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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... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...idate of a major party to run on a platform of opposition to slavery. He was born in [[Savannah, Georg...
4: ...marker for site where two of Frémont's men were lost in Colorado]]
5: ...d States. In [[1838]] and [[1839]] he assisted [[Joseph Nicollet]] in exploring the lands between the ...
7: ...e United States|presidential]] candidate, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[...
9: ...ia]]), but lost several battles and resigned his post. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
3: ...the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gaine...
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... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
87: *[[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet - 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...
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.]]
39: ...ued to secretly correspond with Lord Melbourne, whose influence, however, faded away as that of Prince... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
7: ... the majority of American people of those times, mostly due to their advocacy and martyrdom for being ...
13: In [[1850]] Mott wrote ''Discourse on Woman'', a book about...
15: She was posthumously inducted into the U.S. [[National Women'... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
8: ...[[women's rights]] movement. Perhaps one of her most famous speeches was "[[Ain't I a Woman?]]," a sh...
10: ...r, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern...
27: ...http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html The Narrative of Sojourner Truth]'' - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: '''Emma Abbott''' ([[December 9]], [[1850]] – [[January 5]], [[1891]]), [[United Stat... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...f the leading writers of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are w...
8: ...emy Bentham]] and was the leading journal for philosophical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a tr...
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of the "Scenes of Clerical Lif...
12: ... They honeymooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand C...
15: ...nt pas''... Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes ste... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...;ская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia...
3: Kovalevskaya was born in [[Moscow]]. Her father was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukov...
9: ...on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her.
15: ...cs]] given to her by a family friend, she came across [[trigonometry|trigonometric]] concepts unfamili...
17: She died of [[tuberculosis]] in [[Stockholm]] and is interred there in the... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
9: Unlike most free-reed instruments (such as [[organ (music)|r...
32: The diatonic harmonica is most likely what you think of when you think
49: ... unblocking the lower holes with the tongue. The most important notes: C-E-G, the tonic triad, is give...
59: ...llows for the most dramatic bending: in C, it is possible to bend 3 draw from a B down to a G#, or any...
70: *Carlos del Junco - 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... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ...and Feudal Law''), in which he argued that the opposition of the colonies to the Stamp Act was a part ...
33: ...of the officer who commanded the detachment, and most of the soldiers; but two soldiers were found gui...
35: ...my]]. His influence in Congress was great, and almost from the beginning he was impatient for a separa...
39: ...n its adoption. Before this question had been disposed of, Adams was placed at the head of the Board o...
41: ...John Adams, as depicted on a two-cent American [[postage stamp]].]] - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...[[October 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives...
9: ...by the Senate on [[February 8]], [[1837]], after losing the support of some of his Presidential [[U.S....
11: ...a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, but he died in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]] soon afte...
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...
39: ...beth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]], [[1850]])
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... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
6: ...r><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
20: ...150; [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[President of the United States...
29: ...ree states, while Fillmore supported slavery in those states in order to appease the South. In his own...
31: ...ublic comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylor's deat...
37: ...n ascension of Fillmore to the Presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political shift in the administ... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ...s so successful he turned down several important positions. Later, he was nominated for president as a...
20: ...ivil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
22: ...s and show her true affection. He was one of the most popular men in New Hampshire, polite and thought...
38: ...ew Hampshire State constitutional convention in [[1850]] and served as its president.
40: ...in [[1806]] and died on [[1863]], was Pierce's opposite. She came from a aristocratic Whig family, and... - 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... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
4: ...'' and changed its name in [[1845]] to the ''St. Joseph Valley Register'', the [[United States Whig Pa...
6: ...ember of the state constitutional convention in [[1850]] and an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ...49]]. He was a member of the state Assembly in [[1850]] and [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate f...
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