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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
36: ...bott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
46: ...rahman III]], (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain
70: ...鬡rd|Ab鬡rd, Pierre]], (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher
71: ...e Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
24: ...[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - 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 ...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
21: ...e made Russia the dominant power in the [[Middle East]] after her [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774|first ...
27: ...onarchies and a balance of power in 18th-century Eastern Europe for another century. - 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...
57: ...gardens were re-designed to suit the queen's new tastes.
59: ... Royale'' showed Marie-Antoinette [[masturbation|masturbating]], and later pamphlets would suggest that... - 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...
53: ...rces and a French fleet had [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|trapped General Cornwallis]] at [[Yorktown, Virg...
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...
27: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock:
30: ...n the Field." (United States Library of Congress, 1781.)
52: * United States Library of Congress (1781). ''George Washington Papers''. Online: [http://m... - 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]]...
161: ...p forever" (''Notes on the State of Virginia'', [[1781]]-[[1785]] Query 18). Though not religious himsel...
178: ...rson, or a close relative, may have fathered at least one of Hemings' children [http://www.samsloan.com...
230: ...]] | after=[[William Fleming]] | years=[[1779]]-[[1781]]}} - United States (58223 bytes)
58: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
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)
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary 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... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...Eros]] shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward...
4: ...-bib_query?bibcode=1840AN.....17...81E&db_key=AST&high=41e14f475d05983 scientific paper] to use...
6: ... that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...sized or smaller. The distinction is made because asteroids are large enough to survive passage through...
10: ...ts that include asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate man-made o... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
20: ... - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
73: *[[George Eastman]], (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — ...
77: *[[John S. Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple ...
100: *[[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]], (1638-...
103: * [[William Gruber]] — [[View-master]] - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
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... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
7: ...ngdom|British]] [[colonies]] along the Atlantic Coast of [[North America]], began meeting in Philadelph...
13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
21: ...American colonies]], arrayed along the Atlantic coast of North America. During the 17th and early 18th ...
33: ... Revolution was also supposedly less intense. In 1781, a combined American and French Army, acting with...
35: ... the southern Great Lakes region, encompassing a vast unsettled region nearly as large as Western Europ... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: ...-- To edit the text of this article, scroll down past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellsp...
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
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). - January 17 (12233 bytes)
7: ...ign to recover the throne for the [[Jacobite]] dynasty.
9: ...feat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]] in [[So...
50: *[[1763]] - [[John Jacob Astor]], American entrepreneur (d. [[1848]])
137: * [[1997]] - [[Clyde Tombaugh]], astronomer (b. [[1906]])
154: * [[Catholicism]] - Feast day of [[Anthony the Great|St. Anthony]]. - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
33: ...r for the Continental Congress, [[toast (honor)|toast]]s, 13-gun [[salute]]s, speeches, [[prayer]]s, [[...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
20: ...stille.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The storming of the Bastille, July 14 1789]]
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
25: ...osed in the ''Parlement'' of Paris (in part, at least, thanks to the King's tactlessness), Brienne went...
33: ...e to meet according to the forms observed at its last meeting. Although it would appear that the magis...
50: ====The storming of the Bastille==== - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
49: ...entally optimistic ideal that reform could end disasters, there became a progressively more strident na...
51: Thinkers of the last wave of the Enlightenment—[[Jean-Jacques Ro...
53: ...dopts the May 3rd Constitution at Warsaw's Royal Castle.]]
59: ...n]] the Enlightenment and its style breathed its last, and longest breath. Napoleon reorganized France ...
70: ...ted Western mathematics and philosophy since at least [[Eudoxus]], precipitated a scientific and mathem... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
7: ...s of the House and Senate are elected by [[first-past-the-post]] voting in every state except [[Louisia...
11: ...ecutive branch. Congressional oversight prevents waste and fraud, protects [[civil liberties]] and indi...
26: ...he executive branch of the federal government, a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, in...
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