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  1. History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
    2: ... bitterly divided. In the South, the Federal policy of [[Reconstruction era (United States)|Reconstru...
    7: ...defeated [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]], which had seceded from the [[United States]], ...
    21: ...olitical control. The North allowed white supremacy and encouraged white ex-Confederates to regain th...
    38: U.S. federal government policy since the [[James Monroe]] administration had bee...
    40: ...surviving indigenous population. In 1934 U.S. policy was reversed again by the [[Indian Reorganization...

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  1. Periodic table (7298 bytes)
    82: ...chemist [[John Alexander Reina Newlands]], who in 1865 noticed that the elements of similar type recurre...
  2. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    165: | [[1854]] — [[1865]]
  3. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
    130: *[[Sven Hedin]], (1865-1952), Swedish explorer of [[Central Asia]]
    233: *[[Cândido Rondon]], (1865-1958), Explored the Amazon with [[Teddy Roosevelt...
    246: *[[Scylax of Caryanda]] - a [[Hellenic civilization|Gree...
    306: [[pl:Najwięksi odkrywcy]]
  4. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    16: ...t such a scenario, Parliament passed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Vi...
    25: ...queen had just turned eighteen years old, no regency was necessary. By [[Salic law]], no woman could r...
    37: ...r-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theories afflicted the country with a wave of pat...
    39: ... no effect on the queen's health or on her pregnancy. The first child of the royal couple, named [[Vic...
    73: ...eform, but his ministry ended upon his death in [[1865]]. He was followed by Lord Russell (the former Lo...
  5. Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
    3: ...curately, the launcher of women's political advocacy. She was a [[Quaker]], a [[women's rights]] prop...
    5: ...ott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[abolition]].
    7: ... people of those times, mostly due to their advocacy and martyrdom for being "conscientious objectors"...
    9: ...es of representative government's political advocacy to women coming up as women's and abolitionist ad...
    13: ... known after this. When slavery was outlawed in [[1865]], she began to advocate giving black Americans t...
  6. Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
    6: ...ne Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow mal...
  7. Ouida (1938 bytes)
    29: * ''Strathmore'' (1865)
  8. Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
    2: '''Suzanne Valadon''' ([[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[p...
    18: ...life, leaving him, he said, with "nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and...
  9. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
    5: ...ce of Apothecaries' Hall, which she obtained in [[1865]].
  10. Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
    10: == Teaching, organizing, learning bureaucracy, a mission ==
    14: ... learned the ins and outs of the federal bureaucracy.
    21: ...ly a year, she lobbied the [[U.S. Army]] bureaucracy in vain to bring her own medical supplies to the ...
    23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in ch...
  11. Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
    2: ...s]] for the [[insane]]. Unfortunately for her legacy, these state hospitals grew into enormous "museum...
    16: ... the insane. Dix followed this up by persuading [[Cyrus Butler]], a self-made Providence millionaire a...
    20: ...n. The two dozen mental hospitals built between [[1865]] and [[1880]] demonstrate the continuing momentu...
  12. Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
    3: ...rd]], [[Ontario]]. She married Edward Trout in [[1865]] and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]], where Edwa...
  13. Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
    12: ...d [[George Henry Thomas]]. On [[November 11]], [[1865]], President [[Andrew Johnson]] signed a bill to ...
  14. Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
    9: ... disapprobation. She returned to [[London]] in [[1865]] and continued her visits annually, with the exc...
  15. Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
    5: '''Edith Louisa Cavell''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) is one of the few f...
    7: ...|Norfolk]], where her father was [[rector]], in [[1865]]; she trained as a [[nurse]]. In [[1907]], she ...
  16. President of the United States (42878 bytes)
    14: ...public officials that are barred from the presidency because they were not born U.S. citizens include ...
    16: ...in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency previously and served less than two years complet...
    38: ...fficials to serve or act as President upon a vacancy in the office due to death, resignation, or remov...
    54: ...rican Civil War]]. Lee surrendered [[9 April]] [[1865]].
