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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...i Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-...
7: ...|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...atazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
9: ...|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
10: ...Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...[[1780]]. Also see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consor...
3: ... Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]]
4: ...emia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire...
6: ...arles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...ne]] with whom she had sixteen children. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be p... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...ortrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: ...]] [[philosopher]] and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a promin...
5: ... which many an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...o her are among the most graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic...
10: ... he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]]. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Adams
4: | order=2nd President
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
16: | vicepresident=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
18: ...dams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]). - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Quincy Adams
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=6th President
7: | preceded=[[James Monroe]]
9: | date of birth=[[July 11]], [[1767]] - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Andrew Jackson
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=7th President
9: | date of birth= March 15, 1767
13: ...of death= [[The Hermitage]], [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]] - James Watt (5070 bytes)
2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
3: '''James Watt''' ([[January 19]], [[1736]]–[[August ...
11: ...ugh the [[Glasgow Green]]'s ''"Golf Course"'', comes upon the idea of a separate condensing chamber fo...
12: * [[1767]]: Surveyor of Forth and Clyde canal.
14: * [[1774]]: Started a business in [[Soho, Birmingham|Soho]], near Birmingham, w... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]] |
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36: ...of the [[13 colonies]] to ratify the [[United States Constitution]]. Ratification occurred on [[Decemb...
40: ..." with a [[colony]] established by [[Sweden | Swedes]] (led by [[Peter Minuit]]) around [[Fort Christi... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
2: ...hill, near Blackburn, in Lancashire in the north west of England. The device dramatically reduced the ...
4: James Hargreaves was born in Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, in 172...
6: ...realized there was no particular reason the spindles had to be horizontal, as they always had been, an...
8: ... over the yarn to draw it out to the proper thickness. A clamp-like device in the roving beam allowed ...
10: ...ity of the yarn and increased the number of spindles to eighty or more. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...on was claimed by [[Spain]]. Note that this map does not show the bulk of [[British North America]] of...
2: ...nd the creation of the [[United States|United States of America]]. The [[American Revolutionary War]] ...
4: ...rrent interpretations fall somewhere in between these two positions.
10: ...ost white colonists in America considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crown, with the sam...
16: ...separation of church and state]] and other liberties. - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1760]] to [[1...
13: *[[1765]] - [[Stamp Act Congress]] convenes
15: *[[1767]] - [[Townshend Acts]]
20: ...[Samuel Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Correspondence]]
21: *[[1773]] - [[British Parliament]] passes [[Tea Act]] - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
1: ...ional myth]]s of the founding of the [[United States]] and a key point in the [[American revolution]].
2: [[Image:Boston tea party.jpg|thumb|Destruction of tea at the "Boston Tea party".]]
3: ...s, boarding ships in Boston Harbor and throwing chests of tea overboard on [[December 18]], [[1773]]. ...
5: ...efended by [[John Adams]] and eventually the charges were dropped, though he later faced several hundr...
7: ...al tax, thereby allowing them to undercut the prices of the colonial merchants and smugglers. - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...quial synonym for [[traitor]] in the [[United States]], much like [[Vidkun Quisling|Quisling]] in [[No...
6: ... married Margaret Mansfield on [[February 22]], [[1767]]. They had three sons; Margaret died [[June 19]]...
9: ...ff to [[Massachusetts]] eager for action, and requested permission from the Massachusetts [[Committee ...
10: ... it and who were not aware that a war was in progress.
12: ...nouncing the victory to Massachusetts, doing his best to diminish Arnold's participation and enhance t... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
8: ===Ancestry===
17: ... [[1692]]), Mary ([[September 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[July 9]], [[...
21: ...n [[apprenticeship|apprentice]] to his brother James, a printer who published the ''New England Couran...
23: ...tual young man earned him a great deal of social respect. - Annapolis, Maryland (7226 bytes)
10: mayor = [[Ellen O. Moyer]] ([[United_States_Democratic_Party|Dem]]) |
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25: ...ngton D.C.]]. It is also home to the [[United States Naval Academy]] and [[St. John's College, U. S.|S...
28: ... became the temporary capital of the [[United States]] after the signing of the [[Treaty of Paris (178...
34: ...first met there in 1779. It is topped by the largest wooden dome built without nails in the nation. ... - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: ...seen as the second [[First Lady of the United States]], though that term was not coined until after he...
3: ...leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.
33: <td>[[First Lady of the United States]]</td>
48: ...he and the Continental Congress "remember the ladies" -- that they consider the needs and rights of wo...
50: ...e filled the role of wife of the first United States Minister to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. The... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] – [[1951]])
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – [[1956]])
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