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- Sam Houston (6990 bytes)
5: ...ng only a basic education he emigrated with his family to [[Maryville, Tennessee|Maryville]], [[Tennes...
7: ...n late 1818 and also given a command in the state militia. In [[1822]] he was elected to the [[United ...
16: ...n Augustine. He was a major critic of President [[Mirabeau Lamar]], who advocated continuing independe...
22: ...ort of the [[Oregon Bill]] (1848) and the [[Compromise of 1850]] and his opposition to the [[Kansas-Ne...
32: ...[[David Burnet]]<br /> (''ad interim'') | after=[[Mirabeau B. Lamar]] | years=1836–1838}} - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
19: ..." (a candidate who unexpectedly gains the party nomination) to win the presidency.
21: ...itory]] and the acquisition of 1.2 million square miles (3,100,000 km²) through the [[Mexica...
24: ... The family grew prosperous, with Samuel Polk becoming one of the leading gentlemen of the area.
28: ...] to study law under [[Felix Grundy]]. Polk was admitted to the bar in 1820, and established his own p...
35: ...use Committee on Ways and Means|Ways and Means Committee]], he lent his support to the President in th... - Otto Lilienthal (1728 bytes)
3: '''Otto Lilienthal''' ([[23 May]] [[1848]] – [[10 August]] [[1896]]), the [[German p...
5: ...nd used polar-diagrams for describing the aerodynamics of their wings. Lilienthal helped to prove that... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
19: ... steamed up the [[river Saône]] for fifteen minutes before the engine failed, but bureaucracy th...
21: .... The following year a second boat made 50 km (30 mile) excursions, and in [[1790]] a third boat ran a...
23: ...ndas]]'' towed two 70 ton barges 30 km (almost 20 miles) along the [[Forth and Clyde Canal]] to [[Glas...
25: ... and [[Clermont, New York|Clermont]], 240 km (150 miles) distant, which was a commercial success.
30: ...', is preserved as a [[museum ship]] at [[Winona, Minnesota]]. For modern craft operated on rivers, se... - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
6: ...son's parents were natives of [[Virginia]]. The family already had two young children and were living ...
8: ... family's possessions to pay them. She declined family charity and moved into a small one-room house. ...
10: ....jpg|275px|left|thumb|Jackson's Mill, owned by Cummins Jackson.]]
12: ...ith other relatives on his mother's side of the family, but he died of [[tuberculosis]] in [[1841]] at...
14: ... man as promised. In his later years at Jackson's Mill, Thomas was a [[teacher|schoolteacher]]. - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: ...r de La Salle]], searching for the mouth of the [[Mississippi River]], is murdered by his own men.
13: ...o Villa]], the first [[United States]] air-combat mission in history.
20: ...es his "[[Nero Decree]]" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facili...
28: ... calling upon [[Israel]] immediately to cease its military action and withdraw [[IDF|its forces]] from...
36: ... shot down by a Russian [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15|Mig-15]] in the 1950s is finally recovered after yea... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
12: *[[1848]] – King [[Ludwig I of Bavaria]] abdicates.
20: ...– The [[USS Langley|USS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United States Navy]] [[airc...
31: *[[1979]] – [[REXX]] programming language created
32: ...iddles]] becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile [[Iditarod]] [[dog sled]] race.
33: ...[[1986]] – [[Jacques Chirac]] becomes Prime Minister of [[France]] - March 23 (10340 bytes)
10: ...d finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
13: *[[1848]] - The ship ''[[John Wickliffe (ship)|John Wickl...
16: ...President of the United States|President]] [[Benjamin Harrison]] opens [[Oklahoma]] to white settlemen...
19: ...]] in [[Africa]]. The trip is sponsored by the [[Smithsonian Institution]] and [[National Geographic S...
20: *[[1919]] - In [[Milan]], [[Italy]], [[Benito Mussolini]] founds his ... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
2: ...ommercial]] and [[agricultural]] center, and a terminus for [[wagon train]]s, [[stagecoach]]es, [[rive...
16: area_total = 99.2 mi² / 257.0 |
17: area_land = 97.2 mi² / 251.6 |
18: area_water = 2.1 mi² / 5.4 |
37: ...tle evidence of their existence. Their diet was dominated with [[acorn]]s taken from the plentiful [[o... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
12: ...[[square kilometer|km²]] (89.6 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
13: area water = 106.7 km² (41.2 mi²) |
17: metro pop = 5.8 million |
27: ...m the city, has a population of approximately 5.8 million residents. [[Greater Boston]] is one of the ...
