Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
Article title matches
- Henry Morton Stanley (3669 bytes)
1: ...d [[List of explorers|explorer]] famous for his exploration of [[Africa]] and his search for [[David L...
3: ...s, he became friendly with a wealthy trader named Stanley, whose name he assumed.
5: [[Image:Henry_Morton_Stanley.jpg|thumb|Famous explorer who said "Dr.Livingstone, I presume?"]]
7: ...the paper's owner, how much he could spend. The reply was "Draw �1,000 now, and when you have gone t...
9: ...eing to solve the last great mystery of African exploration by tracing the course of the river [[Congo...
Page text matches
- 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]]) - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...mbered because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise to the popular quotation, "''Dr...
6: ...ing in [[London]], he became attracted by the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter h...
12: In the period [[1852]]–[[1856|56]], he explored the interior, discovering [[Victoria Falls]] ...
17: ...racts and rapids that Livingstone had failed to explore on his earlier travels.
19: ...ed great difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa]]. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...d English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] an...
27: ...g [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne...
31: ...er, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
33: ...lish service. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He ...
37: ... were removed from the ecclesiastical bench and replaced by appointees who would submit to the Queen'... - 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... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
8: ...Melbourne]], the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, and then to the Philip Street Theatre...
13: ...]] of [[1990]] in [[Telluride, Colorado]]. The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and l...
19: ...n she co-starred with her husband as a married couple for the second time.
23: ...an injured her knee, so [[Jodie Foster]] had to replace her in ''[[Panic Room]]''. The following year ...
26: ...' character falls in love with a 10 year-old boy (played by [[Cameron Bright]]), who she believed to b... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...kely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gifford]], a [[salesman]] for the studio where Ma...
8: ...ven. The Bolenders were a religious couple who supplemented their meager income by being foster parent...
15: ...3.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]]'']]
22: By 1952 Zanuck was nearly convinced and she played her first role as a leading lady in ''Don't B...
23: ...l, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her unique connect... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
7: ...d. From [[1984]] to [[1990]], Streep won six [[People's Choice Award]]s for Favorite Motion Picture Ac...
9: ...ence. In the [[1990s]], therefore, Streep took to playing roles with greater variety, including farce ...
11: ...[Music of the Heart]]'', for which she learned to play the [[violin]].
13: ...nd in [[2004]] took on two largely comedic roles, playing the character originated by [[Angela Lansbur... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ... facto'' independence and/or some international diplomatic recognition from selected states, but are n...
5: ...to the principles of the [[Atlantic Charter]] and pledged them not to seek a separate peace with the [...
20: ...nd the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] met to elaborate the plans at the [[Dumbarton Oaks|Dumbarton Oaks Estate]...
24: ...ot represented at the conference, but for which a place among the original signatories had been reserv...
28: ...left|thumb|UN offices occupy a portion of this complex in [[Vienna]]]] - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...arth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
15: Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s ...
53: ... that at a given time there are at least 1,000 people living in Antarctica. This varies considerably w...
101: * [[Kim Stanley Robinson]]'s ''Antarctica'' ([[1997]])
103: ...[John Calvin Batchelor]]'s "The Birth of the [[People's Republic]] of Antarctica" ([[1983]]) - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
3: ...country]], [[state]], [[nation state]] for some explanation of the difference between these.
68: ...a continent in the 5 continent systems, called simply Asia in one of them.
81: * [[China, People's Republic of]] - [[Beijing]]
86: ...ng]], [[Special Administrative Region|SAR]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]
99: ...au]], [[Special Administrative Region|SAR]], [[People's Republic of China|China]] - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
59: ===European exploration and administration (1870–1960)===
61: ...]]'s novella ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' also takes place in Congo Free State. In 1908, the Belgian parl...
67: ... of the permanent committee of the All-African Peoples Conference (founded in [[Accra]], 1958) and pre...
72: ... was not believed by many). Riots of protest took place in many parts of the world. See his ''Congo: M...
