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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 - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...major party to run on a platform of opposition to slavery. He was born in [[Savannah, Georgia]].
7: ...e, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
18: *Miles Harvey, ''The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Cri...
22: ...ncoln]]| years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] (lost)}} - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
12: In the period [[1852]]–[[1856|56]], he explored the interior, discovering [[Vic...
22: ...e source, but the matter was still debated vigorously. Finding the [[Lualaba River]], which feeds the ... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...ich are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of carb...
21: ...on of cementite, allowing martensite to form with slower quench rates, resulting in ''high speed steel...
38: ... repeatedly beaten and folded to force the molten slag out of it. The result of this time-consuming a...
46: ...The artifacts recovered from this grave are variously made of wrought iron, cast iron, malleabilized c...
68: ...urnace. This practice improved the separation of slag from the cast iron and improved the quality of ... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
12: ...ward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...olphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
90: *[[George Ade|Ade, George]] (1866-1944), ''[[The Slim Princess]]'' - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
7: ...e agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]].
19: In collaboration with Stanton, Mrs. [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]], and Mrs. [[Ida Husted Harper]], she pub...
23: ...scious, both of her looks (one eye always pointed slightly outwards) and of her speaking abilities. Sh... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
9: ...erpretation of her husband's works, but when in [[1856]] she first visited [[England]] the critics recei... - Dye (6033 bytes)
9: ...d by [[William Perkin|William Henry Perkin]] in [[1856]]. Many thousands of dyes have since been prepare...
15: ...e]]ing''' is normally carried out in a neutral or slightly [[alkaline]] dyebath, at or near [[boiling ...
38: ...and the use thereof is strictly controlled by legislation. Many are azoic dyes, although [[anthraquino... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...trument]] invented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to compete with the [[saxophone]] as a replacemen... - Nile (13738 bytes)
50: Speke was part of a 1856-1858 expedition led by [[Richard Francis Burton]]...
54: ...sections of faster flowing water with many small islands, shallow water, and rocks, forming an obstacl...
62: ...science during Pharonic times. The Nile mysteriously and predictably rose each summer to flood and fe...
66: Ledyard, in his ''Travels'', speaks contemptuously of this celebrated wonder:—"This is the mi...
87: ...//www.ianandwendy.com/OtherTrips/Egypt/NileCruise/slideshow2.htm Photo Gallery from a cruise between L... - 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 Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ... their representatives; in August 1765 he anonymously contributed four notable articles to the [[Bosto...
33: ...diers; but two soldiers were found guilty of [[manslaughter]]. These claimed benefit of [[clergy]] and...
48: ... had been authorized to execute the duties previously assigned to Laurens, and secured the recognition...
67: ...f John Adams, with Life'' (10 vols., Boston, 1850-1856) - 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 ...
49: ...e appointment of [[Samuel Swartwout]] ([[1783]]-[[1856]]), who was later a defaulter to a large amount a...
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... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
27: ...ate to [[William Henry Harrison]]. Their campaign slogans of "Log Cabins and Hard Cider" and "Tippecan...
51: *Robert Fitzwalter Tyler ([[March 12]], [[1856]] - [[December 31]], [[1927]]).
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> - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
9: ...Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, ...
11: ...f [[U.S. Senator]] [[Claiborne Pell]] of [[Rhode Island]]. He is also the uncle of [[Alexander Dallas...
21: ... Buchanan]]|after=[[Charles Francis Adams]]|years=1856-1861}} - 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... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ...his running mate [[William R. King]] won in a landslide, beating [[Winfield Scott]] by a 50 to 44 perc...
20: ...minated at the [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856 presidential election]], and was replaced by [[Ja...
45: ...dopted, opposing any further "agitation" over the slavery issue and supporting the [[Compromise of 185...
47: ...m as a [[war hero]]. Pierce was nominated unanimously on the 49th ballot on [[June 5]]. Senator [[Will...
49: ...itions, helped him prevail over Scott, whose anti-slavery views hurt him in the South. Scott's advanta... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ...zed for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American Civil W...
53: ... was graduated from [[Dickinson College]], [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]]. In [[1809]] he moved to [[Lanc...
61: ...ster to the [[United Kingdom]] from [[1853]] to [[1856]], during which time he help to draft the [[Osten...
64: ...ited States in [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1857]], to [[Mar...
66: ...Court was considering the legality of restricting slavery in the territories, and two justices hinted ... - 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...
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