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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...neteenth century enabled the manufacture of more production machines for manufacturing in other indust...
3: ...lway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the ...
5: The effects spread throughout [[Western Europe]] and [[North America]], eventually affecting t...
7: The term industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste ...
10: ...tain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effici... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more ...
12: ...tranged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the...
14: ...oria's uncle, the Prince of Wales, inherited the Crown, becoming King George IV. Though she occupied a...
16: ...the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent ...
18: ...sons for marrying Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage. - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...ars later, she managed to get some lecture notes from several courses at [[ɣole Polytechnique]], a sc...
9: ... Gauss since he had never heard of her. She then wrote to him admitting she was female, to which he re...
12: ...alents and superior genius. Indeed nothing could prove to me in so flattering and less equivocal manne...
15: ..., in [[1808]] Gauss was appointed professor of astronomy at the [[University of Gottingen|University o...
19: ...''z'' has to be [[divisible]] by [[five]]. This proof, which she first described in a letter to Gauss... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Monroe
3: | image name=jamesmonroe-npgallery.jpg
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
18: ...[[United States]]. He is the namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United States ...
22: ...Fredericksburg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (bor... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: ...axhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] of [[North Carolina]]
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
18: ... first president who had lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associat...
22: ...rust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favor...
24: ...egan to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militi... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
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25: ...y by Jackson's aggressive handling of the South Carolina [[nullification]] issue.
36: *Robert Tyler ([[September 9]], [[1816]] - [[December...
42: *Tazewell Tyler ([[December 6]], [[1830]] - [[January 8]], [[1874]]).
51: *Robert Fitzwalter Tyler ([[March 12]], [[1856]] - [[... - 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). - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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31: | '''Profession:''' || [[Lawyer]]
42: ... of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican ...
44: ...rica]], and took control of U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries. These events soon...
46: ...ng competing considerations and at getting rival groups to work together toward a common goal. He pers... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
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19: | '''Place of Birth:''' || [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]
42: ...ebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with the Congressiona...
45: Johnson was born in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], to Jacob Johnson and Mary McDonough on [[D...
48: ...s a member of the State House of Representatives from [[1835]] to [[1837]] and [[1839]] to [[1841]]. ... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Grover Cleveland]]
20: ...mily and friends. Interestingly, Chester Arthur pronounced his middle name, Alan, with the stress on ...
22: ...kely related to a history of [[hypertension]], approximately twenty-four hours after being found uncon...
27: ...1829 (although he told people that he was born in 1830). Political rivals long circulated the rumor tha...
29: He attended the public schools and was graduated from [[Union College]], [[Schenectady, New York]], in... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. It is one of the [[Earth sci...
3: ...]] and [[coal]], as well as [[metals]] such as [[iron]], [[copper]], and [[uranium]]. Additional econo...
5: [[Astrogeology]] refers to the application of geologic pr...
7: ...used by Jean-Andreluc in the year [[1778]] and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bedict de Saussure...
10: ...ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by [[erosion]] of the [[mountain]]s and by [[Deposition (g... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...rth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several ...
4: ... Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began on [[October 23]], [[4...
6: ...o thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...ury]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thousa...
13: ...ve them an appreciation that the Earth had been through many changes during its existence, however lon... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...is derived from the name of the city of Algiers; from the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word ''al-jaz...
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38: | From [[France]]<br>[[July 5]], [[1962]]
47: | [[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...and South Holland in [[1840]]. There are 10 more provinces in the Netherlands.<!--
40: established_dates = [[Eighty Years' War|From Spain]]<br/>[[May 23]], [[1568]]<br/>[[January 3...
41: currency = [[Euro]] <sup>2</sup> |
43: time_zone= [[Central European Time|CET]] |
45: time_zone_DST= [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | - Belgium (31774 bytes)
1: ... ''K?reich Belgien'') is a country in [[Western Europe]], bordered by the [[Netherlands]], [[Germany]]...
3: ...the [[Walloons]]) but also in the center (in and around the capital [[Brussels]]), and a small number ...
4: ...cing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-co...
5: |+<big>'''Royaume de Belgique'''<br>'''Koninkrijk Belgi맧'<br...
7: ... border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:center;" - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
1: ... state]] in the north-west of the continental [[European Union]], bordered by [[France]], [[Germany]] ...
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3: ...mbourg'''<br>'''Groߨerzogtum Luxemburg'''<br>'''Groussherzogtum L봺ebuerg'''<br><br></big>
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13: | align=center colspan=2 style="background:#f9f9f9;" | [[image:LocationLuxembourg.png|Loc... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
43: ...permanently in Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, t...
47: ... of town. One, [[Naugatuck]], is a merged town-borough.
49: ...rently has five [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Connecticut|representatives in the House]].
54: The Connecticut River cuts through the center of the state, flowing into Long Isl...
56: ... up the coast near New London. Many towns center around a small park, known as a "green", ''e.g.'' [[N... - 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]] - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...ard the opposite end. Features as small as 35 m across can be seen.]]
4: ...r-like'' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''asteroeides'', ''aster'' "star" + ''-eidos'' "form, shap...
6: ...t not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...trike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmosphere.
10: ...d up in solar orbits, such as the [[Mariner IV]] probe. - 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]])
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