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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
3: ...do 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.
11: ...los. He also sent out various expeditions. [[Melchior Diaz]] was sent out to the mouth of the Colorado...
12: ...] was sent east, and found villages around the [[Rio Grande]]. Coronado set up his winter quarters in ...
16: ...f his men came back with him. Although the expedition was a complete failure, he remained governor of ... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...ut is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with up to...
5: ...n, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be...
8:
10: ...[[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]] - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...lthough there are relatively many important exceptions to this rule. All these pipes are attached to t...
18: ...e reeds but there are a number of important exceptions, including the Italian Zampogna, the French Mus...
23: ...inflation device seems to have originated with various ethnic groups in the Roman empire.
25: ... "[[Scots Wha Hae]]", "Hey Tutti Taiti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Rober...
27: ...era the use of bagpipes has become a common tradition for military funerals and memorials in the [[ang... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democr...
15: ...ns the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crow...
16: ... [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: ...[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...o, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
74: *[[James Abercrombie Junior|Abercrombie Junior, James]], (died 1775), British Colonel, killed a...
91: ...aharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam
95: ...], (born 1969), British women's boxing world champion - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...s eccentricities and policies, including an obsession with neighboring and enemy country Prussia, alie...
9: ...is document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly having turned mo...
11: ...ed them serfs. She also encouraged the [[colonization]] of [[Alaska]] and of conquered areas.
13: ...e relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class.
16: ...reat.jpg|thumb|250px|Catherine the Great's coronation coach is exhibited in the [[Hermitage Museum]], ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...sal Declaration of Human Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]]...
9: ...[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
13: ... viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.
16: ...oodwin]], who wrote a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, disagree...
20: ...to a live audience of 70,000, and a nationwide radio audience. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
5: ...en, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. S...
9: ...llars a year (the first male actor who made a million dollar deal was [[Charlie Chaplin]]), and one of...
11: ... Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" b...
18: ...h]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph]], worked for $5 a day - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...n in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous [[n...
4: ...s of the time, her father gave her a male's education. Males were educated in and taught [[Chinese lan...
8: ...y. The Murasaki Shikibu Collection was a compilation of 128 poems written by Murasaki.
10: ...uddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, or between 1025 and 1031, when she would have b...
12: A fictionalized biography of Murasaki called ''The Tale of Murasaki: ... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...der public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number one ...
5: ==Biography==
7: ...ike for a competition involving the [[Baltimore Orioles]]. This song won the contest and became her fi...
10: ...ted to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
13: ... Gun", which received considerable critical attention. When the album was released in the UK, it went ... - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
2: ...e | image = [[Image:A sunflower.jpg|260px]] | caption = Sunflowers display bright yellow colors.}}
5: ...x_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
12: {{Taxobox_section_binomial_simple | color = lightgreen | binomial_...
15: ...ing to face the [[Sun]], a behavior known as [[heliotropism]]. - Cootamundra wattle (1558 bytes)
2: ...age:wattletree.jpg|250px|Acacia baileyana]] | caption = Cootamundra Wattle}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
12: {{Taxobox section binomial simple|color=lightgreen|binomial_name=A...
15: ... Fabaceae]]. The Cootamundra is but one of nearly 1000 species of ''Acacia'' found in [[Australia]]. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...rn]] period that preceded the [[Industrial Revolution]].
6: ... fact revealed its surprising artistic sophistication, though its political and social senses were une...
8: ...is connection too was lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, ...
12: ...ns did not withstand the changes, and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery largel...
14: ... the art of writing, and a centralised administration through its network of [[bishop]]s. The Early Mi... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...h Africa. It includes the major art movements, national art, genres, revivals, the artists crafts, and...
5: ...e art]] and [[Islamic art]]. In addition each "nation" or culture in the Middle Ages had its own disti...
13: ... based on about nine large-scale movements, or periods.
15: ...the production of art in the East. During this period Christian artists adopted the Roman crafts of pa...
17: ...en finally late in the period some Viking inspirations were added in Ireland. - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: The materials definition of a '''glass''' is a uniform [[amorphous solid]...
9: ...modified, or even changed entirely, with the addition of other compounds or [[heat treatment]].
13: '''Common glass''' is mostly amorphous [[silicon dioxide]] ([[Silicon|Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), w...
20: ...t]] light or UV, to pass. This is due to the addition of compounds such as [[soda ash]] (sodium carbon...
22: ...r|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission from within the glass itself. - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ...y persons, typically made with [[gem]]s and [[precious metal]]s. [[Costume jewelry|Costume jewellery]...
7: Jewellery, particularly when made with precious materials, is generally considered valuable and...
9: Jewellery in various forms has been made and worn by both sexes in a...
22: ...C - [[The Middle East]] employ semi-[[mass-production]]
26: * 2500 BC - True iron production technology in [[Near East]]. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
4: |region=The [[Balkans]]
5: |speakers=15 million|rank=74
10: ...tion=[[Greece]], [[Cyprus]] (and the [[European Union]])
13: ... It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
15: ...aic]] and [[Classical]] periods of Greek civilisation. It has been studied in schools and universities... - Imhotep (3367 bytes)
5: ...C but may perhaps go back to texts written around 1000 years earlier.
7: ... to be what prevented chaos back. Due to the position this would have placed him in, he was also somet...
13: ''Imhotep'' is also the name of a [[fictional character]] played by [[Boris Karloff]] in the... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
18: ...r the "'''Jacksonian Era'''" — an era traditionally seen as dominating the years between the [[W...
22: ...soned by the [[British]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]]. When he refused to clean the boots of ...
26: ...[[January 8]], [[1815]], made his national reputation and he advanced in rank to Major General.
32: ...n a solid victory in his [[U.S. presidential election, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
3: ...font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
22: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>Lawyer</td></tr>
29: ...n between the [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [[1912]].
31: ...ttle imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic problems in his second term.
33: ==Biography==
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