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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
10: ...sh Civil War]] in the [[17th century]]. The [[Inclosure]] movement and the [[British Agricultural Revo...
12: ...ts were split up by local regions, which often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among the...
14: From about 1100, the population of Europe rose, which is because there was recovery from the di...
16: ...became wealthy from overseas trade. Their social position grew greatly. The manufacturers were ready t...
24: ...eeding produced food with better quality. The Enclosure Movement also made poor farmers go to the town... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: ...nk Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot
62: ...Abeille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...rn canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce ...
5: ...n elder sister, Cassandra, to whom she was very close. The only undisputed portrait of Jane Austen is ...
7: ...[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann Radcliffe]], Austen is most famous for her later works, which took the form ...
10: ...d characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with''.
12: ...e story, without a word of formal moralising. Almost every scene in her novels features women, purpor... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
7: ...rticularly interested in [[Joseph Louis Lagrange|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]]'s teachings and submitted pap...
12: ... surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of them, then without doubt she mu...
17: In [[1811]] Germain entered the [[French Academy of Science...
19: ...s, became quite significant as it restricted the possible solutions of [[Fermat's last theorem]]. - Apple (20408 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Rosales]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Rosaceae]]}}
16: ...'' in the family [[Rosaceae]], and is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Table apples are ...
27: ...o a greater degree than other tree fruit, except possibly [[citrus]], apples store for months while st...
34: ...of them have excellent flavor (often better than most modern cultivars), but may have other problems w... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...ve their northwestern territories (consisting of most of modern-day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Tenne...
23: ...ith a [[bicameral legislature]]. When the issue arose of how states would be represented in the new Co...
27: ... essays that comprise the Federalist Papers. His most famous passage comes in Federalist No. 51:
31: ...s home state of [[Virginia]]. He successfully proposed the first ten [[amendment]]s to the Constitutio...
40: ... party, who were considered traitors when they opposed the war. - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ...eland County, Virginia]], as an only child to a prosperous family, Monroe attended the school of Campe...
28: ...onary War]] veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested in his two elections.
32: ...lings", in part because partisan politics were almost nonexistent. The [[United States Federalist Part...
34: ...y undiminished, followed nationalist policies. Across the facade of [[nationalism]], ugly sectional cr...
36: ...ce with independent countries in the Americas as hostile acts toward the United States. Monroe did not... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
22: ... admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
24: ...n merchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having a foreign-born wife, Adams wed...
28: ...ife lost to illness an infant daughter, born in [[1811]].
30: .... He is sometimes called the "Lone Wolf" for his positions during this time, because he often did not ...
32: ...emained the only American president unanimously chosen by the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral colle... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...ackson, nicknamed "Old Hickory," was neither of those. He was the first president who had lived on the...
24: ... career by his own merits, and soon he began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law....
32: ...presentatives|House of Representatives]], which chose [[John Quincy Adams]] instead. The election was...
40: ===Jackson's opposition to the National Bank===
43: ...in the growth of the U.S. economy, but Jackson opposed the concept on ideological grounds. In Jackson'... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ..., who became [[Governor of Virginia]] ([[1808]]-[[1811]]), and followed his father as governor ([[1825]]...
27: ...er" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" are among the most famous in American politics. He assumed the pres...
54: ... or after him. His youngest child, Pearl, died almost exactly 100 years after the death of his eldest ...
58: ...tates Whig Party|Whig Party]] policies and work closely with Whig leaders, particularly [[Henry Clay]]...
69: ...f them will be willing to set an example, in the bosom of this Union, of such frightful disorder, such... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...e [[science]] and study of the [[Earth]], its composition, structure, physical properties, history, an...
3: ... such as [[asbestos]], [[perlite]], [[mica]], [[phosphates]], [[zeolites]], [[clay]], [[pumice]], [[qu...
10: ...he [[mountain]]s and by [[Deposition (geology)|deposition]] of [[silt]].
12: ...ve for millennia. However, its interpretation of fossils was not overturned until after the [[Scientif...
18: ...dering [[rock strata]] (layers) by examining the fossils contained in them. - Paraguay (10959 bytes)
23: |'''[[Nicanor Duarte Frutos]]'''
32: |From [[Spain]]<br>[[May 15]], [[1811]]
41: |''[[Paraguayos, Rep?a o Muerte]]''
52: ...ng the local Spanish authorities on [[May 15]], [[1811]].
54: ...ountries, but the settlements in the region were mostly Paraguayan. The 35-year military [[dictatorshi... - Missouri (16086 bytes)
1: ...es/history/slogan.asp Show-Me] State''; the U.S. Post Office abbreviation for Missouri is '''MO''' and...
10: ... The Show Me State''<br/>[[List of U.S. state mottos|State motto]]: ''"Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto"'...
14: PostalAbbreviation = MO |
63: ..., [[Kansas]], and [[Nebraska]] (the latter two across the Missouri River.)
69: ...e focus of the great [[New Madrid Earthquake]] of 1811 - 1812. - Oregon (26551 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Ted Kulongoski]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = OR |
36: ...ndaries of the [[Willamette Valley]], one of the most fertile and agriculturally productive regions in...
43: ...ded to support its increasing population without losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first pl...
49: ...gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company posts. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
65: * [[3rd century BC|200s BC]]: [[Crossbow]] in [[History of China|China]]
70: ...[[Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
118: * [[1609]]: [[Microscope]]: [[Galileo Galilei]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
19: ...amaoka|Yamaoka, Akira]] (born 1968), Japanese composer
26: *[[Bosa Yankovich|Yankovich, Bosa]]
42: ...2]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video game]] music composer
47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of Ne...
69: *[[A. B. Yehoshua|Yehoshua, A. B.]], author of ''Mr. Mani'' - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...ntific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of ...
6: ... [[theory|theories]] on established [[fact]], philosophy also enquires about other areas of knowledge,...
11: ...d on the ways in which scientists work, looking closely at the ways in which they "produce" and "const...
13: ...nature of ''theory change'' in science. Three philosophers in particular who represent the primary pol...
15: ... lines of those in the scientific community and those in the social sciences or humanities (for exampl... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
150: *[[George Caleb Bingham]] ([[1811]]-[[1879]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787...
42: *[[Robert Bunsen]], (1811-1899), [[Germany]] — [[Bunsen burner]]
51: ...[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]] - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
5: ...which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
7: .... [[Henry Ford]], the automobile magnate lived across the street at his winter retreat (The Mangoes). ...
10: ...overnment gave those who had been loyal to it. In 1811, three generations of Edison's took up farming ne...
16: ...eading the book [["Parker's School of Natural Philosophy"]].
18: ...s the Port Huron [[''Times-Herald'']]. [[Partial loss of hearing|Partially deaf]] since adolescence, h...
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