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- James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
42: ..., after declaring independence from [[Mexico]] in 1836, had asked to join the United States. Van Buren o...
52: ...support in the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]]. Polk won the crucial state of [[New York]], wh...
58: ...any [[protectionism|protectionists]] in the Northeast.
77: ...olk's devotion to his wife is illustrated by his last words: "I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I lo...
120: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Cave Johnson]]'''|... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
6: ...[Todd County, Kentucky|Todd County]]. Davis, the last of the ten children of [[Samuel Emory Davis]] and...
21: ...]], [[Cuba]], and then to [[New York City]]. In [[1836]], he retired to Brierfield Plantation in [[Warre...
31: ...d sailed from [[New Orleans]] for the [[Texas]] coast three days later.
59: ...ia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] on [[May 10]] with Postmaster General [[John Henninger Reagan]] and former Te...
62: ...mate at [[Fort Monroe|Fortress Monroe]], on the coast of Virginia. The casemate was wet, unheated, and... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
1: ...ted States]] overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.
3: ... 1803 sparked interest in expansion to the west coast. A few weeks after the purchase, [[United States ...
7: ...er]] westward. Soon they passed Le Rochette, the last white settlement on the [[Missouri River]]. On [[...
9: ...the [[Snake River]], and the [[Columbia River]], past [[Celilo Falls]] and through what is now [[Portla...
10: ...ed to camp on the south side of the river (modern Astoria, OR) , building [[Fort Clatsop]] as their win... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
8: *[[1602]] – The [[Dutch East India Company]] is established.
51: *[[1836]] - Sir [[Edward Poynter]], painter (d. [[1919]])
127: *Feast of [[Cuthbert of Lindisfane|St. Cuthbert]], [[pat... - Little Rock, Arkansas (9366 bytes)
55: *1836 - [[Arkansas]] became the 25th state, and Little ...
88: * The [[Arkansas River]] runs past Little Rock. The city of [[North Little Rock]] i... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
16: |timezone=[[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5
22: ...ation of Atlanta|population]] of 425,000 and the fast-growing [[Atlanta metropolitan area]] totaled 4,7...
33: Atlanta was first planned in [[1836]] as a terminus on the [[Western & Atlantic Railr...
41: ...nsions mounted. A [[race riot]] in 1906 left at least twelve dead and over seventy injured. In 1913, [...
43: ... [[World War II]], soldiers from around the southeast went through Atlanta to train and later be discha... - Indianapolis, Indiana (25903 bytes)
31: .... Construction of the Central Canal commenced in 1836, but Indiana went bankrupt in [[1839]] from the l...
33: ...was a center of production rivaling Detroit, at least for a few years. With roads as the spokes of a w...
47: ... Indianapolis is the One-Mile Square, bounded by East, West, North, and South Streets. At the center o...
118: ...University Purdue University Indianapolis]]. The last was originally an urban conglomeration of branch ...
146: ...ianapolis ([[as of 2005]]) is [[Bart Peterson]]. Past mayors include Steve Goldsmith, Peterson's predec... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
190: *[[Jean Gaston Darboux]] ([[France]], [[August 14]],[[1842]] -...
299: * [[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]] (Scotla...
372: *[[Gaston Julia|Gaston Maurice Julia]] (Algeria, France, [[1893]] - [[... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
90: *[[Louis Boyer (astronomer)|Louis Boyer]] ([[France]])
132: *[[Josep Comas Sol ([[Spain]])<!--Last name = "Comas Solᦱuot;, list under C -->
166: *[[Terence Dickinson]], ([[Canada]]), astronomer and author
202: *[[Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer)|Charles Fehrenbach]] ([[France]], [[1914]... - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
1: ...humb|right|"Abaelardus and Heloïse surprised by Master Fulbert", by [[Romanticism|Romanticist]] painte...
2: ...21]], [[1142]]) was a French [[Scholasticism|scholastic]] [[philosopher]]. The story of his affair wit...
7: ... in the little village of Pallet, about 10 miles east of [[Nantes]], in [[Brittany]], the eldest son of...
11: ...ced of Realists. He was soon able to defeat the master in argument, resulting in a long duel that ende...
