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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]] - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...lly acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also ...
7: ... first pair of [[United States Senate|Senator]]s from [[California]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican P...
9: ...[Abraham Lincoln]] and led to Frémont's removal from command in the West on [[November 2]], [[1861]]....
11: ...ointed [[Governor]] of the [[Arizona Territory]] from [[1878]] to [[1881]]. He died of [[peritonitis]]...
21: ...|before=''(none)''|after=[[John B. Weller]]|years=1850 – 1851}} - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...air, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
37: ...s, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
41: ... General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - 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. - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...acy. She was a [[Quaker]], a [[women's rights]] proponent, and an [[abolitionist]].
7: ...g. They had a rich history and singular respect from the majority of American people of those times, ...
9: ... [[1830s]] she helped establish two anti-slavery groups.
13: In [[1850]] Mott wrote ''Discourse on Woman'', a book about restrictio...
19: ...edu/slavery_mott1.html Lucretia Mott's biography from the Smithsonian] - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...[1797]]–[[1883]]) was the self-given name, from [[1843]], of an [[United States|American]] [[abo...
8: ...51]] at the Women's Convention in [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[Ohio]].
10: ...r, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern...
13: ...o [[Washington, D.C.]], after the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] was issued to work with former slaves....
19: ...he [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" after Sojourner Truth. - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: '''Emma Abbott''' ([[December 9]], [[1850]] – [[January 5]], [[1891]]), [[United Stat... - 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: ...ntributing to the ''[[Westminster Review]]'' in [[1850]] and became its assistant editor in [[1851]]. T...
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: - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...ity]], the third woman in [[Europe]] to become a professor.
5: ...tersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more...
7: ...eorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [...
9: ...ed on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her.
11: ...calculus in the army, and when they ran short of proper wallpaper for one house, used his old notes in... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
5: or [[bronze]] [[Reed (music)|reed]]s, each secured at one ...
7: interrupting an airstream to produce [[sound]].
14: is made to vibrate more easily by air from above, reeds accessed by a
16: ...harmonicas (known as [[#The chromatic harmonica|chromatic harmonicas]]) also include a spring-loaded b...
17: ...rects air blown or drawn through a single hole, from one reed to an adjacent reed, usually a [[semi-t... - 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... - 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... - 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: ...ican-American woman. He served as vice President from March 4, 1837, to March 3, [[1841]].
11: ...a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, but he died in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]] soon afte... - 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...
39: ...beth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]], [[1850]])
51: *Robert Fitzwalter Tyler ([[March 12]], [[1856]] - [[... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
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6: ...r><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
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." - 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. - 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... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...States House of Representatives|Representative]] from [[Indiana]] and the 17th [[Vice President of the...
6: ...ember of the state constitutional convention in [[1850]] and an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election...
13: ...=[[Galusha A. Grow]] | after=[[Theodore Medad Pomeroy]] | years=[[December 7]], [[1863]] – [[Mar... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
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33: ! [[Profession]]:
44: ...States House of Representatives|Representative]] from [[New York]] and the nineteenth [[Vice President...
46: ...]] and [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate from [[1858]] to [[1860]]. He was elected as a [[Uni...
48: ...7]] and served until March [[1881]]. He retired from public life and active business pursuits because...
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