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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]]
152: *[[Edmund Kennedy]], (1818-1848), [[Australia]]n explorer - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
30: ...called [[industrial espionage]], with modern concepts of automatic illegality.
36: ...gs. Foreign printed sources such as the ''[[Descriptions des Arts et Metiers]]'' and Diderot's ''[[Enc...
59: ... about the need for stability and precision he adapted to the development of machine tools, and in his...
79: ...y [[wood]] in the form of [[charcoal]], but consumption was starting to be constrained by lack of avai...
143: ...ical reform or revolution would sweep Europe in [[1848]], with mixed results, and initiated massive migr... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
16: ... Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
19: ... I of Egypt|Abbas I]], (1813-1854), pasha of [[Egypt]]
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
100: ...Alexandria]], (died 978), [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic]] Pope - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: ...hard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
48: ...ich Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich]] (1789-1848) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
59: *[[John Quincy Adams|Adams, John Quincy]], (1767-1848), sixth President of the United States
78: ...son|Adamson, Amandus]], (1855-1929), Estonian sculptor - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
9: ...Denis Auguste Affre|Affre, Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[Paris]] - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
16: ... Victoria became [[heir presumptive|heiress-presumptive]] to the throne. Since the law at that time ma...
25: ...hildless, Ernest Augustus was also the heir-presumptive to the British throne.
27: ... the [[Whig]] Party, which had been in power, except for brief intervals, since [[1830]]. The Whig Pri...
37: ...tributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theorie...
39: ... Eight more children would be born during the exceptionally happy marriage between Victoria and Prince... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
7: ...onscientious Objector]] status was a radical concept for that time and remains so, and the United Stat...
11: ...vention]]" in [[Seneca Falls]], [[New York]] in [[1848]]. While [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] and [[Susan ... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
4: ...[[Lucretia Mott]], the primary organizer of the [[1848 Women's Rights Convention]] in Seneca Falls, New ... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
7: ...told to a later biographer, she spent the years [[1848]] to [[1858]] traveling the world, claiming to ha...
9: ...t of nothing. Though she was apparently quite adept at these feats, her interests were more in the ar...
15: ...mpting to translate the divine knowledge had corrupted it in the translation. Her claim that esoteric...
69: ... have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe an... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
12: ...d States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a ...
52: ...er 24]], [[1784]], before the Constitution was adopted).
264: ...ts or ex-presidents have died in every decade except four: the [[1800s]], [[1810s]], [[1950s]], and [[...
272: | [[September 24]], [[1789]] ||align=right| $25,000
284: ...hington, already a successful man, refused to accept his salary. - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
12: | date of death=[[February 23]], [[1848]]
18: ...([[July 11]], [[1767]] – [[February 23]], [[1848]]) was the sixth ([[1825]]-[[1829]]) [[President ...
84: ...f a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] on [[February 23]], [[1848]] in the [[United States Capitol|Capitol Building...
122: ...alhoun]]| after=[[Horace Mann]]| years=[[1843]]-[[1848]]}} - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
3: ...><font size="+1">'''Martin van Buren'''</font></caption>
41: ...es of America|vice-president]]; but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy which followed...
43: ...te|Secretary of State]] notwithstanding the "corrupt bargain" charge. At the same time he opposed int...
53: ...er to [[England]], and arrived in [[London]] in September. He was cordially received, but in February ...
55: ... which existed in many states. No platform was adopted, the widespread popularity of Jackson being rel... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
3: ...aption><font size="+1">'''John Tyler'''</font></caption>
36: *Robert Tyler ([[September 9]], [[1816]] - [[December 3]], [[1877]]). H...
44: ...First Lady of the United States]] but died on [[September 10]], [[1842]]. John spent two years as a wi...
46: ...David Gardiner Tyler ([[July 12]], [[1846]] - [[September 5]], [[1927]]).
47: ...John Alexander Tyler ([[April 7]], [[1848]] - [[September 1]], [[1883]]). - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
3: ...<font size="+1">'''Millard Fillmore '''</font></caption>
26: ...served in the House of Representatives and was Comptroller of New York. It was thought that the obscu...
37: ...ore to the Presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political shift in the administration. Taylor's ...
53: Each measure obtained a majority, and by September 20, President Fillmore had signed them into ...
62: ...Republican Party]]; but, instead, in [[1856]] accepted the nomination for President of the [[Know-Noth... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
46: ...e fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his man...
59: ...93 p704 quoting Lincoln; Talk--> He served as a captain in a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] d...
81: ...pporter of [[Zachary Taylor]]'s candidacy for the 1848 Whig Presidential nomination. When his term ended...
87: ...ered its opinion upholding the tax exemption, accepting Lincoln's arguments.
93: ...the Buchanan administration's push for the [[Lecompton Constitution]] which would have admitted Kansas... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
3: ...><font size="+1">'''Ulysses S. Grant'''</font></caption>
24: ...stration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corruption]].
26: ...d for not taking a strong stance against the corruption, and not acting to stop it. More recent treatm...
32: ...st the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon graduation, Grant adopted the form of his new name with middle initial on...
34: ...t]] ([[1826]]–[[1902]]) on [[August 22]], [[1848]]. They had four children: [[Frederick Dent Grant... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
5: ...er and editor of the ''Boston Republican'' from [[1848]] to [[1851]]. - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
5: | date1=[[September 20]], [[1881]]
18: ... seeker, on July 2, [[1881]]. Garfield died on September 19th, and Arthur became [[President of the U...
20: ..." for his commitment to fashionable attire. He kept 80 pairs of pants in his wardrobe,and changed pan...
29: ...[Union College]], [[Schenectady, New York]], in [[1848]]. He became principal of an academy in North Po...
35: ...Convention. Failing in that, they reluctantly accepted the nomination of Arthur for the Vice Presidenc... - Canada (35540 bytes)
19: ...|English]] is the majority language elsewhere except in certain communities and in [[Nunavut]], where ...
94: ...U.S. attacked British forces in Canada in an attempt to reduce their control of North America and the ...
96: ...t created the colonies of [[British Columbia]] in 1848 and Vancouver Island in 1849. By the late-1850s, ...
98: ...880]] Canada included all of its present area except for [[Newfoundland and Labrador]], which joined i...
123: ...kon]] in 1947. Coastal British Columbia is an exception: it enjoys a temperate climate with much milde...
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