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- Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
3: ...Dumont-d'Urville.web.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''L'Astrolabe'' making water on a floe [[February 6]], [[...
4: ...e as an ancient masterpiece that had been carved around the year [[130 BC]]. He immediately arranged ...
6: ...[[Louis Isidore Duperrey|Captain Duperrey]], and brought home a very fine collection of animals and pl...
8: ...the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérouse|La Perouse]].
10: In [[1837]], on an expedition to the South Polar regions, h... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...arbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...asticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
7: ==Iron and steel==
8: ...free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting...
10: ...ap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]] - 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. - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
6: ...king 1-month old Ada with her. On [[April 21]], Byron signed the Deed of Separation and left England f...
11: ...lla ([[Lady Anne Blunt]]) born [[22 September]] [[1837]] and Ralph Gordon born [[2 July]] [[1839]]. The ...
13: ...scientific author of the [[19th century]], who introduced her in turn to [[Charles Babbage]] on [[June...
15: ...notes appended to the Menebrea translation. Her prose acknowledged some possibilities of the machine ...
21: ==Controversy over attribution== - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
1: [[Image:Florence Nightingale - Project Gutenberg 13103.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|A y...
7: ...led woman, Florence rebelled against the expected role for a woman of her status, which was to become ...
9: ... in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...m of the [[Poor Laws]], extending far beyond the provision of medical care.
15: == Rejection of marriage proposal == - 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... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
6: | date2=[[March 3]], [[1837]]
10: ...axhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] of [[North Carolina]]
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
16: ... 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... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
4: <tr><td style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2>[[Image:Mar...
6: ...><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March 4]], [[1841]]</td></tr>
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... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...ntative]] and a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Kentucky]] and the ninth [[Vice President of t...
5: ...s a member of the state House of Representatives from [[1804]]-[[1806]] and again in [[1819]]. He was...
7: ...hn J. Crittenden]], and was reelected and served from [[December 10]], [[1819]] to [[March 3]], [[1829...
9: ... woman. He served as vice President from March 4, 1837, to March 3, [[1841]].
13: ...the House of Representatives, and, in the case of Robert Ward, a Senator as well. - 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...
51: *Robert Fitzwalter Tyler ([[March 12]], [[1856]] - [[...
58: ... office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one exceptio... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...4]]) was a [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Pennsylvania]] and the eleventh [[Vice Preside...
5: ...e resignation of [[Isaac D. Barnard]] and served from [[December 13]], [[1831]] to [[March 3]], [[1833...
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...
16: ...d States Senators from Pennsylvania|U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania]]|before=[[Isaac D. Barnard]]|after... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
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20: ...ency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]].
26: ... complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.
29: ... evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution."
31: ...o public comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylor's d... - 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: ...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: ...State House of Representatives from [[1835]] to [[1837]] and [[1839]] to [[1841]]. He was elected to th... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
4: ...="center" colspan=2>[[Image:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
17: ...r><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[March 18]], [[1837]]</td></tr>
21: ...of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (...
22: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>Lawyer</td></tr> - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
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16: | align=center colspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationZimbabwe.png]]
22: | '''[[President of Zimbabwe|President]]''' || [[Robert Mugabe]]
44: === Iron Age === - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
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6: [http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=H...
9: ...Giza Necropolis]] on the outskirts of modern [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]].
15: ...d used as building material for much of early Cairo.
17: .... The sides of the pyramid rise at an angle of approximately 51?51′. - 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.
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