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- 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. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...al described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
11: ...ied off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was married to the Regent of the [[Netherlan...
13: ...eak German. However, when her sister Johanna-Gabriella died of smallpox in [[1762]], Maria-Antonia bec...
15: ...ia|Maria Theresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antonia should ...
17: ...ple that they can say that I have sent them an angel." - 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 Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events a...
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...
35: ...f the [[Continental Congress]] from [[1774]] to [[1778]]. In June [[1775]], with a view to promoting the... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
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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 ... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
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14: ...f the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
25: ... capital]]. His great-great-great-grandfather Cornelis had come to the [[New World]] in [[1631]] from ...
27: ...lawyer and later [[Aaron Burr]]'s second in the duel with [[Alexander Hamilton]]. Van Buren made the a...
29: ... of these groups. Van Buren, who early allied himself with the Clintonians, was surrogate of [[Columbi... - 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: ...gy" was first used by Jean-Andreluc in the year [[1778]] and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bedict...
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... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
1: ...ere the capital, [[Malabo]] (formerly [[Santa Isabel]]), is located. Its post-independence name is sug...
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61: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
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37: ...th the ''[[okina|‘okina]]'') is the [[archipelago]] of the [[Hawaiian Islands|Hawaiian Islands]]...
39: ...ted States, it is the only state that lies completely in the [[tropics]]. As one of two states outside... - Washington (20186 bytes)
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36: ...2000]] census, the state population was approximately 5.9 million and the state work force numbered ab...
45: ...whale]] hunting. In the east, nomadic tribes travelled the land and missionaries such as the Whitmans... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
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38: .... The state capital is [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Ver... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
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42: ...overnment on March 15, 1776. On [[February 5]], [[1778]] South Carolina became the first state to ratify...
44: ...Civil War | Civil War]]. Students from [[The Citadel]] were among those firing the first shots of the ... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
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43: ...to balance this with the desire to support the development needed to support its increasing population...
49: ...Passage]]. The [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] travelled through the region during their expedition to ... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
1: [[image:Spinning jenny.jpg|300px|thumb|Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, G...
2: ...'spinning jenny''' is a multi-spool [[spinning wheel]]. It was invented circa 1764 by [[James Hargreav...
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... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ..., [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadia...
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]] - 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
20: *[[1772]] - [[Samuel Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Corresponde...
39: *[[1778]] - [[Treaty of Alliance]]
47: *[[1785]] - [[Treaty of Hopewell]] - 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...
13: ... Confederation]], proposed and put into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles...
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]]... - 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... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
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13: ...hington Monument]] are typical of Fourth of July celebrations]]
15: ...e '''Fourth of July''', is a [[federal holiday]] celebrating the adoption of the [[United States Decla...
17: ...s, [[barbecue]]s, [[picnic]]s and various public celebratory events. [[fireworks#Home Fireworks in the... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German inventor, chemist
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
26: ...1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
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