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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...ingen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Pala...
14: ...n in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language o...
35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not...
39: ...tween Victoria and Prince Albert. Albert was not only the Queen's companion, but also an important pol...
43: ... to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was loaded only with paper and tobacco, his crime was still puni... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
29: By the end of the [[20th century]], almost the only steam power still in regular use in [[North Amer...
34: ...to do so. Therefore this type of transmission is only suitable for low-powered [[Switcher|shunting]] l...
43: ...n from Chicago, Illinois to [[Denver, Colorado]] only cost [[United States dollar|US$]]14.64 (in 1934]...
60: ... remain dominant in some European countries. The only diesel-electric locomotives of the Deutsche Bund...
93: ...r]] (or shunter) locomotives. These categories mainly depend on manoeuvrability, traction power and sp... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
19: ...nt of the United States|Vice President]] are the only two nationally elected officials in the United S...
29: ...d defend the Constitution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoo...
162: | 25 || [[William McKinley]]{{ref 6}}
163: || [[Image:Mckinley.jpg|50px]]
262: Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only President to serve more than 8 years in the offi... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
38: ... holding federal offices found that they had suddenly been replaced by supporters of Jackson who had w...
73: ... considerable pain for the rest of his life. His only child was an adopted son, Andrew, Jr. In his wil...
101: ...It is a damn poor mind indeed which can think of only one way to spell a word."
102: ...o necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses." - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers mistakenly applied the word to the people and their locatio...
66: ..., go to the [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/PP/bfp2.htm Handbook of Texas On...
70: ...ndians, see [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/II/bzi4.html Handbook of Texas O...
94: In 1845, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|internationally recogni...
122: ...rly in 1835 [[Stephen F. Austin]] announced that only war with Mexico could secure Texian freedom. - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
41: ...atic support]] to the North Vietnamese and to the NLF, partly as support against the U.S. and South Vi...
76: ... Asia from "indirect aggression." This was certainly more diplomatic than the later more or less unil...
89: ...sects he could tackle the [[Viet Minh]], the suddenly enthusiastic support of many Congressional leade...
94: ... or intimidate much of the political opposition, only fostering deeper resentment of what was already ...
96: ...s would have won. Also, it was said to have been unlikely that the Northern Communists would allow a f... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
23: ...deavoured to produce a telephone which would not only send musical notes, but articulate speech. With ...
25: ... range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the eighteen patents granted in his n...
39: ...otice of a patent application) of a similar kind only 2 hours after Bell had filed for his patent.
55: ...[decibel]] (dB), equal to 0.1 B, became more commonly used.
62: ...art. The sender consisted of a mirror directing sunlight onto the mouthpiece, where the light beam was... - Amulet (8206 bytes)
10: ...t]]ians). Even today in [[Thailand]] one can commonly see people with more than one [[Buddha]] hanging...
18: ... as amulets, although some of these figures, commonly called "Veves" are used to cause evil or illness...
37: ...d the need of people for help and protection not only against supernatural/preternatural powers but al...
47: ...tuctions for how to create a talisman can be commonly found in [[Grimoires]]. These talismans were usu... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
20: ...husband's land speculation, they separated after only four months. During the month of their first ann...
53: ...attempted in earlier plots in [[Kentucky]]. Burr enlisted Wilkinson and others to his plan in a reconn... - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (37869 bytes)
108: ...pular postwar era Stars and Stripes Park. Lake Stanley Draper, the city's largest and most remote, off...
135: ...munity, more immigrants moved into the area, not only from Vietnam and Southeast Asia, but from all ar...
152: ... home of Oklahoma City's artists' community, the only such district in the state. Located along Paseo ...
322: * [http://www.okconline.com/ Oklahoma City Web Portal] - Lead (8244 bytes)
6: ... [[antimony]] or other metals to it. Lead is the only metal in which there is zero [[Peltier-Seebeck e...
26: ...ch is reported relative to <sup>204</sup>Pb, the only non-radiogenic stable isotope. The ranges of iso...
53: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/82.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Phosphorus (11557 bytes)
41: ...l]] of the [[nitrogen group]], phosphorus is commonly found in inorganic phosphate rocks and in all li...
75: ... reactivity to atmospheric oxygen, and it should only be manipulated with forceps since contact with [...
77: When the white form is exposed to sunlight or when it is heated in its own vapor to 250 ...
87: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/15.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Silver (15157 bytes)
147: ... used in high voltage contacts because it is the only metal that will not arc across contacts, hence i...
166: ... a [[precious metal]] was long considered second only to [[gold]]. In [[Ancient Egypt]] and [[Middle A...
185: ...ecious metals, and a mass of silver is now worth only about 1/60 the same mass of gold. In turn, coppe...
193: ...5 million years. [[Iron]] [[meteorite]]s are the only objects with a high enough [[palladium|Pd]]/Ag r...
212: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/47.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Tungsten (13647 bytes)
163: ...ust physical properties. The pure form is used mainly in electrical applications but its many compound...
166: ...Its corrosion resistance is excellent and it can only be attacked slightly by most mineral [[acid]]s. ...
209: * [http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/74.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Uranium (27752 bytes)
158: ...actor]]s and [[nuclear weapon]]s. Uranium is commonly found in very small amounts in [[Rock (geology)|...
168: ...tor]]s and [[nuclear weapon]]s because it is the only isotope existing in nature to any appreciable ex...
172: ...ear fusion]]) would be "nuclear weapon", because only the nuclei participate.
194: ...al scene. Before the discovery of [[plutonium]], only uranium was considered for the development of an...
197: ...e of wartime secrecy the Manhattan Project would only publicly admit to purchasing the vanadium, and d... - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
- James A. Garfield (15070 bytes)
35: ...f the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Garfield enlisted in the [[Union Army]], and was assigned to c...
50: ...and 34th overall) [[Wisconsin]]'s delegation suddenly shifted all its votes to Garfield, who was aghas...
87: * [[Stanley Matthews (politician)|Stanley Matthews]] - 1881 - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[William McKinley]]
18: ...he office upon the assassination of [[William McKinley]]. At 42, Roosevelt was the youngest person eve...
22: ...resident [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. They are the only cousins to serve as President of the United Stat...
54: In [[1897]] President [[William McKinley]] appointed him [[Assistant Secretary of the Na...
56: ...rk advanced him as a running mate for William McKinley in the [[1900]] election simply to get rid of h... - Holocaust (53541 bytes)
6: ...inal Solution of the Jewish Question]]". The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is ...
40: ...hen they used a larger truck exhaust and it took only eight minutes to kill all the people inside.
48: ...led territory until the end of [[World War II]], only completely ending when the Allies entered German...
90: ...especially difficult. They faced persecution not only from German soldiers but also from other prisone...
133: ... 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed in San Sabba, only a part of whom were Jews.
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