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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...h determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet to the sea.
7: ...e, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
22: ...ncoln]]| years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] (lost)}} - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...orian era]], now best remembered because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise ...
6: ...r married, and joined the [[London Missionary Society]], becoming a minister.
8: ...ts – although she was pregnant – but returned to [[England]] with their children.
12: In the period [[1852]]–[[1856|56]], he explored the interior, discovering [[Vic...
14: ... At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: '''Steel''' is a [[metal]] [[alloy]] whose major component is [[iron]], ...
5: ... (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ... Both temperatures could be reached with ancient methods that have been in use for at least 6000 years...
10: ...pg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]]
11: ...cementite-ferrite mixture. Cementite is a stochiometric phase with the chemical formula of Fe<sub>3</s... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
12: ...ward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...olphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
1: ...san Brownell Anthony - Age 28 - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Antho...
2: ...[Image:Susan Brownell Anthony - Project Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Antho...
3: ...] [[civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant women th...
5: She was born in [[Adams, Massachusetts]], the daughter of [[Quaker]]s. Soon after her ...
7: ...New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]]. - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ... composers including those of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven as well as those of Robert Schumann and Brah...
9: ...nn's music with a chorus of disapprobation. She returned to [[London]] in [[1865]] and continued her ...
11: As an artist she will be remembered, together with Joachim, as one of the first executants w... - Dye (6033 bytes)
3: ...e dyes were obtained from either [[animal]], [[vegetable]] or [[mineral]] origin, with no or very litt...
9: ...d by [[William Perkin|William Henry Perkin]] in [[1856]]. Many thousands of dyes have since been prepare...
11: ...s attributed, at least partly, to salt formation between anionic groups in the dyes and [[cationic]] g...
13: ... but find some use for wool and silk. Usually [[acetic acid]] is added to the dyebath to help the upta...
17: ...ues. The most important mordant dyes are the synthetic mordant dyes, or chrome dyes, used for wool; th... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...vented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to compete with the [[saxophone]] as a replacement for the ...
3: ...l, resembles an ophecleide [http://www.nikknakks.net/Euphonium/Instruments/ophecleide.html] in shape, ...
7: ...nd", with the sarrusophone played by [[Sidney Bechet]].
9: The sarrusophone is now obsolete and only used as a novelty upon occasions. It ha... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ... considered the longest river in the world, but whether the Nile is actually longer than [[South Ameri...
20: ...m equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile, from Ethiopia. Both branches formed on the western flank...
24: [[Lake Victoria]], which lies between [[Uganda]], [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]] is con...
30: ...u; the rest of the year the great rivers draining Ethiopia to the Nile (Sobat, Blue Nile, and Atbara) ...
36: ...tary is the [[Atbara River]], which originates in Ethiopia north of Lake Tana, and is approximately 80... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...es. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world,...
12: ...stitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to become President. The president must ...
14: ... remove or amend this requirement, but none have yet been successful.
16: ...orge W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
21: ...ary. Since 1933, with the ratification of [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Amen... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...grated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boy...
24: ... [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. ...
26: ...ngregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[17... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
25: ...come to the [[New World]] in [[1631]] from the [[Netherlands]]. Martin's father was Abraham van Buren ...
27: ...ity|New York]], where he studied under [[William Peter van Ness]] ([[1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawy...
33: ... Jackson|Jackson's]] [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]] in [[1829]].
39: ...suffrage]]. His course in the Senate was not altogether consistent, though in this respect he is not t...
43: ...rmation as [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] notwithstanding the "corrupt bargai... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
13: ...f the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1st wife)<br>
29: ... on [[April 6]]. The [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]] and [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congre...
33: ...ried twice, firstly to [[Letitia Christian Tyler|Letitia Christian]] on [[March 29]], [[1813]]. They h...
36: ...ecember 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First Lady of...
38: *Letitia Christian Tyler ([[May 11]], [[1821]] - [[Dec... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...e United States]] from [[1816]] to [[1817]]. He returned to Philadelphia and was appointed deputy att...
7: ...sident of the United States on the Democratic ticket in [[1844]] with [[James K. Polk]] and served fro...
9: ...adelphia, and died there. He is interred in St. Peter's Churchyard. The city of [[Dallas, Texas]] an...
11: Dallas was the son of [[U.S. Treasury Secretary]] [[Alexander J. Dallas]] and is the great-gre...
21: ... Buchanan]]|after=[[Charles Francis Adams]]|years=1856-1861}} - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
29: ...e the South. In his own words: "God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we...
37: ...re at once appointed [[Daniel Webster]] to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with t...
39: ...xtension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.
45: ...llmore's pressure from the White House to give impetus to the Compromise movement. Breaking up Clay's ...
48: *Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her. - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
20: ...[alcoholism]] as his marriage to [[Jane Means Appleton Pierce]] fell apart. He destroyed his reputatio...
22: ...nd handsome. And he was genuinely religious. And yet he was a timid man with a shallow, rigid, old-fas...
27: ...hip, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also met [[Calvin E. Stowe]], [[Sargent S. Prentiss]], and...
29: ...thampton, Massachusetts|Northampton]], [[Massachusetts]], studying under Governor [[Levi Woodbury]] an...
40: ... encouraged Pierce to resign his Senate seat and return to New Hampshire, which he did in [[1841]]. Th... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
38: | [[Harriet Lane]] (niece)
53: ...[April 23]], [[1791]] to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear. He moved to Mercersburg with his parents...
57: ...signed on [[March 5]], [[1845]], to accept a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Committee on F...
59: ... the northern boundary in the western U.S. No Secretary of State has become President since James Buch...
61: ...ster to the [[United Kingdom]] from [[1853]] to [[1856]], during which time he help to draft the [[Osten... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...2]], [[1809]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]), sometimes called '''Abe Lincoln''' and nicknamed '''Hon...
46: ...of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his many speeches and writings wh...
48: ...ar measure which would set the stage for the complete abolition of the institution.
53: ...d land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on government land along the [[Sangamon River...
65: ...the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]]. In [[1856]], both men joined the fledgling [[United States ...
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