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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
117: *[[Juan Galindo]] (1802-1839) explorer of Central American ruins
131: ...lls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]...
134: *[[Sir Edmund Hillary]], with [[Tenzing Norgay]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes...
191: *[[Tenzing Norgay]], with [[Sir Edmund Hillary]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...assroom Clipart]]]The '''Industrial Revolution''' was the major [[technology|technological]], [[socioe...
3: ...development of steam-powered [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the grow...
5: ...e world. The impact of this change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Neolithi...
7: The term industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-A...
10: ...] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
68: *[[Niels Henrik Abel|Abel, Niels Henrik]], (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...sa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Louis XIV of France]].''
4: ...ted [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was undoubtedly one of the most powerful women of he...
6: ...it was issued, on Charles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...o Louis, heir apparent to the king of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis X...
19: ...nand of Parma|HRH Duke Ferdinand of Parma]] (1751-1802); had issue - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...arly [[1840s]] to well after the [[American Civil War]], drew on the most advanced [[19th century]] id...
4: Dix was neither a [[physician]] nor a psychiatrist, begi...
10: Throughout her life she appears to have turned away from several opportunities to marry. By the mid ...
12: She was quick to see the parallel between the circumstan...
16: ...aire and "by all reports a skinflint of the first water" to contribute $30,000 to the construction of ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he too...
18: ...pril 13]], [[1743]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the third ([[1801]]–[[1809]]) [[President ...
23: ...he [[College of William & Mary]] — where he was a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] —...
25: Jefferson was the primary author of the [[United States Declar...
27: ...nded from the sale of his collection (the Library was founded in [[1800]]; Jefferson sold his third li... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
18: ...d States|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First La...
22: ...ected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[...
24: .... The couple named one of their sons after George Washington. (As of 2004, Adams is the only U.S. Pres...
26: .... House of Representatives]] in the same year. He was elected as a [[United States Federalist Party|Fe... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|English]].
25: ... farmer and popular [[tavern]]-keeper. His mother was Maria Hoes ([[February 27]], [[1747]]–[[Fe...
27: ... did not fall under his influence. In [[1803]] he was admitted to the bar and continued in active and ...
29: ...ia County]] from [[1808]] until [[1813]], when he was removed. In [[1812]] he entered the state Senate...
33: ...s a member of the Senate, until [[1819]], when he was displaced to make room for a Federalist. He had ... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...r 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|Repre...
5: ...he Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War.
7: ...mber 10]], [[1819]] to [[March 3]], [[1829]]. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1829...
9: ... Roads and the Committee on Military Affairs. He was selected as [[Martin Van Buren]]'s Vice Presiden...
11: Johnson was a member of the state House of Representatives i... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
34: ...ntury BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
55: * [[Water clock]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
24: *[[Jimmy Yancey|Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy"]] (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie mus...
75: ...-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas, Edward]] (1901-1964), [[World War II|WW2]] SOE agent
130: *[[Yoshikawa Eiji|Yoshikawa, Eiji]], ([[1892]]-[[1962]]), novelist
131: *[[Yoshikawa Takeo|Yoshikawa, Takeo]]
132: *[[Tokugawa Yoshinobu|Yoshinobu, Tokugawa]], ([[1837]]-[[1913]]), shogun - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ... asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as 35 m acr...
4: ...83 scientific paper] to use the word in its title was published in [[1840]] by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Er...
8: One way to classify asteroids is in terms of size. A wor...
14: ...81 VA]]; the last numbered and named minor planet was [[99905 Jeffgrossman]] [http://cfa-www.harvard.e...
30: ... [[albedo]], and [[spectral line|spectral shape]] was developed by [[Clark R. Chapman]], [[David Morri... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...sphere. They are [[temperature]], [[pressure]], [[water vapor]], and the gradients and interactions of...
10: ...hed by [[Theophrastus]], a pupil of Aristotle. It was centered more on predicting the weather by inter...
12: .... The [[anemometer]] for measuring [[wind speed]] was constructed in [[1667]] by [[Robert Hooke]], whi...
14: ...cords of weather conditions on a daily basis, and was one of the first Americans to forecast the weath...
16: ...gy yield of machines with rotating parts, such as waterwheels. - History of biology (3053 bytes)
1: ...ivilization as classic philosophers did their own ways of biology as a system of understanding life.
3: ... by [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] (''Hydrog鯬ogie'', 1802). The word itself appears in the title of Volume ...
7: ... field by the independent work of [[Alfred Russel Wallace]].
11: By [[1953]] [[James Watson]] and [[Francis Crick]] clarified the basic s...
18: ....nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/ James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick. "Letters to ''Nature''... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]])
173: *[[Richard Parkes Bonington]] ([[1802]]-[[1828]]) - Cloud (9947 bytes)
3: A '''cloud''' is a visible mass of condensed [[water]] droplets or ice crystals suspended in the [[...
5: ...visible as clouds. Clouds [[reflect]] all visible wavelengths of light equally and are thus white, but...
7: ...ther planets often consist of material other than water, depending on local atmospheric conditions (wh...
14: * along [[weather_front|warm]] and [[weather_front|cold front]]s,
16: ...lows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water. - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ... [[Conquest|conquering]] most of Europe; the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasi...
5: ...ely these days) referred to as the [[Great French War]].
7: ==Political effects of the wars==
9: The Napoleonic Wars brought some great changes upon the face of Eur...
11: * France was no longer a dominant power in Europe, as it had ... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
133: [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] --
165: [[Cocoa (software)]] --
191: [[Computer hardware]] --
197: [[Computer software]] --
274: [[Free Software Foundation]] -- - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ates|American]] [[politician]] and adventurer. He was a major formative member of the [[United States ...
7: ...ghter of [[Jonathan Edwards (theology)|Jonathan Edwards]], the famous [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] [[theolo...
9: ...ich he served under [[Benedict Arnold]], [[George Washington]] and [[Israel Putnam]].
13: ...[[Quebec]]. Burr's courage earned him a place on Washington's staff, but the general never quite trus...
14: ...t Arnold led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[Albany, New York|Albany... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
6: ...first practical form of mechanized transport, railways had their start in [[England]] in the [[1820s]]...
8: ===Early Railways===
9: ...London]] - arguably, the world's first public railway, albeit a horse-drawn one.
11: ...e and encouraged wider experimentation, though it was not used for locomotive power until [[Richard Tr...
14: ...]]. It was not financially successful, because it was too heavy for the track and kept breaking down. ...
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