: [[Chester A. Arthur]] ([[1885]])<br>
39: [[Image:President_cleveland_wedding.png|left|thumb|Grover Cleveland was the first and only Preside...
46: ...ss of our national character...." He also vetoed hundreds of private pension bills to [[American Civi...
48: ...Image:DSCN4468 buffaloclevelandstatue e.jpg|left|thumb|Statue of Cleveland outside City Hall in Buffal...
54: ...arrison]], he received fewer electoral votes and thus lost the election - as did [[Samuel Tilden]] in ...
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