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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: ...val from command in the West on [[November 2]], [[1861]]. He was re-appointed to a different post (in [[...
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... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...twerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...2]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozhars...
11: * [[1861]] - The [[University of Washington]] opens in [[S...
12: ...ard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican... - Eleonora di Arborea (2091 bytes)
5: ...sa'' (ruler or judge) and the island's greatest heroine.
9: ...agonese king James II had a century earlier been promised its lordship by the Pope. Arborea obtained a...
11: ...n Sardinia until [[Italy|Italian]] unification in 1861.
13: ... friend of birds, she was the first to legislate protection to a certain species of bird (Greifvogel).... - 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. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ... years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]...
6: ...adelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and t...
8: ...ntings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
10: ...d, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]].
14: ...t window and absorb all I could of his art," she wrote to a friend. "It changed my life. I saw art the... - 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: - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...ra Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...est remembered for organizing the [[American Red Cross]].
6: ... and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers and sisters were kept busy answering her man...
8: ...ring little girl, but at the age of 11, when her brother became ill, for 2 years Clara stayed by his s...
12: ... taught in a small Massachusetts town, where her brother owned a factory. After she was invited to tea... - 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 == - 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: - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...'' ('''Helen Louise Leonard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an [[United States o...
5: ...r left for [[New York]] where Helen was offered a role in the [[chorus]] of [[Gilbert and Sullivan|Gil...
11: ...f operettas in the U.S. Among her most well-known roles were in Gilbert and Sullivan's ''[[Patience]]'... - 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... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...blic]]an [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
26: ...nia. He visited [[Barbados]], with his sick half-brother Lawrence in [[1751]], and survived an attack ...
31: ...eventually became the [[Seven Years' War]] in [[Europe]].
33: ...tion]], which successfully drove the French away from [[Fort Duquesne]].
37: ...n. In that year, he was chosen as a [[delegate]] from Virginia to the First [[Continental Congress]] a... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[James Monroe]]
21: ...Thomas Jefferson]]. In this capacity he became a prominent figure in [[Virginia]] state politics, help...
23: ...ted in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state representation depending ...
25: ...the political thought of [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu]].
27: Madison wrote thirty of the eighty-five essays that comprise ... - 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: ... President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, and died the...
16: ...d States Senators from Pennsylvania|U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania]]|before=[[Isaac D. Barnard]]|after... - 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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14: | [[March 4]], [[1857]]–[[March 4]], [[1861]]
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 ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
31: | '''Profession:''' || [[Lawyer]]
38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]])
42: ... of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican ... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
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24: Grant won many important battles, rose to become general-in-chief of all [[Union army|...
26: ...e is instead mostly criticized for not taking a strong stance against the corruption, and not acting t...
30: ... village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]], where Grant spent most of his t...
32: ...ing that the "S" stood for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class ...
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