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- 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: ...e, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
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]]. - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise to the popular quotation, "''Dr. Livingstone, I ...
6: ... the [[London Missionary Society]], becoming a minister.
8: ...ife travelled with him for a brief time at his insistence and over the protests of the Moffats –...
10: ==Discovery of Victoria Falls==
12: ...was a proponent of trade and missions to be established in central Africa. - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...nically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...f present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[p...
8: ...environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting resu...
10: ...tningVolt Iron Ore Pellets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in stee... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
12: ...ward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835) - 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
17: ...olphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
7: ... temperance society in America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American ...
9: ...he Revolution (newspaper)|The Revolution]]'', published in [[New York City]], edited by Stanton, and h...
13: ...life]] views of Susan B. Anthony. Many early feminists, aware of how the procedure endangered women's ...
19: ...on [[March 13]], [[1906]]. Anthony is known as [[List of people known as the father or mother of somet...
23: ...wards) and of her speaking abilities. She long resisted public speaking for fear her speech would not ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ...[[Robert Schumann]], was one of the leading [[pianist]]s of the [[Romantic music|Romantic era]] as wel...
7: ...e of her frequent performance partners. Schumann is credited with refining the tastes of audience thr...
9: ...rned to [[London]] in [[1865]] and continued her visits annually, with the exception of four seasons, ...
11: As an artist she will be remembered, together with Joachim, a...
14: ...es toward women's ability to compose influenced this as well the intimidating genius of Brahms and her... - Dye (6033 bytes)
1: ... generally has no affinity for the substrate, and is insoluble.
9: ...d by [[William Perkin|William Henry Perkin]] in [[1856]]. Many thousands of dyes have since been prepare...
11: ...neutral to acid dyebaths. Attachment to the fibre is attributed, at least partly, to salt formation be...
13: ...me use for wool and silk. Usually [[acetic acid]] is added to the dyebath to help the uptake of the dy...
15: '''Direct''' or '''[[substantive dye]]ing''' is normally carried out in a neutral or slightly [[a... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...trument]] invented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to compete with the [[saxophone]] as a replacemen...
3: ...d is played with a [[double reed]]. Its fingering is similar to a saxophone, and it was made in sizes ...
5: ...agile subsitute for the contrabassoon, so that it is called for in, for example, [[Maurice Ravel]]'s '...
7: ...y unusual example of the sarrusophone in [[jazz]] is on the [[1924]] recording by [[Clarence Williams]...
9: The sarrusophone is now obsolete and only used as a novelty upon occa... - Nile (13738 bytes)
4: ...6;يل ''an-nīl''), in [[Africa]], is one of the two longest [[river|rivers]] on [[Eart...
8: ...upsilon;πτος), which itself is the source of the name "Egypt".
12: ...oint from which the length of a river is measured is not always agreed upon. The Nile carries far le...
14: ...nning and followed to the Mediterranean, the Nile is approximately 6695 km (4160 miles) long. Measuri...
20: ...he western flanks of the East African Rift, which is the southern African part of the [[Great Rift Val... - 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... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
8: ...d>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[William Henry Harrison]]</td></tr>
17: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
22: ...[[first language]] was not [[English language|English]].
25: ...1817]]), a farmer and popular [[tavern]]-keeper. His mother was Maria Hoes ([[February 27]], [[1747]]&...
27: ...the acquaintance of Burr, but did not fall under his influence. In [[1803]] he was admitted to the bar... - 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. - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...o fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Isaac D. Barnard]] and served from [[December 13]], ...
7: ...om [[1837]] to [[1839]], when he was recalled at his own request. He was elected Vice President of th...
9: ...nd others are [[Dallas (disambiguation)|named in his honor]].
11: ...tor]] [[Claiborne Pell]] of [[Rhode Island]]. He is also the uncle of [[Alexander Dallas Bache]].
15: ...ed States Attorney|U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|years=182... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
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."
31: ...ade no public comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylo... - 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]]. - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
43: | '''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
50: ...ranked [[American presidents]], a [[panel]] of [[historians]] rated him last overall and the general [...
53: ...he District of Missouri]]. Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
55: ...een revived by historians, but there isn't any decisive evidence one way or the other.
59: ...e negotiated the [[1846]] [[Oregon Treaty]] establishing the 49th parallel as the northern boundary in... - 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...
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