13: ...which were acknowledged superior to those of the master. Abélard was now at the height of his fame. ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century)
311: *[[Hector-Neri Casta]], (1924-1991){{fn|C}} - Ice age (15810 bytes)
2: ... [[Vostok, Antarctica|Vostok]] ice core over the last 400 000 years]]
4: ... and [[Europe]]an continents: in this sense, the last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. This articl...
6: ...ere have been four major ice ages in the further past.
10: ...]] assembled evidence in support of this idea. In 1836 Charpentier convinced [[Jean Louis Rodolphe Agass...
12: ...eing studied were the glacial periods within the past few hundred thousand years, during the current ic... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
33: ...rty earlier, a [[political cartoon]] by [[Thomas Nast]], published in ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's We...
46: ...lavery had long been prohibited, and in the Northeast, culminating in a sweep of victories in the North...
48: ...o had participated in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves pos...
58: ...tionism]]. [[Thomas Dewey]] represented the Northeastern wing of the party that was closer to Democrati...
60: ...ing pockets of liberal Republicanism in the northeast began to die out as the region turned solidly Dem... - Proton (5009 bytes)
46: ...; 10<sup>−27</sup> kg]], or about 1836 times the mass of an [[electron]]). The proton is... - Mexican-American War (9503 bytes)
11: ...outhwestern United States; Northern, Central and Eastern Mexico
39: ..., and the '''War of Northern Aggression''' (this last name is more commonly used in the [[U.S. South|Am...
42: ...fter having won its independence from Mexico in [[1836]], the [[Republic of Texas]] was [[annexation|ann...
53: ...dly by generals instructed to make sure that the last thing they saw was the lowering of the [[Mexican ...
55: ...Veterans Affairs]], the [[Last Surviving Veteran|last surviving US veteran]] of the conflict, [[Owen Th... - Moon (37975 bytes)
12: | 384,400 [[kilometre|km]]<br />(0.0026 [[Astronomical unit|AU]])
56: | 3,476.2 km [http://www.onasch.de/astro/showobject.php?lang=en&head=f&anim=129&obj=p03m...
218: ...the Moon reaches its [[apogee]], its rotation is faster than its orbital motion and reveals another eig...
240: ... of the unit) not useful, as it changes only the last decimal --->
286: ...rom a debris field around Earth resulting from an asteroid or planetesimal collision. - Alpaca (9975 bytes)
23: ...vel, throughout the year. They are not used as beasts of burden like [[llama|llamas]], but are valued ...
38: ...ting triggers ovulation in the female. Gestation lasts about 11 months, and females usually give birth ...
66: ... the [[Bradford, England|Bradford]] trade about [[1836]] that the true qualities of alpaca could be deve...
74: ...ducts and keep their eating area away from their waste area to avoid diseases. - Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
7: ... son of Ebenezer and Abigail Webster (née Eastman) and raised on his parents' farm (a small parc...
27: ... saw as Jackson's attack on the National Bank. In 1836 Webster was one of three [[United States Whig Par...
33: ...ine Affair]] and also established the definitive Eastern border between the United States and [[Canada]...
43: ...first ages, with the civility and thought of the last.
61: ...rison]]| years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1836|1836]] (lost)<sup>(a)</sup>}} - Iodine (11416 bytes)
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139: ...living [[organism]]s. Chemically, iodine is the least reactive of the [[halogen]]s, and the most electr...
154: ...sorbing the radioactive iodine produced at the disaster area.
160: ...nd the ash then washed with water. The remaining waste was destroyed by adding [[sulfuric acid]]. One d... - U.S. Electoral College (46986 bytes)
8: ...ident and Vice President. These electors in turn cast the official votes for those two offices.
12: ... days following the election, at which time they cast their electoral votes. Thus the electoral college...
14: ...f more than half the state delegations—at least 26 state votes, given the current number, 50, of ...
16: ... the sitting Vice President would be entitled to cast his usual tie-breaking vote if the Senate should ...
20: ...he Senate remains deadlocked on a Vice President past Inauguration Day. On the one hand, the [[Twelfth...
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