    86: |align=center| 6 || [[John Quincy Adams]]
  17. George Washington (29551 bytes)
    21: ...an important precedent of [[republic]]an [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
    51: ... out an offensive against the [[Iroquois Confederacy]], which had allied with the British and attacked...
    53: ...n found out about a [[Newburgh conspiracy|conspiracy]] that was being planned by some of his officers ...
    55: ==Activities between Revolution and Presidency ==
    62: ...elieve that the [[Framers]] created the [[Presidency]] with Washington in mind. After the Convention, ...
  18. Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
    13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
    24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]]
    38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]])
    39: *[[Andrew Johnson]] ([[1865]])
    42: ...at Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President of the United States]], and the fi...
  19. Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
    11: | [[April 15]], [[1865]] - [[March 4]], [[1869]]
    40: ...[1865]]–[[1869]]), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of [[Abraham Lincoln]].
    51: ...] of [[Confederate States of America|the Confederacy]], Johnson was the only Senator from the seceded ...
    54: ...rst Vice President to succeed to the U.S. Presidency upon the assassination of a President and the thi...
    66: ...gn="left" |'''[[Andrew Johnson]]'''||align="left"|1865–1869
  20. Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
    32: ...change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon graduation, Grant adopted the form of his...
    43: ...terful in military history; it split the Confederacy in two, and it represented the second major Confe...
    45: ...Atlanta, Georgia]], and the heart of the Confederacy. His willingness to fight and ability to win impr...
    50: ...rategy that would strike at the heart of Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, [[George G. Mead...
    54: ...e [[Trans-Mississippi Department]] on [[June 2]], 1865.
  21. Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
    13: ...dash; [[March 3]], [[1865]];<br>[[December 4]], [[1865]] &ndash; [[March 3]], [[1869]]}}
  22. Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
    7: ...ates Republican Party|Republican]] in [[1859]], [[1865]] and [[1871]], and served from [[January 31]], [...
  23. Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
    35: ...ted the nomination of Arthur for the Vice Presidency.
    39: == Presidency ==
    50: ...wn since a year after he succeeded to the Presidency, that he was suffering from [[Bright's Disease]],...
    54: ...erally respected." Author [[Mark Twain]], deeply cynical of politicians, conceded, "It would be hard ...
    100: === Significant events during presidency ===
  24. Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
    29: ...emocratic Party|Democrat]] elected to the presidency in the era of [[United States Republican Party|Re...
    38: ==Presidency==
    40: Cleveland won the Presidency with the combined support of [[United States Demo...
    46: ...g others' bad ideas. He vigorously pursued a policy barring special favors to any economic group. Vet...
    62: ... covered up the surgery. Of course, absolute secrecy did not surround the operation. A cover story abo...
  25. United States (58223 bytes)
    2: (poetically) '''Columbia'''&mdash;is a [[democracy|democratic]] [[federal republic]] of fifty [[U.S....
    38: currency = [[United States dollar|US dollar]] ([[$]]) |
    39: currency_code = USD |
    60: ... war in [[1865]], the dissolution of the Confederacy, and the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United Sta...
    70: ...States is an example of a [[representative democracy]]. There are three levels of government in the U...
  26. Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
    36: | '''[[Currency]]'''
    60: ...om [[Persia]] and annexed by [[Russia]] between [[1865]] and [[1885]], by 1894 [[imperial Russia]] had t...
    96: ...]'s refusal to export Turkmen gas to [[hard currency]] markets and mounting debts of its major custome...
  27. Paraguay (10959 bytes)
    34: |'''[[Currency]]'''
    35: |[[Guaran�currency)|Guaran흝
    54: ...ns have been held since then. However, the democracy that exists in the country, while a great improve...
    99: ... of the Brazilian [[currency]], the [[Real (currency)|Real]], in 1998; which caused Paraguayan shops t...
  28. Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
    43: | '''[[Currency]]'''
    62: ...afuti and Nukulaelae, none of whom returned. In [[1865]], the [[London Missionary Society]], Protestant ...
    111: The Tuvalu dollar, the local [[currency]], is coupled to the [[Australian dollar]].
    131: ...hfront and an increase in the severity and frequency of storms. Tuvaluans are worried about the subme...
