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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
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minis...
40: ...rles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy...
41: ...s Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Rai... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
8: *[[Anu Agarwal|Agarwal, Anu]], (1969-), Indian actress
12: *[[Louis Agassiz|Agassiz, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]s - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...an-Moscoso. Her father, Marino Tristá® y Moscoso, was an [[Arequipa|Arequipa-born]] [[Peruvian]] colon...
5: ...s' tumultuous post-independence period. The diary was published in 1838 as P鲩grinations d'une paria.
7: ...rio Vargas Llosa]], in his historical novel [[The way to Paradise]], analyzes Flora Tristan and her gr... - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: ... By the time her husband died in a [[gale]] in [[1807]], he had united a pirate coalition numbering 400...
6: ...nd was caught, one of his ears was cut off and he was shown off through the squadron as an example.
8: ...t a pardon for his men from the government and it was granted. Ching Shih also sought pardon for her f... - 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... - 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... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...fifty states, [[Alaska]], an [[exclave]], and [[Hawaii]], an [[archipelago]], are not contiguous with ...
13: capital = [[Washington, D.C.]] |latd=38|latm=53|latNS=N|longd=77...
21: percent_water = 4.66% |
34: sovereignty_type = [[American Revolutionary War|Independence]] |
52: ...ce]]. However, the structure of the United States was profoundly changed in [[1788]] when the states r... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
30: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
57: ...e using maritime routes. At that time, The Gambia was part of the [[Mali Empire]].
59: ...[[Gambia River]] to English merchants; this grant was confirmed by letters patent from [[Queen Elizabe...
61: ... at Albreda on the north bank of the river, which was ceded to the United Kingdom in 1857.
63: ...now Banjul) in 1816. In the ensuing years, Banjul was at times under the jurisdiction of the British g... - 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]] - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ...discrimination due to, for instance, race), which was considered too radical.
3: ...came the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women.
4: ...o women in [[1838]]. In [[1893]], [[New Zealand]] was the first country to introduce [[universal suffr...
11: ...out the world. In many countries women's suffrage was granted before [[universal suffrage]], so women ...
13: ...in [[New Jersey]] in [[1776]], but rescinded in [[1807]]. The [[Pitcairn Islands]] granted women's suffr... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
12: ...velopment of an American spirit and culture which was distinct from that of its European founders.
17: ...eat Britain]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]] and established itself as the United States of...
22: ...rmers use of the important Mississippi River waterway, removed the French presence from the western bo...
24: ...s, tried to export food and raw materials to both warring [[great power]]s and to profit off transport...
28: ... suspended all U.S. trade with foreign nations in 1807, hoping to get the British to end their blockade ... - 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... - 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]])
471: *[[John William Godward]] ([[1861]]-[[1922]]) - 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
46: *[[1807]] - [[Embargo Act]]
47: *[[1807]] - USS ''Leopard'' sunk by the British - 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 ... - Ship (18843 bytes)
2: .... A [[rule of thumb]] saying (though it doesn't always apply) goes: "a boat can fit on a ship, but a s...
4: ...re than three masts. The five-masted ''Preussen'' was the outstanding example but the big [[German Emp...
10: ... (nautical)|draft]] (distance between the highest waterline and the bottom of the ship) and [[tonnage]...
12: ...load their vessels until their decks were almost awash, resulting in a dangerously unstable condition....
14: ...us densities. Hence the "ladder" of lines seen forward of the Plimsoll mark to this day. - 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... - Sam Houston (6990 bytes)
3: ...arch 2]], [[1793]] – [[July 26]], [[1863]]) was a key figure in the history of [[Texas]], and, [...
5: ...nd]] in March [[1814]]. Following his recovery he was assigned as an Indian agent to the Cherokees. He...
7: ...rter of fellow Tennesseean [[Andrew Jackson]] and was widely considered to be Jackson's political prot...
9: ...the entire time. Following a trial for assault in Washington he left the Cherokee and his wife to ente...
11: ...He also attended the Consultation of [[1835]]. He was made a [[Major General]], of the Texas Army in N...
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