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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugue...
24: *[[William Baffin]], ([[1584]]-[[1622]])
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
45: *[[Rudolph Ackermann|Ackermann, Rudolph]] (1764-1834) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...luding [[Voltaire]] and [[Diderot]]. In [[1762]], after moving into the new [[Winter Palace]] in [[Sai...
9: ... effect, possibly having turned more conservative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of...
13: ...ualistic endeavors. Her reforms went even further after a failed peasant revolt in 1773 led by [[Yemel...
15: == Foreign affairs ==
19: In [[1764]] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stan... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...rs and suppliers of his uncle's business. Shortly after his return from England, his uncle died and he...
19: ...assachusetts, and presided over its Committee of Safety. Under Hancock, Massachusetts raised bands of ...
30: ... score of supplies, if any objects less than the safety of these Posts on this River, and indeed the e...
36: After the war, Hancock represented his state under t...
41: ...publishers) it thus became the first book by an [[African American]] to be officially published. He ma... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
26: In [[1764]] Adams married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]&...
31: ... 1765|Stamp Act]] of [[1765]]. In that year, he drafted the instructions which were sent by the town o...
39: ...Robert R. Livingston]] and [[Roger Sherman]] to draft a [[United States Declaration of Independence|De...
44: ...constitution]] of [[1780]]. He penned the first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] and Samuel Adams.
48: ...ties between the United States and foreign powers after that of February 1778 with France. - Cotton (7876 bytes)
15: ...was cultivated throughout the warmer regions in [[Africa]], [[Eurasia]] and [[the Americas]].
17: ..., when the invention of the [[Spinning Jenny]] ([[1764]]) and Arkwright's [[spinning frame]] ([[1769]]) ...
19: ...cally were the leading occupations of [[slave]]s. After [[emancipation]], the [[share cropping]] syste...
26: ...s of the world, including [[Europe]], [[Asia]], [[Africa]], [[the Americas]] and [[Australia]], using ...
30: ... a [[defoliant]] or natural defoliation occurring after a freeze. Cotton is a perennial crop in the t... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...c|its 14-year period of independence]] during and after the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary...
72: ...later [[James II of England|King James II]]) in [[1764]]. The [[Province of New Hampshire]] also claimed...
74: ...f 135 [[land grant]]s made between [[1749]] and [[1764]] by New Hampshire's colonial governor, [[Benning...
78: ...nt thunderstorm, and was adopted by the delegates after four days of debate. This was the first writte...
82: ...ntucky]], which was admitted to the Union shortly afterward. - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
2: ...i-spool [[spinning wheel]]. It was invented circa 1764 by [[James Hargreaves]] in Stanhill, near Blackbu... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ...a;έξανδρος}} ("Megas Alexandros"), King of [[Macedon]] ([[3...
6: ...les. Already during his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tr...
9: ...ated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the company of snakes, but ...
11: After his visit to the [[Oracle]] of Ammon at Siwah,...
16: After the death of Philip, Alexander, then aged 20, ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]])
502: *[[Olaf Gulbransson]] ([[1873]]-[[1958]])
551: *[[William Hogarth]] ([[1697]]-[[1764]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...n red, the pink area was claimed by Great Britain after the [[French and Indian War]], and the orange ...
2: ...and Concord|Lexington and Concord]] and continued after the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown ...
23: After the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebell...
30: In 1764, [[British Prime Minister]] [[George Grenville]]'...
40: ...used the event to stir up popular resistance, but after the trial of the soldiers, who were defended b... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
10: *[[1764]] - [[Currency Act]], passed by [[Parliament]]
11: *[[1764]] - [[Revenue Act of 1764|Revenue Act]] is passed to enforce the [[Sugar Ac... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
14: ...us wars. When the political situation stabilized after the [[Peace of Westphalia]] and at the end of ...
16: ...tone for much of what would follow in the century after the publication of his ''[[Philosophiae Natura...
31: ...sertion that law governed both heavenly and human affairs, and that law invested the king with his pow...
108: - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
13: ...0]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth).
23: ...n a new city. He was not satisfied, however, and after a few months was induced by Pennsylvania Gover...
34: ...ranklin began to concern himself more with public affairs. In 1743, he set forth a scheme for an Acade...
40: ...[cgs]] unit of [[electric charge]] has been named after him: one ''franklin'' (Fr) is equal to one [[s...
52: ...klin was involved in the creation of not only the aforementioned first volunteer fire department and f... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
150: *[[Pafnuty Chebyshev|Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev]], ([[Russia]], [[May 16]],...
290: *[[Christian Goldbach]] (Germany, [[1690]] - [[1764]])
411: *[[Laurent Lafforgue]] (France, [[1966]] - )
640: *[[Peter Sarnak]] (South Africa, [[1955]] - ) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: ...d States]], though that term was not coined until after her death.
48: Abigail Smith married John Adams in 1764. The young couple lived on John's small farm at [...
50: ...d John Adams at his diplomatic post in [[Paris]]. After 1785, she filled the role of wife of the first...
52: ...g on her experience of courts and society abroad. After 1791, poor health forced her to spend as much ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
77: ...athaniel Bliss]] ([[Britain]], [[1700]] – [[1764]])
203: *[[Al-Farghani|Farghani]] ([[Persia]], d. after [[861]])
237: *[[John Goodricke]] ([[Britain]], [[1764]] – [[1786]])
243: *[[Bengt Gustafsson]], ([[Sweden]])
298: ...ert Thorburn Ayton Innes]] ([[Scotland]], [[South Africa]], [[1861]] – [[1933]]) - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
11: Rail transport is also one of the safest modes of transport, and also makes a highly ef...
30: ... build, but can only handle a limited amount of traffic and are consequently only used on [[branch lin...
32: ... direction) are used to handle large amounts of traffic.
38: ==Safety and railway disasters==
42: The most important safety measure is [[railway signalling]]. [[Train whi... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
28: *[[Sediq Afghan]]
29: *[[Jamal al-Din al-Afghani]], (1839-1897){{fn|R}}
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
172: *[[Paul Benacerraf]]
324: *[[Rafe Champion]] - Polonium (10219 bytes)
48: ...] </td><td>1235 K (1764 ?F)</td></tr>
92: ...been studied for possible use in heating [[spacecraft]].
95: ... a volatile metal with 50% being vaporized in air after 45 hours at 328 [[Kelvin|K]]. Polonium has no ...
107: ...ntry. It was Marie's hope that naming the element after her home land would add notoriety to its pligh...
109: ...pitchblende]] [[radioactivity]]. The pitchblende, after removal of uranium and radium, was more radioa...
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