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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
76: | [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]
81: | [[1828]] — [[1832]], [[1889]] — [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909...
135: | [[North Carolina]] - 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]] - 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... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
16: ...orge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
18: ...ob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
5: ... the inheritance that brought her there, Tristᮠwrote a travel diary about her experiences in [[Peru]...
7: ...uguin]]'s contrasting quests for the ideal life through their experiences outside their native France.
9: ...ich are ''Peregrinations of a Pariah'' (1838), ''Promenades in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Uni... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realis...
5: ...ay have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attendin...
8: ...ion. Charles Bray, a [[Coventry]] manufacturer, brought her into contact with more liberal theologies...
12: ...ooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal on thei...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her: - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...]], [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]], [[Prohibition|prohibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of...
8: ...ert Miller, and they set up a joint practice in [[Rome, New York]]. The practice did not flourish, as...
10: ...worked as an unpaid field surgeon near the Union front lines, including the [[Battle of Fredericksburg...
12: ...], [[1864]], she was captured by [[Confederate]] troops and arrested as a spy (there appears to be som...
14: Sections from the citation accompanying the medal read: - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...mbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europe.
3: ... woven in strips. In the real estate and home improvement industries a distinction is made between ca...
10: ...lain weave]], and [[tapestry weave]]. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[...
12: ... pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as burlap. ...
14: ...s alternate with a supplementary weft that rises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular angl... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: ...axhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] of [[North Carolina]]
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
16: | vicepresident= [[John C. Calhoun]] (1829-1832) [[Martin Van Buren]] (1833-1837)
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... - 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... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hillsborough]], [[New Hampshire]]
18: ...14th [[President of the United States]], serving from [[1853]] to [[1857]]. Pierce was a [[United Stat...
20: ...[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
22: Kunhardt wrote in ''The American President'' what many histori...
25: ...ce had six older and two younger siblings, four brothers and three sisters. - 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: ... 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... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ..., and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is bordered by [[Spain]] to the north...
5: ...ural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial pow...
7: ...]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow...
13: ...'''[[Lusitanian|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitania|Roman Lusitania]]'''''
15: - 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... - Maine (17312 bytes)
36: ...after the [[France|French]] province of [[Maine (province of France)|Maine]]. Another possibility for ...
38: ... capital was [[Portland, Maine|Portland]] until [[1832]], when it was moved to the more geographically c...
43: ... 1936|1936 presidential election]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] received the Electoral Votes of every st...
47: ...nnebunkport]], and in [[1996]], Maine was again Perot's best state.
53: Famous politicians from Maine include [[James Blaine]], [[Edmund Muskie]... - 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. - 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]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...he [[19th century]]. Sumerian is distinguished from other languages of the area such as [[Hebrew lan...
16: ...e Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets from [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]-speaking [[Nineve...
18: Ernest de Sarzec (1832-1901) began excavating the Sumerian site of Tello...
26: ...a Paris-based orientalist, Joseph Halevy, argued from 1874 onward that Sumerian was a secret code, and...
28: ...n, in 1984, appeared The Sumerian Language, An Introduction to its History and Grammatical Structure, ... - 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
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