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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
78: *[[Amandus Adamson|Adamson, Amandus]], (1855-1929), Estonian sculptor - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
14: ...oming King George IV. Though she occupied a high position in the line of succession, Victoria was taug...
20: ...was not clear what his surname was, because like most imperial, royal, princely, and ducal families, h...
29: ...hat he could not govern under the restrictions imposed by the Queen, and consequently resigned his com...
33: ... on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stamp.]]
39: ...ued to secretly correspond with Lord Melbourne, whose influence, however, faded away as that of Prince... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...re equally likely to function as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Nightingale was particularly concerned...
13: ...1846]] she visited [[Kaiserwerth]], a pioneering hospital established and managed by an order of [[Nun...
15: == Rejection of marriage proposal ==
17: ... nursing, Nightingale continued to reject his proposal.
19: ...tracted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitatin... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
6: ... as [[corsets]], were not healthy and advocated looser fitting clothing.
8: ...ical College where she graduated as a doctor in [[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, ...
10: ..., [[July 21]], [[1861]] and at the Patent Office Hospital in [[Washington, D.C.]] She also worked as ...
12: ... Infantry. During this service, she frequently crossed battle lines, treating civilians. On [[April ...
16: ...sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and ha... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ... has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. Many tra...
5: ..., and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
13: ...r resources. Separate locomotives mean that the costly motive power assets can be moved around as nee...
21: ...gines". The steam locomotive remained by far the most common type of locomotive until after [[World Wa...
23: ...steam locomotive. ''John Bull'' is preserved in mostly static display at the [[Smithsonian Institutio... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
4: ...'' and changed its name in [[1845]] to the ''St. Joseph Valley Register'', the [[United States Whig Pa...
6: ... to the six succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1855]]-[[March 3]], [[1869]]). He was elected [[Speak... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
5: ... and [[1852]], and was owner and editor of the ''Boston Republican'' from [[1848]] to [[1851]].
7: ...] and [[1871]], and served from [[January 31]], [[1855]], to [[March 3]], [[1873]], when he resigned to ... - Australia (39438 bytes)
50: ...ng access for traditional uses of the waterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people and [[Tor...
63: ... present-day [[Southeast Asia|south-east Asia]]. Most Indigenous Australians were [[hunter-gatherers]]...
65: ...shment of a [[penal colony]] there following the loss of the [[American colonies]].
70: [[Image:Anzac1.JPG|right|thumb|160px|The [[Last Post]] is played at an [[ANZAC Day]] ceremony in [[Po...
71: ...es in 1911 to provide a neutral place for the proposed new federal capital of [[Canberra]] ([[Melbourn... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
51: ...onaries, and traders. [[David Livingstone]], in [[1855]], was the first European to see the magnificent ...
55: ...articipation in government and European fears of losing political control.
59: ...amibia]]). Zambia's sympathies lay with forces opposing colonial or white-dominated rule, particularly...
61: Conflicts with Rhodesia resulted in the closing of Zambia's borders with that country and seve...
63: ...h extended west through Angola, was essentially closed to traffic from Zambia by the late 1970s. Zambi... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = IA |
36: ... of the state is "State of Iowa", and the [[U.S. Post Office]] abbreviation for the state is '''IA'''.
49: ...lroad. The completion of five major railroads across Iowa brough major economic changes as well as tr...
65: ...City. There are many natural lakes in the state, most notably [[Spirit Lake (Iowa)|Spirit Lake]], [[We...
109: *[[Opossum]] - Kansas (21369 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = KS |
37: ...state|state]] in the [[United States]]. The U.S. postal abbreviation for the state is '''KS'''.
44: ... waystop and outfitting place. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kan...
82: ...th America is located in [[Osborne County, Kansas|Osborne County]]. This spot is used as the central r...
89: ... in Kansas at 680 feet), and the [[Neosho River|Neosho]], the southern drainage system of the state. ... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = SD |
53: ... rocks, stones and gemstones|State mineral]]:''' Rose [[quartz]]
82: ... resigned to signing the [[1858 Treaty]], ceding most of present-day eastern South Dakota to the [[Uni...
115: A [[bill (proposed law)|bill]] for [[U.S. state|statehood]] for No...
138: The largest and most complete fossil of ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' ever found was uncovered near the ci... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
65: * [[3rd century BC|200s BC]]: [[Crossbow]] in [[History of China|China]]
70: ...[[Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
118: * [[1609]]: [[Microscope]]: [[Galileo Galilei]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
4: *[[Callistus Xanothopoulos|Xanothopoulos, Callistus]], patriarch of Constantinople
6: *[[Isidore Xanthopoulos|Xanthopoulos, Isidore]], patriarch of Constantinople
8: ...Xenakis, Iannis]], ([[1922]]-[[2001]]), Greek composer
9: ...[Xenocrates]], ([[396 BC|396]] - [[314 BC]]), philosopher
10: *[[Xenophanes]], philosopher - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...sh by [[Anthony Hodges]], 1638, and [[R. Smith]], 1855.)
3: ... to the authorship of the other works, which are lost. - Alcman (1163 bytes)
3: ...ave come very early to Sparta, where, after the close of the Messenian wars, the people were able to b...
5: ...'Parthenia'' (maidens' songs), hymns, paeans, ''prosodia'' (processionals), and love-songs, of which h...
7: ...siderable being part of a ''Parthenion'' found in 1855 on an [[Egypt]]ian [[papyrus]]; some later discov... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
11: ... 8 (e.g. if it is 12:00 UTC, then it is 04:00 in Los Angeles)
31: ...eat Britain]]'s public clocks were using GMT by [[1855]], it was not made Britain's legal time until [[A...
35: ...consulting railroad officials in [[1869]], he proposed four ideal time zones, the first centered on [[...
37: ...or standard time where desirable." Nevertheless, most major countries had adopted hourly time zones by...
39: ...p's entry into another time zone—he often chose midnight. These zones were adopted by all major ... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...ntific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of ...
6: ... [[theory|theories]] on established [[fact]], philosophy also enquires about other areas of knowledge,...
11: ...d on the ways in which scientists work, looking closely at the ways in which they "produce" and "const...
13: ...nature of ''theory change'' in science. Three philosophers in particular who represent the primary pol...
15: ... lines of those in the scientific community and those in the social sciences or humanities (for exampl... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
118: *[[Cecilia Beaux]] ([[1855]]-[[1942]])
143: *[[Henryka Beyer]] ([[1782]]-[[1855]])
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