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- Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...e '''Underground Railroad''' was a network of clandestine routes by which [[African]] [[slavery|slaves...
4: ...llion slaves who were to eventually escape. The Underground Railroad has captured public imagination a...
6: ...ailroadsmall2.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Map of some Underground Railroad routes]]
10: ...s disseminated the abolitionist viewpoint nationwide.
14: The Underground Railroad developed its own jargon, which continued the [[rail... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
4: ...he sun; determining local time given local longitude, and vice-versa; and surveying and triangulation.
6: ... Lisbon, which improved on the accuracy of its wooden [[Arabian]] precursors.
8: ...and may be marked with a scale of [[declination | declinations]].
10: ...The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of the modern [[planisphere]].
12: ...ighted along its length, so that the altitude (in degrees) of the star could be read ("taken") from th... - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
1: ...he breakaway [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] were reintegrated into the [[United States ...
4: ...ng conditions. A series of laws, passed by the Federal government, established the conditions and pro...
6: ...ights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden.
8: ...]]. The first Reconstruction Act divided ten Confederate states (all except [[Tennessee]], which had b...
12: ...also numerous black judges, mayors, sheriffs, and deputy governors installed. [[Louisiana]] even had a... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
1: ...ablished a kingdom centered in [[Hattusa]] (the modern village of Boğazk?n north-central [[Turkey...
3: ... Hittite polity disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived until aroun...
7: ...elieved the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still disputed.
12: ...cient [[Karum Kanesh]]), containing records of trade between Assyrian merchants and a certain "land of...
14: ...cal Hittites. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th cent... - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
2: {{Infobox President | name=James Earl Carter, Jr.
4: | image name=Presidentcarter.jpg
5: | order=39th President
8: | preceded=[[Gerald Ford]]
9: | succeeded=[[Ronald Reagan]] - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4: | order=35th President
7: | preceded=[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
8: | succeeded=[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
11: | dead=dead - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Lyndon B. Johnson
4: | order=36th President
7: | preceded=[[John F. Kennedy]]
8: | succeeded=[[Richard Nixon|Richard M. Nixon]]
11: | dead=dead - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Herbert Hoover
4: | order=31st President
7: | preceded=[[Calvin Coolidge]]
8: | succeeded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
11: | dead=dead - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4: | order=32th President
7: | preceded=[[Herbert Hoover]]
8: | succeeded=[[Harry S. Truman]]
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[New York]] - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Knox Polk
5: | order=11th President
8: | preceded=[[John Tyler]]
9: | succeeded=[[Zachary Taylor]]
12: | dead=dead - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...ed '''Bahrein'''''), is a [[borderless country|borderless]] [[island nation]] in the [[Persian Gulf]] ...
3: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
7: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
12: ...gn="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Bahrain|In Detail]])
36: <br /> - [[Population density|Density]] - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...eaning, the usual usage of the term does not include [[whites]], [[Asian|Asians]] or [[Semites]] of Af...
8: ==Current Demographics==
9: ...000 black density.jpg|thumb|200px|2000 population density]]
10: ... percent, followed closely by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], with 83 percent.
15: ...nd was one reason for the secession of the [[Confederate States of America]] which lead to the [[Ameri... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...klin was a member of the [[Freemasons]], corresponded with members of the [[Lunar Society]] and was al...
4: Franklin's [[invention]]s include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]],...
9: ...[[Ecton]], [[Northamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, ...
11: ...ing half-siblings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
2: [[Image:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|'''Jefferson Davis'''...
3: ...r serving as the only [[President]] of the [[Confederate States of America]] throughout the [[American...
6: ...[[British Empire|British]], two of them serving under [[Andrew Jackson]] and receiving his commendatio...
10: ...ry Academy]] at [[West Point, New York]] as a [[cadet]].
14: ...spatched to [[Galena, Illinois]] at the head of a detachment assigned to remove [[miner|miners]] from ... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
3: ...]] [[explorers|explorer]] and [[navigator]]. He made three voyages to the [[Pacific Ocean]], in which ...
8: ... Cook rose in the ranks of the merchant fleet but declined the command of his own collier in 1755 on t...
12: ...make his famous stealth attack on the [[Plains of Abraham]]. Cook's [[surveying]] skills were put to good ...
20: ...lly [[Alexander Dalrymple]], insisted must exist, despite Cook's personal doubts. With the help of a ...
22: ...t landing, at Kurnell on [[Botany Bay]], was intended to be the site of the first [[British colony]] i... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]] and sacks the city, stealing th...
10: ..."Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
16: ...Aleister Crowley]] invokes [[Horus]] in Egypt and declares the start of the New Aeon known as the Aeon...
17: ...er of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days late...
24: *[[1956]] – [[Tunisia]] gains independence from [[France]]. - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
15: |popdensity=1,221
17: |latitude=33°65' N
18: |longitude=84°42′ W
22: ...lt, Atlanta is a common case study for college students who study Urban Geography around the globe. ...
24: ...19th century]] as a railroad hub. It was largely destroyed by Union forces during the [[American Civi... - Springfield, Illinois (6768 bytes)
9: founded = [[1819]] |
18: density = 796.9|
25: ... received its city charter in [[1840]]. It was made the capital of Illinois in [[1837]], and the Legi...
29: ...ibrary and Museum; the train depot from whence he departed to Washington; and his burial mausoleum.
32: ...4 and has retained many of the furnishings Wright designed for it. Springfield is known for its carril... - Lincoln, Nebraska (9126 bytes)
9: founded = [[1856]] |
18: density = 1,166.9|
28: ...age:Nebraska_state_map.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
33: ...culture, restaurants, shopping, nightlife and residential lofts and apartments.
41: ...ed out as the village of Lancaster, which was founded in [[1856]], and became the county seat of the n... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
11: *[[Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi]]
12: *[[Ralph Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
30: *[[Adolf Anderssen]] (Germany, [[1818]] - [[1879]])
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