  29. Flag of Michigan (1261 bytes)
    10: ...y" on the other side. The second flag, adopted in 1865, displayed the state coat of arms on one side and...
  30. Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
    17: ...l]] was completed in around [[1300]]CE. The accuracy of work is such that the four sides of the base h...
    22: ...ooth sides; they have since fallen out, or been recycled for other building projects, leaving the unde...
    26: ...e high finish of parts of the work, and the accuracy of construction all distinguish it. The walls thr...
    64: ...es Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, in 1865 estimated the overall angle to be 51?51&prime;14&...
    78: ...ramid: Its Secrets & Mysteries Revealed''". Gramercy; 4th Rep edition. October 23, 1994. ISBN 0-517-26...
  31. Alabama (10792 bytes)
    61: ... the war a provisional government was set up in [[1865]] and Alabama was readmitted to the Union in June...
  32. North Carolina (18268 bytes)
    48: ...gest Confederate armies near Durham in late April 1865, weeks after Gen. [[Robert E. Lee]]'s surrender a...
    79: [[Image:NCMMPpic.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Cypress Swamp in [[Merchants Millpond State Park]]]]
  33. Connecticut (28543 bytes)
    99: ...nnecticut's nickname "the [[arsenal]] of [[democracy]]". [[Middletown, Connecticut]] was the major sup...
    105: ... Whitney]] invented a thread milling machine in [[1865]]; Whitney also perfected various measurement ins...
    107: ...d founding cycling magazines. When the [[safety bicycle]] was developed in the [[1880s]], he was in a ...
  34. Delaware (15006 bytes)
    50: ...ar, however, Delaware voted on [[February 18]], [[1865]] to reject the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the Uni...
  35. Florida (24937 bytes)
    43: ...], [[1861]]. After the fall of the Confederacy in 1865, Florida was readmitted into the Union on [[June ...
  36. Idaho (13962 bytes)
    50: ... ''[[Idaho Statesman]]'', began publication. In [[1865]], [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]] replaced [[Lewiston, Id...
  37. Iowa (24205 bytes)
    269: *[[Mount Mercy College]]
    311: *[[Mercy College of Health Sciences]]
    330: ...rvice Bureau]] is a non-partisan governmental agency that is responsible for organizing, updating and ...
    367: | [[Samuel J. Kirkwood]] || [[1865]] || [[1867]] || [[United States Republican Party...
    369: ...an (Iowa Senator)|James Harlan]] || [[1855]] || [[1865]] || [[Free Soil Party|Free Soil]] and<BR />[[Uni...
  38. Utah (29154 bytes)
    106: Beginning in [[1865]], [[Utah's Black Hawk War]] developed into the d...
    184: ...[[Logan, Utah|Logan]] and Saint George. The [[Legacy Highway]] is a controversial freeway that is plan...
  39. Texas (39610 bytes)
    136: ...sed to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. <!-- This and the last bullet point from "Histor...
    138: * [[19 June]] [[1865]]: Union troops landed in Galveston, Texas with n...
    168: |[[Image:Caddo Lake- Cypress.jpg|right|thumb|Caddo Lake]]
    555: ...Nineteenth", its date), commemorates the day in [[1865]] that the slaves in Texas learned of the [[Emanc...
  40. Tennessee (19096 bytes)
    50: ...]] that abolished [[slavery]] ([[February 22]], [[1865]]), ratified the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the Un...
    264: ...//tennesseeencyclopedia.net/intro.htm Tennessee Encyclopedia Online]
  41. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    203: * [[1831]]: [[Reaper]]: [[Cyrus McCormick]]
    254: * [[1865]]: [[Compression ice machine]]: [[Thaddeus Lowe]]
    310: * [[1885]]: [[Motor cycle]]: [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach]...
    314: * [[1886]]: Improved [[phonograph cylinder]]: Tainter & Bell
    333: * [[1893]]: [[Photographic gun]]: [[E.J. Marcy]]
  42. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    66: *[[William Butler Yeats|Yeats, William Butler]] (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist, senator
    152: *[[Cy Young|Young, Cy]], (1867-1955), American baseball player
  43. History of the United States (21226 bytes)
    12: ...avery and indentured servitude, and a British policy of benign neglect which permitted the development...
