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- Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
1: {{History of France }}
3: ..., Restored|restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France]].
5: ...ugh rarely these days) referred to as the [[Great French War]].
8: [[Image:Napoleon1.jpg|left|frame|Portrait of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]]]]
11: ... as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]]. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
15: *[[Antoine Baum]], (1728-1804), French chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
30: *[[Henry Cavendish]], (1731-1810), Bristish scientist
31: ...Skłodowska-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...tury]] [[United States]] attempted to escape to [[free state]]s, or as far north as [[Canada]], with t...
4: ...mbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominently in [[African American history]].
10: ...y sects of mainstream denominations such as the [[Free Methodist]]s and [[American Baptist]]s. Books, ...
21: ...g short biographies of the people, that contained frequent railway metaphors. Still maintained corres...
23: ...t four adults and two children were sent by train from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. However, the addit... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865) - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[August 26]], [[1740]] – [[June 26]], [[1810]]) and '''Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier''' ([[Jan...
5: ...at only got them more burnt, so they were scarred from the fire for the rest of their life.
11: ...erformed at [[Versailles]], before [[Louis XVI of France]], to gain his permission for a trial human f...
15: On [[November 21]], [[1783]], the first free flight by humans was made by [[Pilâtre de Rozi...
16: (A flight by Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781 with his "ornithopter", a... - African American (19830 bytes)
1: ...t Africa|West]] and [[sub-Saharan Africa]]. Many African Americans also have [[Europe]]an and/or [[Nat...
6: ...e [[whites]], [[Asian|Asians]] or [[Semites]] of African origin.
10: ... metropolitan areas in 2000. With over 2 million African American residents, [[New York City]] had the...
12: ==African-American history==
13: ''Main article: [[African-American history]]'' - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
2: ...e [[London Science Museum]]. In [[1991]], working from Babbage's original plans, a [[Difference Engine...
8: ... might have done." The second was an Oxford tutor from whom Charles learned enough of the Classics to ...
10: ...Herschel]], [[George Peacock]], and several other friends formed the [[Analytical Society]].
23: *Francis Moore Babbage (born [[1 June]] [[1821]])
29: ...Wilhelm Schickard]], [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]]. He first discussed the principles o... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...valuate the potential interference of British and French-Canadian hunters and trappers who were alread...
5: ...ieutenant]] at the time, but Lewis concealed this from the men and shared the leadership of the expedi...
7: ...rd. [[Sacagawea]] and her [[Shoshone]] tribe came from further west. Not only did Lewis and Clark feel...
10: ...he men prepared for the trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife. Most...
16: .... Without these calm meetings, the white settlers from the East would have stormed the Indian Country ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
8: ...le, a typical rail car can hold up to 125 tons of freight with this and the weight of the car on two f...
9: ...0-70% less energy to transport a given tonnage of freight (or given number of passengers), than does [...
11: ...le tracked rail line can carry more passengers or freight in a given amount of time than a four-laned ...
15: ...save money (see [[Beeching Axe]]). Conversely, US freight railways have consolidated and become more e...
22: ... system on which to run. This system includes [[infrastructure]] such as tracks, [[railroad switch]]es... - Harp (23216 bytes)
2: ...and [[strings (music)|strings]]. Some, known as ''frame harps'', also have a forepillar; those lacking...
4: Harps are found in [[Africa]], [[Europe]], [[North]] and [[South America]]...
8: ...rp and modern concert harp. ''Public domain image from Websters Dictionary 1911.'' <small>([[Media:Har...
12: ... The oldest documented references to the harp are from [[30th century BC|3000 BC]] in [[Mesopotamia]] ...
24: ...(1.2 m) wide at the widest point. The notes range from three octaves below middle C to three and a hal... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
7: ...to the [[empire]] of the Mexicas as distinguished from the Mexicas alone. This article deals with the ...
9: ...e of the Mexicas, Azteca means "someone who comes from [[Aztlán]]", a place commonly believed to be l...
13: ...ating the moment when '''Aztecs''' found the omen from the god [[Huitzilopochtli]] signaling the locat...
14: ...h century, as a way to distance "modern" Mexicans from pre-conquest Mexicans. This usage has been the...
19: ...s derived from ''mexictli'', "navel of the moon", from Nahuatl ''metztli'' (moon) and ''xictli'' (nave... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
54: ...the '''British-American War''', to distinguish it from the concurrent British involvement in the [[Nap...
84: ... were often strained. When revolutionary France [[French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1793|declare...
86: ...s seen as an effective way of combating desertion from the Royal Navy.
88: This issue came to the forefront with the [[Chesapeake-Leopard Affair]] of [[18...
90: ... lifted all embargoes, but offered that if either France or Great Britain were to cease their interfer... - Jacob Broom (291 bytes)
1: ...ntion]] and a signer of the [[U.S. Constitution]] from [[Delaware]]. He was a farmer and a surveyor, a... - Chlorine (10751 bytes)
39: '''Chlorine''' (from the [[Greek language]] ''Chloros'', meaning "pa...
44: ... [[salt]]-forming halogen series and is extracted from chlorides through [[oxidation]] and more common...
50: ...to kill [[bacterium|bacteria]] and other microbes from [[drinking water]] supplies and [[swimming pool...
58: ...ined [[oxygen]]. Chlorine was given its name in [[1810]] by [[Humphry Davy]], who insisted that it was i...
73: ...Chlorine has 9 isotopes with mass numbers ranging from 32 to 40. Only three of these isotopes occur na... - Mercury (element) (24761 bytes)
101: | 1810 kJ/mol
177: ...aratuses. Mercury is mostly obtained by reduction from the [[mineral]] [[cinnabar]].
184: ...nd [[cadmium]] and does not displace [[hydrogen]] from [[acid]]s. Common [[oxidation state]]s of this ...
206: ...]], mercury use was thought to prolong life, heal fractures, and maintain generally good health. The [...
208: ...lity to transform mercury into any metal resulted from the essentially mercurial quality of all metals... - Tellurium (8984 bytes)
65: | 1261 K (1810 ?F)
177: ... Amorphous tellurium is found by precipitating it from a solution of tellurous or telluric [[acid]] (T...
190: ...cury]], to form mercury cadmium telluride, an [[infrared]] sensitive [[semiconductor]] material is for...
193: ...h") was discovered in [[1782]] by the Hungarian [[Franz-Joseph M?von Reichenstein]] (M?Ferenc) in [[Tr...
195: ...applications for tellurium, as well as its use in free-machining [[steel]], which became the dominant ... - Samuel F. B. Morse (8859 bytes)
9: ... by painting portraits. In [[1810]], he graduated from Yale University. Morse later accompanied Allsto...
22: In September of the same year, [[Alfred Vail]], then student at [[New York University]]...
24: ... number code to a code for each letter. Whether Alfred Vail was the actual inventor of this simpler co...
26: ...ical telegraph to a scientific committee at the [[Franklin Institute]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
28: ...?" ([[Bible]], [[Book of Numbers|Numbers]] 23:23) from [[Washington, DC]] to [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. - Arthur Middleton (2124 bytes)
7: ...ics. He was elected Governor of South Carolina ([[1810]]-[[1812]]), U.S. Representative ([[1815]]-[[1819...
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