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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...lorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[Hi...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ex...
8: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]] - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...a, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
5: ...1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
31: *[[Dorothea Ackermann|Ackermann, Dorothea]] (born 1752)
41: *[[Leopold Ackermann|Ackermann, Leopold]] (1771-1831) - 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)
3: ...''' ([[April 1]], [[1776]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
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... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...[Julian calendar|O.S.]]) <small>([[August 12]], [[1831]] ([[Gregorian calendar|N.S.]]))</small> - [[May ...
5: ...nist. Both her mother and grandmother were strong role models that allowed her to mature into a noncon...
7: ...atsky continued on to Cairo herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spirite for [[occult]...
9: ...w feat of hers was [[materialization]], that is, producing physical objects out of nothing. Though sh...
13: ...rriage was not consummated either. She separated from Betanelly after a few months, and their divorce ... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...e they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...s in one direction, and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the othe...
8: ...ly isolated in a locomotive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include:
10: ...easier to maintain one locomotive than many self-propelled cars.
11: ...n safer to locate the train's power systems away from passengers. This was particularly the case for t... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Monroe
3: | image name=jamesmonroe-npgallery.jpg
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1831]]
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
18: ...[[United States]]. He is the namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United States ... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[James Monroe]]
22: ...]] at the [[University of Leiden]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was elec...
24: ...]], the daughter of an American merchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having ...
26: ...having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist Party.
28: ...14]], and Minister to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] from [[1815]] to [[1817]]. During this time, Adams an... - 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... - 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... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...4]]) was a [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Pennsylvania]] and the eleventh [[Vice Preside...
5: ...c D. Barnard]] and served from [[December 13]], [[1831]] to [[March 3]], [[1833]], when he declined to b...
7: ...et in [[1844]] with [[James K. Polk]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1845]] to [[March 3]], [[1849]].
9: ...ngdom|Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philad...
15: ...ict of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|years=1829-1831}} - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
7: | style="background:#efefef;" colspan="2" align="center" |
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). - Guyana (12153 bytes)
2: ...cing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-co...
5: | style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2 |
8: | align="center" width="140px" rowspan="2" height="125px" | [[Image:Guyana_coa.png]...
15: | align=center colspan=2 style="background:#ffffff;" | [[image:LocationGuyana.png]]
41: | From the [[United Kingdom]] - 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]]) - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
1: ...eline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1820]] to [[1859]]'''.
5: *[[1820]] - [[Missouri Compromise]]
10: *[[1822]] - [[Cumberland Road]] Bill
11: *[[1823]] - [[Monroe Doctrine]] declared
15: ...'[[Gibbons v. Ogden]]'' cements Congressional control over [[interstate commerce]] - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ...y which the United States would expand westward across North America by the admission of new states, r...
9: ...for statehood, the [[Missouri Compromise]] makes provisions for the future admittance of slave states ...
12: ...un|Calhoun's]] ''[[South Carolina Exposition and Protest]]'' outlines [[nullification|nullification do...
17: |valign=center|'''[[1831]]'''
23: | + The Compromise Tariff of 1833 ends the [[Nullification crisi... - 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>'''—... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
4: ==Personal background==
5: ...sastrous one in [[1864]] killed Alfred's younger brother [[Emil Nobel|Emil]] and several other workers...
7: ..., and the whole stock except three copies was destroyed immediately after his death, being regarded as...
12: Nobel found that when [[nitroglycerin]] was incorporated with an absorbent, ine...
14: He next combined nitroglycerin with another high explosive, [[gun-cotton... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...anada]], with the aid of [[abolitionists]]. Other routes led to [[Mexico]] or overseas.
4: ...agination as a symbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominently in [[African American history]].
6: ...ight|400px|thumb|Map of some Underground Railroad routes]]
10: .... Churches and religious denominations played key roles, especially the [[Religious Society of Friends...
14: The Underground Railroad developed its own jargon, which continued the [...
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