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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explore...
75: *[[Alexandra David-Néel]], (1868-1969), French explorer, visited [[...
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
104: ...s Republican Party|Republican]] nominee for [[President of the United States]]
129: ...[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
26: ...us|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
41: ...35-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
43: ... Charles Francis]] (born 1910), son of above, president of [[Raytheon]]
44: ..., (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
54: ...John Adams|Adams, John]], (1735-1826), second President of the United States - 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... - 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...
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 ...
45: ...[http://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=63468] or [[myalgic encephalitis]] [http://member... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
8: ...nt practice in [[Rome, New York]]. The practice did not flourish, as female doctors were generally no...
10: ...n [[Washington, D.C.]] She also worked as an unpaid field surgeon near the Union front lines, includi...
12: ...enry Thomas]]. On [[November 11]], [[1865]], President [[Andrew Johnson]] signed a bill to present he...
18: ...l thereof shall be hereby made and given to the said Dr. Mary E. Walker, and that the actual medal of ...
24: Former President [[Jimmy Carter]] restored her medal posthumous... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...aul an unpowered train, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space o...
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive motive power reso...
17: ...mon to classify locomotives by their means of providing motive work - the common ones include:
20: ... illustration of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Cl...
23: ...onomically practical. ''Fairy Queen'', built in [[1855]]; plying between [[New Delhi]] and [[Alwar]] in ... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...tative]] from [[Indiana]] and the 17th [[Vice President of the United States]].
6: ...having become the Republican nominee for Vice President.
8: ...arch 3, [[1873]]. Colfax was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in [[1872]], owing to charges...
10: ...nia]], is named in his honor. The "Jewel of the Midwest", Schuyler, Nebraska, is also named after Col...
14: ...son]] | after=[[Henry Wilson]] | years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1868|1868]] (won)}} - 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)}} - Australia (39438 bytes)
56: ...used the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency. Gover...
63: ...[[Australian Aborigine]]s, and arrived via land bridges and navigation of short sea crossings from pre...
65: ... and claimed for [[Britain]]. His discoveries provided impetus for the establishment of a [[penal colo...
67: ...y were never penal colonies, although the former did receive some convicts from Tasmania. Western Aust...
69: ...referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)|1967 referendum]] did the Federal Government have a mandate to implemen... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
15: ...s = [[List of Presidents of Zambia|President]] |
51: ...onaries, and traders. [[David Livingstone]], in [[1855]], was the first European to see the magnificent ...
59: At independence, despite its considerable mineral wealth, Zambia faced major challeng...
61: ...]] hydroelectric station on the Zambezi River provided sufficient capacity to satisfy the country's re...
63: ...ka]], created security problems as South Africa raided ANC targets in Zambia. - Iowa (24205 bytes)
28: Width = 320 |
50: ...61 resulted in a few shots finding Iowa soil; a raid into Davis and Van Buren counties by Confederate ...
52: ...oval of war-time farm subsidies. Total recovery didn't happen until the [[1940s]].
54: ...r decline of family farms in Iowa and around the midwest, and was marked by a sharp drop in the state'...
69: ...an elevation of the state is 335 [[metre|m]]. Considering the size of the state (145,743 [[square kilo... - Kansas (21369 bytes)
28: Width = 211 mi; 340 |
37: ...aning "People of the south wind", is a [[Midwest|midwestern]] [[U.S. state|state]] in the [[United Sta...
44: ... waystop and outfitting place. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kan...
48: ...1863]], [[William Quantrill]] led ''Quantrill's Raid'' into [[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]] destroying m...
52: ...senhower|President Eisenhower]], presidential candidates [[Bob Dole]] and [[Alf Landon]], [[Amelia Ear... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
28: Width = 340 |
38: ...state|state]] in the high plains of the northern Middle West. It is named after the [[Lakota]] ([[Si...
45: The state is divided into 66 [[county|counties]]; see: [[List of Sou...
73: *[[Rapid City, South Dakota|Rapid City]]
82: ...tern Dakota Territory tripled. The last major incident in this struggle occurred on December 29, 1890... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
54: ...d]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
70: ...Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
99: ...280s]]: [[Glasses|Eyeglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]] - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
6: *[[Isidore Xanthopoulos|Xanthopoulos, Isidore]], patriarch of Constantinople
15: *[[Ettore Ximenes|Ximenes, Ettore]], ([[1855]]-[[1919]]), Italian painter - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...sh by [[Anthony Hodges]], 1638, and [[R. Smith]], 1855.)
3: Suidas also ascribes to this author an ''Etymology'', ... - Alcman (1163 bytes)
3: ...o [[Sparta]], where he lived in the family of Agesidas, by whom he was emancipated. His mastery of Gre...
5: ...ocessionals), and love-songs, of which he was considered the inventor.
7: ...siderable being part of a ''Parthenion'' found in 1855 on an [[Egypt]]ian [[papyrus]]; some later discov... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e generally centered on [[Meridian (geography)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15...
6: ... reference point for Time Zones is the [[Prime Meridian]] ([[longitude]] 0?) which passes through the ...
8: GMT (UTC) is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only betwe...
18: ...r time zones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is o...
27: See also: [[Sidereal time]] [[Calculating local time]] - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...e evaluation of [[knowledge]]. This change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are...
11: ...emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ... some fields of [[study]] which are no longer considered scientific). An account of the development o...
27: ...ommunicated across generations with much greater fidelity. Combined with the [[Origins of agriculture|...
31: ...my]] was practiced in several civilizations. Considerable observation of macrobiotic flora and fauna ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-)
118: *[[Cecilia Beaux]] ([[1855]]-[[1942]])
143: *[[Henryka Beyer]] ([[1782]]-[[1855]])
144: *[[George Biddle]] ([[1885]]-[[1973]])
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