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- James Madison (15187 bytes)
18: ...ist of people known as the father or mother of something|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]...
21: ...[[1769]], he left the plantation to attend [[Princeton University]] (it was called the ''College of Ne...
33: ...ion's shortest president and frequently ill. In [[1794]] Madison married [[Dolley Madison|Dolley Payne T...
35: ...Congress; in [[1801]] he became Jefferson's [[Secretary of State]].
42: === Cabinet === - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
18: ...it was his [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]], [[John Quincy Adams]], who actuall...
22: ...s Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]]) were well-to-do farmer...
24: ... States Senator]]. As Minister to [[France]] in [[1794]]-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for th...
28: ... Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]] veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ... bar and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
24: ...[Prussia]] in [[1797]]. While serving abroad, he met [[Louisa Catherine Johnson]], the daughter of an ...
26: He was elected to the [[Massachusetts]] State Senate in [[1802]], and was an unsucces...
28: ...ssador) to [[Russia]], in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]] from [[1809]] to [[1814]], a member of t... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
6: ...ppa]]. On [[January 6]], [[1817]] he married Henrietta Edwards and they had four children.
18: ...tney received a [[patent]] for on [[March 14]], [[1794]], and its constituent elements should rightly be...
22: ...beginning in [[1798]] in a factory on the border between [[New Haven, Connecticut]] and [[Hamden, Conn... - 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]]) - Flag (13245 bytes)
3: ..., though at this less formal end the distinction between a flag and a simple cloth banner is blurred. ...
24: ...ased on this flag, and many former colonies have retained the design to acknowledge their cultural his...
25: ...ionary spirit with which the flag was designed in 1794. ''Examples'' among many: [[Flag of Ireland|Irel...
28: ...ent states in Africa. Accordingly, its [[Flag of Ethiopia|flag]] became the source of the [[Pan-Afric...
31: ...People's Republic of China]], [[Flag of Vietnam|Vietnam]], [[Flag of Angola|Angola]], [[Flag_of_Afghan... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
33: *[[Theobald Boehm]], ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), [[Germany]] — inventor of the ...
36: ...]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]]
42: *[[1804]] - [[Lewis and Clark]] set out
57: *[[1810]] - ''[[Fletcher v. Peck]]'' 10 US 87 1810 marks first time [[...
65: *[[1814]] - [[Treaty of Ghent]] settles [[War of 1812]] - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ... [[Europe]]; only in [[Great Britain]] and the [[Netherlands]] did the common people have more freedom...
5: ...ants of [[feudalism]]. Similarly, the peasants covetously eyed the relatively greater prerogatives of ...
7: ...h the French intellectuals; furthermore, contact between the American revolutionaries and the French t...
9: ...he bourgeoisie, as they did in France in 1793 and 1794, <nowiki>[</nowiki>that is to say, during the [[R...
13: ...equal system of taxes, by borrowing money, and sometimes by selling noble titles and other privileges;... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]], the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to the ''[[ancien ...
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]], [...
33: ...eet according to the forms observed at its last meeting. Although it would appear that the magistrate... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
9: ...ist]], guillotined in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'etat|coup]]'' attempt
13: ...rectory|Director]], exiled to [[French Guiana]], returned during the [[First French Empire|Empire]]
17: ...s Billaud-Varenne]] - on [[Committee of Public Safety]], more radical [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespi...
22: ...anted [[Jacques Necker|Necker]] in the royal cabinet
24: ...lle - [[Girondist]] (faction), (Girondists are sometimes designated "Brissotins"), guillotined - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...], and Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the [[Bourbon Dyna...
5: ...0]], [[1792]], until [[November 20]], 1815, is sometimes (though rarely these days) referred to as the...
13: ...due process]] in courts, abolition of privileges, etc.) had left a mark. Even though Napoleonic rule w...
15: ... European state, and, although Napoleon's defeat set the thought of a unified Europe back over one and...
18: ...es with a large proportion of mercenaries that sometimes fought for foreign states against their nativ... - 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... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemis...
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
37: *[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemi...
39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966)
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered [... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ... ship. Cook rose in the ranks of the merchant fleet but declined the command of his own collier in 17...
12: ...h brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
18: In [[1766]], the Royal Society hired him to travel to the [[Pacific Ocean]] to ...
20: ...ntury earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistake...
22: ...tain [[Arthur Phillip]] arrived with the First Fleet in [[1788]], he felt that Botany Bay was unsuitab... - Honolulu, Hawaii (19495 bytes)
16: metro pop = |
33: ...is located on the southeast coast of O‘ahu between [[Makapuu|Makapu‘u]] and [[Halawa, Hawa...
41: ...istories and artifacts indicate that there was a settlement where Honolulu now stands in the [[12th ce...
43: ...olulu a focal point for merchant ships traveling between [[North America]] and [[Asia]].
55: ... & County of Honolulu has an annual operating budget of $1 billion. - 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...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - 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}} - Cotton gin (2185 bytes)
2: ...es the cotton fibers from the seedpods and the sometimes sticky seeds. It uses a combination of a wire...
4: ...cken]] through the slatted walls of its coop and retrieving a paw full of feathers.
6: ... be attributed to Eli Whitney; it is unresolved whether [[Catherine Littlefield Greene]] should be cre...
17: ...://eh.net/encyclopedia/phillips.cottongin.php EH.Net Encyclopedia: Cotton Gin]
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