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- Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...m and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. There are 10 more provinces in the Netherlands...
32: Religion = [[Christianity]], [[Islam]], [[Hinduism]] and [[Judaism]] |
72: During the [[19th century]], The Netherlands was slow to industrialize compared to neighboring countr...
102: ...risian language]]) - north, better known as ''Friesland''; capital: [[Leeuwarden]]
130: ...ng the famous [[polders]]. In [[1932]], the ''[[Afsluitdijk]]'' (English "Barrier Dike") was completed... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
74: ...es were incorporated into the Russian Empire by [[1840]]. With the Russian seizure of territories belong...
76: ...ty. From the 1890s onwards ever-larger numbers of Slavic settlers began [[colonising]] the territory o...
91: ... chief]] of the armed forces and may [[veto]] legislation that has been passed by the [[Parliament]]. ...
93: ...itiative, though the government proposes most legislation considered by the Parliament.
162: ...nd other minorities (15%). Religions are Sunni Muslim, Russian Orthodox, Protestant, and others. Kaz... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
129: ...l plateau, lies further inland. This is a smooth, slowly rising area which has many [[Fertility|fertil...
164: ...ther religions widely practised in Belgium are [[Islam]], [[Protestantism]], [[Anglicanism]] and [[Jud...
177: ...nly those institutions imposed by the Belgian legislature (such as trade unions).
181: ...]] is famous for inventing the [[saxophone]] in [[1840]].
189: ...t the very rare pure lambics, fermented spontaneously by wild yeasts, as being the finest and most com... - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
65: ...federation fell apart in a war from [[1838]] to [[1840]], and Guatemala became an independent nation.
112: ...s signed in December [[1996]] provide for the translation of some official documents and voting materi... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Michael Easley]] |
42: ...he demise of one, the "Lost Colony" of [[Roanoke Island]], remains one of the great mysteries of Ameri...
46: ...o establish its state and local governments. In [[1840]], it completed the state capitol building in [[R...
48: ...le attempt by Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston to slow Union Gen. Sherman's advance into the Carolinas...
58: ...h Carolina|Raleigh]] and its governor is [[Mike Easley]], a Democrat. Its two U.S. senators are [[Eliz... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
46: ...usiastically identified the pueblos as the fabulously rich [[Seven Cities of Cibola]], the fabled seve...
60: ...rapping parties from the United States had previously reached Santa Fe, but the Spanish rulers forbade...
64: ..., guide, and hunter for exploring parties until [[1840]].
74: ...avery, took precedence. Regardless of its status, slavery never took a significant hold.
107: ...ate senate with 42 members comprise the state legislature. The Democratic Party generally dominates st... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
45: * [[sledges]] - [[Scandinavia]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
217: =====[[1840s]]=====
218: * [[1840]]: [[Frigate]] with [[submarine]] machinery [[SS ...
219: * [[1840]]: artificial [[fertilizer]]: [[Justus von Liebi... - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
4: The British colony of the [[Pitcairn Islands]], (2004 population 47 people), which some cl...
13: ...776]], but rescinded in [[1807]]. The [[Pitcairn Islands]] granted women's suffrage in [[1838]]. Vario...
31: ... law was revised to exclude them. This was obviously an unconstitutional act, since the State Constit...
33: ...llogg Wright Davis]]. At about the same time, in 1840, [[Lydia Mott]] and [[Mary Fuller]] became active...
39: ...had already been made. The first Territorial legislature of [[Wyoming]] granted woman suffrage in 186... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
12: ...o forms of [[unfree labour|unfree labor]] such as slavery and indentured servitude, and a British poli...
36: ...ly into Oregon, California, and Texas. By the mid-1840s U.S. expansionism was articulated in terms of th...
38: ...point of sectional tensions over the expansion of slavery.
43: ...s which occasioned many anti-abolitionist and pro slave sentiments that still exist to this day.
47: ...slavery was abolished and the American nation was slowly reconstructed. - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...] to use the word in its title was published in [[1840]] by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877...
64: ...oids, beginning with [[323 Brucia]], whereas only slightly more than 300 had been discovered up to tha...
67: ...cope, the image of the body would appear to float slightly above the background of stars. Third, once ...
134: ...the review: [http://www.badmovies.org/movies/greenslime/]. The movie inspired the classic [[board game... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist...
39: *[[Kazimierz Alchimowicz]] ([[1840]]-[[1916]])
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]]) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
2: '''Oscar-Claude Monet''' ([[November 14]], [[1840]] – [[December 5]], [[1926]]) was a French ...
8: ...te Renoir]], [[Frederic Bazille]], and [[Alfred Sisley]]. Together they shared new approaches to art, ... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
115: *[[John Philip Holland]], (1840-1914) — "true" submarine
151: *[[Elijah McCoy]] — son of former slaves, patented many [[lubrication]] devices
173: *[[Slavoljub Eduard Penkala]], (1871-1922), [[Croatia]]...
186: ...]], [[United States|USA]] — automatic bread-slicing machine
206: ...ication]], [[robot]]ics, [[logic gate]]s, the [[Tesla turbine|bladeless turbine]], radio and [[VTOL|V... - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
20: ...n C. Calhoun]] (Jackson's vice-president) anonymously publishes ''South Carolina Exposition and Protes...
57: === [[1840s]] ===
58: ...as-1970-1840.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1840]]
98: *[[1856]] - [[Guano Islands Act]] - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ...g the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachia...
9: ...e]] makes provisions for the future admittance of slave states and free states.
12: .... Calhoun demands that the North keep quiet about slavery in order to maintain peace.
19: + [[Nat Turner]] leads a [[slave revolt]] in [[Southampton County, Virginia]]. ...
20: ...e rise of [[abolitionism]], Southern defenders of slavery start seeing it not as a "necessary evil," b... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
9: ...des to enforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
13: ... control of all state governorships and state legislatures, often installing blacks into positions of ...
15: ...States Constitution|thirteenth]], which abolished slavery; the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United St...
21: ...ere rapidly eroded. Much of the civil rights legislation was overturned by the [[Supreme Court of the...
30: ...he Siousx were new arrivals on the Plains--previously they had been sedate farmers in the Great Lakes ... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
40: ...ed States two decades later. The population grew slowly until the opening of the [[Erie Canal]] in 18...
68: ...ritorial Governor and Judges to a nine-member Legislative Council, appointed by the U.S. President who...
71: ...h state), it was admitted concurrently with the [[slave]] state of [[Arkansas]].
78: *[[1840]] [[Douglass Houghton]] reported finding [[copper...
80: *[[1847]] A law was passed by the State Legislature to re-locate from Detroit the State Capital ... - History of California (38344 bytes)
11: ...]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early inhabit...
19: ...President of [[New Spain]]) was told by an Indian slave of the [[Seven Cities of Cibola]] that had str...
23: ...[[May 3]], [[1535]], Cortés claimed "Santa Cruz Island" (now known as the peninsula of [[Baja Califor...
26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]]
28: ...ated the peninsula and sailed as far as [[Cedros Island]]. - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
25: ... (the latter calls it Eight Hours Day). In [[Queensland]] Labour Day is held on the first Monday in Ma...
29: ...Demonstration Day''. In [[1899]] government legislated that the day be a public holiday from [[1900]... - Oceanography (3841 bytes)
11: ...ion of [[atoll]]s, but the existence of the steep slope beyond the [[continental shelf|continental she...
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