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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]]... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
74: ...crombie Junior|Abercrombie Junior, James]], (died 1775), British Colonel, killed at Bunker Hill.
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
43: ...mann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...tat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been ...
11: ...ine issued a charter that: allowed the gentry to petition the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles...
13: ...y. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the modernization of agric...
16: ...the [[Hermitage Museum]], [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].]]
17: ...[ruble]]s to the creation of a "Northern Accord" between Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marria...
2: '''Marie-Antoinette''', Queen of [[France]] and Archduchess of [[Au...
4: ...cial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
7: ...he Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most bri...
9: ...ess's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: '''Jane Austen''' ([[December 16]], [[1775]]–[[July 18]], [[1817]]) was a prominent [[...
5: ...ndisputed portrait of Jane Austen is a coloured sketch done by Cassandra which resides in the [[Nation...
10: ...ry life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with''.
12: ... prominent marriages, to be unliberated and disquieting; however one should bear in mind that a "good ...
14: The order in which she began and completed her novels is different from that of their publ... - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: ... commanded a [[pirate]] fleet and fought in a [[Vietnam]]ese rebellion on the side of the [[Tay-son]]....
4: ...arried him, cementing the family's hold on the fleet.
6: ...o be given by anyone except the leaders of the fleet. That was considered a capital offense along with...
8: ...granted. Ching Shih also sought pardon for her fleet in [[1810]], now that the government could concen... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...l Army]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first [[President...
21: ...shed power even though some others wanted him to retain that power for life (as [[monarch]]s and [[dic...
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... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...grated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boy...
24: ... [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. ...
26: ...ngregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[17... - 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: ...[[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] (1775–[[1783]]). The original political structure... - Romania (19812 bytes)
1: ...outh along the [[Danube]] River. Romania has a stretch of sea coast on the [[Black Sea]] and the easte...
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55: ''Main article: [[Etymology of Romania]]'' - Flag of North Carolina (1696 bytes)
4: ...re shall be a similar scroll containing in black letters the inscription: "April 12th, 1776."
8: ...burg Declaration of Independence]] ([[May 20]], [[1775]]) and of the [[Halifax Resolves]] ([[April 12]],... - Flag of South Carolina (934 bytes)
2: ... defense of [[Fort Moultrie]] (constructed of palmetto logs) on [[Sullivan's Island]] from British att...
5: ...tpage/flag.htm|The State Flag @ www.scstatehouse.net] - Arizona (24367 bytes)
16: Governor = [[Janet Napolitano]] |
61: Fossil = [[Petrified wood]] |
62: StateRock = [[Petrified wood]] |
87: Historians disagree about the [[etymology|origin]] of the name "Arizona" and its att...
96: ... (presidios) at Tubac in [[1752]] and Tucson in [[1775]]. All of what is now Arizona became part of Mexi... - California (63989 bytes)
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81: ... numbers. Please see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for details.
98: ... political organization with bands, tribes, tribelets, and on the resource-rich coasts large chiefdoms...
101: ... institutions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harb...
105: California was poorly settled until modern public health eliminated the end... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
43: ...n Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundame...
52: ... an ongoing civic pride and economic competition between Hartford and New Haven, which stems back to t...
54: ...flowing into Long Island Sound, Connecticut's outlet to the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. ''See: [[List of Conne...
56: ...he green may stand a small white church, a town meeting hall, a tavern and several colonial houses. Fo...
65: ...ions and their major cultural centers as each competes for tourists, new residents, and internal state... - Washington (20186 bytes)
45: ...d the land and missionaries such as the Whitmans settled there.
47: ...in|Spanish]] Captain [[Don Bruno de Heceta]] in [[1775]] on board the ''Santiago'', part of a two-ship [...
55: ...the [[Northern Pacific]] railroad line reached Puget Sound, linking the region to the other states. Du...
59: ...e]] produced dense forests and the ports along Puget Sound prospered from the manufacturing and shippi...
63: ...p-building industry. The region around eastern Puget Sound developed heavy industry during the period ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...amplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, ...
38: ...ted by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provin...
48: ...rest in meadow, uplands, lakes, ponds and swampy wetlands.
50: ...areas of the state. Annual [[snow]]fall averages between 60 to 100 inches depending on elevation, givi...
57: ...95 feet. The state's average elevation is 1,000 feet.]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]?
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