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- Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...]] in the [[19th century]] [[United States]] attempted to escape to [[free state]]s, or as far north a...
4: ...eventually escape. The Underground Railroad has captured public imagination as a symbol of [[freedom]]...
10: ... such as the [[Free Methodist]]s and [[American Baptist]]s. Books, newspapers, and other organs dissem...
21: ...times hiding them in his Philadelphia home. He kept careful records, including short biographies of t...
23: ...the regular train station in an attempt to intercept the runaways, while Still was able to meet them a... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
25: ...boom|baby boomer]] generation. As such, his assumption of office marked a "generational shift" from t...
42: ... state. Hillary took her husband's surname and adopted a more traditional public role as a political w...
65: ...fill another campaign promise relating to the acceptance of openly [[gay]] members of the [[military]]...
71: ...e to stalled legislation, including a failed attempt to create a comprehensive health care system unde...
73: ...asser Arafat]] during the [[Oslo Accords]] on [[September 13]], [[1993]].]] - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ... Burr, Jr.''' ([[February 6]], [[1756]]–[[September 14]], [[1836]]) was an [[United States|Ameri...
13: ...Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture.
20: In [[1833]], he married again, this time to Eliza Bowen Jum...
38: ...resentatives|House of Representatives]]. The attempts of a powerful faction among the Federalists to s...
46: ...ed with a challenge to a duel, which Hamilton accepted. Both men had been noted duelists in the past,... - Sam Houston (6990 bytes)
9: ...ing an eleven week marriage to Eliza Allen he abruptly resigned (the actual [[divorce]] was not until ...
11: ...oil of the state. He attended the Convention of [[1833]] as representative for [[Nacogdoches, Texas|Naco...
14: ...en by surprise and badly beaten. Santa Anna was captured the following day. Houston briefly remained f...
16: ...[[president]] of the [[Republic of Texas]] on [[September 5]], 1836 and served from [[October 22]], 18... - Wendell Phillips (1286 bytes)
2: ... attend its law school from which he graduated in 1833. In 1834, Phillips was admitted to the [[state ba... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
58: ...outh and West; however, they earned him the contempt of many [[protectionism|protectionists]] in the N...
63: ...signs on Texas. The Republic of Texas did not accept the offer until later in the year, after Polk ent...
65: ...ade Mexico a hostile power. Polk preferred to accept a compromise offered by the British Foreign Secre...
69: ... if given safe passage into Mexico, he would attempt to persuade those in power to sell California and...
71: ...iate with the Mexicans. Delays in the process prompted the President to order Trist to return to the U... - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
8: ... Charles learned enough of the Classics to be accepted to Cambridge.
25: *Henry Prevost Babbage (born [[16 September]] [[1824]])
36: ...nces method]]. The Society approved the idea, prompting the government to grant ?1500 for its construc...
40: ...position but several friends convinced him to accept.
53: ...k about an improved calculating engine. Between [[1833]] and [[1842]] he tried to build a machine that w... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
16: In [[1833]], Davis was promoted to [[First Lieutenant]] of ...
33: In September of the same year, he participated in the suc...
38: ...). He hadn't served a year when he resigned (in September [[1851]]) to run for the [[governor]]ship of...
44: His renewed service in the Senate was interrupted by an illness that threatened him with the loss...
46: ...r, Davis submitted six [[resolution]]s in an attempt to consolidate opinion regarding states' rights, ... - Photography (18493 bytes)
7: ...ng, this produces an image whose contents are acceptably sharp, bright and composed to achieve the obj...
17: ... the lens will allow greater control over the [[depth of field]].
20: ...e interest of scientists and artists from its inception. Scientists have used its capacity to make acc...
34: ...sting silver process in a joint partnership. In [[1833]] Ni鰣e died unexpectedly of a stroke, leaving h...
36: ...tented this process, which greatly limited its adoption. He spent the rest of his life in lawsuits def... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
233: *[[Eratosthenes]] (Ptolemaic Egypt, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C.]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
361: *[[Maurice Loewy]] ([[Austria]]/[[France]], [[1833]] – [[1907]])
472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
461: *[[Wilhelm Dilthey]], (1833-1911){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
482: *[[Eugen D?]], (1833-1921){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}} - Ice age (15810 bytes)
10: ...e/histgeol/agassiz/glacial.htm]. Between 1825 and 1833 [[Jean de Charpentier]] assembled evidence in sup...
41: ...so good that orbital forcing is the generally accepted explanation. The combined effects of the chang...
48: ...sting uncertainties in dating, but not widely accepted at present (Nature 434, 2005, [http://web.mit.e...
93: ...he watersheds of [[Canada]] were so severely disrupted that they are still sorting themselves out &mda... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
20: ... Party]]. The latter was formed in the winter of 1833-1834 but was defunct by the time of the [[America...
22: ...Nothing movement|American Party]]. Since its inception, its chief opposition has been the Democratic ...
54: ...r Democrat [[Woodrow Wilson]], temporarily interrupting the Republican era.
56: ...American politics for the next three decades, excepting the two-term presidency of [[World War II]] Ge...
64: ...nited States|U.S. Congress]], which, with the exception of the Senate during 2001-2002, has been retai... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
12: ...nelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman fr...
21: .... In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of...
69: ...e Holy Roman Emperor until [[1806]] (with the exception of the years between [[1742]] and [[1745]]). H...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t...
116: ...pire. In 1803, under the ''"[[Reichsdeputationshauptschluss]]"'' (a resolution of a committee of the I... - Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
27: ... This was the first of several unsuccessful attempts at gaining the presidency.
31: ...rison only a month after his inauguration. In [[September]] [[1841]] there was an internal division am...
55: *[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/ In-dept Dartmouth College page on their most famous alumn...
57: *[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000238 Congressional biogra... - Biochemistry (3247 bytes)
1: ...[[molecular biology]] for a [[diagram]] and description of the interrelationship between biochemistry,...
8: ... be made by living organisms. It is generally accepted that the term ''biochemistry'' was coined in [[... - Vice President of the United States (33884 bytes)
21: ...ent is constitutionally prevented from voting except in the case of ties. In practice, the Vice Presi...
35: The tumultuous affair led to the adoption of [[Twelfth Amendment to the United States Co...
48: ...ned by every President since. Still, Roosevelt kept his last Vice President [[Harry S. Truman]] uninf...
99: ...'' || [[December 28]], [[1832]] || [[March 4]], [[1833]] || || [[Andrew Jackson|Jackson]]
101: ...nter| 8 || [[Martin Van Buren]] || [[March 4]], [[1833]] || [[March 3]], [[1837]] || [[United States Dem... - James A. Garfield (15070 bytes)
3: ...<font size="+1">'''James A. Garfield'''</font></caption>
6: ...of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1881]] - [[September 19]], [[1881]]</td></tr>
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[September 19]], [[1881]]</td></tr>
19: ...arfield''' ([[November 19]], [[1831]] – [[September 19]], [[1881]]) was the 20th ([[1881]]) [[Pr...
21: ...arrison]]'s. Holding office from [[March]] to [[September]] of [[1881]], President Garfield was in pow... - Benjamin Harrison (11469 bytes)
5: ...<font size="+1">'''Benjamin Harrison'''</font></caption>
11: ...><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[August 20]], [[1833]]</td></tr>
22: '''Benjamin Harrison VI''' ([[August 20]], [[1833]] – [[March 13]], [[1901]]) was the 23rd ([...
36: ...aints and monopolies," the first Federal act attempting to regulate trusts.
42: Harrison tried to make the tariff more acceptable by writing in reciprocity provisions. To cope...
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