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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]... - 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)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
45: *[[Rudolph Ackermann|Ackermann, Rudolph]] (1764-1834) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[Ju...
9: ...ly having turned more conservative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1...
13: ...nomically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education f...
16: [[Image:Buberel Coronation coach Catherine the Great.jpg|thumb|25...
17: ... apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed. - 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... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events a...
26: In [[1764]] Adams married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]&...
28: ...of popular leadership of his second cousin, [[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through h...
31: ...ism and corporate authority; in December 1765 he delivered a speech before the governor and council in...
33: ...ular side in this case resulted in his subsequent election to the [[Massachusetts House of Representat... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
3: ...d.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
4: ...h fiber is made up of twenty to thirty layers of cellulose coiled in a neat series of natural springs....
9: ...her]]s and [[fur]]) which dated back to approximately 7,000 years ago. There is clear archaeological e...
13: ...in [[1350]], stated as fact the now-preposterous belief: "There grew there India a wonderful tree whic...
17: ...roved by the invention of the [[cotton gin]] by [[Eli Whitney]] in [[1793]]. - 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... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
1: [[image:Spinning jenny.jpg|300px|thumb|Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, G...
2: ...i-spool [[spinning wheel]]. It was invented circa 1764 by [[James Hargreaves]] in Stanhill, near Blackbu...
6: ... Jenny, knocked over one of their own spinning wheels. The device kept working as normal, with the spi...
8: ... in the roving beam allowed the operator to then release all the threads at once, to be collected on s...
10: ...abric, using stronger yarn for the warp. Later developments improved the quality of the yarn and incre... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ...a;ς Ἀλέξανδρος}} ("Megas Alexandros"), ...
6: ...llenistic Greece|Hellenistic Age]]. Alexander himself lived on in the history and myth of both Greek a...
9: ...he consulted the seer [[Aristander|Aristander of Telmessus]], who determined that his wife was pregnan...
14: ...has been questioned, and there is some reason to believe that it may have been instigated by [[Darius ...
16: ...ick to pledge it to a 20-year-old boy. He immediately ordered the execution of all of his potential ri... - 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... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events fro...
8: *[[1763]] - [[Pontiac's Rebellion]] begins
10: *[[1764]] - [[Currency Act]], passed by [[Parliament]]
11: *[[1764]] - [[Revenue Act of 1764|Revenue Act]] is passed to enforce the [[Sugar Ac...
20: *[[1772]] - [[Samuel Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Corresponde... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...mmonwealth|Polish]] [[Constitution of May 3]] as well as leading to the rise of [[capitalism]] and the...
6: ...ce of a supreme being. In this period, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[na...
12: ... Enlightenment cover much of the 17th century as well, though others term the previous era "[[17th cen...
14: ...is goal in the Age of Reason, which was built on self-evident axioms, reached its height with [[Baruch...
18: ...m overreaching to some in the present-day, where belief is that human beings apprehend a truth that is... - 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... - 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) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
3: ...egational]] ministers, leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.
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48: ...t they consider the needs and rights of women as well as of men in forming the new country.
52: ...il became a good friend to [[Martha Washington]] helped in official entertaining, drawing on her exper... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[198...
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] &ndash...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] – [[1992]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] – [[1875]]) - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...o parallel [[rail tracks|rails]], usually of [[steel]], generally mounted upon cross-sectional beams (...
8: ...trucks. Fully loaded, the contact between each wheel and the rail is the space of about one U.S. ten c...
9: ...owing significantly greater loads per [[axle]]/wheel than in [[road transport]].
13: ...dia]], [[South Korea]], [[Japan]], [[China]], and elsewhere.
15: ...rder to save money (see [[Beeching Axe]]). Conversely, US freight railways have consolidated and becom... - 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) - Polonium (10219 bytes)
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7: <tr><td rowspan="3" valign="center">[[Tellurium|Te]]<br>'''Po'''<br>[[Ununhexium|Uuh]] ...
15: ... [[List of elements by symbol|Symbol]], [[List of elements by number|Number]]</td><td>Polonium, Po, 84...
19: ...</td><td>[[group 16 element|6 (VIA)]], [[period 6 element|6]], [[p-block|p]]</td></tr>
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