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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
43: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[1810]]<br>[[Sep...
68: On [[September 16]], [[1810]], independence from Spain was declared, by [[Miguel Hidalgo y Costil...
70: ...tral America]] were all incorporated into Mexico from [[1822]] to [[1823]], when they declared indepen...
72: ...uila y Tejas]] to hundreds of immigrant families from the United States, on the condition that the set...
74: ... one-third of the country's remaining territory, from which were formed the modern states of [[Califor... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...lorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[Hi...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ex...
8: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]] - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
6: ... became attracted by the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter he later married, and ...
8: ... for a brief time at his insistence and over the protests of the Moffats – although she was preg...
12: ...ican continent. In particular, Livingstone was a proponent of trade and missions to be established in ...
14: ... a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
19: ...ivingstone. His wife Mary died on [[April 29]], [[1863]] of dysentery, but Livingstone continued to expl... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
16: ...orge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
18: ...ob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - 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: ...tranged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the...
14: ...oria's uncle, the Prince of Wales, inherited the Crown, becoming King George IV. Though she occupied a...
16: ...the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent ...
18: ...sons for marrying Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage. - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realis...
5: ...ay have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attendin...
8: ...ion. Charles Bray, a [[Coventry]] manufacturer, brought her into contact with more liberal theologies...
12: ...ooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal on thei...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her: - Ouida (1938 bytes)
3: ...lk nickname for "Louise". During her career, she wrote more than 40 [[novel]]s. For many years she li...
16: * ''Held in Bondage'' (1863) (first published with the title ''Granville de V... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...]], [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]], [[Prohibition|prohibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of...
8: ...ert Miller, and they set up a joint practice in [[Rome, New York]]. The practice did not flourish, as...
10: ...n)" by the Army of the Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U.S. Army Surge...
12: ...], [[1864]], she was captured by [[Confederate]] troops and arrested as a spy (there appears to be som...
14: Sections from the citation accompanying the medal read: - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...the time, the two were considered scandalous to a roughly equal degree. She was sponsored into the ''...
6: ... the [[1870s]], and was soon in demand all over Europe and in the [[United States]]. She soon develope...
8: ...was also to publish a series of books and plays throughout her life.
10: ...(he married a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowska, 1863-1914). Later lovers included several artists ([[...
16: ...r career, in spite of the need to use a wooden [[prosthetic limb]]. She died in the arms of her son M... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
1: ...an Pyramids|Pyramids]] have become a symbol of Cairo internationally]]
2: ...ost populous metropolitan area]] in the world. Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (3...
4: ...y, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local dialect.
6: ...airo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
7: ...age:EgyptAlQahirah.png|thumb|200px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] highlighted... - War (7002 bytes)
1: ...n [[state]]s, organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use o...
6: ...the success of highly disciplined troops of the [[Roman Empire]].
8: ...ease in the destructiveness and cost of warfare throughout human history.
14: ...ost unanimously seen as undesireable and morally problematic. Many now believe that wars should only ...
16: ...nd World War]], combined with the unquestioned horror of [[nuclear war]] have contributed to the curre... - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...tos'' (Αιγυπτος), which itself is the source of the nam...
12: ...artly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at the [[Atbara River]] in [[Su...
14: ...approximately 5584 km (3470 miles). It drains approximately 2.8 million to 3.4 million km² (1.1 ...
20: ... from equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile, from Ethiopia. Both branches formed on the western f...
24: ...the farthest headstream of the Nile is the [[Ruvyironza]] River in Burundi, which is an upper branch o... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hillsborough]], [[New Hampshire]]
18: ...14th [[President of the United States]], serving from [[1853]] to [[1857]]. Pierce was a [[United Stat...
20: ...[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
22: Kunhardt wrote in ''The American President'' what many histori...
25: ...ce had six older and two younger siblings, four brothers and three sisters. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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31: | '''Profession:''' || [[Lawyer]]
42: ... of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican ...
44: ...rica]], and took control of U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries. These events soon...
46: ...ng competing considerations and at getting rival groups to work together toward a common goal. He pers... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
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24: Grant won many important battles, rose to become general-in-chief of all [[Union army|...
26: ...e is instead mostly criticized for not taking a strong stance against the corruption, and not acting t...
30: ... village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]], where Grant spent most of his t...
32: ...ing that the "S" stood for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class ... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
2: ...States House of Representatives|Representative]] from [[Indiana]] and the 17th [[Vice President of the...
6: ...es|Speaker of the House of Representatives]] in [[1863]]. He was not a candidate for renomination in [[...
13: ...heodore Medad Pomeroy]] | years=[[December 7]], [[1863]] – [[March 3]], [[1865]];<br>[[December 4]... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
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33: ! [[Profession]]:
44: ...States House of Representatives|Representative]] from [[New York]] and the nineteenth [[Vice President...
46: ...ongress]] ([[March 4]], [[1861]] - [[March 3]], [[1863]]). He was a delegate to the state constitutiona...
48: ...7]] and served until March [[1881]]. He retired from public life and active business pursuits because... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...opus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ... of antiquity. However, upon the founding of [[Cairo]] by Egypt's mediæval Islamic rulers its st...
13: ...ding of the city and ends with the arrival of the Romans (blue).
14: * The Roman era from [[80 BC]] until the arrival of the Arabs in [[64...
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (ye... - Australia (39438 bytes)
28: established_dates=From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 January]] [[19...
44: ...otes=<sup>1</sup>There are some minor variations from these three timezones, see [[Australian States a...
48: ...were explored, six self-governing [[Crown Colony|Crown Colonies]] were established within Australia. O...
50: ...ing access for traditional uses of the waterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people and [[To...
54: ...ology and Botany of New Holland'', in which they wrote of "the vast island, or rather continent, of Au... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ... culture has proven especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[Africa]].
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21: ...ist of Presidents of Greece|President]]''' || [[Karolos Papoulias|KᲯlos Papo?]]
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