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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
66: ... to the [[Indies]]; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]]
67: ...Pacific]], discovering or mapping many lands and islands - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...major party to run on a platform of opposition to slavery. He was born in [[Savannah, Georgia]].
7: ...n-American War]] in California. He served (from [[1850]] to [[1851]]) as one of the first pair of [[Unit...
18: *Miles Harvey, ''The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Cri...
21: ...|before=''(none)''|after=[[John B. Weller]]|years=1850 – 1851}} - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
3: ...the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gaine...
22: ...ufacturing. People earned a lot of money form the slave trade, so there was capital for the industrial...
55: ...castings for a lathe bed, where components had to slide together, the production of flat surfaces by m...
57: ...ine manufacturers. The [[planing machine]], the [[slotting machine]] and the [[shaping machine]] were ...
59: ...degree of [[interchangeability]]. The lessons Maudslay learned about the need for stability and precis... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
90: *[[George Ade|Ade, George]] (1866-1944), ''[[The Slim Princess]]''
112: ...ambridge|Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge]], (1774-1850) - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
20: ...n Wettin''). Queen Victoria's papers record her dislike of the name. Though rarely publicly used, Wet...
27: ... of 1837]]), and in [[Jamaica]], the colonial legislature had protested British policies by refusing t...
41: ...ade her first journey by train, travelling from [[Slough railway station]] (near [[Windsor Castle]]) t...
46: ...]'s [[coup d'鴡t|coup]] in France without previously consulting the Prime Minister.
48: ...ence of seven years of penal transportation. In [[1850]], the Queen did sustain injury when she was assa... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
5: ...ecame known for her persuasive speeches against [[slavery]]. Prior to her own involvement, many Quaker...
7: ...ious objectors" to any wars, and later their anti-slavery efforts. [[Conscientious Objector]] status ...
9: ...s. In the [[1830s]] she helped establish two anti-slavery groups.
11: When Mott went as a delegate to the [[World Anti-Slavery Convention]] in [[London]], the men at the m...
13: ...es. She became more widely known after this. When slavery was outlawed in [[1865]], she began to advoc... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...ed States|American]] [[abolitionist]] born into [[slavery]]. (later changed to '''Baumfree'''). Other...
5: ...] in [[1827]]; after [[New York]] state abolished slavery, she returned there in [[1829]], working as ...
10: ...], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave''.
13: ...ion Proclamation]] was issued to work with former slaves. She also met President [[Abraham Lincoln]].
17: ''See also:'' [[Slave narrative]] - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: '''Emma Abbott''' ([[December 9]], [[1850]] – [[January 5]], [[1891]]), [[United Stat... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...e said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their ow...
8: ...hical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a translation of Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...;ская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia...
19: ...rences==<!--ie things pieces of which I'll try to slip in here one day =)-->
21: ...sian Childhood</cite> (Springer-Verlag, 1978; translated and introduced by [[Beatrice Stillman]]) - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
5: ...)|reed]]s, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like
13: ...o or a few reeds. Because a reed mounted above a slot
16: ...s]]) also include a spring-loaded button-actuated slide that, when
26: ...Chromatic harmonicas also have a button-activated slide.
93: *3rd position (or "slant harp"): playing the harmonica a full tone abov... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...f State]] [[Madeleine Albright]], born in [[Czechoslovakia]]; and [[Michigan]] [[List of Governors of ...
16: ...should he have succeeded to the Presidency previously and served less than two years completing his pr...
19: ...ally elected officials in the United States. (Legislators are elected on a state-by-state basis; other...
35: ...l. In addition, the president has important [[legislative]] and [[judicial]] powers.
112: || [[1849]]{{ref 9}} || [[1850]] || [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] || [[Mil... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ... their representatives; in August 1765 he anonymously contributed four notable articles to the [[Bosto...
33: ...diers; but two soldiers were found guilty of [[manslaughter]]. These claimed benefit of [[clergy]] and...
48: ... had been authorized to execute the duties previously assigned to Laurens, and secured the recognition...
67: ...rks of John Adams, with Life'' (10 vols., Boston, 1850-1856) - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...[[October 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives...
11: ...a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, but he died in [[Frankfort, Kentucky]] soon afte...
15: ... former [[History of slavery in the United States|slave]], [[Julia Chinn]], whom he had inherited from... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
27: ...ate to [[William Henry Harrison]]. Their campaign slogans of "Log Cabins and Hard Cider" and "Tippecan...
39: ...beth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]], [[1850]])
58: ... the entire Whig agenda, twice vetoing Clay's legislation for a national banking act following the [[P...
63: ...f a new state constitution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opini...
65: ...ually by all the original States, of which Rhode-Island was one."</blockquote> - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
6: ...r><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
20: ...150; [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[President of the United States...
26: ...date from [[New York]] would complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.
29: ...South. In his own words: "God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must ...
31: ...f nerve-wracking debates over the [[Compromise of 1850]]. He made no public comment on the merits of the... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ...his running mate [[William R. King]] won in a landslide, beating [[Winfield Scott]] by a 50 to 44 perc...
20: ...sion of [[History of slavery in the United States|slavery]] in the [[American West|West]]. Pierce's cr...
38: ...ew Hampshire State constitutional convention in [[1850]] and served as its president.
45: ... slavery issue and supporting the [[Compromise of 1850]] in an effort to unite the various Democratic fa...
47: ...m as a [[war hero]]. Pierce was nominated unanimously on the 49th ballot on [[June 5]]. Senator [[Will... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: ...tion]] in [[March]] of [[1861]], seven Southern [[slave state]]s [[secession|seceded]][[Confederate St...
46: ... evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in hi...
48: ...wever, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the United States with the enactment of...
53: ..., Louisiana|New Orleans]] he may have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on h...
61: ...]]. In [[1837]] he made his first protest against slavery in the [[Illinois House of Representatives|I... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
4: ...h County, Indiana]] in [[1841]]. He became a legislative correspondent for the ''[[Indiana State Jour...
6: ...ember of the state constitutional convention in [[1850]] and an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ...49]]. He was a member of the state Assembly in [[1850]] and [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate f...
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