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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. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
17: ...badie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
32: *[[William Abbot|Abbot, William]], (1798-1843), British actor
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...ba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
4: ...iarch Acacius|Acacius, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
14: ...illas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
34: ...rich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
62: *[[Loren Acton|Acton, Loren]], (born 1936), US astronaut - 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. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
3: ...lign=right><tr><td>[[Image:NancyAstor.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ... Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], bec...
8: ... re-elected many times, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the first woman me...
10: ...and her husband had protested to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime M...
12: ...tic song to the tune of the haunting [[Marlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The ... - 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: ...s in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Union'' (1843). - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
1: [[Image:Sojourner_Truth_01.jpg|thumb|Sojurner Truth]]
3: ...]–[[1883]]) was the self-given name, from [[1843]], of an [[United States|American]] [[abolitionis...
5: ...g [[Elijah Pierson]] in evangelical preaching on street-corners.
7: [[image:Sojourner_Truth.jpg|thumb|left|Sojurner Truth]]
10: ...ography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave''. - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
13: ... scientific author of the [[19th century]], who introduced her in turn to [[Charles Babbage]] on [[Jun...
15: ...he programs in the notes appended to the Menebrea translation. Her prose acknowledged some possibilit...
17: ...ady Anne Blunt]], is famous in her own right as a traveller in the [[Middle East]] and a breeder of [[...
21: ==Controversy over attribution==
23: Biographers have noted that Lovelace struggled with mathematics, and there is some debate ... - 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. - 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...
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...
55: ...States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]]||align="left"|'''[[Richard Rush]]'''||ali... - 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> - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: ...[[Image:Millard Fillmore.jpg|250px|]]</div></td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>13th President</td></tr>
6: ...[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
7: ...>'''Followed:'''</td><td>[[Zachary Taylor]]</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...
38: ...in [[Concord, New Hampshire|Concord]]. He was district attorney for New Hampshire, and declined the a... - 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...
57: ...er 6]], [[1834]]; was reelected in [[1837]] and [[1843]], and resigned on [[March 5]], [[1845]], to acc...
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... - 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: ...to the four succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1843]] to [[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of ...
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... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: <tr><td style="background:#efefef;" align="center" co...
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>18th President</td></tr>
6: ...4]], [[1869]] – [[March 3]], [[1877]]</td></tr>
7: ...>'''Followed:'''</td><td>[[Andrew Johnson]]</td></tr> - Printing press (12986 bytes)
4: ...xts such as the "Pauper's Bibles" emphasized illustrations and used words sparsely. As a new block had...
6: ...ina until the European style printing press was introduced in relatively recent times (thus bringing t...
8: ...nvention of the press. The claim that Gutenberg introduced or invented the printing press in Europe is...
14: ...lamic world, where calligraphic traditions were extremely important, and also in the Far East.
16: ...d expansion shows not only a higher level of industry (fueled by the high-quality European paper mills... - 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 - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
1: ...anish]] [[colony]] of [[Spanish Guinea]], the country's territory (continentally known as [[R�Muni]]...
33: ... area|Ranked 141st]] <br /> 28,051 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br /> Negligible
38: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 159th]]
45: | [[List of countries by GDP|Ranked 182nd]]
64: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
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