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- William Henry Harrison (11790 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1841]]
6: | date2=[[April 4]], [[1841]]
12: | date of death=[[April 4]], [[1841]]
18: ... Harrison first gained national fame as a [[war hero]], defeating [[American Indian]]s at the [[Battle...
20: ...ident, a record that stood for 140 years, until [[Ronald Reagan]] was elected in [[U.S. presidential e... - Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
1: ...''' ([[March 27]], [[1765]] – [[May 23]], [[1841]]), was a [[Germany|German]] [[philosopher]] and ...
3: ...r]] at [[Freiberg, Saxony|Freiberg]], travelled through several of the mining districts in north Germa...
5: ...er. Yet Baader is no disciple of Schelling, and, probably gave out more than he received. Their friend...
7: ...ng the last three years of his life, interdicted from lecturing on the philosophy of religion.
9: ...ll closer the realms of faith and knowledge he approaches more nearly to the mysticism of Eckhart, [[P... - Angelica Van Buren (1310 bytes)
1: ... rumored to have flirtations, he remained unwed through out the rest of his life.
3: ...d wintered at her family home in South Carolina. From 1848 until her death at age 59, she lived in New... - Anna Harrison (3660 bytes)
3: ...d States]] during her husband's one-month term in 1841, but she never entered the [[White House]].
5: ... as a British soldier to carry her on horseback through the British lines to her grandparents on [[Lon...
7: ...d not want his daughter to face the hard life of frontier forts; but eventually, seeing her happiness,...
9: ... His service in Congress as territorial delegate from Ohio gave Anna and their two children a chance t...
13: ...to accompany him and act as hostess until Anna's proposed arrival in May. Half a dozen other relatives... - White House (15373 bytes)
6: ...Secret Service]] codename for it is "Crown." The property is owned by the [[National Park Service]] an...
12: ...71.83 was spent. With inflation, this would be approximately equivalent to $2.4 million today.
16: ...eft|19th Century view of the White House as seen from the southwest, with the old West Wing visible.]]
18: ...ed in official context until President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] established the formal name by having "T...
20: ...inted white as early as 1798, and the repainting from the fire damage did not originate the term "Whit... - Tecumseh's curse (3257 bytes)
1: ...ons of the story indicate that Tecumseh's mother pronounced the curse when Tecumseh died. However, the...
6: ...liam Henry Harrison]], died of [[pneumonia]] in [[1841]]
11: *'''[[1940]]''' - [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], died of [[cerebral hemorrhage]] in [[19...
16: It is worth noting that Franklin Roosevelt was in his fourth term of office when he d...
19: ...nry Harrison's time, he probably would have died from his wounds. Reagan died in [[2004]], a quarter-c... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
2: ...me as originator of the theory of [[evolution]] through [[natural selection]].
4: ...sity. Five years on [[the Voyage of the Beagle]] brought him eminence as a [[geology|geologist]] and f...
6: ...cation in nature. He continued his research and wrote a series of books on plants and animals, now in...
15: ...e fifth of six children of [[Robert Waring Darwin|Robert]] and [[Susannah Wedgwood|Susannah]] Darwin (...
19: ... a demonstration of his method of using wires to prop up birds to draw or paint them in natural positi... - William R. King (5588 bytes)
3: ...h Carolina]], a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Alabama]], and the thirteenth [[Vice President...
5: ...h [[United States Congress|Congresses]], serving from [[March 4]], [[1811]] until [[November 4]] [[181...
7: ...United States Senate]] during the Twenty-fourth through Twenty-seventh [[United States Congress|Congre...
9: ...egations of significant financial liabilities for royalty fees now owed to Reverend Dr. King's family ...
13: ... W. Loewen]] is one of the theory's better-known proponents. - Hannibal Hamlin (5219 bytes)
2: ...ly 4]], [[1891]]) was an [[American politician]] from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Maine]]. Hamlin served i...
4: ...County]]. He attended the district schools and Hebron Academy there, and later managed his father's [[...
6: ... the [[United States House of Representatives]], from [[1843]]-[[1847]]. He was elected to fill a Sena...
8: ...ncinnati Convention two years later, he withdrew from the Democrats and joined the newly organized Rep...
10: ... [[1852]]. However, he broke with the party over pro-[[history of slaver in the United States|slavery]... - Thomas A. Hendricks (3507 bytes)
2: ...ntative]] and a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Indiana]] and the twenty-first [[Vice Presiden...
4: ... 1825. He graduated from [[Hanover College]] in [[1841]], and was admitted to the bar in [[1843]], pract...
