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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
9: *[[Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist
17: ...e|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara - 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)
38: ...[[Johann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853) - 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... - 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. - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: A '''carpet''' is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering. The term was...
14: ...ched to the warp by one of three knot types (see below) to form the pile or nap of the carpet.
16: ...design. Moquette is woven in relatively narrow panels (usually 27" or 36"). Larger works are composed...
19: ...introduced in Germany in 1804. They became extremely popular in England in the 1830s.
21: ...[Gripper Axminster]] (1890). These types were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s... - 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... - 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...
44: ... first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] and Samuel Adams. - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: '''Richard Mentor Johnson''' ([[October 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United...
5: ... [[1804]]-[[1806]] and again in [[1819]]. He was elected as a [[United States Democratic-Republican P...
7: ...[[1829]]. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1829.
9: ...l [[U.S. Electoral College|electors]] due to his relationship with an African-American woman. He serve...
13: ...s, and, in the case of Robert Ward, a Senator as well. - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ..., [[1780]], the Continental War Officers in Philadelphia directed that all regiments were to have stat... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
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36: ...of the [[U.S. Southern States|South]] or, alternately, as an extension of the [[Mid-Atlantic_States|Mi...
40: ...his state than in any other. Five of them were re-elected to a second term: [[George Washington]], [[T... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
8: {{seemain|timeline of meteorology}}
10: ...edicting the weather by interpreting established celestial phenomena, such as a [[Halo (optical phenom...
12: ...he most important meteorological instruments in [[1780]] with the hair [[hygrometer]], which measures [[...
16: ... of machines with rotating parts, such as waterwheels.
18: ...turning point however was the invention of the [[telegraph]] in [[1843]] that allowed exchange of weat... - 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]]) - 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]] - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
9: ...imary energy source of a tropical cyclone is the release of the [[heat of condensation]] from water va...
11: ...bance, warm tropical oceans, moisture, and relatively light winds aloft. If the right conditions persi...
20: ...oint, the distinctive cyclonic shape starts to develop, though an eye is usually not present.
24: ... Ocean]] east of the [[International date line|dateline]], and the South Pacific Ocean east of 160°...
25: ...n'' in the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
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]] - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ident]] under [[Thomas Jefferson]] as for his [[duel]] with [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and a...
9: ...enedict Arnold]], [[George Washington]] and [[Israel Putnam]].
13: ...l never quite trusted Major Burr. However, [[Israel Putnam]] took Burr under his wing, and by his vig...
14: ... where Benedict Arnold led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[Albany, New...
18: ... Aaron Burr and his first wife were married for twelve years, until her death from [[cancer]]. - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...ssion in the [[British Army]], and was eventually elevated to the rank of [[general]]. His name is a ...
6: ...toms laws of the Crown. He married Margaret Mansfield on [[February 22]], [[1767]]. They had three son...
9: ...husetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirely offensive military expedition by the colonists a...
10: ...deroga was taken from the 22 British troops that held it and who were not aware that a war was in prog...
12: ...discovering this, Arnold challenged Easton to a duel, but Easton refused. - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
2: '''Jean Lafitte''' or '''Laffite''' (''ca''1780 - ''ca''1826?), was a [[pirate]] in the [[Gulf of...
6: ...t was purchased by [[Texas]] Governor [[Price Daniel]] and is on display at the [[Sam Houston Regional...
8: ...e claimed never to have plundered an American vessel, and though he engaged in the contraband slave tr...
17: ...is the [[Chalmette, Louisiana|Chalmette]] Battlefield and National Cemetery, actual site of the 1815 b...
26: *[http://www.crimelibrary.com/americana/lafitte/main.htm Jean Lafitte... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
3: ... and after the war itself. This article refers solely to the military campaign; for the broader perspe...
5: ...or parodied, it is one of the most famous images relating to the American Revolutionary War.]]
10: ... a few weeks or months at a time, were generally reluctant to go very far from home, and would often c...
12: ...men that Washington personally commanded in the field at any one time was fewer than 17,000.
15: ... men during the war years. However, according to reliable modern estimates, total British strength in ...
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