    40: ==History of the United States (1849-1865)==
    41: ...see the main [[History of the United States (1849-1865)]] article.''
    47: ...al and agricultural Southern states (the Confederacy), but between 600,000 and 700,000 Americans on bo...
    49: ==History of the United States (1865-1918)==
  44. History of science (41710 bytes)
    82: ...the process had begun with the invention of the [[cyclotron]] by [[Ernest O. Lawrence]] in the 1930s, ...
    112: ...its theoretically-expected value]]. This discrepancy forced a change in some values in the [[standard ...
    117: ...es of British surgeon [[Joseph Lister]], who in [[1865]] proved the principles of [[antisepsis]].
  45. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    162: *[[David G. Blythe]] ([[1815]]-[[1865]])
    189: *[[Olga Boznanska]] ([[1865]]-[[1940]])
    269: *[[Franz Cizek]] ([[1865]]-[[1946]])
    302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
    303: *[[Jan Cybis]] ([[1897]]-[[1972]])
  46. Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
    10: ...ker, tailor, and tavern keeper who would marry Nancy Matthews Elliott.
    12: ...uron, Michigan]], temporarily leaving his wife Nancy and children behind.
    24: ...he audio fidelity was worse than the [[phonograph cylinder]]s marketed by [[Edison Records]].
    53: ...ng the range and improving the safety and efficiency of power distribution. Since the [[1950s]], high ...
    70: ...osely synchronized a [[Kinetoscope]] image with a cylinder [[phonograph]]. In [[April]] of [[1896]], E...
  47. Timeline of United States history (2967 bytes)
    21: ** [[History of the United States (1865-1918)]]
  48. American Civil War (47733 bytes)
    10: |Date||[[1861]]&#8211;[[1865]]
    26: ''[[1864]]&ndash;[[1865]]. 36 stars, after the admission of [[Nevada]].''...
    32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
    50: ...ht in the [[United States]] from [[1861]] until [[1865]] between the United States &ndash; forces coming...
    58: ...ion ordinance that was recognized by the Confederacy on [[October 30]], [[1861]] (see the [[Missouri s...
  49. Cold War (18329 bytes)
    56: ... in his [[1959]] ''The Tragedy of American Diplomacy'' and [[Walter LaFeber]] in his [[1967]] ''Americ...
    58: ...revisionists essentially accepted US European policy in Europe, such as US aid to Greece in 1947 and t...
    60: ...st-revisionist school nevertheless accepts US policy in Europe as a necessary reaction to cope with in...
    81: ...tle=American Foreign Relations, A History - Since 1865|Publisher=Houghton-Mifflin Company, New York, NY|...
  50. Civil rights (27169 bytes)
    2: ... redress if injured by another, the right to privacy, the right of peaceful protest, the right to a fa...
    12: ...sely associated to the modern concept of [[democracy]]. Civil rights are claimed to be the pillars of ...
    50: ...ee [[medical care]], then others (through the agency of the government) would be obligated to provide ...
    61: ...taged class. It is a compromise struck in expediency, but which achieves the desired outcome.
    71: ...nd freed slaves were given the right to vote in [[1865]], [[U.S. Southern states|southern states]] used ...
  51. Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
    6: ====1860&ndash;1865====
    12: ...- [[Confederate States of America]] (the Confederacy) established under President [[Jefferson Davis]]
    32: *[[1865]] - [[Abraham Lincoln]] [[assassin]]ated
    33: *[[1865]] - [[Andrew Johnson]] becomes President
    34: *[[1865]] - [[United States Civil War]] ends
  52. History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
    2: ... bitterly divided. In the South, the Federal policy of [[Reconstruction era (United States)|Reconstru...
    7: ...defeated [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]], which had seceded from the [[United States]], ...
    21: ...olitical control. The North allowed white supremacy and encouraged white ex-Confederates to regain th...
    38: U.S. federal government policy since the [[James Monroe]] administration had bee...
    40: ...surviving indigenous population. In 1934 U.S. policy was reversed again by the [[Indian Reorganization...