6: ...elected Governor of Indiana in [[1872]], serving from [[1873]] until [[1877]].
8: ...months later in Indianapolis. He is interred in Crown Hill Cemetery. With his death, the Vice Preside...
12: ...sidential_nominees|candidate]]|before=[[B. Gratz Brown]]|after=[[William Hayden English]]|years=[[U.S.... - Screw (22059 bytes)
6: ... '''screw''' is a shaft with a [[helix|helical]] groove formed on its surface. Its main uses are as a...
9: ...wine]] presses. Metal screws did not appear in Europe until the 1400s.
11: ...til [[machine tool]]s for [[mass production|mass producing]] it were developed at the end of the 18th ...
13: ... [[WWII]] so that interchangeable parts could be produced by any of the Allied countries.
17: ...ng right through the material being fastened and provides compression. - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
49: **[[Operation Provide Comfort]] (1991–1996)
55: *'''[[War on Terrorism]]''' (2001—)
93: *[[Rogue River Wars]] (1855–1856)
126: ==Ethnic cleansing and control==
138: *[[Gabriel Prosser]]'s Rebellion (1800) - Tasmanian Devils (12312 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Dasyuromorphia]]}}
20: ...island of [[Tasmania]], and is the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world. The size of a small [[d...
22: ... by humans until [[1941]] when it was officially protected. The Tasmanian Devil is currently threatene...
25: ...s laniarius'' by [[Richard Owen]] in [[1838]]. In 1841 it was shifted to the genus ''Sarcophilus'' and n...
30: ...e one set of teeth that continue to grow slowly throughout their life{{mn|DPIWEweb1|5}}. - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ...unities sometimes awe audiences with extravagant productions.
4: ...on spellings in the U.S. when referring to stage productions, and "theatre" is often encountered when ...
11: ...ed a theater in New York and presented the first professionally-mounted American play, ''[[The Prince ...
13: Throughout the [[18th century]] there was widespread o...
17: ... Abthorpe Cooper]], similarly became well known throughout the young nation. - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
13: *[[Comoros]]
19: *[[Federated States of Micronesia]]
62: *[[Faroe Islands]]
92: *[[Comoros]]
93: *[[Federated States of Micronesia]] - First Lady of the United States (9641 bytes)
3: ...hem herself. (The government jargon that often acronymizes the President of the United States as "POT...
7: ...associated with. Hillary Rodham Clinton took the role one step further when she was, for a time, give...
15: ... select a female relative or friend to occupy the role, or have her husband act as an analogous "First...
25: ! From
53: | [[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]] - Pisa (3944 bytes)
8: ...e other halfway through the ''Piagge'' riverside promenade.
16: ...ruscan Civilization|Etruscan]] and [[Roman Empire|Roman]] times, Pisa reached its apex in the [[Middle...
18: ...ty was a very important commercial center and controlled a significant [[Mediterranean]] fleet. It con...
20: ...ed by a city council. Pisa always sided with the pro-imperial [[Guelphs and Ghibellines|Ghibellines]]
21: ...ermans, the son of [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]]. The spoils remain in Pisa's Cath... - Global Positioning System (28209 bytes)
3: ...'''GPS''' redirects here. For other uses of the acronym '''GPS''', see [[GPS (disambiguation)]].''
5: ...d for determining one's precise [[location]] and providing a highly accurate [[time transfer|time refe...
7: The GPS system was designed by and is controlled by the [[United States Department of Defense]...
8: ...system is divided into three segments: space, control, and user.
10: ...ring the flight paths of the GPS satellites, synchronizing the satellites' onboard atomic clocks, and ... - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (7198 bytes)
4: ...d for his hard-edged rejection of the prevailing property-rights ideology embraced by other [[judge]]s...
6: ...ston Brahmins during the [[1850s]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in [[1861]].
10: ...ealism]] as well as his hard-edged rejection of [[romanticism]] and [[natural rights]] theory to his w...
12: ...wn, you damn fool, before you get shot!" Lincoln promptly obeyed.
18: ...s innovative, well-reasoned decisions, balancing property rights with rule by the majority, with the l... - Judge (10187 bytes)
3: ...s, functions, and training of judges vary widely from [[jurisdiction]] to jurisdiction.
9: ...orld continue to wear wigs, a tradition imported from the [[United Kingdom|British]] legal system.]]
15: ...lawyers]] and are generally appointed or elected from among practicing [[attorney]]s.
17: ...[justice]] under the applicable rules of [[civil procedure]].
21: ...court, while judges elected for a four-year term from the population, without any special legal traini...
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