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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
    7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
    8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
    11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
    25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
  2. David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
    8: ...gstone made the one convert that he ever made in Africa. Within 6 months, they had rejected Christiani...
    12: ... trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
    14: ...h a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
    17: ...esi river, the missions sent to central and east Africa at his urgings ended in disaster, with nearly ...
    19: ...difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa]].
  3. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    10: * [[1852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the ...
    17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
    24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
    29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
    48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]])
  4. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    6: ...ale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
    7: ...d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
    10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
    14: ...ari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
    15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
  5. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
    37: ...ms, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
    40: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son o...
    41: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War ...
    42: *[[Charles Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
  6. Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
    19: .... He renewed his relationship with Cleopatra, and from this point on Alexandria would be his home. He ...
    35: .../penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html Cleopatra VII&nbs...
    36: ... a Victorian children's book by [[Jacob Abbott]], 1852, [[Project Gutenberg]] edition.
  7. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
    12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
    14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
    20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
    23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro...
  8. Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
    7: ...mperance]] movements in New York, organizing in [[1852]] the first woman's state temperance society in A...
    9: ...he two sexes, and as a public speaker and writer. From [[1868]] to [[1870]] she was the proprietor of ...
    15: ... [[National Woman's Suffrage Association]] (NWSA) from the date of its organization in [[1869]] until ...
    19: ...te of women's rights and of [[alcohol]] abolition from [[Arizona]]. She died at Rochester, New York, ...
    28: .... Anthony] (Volume 1 of 2), by Ida Husted Harper, from [[Project Gutenberg]]
  9. Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
    2: ...' ([[December 10]], [[1815]] - [[November 27]], [[1852]]) is mainly known for having written a descripti...
  10. Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
    9: ...y in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
    19: ...ted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Ni...
    33: ...anizing patient care. Although she met resistance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly im...
    45: ...r030502 CBC story: 'Florence Nightingale suffered from bipolar disorder']
    47: In response to an invitation from Queen Victoria, and despite the limitations of ...
  11. President of the United States (42878 bytes)
    5: ...t was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, m...
    14: ...ciety. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because they were not born U.S. ...
    25: ... concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising drive...
    29: ...titution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen...
    38: ... the office due to death, resignation, or removal from office (by [[impeachment]] and conviction). Th...
  12. Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
    8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Franklin Pierce]]</td></tr>
    20: ...dency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]].
    26: ...d complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.
    29: ...merican War]]. Taylor wanted the new states to be free states, while Fillmore supported slavery in tho...
    43: ...ritical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the [[Wilmot Proviso]] &m...
  13. Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
    1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Pierce
    3: | image name=Franklin Pierce.jpg
    18: ...onvention]]. In the [[U.S. presidential election, 1852|presidential election]], Pierce and his running m...
    20: ...[[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
    25: ...[[Benjamin Pierce (governor)|Benjamin Pierce]], a frontier farmer who became a [[American Revolutionar...
  14. Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
    2: [[image:HenryWilson.jpg|framed|Henry Wilson]]
    3: ... [[1875]]) was a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Massachusetts]] and the eighteenth [[Vice Pre...
    5: ...was owner and editor of the ''Boston Republican'' from [[1848]] to [[1851]].
    7: ...]] in [[1859]], [[1865]] and [[1871]], and served from [[January 31]], [[1855]], to [[March 3]], [[187...
    9: ...et with President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1873]], until his death in the [...
  15. Romania (19812 bytes)
    57: ...g a derivate of the word "[[Ancient Rome|Roman]]" from [[Latin]]). Also, "''&#354;ara Rom⮥asc&#259;'...
    62: ...er Emperor [[Trajan]] in two campaigns stretching from [[101]] to [[106]], and the core of their kingd...
    68: ... been regained by Moldova after the Crimean War [[1852]], as a swap with [[Dobrudja]]. At the end of the...
    70: ... thus recovering Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from the Soviet Union and taking part in the ensuing...
    72: ...equired the CDR to resign en masse after 200 days from a mixed coalition government (some members had ...
  16. California (63989 bytes)
    91: ...a|San Jose]], and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], and is responsible for many legal and t...
    93: ... shown on early maps as an island. The name comes from ''Las sergas de Esplandián'' (Adventures of Sp...
    101: ...tions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harbingers o...
    105: ...ck plague|plague]], caused because the area lacks frosts to kill mosquitos and fleas.
    107: ...] of the [[United States Navy]] sailed into [[San Francisco Bay]] and claimed California for the Unite...
  17. Oregon (26551 bytes)
    43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
    61: ...fornians (or outsiders in general). State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political ...
    68: ... that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the ...
    69: ...m the word ''oolighan'', referring to grease made from fish, which the [[Native American]]s of the reg...
    70: ... is likely to have heard the terms because of his frequent encounters with [[Mohegan]]s in the late [[...
  18. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
    8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
    26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
    112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
    134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]]
  19. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    46: *[[Frank Yates|Yates, Frank]], ([[1902]]-[[1994]]), statistician
    48: ...[[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
    57: *[[Yazdegerd I of Persia]], from [[399]] to [[420]].
    58: *[[Yazdegerd II of Persia]], from [[438]] to [[457]].
    59: *[[Yazdegerd III of Persia]], from [[632]] to [[651]].
  20. Comet (30542 bytes)
    3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
    5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
    9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
    11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
    21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor...

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