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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...in]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could r...
3: ...ated by [[Washington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the ea...
5: ... the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...iversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
9: ...Scandinavians, Columbus's voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting recognition of the ex... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
29: *[[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
32: ... Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
38: ...ann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853) - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...ueen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...]] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the t...
9: ...narch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Cobu...
12: ... I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince ...
16: ...ion for a child monarch, Victoria would have been eligible to govern the realm as would an adult. In o... - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...e queen of [[Jhansi]], a [[Maratha]]-ruled [[princely state]] of northern [[India]], was one of the gr...
5: ...d responsibility of looking after the young girl fell to her father. She completed her education and m...
7: ...haraja Gangadhar Rao expired on [[21 November]] [[1853]], when Lakshmi Bai was 18 years old.
17: ...tish left the fort, they were massacred by the rebels. Although the massacre probably occurred without...
19: ... a man, strapping her adopted son Damodar Rao closely on her back. She regrouped loyal soldiers in the... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: .... Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ... A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Florence rebelled against the expected role for a woman of her s...
9: ...on" who followed the armies; they were equally likely to function as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Ni...
11: ...roved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], the...
19: ...htingale's pioneering work in Crimea and in the field of nursing, and Nightingale became a key advisor... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ...ist]]s of the [[Romantic music|Romantic era]] as well as a composer.
7: ...ncluding those of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven as well as those of Robert Schumann and Brahms.
9: ...ium]] at [[Frankfurt am Main]], a post which she held until [[1892]], and in which she contributed gre...
11: ...or of her husband's works for [[Breitkopf and H䲴el]].
14: ...ge V of Hanover, Germany who declared them a "marvelous, heavenly pleasure." - Painting (4567 bytes)
30: *[[Panel]]
43: ...el]], including dry pastels, oil pastels, and pastel pencils
52: ...o senses: It can refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify an ''in...
88: A proposed and yet-unrealised development in painting is [[four dimensional painting]...
98: *[[Vincent Van Gogh|Vincent van Gogh]] ([[1853]]-[[1890]]) - Wagner tuba (1858 bytes)
2: ...Wagner]]'s [[opera]]tic cycle ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]''. Since then, other composers have writte...
4: ...is instrument after a brief visit to [[Paris]] in 1853, when he had dropped by the shop of [[Adolphe Sax...
6: ...ass tuba's written range is from the F a twelfth below middle C to the D a ninth above middle C, and i...
8: ...generally gives them sustained tones rather than melodic motifs in such passages. In Bruckner's Eighth... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
7: ...ernment in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[...
14: ...ates Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Madeleine Albright]], born in [[Czechoslovakia]]; and [...
18: ==Presidential elections==
19: ...es (provided that such a number was a majority of electors) became President, while the individual who...
21: ...ffice on [[January 20]] of the year following the election, an event called [[Inauguration Day]]. Alt... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
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27: ...[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]], Tyler was elected [[Vice President of the United States|Vice P...
29: ...greed with Tyler that he was President and not merely [[Acting President]], and as the Constitution wa...
36: ... - [[December 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First L...
39: *Elizabeth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]],... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
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6: ...'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
20: .... Fillmore served out Taylor's term and was never elected to the presidency in his own right. He was t...
26: ...r of New York. It was thought that the obscure, self-made candidate from [[New York]] would complemen...
29: Nevertheless, the two men came to a head on the [[slavery]]... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1853]]
18: ...54 to 42 in the [[United States Electoral College|electoral vote]]. He became the youngest president u...
20: ...s his marriage to [[Jane Means Appleton Pierce]] fell apart. He destroyed his reputation by declaring ...
22: ...ming and fine and handsome. And he was genuinely religious. And yet he was a timid man with a shallow,...
27: ... a lasting friendship, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also met [[Calvin E. Stowe]], [[Sargent ... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
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50: ...l and the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents.htm].
53: ...epresentatives from [[1814]] to [[1815]]. He was elected to the Seventeenth and to the four succeedin...
55: ...nd speculation that the two had a [[homosexual]] relationship began at the time and have periodically ...
57: ...io. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congres... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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44: ...ories, and his victory in the [[1860 presidential election]] further polarized the nation. Before his ...
46: ...ing of the peace issue in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1864|1864 presidential campaign]].
48: ...ugh not as a [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]]-level department), revived national banking and banks, ...
53: ...ay have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on him for the rest of his life. - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
25: | '''Wife:''' || [[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
28: | [[Martha Patterson]] (daughter)<br />[[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
33: ...[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]<br/>(elected on National Union ticket)
42: ...his conciliatory policies towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroil... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
7: ... the resignation of [[Edward Everett]]. He was reelected as a [[United States Republican Party|Republ...
9: ...g at [[Washington, DC]]. He was interred in Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick.
12: ...=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1872|1872]] (won)}}
13: ...|before=[[Schuyler Colfax]]|after=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[March 4]], [[1873]] – [[Novembe... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
52: ... as gifts. The news about the legendary [[Sierra del Plata]] – a mountain rich in silver –...
57: ...stablished, and the constitution promulgated in [[1853]].
59: ... [[United States]], the migrants who worked to develop Argentina's resources—especially the west...
61: ...to Argentina's rapidly expanding middle class as well as to groups previously excluded from power. The...
63: ...n developing support for her husband. Peron reelection in [[1952]], but the military sent him into... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
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96: ...[Mexican War]] in [[1848]]. In [[1853]] the land below the [[Gila River]] was acquired from Mexico in ... - California (63989 bytes)
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84: ...ake note of the name of the footnote that immediately precedes yours in the article body.
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