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- President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...es. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world,...
12: ...stitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to become President. The president must ...
14: ... remove or amend this requirement, but none have yet been successful.
16: ...orge W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
21: ...ary. Since 1933, with the ratification of [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Amen... - 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... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
9: ...<td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</td></tr>
22: '''Martin Van Buren''' ([[December 5]], [[1782]] – [[July 24]], [[1862]]), nicknamed '''Ol...
25: ...come to the [[New World]] in [[1631]] from the [[Netherlands]]. Martin's father was Abraham van Buren ...
27: ...ity|New York]], where he studied under [[William Peter van Ness]] ([[1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawy...
33: ... Jackson|Jackson's]] [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]] in [[1829]]. - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
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60: ...n as the "[[Irish Free State]]", a name that was retained until [[1937]].
65: ...ex constitutional developments in the early twentieth century.
67: ...the 32 counties, with an as of yet undecided new set of measures to be introduced for the area tempora... - 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]]
16: * [[1782]]: Invented double-acting engine.
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,... - 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]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...[[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [[1752]], January 1 ...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
15: ...nce|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
18: ...reat Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]] - History of California (38344 bytes)
13: ...ne]]'' and ''[[Tongva]]''. California holds a variety of unique [[ecosystem]]s and each tribe speciali...
19: ...ve of the [[Seven Cities of Cibola]] that had streets paved with gold and silver. About the same time,...
21: ...r|La Paz]], before experiencing difficulties and returning. Cortés accompanied expeditions in [[1534]...
40: ...] to the modern California-Oregon border before returning to Spain.
48: ...com.174}} or to keep the location of his port secret from them. - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...device, but '''every''' multi-[[conductor]] [[geometry]] has '''capacitance'''.
18: ...plate and inversely proportional to the distance between the plates. It is also proportional to the [[...
45: ...and the higher the cost. [[Tolerance]]s for discrete capacitors are usually specified such as 5 or 10...
47: ...d into two broad categories: bulk insulators and metal-oxide films (so-called ''electrolytic capacitor...
52: *Ceramic:The main differences between ceramic dielectric types are the temperature ... - 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: ...ed to the bar at [[Albany, New York|Albany]] in [[1782]], and began to practice in [[New York City]] aft...
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]]... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
7: On [[December 14]], [[1782]] they succeeded in an outdoor launch of an 18 m&...
11: ...mber 19 sent up the fourth living beings in a basket attached to the ham: a sheep named Montauciel (me...
15: ...etres above [[Paris]] for a distance of nine kilometres.
18: ...ere produced in enamel and gilt-bronze replicas set with a dial in the balloon.
22: ...960s]], when [[Raven Industries]] improved the safety of the classic Montgolfier design by using ripst... - 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... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
5: ...efferson selected [[Meriwether Lewis|Captain Meriwether Lewis]] to lead the expedition, afterwards kn...
7: ...rd. Soon they passed Le Rochette, the last white settlement on the [[Missouri River]]. On [[August 20]...
10: ...uring the trip, so the group decided to vote on whether to camp on the north or south side of the Colu...
16: ...d States. Without these calm meetings, the white settlers from the East would have stormed the Indian ...
19: ...ine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition]] for more detail'' - March 17 (9666 bytes)
8: ...[[1673]] - [[Jacques Marquette]] and [[Louis Jolliet]] begin their exploration of the Great Lakes and ...
10: ...gdom|British]] forces evacuate [[Boston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] places [[artiller...
20: ...se War (1937-1945)]]: The [[Battle of Nanchang]] between the [[Kuomintang]] and the [[Japan]]ese break...
25: ...zin Gyatso]], the 14th [[Dalai Lama]], flees [[Tibet]] and travels to [[India]].
30: *[[1988]] - A [[Colombia]]n [[Boeing 727]] jetliner, [[Avianca Flight 410]], crashes into the si... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
9: ...thiopia|Sissinios]] formally crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]]
19: ...Union]]. Despite the recent Polish successes, Soviets annex [[Ukraine]] and [[Belarus]]. Government of...
25: ...s]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Benito Mussolini]] meet at [[Brenner Pass]] in the [[Alps]] and agree to ...
31: *1962 - In [[Luxembourg]], [[Isabelle Aubret]] wins the seventh [[Eurovision Song Contest]] fo...
37: ...an explosion of a [[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2M]] rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation. - 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 astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
72: *[[Wilhelm von Biela]] ([[Austria]], [[1782]] – [[1856]])
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – ) - 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}} - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
7: - Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
3: ...ator]] and [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]. Famed for his ability as an [[orat...
7: ...ent him to the [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] in [[Exeter, New Hampshire]].
9: ...ly to be simply the inability of his parents to meet the fees.
11: ...h writing. He became a member of the literary society known as the "United Fraternity" where he practi...
13: In [[1808]] he married his first wife, Grace Fletcher, who died in [[1828]]. With her he had one so...
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