74: The [[CIA]] had aided Mobutu and was pleased with the outcome, having viewed the [[Soviet... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
56: ...t and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the co...
65: ..."[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast]]", for example, is often derided by residents of the rest of th...
79: ...ly''' have been a miracle.) [[Bus]] service is supplied by [[Connecticut Transit]], owned by the [[Con...
81: ...hey exited. A series of terrible crashes at these plazas eventually led to abandonment of the whole to...
83: ...e daily radio broadcasts of where crashes have completely blocked traffic are a fact of life for commu... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
31: * [[Plough]]s in [[Mesopotamia]]
35: * 3500 BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
80: * [[600]]: Mouldboard [[plough]] in [[Eastern Europe]]
162: * [[1797]]: [[Cast iron plow]]: [[Charles Newbold]]
201: * [[1831]]: [[Multiple coil magnet]]: [[Joseph Henry]] - 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
65: *[[Stanley Unwin (publisher)|Unwin, Stanley]], Publisher, [[George Allen and Unwin]] - Agatharchides (3646 bytes)
3: As Stanley M. Burstein notes, the "evidence for Agatharchide...
5: ...raean Sea'', he apologizes for being unable to complete his work "since our age is unable to similarly...
9: ... or indirectly by [[Diodorus Siculus]], Strabo, [[Pliny the Elder]], [[Aelian]] and other authors. Alt...
13: *Stanley M. Burstein, translator and editor. ''Works Issue... - Paleontology (5646 bytes)
1: ...loping history of [[life]] on earth, of ancient [[plant]]s and [[animal]]s based on the [[fossil recor...
5: ...e responded to these changes and have changed the planetary environment in turn, and how these mutual ...
7: ...lude [[paleozoology]] (animals), [[paleobotany]] (plants), and [[micropaleontology]] (microfossils). P...
15: ...ies and especially the [[petroleum]] industry. Simply looking at the fossils contained in a rock remai...
24: ...mes in invertebrate paleontology include [[Steven Stanley]], [[Stephen Jay Gould]], [[David Raup]], [[Geera... - Mars (27704 bytes)
2: ...t|North Polar region with icecap. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.)]]
4: ... This feature also earned it the name of "the Red Planet." Mars has two [[Natural satellite|moon]]s ([...
8: Mars has always fascinated people. Its red, fiery appearance is caused by Iron Oxi...
13: ...o become uniformly distributed in the atmosphere. Plans are now being made to look for other 'companio...
15: ...] and large [[cirrus cloud]]s [http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20041213a/merb... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
138: ...called Jove). The [[astronomical symbol]] for the planet is a stylized representation of the god's lig...
140: ...|Korean]], and [[Japan]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Wood Star'', based on the [[Five Ele...
145: ...inition of what distinguishes a large and massive planet such as Jupiter from a [[brown dwarf]], altho...
147: ...at Red Spot]], a [[storm]] larger than Earth. The planet is perpetually covered with a layer of [[clou...
149: ...icus]]' heliocentric theory of the motions of the planets; Galileo's outspoken support of the Copernic... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
2: |+ <big>'''Pluto'''</big>
4: ...lspan="2" align="center"| [[image:Pluto.jpg|250px|Pluto in True Color]]
5: .../><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
120: ...regarding whether Pluto should be classified as a planet (see below for details). Its symbol is a comb...
124: ...d orbit of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]]. It is [[#Planet X?|now known]] these discrepancies were an ar... - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
3: ... [[Pliny the Younger]] (see below), whose uncle [[Pliny the Elder]] died after travelling across the b...
9: ...with the Greeks, who then dominated the Gulf of Naples. In the [[5th century BCE]], the [[Samnites]] c...
20: ...he historian [[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus|Tacitus]]. Pliny saw a strange phenomenon occurring over Mt. Ve...
22: ...ed gas, ash, and rock that erupts from a volcano. Pliny stated that several earth tremors were felt at...
26: ...o investigate the phenomenon. On the other shore, Pliny the Elder apparently died from [[carbon dioxid...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).