Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...]]. Also, see [[International Space Station]] for ISS explorers, and for the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] n...
11: ...cisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...eorge Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Ca...
23: ... de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...[[military]] [[Commissioned officer|officer]], [[List of explorers|explorer]], the first candidate of ...
5: ...rst European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited with determining that the [[Great B...
7: ...n-American War]] in California. He served (from [[1850]] to [[1851]]) as one of the first pair of [[Unit...
9: ...rginia]]), but lost several battles and resigned his post.
11: ... from [[1878]] to [[1881]]. He died of [[peritonitis]] in a [[hotel]] in [[New York City]]. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
3: ...the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gaine...
5: ...ct of this change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Neolithic revolution]], w...
7: ...' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in the second half of the [[19t...
10: ...conomics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is the [[scientific revolution]] of the 17th century...
14: ...se, which is because there was recovery from the disorder in the early medieval times, and there was d... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
25: ..., Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...e years — longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of t...
9: ...ria was marked by a great expansion of the [[British Empire]]. The [[Victorian era|Victorian Era]] wa...
12: ...Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of...
14: ...erend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...e. Since the law at that time made no special provision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been ... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...a [[women's rights]] proponent, and an [[abolitionist]].
5: ...ny Quaker men had been involved in the [[abolitionist]] movement in the very early 1800s. Lucretia Mot...
7: ...llows "conscientious objector" status to [[war resistors]].
9: ...nist advocates. In the [[1830s]] she helped establish two anti-slavery groups.
11: ...to seat her because she was a woman. After this episode she became active in women's rights. She was i... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...Wagener". The year of her birth is uncertain, but is usually taken to be 1797.
5: ...anada]] in [[1827]]; after [[New York]] state abolished slavery, she returned there in [[1829]], worki...
8: ...he became a noted speaker for both the [[Abolitionist]] movement and the [[women's rights]] movement. ...
10: ...r, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern...
13: ...C.]], after the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] was issued to work with former slaves. She also met Pres... - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ... in [[Chicago]] and studied in [[Milan]] and [[Paris]]. She had a fine [[soprano]] voice, and appeare... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...rovincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological perspicacity.
5: ...r works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted...
8: ...shed a translation of Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', and it was at that time that she began ...
10: ..." were well received and launched Evans on a novelistic career. Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a ...
15: ...g in love with her. Yes behold me in love with this great horse-faced bluestocking.</blockquote> - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...;ская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia...
3: ...rticular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Matthias Corvinus of Hungary|Korvin]...
9: ...t his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her.
11: ...stead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems t...
15: ...ivate mathematical study, calling her "a new [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]]" in the process. - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
2: A '''harmonica''' is a [[Free reed instrument|free reed]] musical [[wi...
4: "'''Mississippi saxophone'''"), having multiple, variably-tu...
14: is made to vibrate more easily by air from above, re...
19: The harmonica is commonly used in [[blues]] and [[folk music]], bu...
24: The harmonica consists of a "comb" made of wood, plastic or metal whic... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
3: ...s Constitution|U.S. Constitution]], the President is also the [[head of government|chief executive]] o...
5: ... as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
7: ...of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations wit...
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]].
12: ...ution|Article II]] of the U.S. Constitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to bec... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ...sh;[[1801]]) [[President of the United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth Preside...
22: ...gland]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...t, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: ...[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, Joh... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...ident of the United States]], serving in the administration of [[Martin Van Buren]].
5: ...ear the present site of [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], and attended [[Transylvania University]]....
7: ...im, Johnson would later use it to good effect in his political career. He was elected to the [[United...
9: ...ntial [[U.S. Electoral College|electors]] due to his relationship with an African-American woman. He s...
11: ...kfort, Kentucky]] soon after taking his seat. He is interred in the Frankfort Cemetery. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
7: ...r><td>'''Followed:'''</td><td>[[William Henry Harrison]]</td></tr>
13: ...ed States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1st wife)<br>
14: [[Priscilla Cooper Tyler]] (daughter-in-law)<br>
17: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
21: ...e the office of President following the death of his predecessor. - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
6: ...r><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
16: <tr><td>'''[[List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States |Polit...
20: ... term and was never elected to the presidency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[U...
26: ...e served in the New York legislature. He worked his way up through the Whig party, eventually being s...
29: ... we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution." - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ...ection, 1852|presidential election]], Pierce and his running mate [[William R. King]] won in a landsli...
20: ...il War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
22: ...haped himself so that he could put up with her aristocratic, nervous ways and show her true affection...
25: ...nd two younger siblings, four brothers and three sisters.
27: ...[Calvin E. Stowe]], [[Sargent S. Prentiss]], and his future political rival [[John P. Hale]]. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
33: | '''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
44: ... election]] further polarized the nation. Before his [[inauguration]] in [[March]] of [[1861]], seven ...
46: ...spire the North, and in his defusing of the peace issue in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1864|1864...
48: ...ead Act]] (1862). However, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the United States w...
50: ... ranked as one of the greatest presidents, though is criticized by some for overstepping the tradition... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
4: ...ts name in [[1845]] to the ''St. Joseph Valley Register'', the [[United States Whig Party|Whig]] organ...
6: ...ember of the state constitutional convention in [[1850]] and an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election...
10: ..., Nebraska, is also named after Colfax. The city is the county seat of Colfax County, Nebraska. - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ...49]]. He was a member of the state Assembly in [[1850]] and [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate f...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).