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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
30: ... several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other pla... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
3: ...ess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]]
26: ...ouis XVI of France|HM King Louis XVI of France]] (1754-1793); had issue
33: ...ia Theresa ceded [[Parma]], [[Piacenza]], and [[Guastalla]] to the Infante Felipe of Spain.
35: ...52]] she established a military academy, and in [[1754]] she established an academy of engineering scien...
41: ... to rule during the 650-year-long [[Habsburg]] dynasty. Her son [[Joseph II]] succeeded her. - George Washington (29551 bytes)
31: ... Virginia, but the French declined to leave. In [[1754]], Washington, now commissioned a [[lieutenant co...
33: ...take the Ohio Country. The expedition ended in disaster at the [[Braddock Expedition#Battle of the Mono...
51: ...ement of his orders for "total destruction and devastation of their settlements" led the Iroquois to na...
97: Washington was a [[cricket]] enthusiast and was known to have played the sport, which was...
165: ...rca [[1778]] [[Pennsylvania German]] almanac (Lancaster: Gedruckt bey Francis Bailey). This identifies ... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...ard College]] and received a business degree in [[1754]], when he was 17. Upon graduation, he worked for...
19: ...his boycott of [[tea]] imported by the [[British East India Company]] eventually led to the [[Boston Te... - United States (58223 bytes)
58: ...ior to all these was the [[Albany Congress]] in [[1754]], in which a union was first seriously proposed.
76: ... population of the state, and each state has at least one representative. As of the [[United States 200...
80: ...[[President of the Senate]], with the ability to cast a tiebreaking vote. These two posts are elected, ...
95: ...e|Air Force]]. The [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] is under the [[Department of Homeland Sec...
110: ...ins]] west of the plains, deserts and temperate coastal zones west of the Rocky Mountains and [[tempera... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
9: * [[1754]]: Learned the trade of mathematical-instrument m...
24: ...he [[Thomas Newcomen|Newcomen]] steam engine was wasting nearly three-quarters of the steam energy in h...
30: Watt also invented several other things, not least a copying device for letters.
36: ...the ''[[watt]]'', is named after him. So is, at least in part, [[Edinburgh]]'s [[Heriot-Watt University... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...can]] name for the decisive nine-year conflict ([[1754]]-[[1763]]) in [[North America]] between [[Great ...
9: The French and Indian War was the last of four major colonial wars (called, somewhat con...
19: ...decisive result of the war meant that it was the last of the [[French and Indian Wars]] and helped crea...
27: *[[Battle of Jumonville Glen]] ([[May 28]], [[1754]])
28: ...ka the [[Battle of Great Meadows]] ([[July 3]], [[1754]]) - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: The '''Seven Years' War''' ([[1754]] and [[1756]]–[[1763]]) pitted [[Kingdom o...
3: ...rican conflict or the Indian [[campaign]]s which lasted 15 years (including [[Pontiac's Rebellion]]).
10: ...reat Britain, which was given since the ruling dynasty saw its ancestral [[Hanover (state)|Hanoverian]]...
18: ...]] in the [[Ohio River]] area of North America in 1754. The war spread to Europe on [[May 15]],[[1756]],...
28: ...aching from the west. In what Napoleon called "a masterpiece in maneuver and resolution", Frederick bot... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
943: *[[Giovanni Battista Piazzetta]] ([[1682]]-[[1754]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: ...ound the time of the [[French and Indian War]] ([[1754]]–[[1763]]), and ended with the election of...
10: ...c's Rebellion]]—had, if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonis...
80: ... produce the kind of epoch-breaking rupture with past customs and institutions as the [[French Revoluti... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...le)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[astronomer]], [[philosopher]], and [[alchemist]] who ...
29: ...s among the brightest scientists of his era, the last twenty-five years of his life were marred by a bi...
52: ...s not the first of the age of reason: he was the last of the magicians." Newton's interest in alchemy c...
61: ...with whom he formed an intense relationship that lasted until [[1693]]. The end of this friendship led ...
75: ...f the temporary Chester branch). Newton became [[master of the Mint]] upon Lucas' death in [[1699]]. Th... - Ohio (19444 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
36: ...r of the [[United States]]. It was the first and eastern-most state in the Midwest admitted to the Unio...
44: In [[1754]], France and [[Great Britain]] fought a war know...
48: ...roximately the size of present-day Ohio plus the eastern half of [[Michigan]]'s lower peninsula.
68: ...rtconneautflag e.jpg|175px|right|thumb|The Ohio coast of [[Lake Erie]] has played an important part in ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...gia|Georgia]] each came to the new continent for vastly different reasons, and they created colonies wi...
4: ... four regions in the lands that later became the eastern United States. Listed from north to south, th...
11: ...rst nation to find a direct trade route to the [[East Indies|"Indies"]] would benefit immensely. It wa...
22: ...y of Roanoke]], established in [[1586]] off the coast of today's [[North Carolina]] by Sir [[Walter Ral...
31: ...nd year. This state of economic affairs did not last, but tobacco continued to be the mainstay of the ... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
46: ...]]; six with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] and one as [[Master of Arts]].
54: In [[1754]] he headed the Pennsylvania delegation to the [[...
67: ...urn home in [[1775]] he lost his position as postmaster through his share in divulging to [[Massachuset...
77: ...[[1787]], a group of prominent ministers in [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]] proposed the foundation of a ne... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
17: ... The free [[Woolwich Ferry]] officially opens in east [[London]].
32: *1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter [[Near-Earth asteroid]] misses the [[Earth]] by 400,000 miles.
44: ...erre Simon de Laplace]], French mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1827]])
45: *[[1754]] - Baron [[Jurij Vega]], [[Slovenes|Slovene]] [[...
94: *[[1369]] - King [[Peter I of Castile]] (b. [[1334]]) - Augusta, Maine (4876 bytes)
8: founded = [[1754]] |
18: time zone = Eastern|
30: ... Kennebec River in Augusta. The fort was built in 1754 and was called ''Fort Western''. - Albany, New York (8184 bytes)
5: ...145 miles (233 kilometers) north of and slightly east from [[New York City]], and slightly to the south...
27: time zone = Eastern|
33: ...hman [[Henry Hudson]], exploring for the [[Dutch East India Company]] on the [[Halve Maen|Half Moon]], ...
37: In [[1754]], representatives of seven of the British North ...
67: ...any's downtown lies the Empire State Plaza. The Erastus Corning Tower stands 589 feet (180 meters) high... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
190: *[[Jean Gaston Darboux]] ([[France]], [[August 14]],[[1842]] -...
299: * [[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]] (Scotla...
372: *[[Gaston Julia|Gaston Maurice Julia]] (Algeria, France, [[1893]] - [[...
508: *[[Abraham de Moivre]] (France, [[1667]] - [[1754]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century)
311: *[[Hector-Neri Casta񄤔]], (1924-1991){{fn|C}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
45: ...[[Anatolia]] and ruled by the [[Osmanlı]] dynasty. In diplomatic circles it was often referred to ...
53: ...-century history with both the [[Eastern culture|East]] and the [[Western Culture|West]].
65: ...rt to keep power in their hands by regaining at least some of the lost territories, the triumvirate led...
83: ...220;The beginnings of legal reform in the Middle East were initiated in the ottoman empire in the middl...
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