  53. April (9790 bytes)
    58: ...merican Civil War (Started April 1861 Ended April 1865, thus "Across 5 Aprils")
    62: ...ent [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s Assassination (April 14,1865)
  54. Dodo (9332 bytes)
    39: ...rroll's ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' (1865). With the popularity of the book, the dodo becam...
  55. Morse code (33777 bytes)
    27: ...for service information like link quality, frequency changes, and telegram numbering.
    29: ...ot; ''See also:'' [[international distress frequency]]
    35: ...t the International Telegraphy congress in Paris (1865), and later normed by the ITU as International Mo...
    38: ...ations Union]] (ITU) mandated Morse code proficiency as part of the amateur radio licensing procedure ...
    42: ...erence on frequencies close to the desired frequency. Concentrating the transmitted energy in a small ...
  56. History of California (38344 bytes)
    45: ...t of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]], flew briefly and unofficially in the state cap...
    50: ...e's territorial claims and challenge to the [[Papacy]] and the Spanish crown is that his port was foun...
    173: After the Civil War ended in 1865, California continued to grow. Independent miner...
  57. United States Senate (35505 bytes)
    10: ...h each state was equally represented. The inefficacy of the federal government under the Articles led ...
    14: ...[American Civil War|Civil War]] ([[1861]]&ndash;[[1865]]). The war, which began soon after several south...
    27: ... seat need not be held immediately after the vacancy arises; instead, it is typically conducted at the...
    30: ...tting senators have been nominees for the presidency than sitting representatives.
    35: ...nded to prevent those who sided with the Confederacy from serving. The Amendment, however, provides th...
  58. World Series (40101 bytes)
    32: * 1865 Brooklyn Atlantics
  59. George Washington Carver (7937 bytes)
    2: ...ormer slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency, he is known for suggesting hundreds of uses for ...
    15: ...achelor's degree in 1894. Because of his proficiency in plant breeding, Carver was appointed to the fa...
    23: ...tton]], Carver advocated employing the [[nitrogen cycle]] by alternating cotton crops with [[legume]] ...
  60. Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
    10: ...t groups who, for the purpose of maintaining secrecy, knew of connecting "stations" along the route, b...
    79: ==Legacy==
    98: * [[1861]] through [[1865]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]
    99: * [[1865]] &ndash; [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United St...
    146: ...Pennsylvania Resistance''. Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers.
  61. List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
    33: * [[Cape Lion]] (1865)
  62. Florence (11538 bytes)
    1: ...e capital of the region of Tuscany and briefly ([[1865]]-[[1871]]) the capital of the kingdom of Italy. ...
    19: ...the [[Germany|German]] emperor, and the pro-[[Papacy|Papal]] [[Guelphs]], who after their victory spli...
    21: ... in Europe, assisted by her own strong gold currency, the [[guilder|florin]] (introduced in [[1252]]),...
    27: ...een seen as a legitimisation of political expediency and even malpractice. Commissioned by the Medici,...
    32: ...the North bank of the Arno[http://www.veteransagency.mod.uk/remembrance/remembrance_cwgc6.htm])
  63. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
  64. San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
    58: ...57, the order opened its own charity hospital, Mercy Hospital of San Francisco, which is still in oper...
    75: ...of existing freeways, the city's anti-freeway policy has remained in place ever since. In 1989, the [[...
    77: ...e [[Justin Herman]] to head the redevelopment agency for the city and county. Justin Herman began an a...
    89: ...second term. Present mayor [[Gavin Newsom]]'s policy on the homeless is the controversial "Care Not Ca...
    99: ...ewsom also helped enact a strong new homeless policy, "Care Not Cash," in which the checks that homele...
  65. Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
    9: | date of birth=[[November 2]], [[1865]]
    18: '''Warren Gamaliel Harding''' ([[November 2]], [[1865]]&ndash;[[August 2]], [[1923]]) was an [[Politics...
    20: ...-faire]] policies both on economic and social policy. Plagued by scandals in his administration&mdash;...
