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- 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... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...onour of her elder brother, [[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the E...
6: ... year younger.) Her other brothers ? [[Joseph II|Josef]], [[Leopold II|Leopold]], and Ferdinand-Karl ?...
7: ...ntoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
13: ... education. She was flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she prefer...
15: ...r was his grandson, Louis-Auguste, and it was proposed that he should marry one of [[Maria Theresa of ... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...born-[[19 November]] [[1835]]- died [[18 June]] [[1858]]), the queen of [[Jhansi]], a [[Maratha]]-ruled...
5: ...s affectionately called Manu in her family. Manu lost her mother at the age of four, and responsibilit...
15: ...ompanied by her generals [[Gulam Gaus Khan]], [[Dost Khan]], [[Khuda Baksh]], [[Lala Bhau Bakshi]], [...
19: ...of a man, strapping her adopted son Damodar Rao closely on her back. She regrouped loyal soldiers in t... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: '''Emmeline Pankhurst''' ([[July 14]], [[1858]] - [[June 14]], [[1928]]) was one of the founder...
5: ...ffragette "martyr", [[Emily Davison]] and the composer, Dame [[Ethel Smyth]]. She was joined in the m...
7: ...n [[1914]]. She died ten years after seeing her most ardently pursued goal come to fruition: the righ... - 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)
3: ...aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Mat...
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... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...re equally likely to function as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Nightingale was particularly concerned...
13: ...1846]] she visited [[Kaiserwerth]], a pioneering hospital established and managed by an order of [[Nun...
15: == Rejection of marriage proposal ==
17: ... nursing, Nightingale continued to reject his proposal.
19: ...tracted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitatin... - 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... - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...ile. Another Greek name for the Nile was ''Aigyptos'' (Αιγυπτ&omicron...
12: ...ins the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of ...
30: ...ue Nile and White Nile join to form "the Nile." Most of the water carried by the Nile originates from...
32: ...trans.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Composite image|Composite]] satellite image of the Nile (see also the [[...
40: ...Great Bend of the Nile in Sudan, looking north across the Sahara Desert towards Lake Nasser and Egypt.... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
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 ...
82: ...r of the West. The unarmed ship was caught in a cross-fire. Receiving no assistance from Fort Sumter, ... - 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... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ... [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate from [[1858]] to [[1860]]. He was elected as a [[United Stat... - Flag of Minnesota (1701 bytes)
2: ...es are woven into a wreath of the state flower: [[1858]], the statehood year; [[1819]], the year [[Fort ...
4: ...dded after the original 13 states. This flag was costly to produce, and few were made or used. This le... - 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... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Ted Kulongoski]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = OR |
36: ...ndaries of the [[Willamette Valley]], one of the most fertile and agriculturally productive regions in...
43: ...ded to support its increasing population without losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first pl...
49: ...gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company posts. - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = MN |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[May 11]], [[1858]] |
36: ...tates]], having joined the Union on [[May 11]], [[1858]].
39: ...is-St. Paul|Twin Cities]], combining the state's most populous cities, [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minnea...
51: ...he controversial [[Kensington Runestone]], which most historians consider to be an elaborate [[hoax]].... - 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: Q (4474 bytes)
27: ...Quantz|Quantz, Johann Joachim]], (1697-1773), composer
38: *[[Harry Quelch|Quelch, Harry]], (1858-1913), socialist politician and trade unionist
55: *[[Ludwig Quidde|Quidde, Ludwig]], (1858-1941), historian and pacifist
65: ...V. O. Quine|Quine, Willard V.]], (1908-2000), philosopher
85: ...n Quivers|Quivers, Robin]] (born 1952) talk show host - 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'' - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...ater editions by [[Hirschig]], 1856; [[Hercher]], 1858. There are translations in many languages; in Eng...
3: ... to the authorship of the other works, which are lost.
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