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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...lotte Augusta of Wales]]. When she then died in [[1817]], the remaining unmarried sons of King George II...
14: ...oming King George IV. Though she occupied a high position in the line of succession, Victoria was taug...
20: ...was not clear what his surname was, because like most imperial, royal, princely, and ducal families, h...
29: ...hat he could not govern under the restrictions imposed by the Queen, and consequently resigned his com...
33: ... on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stamp.]] - 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... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
12: ...her to recapture [[Nubia]] and other territories lost during the First Intermediate Period. The Lybian...
14: ...nemhat II]] ([[1875 BC]] - [[1840 BC]]) made the position of the nomarchs hereditary again (weakening ...
18: His successor [[Senusret III]] ([[1836 BC]] - [[1817 BC]]) was a warrior-king, often taking the field ...
20: [[Amenemhat III]] ([[1817 BC]] - [[1772 BC]]) was the last great Pharaoh of...
24: ... are credited with preserving for us some of the most fabulous of [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] [[papyrus... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
5: ...y but not including any of the major revision proposals that have also been made in that time.
7: ... particular rulers. Often there are also several possible spellings of the names.
9: ...re is a 60 year discrepancy between the dates proposed by these two authors. There is no attempt to re...
63: ===Position uncertain===
65: *Ba (two different writings, possibly two separate kings) - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...ee world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
14: .... Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed to remove or amend this requirement, but none h...
21: ... majority, the President and Vice President are chosen by the [[United States House of Representatives...
25: ...(United States)|Election Day]] and campaigning across the country to explain their views and plans to ...
29: ...[[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is tradit... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1817]]
18: ... 28]], [[1836]]) was the fourth ([[1809]]–[[1817]]) [[President of the United States|President]] o...
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: - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1817]]
18: ...]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[President of the United State...
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... - 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... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|En...
25: ...[February 27]], [[1747]]–[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage...
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... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
27: ...er" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" are among the most famous in American politics. He assumed the pres...
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...
71: ...remony. Her father was also killed during the explosion. Tyler and Gardiner were married not long afte... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...ia and was appointed deputy attorney general in [[1817]]. He was mayor of Philadelphia from [[October 2...
14: ...ion box|title=[[Mayor of Philadelphia]]|before=[[Joseph Watson]]|after=[[Benjamin W. Richards]]|years=... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: Lincoln staunchly opposed the expansion of [[slavery]] into federal terri...
48: ...ing the [[Homestead Act]] (1862). However, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the...
59: ...poor areas along and near the river to grow and prosper. <!--Vidal _United States_ c1993 p704 quoting ...
61: ...the state of Illinois, and became steadily more prosperous. Lincoln served four successive terms in th...
63: Abraham Lincoln shared a bed with [[Joshua Fry Speed]] from [[1837]] to [[1841]] in Sprin... - Australia (39438 bytes)
50: ...ng access for traditional uses of the waterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people and [[Tor...
56: ...ntly used it in his dispatches to [[England]]. In 1817 he recommended that it be officially adopted. In ...
63: ... present-day [[Southeast Asia|south-east Asia]]. Most Indigenous Australians were [[hunter-gatherers]]...
65: ...shment of a [[penal colony]] there following the loss of the [[American colonies]].
70: [[Image:Anzac1.JPG|right|thumb|160px|The [[Last Post]] is played at an [[ANZAC Day]] ceremony in [[Po... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...of them unique to Madagascar. Most famous among those are the [[lemur]]s. Madagascar and [[Mauritania]...
10: ..._motto = Tanindrazana, Fahafahana, Fandrosoana <br> ''([[Malagasy language|Malagasy]]: Fathe...
41: time_zone = [[Moscow Time|MSK]] |
53: ...ntury, the [[France|French]] established trading posts along the east coast. From about [[1774]] to [[...
55: ...jor part of the island, including the coast. In [[1817]], the Merina ruler and the [[United Kingdom|Brit... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
11: ...Stela]] placed between the paws. It was only in [[1817]] that the first modern dig, supervised by [[Giov...
13: ...y of the Sphinx was carved out of solid bedrock whose removed stones some weighing upwards of 200 tonn...
28: ===Missing nose===
29: ...used as levers, were inserted at the base of the nose to remove it between the [[10th century|10th]] a...
31: In addition to the lost nose, a ceremonial pharaonic beard is thought to have... - Flag of Texas (2443 bytes)
18: The [[flag of Chile]], first used in [[1817]], is similar to the flag of Texas. - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
6: ...lected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. On [[January 6]], [[1817]] he married Henrietta Edwards and they had four ...
24: ...ubassemblies as identical and interchangeable as possible by machinery, then assembling the parts on a... - Koala (10686 bytes)
12: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = '''''Phascolarctos'''''}}</br>{{Taxobox authority | author = [[Henri...
15: ...r = [[Georg August Goldfuss|Goldfuss]] | date = [[1817]]}}
18: The '''Koala''' (''Phascolarctos cinereus''; sometimes also spelled ''Phascolarct'...
20: ...Greek]]: ''phaskolos'' meaning "pouch" and; ''arktos'' meaning "bear". The ''cinereus'' part is [[Lati...
30: ...] delight in imitating) that can be heard from almost a [[kilometre]] away during the breeding season. - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = SD |
53: ... rocks, stones and gemstones|State mineral]]:''' Rose [[quartz]]
82: ... resigned to signing the [[1858 Treaty]], ceding most of present-day eastern South Dakota to the [[Uni...
115: A [[bill (proposed law)|bill]] for [[U.S. state|statehood]] for No...
138: The largest and most complete fossil of ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' ever found was uncovered near the ci... - 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]]
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