    23: Harding was born on November 2, 1865, near [[Blooming Grove, Ohio|Corsica]], [[Ohio]] ...
    49: Harding ran on a promise to "Return to Normalcy," a term he coined, which reflected three trends ...
  66. USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
    51: ...], the design was offered to [[Sweden]], and in [[1865]] the first Swedish monitor was being built at [[...
    70: *[http://www.moc.org/ Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA official website]
  67. African American (19830 bytes)
    15: ... lead to the [[American Civil War]] ([[1861]] - [[1865]]).
    17: ... to the United States Constitution]], ratified in 1865, freed all slaves, including those in states that...
    26: ...edies have been the subject of intense public policy debate in the United States in general, and withi...
    41: ...egal decisions which became tools of white supremacy and oppression. There developed among blacks in A...
    52: ...e long experience with [[racism]], [[white supremacy]], [[slavery]], and, later, with [[Jim Crow laws]...
  68. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (8624 bytes)
    8: In [[1865]], he attended the [[Utrecht University|Universit...
    16: ...small cardboard screen painted with barium platinocyanide when it was placed close to the aluminium wi...
    18: ...g had come from the location of the barium platinocyanide screen he had been intending to use next.
    22: ...hat Röntgen happened to notice the barium platinocyanide screen misrepresents his investigative power...
    25: ...he determined to continue his experiments in secrecy, because he feared for his professional reputatio...
  69. Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
    46: ... a known opponent of [[slavery]], won the presidency that November. Matters came to a head, and [[Sout...
    50: ==Leadership of the Confederacy==
    53: ...idence there at the [[White House of the Confederacy]] on the 29th.
    55: ...d to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy on [[November 6]], 1861. He had never served a fu...
    59: On [[April 3]] [[1865]], with Union troops under [[Ulysses S. Grant]] p...
  70. James Longstreet (9732 bytes)
    8: ...with the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] in the Civil War.
    24: ...ubal Early]] and the [[Lost Cause of the Confederacy|Lost Cause]] advocates after the war, the lost ba...
    28: ...at [[Jefferson Davis]], President of the Confederacy, was forced to intercede in person. What followed...
    30: ...Lee at [[Appomattox Court House]] on [[April 9]], 1865.
  71. Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
    2: '''Dr. Frederick Albert Cook''' ([[June 10]], [[1865]] &ndash; [[August 5]] [[1940]]) was an [[United ...
    24: ...gs, his barometer readings, his route-map's accuracy, even his camp trash — though samples of all su...
    31: ...gotten pole. This would account for the discrepancy between his account and that of his companions. ...
  72. Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
    69: ...vate [[Alexander Hamilton Willard]] (1778 &ndash; 1865)
    90: ...l novels have varying degrees of historical accuracy, which is unfortunate as they shaped much of the ...
  73. March 18 (10594 bytes)
    13: *[[1865]] - [[American Civil War]]: The Congress of the [...
    33: ...quirement for a [[gold]] reserve to back US currency.
  74. March 19 (9902 bytes)
    10: *[[1865]] - [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Bento...
    47: *[[1865]] - [[William Morton Wheeler]], American entomolo...
  75. March 21 (10586 bytes)
    91: ... - [[Alexander Glazunov]], Russian composer (b. [[1865]])
    93: *[[1958]] - [[Cyril M. Kornbluth]], science fiction writer, (b. [[...
  76. Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
    48: ...istrict #1" during the [[Reconstruction]] period (1865-1870).
    122: * [[Capital One]], a credit card agency, is a significant employer
  77. Boise, Idaho (9777 bytes)
    38: ... on [[December 7]], [[1864]]. It was changed in [[1865]]. According to [[legend]], the proposal for the ...
    109: ...City Development Corp., Boise's redevelopment agency]
  78. Topeka, Kansas (10234 bytes)
    35: ...ion." Included among them was an "idea man" named Cyrus K. Holliday who would become mayor of Topeka a...
    37: ... with Dr. Charles Robinson as the first governor. Cyrus K. Holliday donated a tract of land to the sta...
    39: ...hat Kansas enjoyed from the close of the war in [[1865]] until [[1870]]. In [[1869]], the railway starte...
