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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ndustry and machine manufacture. It began in [[England]] with the introduction of [[steam engine|steam...
3: ...of steam-powered [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[...
7: ...uced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in the second half of the [[19th century]].
10: ...de]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also c...
12: ...yst of the Industrial Revolution, particularly explaining why it occurred in Britain. In other nations... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...een of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the ti...
9: ...al change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her succes...
12: ...nly child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] [[1819]].
14: ...[[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...m engaging in a 'men's profession'. Several years later, she managed to get some lecture notes from se...
7: ...Germain was forced to reveal her identity to him. Lagrange apparently considered her a talented mathem...
9: ... personally ensure Gauss's safety. The general explained to Gauss that Germain had asked that he be pr...
12: ...r genius. Indeed nothing could prove to me in so flattering and less equivocal manner that the attract...
17: ...[[Ernst Chladni]]'s study on [[vibration]]s of [[elastic]] surfaces. After failing twice she finally w... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia]]
13: | place of death=[[New York City]]
22: ...nction in the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law in [[Fredericksburg]], Virginia. His parents Spe...
24: ...displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with [[Robert R. Livingston]] and under the d...
28: ... election, 1820|re-elected in 1820]]. Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]] veteran to serve... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: | place of birth= [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area...
13: | place of death= [[The Hermitage]], [[Nashville]], [[T...
18: ...ent had either been a member of the [[Virginia]] plantation [[elite]], or had been named [[Adams]]. Ja...
22: ...eling that they were too inclined to favor and emulate their former colonial masters. Jackson admired ...
24: ...prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militia, which... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Greenway, Virginia]]</td...
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Richmond, Virginia]]</td...
13: ...tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1s...
14: [[Priscilla Cooper Tyler]] (daughter-in-law)<br>
16: <tr><td>'''Occupation:'''</td><td>[[lawyer]]</td></tr> - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
25: | '''Place of Birth:'''
31: | '''Place of Death:'''
32: | [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
37: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
38: | [[Harriet Lane]] (niece) - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
21: | '''Place of birth:'''
22: ...ucky]]<br />(site now in [[LaRue County, Kentucky|LaRue County]])
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
31: | '''Profession:''' || [[Lawyer]] - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
19: | '''Place of Birth:''' || [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]...
27: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''
48: ...in [[Greeneville, Tennessee]] from [[1828]] to [[1830]] and mayor of Greeneville from [[1834]] to [[183...
94: ...align="left"|'''[[James Harlan (senator)|James Harlan]]'''||align="left"|1865–1866 - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Chester Alan Arthur
8: | succeeded=[[Grover Cleveland]]
10: | place of birth=[[Fairfield, Vermont]]
13: | place of death=[[New York City, New York]]
18: ...blican Party|Republican Party]] and worked as a [[lawyer]] before becoming the 20th [[Vice President o... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...Greek]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λογος (''logos'',...
3: ...ite]], [[mica]], [[phosphates]], [[zeolites]], [[clay]], [[pumice]], [[quartz]], and [[silica]], as we...
5: ...udies of the [[Moon]]), ''areology'' (of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]), etc., are also in use.
10: ...eds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by [[erosion]] of the [[mountain]]s ...
12: ...h language|French]]. [[Georg Bauer]] (Georg Agricola), a physician, summarized the knowledge of [[mini... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ... 4.567 billion years old, giving an age for the solar system and an upper limit for the age of the Ear...
4: ...uther]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today continue to defend [[young ...
9: ...w [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scientific basis...
11: Lomonosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] natura...
13: ...uralists whose studies of [[stratum|strata]], the layering of rock and earth, gave them an appreciatio... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ... that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in [[1525]].
2: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
8: ...h="140px" | [[Image:Algeria_flag_large.png|125px|Flag of Algeria]]
11: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Algeria|In Detail]])
15: ...er" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]] (translation): The Revolution by the people and for the pe... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...[1840]]. There are 10 more provinces in the Netherlands.<!--
7: native_name = Nederland |
8: common_name = the Netherlands |
9: image_flag = Netherlands_flag_large.png |
11: image_map = LocationNetherlands.png | - Belgium (31774 bytes)
1: ...ry in [[Western Europe]], bordered by the [[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Luxembourg]], [[France]], an...
3: ...tal [[Brussels]]), and a small number of [[German language|German]] speakers in the east. This cultura...
4: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
8: ...center width=130px | [[Image:Belgium coat of arms large.png|125px|Belgium: Coat of Arms]]
10: | width="130px"| ([[Flag of Belgium|In Detail]]) || align=center width=13... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
1: The '''Grand Duchy of Luxembourg''' is a small [[landlocked state]] in the north-west of the continen...
2: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
6: ..."130px"| [[image:Luxembourg flag large.png|125px|Flag of Luxembourg]] || align=center width=130px | [[...
8: | width="130px"| ([[Flag of Luxembourg|In Detail]])
11: ...Mir w묬e bleiwe wat mir sinn<br>([[Luxembourgish language|Luxembourgish]]: We wish to remain what we ... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
4: Flag = Connecticut state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Connecticut]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Bridgeport, Connecticut|Bridgepo...
12: PostalAbbreviation = CT |
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest lik...
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
34: ... BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
52: * [[Glass]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...pse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|t...
4: ...term to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-b...
6: ...olar system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...e through [[Earth's atmosphere]] and strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generall...
10: ...signate man-made objects which have ended up in solar orbits, such as the [[Mariner IV]] probe. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
5: Shortcuts to highly popular [[painter]]s:
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [...
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impress...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
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