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- 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. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...ber]] [[1793]]) Daughter of [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], wife of [[Louis XVI]] and mother of [[Louis ...
4: ...r) of the Austrian empress, [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emp...
7: ...ther, the Empress Maria-Theresa, had ruled the Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's b...
15: ...that he should marry one of [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabri...
19: ... a Thanksgiving Mass was held in her honour. The streets of the city where covered in flowers, which M... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...born-[[19 November]] [[1835]]- died [[18 June]] [[1858]]), the queen of [[Jhansi]], a [[Maratha]]-ruled...
5: ...r father. She completed her education and martial training, which included horse riding, fencing and s...
10: ...cided to annex the state of Jhansi under the [[Doctrine of Lapse]].
15: ...ots. Women were also recruited and given military training. Rani was accompanied by her generals [[Gu...
19: ... hit by a spray of bullets while riding on the fortress ramparts. The British captured Gwalior three d... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...ore than any other, which is associated with the struggle for votes for women in the period immediatel...
5: ...ylvia]], both of whom would make a substantial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
7: ...experience force-feeding after going on [[hunger strike]]. Her approach to the campaign did not endea... - 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...
26: * ''[[Scenes of Clerical Life]]'' (1858) - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ... [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[1881]] she was appointed...
3: ...aristocracy, a Hungarian king in particular; in [[1858]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Mat...
5: ...[Fyodor Ivanovich Schubert]] (mathematician and astronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]...
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of [[partial different...
11: ...a spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuc... - 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 [... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: '''Helena Petrovna Hahn''' ([[July 31]], [[1831]] ([[Julian cale...
5: ...s botanist. Both her mother and grandmother were strong role models that allowed her to mature into a ...
7: ...th [[Italians|Italian]] [[opera]] singer Agardi Metrovich. In [[1871]], on a boat bound for [[Cairo]] ...
15: ...late the divine knowledge had corrupted it in the translation. Her claim that esoteric spiritual know...
21: ...complications from [[influenza]], Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky died at her home May 8, [[1891]]. H... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ...y Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at the [[Atbara Rive...
14: If the remote headstream — the Ruvyironza — is taken as the...
24: ...es]] of Africa. In particular, the farthest headstream of the Nile is the [[Ruvyironza]] River in Bur...
32: [[Image:Nile_trans.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Composite image|Compos...
36: ...rtoum. The Nile is also unusual in that its last tributary (the Atbara) joins it approximately halfwa... - 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... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ... [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate from [[1858]] to [[1860]]. He was elected as a [[United Stat... - Flag of Minnesota (1701 bytes)
2: ...es are woven into a wreath of the state flower: [[1858]], the statehood year; [[1819]], the year [[Fort ...
4: ... motto. The years 1819 (settlement of Minnesota), 1858 (statehood) and 1893 (adoption of the first state... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] <small...
38: ...] ([[Sioux]]) [[Native American|American Indian]] tribe.
39: ...rth Dakota]] was admitted on the same day (see '''Trivia''', below).
41: ...]. It is one of the six states of the [[Frontier Strip]].
50: :'''[[List of U.S. state trees|State tree]]:''' Black Hills [[Spruce]] - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...t its increasing population without losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first place. The sta...
49: ...[War of 1812]], the [[Britain|British]] gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company posts.
51: ...ted the Company's Chief Factor of the Columbia District, built [[Fort Vancouver]] in 1825.
53: ...erring to the northern border of the [[Oregon Country]] at latitude 54?40′. Cooler heads prevail...
59: ...riodic fluctuations in the nation's building industry has severely impacted the state's [[economy]] on... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[May 11]], [[1858]] |
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] |
36: ...tates]], having joined the Union on [[May 11]], [[1858]].
37: ...[Minnesota River]], ''mini sota'', variously translated "smoky-white water" or "sky-tinted water"...
39: ... the [[Upper Midwest]]. The most significant [[metropolitan area]] is known as the [[Minneapolis-St. ... - 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: Q (4474 bytes)
11: ...mmad]], (born 1953), world champion boxer, boxing trainer
25: *[[Paul Quantrill|Quantrill, Paul]]
26: *[[William Quantrill|Quantrill, William]], [[United States]] [[United States ...
38: ...h, Harry]], (1858-1913), socialist politician and trade unionist
46: ...e Questel|Questal, Mae]], (1908-1998), American actress - 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 - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ... [[Hirschig]], 1856; [[Hercher]], 1858. There are translations in many languages; in English by [[Anth...
3: ...the ''Uranologion'' of [[Petavius]], with a Latin translation, 1630. Nothing definite is known as to t...
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