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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 - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
8: ...n Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
40: ...rles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy...
45: *[[Edwin Adams Cotto|Adams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was conv...
65: ...2-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
67: *[[Scott Adams|Adams, Scott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
12: *[[Louis Agassiz|Agassiz, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]s
20: ...o Germany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
35: ...), Finnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
54: *[[Jenny Agutter|Agutter, Jenny]], (born 1952), English actress - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ... complete name was Flore-Celestine -Ther賥-Henriette Tristan-Moscoso. Her father, Marino Tristᮠy Mo...
5: When her father died before her fifth birthday in 1807, the situation of Flora and her mother changed dr...
13: *[http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/Tristan.htm Complet... - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: ... By the time her husband died in a [[gale]] in [[1807]], he had united a pirate coalition numbering 400...
8: ...ent tried to destroy the pirates in a series of battles in [[January]] [[1808]], however all they mana... - 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]] - 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...
23: ...[Thomas Sandford]]|after=At-Large districts|years=1807-1813}} - United States (58223 bytes)
9: national_motto = <br>''[[E Pluribus Unum]]'' ([[1789]]–pr...
22: population_estimate = 333,287,557 [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock] |
52: ...cientific]], [[technological]] and [[cultural]] matters.
60: ...veral federal laws were passed in an attempt to settle the dispute, including the [[Missouri Compromis...
62: ...hrough contact with European settlers, and U.S. settlers acquired those emptied lands. Through coercio... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
14: ... align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Progress, Peace, Prosperity''</small>
57: ... Ghana]] and the [[Songhai Empire]]. The first written accounts of the region come from records of Ara...
59: ... English merchants; this grant was confirmed by letters patent from [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. In [[1618]]...
63: ...s that the transatlantic slave trade operated. In 1807, slave trading was abolished throughout the Briti...
67: ...was first broken by a violent, unsuccessful coup attempt in [[1981]]. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ...60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
15: * 12 KYA: [[Pottery]] by [[Jomon]] in [[Japan]]
123: * [[1645]]: [[Vacuum pump]]: [[Otto von Guericke]]
136: ...1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle)]]
143: * [[1769]]: [[Steam engine]]: [[James Watt]] - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ...'', led by suffragists (commonly called [[suffragette]]s), was a social, economic and political [[refo...
13: ...ates granted restricted women's suffrage in the latter half of the nineteenth century, starting with [...
15: ...s of voting rights (women were not initially permitted to stand for election) in a major country was g...
27: ...(to take effect in the 2007 national elections) [http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8173].
31: ...ble to professional politicians, however, that in 1807 the law was revised to exclude them. This was ob... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
7: ...dominated the area until the influx of European settlers in the early [[17th century]].
12: ...and a British policy of benign neglect which permitted the development of an American spirit and cultu...
24: ...es. Both sides permitted this trade when it benefitted them, but opposed it when it did not.
26: ...he 1805 destruction of the French navy at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]], Britain sought to impose a stra...
28: ...ources of food. Also, luxury type goods such as cotton, indigo, and sugar were not as widely avaliable... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...s of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibco...
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 ...
60: ...ed over the next few years, with Vesta found in [[1807]]. After eight more years of fruitless searches, ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]]) - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
11: *[[1793]] - [[Eli Whitney]] invents [[cotton gin]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]]
46: *[[1807]] - [[Embargo Act]]
47: *[[1807]] - USS ''Leopard'' sunk by the British
48: *[[1807]] - [[Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves]] - 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... - Ship (18843 bytes)
1: ...Genoa 139a.jpg||thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
10: ...(distance between the highest waterline and the bottom of the ship) and [[tonnage]]. A number of diff...
19: ...id the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] contesting the [[Battle of Actium]]. The use of large numbers of [[cann...
21: ...which improved efficiency. As the means of transmitting the engine's power, the [[paddle wheel]] gave ...
34: ...ip may refer to the individual [[vessel]]s as [[bottom]]s. Groups of sailing ships could constitute, s... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ith [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and acquittal on charges of [[treason]].
13: ...n arriving before the [[Battle of Quebec (1775)|Battle of Quebec]], he disguised himself as a [[Roman ...
14: ... led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[Albany, New York|Albany]] in [[...
24: ...d him [[List of New York State Attorneys General|Attorney General of New York]]. He was commissioner o...
38: ... Representatives|House of Representatives]]. The attempts of a powerful faction among the Federalists ... - Sam Houston (6990 bytes)
1: ...ston_3.jpg|thumb|Sam Houston, Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
5: ...[lieutenant]]. He was severely injured at the [[Battle of Horseshoe Bend]] in March [[1814]]. Followin...
7: ...ractice in [[Lebanon, Tennessee]]. He was made [[attorney general]] of Nashville district in late 1818...
11: ...r-in-Chief]] in March [[1836]]. He negotiated a settlement with the Cherokee in February 1836.
14: ...f [[Antonio L de Santa Anna]]. But at the [[Battle of San Jacinto]] on [[April 21]], [[1836]] the ...
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