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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
14: ==== People named Adam ====
32: ===== People named Adams =====
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...f Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 M...
18: ...tch, but his objections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert...
20: ...merged the Royal House name and family surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding ...
29: ...wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly o...
37: ... the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...d [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Floren...
23: ...mily objections concerning the risks and social implications of such activity, and the [[Roman Cathol...
31: ...cial indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short supply, [[hygiene]] was being neglected, and mass [[inf...
35: ...ted to have escaped serious injury when it was toppled in an accident. Following this episode she used...
47: ...statistical reports and was instrumental in the implementation of its recommendations. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
8: ...ical College where she graduated as a doctor in [[1855]]. She married a fellow medical school student, ... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...nge class]] [[steam locomotive]], at [[Bristol Temple Meads]] station, Bristol, England]]
3: ...red locomotives, and may be referred to as [[multiple unit]]s or [[railcar]]s; the use of these self-p...
12: ...should the locomotive break down, it is easy to replace it with a new one. Failure of the motive power...
14: ...e payload-hauling cars means that either can be replaced without affecting the other. At some times, l...
21: ... or [[oil]]. Because of the steam engine, some people took to calling the steam locomotives themselves... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ... to the six succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1855]]-[[March 3]], [[1869]]). He was elected [[Speak... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
5: ... Henry Wilson and his wife, who only had but a couple kids. In [[1833]] he had his name legally change...
7: ...] and [[1871]], and served from [[January 31]], [[1855]], to [[March 3]], [[1873]], when he resigned to ... - Australia (39438 bytes)
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48: ...88]]. As the population grew and new areas were explored, six self-governing [[Crown Colony|Crown Colo...
50: ...aterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people and [[Torres Strait Islander]]s.
54: ...to use the word "Australia" was [[Alexander Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical Collection of Voyages a...
62: ...claiming the land for Britain in [[1770]]. This replica was built in 1988 for Australia's bicentennial... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
49: ...y the latter part of that century, the various peoples of Zambia were largely established in the areas...
51: ...onaries, and traders. [[David Livingstone]], in [[1855]], was the first European to see the magnificent ...
59: ...th Africa]] (ANC), and the [[South-West Africa People's Organization]] (SWAPO).
61: ...nia]]n port of [[Dar es Salaam]], built with [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] assistance, reduce...
69: ...an exploitation and stressed cooperation among people, but not at the expense of the individual. - Iowa (24205 bytes)
38: ...or the [[Native American]] [[Iowa tribe|Iowa]] people.
45: *French explorers [[Louis Joliet]] and [[Jacques Marquette]] a...
49: ...minus for the [[Union Pacific]] railroad. The completion of five major railroads across Iowa brough m...
55: ...[[washing machine]]s, [[fountain pen]]s, [[farm implement]]s, and food products that are shipped aroun...
67: The topography of the state is gently rolling [[plains]]. [[Loess]] hills lie along the western bord... - Kansas (21369 bytes)
37: ... from the [[Sioux|Siouan]] word Kansa meaning "People of the south wind", is a [[Midwest|midwestern]] ...
44: ... waystop and outfitting place. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kan...
48: ...] destroying much of the city and killing many people.
55: {{Template:MetaSidebar|250px|#ffffaa|right|[[Kansas state...
66: }}<!-- this may be placed anywhere in the article, just keep out of the... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
38: ...h Dakota''' is a [[U.S. state|state]] in the high plains of the northern Middle West. It is named af...
52: ...te slogans|State slogan]]:''' "Great Faces. Great Places."
82: ...settler population of eastern Dakota Territory tripled. The last major incident in this struggle occu...
128: South Dakota [[license plate|license plates]] are numbered by county, with the first digi...
130: ...ns]] and the French [[Alps]]. More than 70,000 people hike to its 7,242 foot summit each year. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
31: * [[Plough]]s in [[Mesopotamia]]
35: * 3500 BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
80: * [[600]]: Mouldboard [[plough]] in [[Eastern Europe]]
162: * [[1797]]: [[Cast iron plow]]: [[Charles Newbold]]
201: * [[1831]]: [[Multiple coil magnet]]: [[Joseph Henry]] - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
4: ...nothopoulos, Callistus]], patriarch of Constantinople
6: ...|Xanthopoulos, Isidore]], patriarch of Constantinople
15: *[[Ettore Ximenes|Ximenes, Ettore]], ([[1855]]-[[1919]]), Italian painter
17: ...nus|Xiphilinus, George]], patriarch of Constantinople - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...sh by [[Anthony Hodges]], 1638, and [[R. Smith]], 1855.) - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...yric]] [[poetry]], to whom was assigned the first place among the nine lyric poets of Greece in the [[...
