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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...
176: *[[Thomas Mitchell]] - (1792-1855), Scottish explorer of [[Australia]]
191: *[[Tenzing Norgay]], with [[Sir Edmund Hillary]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes... - 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...
41: ...s Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Rai...
45: ...ams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez... - 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 ... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...came to be known as ''The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each ye...
7: ...he expected role for a woman of her status, which was to become an obedient wife.
9: ...ion as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Nightingale was particularly concerned with the appalling condit...
13: ...r of [[Nun|Catholic sisters]] in [[Germany]], and was greatly impressed by the quality of medical care...
19: ... and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Nightingale's pione... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
1: ... Walker, ca 1870. She often wore mens clothes and was arrested for impersonating a man several times.]...
2: ...ibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]], [[Surgery|surgeon]] and the only woman to rec...
6: ...]], [[New York]], the daughter of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which ...
8: ...ical College where she graduated as a doctor in [[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, ...
10: ...the [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. Finally, she was awarded a commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant ... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...e.750pix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Great Western Railway]] No. 6833 ''Calcot Grange'', a [[4-6-0]] [[GWR ...
3: A '''locomotive''' is a [[railway]] [[vehicle]] that provides the motive power for...
11: ... train's power systems away from passengers. This was particularly the case for the '''steam locomotiv...
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive motive power resources. Separate lo...
21: ...ost common type of locomotive until after [[World War II]]. The age of steam correlates highly to the ... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...ch 23]], [[1823]]–[[January 13]], [[1885]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|Repre...
4: ...ith his parents to [[New Carlisle, Indiana]]. He was appointed deputy auditor of [[St. Joseph County,...
6: ...f the House of Representatives]] in [[1863]]. He was not a candidate for renomination in [[1868]], ha...
8: ... 4, 1869, served until March 3, [[1873]]. Colfax was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in [[...
10: He was a lecturer after leaving public office, and died... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ...y 16]], [[1812]]–[[November 22]], [[1875]]) was a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Massac...
5: ...te legislature between [[1841]] and [[1852]], and was owner and editor of the ''Boston Republican'' fr...
7: ...], when he resigned to become Vice President. He was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs an...
9: ...tes Capitol]] Building at [[Washington, DC]]. He was interred in Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick. - Australia (39438 bytes)
14: ...Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Michael Jeffery]]<br>[[John Howard]]|
18: percent_water=1|
48: ...ion|federated]] and the Commonwealth of Australia was formed. Since [[federation]], Australia has had ...
50: ... allowing access for traditional uses of the waterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people an...
54: ...rst writer in English to use the word "Australia" was [[Alexander Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical C... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
1: ... on the east, [[Mozambique]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Botswana]], and [[Namibia]] to the south, and [[Angola]]...
16: leader_names = [[Levy Mwanawasa]] |
21: percent_water = 1% |
37: currency = [[Zambian Kwacha]] |
49: ...migrating tribes about 2,000 years ago. The major waves of [[Bantu]]-speaking immigrants—the [[B... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
2: Name = Iowa |
3: Fullname = State of Iowa |
4: Flag = Iowa state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Iowa]] |
6: Seal = Iowastateseal.jpg | - Kansas (21369 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 462 mi²; 1,196 |
18: PCWater = 0.56 |
42: Kansas, as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]], was annexed to the [[United States]] in [[1803]] as ...
44: ... waystop and outfitting place. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kan...
46: ...ns constructed homesteads in Kansas following the war. On [[February 19]], [[1861]] it became the firs... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 3,173 |
18: PCWater = 1.6 |
39: ...ion on [[November 2]], [[1889]]. [[North Dakota]] was admitted on the same day (see '''Trivia''', belo...
41: ... to the south by [[Nebraska]], to the east by [[Iowa]] and [[Minnesota]], and to the west by [[Wyoming...
43: [[USS South Dakota|USS ''South Dakota'']] was named in honor of this state. - 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: X (1295 bytes)
14: ...g Yu]], ([[232 BC|232]] - [[202 BC]]), a powerful warlord
15: *[[Ettore Ximenes|Ximenes, Ettore]], ([[1855]]-[[1919]]), Italian painter - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...sh by [[Anthony Hodges]], 1638, and [[R. Smith]], 1855.)
3: ...g before the author of ''Leucippe''. The fragment was first published in 1567, then in the ''Uranologi... - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...he founder of Doric [[lyric]] [[poetry]], to whom was assigned the first place among the nine lyric po...
3: ...o Sparta, where, after the close of the Messenian wars, the people were able to bestow their attention...
5: ...ia'' (processionals), and love-songs, of which he was considered the inventor.
7: ...siderable being part of a ''Parthenion'' found in 1855 on an [[Egypt]]ian [[papyrus]]; some later discov... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ... transport|railways]] this became increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by ...
22: *[[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii|Hawai'i]], USA: UTC − 10 (e.g. if it is 06:00 UT...
31: ...]]'s public clocks were using GMT by [[1855]], it was not made Britain's legal time until [[August 2]]...
33: ...nutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. This standard was known as New Zealand Mean Time.
35: ...dgepodge was made uniform when Standard zone time was made legal by the [[Congress of the United State... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...] and their pre-cursors back in [[time]], all the way into human [[prehistory]].
11: ... in which scientists work, looking closely at the ways in which they "produce" and "construct" scienti...
15: ...iences or humanities (for example, the "[[Science wars]]").
21: ...matic learning about the [[Nature|natural world]] was a direct outgrowth of [[religion]], often as a p...
23: ... produce results that would describe nature as it was in the world around them. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
118: *[[Cecilia Beaux]] ([[1855]]-[[1942]])
143: *[[Henryka Beyer]] ([[1782]]-[[1855]])
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