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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...oduction machines for manufacturing in other industries.
3: ...ine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power generation]].
7: The term industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste...
10: ...h the accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accum...
12: ...hich often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
17: ...badie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
68: *[[Niels Henrik Abel|Abel, Niels Henrik]], (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ''This page is about Maria Theresa of Austria (often only known as Empress Maria Theresa), ru...
3: ..., Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]]
4: ...owerful women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
6: ...ued, on Charles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...ng to adulthood. She made him co-regent of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the p... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...ted States|State]] legislature to create [[psychiatric hospital|asylums]] for the [[insane]]. Unfortun...
4: Dix was neither a [[physician]] nor a psychiatrist, beginning her career as a reformer before the...
12: ...rk Retreat]]. She made an intensive study of this treatment which emphasized the healing power of a fa...
14: ...eat the insane according to the precepts of moral treatment.
16: ...the first water" to contribute $30,000 to the construction of a new hospital for the insane. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ... in [[1962]], saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge...
25: ... of Independence]], and a source of many other contributions to American political and civil culture. ...
32: ...n Virginia, to say nothing of the rest of the country.
35: ... agricultural nation of [[yeoman]] farmers, in contrast to the vision of [[Alexander Hamilton]], who e...
41: Jefferson's portrait appears on the U.S. [[United States Two dollar... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: John Quincy Adams was born in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]], (in a part of town which is n...
26: ...lected to the [[Massachusetts]] State Senate in [[1802]], and was an unsuccessful candidate for election...
28: ...a member of the commission which negotiated the [[Treaty of Ghent]] in [[1814]], and Minister to [[Uni...
30: ...-On�Treaty]] and helped develop the [[Monroe Doctrine]], which warned European nations not to meddle... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: ...r" colspan=2>[[Image:Martin Van Buren.jpg]]</td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>8th President</td></tr>
6: ...h 4]], [[1837]]–[[March 4]], [[1841]]</td></tr>
7: ...>'''Followed:'''</td><td>[[Andrew Jackson]]</td></tr> - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...ent of the United States]], serving in the administration of [[Martin Van Buren]].
5: ...ia University]]. He was admitted to the bar in [[1802]], and was a member of the state House of Represe...
23: ...ucky|before=[[Thomas Sandford]]|after=At-Large districts|years=1807-1813}}
24: ...re=Single Member Districts|after=Single Member Districts|years=1813-1815}}
25: ...r the 3rd District of Kentucky|before=At-Large Districts|after=[[William Brown]]|years=1815-1819}} - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ''Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall o...
64: *[[Trisha Yearwood|Yearwood, Trisha]] (born 1964), musician
68: ...egorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...sei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut
74: *[[Philip Yeo|Yeo, Philip]], industrial and systems engineer - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...tar" + ''-eidos'' "form, shape"), was coined in [[1802]] by Sir [[William Herschel]] shortly after [[Hei...
6: ... term "minor planet" (or "planetoid") carries no strong suggestion about the composition of the object...
8: ...rvive passage through [[Earth's atmosphere]] and strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoro...
21: ... and on the details of the [[visible spectrum|spectrum]] of sunlight they reflect.
24: ...ilies are much "tighter" and result from the catastrophic break-up of a large parent asteroid sometime... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...y of Earth's observed weather is located in the [[troposphere]].
5: ...[[atmospheric dynamics]], and [[atmospheric chemistry]] are sub-disciplines of the [[atmospheric scien...
12: ...this list of the most important meteorological instruments in [[1780]] with the hair [[hygrometer]], w...
16: ...[[Trade Wind]]s, which gave rise to calling the [[tropical]] cell of [[zonal mean]] atmospheric circul...
18: ...ntroduced their systems for classifying clouds ([[1802]]) and wind speeds ([[1806]]), respectively. The ... - History of biology (3053 bytes)
3: ... by [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] (''Hydrog鯬ogie'', 1802). The word itself appears in the title of Volume ...
5: ...re, especially the [[habit]]s and [[Abstraction|attributes]] of [[plant]]s and [[animal]]s in the worl...
7: ...the area of [[genetics]] developed, when the [[Austria]]n [[monk]] [[Gregor Mendel]] formulated his [[...
11: ...tson]] and [[Francis Crick]] clarified the basic structure of [[DNA]], the [[genetic material]] for ex...
13: After the success of the discovery of the structure of DNA, Crick turned to the problem of [[co... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
173: *[[Richard Parkes Bonington]] ([[1802]]-[[1828]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]]) - Cloud (9947 bytes)
22: ...[[stratiform cloud]]s and small cumulus clouds in tropical regions. It typically produces smaller rain...
24: The actual form of cloud created depends on the strength of the uplift and on air stability. In unsta...
28: ... This system was proposed by [[Luke Howard]] in [[1802]] in a presentation to the [[Askesian Society]].
32: ...al]]s. The clouds tend to be wispy, and are often transparent.
38: * [[Cirrostratus]] - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ... the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's empire ...
5: ...aterloo]] and the [[Treaty of Paris (1815)|Second Treaty of Paris]]. Collectively, the nearly continuo...
8: [[Image:Napoleon1.jpg|left|frame|Portrait of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]]]]
12: ...roughout the world, and the United Kingdom's industrial economy made it the most powerful commercial n...
13: ...es have remained: for instance, many European countries have a [[Civil law (legal system)|Civil law]] ... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
2: ... [[List of terms relating to algorithms and data structures]]
8: [[1.TR.6]] --
133: [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] --
137: [[Binary symmetric channel]] --
138: [[Binary Synchronous Transmission]] -- - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ton]] and his trial and acquittal on charges of [[treason]].
13: ...urr under his wing, and by his vigilance in the retreat from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brig...
14: ...s from both armies. Burr established a thorough patrol system, rigorously enforced [[martial law]], an...
26: ... nomination. Nevertheless, Hamilton masked his hatred of Burr for a decade, remaining outwardly frien...
28: ...p. Washington also passed Burr over for the ministry to [[France]], and turned down his application f... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
1: {{trainstopics}}
2: ... countries see [[History of rail transport by country]].
6: ...y remained the only practical overland mechanized transport for well over 100 years.
9: ...borough]], [[Leicestershire]] (in [[1789]]). In [[1802]], Jessop opened the [[Surrey Iron Railway]] in s...
11: ...was not used for locomotive power until [[Richard Trevithick]] developed the high pressure steam engin...
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