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- Sam Houston (6990 bytes)
3: ...he [[governor]] of two different [[U.S. state|states]].
5: ... he was assigned as an Indian agent to the Cherokees. He left the army in March [[1818]].
7: ...e, where he was a staunch supporter of fellow Tennesseean [[Andrew Jackson]] and was widely considered...
9: ... eleven week marriage to Eliza Allen he abruptly resigned (the actual [[divorce]] was not until [[1837...
11: ... representative for [[Nacogdoches, Texas|Nacogdoches]] and emerged as a [[radicalism|radical]], suppor... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Knox Polk
3: | image name=James_polk_3.jpg
5: | order=11th President
14: | place of death=[[Nashville, Tennessee]]
15: | wife=[[Sarah Childress Polk]] - Otto Lilienthal (1728 bytes)
3: ... He is often credited with building the first successful human-carrying [[glider]], the [[Derwitzer Gl...
5: ...others]] a few years later to build the first successful powered airplane.
8: ...day, saying, "Opfer m?gebracht werden!" ("Sacrifices must be made!")
10: ...lienthal was resurrected as a villain in the Japanese ''[[Read or Die]]'' (2001) [[novel]]s, [[OVA|ani... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
6: ...red ships and submarines use steam to drive turbines, but are not referred to as steamships or steambo...
8: ...d, out of nostalgia, for [[diesel]] motor driven vessels, prefix "'''MV'''".
15: ...ist [[Denis Papin]] who was developing steam engines. In [[1707]] he constructed a paddle-powered boat...
17: ...roved model he does not seem to have had much success, though he may have inspired others.
19: ...ine failed, but bureaucracy thwarted further progress. - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
3: ...[[soldier]]. He became a famous [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] general during the [[Ame...
6: ...rg, West Virginia|Clarksburg]], in what is now [[West Virginia]], when Thomas, their third son, was bo...
8: ...iver and Kanawha Turnpike]] in [[Fayette County, West Virginia|Fayette County]].
12: ...r brother, Warren, went to live with other relatives on his mother's side of the family, but he died o...
14: ...e teaching a slave to read or write, but nevertheless, Jackson taught the man as promised. In his late... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
8: ...ite of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken).
10: ... of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]...
13: ...rsuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the first [[United States]] air-combat mission in history.
14: .... Congress]] establishes [[time zone]]s and approves [[daylight saving time]].
15: ...d States Senate]] rejects the [[Treaty of Versailles]] for the second time (first time was on [[Novemb... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
7: ...413]] – [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of [[England]].
8: ...602]] – The [[Dutch East India Company]] is established.
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]] and sacks the city, steali...
10: ...Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
11: ...eon I of France|Napoleon]] enters [[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,00... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
6: *[[752]] - [[Pope Stephen II|Stephen II]] becomes [[Pope]].
7: ...and [[Charles IX of France]] make substantial concessions to the [[Huguenots]].
8: *[[1708]] - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the [[Firth of F...
13: ...''[[John Wickliffe (ship)|John Wickliffe]]'' arrives at [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish ...
16: ... [[Land run]]: [[President of the United States|President]] [[Benjamin Harrison]] opens [[Oklahoma]] t... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
2: ...[[riverboat]]s, the [[telegraph]], the [[Pony Express]] and the [[First Transcontinental Railroad]].
30: footnotes = |
37: ...th [[acorn]]s taken from the plentiful [[oak]] trees in the region and by eating fruits, bulbs, seeds,...
42: ... as Sacramento became an overnight commercial success (Sutter's Fort, Mill and the town of [[Suttervil...
44: ...here). A number of directly adjacent towns or cities, such as [[Carmichael, California|Carmichael]], [... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
11: mayor = [[Thomas Menino]] ([[United_States_Democratic_Party|Dem]]) |
22: west_coord = 71.0573|
25: ...g" (due to the plethora of universities and colleges in the Boston area) and, particularly in the Nine...
27: ...in the Americas, and the one of the top-fifty largest in the world.
31: ...ded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries.]] - Olympia, Washington (7112 bytes)
3: ... Washington|Thurston County]]. Along with the cities of [[Lacey, Washington|Lacey]] and [[Tumwater, Wa...
24: time zone = Western|
27: west_coord = 122.8931|
30: ... area. Many tribes shared access to these resources, including [[Squaxin Island Tribe|Squaxin]], [[Ni...
32: ...ar the future townsite for the conversion of natives to Catholicism. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 B... - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: ...seen as the second [[First Lady of the United States]], though that term was not coined until after he...
3: ...leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.
33: <td>[[First Lady of the United States]]</td>
48: ...he and the Continental Congress "remember the ladies" -- that they consider the needs and rights of wo...
50: ...e filled the role of wife of the first United States Minister to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. The... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] – [[1951]])
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – [[1956]]) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: ...Era, and were found near Nov頍esto nad Vᨯm. These ancient tools were made by the [[Clactonian|Clac...
7: ... the Pr鶴t cave near Bojnice and other nearby sites. Artifacts were discovered dating to the Paleolit...
9: ...re the most ancient evidence of commercial exchanges carried out between the [[Mediterranean]] and [[C...
11: ...pts at coloring. These shapes reveal a developed aesthetic sense.
13: ...inhabited for more than 800 years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨o... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Rome (33048 bytes)
38: ...ircle the nine largest italian cities: Milan, Naples, Turin, Bologna, Palermo Catania, Florence, Genoa...
40: ...]], the highest rate among all of [[Italy]]'s cities.
42: ...c]], [[Roman Empire]]), and later the [[Papal States]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] and [[Italy|Italian Repub...
45: ... Greek ''Ρώμη'' meaning braveness, courage; more probably the connection is with a...
49: ... and of traders traveling north and south on the west side of the [[peninsula]]. - List of Governors of Wisconsin (3807 bytes)
4: <tr bgcolor=#cccccc><th>#<th>Name<th>Party<th>Dates
5: ...td>[[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]]<td>1848 - 1852
6: ...C><td>2<td>[[Leonard J. Farwell]]<td>[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]<td>1852 - 1854
9: ...FE8E8><td>5<td>[[Coles Bashford]]<td>[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]<td>1856 - 1858
13: <tr bgcolor=#FFE8E8><td>9<td>[[James T. Lewis]]<td>Republican<td>1864 - 1866 - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
20: :''For other uses, see [[Cherokee (disambiguation)]].''
22: ...he tribes referred to as the [[Five Civilized Tribes]].
25: ...ennessee]], and other locations in the United States.
27: ... seven ceremonial dance grounds in Oklahoma and these either belong to the Keetoowah tradition or the ...
29: ...hen may have been rendered phonetically in Portuguese (or more likely a ''barranquenho'' dialect, sinc... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...e late 19th century, they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ... often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoni...
7: ...ons. The [[History of Germany since 1945]] continues this page.
10: ...rmanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germania Inferior]], [[Germani...
12: ...s Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Rom...
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