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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
64: *[[Clarke Abel|Abel, Clarke]], (1780-1826), English surgeon and naturalist
75: *[[John Abercrombie|Abercrombie, John]], (1780-1844), musician
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
38: ...[[Johann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853)
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) - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ... ruler of the [[Habsburg Empire]] from [[1740]]-[[1780]]. Also see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less kn...
4: ...of [[Hungary]] and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elect...
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...
15: ...[King of Bohemia]]: 1780 ([[Heir-Apparent]]: 1741-1780) - 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 ... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...y by the Moors. The Crusades brought Turkish carpets to all of Europe, where they were primarily hung...
3: ...ries a distinction is made between carpet (or carpeting) and rug. The former indicates a covering tha...
5: [[Image:Carpet.png|350px|thumb|Contemporary Afghan Rug]]
7: == Carpet types ==
8: ...et 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of machine-made carpet]] - George Washington (29551 bytes)
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...
43: ...of Long Island]] on [[August 22]] but managed to retreat, saving most of his forces. However, several ... - 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... - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: '''Richard Mentor Johnson''' ([[October 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United...
11: ...ing his seat. He is interred in the Frankfort Cemetery.
15: ...hinn]], whom he had inherited from his father. Together they had two daughters, Adaline Chinn Johnson ...
27: ...|before=[[Robert L. McHatton]]|after=[[Robert P. Letcher]]|years=1829-1833}} - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...als and their aides. Then, on [[February 28]], [[1780]], the Continental War Officers in Philadelphia d... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
46: ...lement in the New World which was at [[Jamestown Settlement|Jamestown]] in the [[Virginia Colony]] in ...
48: ...eded by Virginia [[History of Washington, DC|was retroceded to Virginia]] effective [[1847]], and is ...
57: ...and [[Williamsburg, Virginia|Williamsburg]] (1699-1780). The [[Virginia State Capitol]] building in Rich...
59: ...he Burgesses met to make laws for the colony and set the direction for its future growth; the Council ...
61: ...enant Governor''', '''Attorney General''', '''Secretary of the Commonwealth''', '''State Treasurer''',... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...h illuminate and are explained by the science of meteorology. Those events are bound by the variables...
5: Meteorology, [[climatology]], [[atmospheric physics]]...
7: ==History of meteorology==
8: {{seemain|timeline of meteorology}}
10: ...centered more on predicting the weather by interpreting established celestial phenomena, such as a [[H... - 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]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
36: ...]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
40: ...Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
6: In [[meteorology]], a '''tropical cyclone''' (or '''tropic...
13: ... that distinguishes tropical cyclones from other meteorological phenomena. Mid-latitude cyclones for e...
18: ...on and maximum sustained winds of less than 17 [[metre]]s per second (33 [[knot (nautical)|knots]], 38...
20: ...on and maximum sustained winds between 17 and 33 meters per second (34-63 knots, 39-73 mph, or 62-117 ...
23: ...clones with maximum sustained winds exceeding 33 meters per second (63 knots, 73 mph, or 117 km/h) var... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemis...
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
37: *[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemi...
39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966) - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
7: ...dent of the [[College of New Jersey]], now [[Princeton University]]; his mother Esther Edwards was the...
13: ...Burr under his wing, and by his vigilance in the retreat from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire bri...
14: ... where Benedict Arnold led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[Albany, New...
26: ...Hamilton felt Burr?s victory to be tantamount to betrayal, although some have argued that Burr did not...
30: ...an Hamilton, largely because of the [[Tammany Society]], later to become the infamous [[Tammany Hall]]... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ... [[Fort Ticonderoga]]. Some five years later, in 1780, he plotted with the British to take control of t...
6: ...bruary 22]], [[1767]]. They had three sons; Margaret died [[June 19]],[[1775]].
9: ... They appointed him a [[colonel]] in the Massachusetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirely o...
10: ...did not care that Arnold had orders from Massachusetts. Arnold could not talk Allen out of relinquishi...
12: ...red the letter announcing the victory to Massachusetts, doing his best to diminish Arnold's participat... - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
2: '''Jean Lafitte''' or '''Laffite''' (''ca''1780 - ''ca''1826?), was a [[pirate]] in the [[Gulf of...
8: ...figure in [[Cajun]] Louisiana. His legend was perpetuated in [[Cecil B. DeMille]]’s classic, ''[...
13: ...Lafitte was active in the Neutral strip of coast between Spanish Texas and American Louisiana, left un...
17: ...I|World Wars I]] and [[World War II|II]], and [[Vietnam]].
28: *[http://thelaffitesociety.com/ Laffite Society] - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ... Independence''', was a [[war]] fought primarily between [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] an...
5: ...of a scene painted by A.M. Willard in the late nineteenth century that came to be known as ''The Spiri...
15: ...urse of the war. Fewer than 20,000 of these ever set foot in America. The war was far from Britain's g...
19: ... Europe, the war was often regarded as a scuffle between the poorer part of the British military and E...
23: ...served in northern American militias from the outset, but this was forbidden in the South, where slave...
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