3: ...re, after the close of the Messenian wars, the people were able to bestow their attention upon the art...
7: ...siderable being part of a ''Parthenion'' found in 1855 on an [[Egypt]]ian [[papyrus]]; some later discov... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hy)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? thus making neighboring time zones one ho...
6: ...T]]) is still often used (by the [[BBC]], for example, amongst others) to denote the "base time" to wh...
10: ...for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
18: ...he location is one day later or earlier. Some examples:
31: ...til [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to the isl... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...ries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within ...
15: ...ose in the social sciences or humanities (for example, the "[[Science wars]]").
23: ...he [[habit]]s and [[Abstraction|attributes]] of [[plant]]s and [[animal]]s in the world around him. He...
27: ...ment of]] [[agriculture]], which allowed for a surplus of food, it became possible for early [[Civiliz...
29: ...ture of the planets and stars, many theoretical explanations were proposed. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
118: *[[Cecilia Beaux]] ([[1855]]-[[1942]])
143: *[[Henryka Beyer]] ([[1782]]-[[1855]])
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
20: ...3) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scientist
63: *[[Joseph Day]] --(1855-1946) Two Stroke Internal Combustion Engine
77: ...Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple arch dam - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of [[mass production]] to the process of [[inve...
5: ...patents, and were actually made by his numerous employees. Edison was frequently criticized for not sh...
20: Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote record...
24: ...e invention enjoyed popularity. The "gramophone", playing [[gramophone record]]s, was invented by [[Em...
27: ...marily supervised the operation and work of his employees. - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
9: |As Western territories begin applying for statehood, the [[Missouri Compromise]] ma...
15: |[[Daniel Webster]] delivers a memorable ''Reply to Hayne'' on January 27, denouncing the notion ...
30: ...e of the Supreme Court]]. Taney asserts the principle of social responsibility of private property as ...
48: ...ew]]'', the leading Southern magazine warning the planter class about the dangers of depending on the ...
70: |valign=center|'''[[1855]]-[[1856]]''' - January 2 (10888 bytes)
15: *[[1860]] - The discovery of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [...
30: ...- [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] agree on a plan to preserve [[Niagara Falls]].
41: ...ard]] performs the second successful [[heart transplant]].
49: ...ring factions in [[Bosnia]] meet to discuss peace plans.
51: ...7mm) at [[Chicago]]. In [[Chicago]], temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C), and 68 deaths are r... - Archaeopteryx (8771 bytes)
2: ...del of ''Archaeopteryx lithographica''<br/> on display at the [[Oxford University Museum of Natural Hi...
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28: ... ancestor of modern birds, but rather another example of the many [[theropod]] derivatives with any nu...
36: ''Archaeopteryx'' continues to play an important part in scientific debates about t... - Oceanography (3841 bytes)
1: ...thin the science: Oceanography's definition is simple, it's the study of oceans.
5: ...aphy''', which is [[marine geology]], including [[plate tectonics]] and other studies of the ocean flo...
11: ...aine Maury]]'s ''Physical Geography of the Sea'', 1855 was the first textbook of oceanography. Laying of...
15: ...onal Science Foundation to give grant money to people doing studies in the field of oceanography.
19: **Abyssal Plan - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
142: *[[John Pople|John A. Pople]], (1925-2004), [[theoretical chemistry|theoreti...
143: *[[Roy J. Plunkett]], (1910-1984), discoverer of [[Teflon]]
171: *[[K. Barry Sharpless]]. (1941- ) [[2001]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistr... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
252: *[[François Rude]] (1784 - 1855)
325: *[[List of people by occupation]] - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
42: ...ne]] (a [[Miwok]] Indian word meaning "western people") living in the coastal area between [[Point Sur...
44: European discovery and exploration of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] began in...
50: ...n_francisco_1855.jpg|thumb|300px|San Francisco in 1855.]]
56: ...od. All of the county not in the city limits was split off to form [[San Mateo County, California|San ...
58: In autumn of 1855, a ship bearing [[refugees]] from an ongoing [[ch... - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
19: |Displacement:||987 tons
29: |Complement:||59 officers and men
41: ...as a conventional wooden vessel covered with iron plates and bearing fixed weapons.
