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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ficial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
11: ...arolina, was married to King Ferdinand of the [[Naples]].
17: ...y dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an angel...
24: ...en the king told him to eat less, Louis-Auguste replied "Why? I always sleep better when I have a full...
25: ... [[phimosis]]. Rather, it seems that no one had explained to either Louis or Antoinette what they were... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...llapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
16: * ''The Ploughman'' (1907, published in a Danish journal und... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...began with the discoveries of [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], and others at t...
9: ...irely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. That is, at that tim...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though ...
24: *Kepler's laws of planetary motion (Kepler)
33: ...beyond real dispute. If you measure what either Kepler or Galileo discovered against everything discov... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Summerhill, New York]]<...
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Buffalo, New York]]</td...
26: ...e, self-made candidate from [[New York]] would complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from th...
41: ...o Congress recommending that [[Texas]] be paid to abandon her claims to part of New Mexico.
50: *Place Federal officers at the disposal of slaveholde... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Western world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich h...
52: ...n world|western civilization]] and being the birthplace of [[democracy]], [[philosophy]], the [[Olympi...
57:
65: ...nglish/greece/living/read_greek/alphabet.html]. [[Plato]] described how the Greeks live round the Aege...
68: ...he Byzantine Empire, centered around [[Constantinople]] (known in ancient times as [[Byzantium]]), rem... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
55: ...nnsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for [[Quaker]]s, and name...
69: ...dustry was born in western Pennsylvania, which supplied the vast majority of U.S. kerosene for years t...
71: ...; dramatic, sometimes violent confrontations took place between [[organized labor]] and the state's in...
86: ...stricts[http://www.courts.state.pa.us/Index/CommonPleas/Judicialdistricts.asp], each of which has dist...
88: ...strict has at least one, and the Courts of Common Pleas serving the larger Pennsylvania counties have ... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...ral influences. For a variety of reasons, some people in other parts of the U.S. sometimes mistake it ...
44: ...est inhabitants of the New World. The [[Pueblo people]] built a flourishing sedentary culture in the [...
46: ...]]. His maltreatment of the Pueblo people while exploring the upper Rio Grande valley led to long-stan...
52: ... Pueblo uprising of [[1680]] drove the Spanish to abandon New Mexico entirely until the campaign of [[Diego...
64: ...ving as a teamster, cook, guide, and hunter for exploring parties until [[1840]]. - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: ...s lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which he app...
9: ...eeping in the company of snakes, but by [[Zeus]]. Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.2-3) relates that both Phi...
11: ...er was [[Zeus]], rather than Philip. According to Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.1), his father descended f...
14: ...omannus]], the recently crowned King of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander t...
16: ...ad pledged allegiance to Philip were not quick to pledge it to a 20-year-old boy. He immediately order... - Pyrrhus of Epirus (7425 bytes)
9: ...anto_location.png|thumb|240px|left|Most important places in the [[Pyrrhic War]] ([[280 BC|280]]-[[275 ...
21: ... proclaimed king of Sicily. He was already making plans for his son Helenus to inherit the kingdom of ...
23: ...Carthaginians in another battle, he was forced to abandon Sicily and return to Italy.
27: Pyrrhus abandoned the campaign in Italy and returned to Epirus. T...
29: ...rta and place him in power. Pyrrhus agreed to the plan, intending to win control of the Peloponnese fo... - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
3: ... of England]], feeling that the Church had not completed the task begun by the [[Protestant Reformatio...
5: ...und for the [[United States|Americas]]. These people became known as the [[Pilgrims|Pilgrim Fathers]]...
8: ...ment to stop it, the Dutch government began to comply and the exiles decided that it was time to leave...
10: ...pain]]. The English government was thus trying to plot a course between the position of the [[Roman Ca...
12: ... in the [[London Company]]. This grant would have placed them near the [[Hudson River]]. - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...r his [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "...
4: ...er, Kepler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo ...
6: ...s Kepler University Linz]] in honor of Johannes Kepler, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonic...
