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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
3: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1860]] to [[1899]]'''.
56: *[[1869]] - [[Golden spike]] nailed in, completing the [[First Transcontinental Railroad (North...
105: *[[1885]] - [[Washington monument]] completed
139: *[[1896]] - ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' 163 US 537 1896 legalizes seg...
145: *[[1897]] - [[Boston subway]] completed
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
17: | [[1899]] — [[1900]] - 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]]) - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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98: ...p://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/090303/b05w03abplanalp.html]
103: *[[Harold Abrahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
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4: ... Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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14: ==== People named Adam ====
32: ===== People named Adams =====
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...f Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 M...
18: ...tch, but his objections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert...
20: ...merged the Royal House name and family surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding ...
29: ...wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly o...
37: ... the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ...ontrary, stuck to her revolutionary Marxist principles. In [[1893]], along with [[Leo Jogiches]] and [...
19: ... Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s party leaders...
21: ...he party leadership refused, and in [[1910]] she split off from Kautsky.
32: ...visionism]], which she had fought against since [[1899]], had triumphed, and war was on its way.
42: ...e Social Democratic leader, [[Friedrich Ebert]] employed nationalist militia, the [[Freikorps]], to su... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
8: ... paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[1871]] when the a...
21: ...ed, and she moved away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no ...
37: ...president of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] from [[1899]] until his death in [[1906]].
77: ...y Children Playing with a Cat 1908.jpg|''Children Playing with a Cat'' (1908) - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...e'''. She became celebrated especially for her exploits in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and...
7: ...zy Giżycki]] {[[1899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ... into Poland. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Pola...
26: ...ents that would lead to some of her most famous exploits.
30: Krystyna was chosen to replace SOE agent [[Cecily Lefort]], who had been capt... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ... donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...y]], [[1938]]) was a [[France|French]] [[tennis]] player who achieved much success in the French and [...
8: ...where he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to di...
10: ...our years after her first tennis strokes, Lenglen played in the final of the [[1914 in sports|1914]] F...
16: ...arms and cut just above the calf, while all other players competed in outfits covering nearly all of t... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
135: == Applications ==
136: ...e]]. Otherwise it has no significant industrial applications.
141: Actinium was discovered in [[1899]] by [[Andr魌ouis Debierne]], a French chemist, ...
156: ...th effects, actinium-227 is about as dangerous as plutonium. Ingesting even small amounts of actinium-... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
28: ...ly manifested at a later period—as, for example, during his term as president.
39: ...ore this question had been disposed of, Adams was placed at the head of the Board of War and Ordinance...
46: ...rens played a minor role, Jay, Adams and Franklin played the major part in the negotiations. Overrulin... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
21: | '''Place of birth:'''
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...n''' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the...
44: ...]][[Confederate States of America#International Diplomacy and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small...
46: ...]. His leadership qualities were evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
18: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Caldwell, New Jersey|Ca...
20: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Princeton, New Jersey|P...
46: ...lf admitted that, as President, his greatest accomplishment was blocking others' bad ideas. He vigoro...
56: ...ess failures, farm mortgage foreclosures, and unemployment. He obtained repeal of the mildly inflation...
62: ...d States]]). The lump was preserved and is on display at the [[M�tter Museum]] in [[Philadelphia, P... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
19: ...ocks of birds to eat it. In any case, the story explains Alexandria's role as the shipping-point for E...
34: ...ose favor the city paid dear to [[Octavian]], who placed over it a prefect from the imperial household...
36: ...ne of the chief reasons which induced Augustus to place it directly under [[Roman Empire|imperial powe...
40: ...century]] AD, it declined fast in population and splendour.
42: ...temples by Theophilus|Destruction of the pagan temples by Theophilus]]. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...[Western Australia]] – and astronomers' and planetologists' estimates of the age of the [[solar ...
4: ...ntists such as [[Martin Luther]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today co...
6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretched ...
9: ...ew [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scientific basi...
13: ... of the age of the Earth to creation tales, or simply assumed that the Earth always had been, always w... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
3: ...en the black majority and the white minority have played a large part in the country's [[History of So...
13: ...nto Namibia and Botswana, and elsewhere. These people, who are a physically distinct population from o...
24: ...ulations displaced earlier [[hunter-gatherer]] peoples as they migrated.
26: ...d [[Cape Frontier Wars]] against the [[Xhosa]] people, and imported [[slaves]] from [[Indonesia]], [[M...
32: ...thout their red jackets in the Second Boer War ([[1899]]–[[1902]]), which was largely opposed by t... - Palau (8171 bytes)
56: ...[[19th century]], but sold it to [[Germany]] in [[1899]]. [[Japan]] seized the islands at the start of [...
61: ...The members of both chambers are chosen by the people; 9 are part of the Senate, and 16 of the House o...
96: ...], and [[fishing]]. The government is the major employer of the work force, relying heavily on financi... - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
68: ...g the [[1930s]], Kuwait became impoverished. In [[1899]], growing [[United Kingdom|British]] influence l...
70: ... had waged through [[slant drilling]] into oil supplies that were in disputed territories. The monarc...
80: ...l require conservative dress and separate polling places. The decision could raise Kuwait's voter rol...
122: ...P of $17,420. The labor force totals 1,073,115 people, only about one-quarter of whom are Kuwaiti citi...
131: ...Kuwait Oil Corporation''' (KOC) - ''A crude oil exploration and devolpment company''
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