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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
30: ... several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other pla... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
9: ...val from command in the West on [[November 2]], [[1861]]. He was re-appointed to a different post (in [[... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
11: * [[1861]] - The [[University of Washington]] opens in [[S...
30: ...ng [[Marilyn Monroe]] and [[Clark Gable]] -- the last film for both.
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953]])
56: *[[1916]] - [[Walter Cronkite]], news broadcaster
100: * [[Bah�'� Faith]] - Feast of Qudrat (Power) - First day of the 13th month o... - Eleonora di Arborea (2091 bytes)
7: ...me 1346 ''giudice'' of [[Arborea]], on the west coast of Sardinia. It has been said that their family b...
11: ...n Sardinia until [[Italy|Italian]] unification in 1861. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...f India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than...
9: ...l change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successo...
41: ... from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) to Bishop's Bridge, near [[Paddington]] (in ...
55: ...arty, described this decision as having proved disastrous to the monarchy and British rule in Ireland.
57: Victoria paid her last visit to Ireland in [[1900]], when she came to ap... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...rses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old masters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Pari...
14: Upon seeing pastels by [[Edgar Degas]] in an art dealer's window, ...
23: ...' and ''The Coiffure'', inspired by the Japanese masters shown in Paris the year before. (See [[Japonis... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
12: ...] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[Highgate]], [[London]].
15: ...wbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in...
19: ...rning point in the history of the novel. Making masterful use of a [[counterpoint]]ed plot, Eliot pres...
21: ...ughout her career, Eliot wrote with a politically astute pen. From ''[[Adam Bede]]'' to ''[[The Mill o...
30: * ''[[Silas Marner]]'' (1861) - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...mily. Her four brothers and sisters were all at least 10 years her senior. Young Clara was home-educate...
14: ...k, where she studied analytic geometry, calculus, astronomy, mathematics and natural science in additio...
21: ...aredness of the Army Medical Department. In April 1861, after the [[First Battle of Bull Run]], she esta...
31: ...oss to include assisting in any great national disaster, this service brought the United States the "Go...
49: ...last home of its founder. Clara Barton spent the last 15 years of her life in her Glen Echo home, and i... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
33: ...tance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly improved conditions for the wounded and by Apri...
39: ...are of her patients in Crimea earned her the everlasting respect and affection of the common soldier.
65: ...r the outbreak of the [[American Civil War]] in [[1861]], Nightingale's work served as an inspiration f...
83: ...in the graveyard at [[St. Margaret Church]] in [[East Wellow]], England.
85: Florence Nightingale's lasting contribution has been her role in founding the... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
10: ...t Battle of Bull Run]] (Manassas), [[July 21]], [[1861]] and at the Patent Office Hospital in [[Washingt... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...'' ('''Helen Louise Leonard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an [[United States o...
5: Born in [[Clinton, Iowa]] in 1861, Helen Louise Leonard would become one of the mos...
7: ...rance caused such a stir that she stayed on with Pastor and starred in some of his [[comic opera|comic ...
9: ...the audience. Since her first appearance at Tony Pastor's she was also the subject of a great deal fanf... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
12: ... time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a resident of the ...
35: ...utive branch of the federal government — a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, in...
124: || [[1857]] || [[1861]] || [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]...
128: || [[1861]] || [[1865]] || [[Republican Party (United State...
248: *From [[March 4]], [[1861]], to [[January 18]], [[1862]], [[Martin Van Bure... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
33: ...take the Ohio Country. The expedition ended in disaster at the [[Braddock Expedition#Battle of the Mono...
51: ...ement of his orders for "total destruction and devastation of their settlements" led the Iroquois to na...
97: Washington was a [[cricket]] enthusiast and was known to have played the sport, which was...
102: ...the question of slavery (as in fact happened in [[1861]]). He did not advocate the abolition of slavery ...
165: ...rca [[1778]] [[Pennsylvania German]] almanac (Lancaster: Gedruckt bey Francis Bailey). This identifies ... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
40: ...Louisiana]] in time from [[Belgium]]. The major lasting effect for the political face of the country w...
89: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Gideon Granger]]''...
115: ...fferent varieties of $5000 bills issued between [[1861]] and [[1946]], and all but three had James Madis...
140: ...jamesmadisonmus.org/resources/will.htm Madison's last will and testament, 1835] - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
71: The last year of Tyler's presidency was marred by a freak ...
73: Tyler's last act in office was perhaps the most significant: h...
117: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Francis Granger]]'...
150: ...himself a slaveowner his entire life. In February 1861, Tyler re-entered public life to sponsor and chai...
152: ...ed in the provisional [[Confederate Congress]] in 1861, he was elected to the [[Confederate House of Rep... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...llas was United States district attorney for the eastern district of [[Pennsylvania]] from 1829 to [[18...
9: ... President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, and died the...
15: ...e=[[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|ye...
21: ...anan]]|after=[[Charles Francis Adams]]|years=1856-1861}} - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
27: ...r [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], with whom he formed a lasting friendship, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]...
53: The election of 1852 would be the last presidential contest in which the Whigs would fie...
56: ...("Bennie") was crushed to death in the [[train disaster]]. Grief-stricken, Pierce entered the presidenc...
60: ...nterests along part of the [[Central America]]n coast, and even more when he tried to persuade [[Spain]...
65: ...blican Abraham Lincoln would provoke secession in 1861. - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
14: | [[March 4]], [[1857]]–[[March 4]], [[1861]]
32: | [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
50: ...t overall and the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents...
53: ...itted to the bar in [[1812]] and practiced in Lancaster. He was one of the first volunteers in the [[W...
64: ...ved from [[March 4]], [[1857]], to [[March 4]], [[1861]]. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]])
42: ... and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President of the United State...
44: ...on. Before his [[inauguration]] in [[March]] of [[1861]], seven Southern [[slave state]]s [[secession|se...
48: Lincoln had a lasting influence on U.S. political and social institu... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
41: ...he 21st Illinois Infantry (effective [[June 17]], 1861). On [[August 7]], Grant was appointed a [[brigad...
43: ...ppi]], in [[1863]] is considered one of the most masterful in military history; it split the Confederac...
48: ...w general called "that of a bulldog". Although a master of combat by out-maneuvering his opponent (such...
50: ... which the destruction of an enemy's economic infrastructure that supplied its armies was as important ...
62: ...y of 3,012,833 out of a total of 5,716,082 votes cast.
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