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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...children. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, h...
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the titl...
17: ...lisabeth of Austria|HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth]] (1743-1808)
26: ...ouis XVI of France|HM King Louis XVI of France]] (1754-1793); had issue
29: ...itionally, the army was weak and the treasury depleted due to two wars near the end of her father's re... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...shed power even though some others wanted him to retain that power for life (as [[monarch]]s and [[dic...
31: ... Virginia, but the French declined to leave. In [[1754]], Washington, now commissioned a [[lieutenant co...
33: ...and showed coolness under fire in organizing the retreat. In Virginia, Washington was acclaimed as a h...
40: ...uel Leutze]], 1851, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum]]]]
41: ...l Army]] on [[June 15]], [[1775]]. The [[Massachusetts]] delegate [[John Adams]] suggested his appoint... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...siness, making him the wealthiest man in Massachusetts at the time.
10: Despite his wealth, Hancock remained, ethically and virtuously, the same. With his generos...
13: ...epresentatives|representative]] to the [[Massachusetts General Court]], his colonial trade business na...
17: ...joke that "[[Samuel Adams|Sam Adams]] writes the letters [to newspapers] and John Hancock pays the pos...
19: ... its Committee of Safety. Under Hancock, Massachusetts raised bands of "[[Minutemen (militia)|minuteme... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: (poetically) '''Columbia'''—is a [[democracy|demo...
35: ...Constitution|'''Constitution''']]<br> - completed<br> - ratified<br> - effective|
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58: ...ior to all these was the [[Albany Congress]] in [[1754]], in which a union was first seriously proposed. - James Watt (5070 bytes)
5: ...England]]. He was a key member of the [[Lunar Society]]. Many of his papers are in [[Birmingham Centra...
9: ...hematical-instrument making in [[London]] before returning to [[Glasgow]]
30: ...ral other things, not least a copying device for letters.
38: He is also remembered by the [[Lunar Society Moonstones|Moonstones]], two individual statues,...
44: There are over 50 roads or streets named after him, in the UK. - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...onflict ([[1754]]-[[1763]]) in [[North America]] between [[Great Britain]] and [[France]], which was o...
9: ...omewhat confusingly, [[French and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian all...
19: ...ry commitments as well as limitation on colonial settlements imposed by the [[British Royal Proclamati...
27: *[[Battle of Jumonville Glen]] ([[May 28]], [[1754]])
28: ...ka the [[Battle of Great Meadows]] ([[July 3]], [[1754]]) - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ... while a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was attacked in [[India]].
5: ...rmed the [[2nd Carnatic War]] while the fighting between Prussia and Austria is called the [[Silesian ...
14: ...r war was formed by the heated colonial struggle between [[British Empire|Great Britain]] and [[French...
18: ...ons of the [[coalition]] opposing him, Frederick determined to strike first. On [[August 29]], his wel...
28: ...ans at the [[Battle of Leuthen]]. With these complete victories at hand, Frederick had once again esta... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: .... Most current interpretations fall somewhere in between these two positions.
7: ...riefly summarize the political, social, economic, etc. situations before the revolution, and the trend...
16: ...ywhere. Increased publication and communications between like-minded people opened new areas to questi...
28: ...cement became the practice. In [[1761]], Massachusetts lawyer [[James Otis]] argued that the writs vio...
30: ...ction. Grenville's policies were bringing them together. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...by arguing that [[orbit]]s (such as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could...
6: ...osed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentu...
14: ...as born in [[Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth]], a hamlet in the county of [[Lincolnshire]].Newton was prem...
19: ...f this love, but Newton had no other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc....
25: ...erms, [[Voltaire]] wrote in his ''Essay on Epic Poetry'' (1727), "Sir Isaac Newton walking in his... - Ohio (19444 bytes)
24: ...dmittanceDate = [[March 1]], [[1803]], declared retroactively on [[August 7]], [[1953]] |
42: ...ring the [[18th century]], the [[France|French]] set up a system of trading posts to control the [[fur...
44: In [[1754]], France and [[Great Britain]] fought a war know...
46: ...he [[American colonies|American colonists]] from settling in Ohio Country. British control of the regi...
50: ...bered only 45,000 in December [[1801]], Congress determined that the population was growing rapidly an... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and th...
13: ...f Great Britain|Britain]], [[France]], and the [[Netherlands]]. The lands that now make up the [[Unit...
16: ...h Monarchs|Queen]] [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]]. At this time, however, there was no official ...
25: ...alled [[Virginia]] (named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"). It lay on an island in t...
27: ... colonists had little incentive to protect their settlement or work towards its long-term growth. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[Unit...
4: ...include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improve...
9: ...[[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wif...
11: ...blings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[16...
13: ... for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several more c... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
13: ...at [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish settlers for [[Dunedin, New Zealand|Dunedin]], [[New ...
16: ...[Benjamin Harrison]] opens [[Oklahoma]] to white settlement starting on [[April 22]].
19: ...onian Institution]] and [[National Geographic Society]].
27: ...[[1963]] - In [[London]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Grethe & J? Ingmann]] win the eighth [[Eurovision Song...
32: *1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter [[Near-Earth asteroid]] misses the [[Earth]] by... - Augusta, Maine (4876 bytes)
8: founded = [[1754]] |
11: area = 150.9 [[square kilometer|km²]] (58.3 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
16: metro pop = |
28: ...r of [[1607]]. It was first inhabited by English settlers from the [[Plymouth Colony]] in [[1625]] as ...
30: ... Kennebec River in Augusta. The fort was built in 1754 and was called ''Fort Western''. - Albany, New York (8184 bytes)
1: ...280px|right|New York State Capitol Building, completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million was the most e...
5: The '''City of Albany''' lies 145 miles (233 kilometers) north of and slightly east from [[New York Ci...
20: area = 56.6 [[square kilometer|km²]] (21.8 [[square mile|mi²]]) |
25: metro pop = |
33: ...e]], the first permanent settlement in the [[New Netherland]] colony, was established in the area. The... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...x130;mparatorluğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
45: ...as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empi...
53: ...[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[Hu...
55: ... a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestants]] were helped by th...
61: ...h in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 1876 etc.). Socially, the advent of nationalism and the y...
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