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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
66: ... to the [[Indies]]; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]]
67: ...Pacific]], discovering or mapping many lands and islands - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
22: ...ufacturing. People earned a lot of money form the slave trade, so there was capital for the industrial...
55: ...castings for a lathe bed, where components had to slide together, the production of flat surfaces by m...
57: ...ine manufacturers. The [[planing machine]], the [[slotting machine]] and the [[shaping machine]] were ...
59: ...degree of [[interchangeability]]. The lessons Maudslay learned about the need for stability and precis...
61: Maudslay made his name for his lathes and precision meas... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
16: ... Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
44: *[[Abd-ar-rahman I]], (died 788), Muslim Spain ruler
47: *[[Abd-ar-rahman IV]], (circa 1017), Muslim Spain ruler
48: *[[Abd-ar-rahman V]], (1023-1024), Muslim Spain ruler - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
48: ...ich Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm Heinrich]] (1789-1848) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
59: *[[John Quincy Adams|Adams, John Quincy]], (1767-1848), sixth President of the United States
90: *[[George Ade|Ade, George]] (1866-1944), ''[[The Slim Princess]]'' - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
9: ...Denis Auguste Affre|Affre, Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[Paris]] - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
20: ...n Wettin''). Queen Victoria's papers record her dislike of the name. Though rarely publicly used, Wet...
27: ... of 1837]]), and in [[Jamaica]], the colonial legislature had protested British policies by refusing t...
41: ...ade her first journey by train, travelling from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) t...
46: ...]'s [[coup d'鴡t|coup]] in France without previously consulting the Prime Minister.
51: ...ntury's prime tourist locations. Her love of the island was matched by an initial Irish warmth for the... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
5: ...ecame known for her persuasive speeches against [[slavery]]. Prior to her own involvement, many Quaker...
7: ...ious objectors" to any wars, and later their anti-slavery efforts. [[Conscientious Objector]] status ...
9: ...s. In the [[1830s]] she helped establish two anti-slavery groups.
11: ...vention]]" in [[Seneca Falls]], [[New York]] in [[1848]]. While [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] and [[Susan ...
13: ...es. She became more widely known after this. When slavery was outlawed in [[1865]], she began to advoc... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
4: ...[[Lucretia Mott]], the primary organizer of the [[1848 Women's Rights Convention]] in Seneca Falls, New ...
6: ...ing in [[1881]], Stanton, Anthony and [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]] published the first of three volumes of ...
12: ...d University]] Library, and in editions of the newsletter ''The Revolution.'' Stanton suggested that s...
14: ...ovements. Henry Stanton was a journalist, an antislavery orator, and, after their marriage, became an... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
5: She was born in Ekaterinoslav (now [[Dnipropetrovsk]]), [[Ukraine]] (then par...
7: ...told to a later biographer, she spent the years [[1848]] to [[1858]] traveling the world, claiming to ha...
15: ... the divine knowledge had corrupted it in the translation. Her claim that esoteric spiritual knowledg... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...f State]] [[Madeleine Albright]], born in [[Czechoslovakia]]; and [[Michigan]] [[List of Governors of ...
16: ...should he have succeeded to the Presidency previously and served less than two years completing his pr...
19: ...ally elected officials in the United States. (Legislators are elected on a state-by-state basis; other...
35: ...l. In addition, the president has important [[legislative]] and [[judicial]] powers.
328: ...n 1824, the electors were chosen by the state legislature, with no popular vote. - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
12: | date of death=[[February 23]], [[1848]]
18: ...([[July 11]], [[1767]] – [[February 23]], [[1848]]) was the sixth ([[1825]]-[[1829]]) [[President ...
32: ...on]] remained the only American president unanimously chosen by the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral...
80: ...nish ship where they were being held as illegal [[slave]]s, should not be returned to [[Spain]], but r...
84: ...f a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] on [[February 23]], [[1848]] in the [[United States Capitol|Capitol Building... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
35: ...ution opposing the admission of [[Missouri]] as a slave state. In the same year he was chosen a presid...
43: ...uctions from the New York [[State legislature|legislature]] — an action which was cited against ...
55: ...District of Columbia]] without the consent of the slave states.
59: ... He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank, at the same time voting, perha...
63: ...in that year. Nevertheless, Van Buren was unanimously renominated by the Democrats in [[1840]]. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
27: ...ate to [[William Henry Harrison]]. Their campaign slogans of "Log Cabins and Hard Cider" and "Tippecan...
47: *John Alexander Tyler ([[April 7]], [[1848]] - [[September 1]], [[1883]]).
58: ... the entire Whig agenda, twice vetoing Clay's legislation for a national banking act following the [[P...
63: ...f a new state constitution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opini...
65: ...ually by all the original States, of which Rhode-Island was one."</blockquote> - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
26: ...date from [[New York]] would complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.
29: ...South. In his own words: "God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must ...
39: ...iolent arguments for and against the extension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the ma...
43: ... land gained by the Mexican War must be closed to slavery.
45: ...ompromise movement. Breaking up Clay's single legislative package, Douglas presented five separate bil... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: ...tion]] in [[March]] of [[1861]], seven Southern [[slave state]]s [[secession|seceded]][[Confederate St...
46: ... evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in hi...
48: ...wever, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the United States with the enactment of...
53: ..., Louisiana|New Orleans]] he may have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on h...
61: ...]]. In [[1837]] he made his first protest against slavery in the [[Illinois House of Representatives|I... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
32: ....S. Congressman]], Thomas L. Hamer. Hamer erroneously nominated him as Ulysses Simpson Grant, and alth...
34: ...t]] ([[1826]]–[[1902]]) on [[August 22]], [[1848]]. They had four children: [[Frederick Dent Grant...
54: ...rs had done following their setbacks. Finally, he slipped his troops across the [[James River (Virgini...
158: ...the matter. He decided that Japan's claim to the islands was stronger and ruled in Japan's favor.
162: ..." Perhaps Grant should have taken that name seriously; as with the other Young Napoleon, [[George B. M... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
5: ...er and editor of the ''Boston Republican'' from [[1848]] to [[1851]]. - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
29: ...[Union College]], [[Schenectady, New York]], in [[1848]]. He became principal of an academy in North Po... - Canada (35540 bytes)
52: ... Edward Island]]||[[Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island|Charlottetown]]
92: ...-1791)|Province of Quebec]], and [[Prince Edward Island]] (created 1769). To accommodate the Loyalists...
96: ...es of [[British Columbia]] in 1848 and Vancouver Island in 1849. By the late-1850s, politicians in the...
111: ...ion (CFS) Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island – latitude 82.5°N – just 834 k...
117: ...rld's largest tidal variations. [[Prince Edward Island]] is Canada's smallest province.
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