43: ...)|USS ''Congress'']] and forcing [[USS Minnesota (1855)|USS ''Minnesota'']] aground before withdrawing. ...
49: ...[river monitor]]s and deep-sea monitors, and they played key roles in Civil War battles on the Mississ... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
12: Jefferson Davis successfully completed his four-year term of study at West Point, an...
20: ==Marriage, plantation life and politics==
21: ...ork City]]. In [[1836]], he retired to Brierfield Plantation in [[Warren County, Mississippi]].
42: ... an elaborate one (submitted in [[February 22]] [[1855]]) on various routes for the proposed [[First Tra...
48: ...f secession in practice, Davis upheld it on principle on [[January 10]] [[1861]]. On the 21st of that ... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], searching fo...
12: ... for the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
13: *[[1916]] - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the ...
19: ...S ''Franklin'']], killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.
24: ...rk, New York|New York]], [[New York]] kills 24 people. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
15: ...ectional Facility|Sing Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[ele...
18: ...ternational [[figure skating]] championship takes place.
21: ... the first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed.
26: *[[1965]] – In [[Naples]], [[Italy]], [[France Gall]] wins the tenth [[...
36: ...h; A [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] bomb explodes in [[Warrington, Warrington|Warrington]], nor... - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
35: ...:sacramento_ca_1855.jpg|thumb|300px|Sacramento in 1855.]]
37: ...diet was dominated with [[acorn]]s taken from the plentiful [[oak]] trees in the region and by eating ...
39: The Spanish explorer [[Gabriel Moraga]] discovered and named the S...
42: ... increasing the population. John Sutter, Jr. then planned the City of Sacramento, against the wishes o...
52: ...l]] style [[California State Capitol]] was not completed until [[1874]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
280: *[[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] (Germany, [[1777]] - [[1855]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
224: ...riedrich Gauss]] ([[Germany]], [[1777]] – [[1855]])
318: *[[Johannes Kepler]] ([[Germany]], [[1571]] – [[1630]])
346: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1827]])
364: *[[Percival Lowell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1855]] – [[1916]])
463: *[[Philip Plait]] ([[United States|USA]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}}
907: *[[Johannes Kepler]], (1571-1630){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
910: *[[S?Kierkegaard]], (1813-1855){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Crimean War (7100 bytes)
3: The majority of the conflict took place on the [[Crimea|Crimean peninsula]] in the [[B...
14: ...[1855]]. The city was captured in [[September]] [[1855]].
25: ...vessels with their precious cargoes of medical supplies, food, clothing and other necessaries. The sca...
30: * Some action also took place on the Russian Pacific coast, [[Asia Minor]], ...
31: ...The Great Game]]). Conflicts over control of holy places in [[Jerusalem]] led to aggressive actions in... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
12: ...tte River|Platte]] and [[North Platte River|North Platte]] rivers was chosen to avoid potential confli...
14: ...ed sixteen weeks—nearly three times longer than planned. It was apparent that the Latter-day Saints...
17: ...raft animals, and livestock and carried enough supplies to provision the group for one year. On April...
25: ...ce of the valley and declared ''This is the right place, drive on.''
27: ...ember 1847, more than two thousand Mormons had completed the journey to the Salt Lake Valley. - Sidon (4751 bytes)
4: ... skill of its craftsmen in producing glass and purple dyes. It was also from here that a colonising pa...
6: In [[1855]], the sarcophagus of King [[Eshmunazar|Eshmun...
18: The [[Bible]] describes Sidon at various places:
23: ...its "virgin daughter" (Isaiah 23:12), rose to its place of pre-eminence.
24: ...and thus their form of idolatrous worship found a place in the [[land of Israel]] (1 Kings 11:1, 33). - Bunsen burner (2198 bytes)
4: ...ose laboratory assistant, [[Peter Desdega]], in [[1855]] perfected an earlier design by [[Michael Farada...
6: ...lame will travel back down the tube to the gas supply. It is most common for the burner today to run o...
8: ...ube rising from it. The gas flows from the gas supply connection to the base. The stream of gas then p... - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
19: *[[1855]] the [[Panama Railway]] completed, the first [[transcontinental railway]]
24: ...st Transcontinental Railroad (North America)]] completed across the [[United States]].
