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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region in north-ea... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
16: ...icepresident=[[Aaron Burr]]; [[George Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]
18: ...veowner]], [[author]] and founder of the [[University of Virginia]].
20: ...uisiana Purchase]] and the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]].
23: ...is own vision of higher education at the [[University of Virginia]]. - James Madison (15187 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[United States Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-R...
16: | vicepresident=[[George Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]; [[Elbridge Gerry]]
18: ...of something|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]]''.
21: ...ading [[Virginia]] to give their northwestern territories (consisting of most of modern-day [[Ohio]], ... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...erties, history, and the processes that shape it. It is one of the [[Earth science]]s.
3: ...s]], [[perlite]], [[mica]], [[phosphates]], [[zeolites]], [[clay]], [[pumice]], [[quartz]], and [[sili...
7: ...rd was first used by [[Richard de Bury]]. He used it to distinguish between earthly and [[Theology|the...
10: ... [[mountain]]s and by [[Deposition (geology)|deposition]] of [[silt]].
12: ...turned until after the [[Scientific Revolution]]. It was translated into [[Latin]] and the other langu... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...t until the consensus changes before making the edit. Thank you.
3: ...about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[Geography of Canada]], etc. Tha...
6: ...ssia]]). Bordering the [[United States]], its territorial claims extend north into the [[Arctic Ocean]...
8: ...democracy]] and is a [[constitutional monarchy]] with [[Elizabeth II of Canada|Queen Elizabeth II]] as...
10: ...anguage|English]] and [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] population estima... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
13: * [[1769]]: [[Patent]]ed separate condensing chamber for s...
14: ...s in [[Soho, Birmingham|Soho]], near Birmingham, with [[Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved ...
22: ...ghout the working cycle of the engine, so showing its efficiency.
26: ...her engineers until his patents expired in 1800. With his partner Matthew Boulton he battled against r...
28: ...wer output of steam engines, his version of the unit is equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second (abou... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
4: ...ives cotton unique properties of strength, durability, and absorbency. Each fiber is made up of twenty...
9: ... (cotton cloth and fragments of fiber interwoven with [[feather]]s and [[fur]]) which dated back to ap...
11: ...n: "There are trees which grow wild there, the fruit of which is a [[wool]] exceeding in beauty and go...
13: ...nderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the ends of its branches. These branches were so pliable that th...
17: ...by the invention of the [[cotton gin]] by [[Eli Whitney]] in [[1793]]. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...ntion into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded versio...
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
62: ...century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
99: ...eglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]] - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ...he Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian capital and national library.
6: ...pears as a towering legendary [[hero]] in the tradition of [[Achilles]].
9: ...ve Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, me...
11: After his visit to the [[Oracle]] of Ammon at Siwah, according to... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - Uranus (15207 bytes)
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15: !bgcolor="#c0ffff" colspan="2"| [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] ...
18: ...[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
20: !align="left"| Orbital [[circumference]] - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ... of the known '''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
5: ...lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
10: ...e:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
11: ...sland]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin ...
13: ...ared, they found many [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribes living in the p... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...tenure of [[Pope Siricius]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a sourc...
6: ... [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servor...
7: ...been [[Sovereign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]).
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 Sep...
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 Oct... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
3: ... three voyages to the [[Pacific Ocean]], in which its main shorelines were mapped. Cook was also a [[c...
7: ... day laborer on a farm. As a child, Cook moved with his family to [[Great Ayton]].
8: ...War]] to start again at the lowest level in the British [[Royal Navy]].
12: ...ted in the siege of [[Quebec City, Quebec|Quebec City]] before the [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham]]... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
1: ...]]) was the first [[United States]] overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.
3: ... America, but was roughly a decade after the expedition of [[Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)|Alexander ...
5: ...rom the men and shared the leadership of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain" ([http...
7: ...les Floyd]] died, apparently from acute [[appendicitis]]. In the winter of 1804-1805 they wintered at...
9: ...llowed the Missouri through what is now [[Kansas City, Missouri]] and [[Omaha, Nebraska]], crossed the... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
11: ...65|Stamp Act]], which was very unpopular in the British colonies.
14: ...[[Paris_Commune|socialist]] government rules the city.
15: ...[[1874]] - [[Hawaii]] signs a treaty with the [[United States]] granting exclusive [[trade|trading]] r...
16: ...[Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham rad...
18: ...ip]]s are sunk during a failed [[United Kingdom|British]] & [[France|French]] naval attack on the [[Da... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
10: ...1801]] - [[Tsar]] [[Paul I of Russia]] is struck with a sword, then [[strangle]]d, and finally trample...
14: ...vator]] is installed at 488 Broadway, [[New York City]].
15: *[[1868]] - The [[University of California]] is founded in [[Oakland, Califor...
16: ...t]] [[Benjamin Harrison]] opens [[Oklahoma]] to white settlement starting on [[April 22]].
19: ...]. The trip is sponsored by the [[Smithsonian Institution]] and [[National Geographic Society]]. - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
3: ...ith a view to improving the cod fishery, and in [[1769]]-[[1772]] he was employed in north-western disco...
5: ...d journey, massacred a group of unsuspecting [[Inuit]]; this would be known as the [[Massacre at Blood... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
1: ...nt or the militias of the separate states and territories.
3: ==Militarized conflicts==
4: ...ar_military|irregular]]) participated. The bolded items are the U.S. wars most often considered to be ...
24: *[[Invasion of Haiti]] (1915-1934)
26: *[[Pancho Villa Expedition]] (1916–1917) - 18th century (8231 bytes)
5: ...try|industrial]] capacity) were: [[Austria]], [[Britain]], [[France]], [[Prussia]], and [[Russia]].
9: ... of power away from the west and create new competition in Europe other than France, England, and Spai...
11: ...pecially [[India]], where civil war enabled the British to take control of the entire sub-continent.
13: ...e. In music, the era of [[Baroque music]] reached its apotheosis in the music of [[J.S. Bach]], and th...
17: ...Russia|Peter the Great]]. [[Russia|Russian]] [[capital]] until [[1918]].
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