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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]... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
20: .... President [[John F. Kennedy]] welcomed 49 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]...
25: ... and civil culture. The [[Continental Congress]] delegated task of writing the Declaration which inclu...
27: ...]; it included automatic [[door]]s, the first swivel [[chair]], and other convenient devices invented ... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Montpelier]], [[Virginia]]
16: ...[[George Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]; [[Elbridge Gerry]]
21: ... politics, helping to draft their declaration of religious freedom and persuading [[Virginia]] to give...
23: ...onvention]], and his overall influence at [[Philadelphia]] in [[1787]] has led some historians to call...
29: ...ed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." - Geology (12007 bytes)
3: ...elements such as [[sulfur]], [[chlorine]], and [[helium]].
5: ...lar system. However, specialised terms such as ''selenology'' (studies of the [[Moon]]), ''areology'' ...
7: The word "geology" was first used by Jean-Andreluc in the year [[1778]] and introduced as a fixed ...
10: ...on his observation of [[fossil]] [[animal shell|shell]]s in a geological [[stratum]] in a mountain hun...
14: ...ind energy]], [[hydropower|hydrodynamic power]], melting cookers, transport of [[ore]]s, extraction of... - 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]]). - James Watt (5070 bytes)
7: == Timeline ==
13: * [[1769]]: [[Patent]]ed separate condensing chamber for s...
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... - 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]]. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - 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]]) - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: ... past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border:...
10: | [[William Herschel]]
26: !align="left"| [[Perihelion]]
29: !align="left"| [[Aphelion]]
53: ...gument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]] - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: ...s fertile agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadershi...
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppies]...
10: [[Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Vall...
13: ...[wampum]]), which were produced from [[mussel]] shells using stone tools, while those in the northern ...
19: About [[1530]], [[Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán]] (President of [[New Spain]]) wa... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...d of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roma...
6: ...Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and ...
74: | '''[[Pope Telesphorus]]'''<br><small>Saint Telesphorus</small>
75: | '''Telesphorus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
109: | '''[[Pope Eleuterus]]'''<br><small>Saint Eleutherus</small> - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...x|British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwi...
3: ...s to the [[Pacific Ocean]], in which its main shorelines were mapped. Cook was also a [[cartographer|m...
8: ...Seven Years War]] to start again at the lowest level in the British [[Royal Navy]].
14: ...evements can be attributed to a combination of excellent [[seamanship]], his superior surveying and ca...
18: ...entific instrument]]s, there was no way to accurately measure it. - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...h-Canadian hunters and trappers who were already well established in the area. The expedition was not ...
5: ...ted States Army|US Army]], Clark officially only held the rank of [[Second Lieutenant]] at the time, b...
7: ...from further west. Not only did Lewis and Clark feel that she could aid them in translation, but they ...
9: ...nake River]], and the [[Columbia River]], past [[Celilo Falls]] and through what is now [[Portland, Or...
10: ...trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife. Mostly they just endured the... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
7: ...[[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]] declares himself [[King of Jerusalem]] during the [[Sixth Crusade...
10: ...John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton]] sells his part of [[New Jersey]] to the [[Quakers]].
12: ...0]] - [[American Express]] is founded by [[Henry Wells]] & [[William Fargo]].
18: ...] & [[France|French]] naval attack on the [[Dardanelles]].
19: ...olish successes, Soviets annex [[Ukraine]] and [[Belarus]]. Government of [[Ukraine]] emigrates to Fra... - 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 ... - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
1: '''Samuel Hearne''' ([[1745]] – November [[1792]]), [...
3: ...ith a view to improving the cod fishery, and in [[1769]]-[[1772]] he was employed in north-western disco...
5: ... [[1771]], [[Chipewyan]] chief [[Matonabbee]] travelling as his guide on his arctic overland journey, ... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
1: ...y, some were not even violent, but together they delineate the reappearance of the martial spirits in ...
21: *[[Boxer Rebellion]] (1900)
41: *[[Operation El Dorado Canyon]] (1986)
58: *[[2004 Haiti Rebellion|Haiti Rebellion]] (2004)
70: *[[Little Belt Affair]] (1811) - 18th century (8231 bytes)
30: ...efeats the [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]] and sacks [[Delhi]].
41: * [[1763]]-[[1766|66]]: [[Pontiac's Rebellion]] in North America
46: * [[1769]]: [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary|missionaries]] ...
54: * [[1789]]: [[George Washington]] elected [[President of the United States]].
62: * [[1798]]: Irish [[Irish Rebellion of 1798 | Rebellion]] against British Rule
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