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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...ria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) ([...
12: ...e-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Prince Leopold ...
20: ...s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Windsor]].)
37: ...acy was behind the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presump...
43: ...as commuted, another boy, [[John William Bean]], attempted to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was lo... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marriag...
2: '''Marie-Antoinette''', Queen of [[France]] and Archduchess of [[Aus...
4: Marie-Antoinette was the fifteenth child (the youngest daughter; ...
7: ...e Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most bril...
9: ...ss's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
1: ...born-[[19 November]] [[1835]]- died [[18 June]] [[1858]]), the queen of [[Jhansi]], a [[Maratha]]-ruled...
10: ...eral]] of [[British Raj|British India]]. Though little Damodar Rao, adopted son of late Maharaja Ganga...
19: ... rajas of [[Datia]] and [[Orchha]]. In March of [[1858]], the British Army advanced on Jhansi, and laid ...
31: Plese see [http://www.copsey-family.org/~allenc/lakshmibai/timel... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ... was one of the founders of the British [[suffragette]] movement. It is the name of "Mrs Pankhurst", ...
5: ...luded the notorious [[Annie Kenney]], the suffragette "martyr", [[Emily Davison]] and the composer, Da...
7: ...s as many of the imprisoned working-class suffragettes; however, she did experience force-feeding afte... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: '''Mary Ann Evans''', better known by the [[pen name]] '''George Eliot''' ([...
5: ...ife from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]...
10: ...Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be divorced, and so he...
23: ...l balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise. Her commentaries are ...
26: * ''[[Scenes of Clerical Life]]'' (1858) - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...8]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Matthias Corvinus of Hungary|Korvin]]-Krukovsky.
9: ... (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Ann... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
19: ... married but he and Nightingale were immediately attracted to each other and they became life-long clo...
25: ... [[Institute for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen]] [http://public.gvc.edu/nsa/nightingale.html] in Upper ...
33: ...She sent many letters to Herbert, to facilitate better medical care.
39: ... records for the hospital, and writing personal letters to the family of every soldier who died in the...
43: ... of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] herself [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/medicine/night... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...- [[May 8]], [[1891]] [[London]], [[England]]), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame Bl...
7: ...iete Spirite for [[occult]] phenomena with Emma Cutting (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissa...
11: In [[1874]], Helena met [[Henry Steel Olcott]]; he was a lawyer, agricultural expert, and jour...
15: ...ernal conventional manifestations. Imperfect men attempting to translate the divine knowledge had corr...
21: ...], and one third to India where her ashes were scattered in the [[Ganges River]]. [[May 8]] is celebra... - Nile (13738 bytes)
46: ...y migrated to the river, where they developed a settled [[agriculture|agricultural]] [[economy]] and m...
48: Despite the attempts of the [[ancient Greece|Greeks]] and [[Rome|...
50: Speke was part of a 1856-1858 expedition led by [[Richard Francis Burton]] to s...
62: ...and fertilize the land, without rain and in the hottest time of the year. A good flood and Egypt's we...
79: *[http://www.aber.ac.uk/~qecwww/tana/geology.htm Nile p... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ... the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents.htm].
53: ...arch 3]], [[1831]]). He was chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first Congress). He w...
57: ...a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twe...
68: ...tance" since the [[Supreme Court]] was about to settle it "speedily and finally."
70: ...de slavery in the territories. Much of Taney?s written judgment is widely interpreted as ''[[dicta]]''... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16...
46: ...f the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his...
48: ...tes. He also encouraged efforts to expand white settlement in western North America, signing the [[Hom...
53: ...t year, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from Ne...
59: ...nal improvements on the Sangamon in the hopes of attracting [[steamboat]] traffic to the river, which ... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ... [[1851]] and a member of the state Senate from [[1858]] to [[1860]]. He was elected as a [[United Stat... - Flag of Minnesota (1701 bytes)
1: ...|thumb|right|Flag of Minnesota.Image provided by[http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...es are woven into a wreath of the state flower: [[1858]], the statehood year; [[1819]], the year [[Fort ...
4: ...d in gold around the state seal. Minnesota was written under the state seal in gold and 19 gold stars ... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 40<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[November 2]], [[1889]] |
39: ...[November 2]], [[1889]]. [[North Dakota]] was admitted on the same day (see '''Trivia''', below).
82: ...th Dakota after a dispute between Euro-American settlers in northern and southern regions over the loc...
118: sign proclamations formally admitting North and South - Oregon (26551 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 33<sup>rd</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[February 14]], [[1859]] |
36: ...Range]] - form the two boundaries of the [[Willamette Valley]], one of the most fertile and agricultur...
43: ...'s environmental problems, such as the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pa...
49: ...ver. Fort Astoria was the first permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the [[War of 1812]], the [[Br... - Minnesota (26682 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 32<sup>nd</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[May 11]], [[1858]] |
36: ...tates]], having joined the Union on [[May 11]], [[1858]].
49: ...ities, which changed over time as [[Europe]]ans settled in the area and further exploited the state's ...
51: ...]], though many histories focus on the military settlement that took place farther west. [[Fort Snell... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ...60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
15: * 12 KYA: [[Pottery]] by [[Jomon]] in [[Japan]]
123: * [[1645]]: [[Vacuum pump]]: [[Otto von Guericke]]
136: ...1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle)]]
143: * [[1769]]: [[Steam engine]]: [[James Watt]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
38: *[[Harry Quelch|Quelch, Harry]], (1858-1913), socialist politician and trade unionist
55: *[[Ludwig Quidde|Quidde, Ludwig]], (1858-1941), historian and pacifist - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
125: *[[Charlotte Mary Yonge|Yonge, Charlotte M]], ([[1823]]-[[1901]]), British novelist
157: *[[Francis Brett Young|Young, Francis Brett]], (1884-1954), British novelist
162: *[[James Young|Young, James]], (1811?1883), Scottish chemist
166: *[[John W. Young|Young, John Watts]], (b. 1930), US astronaut
169: *[[Loretta Young|Young, Loretta]], (1913-2000), American actress - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...ater editions by [[Hirschig]], 1856; [[Hercher]], 1858. There are translations in many languages; in Eng...
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