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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
16: *[[George Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
28: *[[Archbishop George Abbot|Abbot, Archbishop George]], (1562-1633), Archbishop of Canterbury
30: *[[George Abbot|Abbot, George]], (1603-1648), English writer
36: ...n Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
17: ...in Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
11: Catherine reorganized Russian provincial administration, granti...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
33: ...itings. She was able to lure the mathematician [[Leonhard Euler]] from Berlin back to Saint Petersburg... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
6: ...her brothers ? [[Joseph II|Josef]], [[Leopold II|Leopold]], and Ferdinand-Karl ? already had important...
17: ... my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an ang...
27: ... Marie-Antoinette for her childlessness and some people even asserted that she should be divorced and ...
39: ...e wrote, "It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfort...
59: ... to chip away at the queen's popularity with the people. - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
19: '''George Washington''', ([[February 22]], [[1732]] &nda...
21: ...d in winning and securing American independence, George Washington is generally recognized as one of t...
26: ...ed his Washington cousins at [[Chotank]] in King George County. As a youth, he trained as a [[surveyor...
31: At twenty-two years of age, George Washington fired the first shots of what would... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ... be sure King [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] could read it, causing his name to becom...
25: ...on [[June 19]], [[1775]], Hancock commissioned [[George Washington]] [[commander-in-chief]] of the Arm...
27: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock:
30: ...n the Field." (United States Library of Congress, 1781.)
52: * United States Library of Congress (1781). ''George Washington Papers''. Online: [http://memory.lo... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
16: ...nt=[[Aaron Burr]]; [[George Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]
18: ...t]], [[Archaeology|archaeologist]], [[slavery|slaveowner]], [[author]] and founder of the [[University...
20: Many people consider Jefferson to be among the most brilli...
30: ... the father or mother of something|father of archaeology]]"'' in recognition of his role in developing...
35: ...d States was that of an agricultural nation of [[yeoman]] farmers, in contrast to the vision of [[Alex... - United States (58223 bytes)
52: ...ury]], the United States has become a dominant [[Geopolitics|global]] influence in contemporary [[econ...
57: ...left|First [[President of the United States]], [[George Washington]]]]
58: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
70: ... All of these are freely elected by the American people. Americans enjoy [[universal suffrage]]. ''Mo...
76: ...e districts had an average size of about 640,000 people. - James Watt (5070 bytes)
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
63: [[category:Business theorists|Watt, James]] - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...word in its title was published in [[1840]] by [[Georg Adolph Erman|Erman]]<!--- (1806-1877) not to be...
8: ... strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmospher...
10: ... for Solar System objects that are bigger than meteoroids, smaller than planets, and made out of rock,...
32: *[[C-type asteroid]]s - carbonaceous, 75% of known asteroids
33: *[[S-type asteroid]]s - silicaceous, 17% of known asteroids - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...f scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
13: *[[William George Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armst...
20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–Am...
33: *[[Theobald Boehm]], ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), [[Germany]] &md...
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scient... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...he Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."
4: ...dash;[[1763]]), and ended with the election of [[George Washington]] as the first [[President of the U...
10: ...h Crown, with the same rights and obligations as people in Britain.
16: ...blication and communications between like-minded people opened new areas to question and consideration...
23: ... crowned [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] sought to overhaul his expansive North A... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
6: *[[1760]] - [[King George III]] crowned
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered
53: *[[1788]] - [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Connecticut]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Mary... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
7: ...or their own governance. The Congress appointed George Washington to head a Continental Army, and dis...
9: ..., including the exclusion of his charges against George III regarding slavery.
13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
17: ...he United States]] was put into operation, and [[George Washington]] was elected the first [[President...
21: ...while enjoying the benign neglect of a Britain, preoccupied by civil war and other problems. After the... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
64: !align="left"| [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter
149: .... It appears that Uranus does not have a [[Rock (geology)|rock]]y core like Jupiter and Saturn but rat...
170: ...3]], [[1781]], but reported it on [[April 26]], [[1781]] as a "[[comet]]": ''Account of a Comet, By Mr. ...
172: ...bly earlier. The name ''Georgium Sidus'' or "the Georgian" were still used infrequently (by the Britis... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
38: ...sing extensive property damage and killing 6,433 people.
41: ... of the Congo]], displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
49: ... [[James Hall (geologist)|James Hall]], Scottish geologist
56: *[[1863]] - [[David Lloyd George]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
34: * In [[1778]], General [[George Washington]] marked the Fourth with a double r...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]...
41: ...public event to praise the nation's heritage and people. Families often mark the Fourth with a picnic ... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...eople as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
8: ...tent, it fell to the ambitions of a rising [[bourgeoisie]], allied with aggrieved peasants, wage-earne...
13: ..., wage-earners, and, to a lesser extent, the bourgeoisie
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
42: ...ly]], an assembly not of the Estates but of "the People". The National Assembly's first act was to pas... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...225px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
4: ...baroque]] and classical eras in music, and the [[neo-classical]] period in the arts, and receives cont...
6: ...ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theories of the age. However, prominent Enlightenment ...
16: ...l concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its theoretical program" (Cassirer 1979: 121–123). There...
20: ...ained lenses, and began to create an underlying theory of how they functioned. This shift united the p... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
2: ...e exception of [[Louisiana]] (based on the [[Napoleonic Code]] due to its time as a [[French colonizat...
24: ...dent of the United States|Vice President]] are [[George W. Bush]] and [[Dick Cheney]], since [[January...
26: ...t, a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, including 1 million active-duty military pers...
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