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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...the era was capped by U.S. involvement in [[World War I]].
7: ...reconstruction, but the immense human cost of the war and the social changes wrought by it led [[Unite...
9: ...e [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden. This failure of the federal governm...
11: ...e midterm elections, the first Reconstruction Act was passed on [[March 2]], [[1867]]; the last on [[M...
13: ...ticipated in these governments were called [[scalawags]]. Republicans took control of all state gover...
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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
9: ...and Applied Chemistry]] (IUPAC). The IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral sy...
59: The original table was created without a knowledge of the inner structu...
60: The first to recognize these regularities was the German chemist [[Johann Wolfgang D?einer]] w...
82: ...ements in the empty cells of his table. Mendeleev was later vindicated by the discovery of the electro... - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
47: | [[Hawaii]]
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
63: | [[Iowa]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
130: *[[Sven Hedin]], (1865-1952), Swedish explorer of [[Central Asia]]
131: ...lls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]...
134: *[[Sir Edmund Hillary]], with [[Tenzing Norgay]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empres...
9: ...hnological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; he...
12: ...ningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] ...
14: ...s the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...ssed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of ... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ... the launcher of women's political advocacy. She was a [[Quaker]], a [[women's rights]] proponent, an...
5: ...] movement in the very early 1800s. Lucretia Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy wor...
7: ... that allows "conscientious objector" status to [[war resistors]].
9: Mott was successful in her abolitionist lobbying and punc...
11: ...ent in one area, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers we... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...lieved travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals o...
6: ...ne Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow mal...
8: ...ted States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, but art supplies a...
14: ... friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it." - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ...y 7]], [[1839]] – [[January 25]], [[1908]]) was the ''[[pen name]]'' of the [[England|English]] ...
3: De la Ram饠was born in [[Bury St Edmunds]], [[England]], to an ...
29: * ''Strathmore'' (1865)
33: * ''Wanda'' (1883)
34: * ''The Waters of Edera'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/ete... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...ber 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
14: ... their strong composition and vibrant colors. She was, however, best known for her candid female nudes...
20: In [[1894]] she was the first woman admitted to the [[Soci鴩 Nation...
28: Suzanne Valadon died on [[April 7]], [[1938]] and was interred in the [[Cimeti貥 de Saint-Ouen]] in P...
32: ...lished and another book by [[Elaine Todd Koren]] was published in [[2001]] titled: ''Suzanne: of Love... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
3: ... June]] [[1836]] – [[17 December]] [[1917]]) was an [[England|English]] physician and [[feminism|...
5: ...ce of Apothecaries' Hall, which she obtained in [[1865]].
7: ..., at the head of the poll for [[Marylebone]], and was also made one of the visiting physicians of the ...
9: ...ned to women in 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of ...
11: ...n to the medical profession, of which Dr Anderson was the indefatigable pioneer in [[England]], extend... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...hristmas, the 24th)–[[April 12]], [[1912]]) was a pioneer American [[teacher]], [[nurse]], and ...
6: ...ere all at least 10 years her senior. Young Clara was home-educated and extremely bright. It is said t...
8: ...ing the "great, loathsome crawling leeches." This was an early indication of what would become Clara's...
12: ...own, where her brother owned a factory. After she was invited to teach in a private school in [[Borden...
14: ... Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learned the ins and out... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: ...arly [[1840s]] to well after the [[American Civil War]], drew on the most advanced [[19th century]] id...
4: Dix was neither a [[physician]] nor a psychiatrist, begi...
10: Throughout her life she appears to have turned away from several opportunities to marry. By the mid ...
12: She was quick to see the parallel between the circumstan...
16: ...aire and "by all reports a skinflint of the first water" to contribute $30,000 to the construction of ... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...in Canada legally to become a medical doctor, and was the only woman in Canada licensed to practice me...
3: ...65]] and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]], where Edward ran a newspaper.
7: ...for the poor at the same location. The Institute was quite successful, later opening branches in [[Br...
9: ...lma Sola, Florida|Palma Sola]], [[Florida]]. She was later instrumental in the establishment of a med... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
1: ... Walker, ca 1870. She often wore mens clothes and was arrested for impersonating a man several times.]...
2: ...ibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]], [[Surgery|surgeon]] and the only woman to rec...
6: ...]], [[New York]], the daughter of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which ...
8: ... as a young woman to earn enough money to pay her way through Syracuse Medical College where she gradu...
10: ...the [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. Finally, she was awarded a commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ... [[1896]]), wife of composer [[Robert Schumann]], was one of the leading [[pianist]]s of the [[Romanti...
7: ...farther than the outskirts of [[Germany]], and it was thanks to her efforts that his compositions beca...
9: ...[[1888]] she appeared each year. In [[1878]] she was appointed teacher of the piano at the [[Hoch Con...
11: ...s considerably rarer than in the present day, she was herself the composer of a few songs and of some ...
14: ...y-six. It is suggested that negative attitudes toward women's ability to compose influenced this as w... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
5: ...5]]) is one of the few famous heroines of [[World War I]].
7: ...tant article of British propaganda throughout the war [http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/edith_cavell...
9: ...not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." These words are inscribed on her stat...
11: After the war Edith Cavell was reburied in the grounds of [[Norwich Cathedral]]...
13: ...[Mount Edith Cavell]] in the [[Canadian Rockies]] was named in her honour. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...c figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free...
7: The United States was the first nation to create the office of [[Presi...
12: ...e United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have ...
14: ...] [[Elaine Chao]], born in [[Republic of China|Taiwan]]; [[United States Director of National Intellig...
16: ...endment XXII]] (which took effect in [[1951]] and was first applied to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] starti... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
15: | wife=[[Martha Washington]]
19: ...ontinental Army]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first ...
21: ...tarily relinquished power even though some others wanted him to retain that power for life (as [[monar...
24: ... the difference in his birth year. His birthplace was Pope's Creek Plantation, south of [[Colonial Bea... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]]
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]])
39: *[[Andrew Johnson]] ([[1865]]) - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
11: | [[April 15]], [[1865]] - [[March 4]], [[1869]]
40: ...seventeenth [[President of the United States]] ([[1865]]–[[1869]]), succeeding to the presidency up...
42: ...]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently acquitted by a single vote in the [...
45: ...ge of 13 he was apprenticed to a tailor, but ran away to Greeneville, Tennessee in [[1826]], where he ...
48: ...arch 4]], [[1843]] to [[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
22: ...rmy | Union]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and the 18th ([[1869]]–[[1877]]) [[Presi...
24: ...and is credited with winning the war. Although he was a successful general, he is considered by histor...
26: ...s agree that Grant was not personally corrupt; it was his subordinates in the executive branch who wer...
30: ...io]], where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17.
32: ...rant, and although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon gr...
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