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- George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
2: ...]] and other [[plant]]s to increase the profitability of farming.
5: ...]] that left him with a permanently weakened constitution. Because of this, he was unable to work as a...
7: ...tchen to collect his reward. When he entered the kitchen, he saw no one. He did, however, see somethin...
9: ...ouraged the boy to continue his intellectual pursuits. When George was 12, he decided to strike out on...
11: ...Mechanic Arts, which today is [[Iowa State University]]. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
34: *[[Karl Bitter]] (1867 - 1915)
64: *[[Camille Claudel]] (1864 - 1943)
110: *[[Vincenzo Gemito]] (1852 - 1929)
166: ...talie Krol]] [http://www.nataliekrol.com Gallery Site]
177: *[[Sol LeWitt]] - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
10: |date=[[May|May 5–7]], [[1864]]
13: |combatant1=[[United States of America]]
22: ...he battle was fought [[May 5]]–[[May 7|7]], 1864.
24: ...ellorsville were fought in the same spot, but the 1864 battle was actually fought a few miles to the wes...
26: ...o set up his camps to the west of the old battle site before moving southward. Unlike the Union army o... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
3: ...n [[United States|American]] [[soldier]] and [[politician]]. He served in the [[U.S. Congress]] and as...
5: ==Early life and military career==
6: ...of Davis's brothers fought the [[British Empire|British]], two of them serving under [[Andrew Jackson]...
10: ...In [[1824]], Davis entered the [[United States Military Academy]] at [[West Point, New York]] as a [[c...
14: ...e escorted [[Black Hawk]] himself to prison—it is said that the chief liked Davis because of the... - James Longstreet (9732 bytes)
8: .... Army]] in [[June]] of [[1861]] to cast his lot with the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]...
14: ...ctician was mixed, however, and he often clashed with the highly aggressive Lee on the subject of the ...
16: ...homas J. Jackson]], switched their normal roles, with Jackson fighting defensively on the Confederate ...
18: ...[Battle of Fredericksburg]]. There, Longstreet positioned his men behind a stone wall and held off fou...
20: ... that had been under Union control—and send it to feed Lee's hungry soldiers. However, this oper... - Belle Boyd (1031 bytes)
2: ... Prison]] in [[Washington, DC|Washington]]. In [[1864]] she went to [[England]] where she met and marri... - John Hanning Speke (2178 bytes)
1: ...ploration to [[Africa]]. He also created the [[Hamitic hypothesis]], a suspected major cause of the [[...
3: ...rdships, the two managed to reach the 'forbidden city' [[Harar]].
7: ...e had by then already been chosen to lead an expedition to further clarify the issue.
9: ... of the lake, Speke found the Nile flowing out of it and discovered the [[Rippon Falls]]. Next he trav...
11: ...cident - although Burton and some others believed it might actually have been suicide. - March 17 (9666 bytes)
6: ...ar]] defeats the [[Pompey|Pompeian]] forces of [[Titus Labienus]] and [[Gnaeus Pompeius|Pompey the You...
9: ...[St. Patrick's Day]] is celebrated in [[New York City]] for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle T...
10: ...ashington]] places [[artillery]] overlooking the city.
11: ...ingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)|Kingdom of Italy]], with Napoleon as King.
13: *[[1861]] - The Kingdom of [[Italy]] is proclaimed. - March 18 (10594 bytes)
11: ...65|Stamp Act]], which was very unpopular in the British colonies.
14: ...[[Paris_Commune|socialist]] government rules the city.
15: ...[[1874]] - [[Hawaii]] signs a treaty with the [[United States]] granting exclusive [[trade|trading]] r...
16: ...[Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham rad...
18: ...ip]]s are sunk during a failed [[United Kingdom|British]] & [[France|French]] naval attack on the [[Da... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
8: ...mes the site of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken).
11: *[[1914]] - [[Giuseppe Mercalli]], Italian volcanologist (b. [[1850]])
13: ...off in pursuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the first [[United States]] air-combat mission in history.
14: *[[1918]] - The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] establishes [[time zone]...
15: *[[1920]] - The [[United States Senate]] rejects the [[Treaty of Versail... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
2: {{USCityBox|city=Atlanta|state=Georgia
4: |cityseal=Image:Us-gaat2.png
5: |cityflag=Image:atlanta_city_seal.png
6: ... Capital of the South", "The Phoenix City", "The City Too Busy to Hate", "Hotlanta", "A-Town", "The Bi...
14: |population=(city) 416,474<br />(metropolis) 4,247,981 - Boise, Idaho (9777 bytes)
2: {{Template:US City infobox|
3: city = Boise |
5: nickname = "City of Trees" |
9: founded = [[1864]] |
16: city pop = 185,787| - Helena, Montana (6927 bytes)
2: ... surrounding area the population reaches 40,000. It is the [[county seat]] of [[Lewis and Clark Count...
5: {{Template:US City infobox|
6: city = Helena |
13: founded = [[October 30]], [[1864]] |
15: mayor = [[James E. Smith]]| - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...glish language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ...[[Ralph Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
196: *[[Nathan Birnbaum]], (1864-1937) - July 24 (8660 bytes)
1: ...r]]s) of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 160 days remaining.
6: *[[1701]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] founded.
7: ... toward [[Niagara]] to halt [[Jacob Brown]]'s [[United States|American]] invaders.
9: ...y, resulting in the establishment of [[Salt Lake City]].
10: ... [[Jubal Anderson Early|Jubal Early]] defeats [[United States|Union]] troops led by General [[George C... - List of Governors of Wisconsin (3807 bytes)
5: ... bgcolor=#DDEEFF><td>1<td>[[Nelson Dewey]]<td>[[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]]<td>1848 - 18...
6: ...or=#FFFFCC><td>2<td>[[Leonard J. Farwell]]<td>[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]<td>1852 - 1854
9: ...gcolor=#FFE8E8><td>5<td>[[Coles Bashford]]<td>[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]<td>1856 - ...
12: ...d>8<td>[[Edward Salomon]]<td>Republican<td>1862 - 1864
13: ...E8E8><td>9<td>[[James T. Lewis]]<td>Republican<td>1864 - 1866 - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
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14: website = [http://www.gop.com http://www.gop.com]
18: ...]], as well as in governorships. In the modern political era, the GOP is the more [[conservatism|conse...
20: ...ty (United States)|Democratic Party]] and the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]]. The latter was...
22: ...can Party]]. Since its inception, its chief opposition has been the Democratic Party. - Neanderthal (12705 bytes)
14: ...ensis | author = [[William King|King]] | date = [[1864]] }}
16: ...go (the [[Middle Palaeolithic]] and [[Lower Paleolithic]], in the [[Pleistocene]] epoch).
18: ...rt but robust builds and large [[nose]]. These traits are promoted by [[natural selection]] in cold [[...
20: ...an Culture]], after a prominent [[archaeological site]] where the tools were first found.
26: ... be [[bear]] remains by the workers who recovered it. The workers gave the material to amateur natural...
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