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- Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
1: [[Image:VPthomasrmarshall.JPG|frame|Thomas R. Marshall]]
2: ...ited States of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson]] from [[1913]] to [[1921]].
5: ...s born in [[North Manchester, Indiana]], where he frequently spent time at the courthouse listening to...
7: He served as [[Governor]] of [[Indiana]] from [[1909]] to [[1913]]. He was a popular speaker...
15: ...er of Democratic party insiders wanted him dumped from the [[1916]] ticket. Wilson, after deliberatin... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...tate-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especially by Jackson...
58: ...g office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one excepti...
63: ...itution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opinion that the 'lawles...
65: <blockquote>"I freely confess that I should experience great reluct...
69: ...t an example, in the bosom of this Union, of such frightful disorder, such needless convulsions of soc... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Franklin Pierce]]</td></tr>
20: ...dency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]].
26: ...d complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.
29: ...merican War]]. Taylor wanted the new states to be free states, while Fillmore supported slavery in tho...
41: Clay, exhausted, left Washington to recuperate, throwing leadership upon Senator [... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Pierce
3: | image name=Franklin Pierce.jpg
18: ... 14th [[President of the United States]], serving from [[1853]] to [[1857]]. Pierce was a [[United Sta...
20: ...[[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
25: ...[[Benjamin Pierce (governor)|Benjamin Pierce]], a frontier farmer who became a [[American Revolutionar... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
17: | [[Franklin Pierce]]
50: ...criticized for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American ...
53: ...uri]]. Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
55: ...us King]], and for some years lived with him in [[Washington, D.C.]]. Rumors and speculation that the two had ...
57: ...by the resignation of William Wilkins. He served from [[December 6]], [[1834]]; was reelected in [[18... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
32: ...ging that the "S" stood for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class...
34: ...[August 22]], [[1848]]. They had four children: [[Frederick Dent Grant]], Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr....
39: ...pultepec]]. On [[July 31]], [[1854]], he resigned from the army. Seven years of civilian life followed...
48: ... attack until the enemy surrendered or was driven from the field. Such tactics often resulted in heavy...
50: ...in which the destruction of an enemy's economic infrastructure that supplied its armies was as importa... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
2: [[image:HenryWilson.jpg|framed|Henry Wilson]]
3: ... [[1875]]) was a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Massachusetts]] and the eighteenth [[Vice Pre...
5: ...was owner and editor of the ''Boston Republican'' from [[1848]] to [[1851]].
7: ...]] in [[1859]], [[1865]] and [[1871]], and served from [[January 31]], [[1855]], to [[March 3]], [[187...
9: ...th in the [[United States Capitol]] Building at [[Washington, DC]]. He was interred in Old Dell Park Cemetery... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
20: ... times a day. He was called "Chet" by family and friends. Interestingly, Chester Arthur pronounced h...
22: Arthur suffered from [[Bright's Disease]] and died of a [[cerebral h...
27: ...Vermont|Fairfield]] in [[Franklin County, Vermont|Franklin County]], [[Vermont]] on October 5, 1829 (a...
29: He attended the public schools and was graduated from [[Union College]], [[Schenectady, New York]], i...
33: ...ystem even as it was coming under vehement attack from reformers. He insisted upon honest administrati... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
4: .... Arthur]], 41 delegates from 25 nations met in [[Washington, D.C.]], USA for the International Meridian Confe...
9: ...longitudes would be calculated both east and west from this meridian up to 180?.
15: ...gainst); [[France]] and [[Brazil]] abstained. The French did not adopt the Greenwich meridian until [[...
17: ...o the right) is on the opposite side of the world from the Prime Meridian.
33: ...″ <!--not certain of seconds, could also be fractional seconds-->west of Greenwich) - Basalt (2961 bytes)
2: ...n be highly vesiculated, imparting a lightweight "frothy" texture to the rock. The term basalt is ofte...
4: ...es of [[zeolite]]s, [[quartz]] or [[calcite]] are frequently found.
