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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...lso see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Loui...
4: ...[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]]. Sh...
6: ..., Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia'' was the eldest daughter of [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|...
8: ...s, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to th... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
11: ...e of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland]], [[Virginia]]
21: ... other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he voluntarily relinquished power even though some others wanted him...
24: ...nial Beach, Virginia|Colonial Beach]] in [[Westmoreland County, Virginia]].
26: ...te from the [[College of William and Mary]]) and helped survey the [[Shenandoah Valley]] in Virginia. ...
29: ... Peale]], and shows Washington in uniform as colonel of the 1st Virginia Regiment.]] - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ...ce]]. According to legend, he signed his name largely and clearly to be sure King [[George III of the ...
8: ...[1764]], Hancock lived in England while building relationships with customers and suppliers of his unc...
13: ...ton, Massachusetts|Boston]] [[Board of Selectmen|selectman]] and [[Massachusetts House of Representati...
17: ... contributions led Bostonians to joke that "[[Samuel Adams|Sam Adams]] writes the letters [to newspape...
19: ...the British. In the same year, he was unanimously elected president of the Provisional Congress of Mas... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...nd the world. Each of the 50 states has a high level of local autonomy under the [[federation|federal]...
12: ...Languages in the United States|None at federal level]];<br> [[English language|English]] [[de facto]] ...
55: ..., [[Military history of the United States]], [[Timeline of United States history]], [[List of U.S. mil...
58: ...ior to all these was the [[Albany Congress]] in [[1754]], in which a union was first seriously proposed.
60: ...h Amendment]] took effect. The Civil War effectively ended the question of a state's right to secede,... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
7: == Timeline ==
9: * [[1754]]: Learned the trade of mathematical-instrument m...
22: ...ing wind and watermills.) He invented the [[parallel motion]] [[Linkage (mechanical engineering)|linka...
24: ...y in heating the [[piston]] and chamber. Watt developed a separate [[condenser]] chamber which signif...
26: ... of his 'catch-all' patents. Boulton proved an excellent businessman, and both men eventually made for... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...r some Caribbean islands and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, two small islands off Newfoundland. The Britis...
15: ...nning of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking populations in [[Acadia]] to L...
17: ... preferring to keep the Caribbean island of [[Guadeloupe]] because of its rich [[sugar]] crops and the...
19: ...y Britain to pay for its military commitments as well as limitation on colonial settlements imposed by...
27: *[[Battle of Jumonville Glen]] ([[May 28]], [[1754]]) - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: The '''Seven Years' War''' ([[1754]] and [[1756]]–[[1763]]) pitted [[Kingdom o...
3: ...s which lasted 15 years (including [[Pontiac's Rebellion]]).
8: ... had only signed the peace [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]] in order to rebuild her [[Army|military force...
10: ... and thus allowed Britannia to rule the seas, as well as exert some influence on mainland Europe. Furt...
12: ...sed relentlessly for reform. Her interest in the welfare of the soldiers had gained her their undivide... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: ...r]] ([[1754]]–[[1763]]), and ended with the election of [[George Washington]] as the first [[Pre...
10: .... Most white colonists in America considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crown, with the ...
16: [[The Enlightenment]] elevated [[natural philosophy]] and began to replace...
18: ===Religious trends===
19: ...science and experience as the source of value in religious experience. It started or increased the pre... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...ed Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of differential [[calculus]]. While they bo...
4: ...h as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could also be [[hyperbola|hyperbolic...
6: Newton also developed a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]],...
17: According to [[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
19: ...he romance cooled and Miss Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love,... - Ohio (19444 bytes)
24: ...Date = [[March 1]], [[1803]], declared retroactively on [[August 7]], [[1953]] |
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42: ...les, principally the [[Miamis]], [[Wyandots]], [[Delawares]], [[Shawnee (tribe)|Shawnees]], [[Ottawa (... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...onies with very different [[social]], [[religion|religious]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|...
4: ...hese different colonies found themselves more closely united than ever before, at odds with the [[King...
9: ...ellectual growth of the Renaissance led to the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to mak...
11: ...ands he came upon were found to belong to an entirely different landmass. [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] ...
13: ...lonies. Though these northerly lands were relatively close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken li... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... of the [[Lunar Society]] and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Frankli...
11: ...y included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[1681]]), and Hannah ([[May 25]], [...
15: ...he [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Rev. Samuel Willard.
23: ...ivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great deal of socia...
27: ...libraries in other American cities, and Franklin felt that this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenmen... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...[[Peace of Longjumeau]] ends the [[Second War of Religion]] in [[France]]. Again [[Catherine de Medici...
9: ...[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Patrick Henry]] delivers his famous speech - "[[give me liberty or gi...
10: ...ally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
11: *[[1806]] - After traveling through the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and reachin...
14: *[[1857]] - [[Elisha Otis]]'s first [[elevator]] is installed at 488 Broadway, [[New York ... - Augusta, Maine (4876 bytes)
8: founded = [[1754]] |
30: ... Kennebec River in Augusta. The fort was built in 1754 and was called ''Fort Western''.
32: ... February of [[1797]], the upstream area of Hallowell know as "the Fort" was incorporated as a separat...
49: ... of 18 and 9.8% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. - Albany, New York (8184 bytes)
33: ...ottish King. The name is derived from Alba; the Gaelic name for Scotland.
37: In [[1754]], representatives of seven of the British North ...
57: ...of 18 and 12.5% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
60: ...//www.strose.edu The College of Saint Rose]; [[Excelsior College]]; [http://www.mariacollege.edu Mari...
64: ... Scientist [[Joseph Henry]] made discoveries in [[electromagnetism]] while an academy teacher. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ica...
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
19: *[[Selman Akbulut]] (Turkey) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640) - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
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14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written ...
45: ...h gate", due to the greeting ceremony the sultan held for foreign ambassadors at the Palace Gate. This...
47: ...ritories were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites established modern [[Turkey]] during the [[Tu...
53: ...ed as a ''[[Bey]]lik'' within the [[Seljuk Turks|Seljuk Empire]] in the [[13th century]]. In [[1299]],...
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