  79. Helena, Montana (6927 bytes)
    33: The townsite was first surveyed in [[1865]] by Captain John Wood. However, most streets fol...
  80. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    310: *[[Jacques Hadamard]] (France, [[1865]] - [[1963]])
    316: ...[[William Rowan Hamilton]] (Ireland, [[1805]] - [[1865]])
  81. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    32: *[[Andronicus of Cyrrhus]]
    141: ... Claude de la Cherois Crommelin]] ([[Britain]], [[1865]] &ndash; [[1939]])
    189: ...nn Franz Encke]] ([[Germany]], [[1791]] &ndash; [[1865]])
    302: *[[Cyril V. Jackson]] ([[South Africa]])
    331: *[[Savvas Michael Koushiappas]] ([[Cyprus]], [[1972]] &ndash; )
  82. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    96: *[[Aristippus|Aristippus the Elder of Cyrene]], (c. 435-366 BC){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    244: *[[Percy Williams Bridgman]], (1882-1961){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    308: *[[Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)|Nancy Cartwright]] (born 1943){{fn|O}}
    413: *[[Cyril of Alexandria]], (376-444)
    442: *[[Demetrius the Cynic]]
  83. United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
    11: ...[American Civil War|Civil War]] ([[1861]]&ndash;[[1865]]), which began soon after several southern state...
    36: ...with the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] from serving. The Amendment, however, provides ...
    187: ... row with 29 Democrats, 1 independent, and 1 vacancy -->
    211: '''Minority Leader:''' [[Nancy Pelosi]] (D-CA)<br>
    262: ...earlier role as a scholar well before his presidency) described the heyday of the Committee system (wh...
  84. Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
    20: ...mocratic-Republicans. During Jefferson's presidency, he was called a "Republican", but the reference ...
    48: ... many whites who had participated in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving f...
    50: ...rant, the party became known for its strong advocacy of commerce, industry, and veterans' rights.
    54: ...ces in the party resulted in a third-party candidacy for Roosevelt on the [[United States Progressive ...
    56: ...ext three decades, excepting the two-term presidency of [[World War II]] General [[Dwight Eisenhower]]...
  85. Jury (14851 bytes)
    40: ==Secrecy and independence==
    90: ...he Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial, 1800-1865 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)''
  86. Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
    9: ...rder and had useful privileges granted by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all autho...
    15: ...291]] the order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in th...
    25: ...s of Malta''' continued their actions against piracy, their fleet targeting the [[Barbary pirates]].
    38: ... the pre-revolutionary French Navy. When [[De Poincy]] was appointed Governor of the French colony on ...
    70: ...pl.'' Scudi) remains as the SMOM's official currency.
  87. Cherokee (38956 bytes)
    46: ...readerscomp/naind/html/na_006500_cherokee.htm ''Encyclopedia of North American Indians'']; 2000 popula...
    101: ...Watie]]'s surrender of western forces on July 23, 1865, gave the Cherokees the distinction of being the ...
    107: ...ral government adopted the self-determination policy, the Cherokee Nation was able to rebuild its gove...
    138: ...o support the illegal UKB casino during the pendency of the State of Oklahoma prosecutions of the UKB ...
    163: ...o speak, read or write the English language. [[Nancy Ward]] was a "Beloved Woman" of the Cherokees and...
  88. War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
    86: ...en serving on American vessels. Although this policy of [[impressment]] was supposed to reclaim only B...
    136: ...e of Lake Erie]]. (Painting by William H. Powell, 1865)]]
    185: ...m to the [[President of the United States|presidency]].
    189: ... or paid for in full. Later that year, [[John Quincy Adams]] complained that British naval commanders ...
    209: ...deal of suspicion of American ideas like [[democracy]] and [[republicanism]] which would frustrate pol...
  89. Genetics (12654 bytes)
    12: It was not until [[1865]] that [[Gregor Mendel]] first traced inheritance...
    22: :[[1865]] [[Gregor Mendel]]'s paper, ''Experiments on Pla...
