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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
93: ...ann von Abich|Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von]], (1806-1886), German mineralogist, geologist
98: ...p://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/090303/b05w03abplanalp.html] - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
9: ..., personally ensure Gauss's safety. The general explained to Gauss that Germain had asked that he be p...
12: ...eveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. But when a person of the sex which, acc...
15: ...fted to [[applied mathematics]], and he stopped replying to her letters.
17: ...[[Germany|German]] mathematician, attempting to explain [[Ernst Chladni]]'s study on [[vibration]]s of...
25: ...]]'', the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[Broadway]] play by [[David Auburn]], contains references to Ger... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
10: ...aka double cloth, two-ply, triple cloth, or three-ply).
12: A '''hooked rug''' is a simple type of rug handmade by pulling strips of cloth ...
14: ...e of the weave at a perpendicular angle. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of th...
16: ...all coverings. Production was improved with the application of the Jacquard mechanism (see [[Jacquard ...
19: ...lve scrolling vines and regional flowers (for example, the [[Bradford carpet]]). They often incorpora... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]]
20: Many people consider Jefferson to be among the most brillian...
30: ...84]], Jefferson avoided the common practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. In...
32: ...Europe. However, it seems likely that he would be pleased with the quantity and quality of wine now be... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: | place of birth= [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws are...
13: | place of death= [[The Hermitage]], [[Nashville]], [[...
18: ...dent had either been a member of the [[Virginia]] plantation [[elite]], or had been named [[Adams]]. J...
32: ...ver, since many voters believed the man of the people had been robbed by the corrupt aristocrats of th...
36: ...he first election in which many states allowed people without land to vote, and they voted for Jackson... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ...he state House of Representatives from [[1804]]-[[1806]] and again in [[1819]]. He was elected as a [[U... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hillsborough]], [[New Hampshire]]
13: | place of death=[[Concord]], [[New Hampshire]]
20: ... [[alcoholism]] as his marriage to [[Jane Means Appleton Pierce]] fell apart. He destroyed his reputat...
22: ...Pierce was hounded by guilt, temptation, and just plain bad luck."
40: ...istocratic Whig family, and was extremely shy, deeply religious, often ill, and pro-[[temperance]]. Mr... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...nd became a mere province of the Kingdom and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. There...
72: ...]] (gypsies), gay and lesbian individuals, and people with mental retardation and other disabilites. A...
77: People from other parts of The Netherlands sometimes ob...
79: ...g the [[Eighty Years' War]] but only after the people had turned solidly [[Roman Catholic]] as a resul...
81: ...h originally meant "(Language) of the (common) people" in contrast with the medieval elite who spoke L... - Germany (46412 bytes)
64: ===Holy Roman Empire (843-1806)===
66: ...ich the ''imperium'' was overrun and dissolved ([[1806]]). The lasting effect of the dissolution of the ...
73: ...to draw up a constitution for the new Germany, completed in [[1849]]. However, the Prussian king [[Fre...
93: ...ncentration camp]]s were set up for groups and people perceived as threats. Open persecution of [[Jew]...
97: ... million more [[Roma (people)|Roma]], [[Slavic people|Slavs]], [[homosexual]]s, [[communist]]s, [[Jeho... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
36: ...tes in the nation, with an estimated 8,829,383 people in 2004. Georgia is also known as the '''Peach ...
48: ...(explorer)|Hernando de Soto]] in [[1540]], had completely disappeared by [[1560]].
52: ...moted the idea that the area be used to settle people in a [[debtors' prison]]. On [[February 12]], [[...
58: ...|Louisville]] (''pron.'' Lewis-ville), and from [[1806]] through the [[American Civil War]] at [[Milledg...
76: ...is not yet incorporated, although a referendum is planned for the summer of [[2005]]. Georgia does no... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
36: ... on average Oregon is as dry as Texas, but few people live in Eastern Oregon.
41: ...he future for all [[United States|Americans]]: simple living, [[conservation]], and [[urban growth bou...
43: ...osing what attracts people to Oregon in the first place. The state has pioneered some innovative solu...
49: ...River. Exploration by Lewis and Clark ([[1805]]-[[1806]]) and Britain's [[David Thompson]] ([[1811]]) pu...
59: ...severely impacted the state's [[economy]] on multiple occasions. - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
3: == People named U ==
45: ...aga, Tana]], (born 1973), New Zealand rugby union player
59: ...|Unitas, Johnny]], (1933-2002), American football player
108: *[[Kitagawa Utamaro|Utamaro, Kitagawa]], (1753-1806), Japanese painter - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...ipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|...
4: ...in [[1840]] by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1...
6: ...solar system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
10: ...em, and [[minor planet]] for a taxonomy of the subplanetary objects that include asteroids. The term '...
14: ...360) 1981 VA]]; the last numbered and named minor planet was [[99905 Jeffgrossman]] [http://cfa-www.ha... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...ervable weather events which illuminate and are explained by the science of meteorology. Those events...
5: ...ics]], and [[atmospheric chemistry]] are sub-disciplines of the [[atmospheric sciences]].
10: ...|halo]] around the moon, without bothering with explanations.
12: ...[[Robert Hooke]], while [[Horace de Saussure]] completed this list of the most important meteorologica...
16: The first overall correct explanation of [[atmospheric circulation|global circul... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
99: ...[[James Barry (painter)|James Barry]] ([[1741]]-[[1806]])
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
422: *[[Jean-Honore Fragonard]] ([[1732]]-[[1806]])
576: ...[Alexander Ivanov (painter)|Alexander Ivanov]] ([[1806]]-[[1858]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
20: ...3) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scientist
77: ...Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple arch dam
80: ...6-1971) — [[vacuum tube]] [[television]] display - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
44: *[[1806]] - [[Noah Webster]]'s first [[dictionary]]
45: *[[1806]] - [[Cumberland Road]] passed
82: ...ege v. Woodward]]'' 17 US 518 1819 protects principle of honoring contracts and charters
108: ...ry/United_States/People Pictures of Historical People]
110: ==Lesson Plans, Resources and Activites== - August (4611 bytes)
6: ...ny days as [[Julius Caesar]]'s [[July]]. Augustus placed the month where it is because that's when [[C...
19: * On the sixth of August 1806 [[Emperor]] [[Francis II]] of the Holy Roman Empi...
20: ...e two bank holidays (UK). It is typically when people go on holiday.
22: ... first and only use of nuclear weapons against people. Emperor Hirohito declared Japan's unconditional... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...a]], and Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the [[Bourbon Dy...
18: ...Until the time of Napoleon, European states had employed relatively small armies with a large proporti...
20: ...ed the [[cannonball]] sizes to ensure easier resupply and compatibility among his army's artillery pie...
22: ... revolution rather than ideas which found their implementation in it.
24: ... be given to Napoleon, however. [[Lazare Carnot]] played a large part in the reorganization of the Fre...
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