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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ... [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] and [[Biography]]. Also, see [[Internationa...
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17: ...st at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
22: ...y]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]])
26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...fundamental matters as diverse as [[reality]], [[knowledge]], [[meaning]], [[value]], [[being]] and [[...
10: ...ft us the opaque dictum, "All is water." His most noted students were [[Anaximenes of Miletus]] and [[...
12: ...wn (perhaps unjustly) for claiming that truth was no more than opinion and for teaching people to argu...
14: ...were well paid by their students. It's also well known that orators had tremendous influence on Atheni...
16: ... matters like justice, beauty and truth. He wrote nothing, but inspired many disciples. He was execute... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labor to one dominated by indus...
3: ...]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development ...
5: ...developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
10: ...ncial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is t...
14: ...0 onwards, because there was a scientific and technological improvement, growth of supply of food beca... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
6: [[Image:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Grea...
11: 5) Tenor drones<br>
16: ...lowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air ...
23: ...ld's Martial Music of Caledonia, written by an unknown Romantic. However, it seems likely they were fi...
25: ... as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[Bannockburn]] in [[1314]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
68: ...ls Henrik Abel|Abel, Niels Henrik]], (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
71: ...en Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
109: *[[Norm Abrams|Abrams, Norm]]
112: *[[Norman Abramson|Abramson, Norman]] - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ist of Lords of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but h...
20: ...ge|Eton]], and also learned modern languages. She now speaks fluent [[French language|French]], as she...
23: ...sed to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly go without me, I wouldn't leave without...
27: ...itary, though other royal women have been given honorary ranks. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
5: ...Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education and "appr...
7: ...[[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort that was put into the theory).
9: ...Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s [[Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get hi...
11: ...t of proper wallpaper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood s...
15: ...amily friend, she came across [[trigonometry|trigonometric]] concepts unfamiliar to her at the time, w... - Rose (15436 bytes)
5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
15: ....edu/plantbio/260/Rosaceae/Slide17.html U. of Illinois] 2002-05-29</small>
21: ...a hundred [[species]] of wild roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate region...
29: ...ies of roses only have vestigial thorns that have no points. - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ... to be made until the 1840s, and was revived by Arnold Dolmetsch at the end of the 19th century. From ...
5: ...orce of the tangent against the string, which is known as ''[[bebung]]'', and can be used to give a fo...
7: ...d to each string. They are usually chosen so that notes which are rarely heard together (such as C and...
9: ...[etude]]s labelled ''organ'' by the composers and now regarded as organ repertoire were in fact more a...
11: ...ch of the music written for [[harpsichord]], [[piano]], and [[organ (music)|organ]] from the period ci... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...rea]] in the world. Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (30.03333, 31.21667). [http:/...
4: ... ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local dialect.
7: ...px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] highlighted.]]
14: ...nks and islands of the [[Nile|Nile River]] in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where...
24: ...incorporates an entire medi涡l section, which is now a popular neighborhood and contains important bu... - Trumpet (13239 bytes)
11: ...nts]] ensembles, the [[cornett]] or ''cornetto'' (not to be confused with the modern cornet), and the ...
15: ...ommon in orchestral playing because it often does not need to transpose and produces a brighter, more ...
16: ...e]] & [[Maynard Ferguson]], who helped make well-known the term ''[[double high C]]'' to describe the ...
18: ...-01.jpg|thumb|250px|Piccolo trumpet in B♭ - note the swappable leadpipes for B♭ and (longe...
19: ...ain on a three-valve instrument. Among its best-known proponents are [[Maurice Andre]], [[Wynton Mars... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
9: ...e:KlavierAccordeon.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|a piano accordion]]
15: *Activation of sound through air ([[Bernoulli effect]])
16: *Reed tone pitch is given by the reed itself and not through a resonator tube (as opposed to [[woodwi...
18: ...e sheng and some are true for the Jew's Harp, but not all are true for all of them.
20: ...ntemporary technology to produce reeds, so as technology has changed, so have the reeds. - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
10: ... curtailed the rights of the [[nomarch]]s. He is known to have at least launched one campaign into [[N...
14: ...1875 BC]] - [[1840 BC]]) made the position of the nomarchs hereditary again (weakening the centralized...
20: ... sure that nomarchs could no longer inherit their nomes as Amenemhat II had allowed. He also invited A...
22: ...[[1763 BC]] - [[1759 BC]]). As she apparently had no heirs, the Twelfth dynasty came to an end as did ...
41: *[[Merneferre Ai]] 1664-1641 (not to be confused with Pharaoh [[Ay]] of the [[Eigh... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...entional Egyptian chronology]] is a type of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[Egyp...
5: ...Scholars consider the creation of an Egyptian chronology a difficult task. As Dr. Robert A. Hatch of t...
7: ...REV-Teaching/HIS-SCI-STUDY-GUIDE/0006_egyptianChronolgoy.html]
9: ...06), has properly called it "the rather fluid chronology of the [[Pharaoh]]s and the [[Hittite]]s," ad...
13: ...he previous "firm" dates cannot be supported astronomically. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...on Earth, and is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the Pr...
14: ...proposed to remove or amend this requirement, but none have yet been successful.
21: ...must receive a majority of electoral votes, or if no candidate receives a majority, the President and ...
25: ...an]]s) each select a nominee to unite behind; the nominee in turn selects a [[running mate]] to join h...
40: ...yler]] asserted that he had become the President, not merely Acting President, and this precedent was ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
28: Adams had none of the qualities of popular leadership of his s...
31: ..., being without representation in parliament, had not assented to it.
35: ...moting the union of the colonies, he seconded the nomination of [[George Washington]] as commander-in-...
46: ...he negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge or concurrence; and ultimately to govern yo...
48: ... secure a favorable treaty, which was signed on [[November 30]], [[1782]]. Before these negotiations b... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]...
20: ...ost extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White H...
30: ...as sometimes been called the ''"[[List of people known as the father or mother of something|father of ...
32: ...uality of wine now being made in Virginia, to say nothing of the rest of the country.
41: ...y him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, reads, - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: ...rth= [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] of [[North Carolina]]
18: ... on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associated with one of the original [[...
22: Born in a backwoods settlement in the [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] in the [[Carolinas]] o...
24: ...y after [[1800]], as a young lawyer. Since he was not of a distinguished family, he had to make his ca...
28: ...s. He subsequently was appointed territorial governor there. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ...cent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|English]].
27: ... Van Buren made the acquaintance of Burr, but did not fall under his influence. In [[1803]] he was adm...
35: ... national, state and local affairs. Van Buren did not originate the system, but won the nickname of "L...
39: ...together consistent, though in this respect he is not to be judged more harshly than some of his assoc...
43: ...828|tariff of abominations]]" in [[1828]] he took no part, but voted for the measure in obedience to i... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
17: ... the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>''none''</td></tr>
29: ...der to appease the South. In his own words: "God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing ev...
31: ... debates over the [[Compromise of 1850]]. He made no public comment on the merits of the compromise pr...
41: ... At this critical juncture, President Fillmore announced in favor of the Compromise of 1850. On [[Aug...
43: This helped influence a critical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistenc...
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