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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
47: | [[Hawaii]]
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
57: | [[1867]] — [[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (constructi... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minis...
41: ...s Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Rai...
45: ...ams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empres...
9: ...hnological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; he...
12: ...ningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] ...
14: ...s the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...ssed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[novelist]]. She is one...
5: ...ir own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as a writer of romances. An additional...
8: ...f Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', and it was at that time that she began to live with [[Georg...
10: ...ovelistic career. Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be ...
12: ...e of 61 in London of a [[kidney]] [[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ... War I |First]] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic C...
4: ...arles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred Years' War]].
7: ...Anglo-Burgundian in loyalty. France at that time was split by a factional rivalry which would allow t...
11: ...ight|thumb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirion ([[1876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision fro...
12: ...Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a succession of towns where prep... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
1: ...nonymous with ''[[femme fatale]]'' during [[World War I|WWI]].]]
2: '''Mata Hari''' ([[August 7]], [[1876]]–[[October 15]], [[1917]])
3: ...onvicted and executed as a [[spy]] during [[World War I]].
5: ...lay]] and [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]. She was also a [[courtesan]] who may have had affairs wi...
7: ...ng squad]] on [[October 15]], [[1917]]. Mata Hari was probably a low level agent for the French and th... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ...French bandmaster [[Pierre Auguste Sarrus]] (1813-1876).
3: .... Its fingering is similar to a saxophone, and it was made in sizes from sopranino to subcontrabass.
5: ...oito]]'s ''[[Nerone]]'' (1924). These parts are nowadays often played on the [[contrabassoon]]. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...c figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free...
7: The United States was the first nation to create the office of [[Presi...
12: ...e United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have ...
14: ...] [[Elaine Chao]], born in [[Republic of China|Taiwan]]; [[United States Director of National Intellig...
16: ...endment XXII]] (which took effect in [[1951]] and was first applied to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] starti... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
22: ...rmy | Union]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and the 18th ([[1869]]–[[1877]]) [[Presi...
24: ...and is credited with winning the war. Although he was a successful general, he is considered by histor...
26: ...s agree that Grant was not personally corrupt; it was his subordinates in the executive branch who wer...
30: ...io]], where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17.
32: ...rant, and although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon gr... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
44: ...[[June 30]], [[1819]]–[[June 4]], [[1887]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|Repre...
46: ...utional conventions in [[1867]] and [[1868]], and was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succ...
48: ...ts because of ill health, and died in Malone. He was interred in Morningside Cemetery.
51: ...Arthur]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1876|1876]] (won)}} - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
29: ...political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [[19...
31: Cleveland was a hard worker and was scrupulously honest at a time when many politici...
34: ...ed concentration upon whatever task faced him. He was elected sheriff of [[Erie County, New York]] in ...
36: ...s a Public Trust" as his trademark of office, and was later elected, [[Governor of New York]], where h...
39: ...cleveland_wedding.png|left|thumb|Grover Cleveland was the first and only President married in the Whit... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...ident [[Askar Akayev]], but unfortunately moved towards [[autocracy]] and [[authoritarianism]]. At pre...
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54: ...d formally annexed by the [[Russian Empire]] in [[1876]]. The Russian takeover instigated numerous revol...
56: ..., the [[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic]] (SSR) was established as a full Union Republic of the [[U....
58: ...pt]] in [[1928]]. In [[1941]] [[Cyrillic]] script was adopted. Many aspects of the Kyrgyz national cul... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
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57: ...f Mohen-jo-Daro]], 80 km southwest of [[Sukkur]], was center of [[Indus Valley Civilization]], 2600 BC...
59: ...the site of the [[Indus Valley civilization]] and was subsequently conquered by many groups, including...
62: ...heodamas]]) and as administrators, after the area was conquered by various Central Asian groups, most ...
64: ...[[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India. The kingdom was founded by King [[Heraios]], and greatly expande... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
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54: Slovenia was part of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslav...
59: ...lovenian state and the first stable Slavic state, was formed in the [[7th century]]. In [[745]], Caran...
65: ...on [[29 November]] [[1945]]. Present-day Slovenia was formed on [[25 June]] [[1991]] upon its independ...
153: ...lian]] minorities (0.5%). Life expectancy in 2000 was 71.80 years for men and 79.50 years for women. - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
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36: ...the wealthiest states in the country. Connecticut was one of the [[13 colonies|thirteen colonies]] tha...
38: [[USS Connecticut|USS ''Connecticut'']] was named in honor of this state.
43: ...urrent constitution]], the third for Connecticut, was adopted in [[1965]]. The traditional abbreviatio... - Texas (39610 bytes)
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55: ...on the north (across the [[Red River (Mississippi watershed)|Red River]]), and [[Louisiana]] (across t...
70: ...]], [[Comanche]], [[Cherokee]], [[Kiowa]], [[Tonkawa]], and [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]. Currently, t...
74: Prior to [[1821]], Texas was part of the [[Spain|Spanish]] colony of [[New Sp... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
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37: ...ited States]]. The [[Province of South Carolina]] was one of the [[13 colonies]] that revolted against...
42: ...ina became a royal colony in 1712. North Carolina was split off in 1729. The state declared its indepe...
44: ...]] were among those firing the first shots of the war, though Edmund Ruffin is usually credited with f... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
34: ...ntury BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
55: * [[Water clock]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
24: *[[Jimmy Yancey|Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy"]] (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie mus...
75: ...-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas, Edward]] (1901-1964), [[World War II|WW2]] SOE agent
79: *[[Robert Yerkes|Yerkes, Robert]] (1876-1956), psychologist
130: *[[Yoshikawa Eiji|Yoshikawa, Eiji]], ([[1892]]-[[1962]]), novelist
131: *[[Yoshikawa Takeo|Yoshikawa, Takeo]] - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
1: ...[Image:SalemWitchcraftTrial.jpg|right|thumb|400px|1876 illustration of the courtroom]]
4: ...ing them, and therefore of being [[witch]]es or [[warlock]]s in league with [[Satan]].
9: ...cy Lewis, Susannah Sheldon, Mercy Short, and Mary Warren, to name those who afflicted them. At last th...
11: ...ions of the trials, there is no evidence that she was anything but Native American.
13: ...s were ill; there were perhaps 80 people in jail awaiting trial.
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