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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
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: Ai (1915 bytes)
3: *[[Sin Ai|Ai, Sin]], poet
9: ...], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
11: *[[Conrad Aiken|Aiken, Conrad]], (1889-1973), poet
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player - 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: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed. - 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.) - 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... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
23: ...& Mary]] — where he was a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] — before founding his own...
25: ...]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare th...
27: ...nitive book on the original buildings, or [http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/grizzard Academical Vil...
29: ...ght|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]]
30: ...mon practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. Instead, he cut a wedge out of th... - 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: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon... - 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]]
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
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,... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|thum...
4: ...m to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/...
6: ...r system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
8: ...nd strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmosph...
10: ...teroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate man-made objects which have... - 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 - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
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... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
28: ** [[Massachusetts Government Act]] ([[May 20]]),
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered
53: ....S. state)|Georgia]], [[Connecticut]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Maryland]], [[South Carolina]], [[New Hamp... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...r a dozen years of escalating political conflict between the colonies and the British Parliament, mark...
7: ... the Atlantic Coast of [[North America]], began meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Congress i...
11: ...t United States with a great wilderness empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, ...
13: ... federation of States, without fully clarifying whether the United States was to be a nation-state or ...
15: ...nsider revising the Articles. That Convention, meeting in Philadelphia, chose, instead, to write a Co... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
4: ...color="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
18: | 2,870,972,220 [[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
21: | 18.029 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>120.515 AU
61: !align="left"| [[Equator]]ial [[diameter]] - January 17 (12233 bytes)
6: ...harles I of England|King Charles I]] and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the [[Engli...
9: ...sh forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]] in [[South Carol...
14: ... Safety (Hawaii)|Citizen's Committee of Public Safety]] overthrow the government of Queen [[Liliuokala...
20: ...iet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Warsaw]]...
21: ...chwitz concentration camp]] as [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces close in. - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
12: [[Memorial Day]], [[Veterans Day]], [[Flag Day]]</td></tr></table>
23: ...mbers of the Congress, but even that was kept secret to protect the members from British reprisal.
29: ...ess, as opposed to rumors in the street about secret votes.
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]] to recognize In...
43: ...n alternative to a public show. Concerns about safety have led some states to ban fireworks or limit t... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]], the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to the ''[[ancien ...
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
23: ...e, and proposed a uniform land tax as a means of setting France's finances in order in the long term. ...
27: ...ropose new reforms, but only to prepare for the meeting of the nation's representatives.
31: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[August 8]], [... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
4: ...ish an authoritative system of [[ethics]], [[aesthetics]], and [[knowledge]]. The intellectual leaders...
6: ...n the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theo...
14: ...Baruch Spinoza|Baruch (Benedictus de) Spinoza]]'s Ethics, which expounded a pantheistic view of the un...
16: ... a coherent system of verifiable predictions and set the tone for much of what would follow in the cen... - 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: ...he United States|laws of the United States]] are set down in major [[Federal law|federal legislation]]...
11: ...aluates executive performance. It applies to cabinet departments, executive agencies, regulatory commi...
18: * Informal meetings between legislators and executive officials;
20: ... support agencies such as the [[Congressional Budget Office]], the [[Government Accountability Office]...
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