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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...on]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
11: ...]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...sh Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
25: ...kerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
41: *[[Leopold Ackermann|Ackermann, Leopold]] (1771-1831)
61: *[[Julio Acosta|Acosta Garc� Julio]] (1872-1954)
64: ...la]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champion - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
9: ...the height of the [[Industrial Revolution]], a period of great social, economic, and technological cha...
14: ...he occupied a high position in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|Germ...
16: ...a scenario, Parliament passed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's ...
18: ...h young Victoria, and that he entered into a relationship with her in order to gain social status (he ...
20: ... [[Order-in-Council]] partially reversed the decision by granting [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
3: ...''' ([[April 1]], [[1776]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
5: ... to dissuade her from engaging in a 'men's profession'. Several years later, she managed to get some l...
9: ... pseudonym, after reading his famous ''[[Disquisitiones Arithmeticae]]'' ([[1801]]). He eventually lea...
12: ...th so many joys, are not chimerical, the predilection with which you have honored it.''
17: ...ans]]. She became the first female to attend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepti... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...[Julian calendar|O.S.]]) <small>([[August 12]], [[1831]] ([[Gregorian calendar|N.S.]]))</small> - [[May ...
4: == Biography ==
5: ...for by servants who believed in the many superstitions of Old Russia, and apparently encouraged her to...
7: ... [[1871]], on a boat bound for [[Cairo]] an explosion claimed Agardi’s life, but H.P. Blavatsky ...
9: ...udience]]. One new feat of hers was [[materialization]], that is, producing physical objects out of no... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...eam locomotive]], at [[Bristol Temple Meads]] station, Bristol, England]]
5: ...here the locomotives push the trains in one direction, and are controlled from a control cab at the op...
8: ...ns why the motive power for trains has been traditionally isolated in a locomotive, rather than in sel...
16: ==Classification by motive power==
20: ...in illustration.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An illustration of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1831]]
18: ...''' ([[April 28]], [[1758]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[Pres...
22: ...ollege of William and Mary]], fought with distinction in the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law i...
24: ...with [[Robert R. Livingston]] and under the direction of President [[Thomas Jefferson]], he helped neg... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
20: ==Biography==
22: ...y, Massachusetts]]), and acquired his early education in [[Europe]] at the [[University of Leiden]]. H...
24: ...rchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having a foreign-born wife, Adams wed Lou...
26: ...802]], and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the [[United States House of Representatives|... - 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 ... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
3: ...font size="+1">'''Martin van Buren'''</font></caption>
16: <tr><td>'''Occupation:'''</td><td>Lawyer</td></tr>
22: ...United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], the first of non-[[England|An...
24: ==Biography==
25: ... 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage. - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...]], when he declined to be a candidate for reelection. He was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affa...
9: ...llas, Texas]] and others are [[Dallas (disambiguation)|named in his honor]].
14: {{succession box|title=[[Mayor of Philadelphia]]|before=[[Jos...
15: ...ict of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|years=1829-1831}}
16: ...[Isaac D. Barnard]]|after=[[Samuel McKean]]|years=1831-1833}} - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
40: | '''Occupation:'''
52: ==Biography==
53: ...t Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1830]]. Buchanan served as one of the mana...
55: ...xual]] relationship began at the time and have periodically been revived by historians, but there isn'...
57: ... He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses)... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
1: .... It constitutes the western part of the wider region of [[Guiana]] (an Amerindian word meaning ''Land...
13: ...| <small>''[[National motto]]: One People, One Nation, One Destiny''</small>
15: ...span=2 style="background:#ffffff;" | [[image:LocationGuyana.png]]
32: | '''[[Population]]'''
34: <br> - [[Population density|Density]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
48: ** [[Fermentation]] to produce [[beer]] in [[Sumeria]]
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ...[[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...6]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ...[[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
31: *[[Aetion]] ([[4th century BC]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
1: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] con...
4: [[Image:National-atlas-1970-1820.png|thumb|U.S. territorial ext...
13: ... First presidential nominating [[political convention]]
14: ...Clay]] in [[U.S. presidential election, 1824|election of 1824]]; Adams immediately appoints Clay his n...
15: ...1824]] - ''[[Gibbons v. Ogden]]'' cements Congressional control over [[interstate commerce]] - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ...undary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Missis...
9: ...tatehood, the [[Missouri Compromise]] makes provisions for the future admittance of slave states and f...
12: ...nd Protest]]'' outlines [[nullification|nullification doctrine]]. Calhoun demands that the North keep ...
15: ... choose between liberty and union. "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" he cries...
17: |valign=center|'''[[1831]]''' - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...ch]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and [[me...
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[2...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 Septe...
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 Octob...
85: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[11 Janua... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ...] at the [[University of Torino]]). Several explosions were reported at their family-owned factory in ...
7: ...andalous and blasphemous. The first surviving edition (bilingual Swedish-[[Esperanto]]) was published ...
14: ...dition of [[potassium nitrate]], wood-pulp and various other substances.
16: ...form, which is soluble in such mixtures. The question was complicated by the fact that it is in practi...
21: ...amite and other explosives, and from the exploitation of the [[Baky|Baku]] oil-fields, in the developm... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ... far north as [[Canada]], with the aid of [[abolitionists]]. Other routes led to [[Mexico]] or oversea...
4: ... Underground Railroad has captured public imagination as a symbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominent...
10: ...organs disseminated the abolitionist viewpoint nationwide.
17: *hiding places were "stations"
21: ...nd Railroad'' in 1872, after [[Abolitionism|Abolition]].
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