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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
177: | [[1881]] — [[1888]] - 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]]
44: *[[Richard E. Byrd]], ([[1888]]-[[1957]]), flew over [[South Pole]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]] - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
29: *[[S.Y. Agnon|Agnon, S.Y.]], (1888-1970), [[Nobel]] prizewinning author
30: *[[Joaquim Agostinho|Agostinho, Joaquim]], (1942-1984), Portuguese cyclist
31: *[[Paolo Agostino|Agostino, Paolo]], (1593-1629), Italian musician
32: *[[Benjamin Agosto|Agosto, Benjamin]], (born 1982), American skater
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
4: ...at men and women are created equal. She also proposed a resolution, that was voted upon and carried, ...
6: ... Stanton was also active internationally, and in 1888 helped prepare for the founding of the [[Internat... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ... [[Romantic music|Romantic era]] as well as a composer.
7: ...those of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven as well as those of Robert Schumann and Brahms.
9: ...och Conservatorium]] at [[Frankfurt am Main]], a post which she held until [[1892]], and in which she ...
11: ... than in the present day, she was herself the composer of a few songs and of some charming music, main...
14: ... Romances were composed in 1853 and dedicated to Joseph Joachim who performed them for King George V o... - 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... - 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... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
21: ...f the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (w...
34: ...ie County, New York]] in 1870 and, while in that post, carried out at least two hangings of condemned ...
36: ...minded Republicans in the New York legislature. Roosevelt admired Cleveland's stubborn nature.
40: ... who claimed he fathered her child, who was named Oscar Folsom Cleveland, in 1874 (Halpin was involved...
44: ...lacious allegations followed: in the election of 1888, Republicans spread false rumors that Cleveland b... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
55: ...[United Kingdom|British]] [[protectorate]] from [[1888]] to [[1984]].
60: ...pro-government and the Royal family retains an almost godlike status within the country. There is no e...
84: ...estic product|GDP]]. Per capita GDP is far above most other [[Third World]] countries, and substantial...
89: ...], with about 15%. These groups also reflect the most important languages: [[Malay language|Malay]], w... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
14: ...| <small>''[[National motto]]: Progress, Peace, Prosperity''</small>
61: ...The 1783 Treaty of Versailles gave Great Britain possession of The Gambia, but the French retained a t...
63: ... the British governor general in Sierra Leone. In 1888, The Gambia became a separate colonial entity. In...
71: ...AFPRC) seized power in a military coup d'etat, deposing the government of Sir Dawda Jawara. Lieutenant...
73: ...National Assembly, particularly after the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) boycotted the ... - Germany (46412 bytes)
38: |'''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]'''<br> - Total ([[2003]])...
66: ...mediterranean coast in the south. During these almost thousand years, the Germans expanded their influ...
71: ...ny, the [[German Confederation]] was founded, a loose league of [[List of German Confederation member ...
73: ...d the demise of the national assembly along with most merits of the revolution.
79: ... it led to friction with neighbouring countries. Most alliances in which Germany had been involved wer... - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
14: ...n: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[List of state mottos|National motto]]: Unity, Freedom, Work''</small>
52: In [[1888]] British imperialist [[Cecil Rhodes]] extracted ...
60: ...mbabwe African People's Union]] (ZAPU), led by [[Joshua Nkomo]]. With his regime near the brink of col...
66: ...ependence to an uneasy coalition government with Joshua Nkomo, head of Zimbabwe African People's Union...
78: ...omes. This action has been widely condemned by opposition and international figures. - Uganda (11554 bytes)
59: ...anda, Bunyoro, Busoga, and Toro. The largest and most important of these kingdoms was [[Buganda]], whi...
61: ...arter of the [[British East Africa Company]] in [[1888]], and was ruled as a [[protectorate]] by the [[U...
65: ...e with the return of [[Milton Obote]], who was deposed once more in [[1985]].
67: ...|rebel insurgency]]. Uganda has demonstrated the most effective national response to [[HIV/AIDS]] of a...
78: ...he climate differs between parts of the country. Most important cities are located in the south, near ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...]] in southwestern [[Europe]], and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is borde...
5: ...ral power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powe...
23: ...ibes|Germanic]] [[Barbarians|barbarian]] tribes, most notably the [[Suevi]] and the [[Visigoth]]s, inv...
31: ...], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most historic battle of Portugal, the [[Battle of Alj...
40: ...opments in navigation, made Portugal's expansion possible and led to great advances in geographic know... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
53: In [[1888]], [[Cecil Rhodes]], spearheading British commerc...
55: ...articipation in government and European fears of losing political control.
59: ...amibia]]). Zambia's sympathies lay with forces opposing colonial or white-dominated rule, particularly...
61: Conflicts with Rhodesia resulted in the closing of Zambia's borders with that country and seve...
63: ...h extended west through Angola, was essentially closed to traffic from Zambia by the late 1970s. Zambi... - Flag of Maryland (3908 bytes)
7: ... the family of Calvert's mother, and features a cross bottony. George Calvert adopted a coat of arms ...
11: ...remained with the Union and so they adopted the Crossland banner, which had the benefit of being red a...
13: ...04). In [[1945]], the legislature made a gold cross bottony the official ornament for a flagstaff ca...
20: ...ed field of red and white, charged with a Greek cross, its arms terminating in trefoils, with the colo...
32: *[http://www.sos.state.md.us/Services/Flaghistory.htm History of t... - 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]])
133: *[[Martin Benka]] ([[1888]]-[[1977]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
20: ...nsylvania began excavating Sumerian [[Nippur]] in 1888.
26:
32: ... and "starkest du mit dem Gugbulug(-Tranke) den Gross-Sukkal" by the second.
34: ...vailable to scholars as many literary tablets as possible from the collections in Philadelphia, Istanb...
40: ...eiform sign can be read either as one of several possible [[logograms]], each of which corresponds to ... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
23: *[[John Logie Baird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]]
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787...
51: ...[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
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