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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. - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...1846]] he led exploration parties on the [[Oregon Trail]] and into the [[Sierra Nevada (US)|Sierra Nev...
7: ... the new [[California]] Territory following the [[Treaty of Cahuenga]] which ended the [[Mexican-Ameri...
18: *Miles Harvey, ''The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime''. New York : [[Ran... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...ntwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...der command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
12: ...bard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
16: ...ound|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]]. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: '''Annie Besant''' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [...
4: ...edom of thought]], [[women's rights]], [[birth control]], [[Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]...
5: ...to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writ...
9: ...sturbate]]. At the time such advice was highly controversial. He had to leave the Theosophical Society...
11: ...r activities on "The Aryavarta", as she called central [[India]]. Besant actively courted Hindu opini... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
3: '''Millicent Fawcett''' ([[June 11]], [[1847]] – [[August 5]], [[1929]]) was a British [...
5: ...paigner, concentrating much of her energy on the struggle to improve women's opportunities for higher ... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...ld city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Florence rebelled against the ex...
9: ... family in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
19: ...ey became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Nightingale's pioneering w...
23: ... of Kaiserwerth. She undertook the training over strenuous family objections concerning the risks and ...
25: ....gvc.edu/nsa/nightingale.html] in Upper [[Harley Street]], London, a position she held until October [... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: '''Jennie Kidd Trout''' ([[April 21]], [[1841]] – [[1921]]) w...
3: ...rio|Stratford]], [[Ontario]]. She married Edward Trout in [[1865]] and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]...
5: ... medicine at the [[University of Toronto]], later transferring to the [[Women's Medical College]] in [...
7: ...tments for women involving "galvanic baths or electricity." For six years, she also ran a free dispen...
9: ...]] in [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]]. Her family traveled extensively between Florida and Ontario, an... - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...'' ([[November 14]], [[1805]]–[[May 14]], [[1847]]), later '''Fanny Hensel''', was a [[Germany|Ger...
9: Her compositions include a [[piano trio]] and several books of solo [[piano]] pieces an...
11: ...ed in [[Berlin]] in 1847 of complications of a [[stroke]] suffered while rehearsing one of her brother... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
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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> - 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> - 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... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
1: ...on of [[neutral country|political and military neutrality]], but also of international co-operation, a...
3: ...d; for example, it is used as Switzerland's [[country code top-level domain|ccTLD]], [[.ch]].
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31: time_zone = [[Central European Time|CET]] |utc_offset=+1 |
32: time_zone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] |utc_offset_DST=+2 ... - Flag of Utah (450 bytes)
5: ...ss, as does the emblem of the beehive. The date [[1847]] represents the year [[Brigham Young]] led the f... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...ton, DC|was retroceded to Virginia]] effective [[1847]], and is now [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arling...
54: ... since [[Reconstruction era (United States)|Reconstruction]] when he was elected Governor of Virginia.
57: ...on]] and the cornerstone was laid by Governor [[Patrick Henry]] in [[1785]].
59: ...rtant and new. It gave Virginians a chance to control their own government for the first time. At fi...
61: ...fficials, reformed local governments, and a more streamlined judiciary. - Utah (29154 bytes)
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48: ... Fish = [[Trout|Bonneville Cutthroat Trout]] |
55: Tree = [[Spruce|Blue Spruce]] |
63: Motto = ''Industry'' | - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
3: ...structure in the US. The [[adobe]] walls were constructed around A.D. 1610]]
5: The elevation of Santa Fe is 2,132 metres (6,996 feet), compared with 1655.4 m for [[Denv...
7: ...gestive of the area's traditional [[adobe]] construction. Many contemporary houses in the city are b...
9: ...outiques, and [[Art gallery|galleries]] line the streets of the city center and Canyon Road.
11: ...l, art and tourism remain Santa Fe's biggest industries. - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
4: ...us Saccas|Ammonius]] and to reproduce the pure doctrine of Aristotle.
13: ...were greatly esteemed among the [[Arab]]ians, who translated many of them.
16: ...te'', in which he argues against the [[Stoic]] doctrine of necessity; and one ''On the Soul'', in whic...
17: He argued strongly against the doctrine of [[immortality]].
20: ...at Venice (1534); the former work, which has been translated into [[Latin]] by [[Grotius]] and also - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e boundaries of states, countries or other administrative areas.
6: ...asured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at Gr...
31: ... [[August 23]], [[1852]], time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich ...
33: ...bserved nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitude 172? 30'...
35: ...l time until [[1900]], then vacillated between Central Standard Time, [[local mean time]], and Eastern... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces these [[phenomenon|phenomena]] and their pre-...
6: ...which differs from the search for [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that...
11: ..." scientific knowledge. Since the 1960s, a common trend in the study of the sociology and history of s...
13: A major subject of concern and controversy in the [[philosophy of science]] has been t...
15: ...nce." Often, but not always, a conflict over the "truth" of science has split along the lines of those... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
156: *[[Ralph Albert Blakelock]] ([[1847]]-[[1919]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
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