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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
10: ...sh Civil War]] in the [[17th century]]. The [[Inclosure]] movement and the [[British Agricultural Revo...
12: ...ts were split up by local regions, which often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among the...
14: From about 1100, the population of Europe rose, which is because there was recovery from the di...
16: ...became wealthy from overseas trade. Their social position grew greatly. The manufacturers were ready t...
24: ...eeding produced food with better quality. The Enclosure Movement also made poor farmers go to the town... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: ...nk Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot
62: ...Abeille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: ...the most powerful women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
6: ...f [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles VI]] whose sole male heir - his son Leopold Johann - died a...
8: ...of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
15: ...el of Spain (1741-1763), then HSH Princess Marie Josephe of Bavaria (1739-1767); no surviving issue. [...
19: ...nand of Parma|HRH Duke Ferdinand of Parma]] (1751-1802); had issue - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...ane]]. Unfortunately for her legacy, these state hospitals grew into enormous "museums of madness" tha...
6: ...o to the jail to see if she could be of help to those in need. There she found a number of insane inma...
16: ... contribute $30,000 to the construction of a new hospital for the insane.
18: ... astute in dealing with the male power brokers across the country. She developed working relationships...
20: ... more often than in person. The two dozen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] demonst... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ... [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], [[revolutionary]], [[Agriculture|agricult...
20: ... ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alo...
37: ...s]] from [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after getting second place in the presidenti...
102: ...d States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]'''||align="left"|1801
123: ...r. In later years he was negligent in dress and loose in bearing. - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
22: ... admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
24: ...n merchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having a foreign-born wife, Adams wed...
26: ...lected to the [[Massachusetts]] State Senate in [[1802]], and was an unsuccessful candidate for election...
28: ...o [[1817]]. During this time, Adams and his wife lost to illness an infant daughter, born in [[1811]].
30: .... He is sometimes called the "Lone Wolf" for his positions during this time, because he often did not ... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|En...
27: ...e study of [[law]], completing his preparation in 1802 at [[New York City|New York]], where he studied u...
35: ... politics of New York and powerfully influenced those of the nation, and which did more than any other...
39: ..., then gradually abandoned the [[protectionist]] position.
43: ...rnal improvements and declined to support the proposal for a Panama Congress. As chairman of the judic... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ...ia University]]. He was admitted to the bar in [[1802]], and was a member of the state House of Represe...
9: ...by the Senate on [[February 8]], [[1837]], after losing the support of some of his Presidential [[U.S....
29: ...won), [[U.S. presidential election, 1840|1840]] (lost)}} - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
65: * [[3rd century BC|200s BC]]: [[Crossbow]] in [[History of China|China]]
70: ...[[Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
118: * [[1609]]: [[Microscope]]: [[Galileo Galilei]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
19: ...amaoka|Yamaoka, Akira]] (born 1968), Japanese composer
26: *[[Bosa Yankovich|Yankovich, Bosa]]
42: ...2]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video game]] music composer
47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of Ne...
69: *[[A. B. Yehoshua|Yehoshua, A. B.]], author of ''Mr. Mani'' - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...rd the opposite end. Features as small as 35 m across can be seen.]]
4: ...tar" + ''-eidos'' "form, shape"), was coined in [[1802]] by Sir [[William Herschel]] shortly after [[Hei...
6: ...toid") carries no strong suggestion about the composition of the object or its general location in the...
8: ... meteoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmosphere.
14: ...numbered and named minor planet was [[99905 Jeffgrossman]] [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Numbe... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ... Earth's observed weather is located in the [[troposphere]].
5: ...heric chemistry]] are sub-disciplines of the [[atmospheric sciences]].
10: ... [[Earth]] and the realm of the stars, while ''logos'' means "study". A similar work, called "Book of ...
12: ...[Horace de Saussure]] completed this list of the most important meteorological instruments in [[1780]]...
16: ...alling the [[tropical]] cell of [[zonal mean]] atmospheric circulation the "[[Hadley cell]]". Understa... - History of biology (3053 bytes)
1: ...s the rise of various civilization as classic philosophers did their own ways of biology as a system o...
3: ...f Volume 3 of [[Michael Christoph Hanov]]'s ''Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae dogmaticae: Geologi...
5: ...istotle]] is one of the most prolific natural philosophers of [[antiquity]]. He made countless observa...
9: ...to both [[Social effect of evolutionary theory|opposition and support]] from different parts of societ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Cloud (9947 bytes)
3: ...crystals suspended in the [[Earth's atmosphere|atmosphere]] above [[Earth]]'s (or another [[planetary ...
7: ... material other than water, depending on local atmospheric conditions (what gases are present, and the...
15: ...untain]] and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic uplift),
20: Most water droplets are formed when water vapor conde...
22: ...n clouds with tops cooler than -15?C. The second most important process is the collision and wake capt... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...ench power rose quickly, [[Conquest|conquering]] most of Europe; the fall was also rapid, beginning wi...
5: ...Treaty of Amiens|peace concluded at Amiens]] in [[1802]]. The Napoleonic Wars ended on [[20 November]] [...
12: ... United Kingdom's industrial economy made it the most powerful commercial nation as well.
13: * In most European countries, the importation of the ideal...
20: ...ming independent and mobile artillery units as opposed to the previous tradition of attaching artiller... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
110: [[Apple Macintosh]] --
132: [[BeOS]] --
304: [[History of Microsoft Windows]] --
407: [[Mac OS]] --
408: [[Mac OS X Server]] -- - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
14: ...Westchester County, a region between the British post at Kingsbridge and that of the Americans about 1...
18: ...or her beauty and accomplishments. She married [[Joseph Alston]] of [[South Carolina]] in [[1801]], an...
20: ... a famous duel, an irony which was hopefully not lost on the younger Hamilton.
28: ...'s access to the [[National Archives|archives]], possibly because the former colonel had been a noted ...
30: ...ational parties]] became clearly defined. Burr loosely associated himself with the Democratic-Republi... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
9: ...borough]], [[Leicestershire]] (in [[1789]]). In [[1802]], Jessop opened the [[Surrey Iron Railway]] in s...
27: ...tems. When electric propulsion became practical, most street railways were electrified. These then bec...
29: ...ific Electric Railway]] connected most cities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, and the [[Inland Emp...
34: ...l and electric power had replaced steam power on most of the world's railroads.
36: ...highways]] and air travel replaced railroads for most long-distance passenger travel in the United Sta...
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