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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
91: | [[Michigan]]
92: | [[Lansing, Michigan|Lansing]]
95: | [[Minnesota]]
96: | [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]]
99: | [[Mississippi]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
19: *[[Abbas I of Egypt|Abbas I]], (1813-1854), pasha of [[Egypt]]
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara
61: ...Abegg, Richard Wilhelm Heinrich]] (1869-1910), chemist
65: ...s Abel|Abel, Frederick Augustus]] (1827-1902), chemist - List of people by name: Ae (1061 bytes)
5: ...exa von Aehrenthal|Aehrenthal, Alois Lexa von]], (1854-1912), [[Austria-Hungary|Austria-Hungarian]] stat...
9: *[[Aemilia Scaura]], (circa 100 BC-82 BC), wife of [[Pomp...
10: *[[Aemilianus]], (circa 207-253), [[Roman Empire|Roman Em... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
14: ...Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
21: ...Ainsworth, Henry]], (1571-1622), English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar - 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 ... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
5: ... [[Quaker]]s. Soon after her birth, the Anthony family moved to the state of [[New York]], and after [...
7: ...an's state temperance society in America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the...
9: After [[1854]] she devoted herself almost exclusively to the a...
13: ...ro-life]] views of Susan B. Anthony. Many early feminists, aware of how the procedure endangered women... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
8: ...leading journal for philosophical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a translation of Feuerbach's ''E...
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... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...n]]. She has been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizin...
4: == Youth, education, family nursing ==
6: ... managed the household. She was the baby of the family. Her four brothers and sisters were all at leas...
8: ...2 years Clara stayed by his side and learned to administer all his medicine, including the "great, loa...
10: == Teaching, organizing, learning bureaucracy, a mission == - 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: ... position he would hold again ([[1852]] – [[1854]]) during the [[Crimean War]]. Herbert was alread... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...nt of his life in the Christian Gospels. Mary ([[Miriam]] in Hebrew, Mariam in Greek) is mentioned by...
8: ... account of the childhood of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman ...
13: ...oceed to [[Bethlehem]] (Micah 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about 130 kilometers) from Nazareth; and whil...
17: ...[Cana]]; her intercession led to the first public miracle performed by Jesus (John 2:1-11). After thi...
33: == Islamic tradition == - Accordion (10069 bytes)
2: ...t representative of the [[organ (music)|organ]] family.
22: ...eds can sound in both directions, which is more similar to a clarinet than a modern free-reed instrume...
25: ... The reeds were mounted on a wooden soundboard, similar to concertinas.
28: ... one-row, '''diatonic accordions''', and so on. Damian's instruments were much smaller than modern var...
31: ...cial key layout was patented on [[January 14]], [[1854]] by [[Anthony Faas]]. It is not in use today. - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: '''Thomas Riley Marshall''' ([[March 14]], [[1854]] – [[June 1]], [[1925]]) was an [[United S...
5: ...shall studied law at [[Wabash College]]. He was admitted to the bar in [[1875]] and began his career a...
7: ...awyer when he was given the nomination as a compromise [[dark horse]] candidate. During his term he s...
11: ...arshall initially turned down the nomination, assuming the job would be boring.
15: ...de little news and was viewed as something of a comic foil in Washington, a number of Democratic party... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...born the son of John Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary Armistead. He studied law with his father, who became...
41: ...ice Tyler ([[March 23]], [[1827]] - [[June 8]], [[1854]]).
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 === - 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/] - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
24: ...e one of America's worst presidents, who led an administration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[cor...
26: ...nd looked with more understanding upon its shortcomings.
30: ...mont County, Ohio|Clermont County]], [[Ohio]], 25 miles (40 km) north of [[Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati...
32: ...tion, Grant adopted the form of his new name with middle initial only, never acknowledging that the "S...
36: ==Military career== - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
18: ...nt of the United States|Vice President]] in the administration of [[James Garfield]]. Garfield was sh...
20: ...ds. Interestingly, Chester Arthur pronounced his middle name, Alan, with the stress on the ''second''...
29: ... part in the reorganization of the New York State militia.
31: ... widely praised for his service. He was later commissioned as inspector general, and appointed quarte...
33: ... attack from reformers. He insisted upon honest administration of the Customs House, but staffed it wi... - 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... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 5<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 9]], [[1788]] |
47: ...and towns across the state. Most cities are coterminal with their namesake towns and have a merged ci...
52: ...cticut. There is an ongoing civic pride and economic competition between Hartford and New Haven, whic...
65: ...esidents of the rest of the state as being more similar to [[New York]] than to [[New England]], and m...
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