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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...The development of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled ...
10: ...l]] are also cited as factors, as is the [[scientific revolution]] of the 17th century. But one of the...
14: ...kly from 1700 onwards, because there was a scientific and technological improvement, growth of supply ...
24: ...sed the amount of food produced and supplied a sufficient amount of food for the workers working in th...
36: ...[[Encyclopedie]]'' explained foreign methods with finely engraved plates. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
68: *[[Niels Henrik Abel|Abel, Niels Henrik]], (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
19: ...nand of Parma|HRH Duke Ferdinand of Parma]] (1751-1802); had issue
35: ...ttack Prussia in [[1756]]. Frederick II attacked first however, invading [[Saxony]], another ally of ... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: '''Dorothea Lynde Dix''' ([[April 4]], [[1802]]–[[July 17]], [[1887]]) (not to be confuse...
4: ...st, beginning her career as a reformer before the first woman graduated from a U.S. [[medical school]]...
6: ... the [[Massachusetts]] legislature to obtain an official inspection commission.
10: ...quite [[clinical depression|depressed]]. It is difficult to speculate about the reasons for her declin...
14: ...house]]s and jails where the [[homeless]] were confined. She then lobbied state legislatures to erect ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: ... Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
27: ... at the University of Virginia, has written the definitive book on the original buildings, or [http://...
32: ...extensive vineyards planted at Monticello, a significant portion were of the European wine grape ''[[V...
35: ...potential of the United States and is often classified a forefather of [[American exceptionalism]] (se...
37: Jefferson was the first [[Secretary of State]] of the United States, s... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
18: ...]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First Lady [[Abigail Adams|Abigail Smith]].
26: ...lected to the [[Massachusetts]] State Senate in [[1802]], and was an unsuccessful candidate for election...
43: |align="right"|'''OFFICE'''||align="left"|'''NAME'''||align="left"|'''TE...
78: ...humb|Adams posed for this photograph in 1843, the first taken of a US President]]
84: ...tly reinterred in the [http://www.ufpc.org United First Parish Church]. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March...
14: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
22: ...n-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|English]...
27: ...nued in active and successful practice for twenty-five years.
29: His practice made him financially independent, and paved the way for his e... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
5: ...y|Democratic-Republican]] to the Tenth and to the five succeeding [[United States Congress|Congress]]e...
7: ...He was elected to the [[United States Senate]] to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[John...
9: ...37]]) He was chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and the Committee on Military Af...
15: After his first two wives died, the old [[Jacksonian Democrat]...
20: ...rces/pdf/richard_johnson.pdf Senate Historical Office: Richard Mentor Johnson Biography (pdf)] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer
89: *[[Zhang Yimou|Yimou, Zhang]], (born [[1950]]), film director
91: ...rvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]] - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...1E&db_key=AST&high=41e14f475d05983 scientific paper] to use the word in its title was publishe...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "mino...
8: ...assify asteroids is in terms of size. A working definition is that asteroids are larger than 50 m in d...
10: ...y objects that include asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate ma... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: '''Meteorology''' is the scientific [[science|study]] of the [[Earth's atmosphere|at...
12: ...endence of [[atmospheric pressure]] on height was first shown by [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[Ren頄escarte...
14: ...r conditions on a daily basis, and was one of the first Americans to forecast the weather on a daily b...
16: ...ation of the Earth affects airflow was partial at first. Late in the 19th century the full extent of t...
18: ...ntroduced their systems for classifying clouds ([[1802]]) and wind speeds ([[1806]]), respectively. The ... - History of biology (3053 bytes)
3: ... by [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] (''Hydrog鯬ogie'', 1802). The word itself appears in the title of Volume ...
5: [[Aristotle]] is one of the most prolific natural philosophers of [[antiquity]]. He made c...
7: ... who was encouraged to publish his thought in the field by the independent work of [[Alfred Russel Wal...
9: ...m for [[evolution]]. Implications of evolution on fields outside of pure science have led to both [[So...
11: ...953]] [[James Watson]] and [[Francis Crick]] clarified the basic structure of [[DNA]], the [[genetic m... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
173: *[[Richard Parkes Bonington]] ([[1802]]-[[1828]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Cloud (9947 bytes)
24: ...though [[cap cloud]] and [[wave cloud]]s are specific to [[orographic cloud]]s.
26: == Cloud Classification ==
28: ... This system was proposed by [[Luke Howard]] in [[1802]] in a presentation to the [[Askesian Society]].
32: ...f the [[troposphere]]. They are denoted by the prefix ''cirro-'' or [[Cirrus cloud|cirrus]]. At this a...
48: ...ween 2,000 and 5,000 m) and are denoted by the prefix ''alto-''. They are made of water droplets, and ... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...ution]], and continued during the regime of the [[First French Empire]]. These wars revolutionized [[E...
5: ...on [[20 November]] [[1815]], following Napoleon's final [[Battle of Waterloo|defeat at Waterloo]] and ...
13: ...ng the Revolution). European monarchs found it difficult to reinstate pre-revolutionary [[absolute mon...
14: ...red years following Napoleon's wars, not based on fiefs and aristocracy, but on the basis of human cul...
15: ...lthough Napoleon's defeat set the thought of a unified Europe back over one and a half centuries, the ... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
166: [[Code and fix]] --
225: [[Deterministic finite state machine]] --
237: [[Distance field]] --
240: [[Dvorak Simplified Keyboard]] --
262: [[Final Cut Pro]] -- - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
9: ... his brother-in-law, [[Tapping Reeve]], at [[Litchfield, Connecticut]]. His studies were put on hold f...
14: ...ing the approach to the camp, and necessarily the first point that would be attacked. In the [[Battle ...
18: ...of [[1812]] or early [[1813]]. Aaron Burr and his first wife were married for twelve years, until her ...
20: ...t anniversary, she sued for [[divorce]], citing infidelity (Burr was in his eighties), which was grant...
28: ...gton, D.C.|Washington]]. He sought to write an official Revolutionary history, but President Washingt... - History of rail transport (7056 bytes)
6: The first practical form of mechanized transport, railwa...
9: ...way]] in south [[London]] - arguably, the world's first public railway, albeit a horse-drawn one.
14: ...he Pennydarren ironworks in [[Wales]]. It was not financially successful, because it was too heavy for...
16: ...nal travel and for transport of goods. Evans specified that there should be separate sets of parallel ...
18: ... instead of in sunken tracks. This greatly simplified construction of [[Railroad switch|switches]] an...
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