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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...d for its yearly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an...
17: ...ity developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban mov...
19: ...than farther [[Salvador da Bahia|Salvador]]. In [[1763]], the colonial administration in Portuguese Amer...
25: ...red, until president [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
29: *[[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
32: ... Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
33: ... Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - 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... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: ... establishment of the [[Eleventh dynasty of Egypt|Eleventh dynasty]] to the end of the [[Fourteenth dy...
5: ...een the Eleventh and [[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|Twelfth dynasties]], and date the Middle Kingdom to th...
7: ==The Twelfth dynasty==
8: ...urous Twelfth dynasty. The first Pharaoh of the Twelfth dynasty (Amenemhat I), is according to some so...
10: ...e reign. The co-regencies lasted throughout the Twelfth dynasty and provided great stability. - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
5: ...ent Egypt]], taking into account well accepted developments during the 20th century but not including ...
7: ...r rulers. Often there are also several possible spellings of the names.
9: ...remove this in the combined chronology presented below, which is the “Conventional Chronology...
17: ...m Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relation to the Bronze Age", in Astrom (ed) ''High, M...
20: ...uk/ Digital Egypt for Universities], which was developed by [http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/ The Petrie M... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ... name is now "Canada", not anything else. If you believe you have arguments or evidence to the contrar...
8: ...al monarchy]] with [[Elizabeth II of Canada|Queen Elizabeth II]] as [[head of state]].
18: ... is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and is widely spoken in [[New Brunswick]].
19: ...nadian English|English]] is the majority language elsewhere except in certain communities and in [[Nun...
21: ... and complex relationship (''see'' [[U.S.-Canada relations]]). - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
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25: | [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]
50: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
59: ...gar on plantations worked by African slaves. In [[1763]], St. Vincent was ceded to Britain. Restored to ... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
7: == Timeline ==
10: * [[1763]]: Repaired a [[Thomas Newcomen|Newcomen]] [[stea...
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... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
2: Name = Delaware |
3: Fullname = State of Delaware |
4: Flag = Delaware state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Delaware]] |
6: Seal = Delaware state seal.png | - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
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47: ... explorer. The French controlled the area until [[1763]], when it was ceded to the British.
51: ...te [[John Kerry]], both of whom lost the national election. - Vermont (39851 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]] |
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38: .... The state capital is [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Ver... - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
4: ... [[colony|colonies]] in [[North America]], separately chartered and governed, that signed the [[United...
21: ...76]], the "Lower Counties on Delaware"), later [[Delaware]]
32: Britain held several other colonies in North America and the ...
40: ...area of the 13 colonies after the Proclamation of 1763. (Map produced by U.S. Dept. of Interior.)]]
76: ...t Yale Law School: Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents] - 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: ...ts imposed by the [[British Royal Proclamation of 1763]] in the newly acquired French territories in the...
30: *[[Braddock Expedition]] (Battle of the Monongahela aka Battle of the Wilderness) ([[July 9]], [[175... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ...even Years' War''' ([[1754]] and [[1756]]–[[1763]]) pitted [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britai...
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... - 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... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events fro...
7: *[[1763]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1763)]] ends [[French and Indian War]]
8: *[[1763]] - [[Pontiac's Rebellion]] begins
9: *[[1763]] - [[British Royal Proclamation of 1763]]
20: *[[1772]] - [[Samuel Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Corresponde... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
7: ...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Congress immediately began to organize a federal government for the 1...
11: With the help of an alliance with France, the United States we...
15: ...d, to write a Constitution, which was ratified by eleven States in 1788.
17: ...put into operation, and [[George Washington]] was elected the first [[President of the United States]]...
21: ... of self-government, were in danger. The colonial elite had inherited a decidedly Whigish political vi... - 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 (... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
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36: ...e Great Lakes, Michigan has the longest state shoreline in the continental United States, and more rec...
40: ... to [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] in 1763 and then to the new United States two decades lat... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
10: ...Capital = [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] |
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39: ...]] of Illinois is [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] while its largest city is [[Chicago]], along t...
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