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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fr...
7: ...a about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice paddy]] agriculture ...
11: ...]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chi...
14: ...e of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Followi...
15: ..._ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hristopher_columbus_99w.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
2: ...:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
3: ...that Columbus fought with opposition based on the idea that the earth was flat is a literary [[myth]] ...
5: ...t to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third voyage). However, there...
7: ...g in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
38: ...ann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853) - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...um|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince of Leininge...
16: ...queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the R...
20: ... royal, princely, and ducal families, his family did not use theirs. Victoria asked her staff to dete...
27: ...it was growing unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonie...
33: ...ight|A likeness of Queen Victoria appears on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stam... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
5: ...ation and martial training, which included horse riding, fencing and shooting, when she was still a ch...
7: ...haraja Gangadhar Rao expired on [[21 November]] [[1853]], when Lakshmi Bai was 18 years old.
10: ...r Rao was their [[legal heir]]. Lord Dalhousie decided to annex the state of Jhansi under the [[Doctri...
19: ...lt, when she was hit by a spray of bullets while riding on the fortress ramparts. The British captured...
27: *The administration of Undivided India passed on from the East India Company to ... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
11: ...ged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then president of the [[Poor Law Board]]. This led to her ac...
19: ...e met [[Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea|Sidney Herbert]], a brilliant politician who had been...
25: On [[August 12]], [[1853]], Nightingale took a post of superintendent at t...
27: ...re sent to the Crimea, with the authorisation of Sidney Herbert.
35: ...an accident. Following this episode she used a solid Russian-built carriage, with waterproof hood and ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...nnes Brahms]], at age twenty, met the couple in [[1853]] and his friendship with Clara lasted until her ...
11: ...ic, at a time when such technical ability was considerably rarer than in the present day, she was hers...
14: ...nds birthday, the three Romances were composed in 1853 and dedicated to Joseph Joachim who performed the... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ... using written language. Artistic painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the...
34: ...r artist.]] Different types of paint are usually identified by the medium that the pigment is suspend...
52: ...nts, techniques and methods that typify an ''individual'' artist's work. It can also refer to the [[...
74: == Common painting idioms ==
76: Painting idioms include: - Wagner tuba (1858 bytes)
4: ...is instrument after a brief visit to [[Paris]] in 1853, when he had dropped by the shop of [[Adolphe Sax...
6: ... a twelfth below middle C to the D a ninth above middle C, and it sounds a perfect fifth lower than wr... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ...eal_us_presdent.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ... States Constitution|U.S. Constitution]], the President is also the [[head of government|chief executi...
5: ... public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of th...
7: ...ulated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] of government.
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
4: ...at:center">[[image:Seal_us_presdent.jpg|200px|Presidential Seal]]</div></td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>10th President</td></tr>
18: ...'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td> ''none'' </td></tr></table>
21: ...ence]], and the first to assume the office of President following the death of his predecessor.
27: ...t famous in American politics. He assumed the presidency upon Harrison's death a month into his term. - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>13th President</td></tr>
6: ...'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
17: ...'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>''none''</td></tr>
20: ... presidency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party...
26: .... It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate from [[New York]] would complement Taylor, a s... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Pierce
4: | order=14th President
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1853]]
16: | vicepresident=[[William R. King]]
18: ...lege|electoral vote]]. He became the youngest president up unto that time. - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
11: | 15th President
46: ...'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''
47: | [[John C. Breckinridge]]
50: ...m last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents.htm].
53: ...iciary (Twenty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1830]]. Buchanan served... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
10: | '''Order:''' || 16th President
36: ...'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''
42: ...esident of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Repu...
44: ...al territories, and his victory in the [[1860 presidential election]] further polarized the nation. Be...
46: ...n the [[U.S. presidential election, 1864|1864 presidential campaign]]. - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
8: | '''Order:''' || 17th President
35: ...'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''
40: ...] ([[1865]]–[[1869]]), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of [[Abraham Lincoln]]...
42: ...t|impeach]] him in [[1868]]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently acquitted...
48: ...ngresses ([[March 4]], [[1843]] to [[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of the Committee on Public E... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ...m [[Massachusetts]] and the eighteenth [[Vice President of the United States]].
5: ...y Wilson and his wife, who only had but a couple kids. In [[1833]] he had his name legally changed by ...
7: ...]], [[1873]], when he resigned to become Vice President. He was Chairman of the Committee on Military...
9: ...e United States on the Republican ticket with President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and served from [[March 4...
12: ...x]]|after=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1872|1872]] (won)}} - Argentina (30219 bytes)
15: leader_titles = [[President of Argentina|President]]|
57: ...stablished, and the constitution promulgated in [[1853]].
59: .... Foreign investment and immigration from Europe aided this economic revolution. Investment, primarily...
61: ...r. The Argentine military forced aged Radical President [[Hipo Yrigoyen]] from power in [[1930]] a...
63: ...nister of Labor. Elections carried him to the presidency in [[1946]]. He aggressively pursued policies... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
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53: Reptile = [[Rattlesnake|Arizona Ridgenose Rattlesnake]] |
85: ...|Yuma]], and [[Flagstaff, Arizona|Flagstaff]]. Besides the [[Grand Canyon National Park|Grand Canyon]]...
88: ... English speaker like an "r" sound. Later in the mid [[18th century]] Spanish missionaries changed Fat...
89: ...Spanish language|Spanish]] words "Ჩda zona" ("arid zone") - California (63989 bytes)
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45: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=06487414661+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
107: ...can portion, Baja (lower) California was later divided into the states of [[Baja California]] and [[Ba...
111: ...ivil War]], California officially entered on the side of the North, but there was significant support ...
113: ...ular, were widely grown, and the foundation was laid for the state's prodigious agricultural productio...
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