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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
81: | [[1828]] — [[1832]], [[1889]] — [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909...
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - 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... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...|Industrial Revolution Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]The '...
10: ...age:Maquina vapor Watt ETSIIM.jpg|thumb|300px|A Watt steam engine in [[Madrid]]. The development of th...
16: ...ialists to produce more products quicker and of better quality, so they invested in the production of ...
24: ...e cities. Selective breeding produced food with better quality. The Enclosure Movement also made poor ...
32: ...il servants or technicians to undertake it as a matter of state policy. In other countries, notably Br... - 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 - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ... complete name was Flore-Celestine -Ther賥-Henriette Tristan-Moscoso. Her father, Marino Tristᮠy Mo...
5: ...living they were accustomed to, prompting them in 1832 to go to [[Arequipa]], to claim her paternal inhe...
13: *[http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/Tristan.htm Complet... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: '''Mary Ann Evans''', better known by the [[pen name]] '''George Eliot''' ([...
5: ...ife from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]...
10: ...Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be divorced, and so he...
19: ...glish town on the eve of the [[Reform Bill]] of [[1832]]. The main characters, Dorothea Brooke and Tert...
23: ...l balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise. Her commentaries are ... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: Dr. '''Mary Edwards Walker''' ([[November]], [[1832]] – [[February 21]], [[1919]]) was a versat...
6: ...orsets]], were not healthy and advocated looser fitting clothing.
10: ...ericksburg]] and in [[Chattanooga]] after the [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. Finally, she was awarded a c...
12: ...dal, specifically for her services at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). - 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... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
16: | vicepresident= [[John C. Calhoun]] (1829-1832) [[Martin Van Buren]] (1833-1837)
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...
51: ...succeeded in destroying the Bank by vetoing its [[1832]] recharter by Congress and withdrawing U.S. fund... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
27: ... fall under his influence. In [[1803]] he was admitted to the bar and continued in active and successf...
29: ...George Clinton]] (and later of his nephew, [[De Witt Clinton]]), [[Robert R. Livingston]] and Aaron Bu...
33: ...812]]-[[1820]]). In [[1815]] he became the state attorney-general, an office which he held, still as a...
35: ... originate the system, but won the nickname of "Little Magician" for the skill with which he exploited...
43: ...anama Congress. As chairman of the judiciary committee, he brought forward a number of measures for th... - 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...
34: ...], and as [[Speaker of the House|Speaker]] from [[1832]] to [[1833]]. Pierce was elected as a Democrat t... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ... the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents.htm].
53: ... Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
57: ...a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twe...
68: ...tance" since the [[Supreme Court]] was about to settle it "speedily and finally."
70: ...de slavery in the territories. Much of Taney?s written judgment is widely interpreted as ''[[dicta]]''... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16...
46: ...f the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his...
48: ...tes. He also encouraged efforts to expand white settlement in western North America, signing the [[Hom...
53: ...t year, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from Ne...
59: ...nal improvements on the Sangamon in the hopes of attracting [[steamboat]] traffic to the river, which ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ... The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
21: ...mbol, is known as the "Cradle of Portugal." The Battle of S㯠Mamede took place nearby in 1128. (court...
29: ...s a nation to [[June 24]], [[1128]], with the [[Battle of S㯠Mamede]] by [[Afonso I of Portugal|Afons...
31: ...tugal's most historic battle of Portugal, the [[Battle of Aljubarrota]]. The victorious John was then ...
42: ... exploration of Africa. Before this voyage very little information was known in Europe about what lay ... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
11: | align=center colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Mir w묬e bleiwe wat mir sinn<br>([[Luxembour...
55: ...ependence was formally ratified. The country was attacked by [[Germany]] during [[World War I]] and [[...
64: ...mber of Deputies in the drafting of legislation.[http://www.ce.etat.lu/structure.htm]
68: ...ribunals (''justices de paix''; in [[Esch-sur-Alzette]], in Luxembourg and in Diekirch), two district ...
83: ... country. Other important cities are Esch-sur-Alzette (or just Esch), to the south-west of the capital... - Maine (17312 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 15]], [[1820]] |
38: ... capital was [[Portland, Maine|Portland]] until [[1832]], when it was moved to the more geographically c...
81: ...the case of Maine there has been a partially offsetting rise in land also, due to the melting of heavy...
88: [http://www.bea.gov/ The Bureau of Economic Analysis] ... - Texas (39610 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 28th |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 29]], [[1845]] |
42: * [[List of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
43: ...lags of Texas, including the current Texas flag [http://www.50states.com/bio/nickname5.htm])
66: ...ore information on Texas Pre-History, go to the [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/v... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
134: *[[Wilhelm Bendz]] ([[1804]]-[[1832]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...n Mesopotamia until about 1 AD. Then, it was forgotten until the [[19th century]]. Sumerian is disti...
16: ...) in the 1880s, but Rawlinson's volumes contain little Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets ...
18: Ernest de Sarzec (1832-1901) began excavating the Sumerian site of Tello...
26: ...nd for over a decade the leading Assyriologists battled over this issue. For a dozen years, starting ...
32: "Two previous attempts, by J.D. Prince in 1919 and M. Witzel in 193... - 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]]
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