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- Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Chester Alan Arthur
3: | image name=chester a arthur illustration.3.jpg
4: | order=21st President
7: | preceded=[[James A. Garfield]]
15: | party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] - Australia (39438 bytes)
8: official_languages =[[English language|English]]|
11: largest_city =[[Sydney]]|
13: leader_titles = [[Queen of Australia|Queen]]<br>[[Governor-Gene...
14: leader_names = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth ...
19: population_estimate = 20,180,878| - Saqqara (4142 bytes)
1: ...kara_relief.jpg |thumb|200px|left|Photograph courtesy of
3: ...ial ground in [[Egypt]], featuring the world's oldest standing [[step pyramid]]. It is located some 30...
5: ...[Pyramid of Djoser|step pyramid]] Photograph courtesy of
7: ...dynasty|Ptolemaic]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] times.
9: ...x Gate Leading to the Ming Tombs. Photograph courtesy of - California (63989 bytes)
11: ...tCity = [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] |
22: PCForest = 35 |
23: PCDesert = 25 |
25: 2004Pop(est) = 35,893,799 |
37: HighestElev = 4421 | - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
9: Motto = Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes) |
11: LargestCity = [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]] |
31: HighestElev = Wheeler Peak, 13,161 ft, 4,014 |
33: LowestElev = Red Bluff Reservoir, 2,817 ft, 859 |
38: ...nguage|Spanish]] are officially recognized languages in the state. In [[Spain|European]] [[Spanish la... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
1: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
2: ...raphy|pictographs]]. Over time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract.
4: ...e|Hittite]] and [[Luwian language|Luwian]] languages, and it inspired the [[Old Persian]] and [[Ugarit...
7: ... could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions.
9: ...served because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
14: ...of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Ana...
22: ...U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...liner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]] - January 17 (12233 bytes)
6: ...egotiations with [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] and thereby setting the scene for the second ...
7: ...ian]] army at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the [[Jaco...
8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circl...
9: ...dier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at...
11: ...recognizes the independence of the [[Boer]] colonies of the [[Transvaal]]. - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied ...
5: ...est primarily populated by [[missionary|missionaries]] and fur trappers, to a land of opportunity and ...
7: ...ield of [[California Poppy|California golden poppies]] ''circa'' [[1910]].]]
11: ... California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [...
13: ...]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the acidic [[tannin... - Pope Boniface IV (5099 bytes)
3: ...ay]] or [[25 May]], [[615]] by these two authorities.
5: ...onnection with the administration of the patrimonies.
7: ...tian worship. Twenty-eight cartloads of sacred bones were said to have been removed from the [[Catacom...
9: ...s]] (Councils, III, 65), and genuine by Jaffé ›Regest. RR. PP., 1988 (1548)].
11: ...gerated deference and its tone of excessive sharpness. - Pope Boniface V (3289 bytes)
3: ...d enacted the decree by which churches became places of refuge for criminals.
5: Boniface V was a [[Naples|Neapolitan]] who succeeded [[Pope Adeodatus I]] a...
7: ...Pontificalis'', Boniface is described as "the mildest of men", whose chief distinction was his great l...
9: ...e conversion of her consort (Bede, [[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum|H.E.]], II, vii, viii, x, ...
13: ==References== - Golf (35905 bytes)
2: [[Image:Armedforces_jeffery_tee_shot.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Golfer tee...
4: ... pastime, golf is increasingly popular and continues to attract ever more players around the world.
6: ...e hole. The aim of holing the ball in as few strokes as possible may be impeded by various obstruction...
8: ...; when one player's lead exceeds the number of holes remaining in the round, the match ends.
12: ...t with the first stroke, so that one or more strokes are played from the ''fairway'' (where the grass ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
59: *[[Carl Remigius Fresenius]]
60: *[[Wilhelm Fresenius]], son of Carl, German chemist, (1913-2004)
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who disc... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...a]], with the aid of [[abolitionists]]. Other routes led to [[Mexico]] or overseas.
4: ...c imagination as a symbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominently in [[African American history]].
6: ...|400px|thumb|Map of some Underground Railroad routes]]
10: ...], [[Congregationalist]]s, and [[Wesleyan Church|Wesleyans]], as well as breakaway sects of mainstream...
15: *people who helped slaves find the railroad were "agents" - Sloth (5489 bytes)
3: ...ng Book]] | caption = A sloth, as depicted in the 1851<br />Illustrated London Reading Book}}
10: ...subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Families}}
14: ...[[herbivore]]s, eating very little other than leaves.
16: ...rees Celsius), and still lower temperatures when resting.
18: ...larly partial to nesting in the crowns of palm trees where they can camouflage as a coconut. They come... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
29: footnotes = |
31: ...nds in the bay and the [[Farallon Islands]] 27 miles offshore in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
33: .... census data show that San Francisco has the highest population density of any major U.S. city aside ...
37: ...isco's "rebirth" from the ashes of the fire that resulted from the quake. Long enjoying a [[Bohemiani...
42: ...the [[Ohlone]] (a [[Miwok]] Indian word meaning "western people") living in the coastal area between [... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Knox Polk
3: | image name=James_polk_3.jpg
5: | order=11th President
14: | place of death=[[Nashville, Tennessee]]
15: | wife=[[Sarah Childress Polk]] - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ...e establishment of the [[United States|United States of America]].
5: ...ted or parodied, it is one of the most famous images relating to the American Revolutionary War.]]
10: ...). Each colony instead provided for its own defenses through the use of local [[militia]]. Militiamen ...
12: ...arms for the colonies in any given year. The greatest number of men that Washington personally command...
15: ...rn estimates, total British strength in the colonies did not exceed 20,000 men at any one time. - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
2: [[Image:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|'''Jefferson Davis...
3: ...Naming the American Civil War|War Between the States]]).
6: ...[public servant]]. His father, along with his uncles, had served in the [[Continental Army]] during th...
8: During Davis's youth, his family moved several times, in [[1811]] to [[St. Mary Parish, Louisiana]], a...
10: ...ered the [[United States Military Academy]] at [[West Point, New York]] as a [[cadet]].
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