31: ...Siberian railway]] in [[Russia]]. Construction completed in [[1904]]. [[Webb C. Ball]] establishes fir... - Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
5: ...uenced by that philosopher. Yet Baader is no disciple of Schelling, and, probably gave out more than h...
7:
11: ...e not to be conceived as successive, or as taking place in time; they are to be looked at sub specie a...
15: ...uled by a universal or Catholic church, the principles of which are equally distinct from mere passive...
19: ..., ''Cardinalpunkte der Baaderschen Philosophie'' (1855); ''Fundamentalbegriffe von F. B.'s Ethik, Politi... - John C. Breckinridge (5870 bytes)
6: ...s]] ([[March 4]], [[1851]] – [[March 3]], [[1855]]). Breckinridge did not run for reelection, and...
22: ...ootnote| marker=*| footnote=The Democratic party split in 1860, producing two presidential candidates.... - Thomas A. Hendricks (3507 bytes)
4: ...gresses]] ([[March 4]], [[1851]] - [[March 3]], [[1855]]). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelect...
6: ...as Commissioner of the General Land Office from [[1855]] to [[1859]], and an unsuccessful Democratic ca...
8: ... received 42 electoral votes that were previously pledged to Greeley. Hendricks ran as an unsuccessful... - James S. Sherman (2788 bytes)
3: ...''James Schoolcraft Sherman''' ([[October 24]], [[1855]] – [[October 30]], [[1912]]) was a [[United...
7: ...York]] a few days prior to the election and was replaced on the ballot by [[Nicholas M. Butler]]. How... - Culture of Jersey (13844 bytes)
7: ... increased apace with the migration of English people into the island since the end of the [[Napoleoni...
25: ...18th century]]. The earliest identified dated example of printed poetry in J�rriais is a fragment by...
27: ...f Jersey 1880–1884), 'A.A.L.G.' (Augustus Aspley Le Gros 1840–1877), and 'St.-Luorenchais'...
37: ...p et Merrienne'', supposedly a traditional old couple who would comment on the latest news or recall t...
43: ... Hugo]] lived in exile in Jersey from [[1852]] to 1855. - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
1: ...f the United States. The categories on this (incomplete, in-development) list are somewhat arbitrary: ...
73: ...eminole Wars]] (1817–1818, 1835–1842, 1855–1858)
83: *[[Cayuse War]] (1848–1855)
88: *[[Grattan Massacre]] (1855)
89: *[[Yakima War]] (1855) - Anchisaurus (5714 bytes)
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26: ...umber of these bones began to accumulate and by [[1855]] they were at least recognised as [[reptile|rept...
32: ...e late [[Jurassic]] era; more specifically, the [[Pliensbachian]] to [[Toarcian]] periods, 200 to 188 ... - Hadrosauridae (5111 bytes)
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29: ...e|iguanodontid]] dinosaurs, and have similar body plans.
34: ...in North America, the first traces being found in 1855-1856 with the discovery of [[fossil]] [[teeth]]. ... - Hadrosaurid (5111 bytes)
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29: ...e|iguanodontid]] dinosaurs, and have similar body plans.
34: ...in North America, the first traces being found in 1855-1856 with the discovery of [[fossil]] [[teeth]]. ... - Duck-bill (5340 bytes)
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29: ...e|iguanodontid]] dinosaurs, and have similar body plans.
34: ...in North America, the first traces being found in 1855-1856 with the discovery of [[fossil]] [[teeth]]. ... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
6: ...he sun's rays fall each year in [[Abu Simbel]] temple.
9: ...95]] - King [[Charles VIII of France]] enters [[Naples]] to claim the city's throne.
14: * [[1855]] - The [[Pennsylvania State University]] is foun...
21: ..., California]], the first [[dog race]] track to employ an imitation [[rabbit]] opens.
31: ... to [[China]], the [[United States]] and the [[People's Republic of China]] agree to establish liaison... - Karl Marx (38076 bytes)
16: ...sophy. Another Young Hegelian, [[Max Stirner]], applied Hegelian criticism and argued that stopping an...
18: ... pockets of poverty, government censorship was in place, and non-Lutherans suffered from religious dis...
35: ...n of the speech (which was well-known) was soon employed in an attempt to discredit the International....
39: ...emaining two volumes of ''Capital'' were never completed by Marx, but were reconstructed by Engels fro...
44: ...mdash; their daughter [[Eleanor Marx | Eleanor]] (1855-1898), born in London, was also a committed socia...
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