8: ...in [[India]], the [[Columbia River Plateau]] of [[Washington]] and [[Oregon]] states in the [[United States]],... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
4: The name "volcano" has its origin from the name of [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]], a god of f...
18: ...'[[Volcanic cones]]''' or [[cinder cone]]s result from eruptions that throw out mostly small pieces of...
41: ...tive" volcano. The lifespan of a volcano can vary from months to several million years, making such a ...
43: ...to note that the span of recorded history differs from region to region; in the [[Mediterranean]], rec...
47: ...tone as extinct. In fact, because the caldera has frequent earthquakes, a very active geothermal syste... - North America (12844 bytes)
4: ...phically defined by subtracting [[South America]] from the [[supercontinent]] of the [[Americas]]. Bot...
14: ...any sub-regions): the [[Great Plains]] stretching from the [[Gulf of Mexico]] to the [[Canadian Arctic...
16: ... the coast ranges in California, [[Oregon]] and [[Washington state]], with the Great Basin – a lower are...
58: *[[Guadeloupe]] (overseas department of [[France]])
59: *[[Martinique]] (overseas department of [[France]]) - United States (58223 bytes)
13: capital = [[Washington, D.C.]] |latd=38|latm=53|latNS=N|longd=77|longm=0...
36: established_dates = From [[Great Britain]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[...
57: ...irst [[President of the United States]], [[George Washington]]]]
58: ...on of the Americas]], [[thirteen colonies]] split from Great Britain and formed the United States, the...
60: ... the [[Emancipation Proclamation]], mandating the freedom of all slaves in states in rebellion, though... - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ...e of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[G...
10: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] populat...
17: ...ions]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism ...
18: * [[Canadian French|French]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and ...
46: ...t|[[New Brunswick]]||[[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]] - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
7: ==[[Africa]]==
8: Africa is a continent in the systems with 5 or more c...
17: *[[Central African Republic]] (Centrafrique) - [[Bangui]]
42: *[[Mayotte]] - [[Mamoutzou]] (France)
48: ...R鵮ion]] - [[Saint-Denis, R鵮ion|Saint-Denis]] (France) - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
33: <tr><td>[[Bangui]] <td>[[Central African Republic]]
44: <tr><td>[[Bloemfontein]] <td>[[South Africa]] (judicial)
58: <tr><td>[[Cape Town]] <td>[[South Africa]] (legislative)
80: <tr><td>[[Freetown]] <td>[[Sierra Leone]]
161: <tr><td>[[Paris]] <td>[[France]] - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
1: ...aintained independence during the [[Scramble for Africa]], and continued to do so until [[1936]], when...
40: ...gdom|British]]) [http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/ethiopia/pankhurst/history_of_northern_ethiopi...
59: ...at powers of his time. It was at this time that [[Frumentius]] introduced [[Christianity]] into the co...
61: ...r]]), basing their claims on their direct descent from [[Solomon]] and the queen of [[Sheba]].
67: ... the southern entrance of the Red Sea, was bought from the local sultan in March 1870 by an Italian co... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ... is derived from the name of the city of Algiers; from the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word ''al-jaz...
21: ... || [[Berber language|Berber]], [[French language|French unofficial but commonly used in administratio...
38: | From [[France]]<br>[[July 5]], [[1962]]
60: ...Berber]]s (or Amazigh) since at least 10,000 BC. From [[1000 BC]] on, the [[Carthage|Carthaginians]] ...
62: ... many coastal cities, prompting some to seek help from the [[Ottoman Empire]]. - Jordan (20715 bytes)
48: | From the [[League of Nations]]<br>
77: ...ion -- 700,000 in 1966 -- grew by another 300,000 from the West Bank. The period following the 1967 wa...
79: ...ver the ''fedayeen'' in July 1971, expelling them from the country.
81: ...on to that effect on [[July 25]], [[1994]] (see [[Washington Declaration]]). As a result, an [[Israel-Jordan T...
88: ...er Chamber of Deputies, elected by [[universal suffrage]] to a 4-year term, is subject to dissolution ...
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