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- David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
8: ..., they had rejected Christianity. He married in [[1844]], and his wife travelled with him for a brief ti...
12: ... trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
14: ...h a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
17: ...esi river, the missions sent to central and east Africa at his urgings ended in disaster, with nearly ...
19: ...difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...ale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
7: ...d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
14: ...ari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
37: ...ms, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
40: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son o...
41: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War ...
42: *[[Charles Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...Spanish Armada]], and her mother, Anne Laisney, a Frenchwoman. Her parents met in [[Bilbao, Spain]] du...
5: ...ation of Flora and her mother changed drastically from the high standards of living they were accustom...
7: ...fe through their experiences outside their native France. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: '''Mary Stevenson Cassatt''' ([[May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United ...
8: ...rning to the United States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, bu...
14: ...nd absorb all I could of his art," she wrote to a friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wan...
16: ...impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]].
21: Her style evolved, and she moved away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward app... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...orothy Dix]]) was a tireless social activist who, from the early [[1840s]] to well after the [[America...
4: ...er as a reformer before the first woman graduated from a U.S. [[medical school]].
10: ...f the time as a teacher and writer. In any event, friends arranged to have her sent abroad to recover....
12: ...the healing power of a family-like asylum removed from the pressures of daily life. When she returned ...
16: ..., following this presentation, the representative from Little Compton announced that Simmons had died.... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...y in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: In [[December]] [[1844]], in response to a pauper's death in a [[workhou...
19: ...ted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Ni...
33: ...anizing patient care. Although she met resistance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly im...
45: ...r030502 CBC story: 'Florence Nightingale suffered from bipolar disorder'] - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
1: [[fr:Ching Shih]]
2: '''Ching Shih''' [[1775]]-[[1844]] first became known as a [[China|Chinese]] [[pro...
6: ...teal from them. It was a capital offense to steal from the treasury. Raping female captives was a capi...
8: ...tion, while Ching Shih died at the age of 60 in [[1844]], running a [[brothel]] and gambling house in [[... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
7: ...s and 40 books; but today, including compilations from her 50,000 pages of manuscript, more than 100 t...
11: ...stians. She even considered Christian unity to be from Satan and one of the big apostasies of the last...
17: ...ave her health problems she never fully recovered from. In her weakened state, she was unable to retur...
23: ...aken into vision. The visions would last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
2: ...aiser, all as part of the struggle for liberation from [[slavery]] and [[racism]].
5: ...ree man. She endured years of inhumane treatment from her various owners, including an incident where...
9: ...d hundreds of people trapped in slavery up to the free states, during the Civil War.
17: ...route would be shot dead to prevent the dissenter from betraying the group.
21: Harriet Tubman continued as an activist for [[African-American]] and women's rights. With [[Sarah B... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
2: ...]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]] stage actress.
4: ...Bernard, a French lawyer, and she was educated in French Catholic convents. To support herself, she co...
8: ...us productions. One of the earliest was a reading from ''Ph褲e'' by [[Jean Racine]], at [[Thomas Edis...
14: Sarah Bernhardt was made a member of France's [[Legion of Honor]] in 1914.
16: ...s buried in [[Le P貥 Lachaise Cemetery]], Paris, France. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...t was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, m...
14: ...ciety. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because they were not born U.S. ...
25: ... concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising drive...
29: ...titution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen...
38: ... the office due to death, resignation, or removal from office (by [[impeachment]] and conviction). Th... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
25: ...;[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
29: ... of [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from [[1808]] until [[1813]], when he was removed. I...
33: ... a Federalist. He had already, in [[1808]], moved from Kinderhook to [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]], and ...
39: ...ion, where he opposed the grant of [[universal suffrage]]. His course in the Senate was not altogether...
43: ...sidential election, 1844|presidential campaign of 1844]]. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...tate-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especially by Jackson...
44: ...Gardiner Tyler|Julia Gardiner]] on [[June 26]], [[1844]]. He was the first President to marry while in o...
58: ...g office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one excepti...
63: ...itution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opinion that the 'lawles...
65: <blockquote>"I freely confess that I should experience great reluct... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...64]]) was a [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Pennsylvania]] and the eleventh [[Vice Presid...
5: ...he resignation of [[Isaac D. Barnard]] and served from [[December 13]], [[1831]] to [[March 3]], [[183...
7: ...ket in [[1844]] with [[James K. Polk]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1845]] to [[March 3]], [[1849]].
9: ...ingdom|Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Phila...
16: ...ed States Senators from Pennsylvania|U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania]]|before=[[Isaac D. Barnard]]|afte... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Franklin Pierce]]</td></tr>
20: ...dency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]].
26: ...d complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.
29: ...merican War]]. Taylor wanted the new states to be free states, while Fillmore supported slavery in tho...
43: ...ritical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the [[Wilmot Proviso]] &m... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Pierce
3: | image name=Franklin Pierce.jpg
18: ... 14th [[President of the United States]], serving from [[1853]] to [[1857]]. Pierce was a [[United Sta...
20: ...[[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
25: ...[[Benjamin Pierce (governor)|Benjamin Pierce]], a frontier farmer who became a [[American Revolutionar... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
53: ... would go to war for a third time in 75 years. In 1844, the [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] ...
61: ...fornians (or outsiders in general). State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political ...
68: ... that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the ...
69: ...m the word ''oolighan'', referring to grease made from fish, which the [[Native American]]s of the reg... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]]
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