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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
69: | [[1866]] — [[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1...
85: | [[1772]] — [[1779]] - 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... - 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: ...e made Russia the dominant power in the [[Middle East]] after her [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774|first ...
23: ...he [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[1780]] she s...
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...
40: ... of Europe. Diderot helped Grimm between 1759 and 1779, by writing for him an account of the annual exhi... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
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 Adams (18716 bytes)
46: ...t Britain and again sent to Europe in September [[1779]]. The [[France|French]] government, however, did...
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]]... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
35: ...gricultural nation of [[yeoman]] farmers, in contrast to the vision of [[Alexander Hamilton]], who envi...
102: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]...
141: ...us Freedom]]'', which he had first submitted in [[1779]], and was one of only three accomplishments he p...
153: ...the ''Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom'' ([[1779]]), quoted from Merrill D. Peterson, ed., ''Thoma...
178: ...rson, or a close relative, may have fathered at least one of Hemings' children [http://www.samsloan.com... - Geology (12007 bytes)
3: ...heid|rheic]] upper [[Mantle (geology)|mantle]] ([[asthenosphere]]) via processes that are collectively ...
5: [[Astrogeology]] refers to the application of geologic ...
7: ...d term by Horace-Bedict de Saussure in the year [[1779]]. An older meaning of the word was first used by...
12: ...he work on rocks ''Peri lithōn'' by [[Theophrastus]], a student of [[Aristotle]], remained authori...
26: ...theory that Earth's features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged thereafter. T... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: .... It is clear from zircons that the Earth is at least 4.404 billion years old. Comparing the mass and l...
4: ...], calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began o...
6: ...d the idea of a time that stretched far into the past before the arrival of humankind, or far into the ...
11: ...monosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-...
19: ..., with changes brought about by intermittent [[catastrophe]]s. Many naturalists were influenced by Lyel... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
43: | [[East Caribbean dollar]]
59: ...ually deported to [[Roatan]], an island off the coast of [[Honduras]].
61: ...attracted Portuguese immigrants in the 1840s and east Indians in the 1860s. Conditions remained harsh f...
65: ... 1979, St. Vincent and the Grenadines became the last of the Windward Islands to gain independence.
67: ...ny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island. - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...Washington]], who had ordered on [[October 2]], [[1779]], that the uniform coats of the [[Continental Ar... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
46: ...rth America]], eventually applying to the whole coast from [[South Carolina]] to [[Maine]]. The [[Lond...
48: ...d as the first Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1...
59: ... changed, making it necessary for men to own at least fifty acres (200,000 m²) of land in order to...
61: ... By the time of the Constitution of 1901, which lasted longer than any other state constitution, the '... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
46: * the use of [[yeast]] for:
54: ...el [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
79: * [[4th century|300s]]: [[Stirrup]] in [[Jin Dynasty (265-420)|China]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
33: ...r for the Continental Congress, [[toast (honor)|toast]]s, 13-gun [[salute]]s, speeches, [[prayer]]s, [[...
35: * In [[1779]], the Fourth falls on a Sunday. Starting a long ... - African Buffalo (2744 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] | date = [[1779]]}}
17: ...e Cape Buffalo can be a volatile and formidable beast.
19: Cape Buffalo prefer areas of open pasture, close to jungle and swampy ground where they ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
93: *[[Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner]] (1783 - 1857)
140: *[[Louis Pasteur]], (1822-1895), French [[biochemistry|biochemi...
198: *[[William Hyde Wollaston]], (1766-1828), [[England|English]] [[chemist]] - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
14: ...estored order. He resigned from the army in March 1779 on account of ill health, renewing his study of l...
46: ...cepted. Both men had been noted duelists in the past, but Hamilton had qualms because his beloved son,...
57: ...l Burr, who had purchased land shares from the [[Bastrop Grant]] in [[Texas]]. His expedition of perha...
59: ...o President Jefferson — and his Spanish paymasters. Jefferson's passivity throughout most of [[1...
61: ...he Southwest, and perhaps to found an imperial dynasty in Mexico. This seems to have been a misdemeano... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
12: ...ng this, Arnold challenged Easton to a duel, but Easton refused.
15: ...pedition|expeditionary force]] from Boston on an easternly route to [[Quebec City, Quebec|Quebec City]]...
21: ...olution)|Loyalist]] sympathies. On [[April 9]], [[1779]] he married 18 year-old Peggy, by whom he would ...
25: ...martialed several times, notably on [[June 1]], [[1779]], because of disputes with civil authorities. He... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...armed uprising in [[Western Massachusetts]] that lasted from [[1786]] to [[1787]]. Many of the rebels,...
5: ...n [[Massachusetts]] rewrote its constitution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-...
11: ...ys]], a farmer from [[East Pelham, Massachusetts|East Pelham]] and a former captain in the [[Revolution...
15: ... of jailed farmers, [[arson]] and the like. The last known battle of this kind was fought in [[South E...
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