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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
7: ...expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: ...t was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indians. Marcos was sent back to [[Mexico]] in disgrace...
11: ...t (the [[Colorado River (U.S.)|Colorado]]). [[Garcia Lopez de Cardenas]] was sent out to find this riv...
12: ...ntering he suffered from fierce attacks by the Indians.
14: ...t his disappointment was repeated: The Quivira Indians (later known as [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]) we... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ..., with [[carbon]] being the primary alloying material. Carbon acts as a hardening agent, preventing ir...
5: ...which carbon is replaced with other alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is undesired. A more r...
8:
11: ...r '''α-iron''', a fairly soft metallic material that can dissolve only a small concentration of ...
15: ... into martensite, by contrast, occurs almost immediately, due to a lower activation energy. - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...leather, but in more recent times many other materials, such as [[rubber]] and [[Gore-Tex]] have becom...
18: ...number of important exceptions, including the Italian Zampogna, the French Musette du Cour, and severa...
23: ...eems likely they were first invented in pre-Christian times. [[Nero]] is generally accepted to have b...
25: ...arity seems to have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by [[Robert Burns]] for "[[Scots W...
27: ...the funerals of high-ranking civilian public officials as well. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...the year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich ...
9: ... of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
10: ...nt (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
11: ...shington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...ist of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-1998)
5: ...varisto Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
15: ...k Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
20: ...ah of Persia)|Abbas I]], (1557-1629), shah of Persia
32: *[[William Abbot|Abbot, William]], (1798-1843), British actor - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...he Great''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[N...
5: ...o the palace in which Peter was residing. He immediately fled to a distant castle, and Catherine took ...
9: ... by [[Cesare, marchese de Beccaria-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu...
11: Catherine reorganized Russian provincial administration, granting the government greater ...
13: ...instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Econo... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ... the United States of America|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the comm...
9: ...almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] f...
15: In [[1928]], Mrs. Roosevelt met Associated Press reporter [[Lorena Hickok]], a [[White Ho...
16: ...h Cook's assessment that Mrs. Roosevelt was a lesbian. Eleanor Roosevelt's sexuality continues to be a...
20: ...n to perform from the steps of the [[Lincoln Memorial]], to a live audience of 70,000, and a nationwid... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
7: ...e Warrens of Virginia'', which was written by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who...
13: ...tate [[Pickfair]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her str...
17: == Partial chronology ==
22: * [[1913]]: Appears (with [[Lillian Gish]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Goo... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...n in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous [[n...
4: ...and taught [[Chinese language|Chinese]], the official language of the court, while females were taught...
8: ...[The Tale of Genji]]''. ''[[The Murasaki Shikibu Diary]]'' and ''[[The Murasaki Shikibu Collection]]''...
10: ...been in her mid fifties, which was quite old by Heian standards. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
3: ...assically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to tha...
7: ... at [[Montgomery College]] and began playing at piano bars, many of them gay, chaperoned by her fathe...
10: ...h; an experience that would feed into her influential song "[[Me and a Gun]]". She also met [[Steve Ca...
13: ...ere rejected on the grounds that the "girl and a piano thing" wasn't going to sell. Extensively re-wor... - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Asteraceae]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = ''[[Helianthus]]''}}
12: ..._simple | color = lightgreen | binomial_name = Helianthus annuus}}
15: ...e]]s tall, with the flower head reaching 30cm in diameter. The sunflower is notable for turning to fac...
18: ...to [[Europe]] early in the [[16th century]]. ''Helianthus'' is from the [[Greek language|Greek]] for "... - Cootamundra wattle (1558 bytes)
2: ..._image | image = [[image:wattletree.jpg|250px|Acacia baileyana]] | caption = Cootamundra Wattle}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Fabaceae]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = '''[[Acacia]]''' }}
12: ...inomial simple|color=lightgreen|binomial_name=Acacia baileyana}}
15: ...arly 1000 species of ''Acacia'' found in [[Australia]]. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...[Early Modern]] period that preceded the [[Industrial Revolution]].
6: ...istic sophistication, though its political and social senses were unevolved and its technologies undev...
8: ...es, and the gradual break-down of economic and social linkages and infrastructure. This break-down was...
12: ...ers, the remnants of classical culture, and Christian influences, produced a new model for society. Th...
14: ...d by the urban control of bishops and the territorial control exercised by dukes and counts. The rise ... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...rt''' covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of [[art history]] in [[Western art history...
5: ...movements. They are [[Celtic art]], [[Early Christian art]], [[Migration Period art]], [[Pre-Romanesqu...
9: ...elements of classical, early Christian and "Barbarian" art.
13: ... the Middle Ages is a broad subject and art historians traditionally look at it based on about nine la...
15: ...tion of art in the East. During this period Christian artists adopted the Roman crafts of painting, mo... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...ally produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools very rapidly, thereby not giving enough ti...
3: ...amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word ''gl...
5: ...n use as a building, container or decorative material.
9: ...ert]], and [[biology|biologically]] inactive material which can be formed with very smooth and impervi...
20: ...transparent to visible light (not all glassy materials are). The transparency is due to an absence of ... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...nd has been made out of almost every kind of material.
7: ...r, as is the case in many Western cultures, [[marriage|married]] people wearing a [[wedding ring]].
16: * [[7000 BC]] - Uses of [[copper]] in [[Anatolia]], [[Iran]] and [[Eastern Europe]].
20: ...[3500 BC]] - [[Gold]] makes an appearance in Egyptian jewellery.
25: * [[2500 BC]] - Egyptians using copper/[[lead]] alloys. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...epublic of Macedonia]], central and south [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]] and surrounding countries
8: [[Attic dialect|Attic]]<br>
17: ...ng world. It is also known as the '''Alexandrian dialect''', '''Post-Classic Greek''' or even '''New T...
19: ...k]] during medieval [[Greek history]] as the official and vernacular language of the [[Byzantine Empir...
32: ... by modifying the [[Phoenician alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications, is still used... - Imhotep (3367 bytes)
3: ...wizard]], and the first [[architect]] and [[physician]] known by name to written history. As the [[Ph...
5: ...C but may perhaps go back to texts written around 1000 years earlier.
17: ...own [[France|French]] [[rap]]per from the group [[Iam]]. - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...lled the "'''Age of Jackson'''" or the "'''Jacksonian Era'''" — an era traditionally seen as dom...
22: ...o inclined to favor and emulate their former colonial masters. Jackson admired [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] ...
24: ...ontier law. He became a colonel in the state militia, which began his military career.
28: ...ted States. He subsequently was appointed territorial governor there.
32: ...st. He won a solid victory in his [[U.S. presidential election, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as t... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
16: [[William McKinley]] ([[1897]])</td></tr>
31: ...as scrupulously honest at a time when many politicians were neither, but he had little imagination and...
34: ...ne of nine children. His father was a [[Presbyterian]] minister. He was raised in upstate [[New York]...
40: ...mor, he did admit to paying child support to [[Maria Crofts Halpin]], the woman who claimed he fathere...
42: A [[bachelor]], Cleveland was initially ill-at-ease with all the comforts of the White...
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