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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]]
187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
19: ... I of Egypt|Abbas I]], (1813-1854), pasha of [[Egypt]]
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
93: ...ann von Abich|Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von]], (1806-1886), German mineralogist, geologist
100: ...Alexandria]], (died 978), [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic]] Pope - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...at age thirteen, despite her parents' strong attempts to dissuade her from engaging in a 'men's profes...
9: ...]]). He eventually learned her true identity in [[1806]], when [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] was invading [[Pru...
17: ...sions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives of other members.
21: ...ticity theory]]. One significant item is the concept of the [[Sophie Germain prime]], which is a [[pri...
23: With prompting from Gauss, in [[1830]] the [[University of G?... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
48: ...y they were mostly used on walls and tables. Except in royal or ecclesiastical settings they were con...
57: ... Passavant]], 3 extant carpets), Moorfields (1752-1806, owned by [[Thomas Moore]], 5 extant carpets), an... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...athered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Achieve...
23: ...or several generations. He attended and then attempted to institute many reforms at the [[College of W...
35: ...er of [[American exceptionalism]] (see also [[exceptionalism]]).
64: *[[Lewis and Clark expedition]] (1804-[[1806]])
67: *[[Embargo Act of 1807]], an attempt to force respect for U.S. [[neutrality]] by endin... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
22: ...d the [[Continental Army]] as a courier. He was captured and imprisoned by the [[British]] in the [[Am...
32: ...is [[U.S. presidential election, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first nominee of the [[Democ...
43: ...of the U.S. economy, but Jackson opposed the concept on ideological grounds. In Jackson's opinion, the...
55: ...rable powers for the central government) and attempted to face Calhoun down over the issue, which deve...
67: ==Assassination attempt== - 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)
22: ...ica. In addition, Pierce was hounded by guilt, temptation, and just plain bad luck."
29: ...w school]] in [[Northampton, Massachusetts|Northampton]], [[Massachusetts]], studying under Governor [...
40: ...t of Bowdoin College. Appleton, who was born in [[1806]] and died on [[1863]], was Pierce's opposite. Sh...
45: ...etermine the nominee, a [[party platform]] was adopted, opposing any further "agitation" over the slav...
47: ...his views on slavery, which allowed him to be acceptable to all factions. He also had served in the Me... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
87: ...o [[1806]] (it was occupied by [[France]] between 1806 and 1815).
145: ...on [[January 1]] [[1999]] along with the other adopters of the single European currency, with the actu...
146: ... was 1,2 %[http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/table.aspTT=2&LA=nl&DM=SLNL&PA=70145ned&D1=4&D2=0&D3=25,38,5...
315: ...onsider themselves to be members of a church. Excepting the secular populations, the part of the count... - 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: ... power, rejected crown and constitution. This prompted violent rollbacks by the monarchs, and the demi...
75: ...lm I]] and the increasingly liberal parliament erupted over military reforms. The king appointed [[Ott...
95: ...nd]], violating the Versailles Treaty, in an attempt to rebuild national self-esteem. Emboldened, Hitl... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
58: ...|Louisville]] (''pron.'' Lewis-ville), and from [[1806]] through the [[American Civil War]] at [[Milledg...
74: ...o has 159 [[counties]], the most of any state except [[Texas]] (254). Before [[1932]], there were 161...
78: .... Up to 1% of a SPLOST can go to [[homestead exemption]]s. All taxes are collected by the state and ...
165: ...gest Protestant denominations in Georgia are: [[Baptist]] (51% of total state population), [[Methodist... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: That description still applies over a quarter-century later. [...
49: ...River. Exploration by Lewis and Clark ([[1805]]-[[1806]]) and Britain's [[David Thompson]] ([[1811]]) pu...
97: ...-cleft.jpg Oregon geology: Abert Rim (image description)]</small>
103: ...mary election]] to select party candidates was adopted in [[1904]], and in [[1908]] the [[Oregon Const...
117: ...roes from moving into the State in the vote to adopt its Constitution ([[1858]]). This ban was not off... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
108: *[[Kitagawa Utamaro|Utamaro, Kitagawa]], (1753-1806), Japanese painter - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ... within the [[asteroid belt]], with [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mar...
4: ... be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1937), the egyptologist --->.
62: ...steroid was discovered every year after that (except the wartime year 1945). Notable asteroid hunters ...
78: ... increased the level of alarm: the increasing acceptance of [[Walter Alvarez]]' theory of [[K-T extinc...
107: ...creasingly eccentric asteroid names have been accepted, including [[3494 Purple Mountain]], [[6042 Che... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
10: ...tablished celestial phenomena, such as a [[Halo (optical phenomenon)|halo]] around the moon, without b...
18: ... classifying clouds ([[1802]]) and wind speeds ([[1806]]), respectively. The real turning point however ...
46: targeted observations (also known as ''adaptive observing systems'') also seem likely to reduc...
48: ...her modification]] has been (often covertly) attempted since the [[1950s]] —often by the [[milit... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
99: ...[[James Barry (painter)|James Barry]] ([[1741]]-[[1806]])
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
184: *[[Norbert Rillieux|Norbert Rilleaux]], (1806-1894), [[United States|USA]] — [[sugar]] pr...
211: ...provided an influential formalisation of the concept of [[algorithm]] and computation: the [[Turing ma...
242: ...–1995) was the inventor of the Bell [[helicopter]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
44: *[[1806]] - [[Noah Webster]]'s first [[dictionary]]
45: *[[1806]] - [[Cumberland Road]] passed - August (4611 bytes)
6: ...e it is because that's when [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra]] died. Before Augustus renamed August...
19: * On the sixth of August 1806 [[Emperor]] [[Francis II]] of the Holy Roman Empi...
26: ...5]] [[1947]] [[Bharat]] became independent and adopted the name India. - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
15: * On the other hand, another concept had been brought about — that of Europe. Na...
28: ... major combatants are difficult to find, but in September 1812, Russia had about 904,000 enlisted men ...
37: The first attempt to crush the new [[France|French republic]] was m...
45: ...ench efforts, which consisted of general [[conscription]] (''[[levée en masse]]''), military reform a...
47: ...y Bonaparte when the Austrians were forced to accept his terms in the [[Treaty of Campo Formio]]. The ...
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