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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
17: ...badie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
39: ...evens Cabot Abbott|Abbott, John Stevens Cabot]], (1805-1877), American writer
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767...
5: ...enged conventions regarding [[novel]]s and their structure and content, while also examining [[philoso...
10: ...reece'' (1743); with two colleagues he produced a translation of James's ''Dictionary of Medicine'' (1...
12: ...ptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, to the vanity of...
14: ...election]]. It is worth noticing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Dide... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
1: ...Austen (chopped) 2.jpg|thumb|Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra]]
5: ...sease]], the cause of which was then unknown. She travelled to [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winchester]] to...
12: ...y. Her view of life seems largely genial, with a strong dash of gentle but keen satire: she appeals ra...
39: Reference: David Cecil, ''A portrait of Jane Austen'' (1978) - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1:
9: Her compositions include a [[piano trio]] and several books of solo [[piano]] pieces an...
11: ...ed in [[Berlin]] in 1847 of complications of a [[stroke]] suffered while rehearsing one of her brother... - History of Egypt (1881 bytes)
4: ...gypt's peculiar geography made it a difficult country to attack, which is why Pharaonic Egypt was for ...
6: ...e Egyptian to exercise sovereign power in the country since [[Pharaoh]] [[Nectanebo II]], deposed by t...
13: *[[History of Ottoman Egypt]]: [[1517]] to [[1805]]
14: ...[Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors]]: [[1805]] to [[1882]] - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ... in [[1962]], saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge...
25: ... of Independence]], and a source of many other contributions to American political and civil culture. ...
32: ...n Virginia, to say nothing of the rest of the country.
35: ... agricultural nation of [[yeoman]] farmers, in contrast to the vision of [[Alexander Hamilton]], who e...
41: Jefferson's portrait appears on the U.S. [[United States Two dollar... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ... tip of the African continent. It borders the countries of [[Namibia]], [[Botswana]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[...
3: ...started to dismantle it in [[1990]] after a long struggle by the black majority, as well as many white...
5: ...dern [[infrastructure]] common throughout the country.
9: ...result, there are many official names for the country.
11: The country also recognises eight non-official languages: [[... - Idaho (13962 bytes)
42: ...med [[Colorado]] because of it. Eventually the controversy was forgotten, and modern-day Idaho was giv...
46: ...ion entered present-day Idaho on [[August 12]], [[1805]], at the [[Lemhi Pass]]. At that time, approxima...
48: ...on Territory]], fur trading and missionary work attracting the first settlers to the region. While tho...
50: ...covery of gold in Idaho and the completion of the transcontinental railway in [[1869]] brought many ne...
52: ...r of [[silver]] and [[lead]]. Today, Idaho's industrial economy is growing, as plants are built to pro... - Washington (20186 bytes)
45: ...d [[whale]] hunting. In the east, nomadic tribes travelled the land and missionaries such as the Whit...
49: ...harles W. Barkley]]. Further explorations of the straits were performed by Spanish explorers [[Manuel ...
51: ...he established trade in [[Sea Otter]] pelts. In [[1805]] the [[Lewis and Clark]] expedition entered the ...
53: ...ritain ceded their claims to this land with the [[Treaty of Oregon]].
55: Due to the migration along the [[Oregon Trail]], many settlers wandered north to what is now... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...nch and Indian War]]. For many years, rightful control of the area was disputed by the surrounding [[1...
46: ...their relatively low altitude allows for little [[tree-line|timberline]], form a north-south spine run...
50: ...ng Vermont some of New England's best [[cross-country skiing]] areas.
52: ...ch to the presence of a particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and cl...
58: ...the [[Iroquois]] drove many of the smaller native tribes out of Vermont, later using the area as a [[h... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...t its increasing population without losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first place. The sta...
49: ...[War of 1812]], the [[Britain|British]] gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company posts.
51: ...ted the Company's Chief Factor of the Columbia District, built [[Fort Vancouver]] in 1825.
53: ...erring to the northern border of the [[Oregon Country]] at latitude 54?40′. Cooler heads prevail...
59: ...riodic fluctuations in the nation's building industry has severely impacted the state's [[economy]] on... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ''Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
24: ...and Caribbean colonies. Both sides permitted this trade when it benefitted them, but opposed it when i...
26: ...eas trade ties. Thus, in retaliation against U.S. trade practices, Britain imposed a loose blockade of...
28: ...[[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] suspended all U.S. trade with foreign nations in 1807, hoping to get th...
32: ...he peace treaty) on many fronts. Crucially, the [[Treaty of Ghent]] which officially ended the war saw...
34: ...ral government forcibly deported the Southeastern tribes to less fertile territories to the west. The... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: A '''comet''' is a small [[astronomical object]] similar to an [[asteroid]] but c...
9: ...d the tails can extend over 150 million km (1 [[Astronomical unit]]) or more.
11: ...appearance of Halley's Comet on the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], which records the [[Norman conquest]] of [[En...
15: ...t tend to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary surface...
17: ...electrons leading to emission of X-rays and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits]. - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
16: *[[1795]] - [[Treaty of Greenville]]
17: *[[1795]] - [[Jay Treaty]]
20: *[[1796]] - [[Pinckney's Treaty]]
21: ...1796]] - [[Treaty with Tripoli (1796)|Treaty with Tripoli]]
36: *[[1803]] - [[Louisiana Purchase]] Treaty - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
25: ...per Peninsula counties bordering Wisconsin are Central time.)</small> |
40: ... [[Lake Erie|Erie]]. The town became a major fur-trading and shipping post. Most of the rest of the ...
42: ...rea. Ultimately, Congress awarded the "[[Toledo Strip]]" to Ohio, and Michigan, having received the w...
46: ... It was a development that not only transformed Detroit and Michigan, but permanently altered the soci... - Coal mining (4145 bytes)
3: The most economical method of coal extraction from coal seams depends on the depth and qu...
5: ...he coal seams are near the surface, the coal is extracted by either:
7: ...the still covered coal fills the former pit, and strip progresses.
9: Most open cast mines in the [[USA]] extract [[bituminous coal]]. In South [[Wales]] openca...
11: ... underground for open cast mining. Most coal is extracted by either: - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...ay of the Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. Th...
27: ...rdinand de Lesseps]] begins [[France|French]] construction of the [[Panama Canal]].
33: ...Federation|federate]] as the [[Commonwealth of Australia]]; [[Edmund Barton]] becomes first [[Prime Mi...
37: ...th Australia]] and transferred to Commonwealth control.
39: *[[1934]] - [[Alcatraz Island]] becomes a [[United States|U.S.]] feder... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
8: ...uista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surrenders.
16: *[[1870]] - Construction of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] begins.
19: ...879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Sydney Cricket ...
20: ...ites his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[trust]].
22: *[[1893]] - Introduction by [[Webb C. Ball]] of the General Railr...
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