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- List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
2: ...ct, e.g. [[dinosaur]]s, [[pterosaur]]s and [[ammonite]]s. Many of these orders went extinct at the sam...
18: See also [[List of extinct animals of the British Isles]].
22: * [[List of extinct animals of the United States]]
33: * [[Cape Lion]] (1865)
36: ====[[Mauritius]] and neighbouring islands ==== - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...([[1865]]-[[1871]]) the capital of the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [...
3: ...s famous for its wealth of fine [[art]] and [[architecture]].
5: ...|right|127px|"Giglio di Firenze" - symbol of the city]]
7: ...62.JPG|right|thumb|300px|An Overview of Florence (Italian: Firenze)]]
17: ...round the beginning of the 4th century A.D., the city experienced subsequent periods of [[Byzantine]],... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
34: *[[Karl Bitter]] (1867 - 1915)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
110: *[[Vincenzo Gemito]] (1852 - 1929)
166: ...talie Krol]] [http://www.nataliekrol.com Gallery Site]
177: *[[Sol LeWitt]] - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
3: {{Infobox City |
5: nickname = The City by the Bay |
9: map_caption = Location of the City and County of San Francisco in California |
10: subdivision_type = [[City-County]] |
12: leader_title = [[Mayor]] | - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
9: | date of birth=[[November 2]], [[1865]]
18: ... flair for [[public speaking]] before entering politics, first in the [[Ohio Senate]] ([[1899]]–...
20: ...ng. He was succeeded by [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Calvin Coolidge]].
23: Harding was born on November 2, 1865, near [[Blooming Grove, Ohio|Corsica]], [[Ohio]] ... - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
2: ...r" colspan="2"|[[Image:Monitor_4.jpg|300px|USS Monitor]]
4: ! style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career
5: ! style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| [[Image:USN-J...
17: !colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General Chara...
33: ... during the [[American Civil War]], in which ''Monitor'' fought the ironclad [[CSS Virginia|''Virginia... - African American (19830 bytes)
1: ...mply '''blacks''', are an ethnic group in the [[United States of America]] whose ancestors, usually in...
6: ... not include [[whites]], [[Asian|Asians]] or [[Semites]] of African origin.
9: ...black density.jpg|thumb|200px|2000 population density]]
10: ... by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], with 83 percent.
15: ... lead to the [[American Civil War]] ([[1861]] - [[1865]]). - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
2: ...y|German]] [[physics|physicist]], of the [[University of Würzburg]], who, on [[November 8]], [[1895]]...
6: ...eachers, a "[[crime]]" he claimed not to have committed.
8: ... [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Zurich]].
12: ... believed his carcinoma was a result of his work with ionizing radiation because his investigations we...
16: ...minium window. It occurred to Röntgen that the Hittorf-Crookes tube, which had a much thicker glass ... - 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... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...[1865]] – [[August 5]] [[1940]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[explorer]] and [[medical do...
9: ...a University]] and subsequently [[New York University]], from which he received his [[M.D.]] in 1890. ...
11: ===Early expeditions===
13: ...espect. In 1898, during this expedition, Cook visited [[Tierra del Fuego]], where he met [[Thomas Bri...
15: ...i range. He would subsequently make a second expedition in 1906, and claim to have made the first asce... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
1: ...]]) was the first [[United States]] overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.
3: ... America, but was roughly a decade after the expedition of [[Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)|Alexander ...
5: ...rom the men and shared the leadership of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain" ([http...
7: ...les Floyd]] died, apparently from acute [[appendicitis]]. In the winter of 1804-1805 they wintered at...
9: ...llowed the Missouri through what is now [[Kansas City, Missouri]] and [[Omaha, Nebraska]], crossed the... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
11: ...65|Stamp Act]], which was very unpopular in the British colonies.
13: *[[1865]] - [[American Civil War]]: The Congress of the [...
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... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
8: ...mes the site of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken).
10: *[[1865]] - [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Bento...
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]... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
7: ... [[Papal Coronation|crowned Pope]] in [[Venice]] with a temporary [[Papal Tiara|papal tiara]] made of ...
8: ...lexandria]] was fought between [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[France|French]] forces near the ruins ...
15: ...al community to call [[Persian Empire|Persia]] by its native name, [[Iran]], which means 'Land of the ...
17: *[[1945]] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]]
20: *[[1963]] - [[Alcatraz]], a federal [[penitentiary]] on an island in [[San Francisco Bay]], c... - Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
10: ...-right: 1px solid gray"| [[Image:RichmondVirginiaCityFlag.png|130px|]]
11: ..." style="padding: 3px;"| [[Image:RichmondVirginiaCityLogo.png|130px|]]
13: ...le="padding: 3px; border-right: 1px solid gray"| City Flag
14: ...gn="center" width="140px" style="padding: 3px;"| City Logo
16: ...;" | <font size="-1">''City [[nickname]]: "River City"''</font> - Boise, Idaho (9777 bytes)
2: {{Template:US City infobox|
3: city = Boise |
5: nickname = "City of Trees" |
16: city pop = 185,787|
18: density = 1,124.7| - Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
2: {{Template:US City infobox|
3: city = Topeka |
7: seal = TopekaCityCrest.png |
17: city pop = 122,377|
19: density = 843.6| - 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 |
15: mayor = [[James E. Smith]]|
20: city pop = 25,780| - 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)
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