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- Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ... the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's empire ...
5: ...aterloo]] and the [[Treaty of Paris (1815)|Second Treaty of Paris]]. Collectively, the nearly continuo...
8: [[Image:Napoleon1.jpg|left|frame|Portrait of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]]]]
12: ...roughout the world, and the United Kingdom's industrial economy made it the most powerful commercial n...
13: ...es have remained: for instance, many European countries have a [[Civil law (legal system)|Civil law]] ... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...ortant center of commerce (especially the [[spice trade]]) and [[art]] in the [[Renaissance]].
6: ... being [[Genoa]], [[Pisa]], and [[Amalfi]]). Its strategic position at head of the Adriatic made Venet...
8: ...was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of the [[Brenner pass]] from Verona in 1178, op...
10: ...itime commercial empire, the Republic acquired control of most of the islands in the [[Aegean Sea|Aege...
12: ... of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the men, supplies, and (especially) war ho... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
33: *[[Treffle Berthlaume]] (1803 - 1884)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
125: *[[Horatio Greenough]] (1805 - 1852)
190: *[[Pietro Masni]] - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ton]] and his trial and acquittal on charges of [[treason]].
13: ...urr under his wing, and by his vigilance in the retreat from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brig...
14: ...s from both armies. Burr established a thorough patrol system, rigorously enforced [[martial law]], an...
26: ... nomination. Nevertheless, Hamilton masked his hatred of Burr for a decade, remaining outwardly frien...
28: ...p. Washington also passed Burr over for the ministry to [[France]], and turned down his application f... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...is many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a member of the [[Freemasons...
8: ===Ancestry===
21: Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. His fathe...
23: ...vvy about cultivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great...
27: ...t]] partly contributed to the American colonies' struggle to maintain their privileges. - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...erence of British and French-Canadian hunters and trappers who were already well established in the ar...
7: ...hought that when they got to that part of the country, she could take them to her native home.
9: ... reached the [[Pacific Ocean]] in the December of 1805. At this point in time, Lewis spotted [[Mt. Hood]...
10: ...e wintering at the fort, the men prepared for the trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting el...
16: ...s from the East would have stormed the Indian Country much too soon, and there would have been total c... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
9: *[[1756]] - [[St. Patrick's Day]] is celebrated in [[New York City]] for...
11: *[[1805]] - The [[Italian Republic (Napoleonic)|Italian R...
22: ...[[France]], and the [[United Kingdom]] sign the [[Treaty of Brussels]], a precursor to the [[NATO]] Ag...
25: ...o]], the 14th [[Dalai Lama]], flees [[Tibet]] and travels to [[India]].
33: ...t in Kosovo]]. Over 22 killed, 200 wounded, 35 destroyed [[Serb Orthodox]] shrines in Kosovo and two m... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...n [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
42: *[[Emil Artin]] (Austria, [[1898]] - [[1962]])
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
149: *[[Jules Barth鬥my-Saint-Hilaire]], (1805-1895)
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...alta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ... [[John the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It w...
9: ... [[Margat]], both located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided int...
15: ...] surrendered to the knights. They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the...
19: ... the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, t... - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
66: ...g: 0 5px; background: #ECECEC;" |[[Monroe-Pinkney Treaty]]
84: ...d the [[Jay Treaty]] with Great Britain and the [[Treaty of Greenville]] with the American Indians, an...
86: ...f the two nations negotiated the [[Monroe-Pinkney Treaty]], but it was not ratified in the United Stat...
88: ...ed into the Royal Navy. The American public was outraged by the incident, and many called for war in o...
90: ...)]] established embargoes that made international trade precarious. From 1807 to 1812, about 900 Ameri... - Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
3: ...sposition to compromises marked by a passionate patriotic devotion to the Union.
9: ... as an orator, he is recorded as having been so petrified at school that he simply refused to stand up...
11: ...Thompson and then Christopher Gore) and then in [[1805]] he opened his first legal practice in [[Boscawe...
17: ...entatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] on the strength of his opposition to the [[War of 1812]]. He...
21: ...ds of the state senate. In essence they seized control of a private body without consultation or any o... - Budgerigar (5000 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Bird|Aves]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Psittaciformes]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[parrot|Psittacidae]]}} - Vice President of the United States (33884 bytes)
18: ...l enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take t...
21: ...o cast a vote in the event of a tie. There is a strong convention within the [[United States Senate|U...
44: ... notion was still very much alive when [[Harry S. Truman]] became the Vice President for [[Franklin D....
46: ...t "the precedent might prove injurious to the country." Vice President Charles Curtis was also preclu...
48: ...d on some national security issues. As a result, Truman was unaware of the top-secret [[Manhattan Pro... - White House (15373 bytes)
6: ...a [[Metonymy|metonym]] for the President's administration, as in, "Today, the White House announced a ...
8: ..., in the midwestern or western regions of the country, have often been called the [[Western White Hous...
12: ..., [[1800]]. Over an extremely slow 8 years of construction, $232,371.83 was spent. With inflation, thi...
20: ...uch of Washington, D.C. was set alight by British troops, and the White House was gutted. Only the ext...
22: ... still is, [[as of 2005]]) the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history. - Prairie Dogs (2700 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[mammal|Mammalia]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Rodentia]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_subordo_entry | taxon = [[Sciurognathi]]}} - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
1: ...incomplete, in-development) list are somewhat arbitrary: Not all of these events were military, some w...
8: *[[First Barbary War]] (1801–1805)
53: *[[Operation Infinite Reach]] (strikes on [[Sudan]] and [[Afghanistan]], 1998)
126: ==Ethnic cleansing and control==
129: **[[Trail of Tears]] (1838–1839) - History of ecology (10158 bytes)
6: ...s to develop [[maritime commerce]] with other countries, and to discover new natural resources, as wel...
10: ... famous works was "Idea for a Plant Geography" ([[1805]]).
21: ...e]], [[hydrosphere]], and [[lithosphere]], the Austrian geologist [[Eduard Suess]] proposed the term [...
25: ...n]]. Since the [[19th century]], with the [[industrial revolution]], more and more pressing concerns ...
35: ...ffects of [[agriculture]], [[mining]], and [[industry]]. Besides ecology and biology, this discipline ... - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
1: This timeline tries to compile dates of important historical event...
3: ...icles|articles on the histories of individual countries]]. See [[Ancient Near East]] for ancient histo...
29: ... water]] is added, significantly expanding it and transforming it from a fresh-water landlocked lake i...
68: * [[Troy]] I-V
76: * Major migration of Central Saharans into [[West Africa]] possibly due to [... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
17: ...Federation|federate]] as the [[Commonwealth of Australia]]. [[Edmund Barton]] becomes first [[Prime Mi...
24: ...a]] as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
30: * [[May 9]] - [[Australia]] opens its first [[Australian Parliament|parliament]] in [[Melbourne]].
42: ...officially ends with the signing of the Pecker Control.
49: ...resident [[William McKinley]], is executed by electrocution.
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