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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ... crops, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. ...
15: [[Image:Statute_ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipa...
28: ...arring States period]]. Though there remained a nominal [[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] king ...
30: ...in Shi Huang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynast... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
11: ...ctly, for the deaths of tens, if not hundreds, of millions of [[indigenous people]]s, exploitation of ...
15: ...], he was seen by many contemporaries as a poor administrator and was stripped of his governorship in ...
25: In [[1470]], the family moved to [[Savona]], where Christopher worked f...
29: ...tugal. Columbus's ship was burned and he swam six miles to shore.
33: ...eaching the Portuguese trade post [[São Jorge da Mina]] at the [[Guinea]] coast. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
38: ...ann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853)
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet - 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]].) - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: '''Rani Lakshmi Bai''' (born-[[19 November]] [[1835]]- died [[18 ...
5: ...nika, she was affectionately called Manu in her family. Manu lost her mother at the age of four, and r...
7: ...ao expired on [[21 November]] [[1853]], when Lakshmi Bai was 18 years old.
10: ... son of late Maharaja Gangadhar Rao and Rani Lakshmi Bai was Maharaja's heir and successor as per the ...
12: ...ve the Jhansi fort. But Rani Lakshmi Bai was determined to defend Jhansi. She proclaimed her decision ... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ... wealthy and well-connected [[Britain|British]] family at the 'Villa Colombaia' in [[Florence]], [[Ita...
9: ...]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
13: ...ssed by the quality of medical care and by the commitment and practises of the sisters.
17: ...roposal of politician and poet [[Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton]], against her mother's w...
19: ...d by a continuing crisis of her relationship with Milnes, Nightingale met [[Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...nnes Brahms]], at age twenty, met the couple in [[1853]] and his friendship with Clara lasted until her ...
11: ...rself the composer of a few songs and of some charming music, mainly for the piano, and the authoritat...
14: ...nds birthday, the three Romances were composed in 1853 and dedicated to Joseph Joachim who performed the...
17: # Kamien, Roger. ''Music : An Appreciation''. Mcgraw-Hi... - Painting (4567 bytes)
22: *[[Sumi-e]]
34: ...cteristics of the paint, such as [[viscosity]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying time, etc.
38: *[[Water miscible oil paint]]s
52: ...the latter sense has fallen out of favour in academic discussions about contemporary painting, though ...
98: *[[Vincent Van Gogh|Vincent van Gogh]] ([[1853]]-[[1890]]) - Wagner tuba (1858 bytes)
4: ...is instrument after a brief visit to [[Paris]] in 1853, when he had dropped by the shop of [[Adolphe Sax...
6: ...F a twelfth below middle C to the D a ninth above middle C, and it sounds a perfect fifth lower than w...
8: ...nsive melodic passages at piano to pianissimo dynamics. They can hold their own in a forte tutti, of c... - 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 Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...born the son of John Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary Armistead. He studied law with his father, who became...
50: *Lyon Gardiner Tyler ([[August 24]], [[1853]] - [[February 12]], [[1935]]).
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: ...'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
20: ...]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[President of the United States]] and the sec...
26: ...w York]] would complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south. - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1853]]
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... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
53: ...r the District of Missouri]]. Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
57: ...t a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through T...
61: ...rved as Minister to the [[United Kingdom]] from [[1853]] to [[1856]], during which time he help to draft...
68: In his Inaugural Address, besides promising not to run again, Buchanan referred to the te...
72: ... was wildly unpopular to Northerners, as it was dominated by slaveholders who had enacted laws curtail... - 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/] - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
48: ...[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirty-first and Thir...
51: ...as then appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Military Governor of Tennessee in [[1862]].
105: ...ided for provisional state governments run by the military and ensuring the local passage of [[civil r...
107: ...will. Johnson had previously vetoed the Act, claiming it was unconstitutional, and subsequently Congr...
109: ...esolution to impeach Johnson for "high crimes and misdemeanors", specifically, for intentionally viola... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
5: ...came a shoemaker. He attended several local academies, and also taught school in Natick, where he lat...
7: ...tary Affairs and the Militia and the Committee on Military Affairs. In [[1861]] he raised and command...
12: ...ategory:U.S. Republican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Schuyler Colfax]]|after=... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
57: ...stablished, and the constitution promulgated in [[1853]].
59: ...roads and ports. As in the [[United States]], the migrants who worked to develop Argentina's resources...
61: ... were seeking political power, including a modern military and labor movements that emerged from the g...
63: ...owth and continued social and labor demands. When military governments failed to revive the economy an...
65: ..., as Vice President. During this period, extremists on the left and right carried out terrorist ac... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
27: AdmittanceOrder = 48th |
28: AdmittanceDate = [[February 14]], [[1912]] |
65: Mineral = [[Agate|Fire Agate]] |
82: '''Arizona''' was the 48th [[U.S. state|state]] admitted to the [[United States]] and is part of the [...
88: ... sound. Later in the mid [[18th century]] Spanish missionaries changed Father [[Eusebio Francisco Kino... - California (63989 bytes)
30: AdmittanceOrder = 31<sup>st</sup> |
31: AdmittanceDate = [[September 9]], [[1850]] |
64: Fossil = [[Smilodon|Saber-toothed cat]] |
66: Mineral = [[Gold]] |
89: ...nts in the [[lower 48]] states located within 150 miles of each other. If California were an independ...
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