34: ... a town in [[Lincolnshire]] from which several prominent colonists originated. Early colonists believe... - Olympia, Washington (7112 bytes)
17: ...[[square kilometer|km²]] (18.5 [[square mile|mi²]])|
18: area water = 4.7 km² (1.8 mi²) |
30: ...alis]], [[Suquamish]], and [[Duwamish (tribe)|Duwamish]].
32: ...nt]]) In the 1840s Catholic missionaries built a mission at [[Priest Point, Washington|Priest Point]]...
36: ...ses downtown Olympia. Smith's untimely death in [[1848]] left Sylvester the sole owner of the future tow... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
27: ...-Khwarizmi|Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi]] (Persia, [[780]] - [[850]])
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[...
34: *[[Apollonius of Perga]] (Asia Minor, [[265 BC|265 B.C.]] - [[170 BC|170 B.C.]])
41: *[[Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd]] ([[1937]] - )
42: *[[Emil Artin]] (Austria, [[1898]] - [[1962]]) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: '''Abigail Smith Adams''' ([[November 11]], [[1744]] – [[O...
3: ...her and other forebearers were [[Congregational]] ministers, leaders in a society that held its clergy...
11: '''Abigail Smith Adams'''
48: ...needs and rights of women as well as of men in forming the new country.
50: ...illed the role of wife of the first United States Minister to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. They r... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
23: *[[V. Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]])
30: *[[Viktor Ambartsumian]], ([[Armenia]], [[1912]] – [[1996]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]])
64: *[[Benjamin Banneker]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1731]] &nda...
99: *[[Michael E. Brown|Michael (Mike) E. Brown]] ([[United States|USA]]) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: ...tonian|Clactonian technique]], and are a potent reminder of the ancient habitation of Slovakia.
7: Other stone tools from the [[Middle Palaeolithic|Middle Paleolithic Era]] (200,000 - 80,000 BCE) were...
13: ...een discovered in Slovakia. One is the famous [[Domica cave]], almost 6000 meters long, inhabited to a...
19: ...the appearance of large permanent buildings and administrative centers, a large growth in trades and a...
21: ...ed), and also in the fortresses located on the summits (Smolenice, Molp� was disturbed by the arriva... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
35: *[[Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz]], (1890-1963){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
63: *[[Abu'l Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf al-'Amiri]], (d. 992){{fn|R}}
64: *[[Ammonius Hermiae]], (5th century){{fn|R}} - Rome (33048 bytes)
17: ...nded|| [[21 April]][[753 BC]] mythical,<br> [[1st millennium BC]]
38: ...as a population of 2,546,807 (2004) with almost 4 million living in the [[metropolitan area]]. The cur...
49: ...Rome|surrounding hills]] approximately eighteen [[miles]] from the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the south sid...
52: ...h of the [[Alps]] in the second half of the [[2nd millennium BC]] or from a blending of these peoples ...
56: ====Etruscan Dominance==== - List of Governors of Wisconsin (3807 bytes)
5: ...td>[[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]]<td>1848 - 1852
18: <tr bgcolor=#FFE8E8><td>14<td>[[William E. Smith]]<td>Republican<td>1878 - 1882
19: <tr bgcolor=#FFE8E8><td>15<td>[[Jeremiah McLain Rusk]]<td>Republican<td>1882 - 1889 - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
24: ==Bands and naming==
25: ...okee organizations are located in [[Arkansas]], [[Missouri]], [[Tennessee]], and other locations in th...
27: ...herokee after their arrival in Oklahoma. Redbird Smith was an influential Nighthawk member and the gro...
84: ... of an unofficial English envoy, Sir Alexander Cumming. In 1730, Chief Moytoy of Tellico was agreed t...
85: ...hat would later become the states of Arkansas and Missouri. Their settlements were established on the ... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
5: ... lands were always its chief component. After the mid-15th century, it was known as the "Holy Roman Em...
15: ... Varus]] was defeated by the Cheruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of the Teutoburg ...
17: ...the [[Upper Germanic Limes|Limes]], a 550 km (340 miles) long defensive line from the Rhine to the Dan...
19: ...losing contact with their own ancestral land. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian re...
23: ...egensburg]], [[Reichenau]], and other places. The missionary activity in the Merovingian kingdom was c...
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