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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
33: *[[Bud Abbott|Abbott, Bud]], (1895-1974), US actor
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
35: *[[Diane Julie Abbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
36: *[[Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
37: *[[Emma Abbott|Abbott, Emma]], (1849-1891), American singer - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mattehistorie germain.jpg|frame|Sophie Germain]]
5: ...s]] at age thirteen, despite her parents' strong attempts to dissuade her from engaging in a 'men's pr...
7: ...ange|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]]'s teachings and submitted papers and assignments under the [[pseudonym]] ...
9: ...had never heard of her. She then wrote to him admitting she was female, to which he responded:
12: ...so flattering and less equivocal manner that the attractions of this science, which has enriched my li... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...an interiors until the 18th century. The hand-knotted pile carpet probably originated in [[Mongolia]]...
3: ...s a covering that is affixed to a floor and the latter a floor covering that is loose-laid, most often...
12: ...made by pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as b...
14: ...perpendicular angle. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of three knot types (see ...
16: ... composed of several stripes sewn together. Moquette carpets have been used on floors, tables, as fur... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]]
23: ...]] for several generations. He attended and then attempted to institute many reforms at the [[College ...
25: ...herman]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prep...
27: ...e definitive book on the original buildings, or [http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/grizzard Academic...
29: [[Image:Jefferson1web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]] - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
22: Born in a backwoods settlement in the [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws are...
26: ... The war, and particularly his command at the [[Battle of New Orleans]] on [[January 8]], [[1815]], ma...
32: ...in his [[U.S. presidential election, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first nominee of the [[D...
55: ...ur liberty, most dear!," an astonishingly quick-witted riposte.
57: ...isis was resolved in [[1833]] with a compromise settlement which, by substantially lowering the tariff... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ... chairman of the Committee on Claims and the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War.
7: ...vacancy caused by the resignation of [[John J. Crittenden]], and was reelected and served from [[Decem...
9: ...mittee on Post Office and Post Roads and the Committee on Military Affairs. He was selected as [[Mart...
20: *[http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources...
26: ...|U.S. Senator from Kentucky]]|before=[[John J. Crittenden]]|after=[[George M. Bibb]]|years=1819-1829}} - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ... King]] won in a landslide, beating [[Winfield Scott]] by a 50 to 44 percent margin in the popular vot...
27: Pierce attended school at Hillsborough Center and moved to t...
29: ...hampton, Massachusetts|Northampton]], [[Massachusetts]], studying under Governor [[Levi Woodbury]] and...
31: He was admitted to the bar and began a law practice in [[Concor...
36: ...igned. He was chairman of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Pensions]] during the [[Twenty-sixth United ... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
12: national_motto = ''Je Maintiendrai''<br>([[French language|Fren...
25: population_estimate = 16,297,196[http://www.cbs.nl/nl/cijfers/bevolkingsteller/popcloc...
70: ...ies]] (now [[Indonesia]]) and [[Suriname]] (the latter was traded with the British for New Amsterdam, ...
87: ...o [[1806]] (it was occupied by [[France]] between 1806 and 1815).
102: ...nd|Frysl⮝] (in [[Frisian language]]) - north, better known as ''Friesland''; capital: [[Leeuwarden]] - Germany (46412 bytes)
13: | align=center colspan=2 | National [[motto]]: ''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit''<br>([[Ge...
33: ...tries by population|Ranked 14th]]<br>82,468,000 [http://www.destatis.de/indicators/e/vgr910ae.htm]<br>...
64: ===Holy Roman Empire (843-1806)===
66: ...ich the ''imperium'' was overrun and dissolved ([[1806]]). The lasting effect of the dissolution of the ...
71: ...by a measure of [[Klemens Wenzel von Metternich|Metternich]] repressing the liberal agitation. The ''[... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 2]], [[1788]] |
38: ...ind]]'' by [[Hoagy Carmichael]] was originally written about a woman of that name, but after Georgia n...
52: ...ison]]. On [[February 12]], [[1733]], the first settlers landed in the ''[[HMS Anne]]'' at what was to...
54: ...ame the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the [[United States|Union]]. - Oregon (26551 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[February 14]], [[1859]] |
36: ...Range]] - form the two boundaries of the [[Willamette Valley]], one of the most fertile and agricultur...
43: ...'s environmental problems, such as the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pa...
49: ...ver. Fort Astoria was the first permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the [[War of 1812]], the [[Br... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
26: *[[Charlotte Uhlenbroek|Uhlenbroek, Charlotte]], (born 1968), British zoolologist and televisi...
53: ...Undset, Sigrid]], (1882-1949), ''Kristin Lavransdatter''
54: *[[Giuseppe Ungaretti|Ungaretti, Giuseppe]], Italian poet
56: ...lexander von Ungern-Sternberg|Ungern-Sternberg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field ma...
87: *[[Roy Urquhart|Urquhart, Robert Elliott "Roy"]] (1901-1988) - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...in [[1840]] by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "minor planet" (or "planetoid") carr...
14: ...d named minor planet was [[99905 Jeffgrossman]] [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs95001...
56: ...ain and any moving object would, hopefully, be spotted. The expected motion of the missing planet was ...
67: ...ld be measured relative to known star locations [http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/About/People/CarolynShoe... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
18: ... classifying clouds ([[1802]]) and wind speeds ([[1806]]), respectively. The real turning point however ...
22: ...t of midlatitude [[Rossby wave]]s, that is, the pattern of [[low pressure area|atmospheric lows]] and ...
24: ...ns that even one as minute as the flapping of a butterfly's wings could much later cause a large distu...
34: ...hat might be effective in preventing or at least attenuating them.
40: ...ient amount of [[Metadata (computing)|metadata]] attached and can then be conveniently retrieved by a ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
99: ...[[James Barry (painter)|James Barry]] ([[1741]]-[[1806]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
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32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor of the [[transi...
60: *[[Gottlieb Daimler]], (1834-1900), [[Germany]] — [...
65: ... [[James Dewar]], (1842-1923) — [[Thermos bottle]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
11: *[[1793]] - [[Eli Whitney]] invents [[cotton gin]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]]
44: *[[1806]] - [[Noah Webster]]'s first [[dictionary]]
45: *[[1806]] - [[Cumberland Road]] passed
58: *[[1811]] - [[Battle of Tippecanoe]] - August (4611 bytes)
18: ...; the [[Battle of Castlebar]] (1798), and the [[Battle of the Bogside]] (1969).
19: * On the sixth of August 1806 [[Emperor]] [[Francis II]] of the Holy Roman Empi... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
5: ...vember]] [[1815]], following Napoleon's final [[Battle of Waterloo|defeat at Waterloo]] and the [[Trea...
13: ...ary than that of previous monarchs (or for that matter the [[Jacobin]] and Directory regimes of France...
20: ...ry units as opposed to the previous tradition of attaching artillery pieces in support of other troop ...
28: ... ever have more than 100,000 under arms were the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Naples and Poland (not includi...
32: ...balloon to survey Allied positions before the [[Battle of Fleurus]], on [[June 26]], [[1794]]. There w...
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