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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: ...e, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
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: ... Senators from California|United States Senators from California]]|before=''(none)''|after=[[John B. W... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
6: ... became attracted by the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter he later married, and ...
8: ... for a brief time at his insistence and over the protests of the Moffats – although she was preg...
12: ...ican continent. In particular, Livingstone was a proponent of trade and missions to be established in ...
14: ... a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
19: The other Westerners, including Livingstone's brother Charles (the one exception being [[George Rae... - 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.]] - 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
12: ...ward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
31: *[[Dorothea Ackermann|Ackermann, Dorothea]] (born 1752) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...air, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
17: ...olphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
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 - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
1: ... Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony, aged 28]]
2: ... Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony]]
3: '''Susan Brownell Anthony''', ([[February 15]], [[1820]] &ndas...
5: ... County, New York|Rochester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
7: ... temperance society in America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ... the leading [[pianist]]s of the [[Romantic music|Romantic era]] as well as a composer.
7: ...f Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven as well as those of Robert Schumann and Brahms.
9: ...in which she contributed greatly to the modern improvement in technique.
14: ...ano. Inspired by her husbands birthday, the three Romances were composed in 1853 and dedicated to Jose...
17: # Kamien, Roger. ''Music : An Appreciation''. Mcgraw-Hill Col... - Dye (6033 bytes)
1: ...s solution]], and may require a [[mordant]] to improve the fastness of the dye on the fibre. In contr...
3: ...es has been from the [[plant kingdom]], notably [[root]]s, [[berry|berries]], [[bark]], [[leaf|leaves]...
9: ...ied according to how they are used in the dyeing process.
11: ...ween anionic groups in the dyes and [[cationic]] groups in the fibre. Acid dyes are not substantive to...
17: ...ack and navy shades. The mordant, [[potassium dichromate]], is applied as an after-treatment. - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...trument]] invented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to compete with the [[saxophone]] as a replacemen...
3: ...similar to a saxophone, and it was made in sizes from sopranino to subcontrabass.
5: ... espagnol]]'' (1907) and [[Arrigo Boito]]'s ''[[Nerone]]'' (1924). These parts are nowadays often play... - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...tos'' (Αιγυπτος), which itself is the source of the nam...
12: ...artly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at the [[Atbara River]] in [[Su...
14: ...approximately 5584 km (3470 miles). It drains approximately 2.8 million to 3.4 million km² (1.1 ...
20: ... from equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile, from Ethiopia. Both branches formed on the western f...
24: ...the farthest headstream of the Nile is the [[Ruvyironza]] River in Burundi, which is an upper branch o... - 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... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
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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... - 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]] - [[December 31]], [[1927]]).
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: ...Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, ...
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...
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