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- French Revolution (36529 bytes)
1: {{French Revolution}}
2: ...]]'', and eclipses both subsequent revolutions in France in the popular imagination. It downplays the ...
6: ''See main article [[Causes of the French Revolution]].''
8: ...As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflic...
21: ...tial creditors of the confidence and stability of France's finances. - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
1: {{History of France }}
3: ..., Restored|restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France]].
5: ...ugh rarely these days) referred to as the [[Great French War]].
8: [[Image:Napoleon1.jpg|left|frame|Portrait of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]]]]
11: ... as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]]. - Endangered species (12553 bytes)
2: ...orbidding [[hunting]], banning their [[habitat]]s from development, etc.) to prevent extinction. Only ...
4: ...species list, and criteria for removing a species from the list once its population has recovered; whe...
15: ...nt>: captive individuals survive, but there is no free-living, natural population. Examples: [[Dromeda...
87: * [[Savannah Elephant]] (''Loxodonta africana'')
120: * [[Christmas Island Frigatebird]] (''Fregata andrewsi'') - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
2: ...tury]] [[United States]] attempted to escape to [[free state]]s, or as far north as [[Canada]], with t...
4: ...mbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominently in [[African American history]].
10: ...y sects of mainstream denominations such as the [[Free Methodist]]s and [[American Baptist]]s. Books, ...
21: ...g short biographies of the people, that contained frequent railway metaphors. Still maintained corres...
23: ...t four adults and two children were sent by train from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. However, the addit... - Venice (22017 bytes)
8: ...from Verona in 1178, opening a lifeline to silver from Germany; the last autocratic doge, Vitale Michi...
16: ...actice, a number of Doges were forced by pressure from their [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] peers to resig...
20: ...]]. This apparent lack of zeal contributed to its frequently coming into conflict with the [[Papacy]]....
24: ...nice during the [[First Coalition]]. The [[France|French]] conqueror brought to an end the most fascin...
26: ...e city on [[January 18]], [[1798]]. It was taken from Austria by the [[Treaty of Pressburg]] in [[180... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
19: ...venth [[President of the United States]], serving from [[March 4]], [[1845]] to [[March 4]], [[1849]]....
26: During his childhood, Polk suffered from poor health. In 1812, his father took him to [[...
28: ...attended a school in [[Murfreesboro, Tennessee|Murfreesboro]], where he met his future wife, [[Sarah C...
31: ...opular, earning him the nickname "[[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] of the Stump." He courted [[Sarah ...
33: Polk became a supporter and close friend of [[Andrew Jackson]], then the leading polit... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[...
5: ...], and several slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
8: ...nt. Cibola was nothing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pu...
10: ...ters in one of them, [[Tiguex]] (across the river from present-day [[Bernalillo]] near [[Albuquerque, ...
25: ...erence.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/C/CoronadoF.html Francisco Vasquez de Coronado] - Denver, Colorado (21161 bytes)
30: ...the largest city along the [[Colorado Front Range|Front Range]] and forms the heart of the [[Denver-Au...
32: ...rado)|Cherry Creek]], approximately fifteen miles from the foothills.
38: ... of the plains regions along the foothills of the Front Range.
43: ...Creek (Colorado)|Cherry Creek]], across the creek from the existing mining settlement of [[Auraria, Ka...
47: ...ile the town grew, land parcels were often traded freely for grubstakes and in the course of gambling ... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
46: ...water from the Salt River. Their name is derived from the [[Pima]] (Akimel O'otham) phrase, ''Ho Ho K...
49: ... and others from Wickenburg had dug a short canal from the Salt River and founded a small farming colo...
53: ...'', memorializing the birth of a new civilization from the ruins left by the Hohokam.
61: ...Hotel now stands. Miss Nellie Shaver, a newcomer from Wisconsin, was appointed as the first female sc...
65: ...nment. The bill was signed by Governor [[John C. Fremont]] on [[February 25]], [[1881]]. Phoenix wa... - Rome (33048 bytes)
45: ...ulating in Antiquity; the least likely is derived from Greek ''Ρώμη'' meaning brav...
49: ...rounding hills]] approximately eighteen [[miles]] from the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the south side of the...
52: ...h [[Mediterranean]] people, perhaps from [[North Africa]]. In the [[8th century BC]] these Italic spea...
57: ... control of [[List of Kings of Rome|seven kings]] from [[753 BC|753]] to [[509 BC]] beginning with the...
59: ...cline. Around [[500 BC]] Rome gained independence from the Etruscans. - Apache (7848 bytes)
3: ...d [[Navajo]] people. The Apache peoples migrated from the Northern Plains into the Southwest relative...
