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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ncisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
42: ...Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
49: *[[Pêro Vaz de Caminha]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of...
53: *[[Alvaro Caminha]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of...
62: *[[Miguel Corte-Real]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...s an [[United States|American]] [[military]] [[Commissioned officer|officer]], [[List of explorers|exp...
5: ...ew [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited with determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet to the...
7: ...ifornia]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican Party nominated him as their first [[President of the United...
9: ...can Civil War]] and declared [[martial law]] in [[Missouri]]. This declaration led to a conflict with ...
13: ...nty, Iowa|Iowa]] and [[Fremont County, Wyoming|Wyoming]]. Several cities are also named after him, suc... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ment of an economy based on manual labor to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. It bega...
3: ... from about [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of...
10: ...ial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is the...
16: ...d made the greatest gain from overseas trade. The middle class in England became wealthy from overseas...
22: ...didn’t worry about law and order, and set their minds into manufacturing. People earned a lot of mon... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: ...Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
23: ==== Adami - Adamo ====
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
25: ...i, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
9: ...rial Revolution]], a period of great social, economic, and technological change in the United Kingdom....
14: ...le, the Prince of Wales, inherited the Crown, becoming King George IV. Though she occupied a high posi...
16: ...ecedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the Regent.
18: ... German prince) and out of a sense of duty (his family desired the match). Whatever Albert's original ...
20: ...m|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Windsor]].) - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...early [[1800s]] and is credited as the first "[[feminist]]", but more accurately, the launcher of wome...
5: ...She moved to [[Philadelphia]] and became a Quaker minister in [[1821]]. She quickly became known for h...
9: ...tative government's political advocacy to women coming up as women's and abolitionist advocates. In th...
13: In [[1850]] Mott wrote ''Discourse on Woman'', a book about...
19: ...ry_mott1.html Lucretia Mott's biography from the Smithsonian] - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
10: ...r, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern...
13: In [[1857]], Truth moved to [[Michigan]], where she continued her advocacy. Durin...
15: ...e Creek. In [[1983]], she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fame]].
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" after ...
23: ...th.org/ Sojourner Truth Institute] (Battle Creek, Michigan) - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ... singer, was born in [[Chicago]] and studied in [[Milan]] and [[Paris]]. She had a fine [[soprano]] v... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
8: ...inster Review'' had been founded by [[John Stuart Mill]] and [[Jeremy Bentham]] and was the leading jo...
15: ...in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end, as I ended, in falling in lov...
19: Eliot's most famous work, ''[[Middlemarch]]'', is a turning point in the history o...
21: ...vels, and political crisis is at the heart of ''[[Middlemarch]]''. By the time of ''[[Daniel Deronda]...
23: ...es are clear, patient, and well balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...;ская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia...
3: ...ngarian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Matthias Corvinus ...
5: ...via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appreciation of ...
15: ...cross [[trigonometry|trigonometric]] concepts unfamiliar to her at the time, which she tried to explai... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
4: "'''Mississippi saxophone'''"), having multiple, variabl...
17: ... from one reed to an adjacent reed, usually a [[semi-tone]] sharper.
34: (10 holes times a draw and a blow for each hole minus one repeated
39: ...nic harmonica's layout in the key of C (1 blow is middle C):
49: ...les are designed around the tonic (C major) and dominant (G major) chords, allowing a player to play t... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...ovakia]]; and [[Michigan]] [[List of Governors of Michigan|Gov.]] [[Jennifer Granholm]], born in [[Bri...
16: ...Eisenhower]] starting in [[1953]]) [[term limit|limits]] the president to either two four-year terms o...
21: ...ntial [[oath of office]], any federal judge can administer the oath — and even judges of [[feder...
23: ...n inaugural address which sets the tone for his administration.
25: ...]]s) each select a nominee to unite behind; the nominee in turn selects a [[running mate]] to join him... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...fourth-generation descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachus...
24: ...office of [[James Putnam]]. In [[1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age h...
26: ...h;[[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, ...
35: ...5]], Congress created the first of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onwar...
39: ...rdinance, also serving on many other important committees. - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...resident of the United States]], serving in the administration of [[Martin Van Buren]].
5: ...as chairman of the Committee on Claims and the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War.
7: Johnson was commissioned a Colonel of Kentucky Volunteers and comma...
9: ...n Post Office and Post Roads and the Committee on Military Affairs. He was selected as [[Martin Van B...
11: ...a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, but he died in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]] soon afte... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...born the son of John Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary Armistead. He studied law with his father, who became...
39: ...beth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]], [[1850]])
65: ...ould experience great reluctance in employing the military power of Government against any portion of ...
73: ...lding states and unbalancing the [[Missouri Compromise]]. The consequences of this act, which trigge...
138: === States Admitted to the Union === - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Millard Fillmore '''</font></caption>
4: ...nter" colspan=2><div style="float:center">[[Image:Millard Fillmore.jpg|250px|]]</div></td></tr>
6: ...r><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
20: ...150; [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[President of the United States...
26: ...w York]] would complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south. - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[Millard Fillmore]]
18: ...down several important positions. Later, he was nominated for president as a "[[dark horse]]" candidat...
20: ...[[James Buchanan]]. After losing the Democratic nomination, Pierce continued his lifelong struggle wit...
22: ... a timid man with a shallow, rigid, old-fashioned mind which could not cope with a changing America. I...
25: ...olutionary War|Revolutionary War]] soldier, state militia general, and two-time [[governor of New Hamp... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
48: ...tment), revived national banking and banks, and admitted [[West Virginia]] and [[Nevada]] as states. H...
50: ...he end of the Civil War, made him a [[martyr]] to millions of Americans. He is usually ranked as one o...
53: ...Illinois River|Illinois]] and [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]] [[river]]s. While in [[New Orleans, Lo...
59: ...d as a captain in a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Ha...
61: ... both injustice and bad policy." [http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln/] - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ...ation in [[1868]], having become the Republican nominee for Vice President.
8: ...]]. Colfax was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in [[1872]], owing to charges of corruption...
10: ...rnia]], is named in his honor. The "Jewel of the Midwest", Schuyler, Nebraska, is also named after Co...
14: ...ategory:U.S. Republican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]] | before=[[Andrew Johnson]] | aft... - 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...
48: ...was not a candidate for reelection, having been nominated in [[1876]] as the Republican candidate for ...
51: ...ategory:U.S. Republican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Henry Wilson]]|after=[[C...
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