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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: 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...
78: *[[Amandus Adamson|Adamson, Amandus]], (1855-1929), Estonian sculptor - 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... - 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... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
6: ...orsets]], were not healthy and advocated looser fitting clothing.
8: ...ical College where she graduated as a doctor in [[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, ...
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). - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
20: ... of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
23: ...onomically practical. ''Fairy Queen'', built in [[1855]]; plying between [[New Delhi]] and [[Alwar]] in ...
25: ... countries such as Germany and the United States attained speeds very close to this, and this is gener...
27: ...turbines, have been experimented with, but seen little use.
29: ...[[railfan|railfans]] or [[train spotting|train spotters]], although some [[narrow gauge]] lines in Ger... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ... to the six succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1855]]-[[March 3]], [[1869]]). He was elected [[Speak... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ...[[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Massachusetts]] and the eighteenth [[Vice President of the Uni...
5: ...sachusetts]] in 1833 and became a shoemaker. He attended several local academies, and also taught sch...
7: ...d commanded the Twenty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. - Australia (39438 bytes)
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48: ...Great Britain|British]] in 1770, and officially settled as a British colony on [[January 26]], [[1788]...
56: ...A Voyage to Terra Australia" by the navigator [[Matthew Flinders]]. Despite its title (which reflected...
65: ... called [[New Holland]], but made no attempt at settlement. In 1770 [[James Cook]] was the first Europ...
67: ...men's Land]] (the present day [[Tasmania]]) was settled in 1803, becoming a separate colony in 1825. B... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
8: national_motto = One Zambia, One Nation |
49: ...ury by [[Ngoni]] peoples from the south. By the latter part of that century, the various peoples of Za...
51: ...onaries, and traders. [[David Livingstone]], in [[1855]], was the first European to see the magnificent ...
63: By the late [[1970s]], Mozambique and Angola had attained independence from Portugal. Zimbabwe achieve...
73: ...he National Assembly. Only UNIP members were permitted to run, but these seats were sharply contested.... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 28|Dec 28]], [[1846]] |
45: ...ch explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marquette]] are believed to be the first Europeans to visi...
47: *The first white settlers officially moved to Iowa in June [[1833]]. P...
50: ...pated in the war, 13,001 of whom died. A small battle fought at Athens, MO in 1861 resulted in a few ... - Kansas (21369 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 34<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 29]], [[1861]] |
44: ... waystop and outfitting place. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kan...
52: ... [[Walter Johnson]], [[Maurice Greene]] and [[Lynette Woodard]].
61: *'''[[State motto|Motto]]:''' ''Ad astra per aspera'', or "To the stars ... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 40<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[November 2]], [[1889]] |
39: ...[November 2]], [[1889]]. [[North Dakota]] was admitted on the same day (see '''Trivia''', below).
82: ...th Dakota after a dispute between Euro-American settlers in northern and southern regions over the loc...
118: sign proclamations formally admitting North and South - 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: X (1295 bytes)
15: *[[Ettore Ximenes|Ximenes, Ettore]], ([[1855]]-[[1919]]), Italian painter - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...sh by [[Anthony Hodges]], 1638, and [[R. Smith]], 1855.) - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...in the [[Alexandria]]n canon, flourished in the latter half of the [[7th century BC]].
3: ...enian wars, the people were able to bestow their attention upon the arts of peace.
7: ...[papyrus]]; some later discovered hexameters are attributed to Alcman or [[Erinna]] (''Oxyrhynchus pap... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: .... Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region to the same mean solar ...
6: ...n [[Greenwich]], [[London]], [[United Kingdom]] [http://greenwichmeantime.com/]. For this reason the t...
31: ...eat Britain]]'s public clocks were using GMT by [[1855]], it was not made Britain's legal time until [[A...
35: ...mean time]], and Eastern Standard Time until it settled on EST by ordinance May [[1915]], ratified by ...
39: ...that nation's standard time. The captain was permitted to change his ship's clocks at a time of his ch... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...al science|natural]] and the [[social science]]s attempt to base their [[theory|theories]] on establis...
11: ...unctions'', and whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. The [[sociology of science]] in p...
23: ... of experiment was unproven. Some believed that setting up ''artificial'' conditions in an experiment ...
54: ...us steel]] ([[wootz steel]]), and the [[Baghdad Battery]]. Arab alchemy inspired [[Roger Bacon]], and ...
76: ...netism]], by [[James Clerk Maxwell|Maxwell]] in [[1855]] which is described by [[Maxwells equations|Maxw... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
118: *[[Cecilia Beaux]] ([[1855]]-[[1942]])
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
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