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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
184: | [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]] - 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]... - 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...
11: ...ich were more manageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the ge...
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... - 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." - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...tands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and d...
5: ...e]], the cause of which was then unknown. She travelled to [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winchester]] to see...
7: ...orthanger Abbey]]'', pokes fun at the [[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann Radcliffe]], Austen is most famous fo...
9: Her novels were fairly well received when they were published, with [[Sir Wa...
10: ...has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to m... - 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. - 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 ... - 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... - 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... - 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]] - 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]] - 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
20: *[[1772]] - [[Samuel Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Corresponde...
47: *[[1785]] - [[Treaty of Hopewell]]
48: *[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]] - 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: ...his study of law. Burr did perform occasional intelligence missions for Revolutionary generals such a...
18: ... Aaron Burr and his first wife were married for twelve years, until her death from [[cancer]]. - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
3: The '''Montgolfier brothers''', '''Joseph-Michel Montgolfier''' ([[August 26]], [[1740]] – [[...
5: ...ere third degree burns. This led them to cry and yell at the fire, slapping it with all their might. T...
11: ...e balloon, but the animals landed more or less safely. It flew for all of eight minutes.
18: ...on backs, and mantel clocks were produced in enamel and gilt-bronze replicas set with a dial in the ...
20: ...ly one of the brothers ever flew in a balloon himself, and then only once. - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ...l.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Left: original [[paddlewheel]] from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. R...
6: ...y [[steam]] power driving a propeller or paddlewheel. The term '''steamboat''' is usually used to refe...
8: ...out of nostalgia, for [[diesel]] motor driven vessels, prefix "'''MV'''".
13: ==Early development==
15: ...0]]) was the physicist [[Denis Papin]] who was developing steam engines. In [[1707]] he constructed a ... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...er 5]], 1774, to [[October 26]], 1774, in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. [[Peyton Randolph]] served ...
6: ...ritish goods, and to cease exports to Britain as well if the "Intolerable Acts" were not repealed. Th...
8: ...trol. However, despite these problems, with the help of the Continental Congress?s guidance throughou...
14: *Sept. 5, 1774- Oct. 26, 1774 [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
20: *Mar. 5, 1777- Sept. 18- 1777 Philadelphia - 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...
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