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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
121: | [[1815]] — [[1818]] - 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... - 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 - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
16: ...Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: *[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
10: ...rd|Acheson, Archibald]] (1776-1849), 2nd Earl of Gosford
36: ...idelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
44: *[[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952)
53: *[[Jose de Acosta|Acosta, Jose de]] (1540-1600) - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: '''Elizabeth Cady Stanton''' ([[November 12]], [[1815]] – [[October 26]], [[1902]]) was a social ...
4: ...at men and women are created equal. She also proposed a resolution, that was voted upon and carried, ...
6: ...ting in [[1881]], Stanton, Anthony and [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]] published the first of three volumes of...
19: *''Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897'' ISBN 1591020093 - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...rn canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce ...
5: ...n elder sister, Cassandra, to whom she was very close. The only undisputed portrait of Jane Austen is ...
7: ...[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann Radcliffe]], Austen is most famous for her later works, which took the form ...
10: ...d characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with''.
12: ...e story, without a word of formal moralising. Almost every scene in her novels features women, purpor... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] an...
10: Two of Atwood's novels have been chosen for [[CBC Radio]]'s ''[[Canada Reads]]'' compet...
80: :''[[Days of the Rebels 1815-1840]]'' ([[1977]]) - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
2: ...King, Countess of Lovelace''' ([[December 10]], [[1815]] - [[November 27]], [[1852]]) is mainly known fo...
3: ...[Charles Babbage]]'s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the [[analytical engine]].
6: ...n to marry to avoid scandal, and he reluctantly chose Annabella. On [[January 16]], [[1816]], Annabell...
11: ... [[Ockham, Surrey]]. Her full name and title for most of her married life was '''The Right Honourable ...
15: ...d, such as speculating that "the Engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any ... - Horn (instrument) (19243 bytes)
12: ...r the mouthpiece and rest the body of the horn across his arm so that only one hand was needed to play...
14: ...d to a harmonic series, and some of the great composers started to write concerti for this new instrum...
16: Around [[1815]], the horn took on a new form, as valves were in...
23: ...le horn "revolutionized horn playing technique almost as much as did the invention of the valve." [Mor...
26: ...F/B-flat double horn variety, various special-purpose instruments are available (usually at a very hig... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
4: It is possible that some ancient civilisation had reed inst...
16: ...ed itself and not through a resonator tube (as opposed to [[woodwind instrument]]s)
25: ... Kasper Schimmelbach and K?shafen Bayern, circa [[1815]] (MIM Kat.-Nr.: 5321). Each reed had different d...
28: ...ations came into existence in a very short time. Most of the variants were ''single-action'' instrumen...
29: ...ss Europe for accordion innovations, but it is impossible to say that the accordion was patented. Pate... - 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...
27: ...erson sold his third library to the Congress in [[1815]]). Jefferson himself designed his famous home, [...
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 - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...ve their northwestern territories (consisting of most of modern-day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Tenne...
23: ...ith a [[bicameral legislature]]. When the issue arose of how states would be represented in the new Co...
27: ... essays that comprise the Federalist Papers. His most famous passage comes in Federalist No. 51:
31: ...s home state of [[Virginia]]. He successfully proposed the first ten [[amendment]]s to the Constitutio...
40: ... party, who were considered traitors when they opposed the war. - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ...eland County, Virginia]], as an only child to a prosperous family, Monroe attended the school of Campe...
28: ...onary War]] veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested in his two elections.
32: ...lings", in part because partisan politics were almost nonexistent. The [[United States Federalist Part...
34: ...y undiminished, followed nationalist policies. Across the facade of [[nationalism]], ugly sectional cr...
36: ...ce with independent countries in the Americas as hostile acts toward the United States. Monroe did not... - 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...
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 ...
32: ...emained the only American president unanimously chosen by the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral colle... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...ackson, nicknamed "Old Hickory," was neither of those. He was the first president who had lived on the...
24: ... career by his own merits, and soon he began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law....
26: ...the [[Battle of New Orleans]] on [[January 8]], [[1815]], made his national reputation and he advanced i...
32: ...presentatives|House of Representatives]], which chose [[John Quincy Adams]] instead. The election was...
40: ===Jackson's opposition to the National Bank=== - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|En...
33: ...enate covered two terms ([[1812]]-[[1820]]). In [[1815]] he became the state attorney-general, an office...
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)
9: ...by the Senate on [[February 8]], [[1837]], after losing the support of some of his Presidential [[U.S....
24: ...istricts|after=Single Member Districts|years=1813-1815}}
25: ...=At-Large Districts|after=[[William Brown]]|years=1815-1819}}
29: ...won), [[U.S. presidential election, 1840|1840]] (lost)}} - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
27: ...er" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" are among the most famous in American politics. He assumed the pres...
35: *Mary Tyler ([[April 15]], [[1815]] - [[June 17]], [[1847]]).
54: ... or after him. His youngest child, Pearl, died almost exactly 100 years after the death of his eldest ...
58: ...tates Whig Party|Whig Party]] policies and work closely with Whig leaders, particularly [[Henry Clay]]...
69: ...f them will be willing to set an example, in the bosom of this Union, of such frightful disorder, such... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
53: ...State House of Representatives from [[1814]] to [[1815]]. He was elected to the Seventeenth and to the ...
55: ...]. Rumors and speculation that the two had a [[homosexual]] relationship began at the time and have pe...
61: ... help to draft the [[Ostend Manifesto]] which proposed the purchase of Cuba under the threat of force.
76: ...e Federal Government reached a stalemate. Bitter hostility between Northern and Southern members preva...
78: Sectional strife rose to such a pitch in [[1860]] that the Democratic ...
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