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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...
189: *[[Joseph Nicollet]], (1786-1843), explorer of the Upper [[Mississippi River]] and...
191: *[[Tenzing Norgay]], with [[Sir Edmund Hillary]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
32: *[[William Abbot|Abbot, William]], (1798-1843), British actor
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
34: ...rich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
49: *[[Edward Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Edward]] (1810-1887) - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empres...
9: ...hnological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; he...
12: ...ningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] ...
14: ...s the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...ssed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of ... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...[[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the promi...
4: ...son Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while a...
6: ... Viscount Astor|Waldorf Astor]], son of [[William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of ...
8: ...g until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the first woman member to actually take her seat...
10: ...h criticism of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and he... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...an-Moscoso. Her father, Marino Tristᮠy 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...
9: ...s in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Union'' (1843). - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...''). Other sources list her name as "Isabella Van Wagener". The year of her birth is uncertain, but is...
8: ...ovement. Perhaps one of her most famous speeches was "[[Ain't I a Woman?]]," a short but well pointed...
13: ..., D.C.]], after the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] was issued to work with former slaves. She also met ...
15: ...k Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. In [[1983]], she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's Hall of Fam...
19: ...ASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" after Sojourner Truth. - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
6: ...whom he was rumoured to have fathered a child. It was Augusta who encouraged Byron to marry to avoid s...
8: ...an]]. An active member of [[London]] society, she was a member of the [[Bluestockings]] in her youth.
11: ... full name and title for most of her married life was '''The Right Honourable Augusta Ada, Countess of...
15: During a nine-month period in 1842-1843, Ada translated for Babbage Italian mathematician...
19: At her own request, Lovelace was buried next to the father she never knew at the ... - 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 ... - 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... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Greenway, Virginia]]</td></tr>
21: ... States|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was the second President born after the signing of t...
25: John Tyler was born the son of John Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary ...
27: ...ed [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]], Tyler was elected [[Vice President of the United States|Vi...
29: ...ely [[Acting President]], and as the Constitution was not explicit on that aspect of succession (until... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
20: ...er elected to the presidency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig...
26: ...resentatives and was Comptroller of New York. It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate fr...
29: ...[Mexico]] in the [[Mexican-American War]]. Taylor wanted the new states to be free states, while Fillm...
39: ... the extension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.
41: Clay, exhausted, left Washington to recuperate, throwing leadership upon S... - 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... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ...liding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American Civil War]] and as a result, he is widely considered to be...
53: ...tee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1830]]. B...
55: ...orians, but there isn't any decisive evidence one way or the other.
57: ...5]], [[1845]], to accept a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (...
64: Buchanan was elected as a Democratic President of the United ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...ail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President o...
44: ...es. These events soon led to the [[American Civil War]].
46: ... toward a common goal. He personally directed the war effort, which ultimately led the Union forces to...
48: ... the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] as a pragmatic war measure which would set the stage for the comple... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
40: ...mber 29]], [[1808]] – [[July 31]], [[1875]]) was the sixteenth [[Vice President of the United Sta...
42: ...]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently acquitted by a single vote in the [...
45: ...ge of 13 he was apprenticed to a tailor, but ran away to Greeneville, Tennessee in [[1826]], where he ...
48: ...arch 4]], [[1843]] to [[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures...
51: ...es to continue participation in Congress. Johnson was then appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as M... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
22: ...rmy | Union]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and the 18th ([[1869]]–[[1877]]) [[Presi...
24: ...and is credited with winning the war. Although he was a successful general, he is considered by histor...
26: ...s agree that Grant was not personally corrupt; it was his subordinates in the executive branch who wer...
30: ...io]], where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17.
32: ...od for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class of 39. At the academy,... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...n Gutenberg]] in the 1450s. This event has been awarded number 1 of the Top 100 Greatest Events of th...
4: ...arved for each page, printing different [[book]]s was an incredibly time consuming activity.
6: ... in China until the European style printing press was introduced in relatively recent times (thus brin...
8: ...er]] introduced into [[Europe]] from [[China]] by way of [[Muslims]], who had a paper mill in operatio...
12: ...to hand copy a Bible, with the Gutenberg press it was possible to create several hundred copies a year... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
11: ...2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Mir w묬e bleiwe wat mir sinn<br>([[Luxembourgish language|Luxembourg...
25: |'''[[Area]]''' <br> - Total <br> - % water
53: ... gave formal autonomy to Luxembourg, the country was disputed between [[Prussia]] and the [[Dutch kin...
55: ...by [[Germany]] during [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].
57: In [[1945]] after [[World War II]] Luxembourg abandoned its politics of [[neut... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
32: ...'''[[Area]]'''<br /> - Total <br /> - % water
85: ...in government revenue. [[As of 2004]] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1101-2004Sep6.ht...
91: ...ed in detail in [http://www.innercitypress.org/finwatch.html this Anti-Money Laundering Report from In...
112: ...ns. The [[Annobon]] population, native to Angola, was introduced by the Portuguese via S⯠Tom鮊
113: ...th America ([[Treaty of El Pardo]]). From 1827 to 1843, Britain established a base on the island to comb...
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