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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...ate !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
57: ...[[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
81: | [[1828]] — [[1832]], [[1889]] — [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909...
124: | [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]
215: * http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/cap01.htm - 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
62: *[[Louis Abeille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
1: [[Image:Flora_Tristan.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Flora Tristan, grandmother of Paul Gauguin]]
3: ...賥-Henriette Tristan-Moscoso. Her father, Marino Tristᮠy Moscoso, was an [[Arequipa|Arequipa-born]]...
5: ... about her experiences in [[Peru]] during the countries' tumultuous post-independence period. The diar...
7: ...ra Tristan and her grandson [[Paul Gauguin]]'s contrasting quests for the ideal life through their exp...
9: Flora Tristan herself authored several works, the best kno... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
8: ...began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
19: ...chological insight and sophisticated character portraits.
21: ...as sharp in pointing out the hypocrisy of the country squires and socially conscious. ''[[Felix Holt,...
23: ... style and clarity of thought. Eliot's sentence structures are clear, patient, and well balanced, and...
42: * ''[[Stradivarius (novel)|Stradivarius]]'' (1874) - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: Dr. '''Mary Edwards Walker''' ([[November]], [[1832]] – [[February 21]], [[1919]]) was a versat...
8: ...ot flourish, as female doctors were generally not trusted or respected at that time.
10: .... Finally, she was awarded a commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian)" by the Ar...
12: ...]], [[1864]], she was captured by [[Confederate]] troops and arrested as a spy (there appears to be so...
16: ...four months in Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon.'' - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...ry were significant numbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europe.
3: ...ps. In the real estate and home improvement industries a distinction is made between carpet (or carpe...
10: ...th]], and [[ingrain]] (aka double cloth, two-ply, triple cloth, or three-ply).
12: ...g''' is a simple type of rug handmade by pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the me...
14: ...supplementary weft cut-loop pile''' carpet), the structural weft threads alternate with a supplementar... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
16: | vicepresident= [[John C. Calhoun]] (1829-1832) [[Martin Van Buren]] (1833-1837)
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 ... - 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> - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
20: ... [[Jane Means Appleton Pierce]] fell apart. He destroyed his reputation by declaring support for the [...
22: ... with her aristocratic, nervous ways and show her true affection. He was one of the most popular men i...
25: ...|Hillsborough]], [[New Hampshire]], part of the [[Transcendental Generation]]. The site of his birth i...
27: ...cademy in spring [[1820]]. Later that year he was transferred to [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] to prepar...
34: ...], and as [[Speaker of the House|Speaker]] from [[1832]] to [[1833]]. Pierce was elected as a Democrat t... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ... been criticized for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[Ame...
53: ... Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
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... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...uthwestern [[Europe]], and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is bordered by [...
5: ...l, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other c...
7: ...ctatorial regime in [[1974]] and the subsequent entry in the [[EEC]] (today's [[European Union]]) in [...
15:
17: ... decades, the Romans increased their sphere of control. But in [[194 BC]] a rebellion began in the nor... - 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 - Maine (17312 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Pine Tree State |
38: ..., when it was moved to the more geographically central city of [[Augusta, Maine|Augusta]].
45: ...ratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] in four straight elections, casting its votes for [[Bill Clin...
51: ...inner in each of the state's two congressional districts.
64: ...ich is the northern terminus of the [[Appalachian Trail]]. - Texas (39610 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]]<br />[...
44: * [[state tree]] — the [[pecan]]
52: ...th an area of [[1 E11 m?|690,000]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]], Texas forms the second-largest...
57: Texas lies in the south-central part of the United States of America. Depending...
70: ...a]] Tribes of Texas, the [[Kickapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
134: *[[Wilhelm Bendz]] ([[1804]]-[[1832]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
202: *[[Antoni Brodowski]] ([[1784]]-[[1832]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
16: ... of texts for cuneiformists, e.g., Father Johann Strassmaier who compiled an Alphabetisches Verzeichni...
18:
24:
28: ..., An Introduction to its History and Grammatical Structure, by Marie-Louise Thomsen.
30: ...he difficulty in translating Sumerian can be illustrated by a quote from Miguel Civil of the Universit... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
13: ...orge Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
24: ...rdeen]], (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
25: *[[Trevor Baylis]], (1937- ) — [[clockwork radio]...
37: ... Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
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