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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... - 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
41: *[[Leopold Ackermann|Ackermann, Leopold]] (1771-1831)
44: *[[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952)
53: *[[Jose de Acosta|Acosta, Jose de]] (1540-1600) - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
14: ...oming King George IV. Though she occupied a high position in the line of succession, Victoria was taug...
16: ...a scenario, Parliament passed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's ...
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.]] - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
3: ...''' ([[April 1]], [[1776]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
7: ...rticularly interested in [[Joseph Louis Lagrange|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]]'s teachings and submitted pap...
12: ... surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of them, then without doubt she mu...
19: ...s, became quite significant as it restricted the possible solutions of [[Fermat's last theorem]].
23: ...t she died of [[breast cancer]] on [[June 27]], [[1831]]. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the founder of [[Theosophy]].
5: She was born in Ekaterinoslav (now [[Dnipropetrovsk]]), [[Ukraine]] (then pa...
7: ...a with Emma Cutting (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of frau...
15: ...ge]] and others. The Society was a modern day [[Gnostic]] movement of the late [[nineteenth century]] ...
17: By [[1882]] the Theosophical Society became an international organizati... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ... has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. Many tra...
5: ..., and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
13: ...r resources. Separate locomotives mean that the costly motive power assets can be moved around as nee...
21: ...gines". The steam locomotive remained by far the most common type of locomotive until after [[World Wa...
23: ...steam locomotive. ''John Bull'' is preserved in mostly static display at the [[Smithsonian Institutio... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1831]]
18: ...''' ([[April 28]], [[1758]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[Pres...
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... - 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....
32: ...presentatives|House of Representatives]], which chose [[John Quincy Adams]] instead. The election was...
40: ===Jackson's opposition to the National Bank===
43: ...in the growth of the U.S. economy, but Jackson opposed the concept on ideological grounds. In Jackson'... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|En...
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...
49: ... officers had refused to associate. He did not oppose Jackson in the matter of removals from office, b... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...c D. Barnard]] and served from [[December 13]], [[1831]] to [[March 3]], [[1833]], when he declined to b...
14: ...ion box|title=[[Mayor of Philadelphia]]|before=[[Joseph Watson]]|after=[[Benjamin W. Richards]]|years=...
15: ...ict of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|years=1829-1831}}
16: ...[Isaac D. Barnard]]|after=[[Samuel McKean]]|years=1831-1833}} - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
53: ...ongresses ([[March 4]], [[1821]] - [[March 3]], [[1831]]). He was chairman of the Committee on the Judi...
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 ... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
1: ...ith Venezuela is one that is disputed, as is the most southern part of the border with Suriname (upper...
62: ...e British colony known as [[British Guiana]] in [[1831]].
76: ...ament]], the National Assembly, with 53 members chosen on the basis of [[proportional representation]]...
105: ...finally the larger interior highlands consisting mostly of [[savanna]]s and mountains, the highest bei...
112: ...nment's already tenuous fiscal position and dim prospects for the future. - 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 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]]) - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
20: ...sident) anonymously publishes ''South Carolina Exposition and Protest'' arguing that states can [[null...
28: *[[1831]] - [[Nat Turner]]'s revolt
29: *[[1831]] - ''[[The Liberator]]'' begins publication
30: *[[1831]] - [[Cyrus McCormick]] invents the [[reaper]]
43: *[[1836]] - [[Gag Rule]] imposed - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ... which the United States would expand westward across North America by the admission of new states, ra...
12: ...John C. Calhoun|Calhoun's]] ''[[South Carolina Exposition and Protest]]'' outlines [[nullification|nul...
15: ... 27, denouncing the notion that Americans must choose between liberty and union. "Liberty and Union, n...
17: |valign=center|'''[[1831]]'''
20: ...tart seeing it not as a "necessary evil," but a "positive good." - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...upreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of...
27: | <small>''post''[[42]]/''ante''[[57]] to [[64]]/[[67]](?)</smal...
315: | '''[[Pope Zosimus]]'''<br><small>Saint Zosimus</small>
316: | Papa '''Zosimus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
405: | <small>[[Frosinone]], Southern Latium, Italy</small> - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ...e]] at the [[University of Torino]]). Several explosions were reported at their family-owned factory i...
7: ...s only play (''[[Nemesis (Nobel)|Nemesis]]'', a prose tragedy in four acts about [[Beatrice Cenci]], p...
14: ...led, was patented in 1876, and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the additio...
16: ...complicated by the fact that it is in practice impossible to prepare either of these two forms without...
21: From the manufacture of dynamite and other explosives, and from the exploitation of the [[Baky|Baku... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
10: ...d into small, independent groups who, for the purpose of maintaining secrecy, knew of connecting "stat...
21: ...an in communications between escaped slaves and those left behind. He then published these accounts i...
23: Messages often were encoded so that only those active in the Railroad would fully understand th...
27: ...ltop home]]<sup>1</sup> could be seen from the opposite shore. The slaveowner, in hot pursuit, remarke...
31: Although it was possible for escaped slaves to live free in many nort...
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