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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... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
7: ...e, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
9: ...t post (in [[West Virginia]]), but lost several battles and resigned his post.
22: ...ncoln]]| years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] (lost)}} - 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, discovering [[Vic...
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... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...ength|stronger]] than iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are ...
11: ... often emerge during this process, leading to a patterned layering known as [[pearlite]] due to its [[...
13: ...al composition. As such, it requires extremely little thermal [[activation energy]] to form.
17: ...y, these internal stresses can cause a part to shatter as it cools; at the very least, they cause inte...
19: ...ugh time for cementite, etc., to form) and help settle the internal stresses and defects. This soften... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
12: ...ward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
39: ... Gottlieb Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Christian Gottlieb]] (1756-1801)
43: ...rlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775)
46: ...ophie Charlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Sophie Charlotte]] (1714-1792) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
8: ...n Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
17: ...olphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
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... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
5: ...k|Rochester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
7: ... temperance society in America, and becoming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American ...
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... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
9: ...erpretation of her husband's works, but when in [[1856]] she first visited [[England]] the critics recei...
14: ...r age thirty-six. It is suggested that negative attitudes toward women's ability to compose influence... - Dye (6033 bytes)
3: ...etable]] or [[mineral]] origin, with no or very little processing. By far the greatest source of dyes ...
9: ...d by [[William Perkin|William Henry Perkin]] in [[1856]]. Many thousands of dyes have since been prepare...
11: ...ral to acid dyebaths. Attachment to the fibre is attributed, at least partly, to salt formation betwee...
15: .../sub>SO<sub>4</sub>). Direct dyes are used on [[cotton]], paper, [[leather]], wool, silk and [[nylon]]... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...trument]] invented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to compete with the [[saxophone]] as a replacemen...
3: It is made of metal, resembles an ophecleide [http://www.nikknakks.net/Euphonium/Instruments/ophecl... - Nile (13738 bytes)
46: ...y migrated to the river, where they developed a settled [[agriculture|agricultural]] [[economy]] and m...
48: Despite the attempts of the [[ancient Greece|Greeks]] and [[Rome|...
50: Speke was part of a 1856-1858 expedition led by [[Richard Francis Burton]]...
62: ...and fertilize the land, without rain and in the hottest time of the year. A good flood and Egypt's we...
79: *[http://www.aber.ac.uk/~qecwww/tana/geology.htm Nile p... - 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]]
335: ...ar vote in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856 election]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...rated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boyl...
24: ...[[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. O...
26: ...gregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[176... - 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... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
51: *Robert Fitzwalter Tyler ([[March 12]], [[1856]] - [[December 31]], [[1927]]).
67: ...ng [[Shays' Rebellion]]. He ended his published letter.
111: ...|Attorney General]]||align="left"|'''[[John J. Crittenden]]'''||align="left"|1841
138: === States Admitted to the Union ===
161: *[http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...date for reelection. He was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs.
7: Dallas resumed the practice of law. He was attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1833 to [[1835]...
9: ...Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, ...
15: ...ccession box|title=[[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]|b...
17: {{succession box|title=[[Attorney General of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|y... - 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]].
59: ...at although the Compromise had been intended to settle the slavery controversy, it served rather as an... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ... King]] won in a landslide, beating [[Winfield Scott]] by a 50 to 44 percent margin in the popular vot...
20: ...minated at the [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856 presidential election]], and was replaced by [[Ja...
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... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ... the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents.htm].
53: ...arch 3]], [[1831]]). He was chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first Congress). He w...
57: ...a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twe...
61: ...ster to the [[United Kingdom]] from [[1853]] to [[1856]], during which time he help to draft the [[Osten...
64: ...ited States in [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1857]], to [[Mar... - 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 ...
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