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- Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...ench power rose quickly, [[Conquest|conquering]] most of Europe; the fall was also rapid, beginning wi...
12: ... United Kingdom's industrial economy made it the most powerful commercial nation as well.
13: * In most European countries, the importation of the ideal...
20: ...ming independent and mobile artillery units as opposed to the previous tradition of attaching artiller...
26: ...ought at sea, bringing the total for France to almost 3 million combatants. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
18: *[[Joseph Black]], (1728-1799), chemist
19: *[[Carl Bosch]], (1872-1940), German chemist
30: *[[Henry Cavendish]], (1731-1810), Bristish scientist
57: *[[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]]
82: *[[Jaroslav Heyrovsk?1890-1967), Czech chemist - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
4: It is estimated that at its height between [[1810]] and [[1850]], nearly 100,000 people escaped ens...
10: ...d into small, independent groups who, for the purpose of maintaining secrecy, knew of connecting "stat...
21: ...an in communications between escaped slaves and those left behind. He then published these accounts i...
23: Messages often were encoded so that only those active in the Railroad would fully understand th...
27: ...ltop home]]<sup>1</sup> could be seen from the opposite shore. The slaveowner, in hot pursuit, remarke... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
53: *[[Agostino Carlini]] (1718 - 1790)
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
66: *[[Rossella Cosentino]]
72: *[[Cameron Cross]] (1963- ) - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[August 26]], [[1740]] – [[June 26]], [[1810]]) and '''Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier''' ([[Jan...
22: ...is was followed by further flights, including a crossing of the English Channel on January 7, 1785, by...
25: .../webprojects2003/hetherington/final/montgolfier_bros.html "Lighter than air: the Montgolfier brothers"... - African American (19830 bytes)
1: ...thnic group in the [[United States of America]] whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were ind...
6: ... American" generally does not include Afro-[[Latinos]], who tend to use the term "Latino" or "Hispanic...
10: ...ny U.S. city in 2000, with 85 percent, followed closely by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]]...
15: ...olitics. The growth of [[abolitionism]], which opposed the institution of slavery, culminated in the [...
17: ..., ratified in 1865, freed all slaves, including those in states that had not seceded. During [[Reconst... - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
2: ...ngdom|English]] [[mathematician]], analytical philosopher and (proto-) [[computer scientist]] who orig...
5: ...]] on [[December 26]], [[1791]], probably at 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London. Charles' father, Be...
10: ...t [[Trinity College]], [[Cambridge]] in October [[1810]]. He had read extensively in [[Leibniz]], [[Lagr...
25: *Henry Prevost Babbage (born [[16 September]] [[1824]])
38: ... the rooms in his home to a workshop and hired [[Joseph Clement]] to oversee the construction of the e... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...r)|Alexander Mackenzie]], the first European to cross North America by land north of Mexico, in [[1793...
7: ...d guided them westward. [[Sacagawea]] and her [[Shoshone]] tribe came from further west. Not only did ...
9: ...otted [[Mt. Hood]], a mountain known to be very close to the ocean.
10: ... from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife. Mostly they just endured the persistent rain.
16: ...much too soon, and there would have been total chaos. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...], usually of [[steel]], generally mounted upon cross-sectional beams (termed "[[Railroad_tie|sleeper]...
8: ...S. ten cent piece. This is more comfortable than most other forms of land transport and saves energy.
15: ...at has never come close to having receipts equal costs (see [[Transportation in South Korea]]). Simila...
17: ...heir primary goals rather than security, because most trains make many stops, rendering any sort of pa...
26: ...monorail]], [[rubber tired metro|rubber-tyred metros]] and [[maglev]], since the cars also run in a gu... - Harp (23216 bytes)
2: ...own as ''frame harps'', also have a forepillar; those lacking the forepillar are referred to ''open ha...
16: ...s ago. In [[Irish mythology]], a magical harp is possessed by [[The Dagda]].
