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- 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. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
9: ...a|Victorian Era]] was at the height of the [[Industrial Revolution]], a period of great social, econom...
12: ...e king. At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn married [[Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld...
16: ... that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, would act as Regent during the queen's mi...
18: ... Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage.
27: ...able to cope with the problems overseas, the ministry of Lord Melbourne resigned. - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...hematics]] at age thirteen, despite her parents' strong attempts to dissuade her from engaging in a 'm...
9: ...meticae]]'' ([[1801]]). He eventually learned her true identity in [[1806]], when [[Napoleon Bonaparte...
12: ...o flattering and less equivocal manner that the attractions of this science, which has enriched my lif...
15: ...r, in [[1808]] Gauss was appointed professor of astronomy at the [[University of Gottingen|University ...
19: ...etter to Gauss, became quite significant as it restricted the possible solutions of [[Fermat's last th... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
18: ...d States]]. He is the namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United States Secreta...
24: ...to [[France]] in [[1794]]-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with [...
30: Monroe made strong Cabinet choices, naming a Southerner, [[John C...
34: ...s. The [[Missouri Compromise]] bill resolved the struggle, pairing Missouri as a slave state with [[Ma... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...'''" or the "'''Jacksonian Era'''" — an era traditionally seen as dominating the years between t...
22: ... This [[anglophobia]] would be combined with a distrust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming fr...
26: ... its bravery and success. He was popular with his troops and was said to have been "tough as old hicko...
38: ...bered for introducing the [[spoils system]], or patronage, to American politics. Upon his election as ...
43: ...ems caused by the War of 1812. Both Banks were instrumental in the growth of the U.S. economy, but Jac... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: ...resdent.jpg|200px|Presidential Seal]]</div></td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>10th President</td></tr>
6: ...April 4]], [[1841]] - [[March 4]], [[1845]]</td></tr>
7: ...owed:'''</td><td>[[William Henry Harrison]]</td></tr> - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ... been criticized for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[Ame...
53: ... of the [[United States District Court for the District of Missouri]]. Buchanan served as Minister to...
59: ... during which he negotiated the [[1846]] [[Oregon Treaty]] establishing the 49th parallel as the north...
66: ... it. The Court was considering the legality of restricting slavery in the territories, and two justice...
72: ...ated Southerners. Buchanan, meanwhile, was by now tremendously unpopular in the North. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: ...he [[Confederate States of America]], and took control of U.S. forts and other properties within their...
48: ...akness after Reconstruction and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the [[New Deal]...
50: ...though is criticized by some for overstepping the traditional bounds of executive power.
53: ...site the following year, the 22-year-old Lincoln struck out on his own, [[canoe]]ing down the Sangamon...
59: ...Sangamon in the hopes of attracting [[steamboat]] traffic to the river, which would allow sparsely pop... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
42: Johnson presided over the [[Reconstruction]] of the United States following the [[Amer...
48: ...in [[Greeneville, Tennessee]] from [[1828]] to [[1830]] and mayor of Greeneville from [[1834]] to [[183...
51: ... He was chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Thirty-sixth Congress)....
56: ...'s Weekly'' illustration of Johnson's impeachment trial in the [[United States Senate]].]]
74: ...States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]]||align="left"|'''[[Hugh McCulloch]]'''||a... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
3: | image name=chester a arthur illustration.3.jpg
18: ... the United States|Vice President]] in the administration of [[James Garfield]]. Garfield was shot by...
20: ...rthur pronounced his middle name, Alan, with the stress on the ''second'' syllable -- "Al-AN."
27: ...o his eligibility for American public office. The truth, however, was simply that Arthur was born near...
29: ...or blacks who objected to the segregation of city transportation. He also took an active part in the ... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...e]] and study of the [[Earth]], its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the proc...
5: [[Astrogeology]] refers to the application of geologic p...
7: ... used by Jean-Andreluc in the year [[1778]] and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bedict de Saussur...
10: ...ssil]] [[animal shell|shell]]s in a geological [[stratum]] in a mountain hundreds of miles from the oc...
12: ...until after the [[Scientific Revolution]]. It was translated into [[Latin]] and the other languages of... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ck Hills]] of [[Western Australia]] – and astronomers' and planetologists' estimates of the age ...
4: ... calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began on...
6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretched far into the past before the arrival of hum...
9: ...ury]], a few [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scien...
11: ...-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon|Comte du Buffon]] tried to obtain a value for the age of the Earth usi... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...ge|Arabic]] word ''al-jazā’ir'', which translates as ''the islands'', referring to the four...
15: ..."center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]] (translation): The Revolution by the people and for t...
21: ...age|French unofficial but commonly used in administration]]
31: ...rea|Ranked 11th]] <br /> 2,381,740 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> Negligible
35: ...- [[Population density|Density]]:|| [[List of countries by population|Ranked 34th]]<br>32,818,500 <sma... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...e south, and [[Germany]] to the east. In many countries, the Netherlands is often referred to by the n...
6: {{Infobox_Country|
20: leader_names = [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Beatrix]] <br> [[Jan Peter Balkenende]] |
43: time_zone= [[Central European Time|CET]] |
45: time_zone_DST= [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | - Belgium (31774 bytes)
1: ... language|German]]: ''K?reich Belgien'') is a country in [[Western Europe]], bordered by the [[Netherl...
13: ...it macht stark<br>([[English language|English]]: Strength lies in unity'')</small>
28: |[[List of countries by area|Ranked 136th]] <br>[[1 E10 m2|30,510 k...
31: |[[List of countries by population|Ranked 77th]] <br>10,309,725<br>...
34: |[[1830]] - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
26: |[[List of countries by area|Ranked 167th]]<br>[[1 E9 m2|2,586 km?]...
29: |[[List of countries by population|Ranked 162nd]] <br>442,972<br>17...
35: ...PPP) per capita|1st]])<br> $77,595 ([[List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita|1st]])
40: ...]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] ([[Coordinated Univ...
46: | '''[[List_of_country_calling_codes|Calling Code]]''' || +352 - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
36: ...gland and one of the wealthiest states in the country. Connecticut was one of the [[13 colonies|thirte...
43: ...ird for Connecticut, was adopted in [[1965]]. The traditional abbreviation of the state's name is "Con...
56: ...rners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the coastal highways fro...
65: ...sidents go for years or even decades without ever traveling to other regions of the state, considering...
77: ===Transportation=== - 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]] - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
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...
28: ===Spectral classification=== - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
145: *[[Albert Bierstadt]] ([[1830]]-[[1902]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
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