8: ==Kepler's life==
9: ...arned a precarious living as a [[mercenary]], and abandoned the family when Johannes was 17. His mother, a... - Pope Damasus I (6865 bytes)
11: ... aesthetic enrichment of the city churches. He employed a calligrapher, one [[Dionysius Philocalus]],...
13: ... Often, the women of the family were the first to abandon pagan ways, while the men tended to hold on to th...
20: ...ome to Damasus have sometimes been adduced as examples of the primacy of the seat of Peter:
21: ...en to the successor of the fisherman, to the disciple of the cross. As I follow no leader save Christ,... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...ze in Physics|Nobel Prize for Physics]] for his explanation of the [[photoelectric effect]] and "for h...
7: Einstein himself was deeply concerned with the social impact of scientific d...
16: ...d time later than most children, he was able to apply a more developed intellect. Another, more recent...
20: ...ind alone in Munich lodgings to finish school, completing only one term before leaving school in sprin...
22: ... finish secondary school, where he received his diploma in [[1896]] September. During this time he lod... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hope, Arkansas]]
13: | place of death=
27: ...e H. W. Bush]] and turning it into the largest surplus by the end of his office.
57: ...H. Ross Perot]] (19.0% of the vote), largely on a platform focusing on domestic issues, notably the [[...
61: ...mmitments by Executive Branch Appointees"), which placed substantial restrictions upon the ability of ... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[...
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
18: ...and privilege, he overcame a crippling illness to place himself at the head of the forces of reform. H...
22: ... conservatives. Today opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the i...
32: ...lege. He learned to ride, to shoot, to row and to play [[polo]] and [[lawn tennis]]. Frequent trips to... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...e into what has become modern [[France]], an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible to t...
6: ...rded by later historians such as [[Suetonius]], [[Plutarch]], and [[Dio Cassius|Cassius Dio]].
17: ...Roman Senate]], people were forced to stand and applaud his presence.
28: ...n asked why he would have such a reaction, his simple response was: "Do you think I have not just...
30: ...elationship with Rome’s great general would play into his hands later. - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ... of America''') are those peoples [[indigenous people|indigenous]] to the [[Americas]], living there p...
5: ...ural and genetic commonality with other arctic peoples not native to the American continent, such as t...
7: ...First Peoples]]" and "Native Canadians". First Peoples are enshrined in the Canadian Constitution with...
9: ...trued to either include or exclude the [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] of [[Canada]] and the [[Mestizo...
11: Other indigenous peoples that are native to territorial possesions of Am... - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ...aded the Balkans twice and encircled [[Constantinople]] in the second invasion. He marched through Fra...
5: ...ies lionise him as a great and noble king, and he plays major roles in three [[Norse saga]]s.
9: ... of them highly cultured and civilized) by their splendid state of readiness for combat, amazing mobil...
15: ...portunity to strengthen the [[walls of Constantinople]], building the city's first [[sea wall]], and t...
21: ...ty during the invasion; the yearly tribute was tripled, rising to 2,100 Roman pounds (c. 687 kg) in go... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
4: ...ay Saint movement]]). They were finally forced to abandon Nauvoo in [[1846]].
12: ...tte River|Platte]] and [[North Platte River|North Platte]] rivers was chosen to avoid potential confli...
14: ...ed sixteen weeks—nearly three times longer than planned. It was apparent that the Latter-day Saints...
17: ...raft animals, and livestock and carried enough supplies to provision the group for one year. On April...
25: ...ce of the valley and declared ''This is the right place, drive on.'' - Mexican-American War (9503 bytes)
11: |Place||Southwestern United States; Northern, Central...
47: ...s K. Polk]] ordered General [[Zachary Taylor]] to place troops between the two rivers. Taylor crossed ...
53: ... fight for Mexico. Others argue that they were simply traitors and deserters. There are, in any event,...
57: ==Political implications of the war==
64: ...gest state in the Union geographically) into multiple slave states, but this did not come to pass.
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