20: ...dynamics (music)|dynamics]]. Depending on finger position, different tones can be produced: a fleshy p...
26: ...ented by [[Sebastien Erard|S颡stien Erard]] in [[1810]]. Earlier pedal harps had a single-action mechan...
33: ..., E, and B can be reached by only changing lever positions, rather than re-tuning any strings. Blades... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
14: ...ork of [[William Prescot]], it became adopted by most of the world, including the Mexican scholars of ...
17: ...ertain origin. Very different etymologies are proposed: the old [[Nahuatl]] word for the [[sun]], the ...
22: ...ires, it was ethnically very diverse, but unlike most European empires, it was more a system of tribut...
29: ...act that amazed the Spaniards since that was not possible in Europe at that time.
31: ...onger subject to maintenance and were eventually lost. - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...d defence of [[pilgrim|pilgrims]]. Following the loss of Christian territory in the [[Holy Land]], the...
5: ...t]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery...
7: ...n Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order ...
9: ...s, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other est...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
58: ... two future presidents for the U.S., and perhaps most consequentially, the war marked the end of Europ...
84: ...Treaty of Paris]], and was continuing to supply those American Indians in the [[Northwest Territory]] ...
86: .... Although this policy of [[impressment]] was supposed to reclaim only British subjects, between 1806 ...
90: ...stated the embargo with Great Britain and moved closer to declaring war.{{fn|3}}
92: ... against Great Britain for a variety of reasons, mostly related to the interference of the Royal Navy ... - Jacob Broom (291 bytes)
1: ...' ([[October 17]], [[1752]]–[[April 25]], [[1810]]) was a delegate to the [[United States|U.S.]] [... - Chlorine (10751 bytes)
39: ...ounds, it is abundant in nature and necessary to most forms of life, including the human body. As chlo...
58: ...ined [[oxygen]]. Chlorine was given its name in [[1810]] by [[Humphry Davy]], who insisted that it was i...
61: ... the [[Dead Sea]] and in underground [[brine]] deposits.
63: Most chlorides are soluble in water, so solid chlorid...
73: ...2 and 1958. The residence time of Cl-36 in the atmosphere is about 1 week. Thus, as an event marker of... - Mercury (element) (24761 bytes)
101: | 1810 kJ/mol
106: ...="center" bgcolor="ffc0c0"|'''<font color="blue">Most stable isotopes'''</font>
177: ...]]s and other scientific apparatuses. Mercury is mostly obtained by reduction from the [[mineral]] [[c...
182: Mercury easily forms [[alloy]]s with almost all common metals, including [[gold]], [[alumini...
190: ...[[sphygmomanometer]]s (banned in some states and hospitals). - Tellurium (8984 bytes)
65: | 1261 K (1810 ?F)
117: ...olspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#cccc99" | '''Most stable isotopes'''
179: ...esult. When in its molten state, tellurium is corrosive to copper, [[iron]], and [[stainless steel]].
182: ...its strength, durability and to decreases the corrosive action of [[sulfuric acid]]. When added to [[s...
193: ... discovered in [[1782]] by the Hungarian [[Franz-Joseph M?von Reichenstein]] (M?Ferenc) in [[Transylva... - Samuel F. B. Morse (8859 bytes)
3: ...ainter]] of portraits and historic scenes; he is most famous for inventing the electric [[telegraph]] ...
9: ...ay]]. He earned money by painting portraits. In [[1810]], he graduated from Yale University. Morse later...
13: ...se over the telegraph, which he would ultimately lose.) Morse [[prototype]]d an [[electromagnetic]] [[...
21: ...aught painting. Gale was aware of the works of [[Joseph Henry]] on electromagnetic relays. Based on th...
26: ... ([[Maine]]) became a partner with Morse (and proposed a bill in Congress, which didn't pass, for a $3... - Arthur Middleton (2124 bytes)
7: ...Representative ([[1815]]-[[1819]]), and held the post of Minister to Russia ([[1820]]-[[1830]]).
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