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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...r was residing. He immediately fled to a distant castle, and Catherine took the throne, triumphant abou...
13: ... result, Catherine the Great instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she ...
21: ...o-Turkish War]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] ([[1768]]-[[1774]]). She attempted to partition the Ottom...
27: ...onarchies and a balance of power in 18th-century Eastern Europe for another century. - Banksia (1867 bytes)
15: ...nks]], of the [[James Cook|Cook]] expedition in [[1768]]. They are native to [[Australia]], growing in ...
17: ...nder surface of the leaves is silvery white, contrasting with the deep green of the upper surface. Whe... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
15: ...ggling|smuggle]] glass, lead, paper and tea. In [[1768]], upon arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Li...
19: ...his boycott of [[tea]] imported by the [[British East India Company]] eventually led to the [[Boston Te... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ... Gazette]] (republished separately in London in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law...
33: In [[1768]] Adams moved to [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]...
48: ...s]] to the fisheries along the British-American coast should be recognized. Eventually the American neg...
57: ...kney]], the other Federalist in the contest (at least in part so that Jefferson would not become vice p...
64: ... Adams died at Quincy, after uttering the famous last words "Thomas Jefferson still survives." (Unbekno... - Nepal (22444 bytes)
37: | [[1768]]
46: | ''[[Rastriya Gaan]]'' ("May Glory Crown You, Courageous So...
58: ... resurgent Hindu fiefdoms such as the Licchavi dynasty.
60: ...ht the [[Anglo-Nepalese War]] with the [[British East India Company]] that ended with the [[1816]] [[Su...
62: The Shah dynasty was cut short in [[1846]] when Jung Bahadur Rana... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall ...
47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of New York (1823-18...
68: ...|Yegorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...eksei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut
86: *[[Yi Jachun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer - List of painters (54090 bytes)
230: *[[Canaletto]] ([[1697]]-[[1768]])
323: *[[Jean Baptiste Debret]] ([[1768]] - [[1848]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
791: *[[Andrey Martynov]] ([[1768]]-[[1826]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
10: ...c's Rebellion]]—had, if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonis...
38: ...[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] on [[June 10]], [[1768]]. Angry protests on the street led customs offic...
40: ...sh troops began to arrive in Boston in October of 1768. Tensions continued to mount, culminating in the ...
80: ... produce the kind of epoch-breaking rupture with past customs and institutions as the [[French Revoluti... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: ...-- To edit the text of this article, scroll down past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellsp...
15: ...olspan="2"| [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] [[J2000]])
18: ...2,870,972,220 [[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
145: ...png|10px|Astronomical symbol for Uranus]] (mostly astronomical).
149: ...15% [[hydrogen]] and a little [[helium]] (in contrast to Jupiter and Saturn which are mostly hydrogen).... - History of California (38344 bytes)
11: ...races of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about 13,0...
13: ...lized according to the particular environment. Coastal tribes were a major source of trading beads ([[...
36: ...lo led an expedition in two ships from the west coast of [[New Spain]]. He sailed northward and landed ...
40: ... Ferrelo]], sailed north after Cabrillo's death, past [[Point Arena|Cabo de Fortunas]] to the modern C...
50: ...English colonial claims were made from the East Coast in the 1600s were "from Sea to Sea." These colon... - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
5: ... One of the protesters was [[John Hancock]]. In [[1768]], his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was seized by custom...
7: ...ment]] passed the [[Tea Act]], which allowed the East India Company to sell tea to the [[13 colonies|co...
9: ...orts turned the tea away; at Boston however, the East India Company had the assistance of the governor&...
19: ...t/thumbnail21.html Broadside against the British East India Company (PD)] -- [http://teachpol.tcnj.edu... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...hy [[lagoon]] along the [[Adriatic Sea]] in northeast [[Italy]]. The saltwater lagoon stretches along t...
6: ...ntine power waned, however, an increasingly anti-Eastern character emerged, leading to the growth of au...
8: ..., opening a lifeline to silver from Germany; the last autocratic doge, Vitale Michiele, died in 1172.
10: ...], and became a major power-broker in the [[Near East]]. By the standards of the time, Venice's steward...
16: ... resign the office and retire into [[monastery|monastic]] seclusion when they were felt to have been di... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ...lgebra]], [[trigonometry]], [[navigation]], and [[astronomy]], skills he would need one day to command ...
12: ...to good use in the [[1760s]] mapping the jagged coast of [[Newfoundland]], which brought him to the att...
16: ==First voyage ([[1768]]-[[1771]])==
18: ...nsit of Venus]] across the [[Sun]]. Leaving in [[1768]], he arrived on [[April 13]], [[1769]] in [[Tahi...
20: ...[[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistakes (such as calling ... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
22: ...m]]: [[NASA]] launches [[Ranger 9]] which is the last in a series of unmanned [[Moon|lunar]] [[space pr...
38: *[[1685]] - [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], German composer, (d. [[1750]])
40: *[[1768]] - [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier]], [[France|Fr...
55: *[[1923]] - [[Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava]], the founder of [[Sahaja Yoga]]
117: ...date of [[vernal equinox]], used for reckoning [[Easter]]. The real [[equinox]] usually occurs one day ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
190: *[[Jean Gaston Darboux]] ([[France]], [[August 14]],[[1842]] -...
261: ...ourier|Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier]], (France, [[1768]] - [[1830]])
299: * [[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]] (Scotla... - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
48: ...ohn Quincy Adams]] (1767-1848), Susanna Boylston (1768-70), Charles (1770-1800), Thomas Boylston (1772-1... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
90: *[[Louis Boyer (astronomer)|Louis Boyer]] ([[France]])
132: *[[Josep Comas Sol ([[Spain]])<!--Last name = "Comas Solᦱuot;, list under C -->
166: *[[Terence Dickinson]], ([[Canada]]), astronomer and author
202: *[[Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer)|Charles Fehrenbach]] ([[France]], [[1914]... - 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}} - Great Barrier Reef (3888 bytes)
3: ...l Sea]] off the coast of [[Queensland]] in north-east [[Australia]]. It stretches over 2000 kilometres ...
5: ...rier Reef was [[Captain James Cook]] during his [[1768]] voyage. Cook discovered the reef by running agr...
7: ...cuba divers]]. Many cities along the Queensland coast offer boat trips to the reef on a daily basis. Se...
14: ...that are mostly offshore. The coastline of north eastern Australia has no major rivers, except during t...
16: ...nd chemical runoff from farming, and to loss of coastal wetlands which are a natural filter. Principal ... - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
3: ...68]] he examined portions of the [[Hudson Bay]] coasts with a view to improving the cod fishery, and in...
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