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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
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...
210: ...entury]] [[Portuguese]] explorer and adventurer, was among the first [[Europeans]] to reach [[Japan]]... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
93: ...ann von Abich|Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von]], (1806-1886), German mineralogist, geologist - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
3: ...pril 1]], [[1776]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
5: She was born to a middle-class merchant family in [[Pari...
7: ...paper that he asked to meet Le Blanc, and Germain was forced to reveal her identity to him. Lagrange a...
9: ...heard of her. She then wrote to him admitting she was female, to which he responded:
15: However, in [[1808]] Gauss was appointed professor of astronomy at the [[Univer... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ... all of Europe, where they were primarily hung on walls or used on tables. Only with the opening of t...
3: ...peting'''. In this usage, the latter are wall-to-wall and are often woven in strips. In the real est...
8: [[Image:Swatches of carpet 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of machine-made carpet]]
10: ...'flatweave''' carpet is created by interlocking [[warp]] (vertical) and [[weft]] (horizontal) threads....
14: ...ngle. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of three knot types (see below) to form ... - 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... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: | place of birth= [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] of [[North Carolina]]
18: ...[War of 1812]] and the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].
22: ...y the [[British]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]]. When he refused to clean the boots of a Briti...
24: ...ortly after [[1800]], as a young lawyer. Since he was not of a distinguished family, he had to make hi...
26: ...the battlefield, which gave him his nickname. The war, and particularly his command at the [[Battle of... - 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... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ...urned down several important positions. Later, he was nominated for president as a "[[dark horse]]" ca...
20: ...nfederacy]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
22: ...cope with a changing America. In addition, Pierce was hounded by guilt, temptation, and just plain bad...
25: ...wo-time [[governor of New Hampshire]]. His mother was Anna Kendrick. Pierce had six older and two you...
27: ... whom he formed a lasting friendship, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also met [[Calvin E. Stow... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...Holland became a mere province of the Kingdom and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. ...
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40: established_dates = [[Eighty Years' War|From Spain]]<br/>[[May 23]], [[1568]]<br/>[[Janu...
55: ...004]] [[UN Human Development Index]], behind [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Australia]], and [[Canada]].
62: ...n of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]], was not prepared to let them go that easily. It woul... - Germany (46412 bytes)
29: |'''[[Area]]'''<br>- Total<br>- % water
62: ...d by the [[Kingdom of Prussia]], was forged. This was the second German ''Reich'', usually translated ...
64: ===Holy Roman Empire (843-1806)===
66: ...ich the ''imperium'' was overrun and dissolved ([[1806]]). The lasting effect of the dissolution of the ...
71: ... Europe. In Germany, the [[German Confederation]] was founded, a loose league of [[List of German Conf... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
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36: ...8]]. Georgia's population in [[As of 2000|2000]] was 8,186,453 ([[United States 2000 Census|U.S. Cens...
38: ...'[[Georgia on My Mind]]'' by [[Hoagy Carmichael]] was originally written about a woman of that name, b...
50: ...da. In [[1724]], it was first suggested that what was by then a British colony be called [[Province of... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
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36: ...ordering the [[Pacific Ocean]], [[California]], [[Washington]], [[Idaho]], and [[Nevada]]. Its norther...
45: ... [[United States 2000 Census|population in 2000]] was 3,421,399, a 20.4% increase over 1990; [[as of 2...
49: ...st permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the [[War of 1812]], the [[Britain|British]] gained contro... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
15: *[[Stewart Udall|Udall, Stewart Lee]] (1920-)
16: *[[Tom Udall|Udall, Thomas Stewart "Tom"]] (1948-)
32: *[[Walter Ulbricht|Ulbricht, Walter]], (1893-1973), Leader of DDR
57: ...er, [[History of independent Mongolia|Mongolian]] warlord
68: ... Upham|Upham, Charles]], (1908-1994), New Zealand war hero - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ... asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as 35 m acr...
4: ...in [[1840]] by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1...
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. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
99: ...[[James Barry (painter)|James Barry]] ([[1741]]-[[1806]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada...
36: ...1-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-invento...
48: *[[Wallace Carothers]], (1896-1937) — [[Nylon]]
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scientist - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
13: ...- ''[[Chisholm v. Georgia]]'' 2 US 419 1793 paves way for passage of [[Eleventh Amendment to the Unite...
26: *[[1799]] - [[George Washington]] dies
43: *[[1805]] - [[Barbary War]]: Barbary pirates defeated in Tripoli
44: *[[1806]] - [[Noah Webster]]'s first [[dictionary]]
45: *[[1806]] - [[Cumberland Road]] passed - August (4611 bytes)
6: ...as called ''[[Sextilis]]'' in [[Latin]], since it was the sixth month in the [[Roman calendar]] which ...
19: * On the sixth of August 1806 [[Emperor]] [[Francis II]] of the Holy Roman Empi...
22: * In 1945 the end of the [[Second World War]] was brought about following the [[August 6]] bombing...
31: * National Psoriasis Awareness Month - 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 ...
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