8: ...thern Athabaskan peoples in North America fan out from west-central [[Canada]] where some Southern Ath...
10: ...veling on the plains east of the Pueblo region, [[Francisco Coronado]] wrote:
18: ...e term was applied to Southern Athabaskan peoples from the Chama on the east to the San Juan on the we...
26: The Chiricahua Apaches were removed from their [[Indian reservation|reservation]] in [[1... - List of female tennis players (8364 bytes)
15: * [[Marion Bartoli]] (France)
19: * [[Severine Beltrame]] (France)
45: * [[Amanda Coetzer]] (South Africa)
46: * [[Stephanie Cohen-Aloro]] (France)
56: * [[Nathalie Dechy]] (France) - Navajo Nation (14007 bytes)
9: ...Navaho''. Navajo call themselves ''Din駧, a term from the [[Navajo language]] that means ''people''. ...
17: ...n]]. Athapaskan peoples in North America fan out from west-central [[Canada]] where some Athapaskan-s...
19: ...veling on the plains east of the Pueblo region, [[Francisco Coronado]] wrote:
29: ...1640s, the term was applied to Athapaskan peoples from the Chama on the east to the San Juan on the we...
48: ...orm of uranium similar to what enters groundwater from the mines showed heavy increases in [[estrogen]... - Buffalo soldier (5141 bytes)
3: [[image:Army_buffalo_soldiers.jpg|frame|Buffalo Soldier]]
10: ...he [[United States Colored Troops]], composed of African-American soldiers led by white officers. At ...
12: ...ers" served a variety of roles along the frontier from building roads to escorting the US mail.
17: ...iers" were often confronted with racial prejudice from both other members of the US Army and civilians...
31: ...83 in music|1983]]'s ''[[Confrontation (album)|Confrontation]]''. Many [[Jamaica]]ns, especially [[Ra... - Mexican-American War (9503 bytes)
42: ... and [[Texas]]. After having won its independence from Mexico in [[1836]], the [[Republic of Texas]] w...
44: ...d [[Province of New Mexico, Mexico|Nuevo M鸩co]] from Mexico.
51: ...ar. It is also estimated that, if post-war deaths from war-related causes are counted, the combined U....
53: ...oup of several hundred immigrant soldiers (mostly from [[Ireland]]) who deserted the U.S. Army in favo...
55: According to data from the [[United States Department of Veterans Affa... - Wildfire (23185 bytes)
2: ...n Bernardino, California]] Mountains (image taken from the [[International Space Station]])]]
16: ...researchers discovered that exposure to [[smoke]] from burning plants actually promotes [[germination]...
18: ...erty]], particularly when they have reached urban-fringe communities, destroying many homes and causin...
30: ... of water in plants is balanced by water absorbed from the soil. Below this threshold, the plants dry ...
43: ...aft]] caused by a large wildfire will draw in air from surrounding areas. These self-generated winds c... - Canyon (3965 bytes)
3: ...s originate by a process of long-time [[erosion]] from a [[plateau]] level, with a stream gradually ca... - Rift (geology) (1656 bytes)
1: ..._valley.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Rift Valley, Kenya Africa. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.co...
3: ...hen failed to continue. Typically the transition from rifting to spreading develops as three convergi...
6: * [[Great Rift Valley]] in [[Africa]] - River (12397 bytes)
4: ...iver consists of several basic parts, originating from headwaters or a [[spring (water)|spring]] at th...
11: ...rom a body of water such as a [[lake]], or simply from damp, [[bog|boggy]] places where the [[soil]] i...
22: ...nt from those of the ocean because the water is [[fresh water|sweet]] (non-salty). Living things in a ...
31: ...] and [[sediment]] which enriched the fields with fresh [[nutrient]]s. Nowadays, floods are disasters,...
63: ...ongest rivers are, mainly because rivers have a [[fractal]] property, which means that the more precis... - Lake Titicaca (3147 bytes)
1: ...panish: Lago Titicaca) is South America's largest freshwater lake.]]
2: ...ometres]] Titicaca is [[South America]]'s largest freshwater [[lake]]. The partly-salt [[Lake Maracaib...
8: ...urist attraction for [[Peru]], drawing excursions from the lakeside city of [[Puno]]. Another island, ...
10: Titicaca is fed by rainfall and meltwater from glaciers on the [[sierra]]s that abut the [[Alt...
11: [[Image:Lake_Titicaca_map.png|frame|Map of Lake Titicaca]]
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