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- United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
9: ...''', made in [[1819]] from [[Spain]], under the administration of [[John Quincy Adams]]
15: ...ns against Mexico, which amounted to more than $3 million.
17: ... a strip of land along the Mexican border for $10 million, now in New Mexico and Arizona. This territo...
27: ...slands]]''', bought from the Danish Crown for $25 million on [[January 17]], [[1917]] during the [[Wor...
29: ...ised under the UN trusteeship system in [[1947]]. Micronesia and the Marshall Islands both achieved in... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
5: [[Military history of the United States]] <br>
6: [[Military history of the Confederate States]]
22: ...]] [[1861]]–[[1863]]. 34 stars, after the admission of [[Kansas]] to the Union''<br />
24: ''[[1863]]–[[1864]]. 35 stars, after the admission of [[West Virginia]]).''<br />
26: ''[[1864]]–[[1865]]. 36 stars, after the admission of [[Nevada]].''<br /> - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
5: *[[1820]] - [[Missouri Compromise]]
8: *[[1821]] - [[Missouri]] becomes a state
13: *[[1824]] - First presidential nominating [[political convention]]
19: *[[1828]] - [[Tariff of Abominations]] passed
30: *[[1831]] - [[Cyrus McCormick]] invents the [[reaper]] - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
6: ... region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
9: ...ri Compromise]] makes provisions for the future admittance of slave states and free states.
23: | + The Compromise Tariff of 1833 ends the [[Nullification crisis]...
27: ...lavery "debates" are held at [[Lane Theological Seminary]] in [[Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati]].
36: |Slaves revolt on the ''[[Amistad]]''. - Illinois (27007 bytes)
24: AdmittanceOrder = 21<sup>st</sup> |
25: AdmittanceDate = [[December 3]], [[1818]] |
39: ...ty is [[Chicago]], along the waterfront of [[Lake Michigan]]. Most of the state's population resides ...
45: ... replaced in Illinois by the [[Potawatomi]], [[Miami]], [[Sauk]], and other tribes.
53: ...o]] gained prominence as a [[canal]] port after [[1848]], and as a rail hub soon afterward. By 1857, Chi... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
14: ...y the [[Committee of Safety (Hawaii)|Citizen's Committee of Public Safety]] overthrow the government o...
18: ...17]] - The [[United States]] pays [[Denmark]] $25 million for the [[U.S. Virgin Islands|Virgin Islands...
19: ...er Segar]], first appeared in a [[newspaper]] [[comic strip]].
25: ... Brinks Robbery]] - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in [[Boston, Massachuset...
28: ...]] diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg. - Morse code (33777 bytes)
2: ...orse]]'s electric [[Telegraphy|telegraph]] in the mid-1830s, it was also extensively used for early [[...
4: ....g. a flashing light). Because Morse code is transmitted using just two states — on and off — it w...
13: ...". Morse's original code specification, largely limited to use in the United States, became known as R...
17: ...aper tape — when an electrical current was transmitted, the receiver's electromagnet rotated an arma...
19: ...ssages. Initially, Morse had planned to only transmit numerals, and use a dictionary to look up each w... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...day State of [[California]] has been occupied for millennia, the lack of a written record and the sign...
5: ...t of interest primarily populated by [[missionary|missionaries]] and fur trappers, to a land of opport...
10: ...ge:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
13: ...ibes were the ''[[Chumash]]'', ''[[Maidu]]'', ''[[Miwok]]'', ''[[Modoc]]'', ''[[Mohave]]'', ''[[Ohlone...
36: ...eptember 28]] at [[San Diego|San Diego Bay]], claiming the [[Island of California]] for Spain. - Colorado (22240 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 38<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[August 1]], [[1876]] |
38: StateMotto = ''Nil sine numine'' ([[Latin]], "Nothing without Providence") |
50: Mineral=Show | StateMineral = [[Rhodochrosite]] |
72: |'''[[List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, stones and gemstones|Gemstone]]''' ... - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1199 bytes)
2: ...s]] for a sum of [[United States dollar|USD]] $15 million.
4: ...Colorado]], [[Arizona]], [[New Mexico]], and [[Wyoming]], and the whole of [[California]], [[Nevada]],...
