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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
68: ...[[1821]] and the creation of the [[Mexican Empire|First Mexican Empire]].
74: ... Victoria]] as its first president, followed in office by Santa Anna. As president, in 1834 Santa Anna...
76: ...o|Quer鴡ro]]. From then on, JuᲥz remained in office until his death in [[1872]].
78: ...press]], and his insistence to be reelected for a fifth term led to massive protests. His fraudulent v... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
6: ...[[Blantyre, South Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]] and first studied [[medicine]] and [[theology]] at the [...
12: ...d Kingdom|Victoria]]). Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey ...
19: ...of the time, and Livingstone experienced great difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa...
22: ...rce, but the matter was still debated vigorously. Finding the [[Lualaba River]], which feeds the [[Con...
25: ...nley]], who had been sent in a publicity stunt to find him by the ''New York Herald'' newspaper in [[1... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: * [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonvi...
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: *[[John A. M. Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
28: ...Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of the "Scenes of Clerical Life" in ''[[Blackw...
15: ...of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness reside...
32: * ''[[Brother Jacob]]'' (1864)
49: She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...ht|thumb|''Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...nfusion with her date of birth, as her birth certificate says the 25th, while her family members say t...
12: ...cation, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...nited States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learned the...
21: ...aid to soldiers of both the North and South. In [[1864]] she was appointed by Union General [[Benjamin F... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
6: ...[corsets]], were not healthy and advocated looser fitting clothing.
10: ...e Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U.S. Army Surgeon.
12: ...r the medal, specifically for her services at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas).
16: ...eal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own hea...
18: ...ereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary ... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
10: ...nly child, the writer [[Maurice Bernhardt]], in [[1864]] (he married a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowsk...
12: ...ed ''Sarah Bernhardt ࠂelle-Isle'' ([[1912]]), a film about her daily life at home.
16: ...rious injury, her right leg was [[amputate]]d, confining her to a [[wheelchair]] for several months. ...
22: The actress La Berma, a [[fictional character]] in [[Marcel Proust]]'s ''[[In ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
18: ...], [[1735]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the first ([[1789]]–[[1797]]) [[Vice President of ...
24: ...assachusetts|Worcester]] and studied law in the office of [[James Putnam]]. In [[1758]], he was admitt...
31: Adams first rose to influence as a leader of the Massachus...
33: ...und guilty of [[manslaughter]]. These claimed benefit of [[clergy]] and were branded in the hand and r...
35: ... On [[October 5]], [[1775]], Congress created the first of a series of committees to study naval matte... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...([[July 10]], [[1792]] – [[December 31]], [[1864]]) was a [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] fr...
5: ...rty|Democrat]] to the [[United States Senate]] to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Isaa...
20: ...ed States]]|before=[[John Tyler]]|after=[[Millard Fillmore]]| years=[[March 4]], [[1845]] – [[Ma... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
46: ...e issue in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1864|1864 presidential campaign]].
53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
10: | '''Term of Office:'''
27: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''
42: ...impeachment|impeach]] him in [[1868]]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently...
48: ...n of the Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses).
53: == National office == - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1869]] – [[Mar...
13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Julia Grant]]</td></tr>
32: ...nd although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon graduatio...
38: ...ht| Photo of General Grant by [[Mathew Brady]] in 1864]]
39: ...e agent in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], and finally an assistant in the leather shop owned by hi... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...d resulted in the consensus that the country's *official* name is now "Canada", not anything else. If ...
10: ...ench language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] population estimate for [[as of 2005|June 2...
15: ...Minister]], who is the head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
17: ...f Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism in Canada|bilingual]]:
21: ... and [[hydroelectric power]] capacity. Its diversified [[Economy of Canada|economy]] relies heavily on... - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
29: | [[Filoimea Telito]]
55: ...ades to [[New Zealand]], or [[Niue]], a small Pacific [[island]] (independent but associated with New ...
62: ...ources. Europeans brought diseases new to the Pacific which caused many deaths in Tuvalu.
64: ...or Allied forces battling the Japanese in the Pacific. Thousands of marines were stationed there until...
103: ...me consists of foreign aid. Main industries are [[fish]]ing and [[tourism]], even though, due to the r... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h...
40: ...ces in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed by the wealth of the [[Order of Christ]], a... - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
24: ...y as little as 1/50th of an inch as well as being fit so perfectly together that the tip of a knife co...
26: ...t is the largest of the three and appears to be unfinished, roughly cut in stone. The middle chamber o...
28: ...mposed of nine large granite blocks, separated by five small relief chambers. It contains a huge grani...
30: ... ascending, leading into the burial chamber. This final asscending corridor is a fantastic space with ...
34: ... Later discoveries which were made by inserting a fiber optic camera into a tiny opening at the edge o...
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