    44: ...he [[CFTR]] protein, defects in this gene cause [[cystic fibrosis]]
    49: ...h 99% of the genome sequenced to a 99.99% [[accuracy]] [http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/externe/English/Ac...
    68: ...the distribution of and change in [[allele frequency|allele frequencies]] of genes under the influence...
  90. Golden Retriever (8646 bytes)
    20: |[[F餩ration Cynologique Internationale|FCI]]: || Group 8 Section...
    61: ...border country. Majoribanks had purchased Nous on 1865 from an unregistered litter of otherwise black wa...
    75: ...p://www.golden-retriever.com Golden Retrievers in Cyberspace], a website that sold merchandise to fund...
  91. Yorkshire Terrier (5765 bytes)
    24: |[[F餩ration Cynologique Internationale|FCI]]: || Group 3 Section...
    65: ...sidered to be Huddersfield Ben, who was born in [[1865]], the inbred offspring of a mother and son. Hudd...
  92. Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
    23: *[[1865]] [[Pullman]] [[sleeping car]] introduced in the ...
    35: ...ain in America (the [[Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad|Burlington]] [[Pioneer Zephyr|''Zephyr''...
    40: ...upt, the United States' largest corporate bankruptcy up to that time.
  93. Vice President of the United States (33884 bytes)
    5: .... Eight Vice Presidents have assumed the Presidency upon the death of the President, and one upon the...
    23: ...ble to announce their own election to the Presidency: [[John Adams]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Martin V...
    33: ...x|[[John Tyler]], the first to assume the Presidency following the death of the President]]
    35: ...fect of lowering the prestige of the Vice Presidency, as the Vice President was no longer the second c...
    37: ...e by [[Dick Cheney]] who changed his legal residency from [[Texas]] to [[Wyoming]] in order to run for...
  94. Slavery (26455 bytes)
    130: ...ty had swept [[Abraham Lincoln]] into the Presidency, with a plurality of popular votes and a majority...
    134: ...from the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]].
    136: ... Amendment]] to the Constitution in December of [[1865]], eight months after the cessation of hostilitie...
    138: ...the United States. [[Juneteenth]] ([[June 19]], [[1865]]) is celebrated in [[Texas]] and some other area...
  95. Baseball (36464 bytes)
    42: ...itches|pitches]], the three variables being accuracy, velocity, and movement. Most pitchers attempt t...
    49: ...in a single game, he is said to have "hit for the cycle." Once a runner is held to a base, he may att...
    88: ... by ten or more runs, a practice known as the "mercy rule" or "[[slaughter rule]]". Rarely, a game can...
    146: ... baseball began in the [[United States]] around [[1865]], and the [[National League]] was founded in [[1...
  96. Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
    21:
  97. Tecumseh's curse (3257 bytes)
    7: ...am Lincoln]], [[assassination|assassinated]] in [[1865]]
    19: The exception to this "curse" was the presidency of [[Ronald Reagan]]. He was elected in [[1980]] ...
  98. Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
    19: ...ed Grant in pioneering investigations of the life cycle of marine animals on the shores of the [[Firth...
    43: ...a as evidence for evolution: "one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this ar...
    96: In December [[1839]] as Emma's first pregnancy progressed, Charles fell ill. For the rest of his...
    113: ...nnean Society]] on [[1 July]] of ''[[On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetua...
    156: == Legacy ==
  99. Woodrow Wilson (31322 bytes)
    28: ...tes|Congress]] was supreme - "the gist of all policy is decided by the legislature" - and corruption r...
    40: ...ituents, even though they determined national policy.
    46: ...man who occupies it". By the time of his presidency, Wilson merely hoped that presidents could be par...
    57: ...iberalism in matters of domestic and economic policy.
    59: == Presidency ==
  100. Rutherford B. Hayes (9651 bytes)
    13: ...of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Lucy Webb Hayes]]</td></tr>
    24: ...vetted major general of Volunteers [[March 3]], [[1865]].
    26: ...ortieth Congresses and served from [[March 4]], [[1865]], to [[July 20]], [[1867]], when he resigned, ha...
    28: ==Presidency==
    40: During his presidency Hayes signed a number of bills including one sign...

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