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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... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ... – [[May 1]], [[1873]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[missionary]] and [[List of explorers|explo...
6: ...asgow]]. While working in [[London]], he became attracted by the example of another Scot, Robert Moff...
12: In the period [[1852]]–[[1856|56]], he explored the interior, di...
22: ...t]] or [[Lake Victoria]] as the source, but the matter was still debated vigorously. Finding the [[Lua...
27: ...body, carried over a thousand miles by his loyal attendants Chuma and Susi, was returned to Britain fo... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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10: * [[1852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the ...
11: ...of Washington]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
12: * [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of Ame...
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] - Disobeying a direct order by ... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter
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 - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
8: ...n Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
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...
108: *[[Victor Adler|Adler, Victor]], (1852-1918), Austrian Social Democratic leader - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
6: ...larly-named predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra was never in fact the sole ruler of ...
10: ...eopatra2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
13: ... named Ptolemy Caesar (nicknamed [[Caesarion]], little Caesar). However, Caesar refused to make the bo...
19: ...ied Cleopatra according to the Egyptian rite (a letter quoted in [[Suetonius]] suggests this), althoug...
23: ... vessels, she took flight. Antony abandoned the battle to follow her. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...ria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) ([...
12: ...e-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Prince Leopold ...
20: ...s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Windsor]].)
37: ...acy was behind the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presump...
43: ...as commuted, another boy, [[John William Bean]], attempted to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was lo... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
5: ...k|Rochester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
7: ...mperance]] movements in New York, organizing in [[1852]] the first woman's state temperance society in A...
9: ...rk City]], edited by Stanton, and having as its motto:
27: *[http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/project.html Rutgers: Stant...
28: *[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15220 The Life and Wor... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
2: ...ber 27]], [[1852]]) is mainly known for having written a description of
15: ...graphers note, however, that the programs were written by Babbage himself, and Lovelace simply found a...
19: ...t the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham.
21: ==Controversy over attribution==
37: *[http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html Ada Lo... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
19: ... married but he and Nightingale were immediately attracted to each other and they became life-long clo...
25: ... [[Institute for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen]] [http://public.gvc.edu/nsa/nightingale.html] in Upper ...
33: ...She sent many letters to Herbert, to facilitate better medical care.
39: ... records for the hospital, and writing personal letters to the family of every soldier who died in the...
43: ... of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] herself [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/medicine/night... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
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289: ...sprawling retreat occasionally used as a casual setting for hosting foreign dignitaries.
315: ...gov/research_room/jfk/house_select_committee/committee_report_gunmen.html]
319: **[[Warren G. Harding]], died of [[heart attack]] in [[1923]]
353: ...not run in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1852|1852 election]] - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
26: ..., New York]] to continue his studies. He was admitted to the bar in [[1823]] and began his practice o...
39: ...tension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.
48: *Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her.
55: ...under Commodore [[Matthew Perry (naval officer)|Matthew Perry]].
57: ...d deprive him of the Presidential nomination in [[1852]]. - 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 ... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ...[[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Massachusetts]] and the eighteenth [[Vice President of the Uni...
5: ...r of the state legislature between [[1841]] and [[1852]], and was owner and editor of the ''Boston Repub...
7: ...d commanded the Twenty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. - Romania (19812 bytes)
12: ...o = none <br> former [[Kings of Romania|Royal]] motto: "Nihil Sine Deo" (Nothing without God)|
64: ...775 and its south-eastern part [[Bugeac]] to the Ottoman Empire.
66: ...zerainty of the Ottoman Empire, following the [[Battle of Mohacs]]. At the end of the 18th century, th...
68: ... been regained by Moldova after the Crimean War [[1852]], as a swap with [[Dobrudja]]. At the end of the...
162: ...was left with an obsolete industrial base and a pattern of industrial capacity wholly unsuited to its ... - California (63989 bytes)
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31: AdmittanceDate = [[September 9]], [[1850]] |
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54: Butterfly = [[California dogface butterfly]] |
58: Insect = [[California dogface butterfly]] | - Oregon (26551 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 33<sup>rd</sup> |
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... - 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]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
125: *[[Charlotte Mary Yonge|Yonge, Charlotte M]], ([[1823]]-[[1901]]), British novelist
157: *[[Francis Brett Young|Young, Francis Brett]], (1884-1954), British novelist
162: *[[James Young|Young, James]], (1811?1883), Scottish chemist
165: *[[John Young|Young, John]], (1802-1852), American politician
166: *[[John W. Young|Young, John Watts]], (b. 1930), US astronaut - Comet (30542 bytes)
5: ... a [[solid]] (rather than [[gas]]eous) [[phase (matter)|state]]. [[Asteroid]]s originate via a differ...
15: ...bjects known to exist in the solar system. The Giotto probe found that [[Comet Halley]]'s nucleus refl...
17: ... emission of X-rays and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits].
31: ...nts has rendered this system impractical, and no attempt is made to ensure that each comet has a uniqu...
33: ...ond comet to pass perihelion in 1970) {{hnote|Arnett (2000)}}.
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