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- List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
17: ...Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
25: ...es de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
26: ...ria Gaetana Agnesi|Agnesi, Maria Gaetana]], (1718-1799), Italian polymath
27: *[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United St...
36: ...nnes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...a]]. Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed to remove or amend this requirement, but non...
16: ...e served two full terms: [[Dwight Eisenhower]], [[Ronald Reagan]], and [[Bill Clinton]]. Incumbent Pre...
19: ...e person receiving the greatest number of votes (provided that such a number was a majority of elector...
21: ...mendment XII]] in [[1804]] changed the electoral process by directing the electors to use separate bal...
25: ...ess is concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
13: | date of death=[[December 14]], [[1799]]
19: ...ebruary 22]], [[1732]] – [[December 14]], [[1799]]), called '''[[Father of the Nation|Father of hi...
21: ...blic]]an [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
26: ...nia. He visited [[Barbados]], with his sick half-brother Lawrence in [[1751]], and survived an attack ...
31: ...eventually became the [[Seven Years' War]] in [[Europe]]. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...eration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in ...
24: ...758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing d...
28: ...[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through his work as a constitutional lawyer. Impetuous...
31: ...which he pronounced the Stamp Act invalid on the ground that Massachusetts, being without representati...
35: ...f a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establish... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
4: <tr><td style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2>[[Image:Mar...
25: ...[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
27: ...1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawyer and later [[Aaron Burr]]'s second in the duel with [[Alexander Ham...
29: ...e a member of the [[Court for the Correction of Errors]], the highest [[Court (judicial)|court]] in Ne...
33: ...a Federalist. He had already, in [[1808]], moved from Kinderhook to [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]], and i... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
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50: ...riticized for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American C...
53: ...ri]]. Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
55: ...hanan was once engaged died a few days after she broke off the engagement, and Buchanan then vowed to ...
57: ...e Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses). - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br />...
51: ...uage|Persian]] means ''Land of the Pure''. With around 163 million inhabitants, it is the [[List of c...
57: ...umb|180px|right|[[Mohenjodaro|Ruins of Mohen-jo-Daro]], 80 km southwest of [[Sukkur]], was center of [...
59: ...ization]] and was subsequently conquered by many groups, including [[Aryans]], [[Achaemenid|Persian]]s...
62: ... the area was conquered by various Central Asian groups, most notably the [[Tocharian]] [[Kushan]]s. - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: The state name derives from a word in a [[Caddoan languages|Caddoan language...
55: ...and [[Arkansas]] on the east. To the southwest, across the [[Rio Grande]], Texas borders the [[Mexico|...
57: ...m you talk to (and which part of Texas they come from), Texas forms part of the [[U.S. Southern States...
70: ...kapan]], [[Bidai]], [[Caddo]], [[Comanche]], [[Cherokee]], [[Kiowa]], [[Tonkawa]], and [[Wichita (trib...
76: ...[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...ctical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where the...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
10: * 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, destroying the wings and causing Icarus to fall into the...
5: ...ngs ([[Wright brothers]]). Modern planes are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that ...
15: ...etation of his design, with modern knowledge of aerodynamic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo als...
17: ...l the [[gasoline]] engine designed by the Wright Brothers.
19: ...r "rage" in Europe in the late [[18th century]], providing the first detailed understanding of the rel... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
13: ...rge Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
29: ...r]], (1813-1898), [[England]] — [[Bessemer process]]
36: ...63;]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
40: ..., [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
1: [[Image:Map of Territorial Growth 1790 sm.jpg|right|thumb|U.S. territorial exten...
3: ...eline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1790]] to [[1819]]'''.
19: ...[1796]] - [[Tennessee]], formerly part of North Carolina, becomes a state
26: *[[1799]] - [[George Washington]] dies
27: *[[1799]] - [[Fries Uprising]] - Orangutan (5406 bytes)
10: ...la Ville, Comte de Lacepede|Lacepede]] | date = [[1799]]}}
18: ...[[Indonesia]]. The word ''orangutan'' is derived from the [[Malay language|Malay]] ''orang hutan'' mea...
19: ...oto courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
21: ...oto courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
22: ...oto courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]] - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...tself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Sir...
6: ...[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the...
21: | rowspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint P...
23: | rowspan="2" | <small>Simon Peter</small><br>'''—... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...]]s overthrew the [[absolute monarchy]] and the [[Roman Catholic Church]] was forced to undergo radica...
8: ... conflicting interests of these initially allied groups would become the source of conflict and bloods...
12: * Resentment of royal [[political absolutism|absolutism]].
15: ... both caused by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation.
17: ...ge and dominance in public life by the ambitious professional classes. - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's empire u...
5: ...ctively, the nearly continuous period of warfare from [[April 20]], [[1792]], until [[November 20]], 1...
9: ...ars brought some great changes upon the face of Europe:
11: * France was no longer a dominant power in Europe, as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV ...
12: ...oyal Navy]] held unquestioned naval superiority throughout the world, and the United Kingdom's industr... - Ape (10931 bytes)
24: ...imbers of trees. They are best described as omnivorous, their diet consisting of fruit, grass seeds, a...
26: ... The chief threat to most ape species is loss of tropical rainforest habitat, though some populations ...
29: ... to separate the hominids, in this narrow sense, from the extant non-human members of the family Homin...
31: ...mon, extinct, ancestor with the chimpanzee line, from which we separated more recently than the gorill...
33: ...ulder joints and arms, ribcages that are flatter front-to-back, and a shorter, less mobile spine compa... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
18: *[[Joseph Black]], (1728-1799), chemist
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German invento...
28: *[[Heinrich Caro]], (1834-1910), German chemist
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
2: ...ical orders are extinct, e.g. [[dinosaur]]s, [[pterosaur]]s and [[ammonite]]s. Many of these orders we...
10: ===[[Europe]], incomplete list===
12: * [[Zebro]] or Encebra (XV Century, Spain)
13: * [[Aurochs]] (1627, Poland)
31: * [[Bluebuck]], or Blue Antelope (1799)
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