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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... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
46: ...vangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...ohn Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
72: ...ams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer
79: *[[James Adamson|Adamson, James]], (1946-), astronaut
93: *[[Adelard of Bath]], 12th century scholastic philosopher - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...r was residing. He immediately fled to a distant castle, and Catherine took the throne, triumphant abou...
9: ...lyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1774]].
13: ... result, Catherine the Great instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she ...
21: ... War]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] ([[1768]]-[[1774]]). She attempted to partition the Ottoman Empire...
27: ...onarchies and a balance of power in 18th-century Eastern Europe for another century. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
25: ...751 the first volume was given to the world. The last of the letterpress was issued in 1765, but it was...
27:
31: ...k was just drawing to an end, he encountered one last and crowning mortification: he discovered that th...
46: ... her librarian, with a yearly salary. In 1773 and 1774 Diderot spent some months at the empress's court ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
27: ...apsburg princess]] to talk to a lady with such a past. Du Barry therefore set about to make Marie-Antoi...
28: [[Image:Versailles_castle.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The [[Palace of Versaille...
32: ...tiful and ambitious aristocrat, [[Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac|Gabrielle, Comtesse de P...
36: ...denly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774]] when King [[Louis XV]] died of [[smallpox]]. Th...
57: ...gardens were re-designed to suit the queen's new tastes. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
12: ... time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a resident of the ...
35: ...utive branch of the federal government — a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, in...
291: ... Secret Service until the President's death. The last President to have lifetime Secret Service protect...
299: *[[Coast Guard One]]
383: ...r Mt. Rushmore.jpg|thumb|Presidential authority, past and present: [[Air Force One]] flying over [[Moun... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
33: ...take the Ohio Country. The expedition ended in disaster at the [[Braddock Expedition#Battle of the Mono...
37: By [[1774]], Washington had become one of the colonies' wea...
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)
19: ...his boycott of [[tea]] imported by the [[British East India Company]] eventually led to the [[Boston Te... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
35: ...s a member of the [[Continental Congress]] from [[1774]] to [[1778]]. In June [[1775]], with a view to p...
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...
102: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ...rginia. His parents Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]]) were w...
28: ...election, 1820|re-elected in 1820]]. Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]] veteran to serve a...
38: ...ssia must not encroach southward on the Pacific coast. "... the American continents," he stated, "by th...
72: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Return Meigs]]'''|... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...tion]] in the [[Indian Ocean]], off the eastern coast of [[Africa]]. Madagascar is the [[List of islan...
53: ... trading posts along the east coast. From about [[1774]] to [[1824]], it was a favorite haunt for [[pira...
55: ...ver the major part of the island, including the coast. In [[1817]], the Merina ruler and the [[United K...
76: ...federalists to disrupt [[ballot]]ing in several coastal areas.
80: ... play a role in politics. Ratsiraka is from the coastal [[Betsimisaraka]] tribe and Ravalomanana comes ... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
14: * [[1774]]: Started a business in [[Soho, Birmingham|Soho]...
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...
57: ..., ''James Watt, Vol 1, His time in Scotland, 1736-1774'' (2002), 480pp, many illus., Landmark Publishing... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
36: ...husetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, [[New York]] to the west, and the [[Canada|Canad...
42: ...nt is located in the New England region in the [[eastern United States]] and comprises 9615 square mile...
44: ... [[Washington, Vermont|Washington]], three miles east of [[Roxbury, Vermont|Roxbury]].
46: ...New Hampshire)|White Mountains]] are in the northeast. In the northwest off Lake Champlain is the ferti... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
435: *[[Caspar David Friedrich]] ([[1774]]-[[1840]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
926: *[[Raphael Peale]] ([[1774]]-[[1825]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
10: ...c's Rebellion]]—had, if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonis...
45: ...ng the area. Furthermore, the [[Quebec Act]] of [[1774]] extended [[Quebec]]'s boundaries to the [[Ohio ...
52: *"[[Intolerable Acts]]" of [[1774]].
54: ...inental Congress]] convened on [[September 5]], [[1774]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], and endorsed...
80: ... produce the kind of epoch-breaking rupture with past customs and institutions as the [[French Revoluti... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
23: *[[1774]] - First [[Continental Congress]]
24: *[[1774]] - [[Dunmore's War]]
25: *[[1774]] - British pass [[Intolerable Acts]], including: - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
12: ...r = [[Constantine John Phipps|Phipps]] | date = [[1774]]}}
22: ...in A]], which is stored in its [[liver]]: in the past, humans have been poisoned by eating liver of pol... - 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... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair o...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
43: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[26 April]]</small>
50: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[23 November]]</small>
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 October]]</small> - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
18: ...al differences. It was published much later, in [[1774]], under the title ''Travel Journal''.
33: ...nally involved, his disdain for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from ...
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