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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
99: *[[Baltazar Fernandes]] ([[17th century]] [[Portuguese]] ...
101: *[[Matthew Flinders]], (1774-1814), first to circumnavigate [[Australia]] and [[Tas...
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749)...
142: *[[Hamilton Hume]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
231: *[[Walter Raleigh]], (1554?-1618), English explorer - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...named "Marie _______") and 5 sons surviving to adulthood. She made him co-regent of her Austrian domin...
24: ...ily]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Caroline (1752-1814), married [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies|HM Ki...
35: ... the medical faculty more efficient. When she felt her army was strong enough, she prepared to attac...
37: ...She only allowed him limited powers because she felt he was too rash and arrogant. - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...ands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and dr...
5: ...in relative seclusion, and began to suffer ill-health. It is now thought she may have suffered from [[...
9: ...l received when they were published, with [[Sir Walter Scott]] in particular praising her work:
12: ...e enforcement of the lessons she teaches is left altogether to the story, without a word of formal mor...
18: * ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' (1814) - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
18: ...iculture|agriculturalist]], [[Horticulture|horticulturist]], [[Property|land owner]], [[architect]], [...
25: ...r contributions to American political and civil culture. The [[Continental Congress]] delegated task o...
35: ...ers, in contrast to the vision of [[Alexander Hamilton]], who envisioned a nation of commerce and manu...
39: An [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral]] tie resulted between Jefferson and his opponent [[Aaron Burr... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
18: ... co-author, with [[John Jay]] and [[Alexander Hamilton]], of the [[Federalist Papers]], and is traditi...
21: ... overwork in the process. When he regained his health, he became a proteg頯f [[Thomas Jefferson]]. In...
25: ...put aside his doubts to work with [[Alexander Hamilton]] and [[John Jay]] to write the [[Federalist Pa...
29: ...be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable government t...
31: ... Federalist Party|Federalist]]s, who followed Hamilton and believed in a strong central government, an... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
18: .... He is the namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United States Secretary of Stat...
22: ...erous family, Monroe attended the school of Campelltown Academy in Viginia and then attended the [[Col...
34: ...ortunately these "good feelings" did not endure, although Monroe, his popularity undiminished, followe...
42: ...nce then he never financially recovered. As a result, he and his wife [[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe|Eli...
114: ...[[April 2]], [[1811]] – [[September 30]], [[1814]];<br>[[February 28]], [[1815]] – [[March 4... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
28: ...ion which negotiated the [[Treaty of Ghent]] in [[1814]], and Minister to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] fro...
37: Although Adams lost in both the popular and electoral...
114: ...am Short]]| after=[[James A. Bayard]]| years=1809-1814}} - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...r|Minister]] to [[Russia]]. Dallas returned in [[1814]] and practiced law in [[New York, New York|New Y... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ...ism]] and the [[American Civil War]] and as a result, he is widely considered to be the worst presiden...
53: ...ennsylvania State House of Representatives from [[1814]] to [[1815]]. He was elected to the Seventeenth...
82: ... New York after suffering minor damage. As a result of the operation, Thompson resigned from the cabi...
114: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Holt]]'''||align="left"|1861
122: |align="left"| ||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Holt]]'''||align="left"|1859–1861 - Printing press (12986 bytes)
4: ...y used to print [[Bible]]s. Because of the difficulties inherent in carving massive quantities of minu...
8: Although probably unaware of the Chinese/Korean print...
20: ===Effects of printing on culture===
23: ...bringing on the [[scientific revolution]]. Also, although early texts were printed in [[Latin]], books...
40: ...ograms, which make it possible to get similar results with less human involvement. Some few practition... - Australia (39438 bytes)
2: native_name =Commonwealth of Australia|
27: established_events=-[[Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900|Constitution ...
48: ...ic]] political system and it remains a [[Commonwealth Realm]].
56: ... be officially adopted. In 1824 the British Admiralty finally accepted that the continent should be kn...
62: ...land for Britain in [[1770]]. This replica was built in 1988 for Australia's bicentennial.]] - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...great length there, and the evidence provided resulted in the consensus that the country's *official* ...
17: ... member of the [[United Nations]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is...
94: ...4. The [[Treaty of Ghent]] was signed in December 1814. It was only after the French and Napoleonic wars...
144: ...d appointed by the federal government, after consultation with non-governmental legal bodies. Judicial...
148: ...is a member of the [[United Nations]], [[Commonwealth of Nations]], [[La Francophonie]], the [[Organiz... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...th by the [[North Sea]], [[Denmark]], and the [[Baltic Sea]], to the south by [[Austria]] and [[Switze...
66: ... the [[Peace of Westphalia]] ([[1648]]), that resulted in a drastically enfeebled and politically disu...
68: ===Restoration and revolution (1814-1871)===
71: ...'s fall, the [[Congress of Vienna]] convened in [[1814]] in order to restructure Europe. In Germany, the...
79: ...es]] on [[January 18]], [[1871]]. Virtually a result of the wars, the Empire was a unification of the ... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
62: ...th century]] and were finally ceded the area in [[1814]]. The three became a single British colony known...
64: ... member of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]].
105: ...e coast of the [[Atlantic Ocean]], a white sand belt more inland containing [[rainforest]]s and most o...
112: ...c investment. Low prices for key mining and agricultural commodities combined with troubles in the [[b...
123: == Culture == - Nepal (22444 bytes)
60: ...[Prithvi Narayan Shah]], captured Kathmandu. In [[1814]], Nepal fought the [[Anglo-Nepalese War]] with t...
64: .... This has since grown to a [[civil war]] and resulted in the deaths of 10,000 people.
66: ...mpt was not immediately successful, however, and although in a [[comatose]] state, he was proclaimed t...
81: ... Of Nepal's total land area, only 20 percent is cultivatable. Deforestation is a severe problem.
85: Nepal has five climatic zones based on altitude that range from subtropical in the south, to... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...on the Mediterranean side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such a...
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
58: ...ettled throughout the peninsula, becoming the [[Celt-Iberian]]s.
66: ...ce of [[Hispania]]. It was divided in [[Hispania Ulterior]] and [[Hispania Citerior]] during the late ...
77: ...s of present-day Spain were politically unified, although not as a modern centralized state. The grand... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
44: ...ed by the heirs agreeing to a survey -- which resulted in the [[Mason-Dixon line]], surveyed by [[Char...
46: ...f the [[13 colonies|thirteen colonies]] which revolted against British rule in the [[American Revoluti...
48: ...1814 is still celebrated and is the oldest such cultural festival in the country.
71: ...twork broadcast-television stations in Delaware, although a public-television station from Philadelphi...
74: ... in some parts swampy. A ridge about 70 feet in altitude extends along the western boundary of the st... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
19: * 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
38: * [[Bronze]] by the [[Maikop culture|Maikops]]
62: * [[5th century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
128: * [[1701]]: [[Seed drill]]: [[Jethro Tull (agriculturist)|Jethro Tull]]
131: ... [[1710]]: [[Thermometer]]: [[Ren頁ntoine Ferchault de R页mur]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]])
51: *[[Albrecht Altdorfer]] ([[1480]]-[[1538]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
69: *[[George Ault]] ([[1891]]-[[1948]])
74: *[[Milton Avery]] ([[1885]]-[[1965]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
14: ...96)of the [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor ...
77: ...S. Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple arch dam
90: *[[Robert Fulton]], (1765-1815) — steamboat engine
109: *[[Bill Hamilton (engineer) | William Hamilton]], jet boat in 1957
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