- Born: August 18, 1774, in Albemarle County, Virginia
- Expedition Role: Captain and co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition along with William Clark
William Clark:
- Born: August 1, 1770, in Caroline County, Virginia
- Expedition Role: co-leader, explorer, cartographer, naturalist, and journalist during the Lewis and Clark Expedition together with Meriwether Lewis
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When Jawaharlal Nehru took oath as the Prime Minister on 15 August 1947, Sardar Patel was made the Deputy Prime Minister and he was given the charge of the Home Ministry. The Ministry of External Affairs was kept with Jawaharlal. Thus, as soon as the country became independent, there were three big
Lalla Fatma NSoumer (1830 – 1863) is a Kabyle woman who resisted the conquest of Algeria by France in the 1850s. The Koranic school Lalla Fatma NSoumer was born in 1830 in Haute Kabylie, in the village of Werja (now Abi Youcef or At Bu Yusek in Kabyle, located in northern Algeria). She has four o