6: ...]] on [[March 10]] and by Mexico on [[May 19]], [[1848]]. - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
5: ...Estate|clergy]], the remnants of [[feudalism]]. Similarly, the peasants covetously eyed the relatively...
7: ...e of the American revolutionaries, such as [[Benjamin Franklin]], had stayed in [[Paris]], where they ...
9: ...m]]." [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/12/15.htm]
11: == Economics ==
17: ...and there was also far less ready [[capital (economics)|capital]] in France, as it was not nearly as m... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
17: * Resentment at noble privilege and dominance in public life by the ambitious professional...
20: ...ing of the Bastille.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The storming of the Bastille, July 14 1789]]
21: ...t factions, and both ministers were ultimately dismissed. [[Charles Alexandre de Calonne]], who becam...
23: ...gthy review of France's financial situation, determined that it was not sustainable, and proposed a un...
25: ...luding freedom of worship to Protestants), and promising the convocation of the Estates-General within... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...nd Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the [[Bourbon Dynasty,...
5: ... the brief [[Treaty of Amiens|peace concluded at Amiens]] in [[1802]]. The Napoleonic Wars ended on [[...
11: * France was no longer a dominant power in Europe, as it had been since the tim...
17: ==Military legacy of the wars==
18: ...ve countries. However, military innovators in the middle of the 18th century began to recognize the po... - Ireland (33828 bytes)
5: ...million people, 4 million in the Republic and 1.7 million in Northern Ireland.
13: ...n. The island's lush vegetation, a product of its mild climate and frequent but soft rainfall, earns i...
15: ...n]] subdivided (some cities also have their own administrative regions). For election constituencies, ...
30: ...reland]]. Prior to [[England|English]] rule in [[Middle Ages|medi涡l]] times a national kingdom had ...
32: ...Scotland|Scottish]] traditional music have many similarities. [[The Ireland Funds]], an international ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
1: This is a list of famous chemists:
6: *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877-1950), German chemist
7: *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869-1910), German chemist
8: ...[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
9: ...Johan August Arfwedson]], (1792-1841), Swedish chemist - Sicily (18450 bytes)
21: ...ranean Sea]], with an area of 25,700 sq. km and 5 million inhabitants.
24: ...Other famous Sicilian towns include [[Cefal?[[Taormina]], [[Bronte, Sicily|Bronte]], [[Marsala]], [[Co...
32: ...lian Islands|Aeolian]] islands to the north are administratively a part of Sicily, as are the [[Aegadi...
34: ...]] are among its other agricultural products. The mines of the [[Caltanissetta]] district became a lea...
48: There are also minor national airports in [[Trapani]] and the small... - Palermo (10618 bytes)
3: ... (population 680,000) is the principal city and administrative seat of the autonomous region of [[Sici...
8: ...ative calm, Palermo coming under the provincial administration in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. When t...
12: ...Palatine Chapel, the church San Giovanni degli Eremiti and the Zisa. [http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/7...
14: ...oy, Palermo grew in population from 30,000 in the mid-15th century to 135,000 on the eve of the plague...
16: ...irst of [[Europe]]'s revolutionary upheavals of [[1848]] and held out against the [[Naples|Neapolitan]] ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
9: *[[Benjamin Paul Akers]] (1825 - 1861)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
45: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]] (1475 - 1564)
49: *[[Alexander Milne Calder]] (1845 - 1923)
64: *[[Camille Claudel]] (1864 - 1943) - California Gold Rush (3231 bytes)
2: ... [[Samuel Brannan]], and the inevitable wave of immigration from around the world called the "49ers" s...
4: ...2]], 1848 the first ship with [[China|Chinese]] immigrants seeking fortune in California's gold countr...
6: ...ere was a gold rush in California; by December 5, 1848, even the President of the United States would an...
8: ...nd crime became a problem, causing [[Vigilance committee|vigilantes]] to rise up and serve the populac...
16: *[[Mining Act of 1872]] - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
15: area_total = 231.9 mi² / 600.7 |
16: area_land = 46.7 mi² / 121.o |
17: area_water = 185.2 mi² / 479.7 |
31: ...slands in the bay and the [[Farallon Islands]] 27 miles offshore in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
33: ...tistical Area]] (CSA), whose population is over 7 million. U.S. census data show that San Francisco h...
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