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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[November 6]], [[1796]]. A cousin to [[Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[C...
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]].]] - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
5: ...He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon whi...
7: ...om he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the ...
10: ...ed a volume of bawdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years he repented of this wor...
14: ...any subject that he approached, that in this theoretic essay he suggests the possibility of teaching t...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the autho... - 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 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... - 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... - 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: ...enator]]. As Minister to [[France]] in [[1794]]-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for the French ...
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... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
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]].
39: ...suffrage]]. His course in the Senate was not altogether consistent, though in this respect he is not t...
43: ...rmation as [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] notwithstanding the "corrupt bargai... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
10: ...| ([[Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|In Detail]])
14: ...op;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Pax et justitia<br>([[Latin]]: Peace and justice)''</sma...
25: | [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]
50: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
59: ... the British and the black Caribs continued until 1796, when General Sir [[Ralph Abercromby]] crushed a ... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
11: ... = [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] (largest [[metropolitan area]] is Nashville) |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 1]], [[1796]] |
39: ...velling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers later encountered a [[Cherokee]] town named ...
41: ...people)|Creek]] word. It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river", or "river of the grea...
43: ...cal meeting)|constitutional convention]] met in [[1796]] to organize a new state out of the [[Southwest ... - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
13: ...antong|Xuantong, Qian]], ([[1887]]-[[1939]]), phonetician
29: ...rancis Quarles|Quarles, Francis]], (1592-1644), poet
30: ...Quarrie|Quarrie, Don]], (born 1951), Jamaican athlete
40: ...een|Queen, Ivy]], born (1972), "The Queen of Reggaeton"
43: ...aymond Queneau|Queneau, Raymond]], (1903-1976), poet - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
7: *[[U Thant]], UN Secretary General
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
19: *[[Joze Udovic|Udovic, Joze]], (1912-1986), poet
33: *[[Sabine Ulibarr�libarr�Sabine]], American poet
53: *[[Sigrid Undset|Undset, Sigrid]], (1882-1949), ''Kristin Lavransdatter'' - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
43: *[[Abraham Yates|Yates, Abraham]], (1724-1796), U.S. lawyer, Continental Congressman for New Yo...
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress... - 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]]) - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
19: *[[1796]] - [[Tennessee]], formerly part of North Carolin...
20: *[[1796]] - [[Pinckney's Treaty]]
21: *[[1796]] - [[Treaty with Tripoli (1796)|Treaty with Tripoli]]
42: *[[1804]] - [[Lewis and Clark]] set out
57: *[[1810]] - ''[[Fletcher v. Peck]]'' 10 US 87 1810 marks first time [[... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
40: ... Canal]] in 1825, which brought large numbers of settlers.
46: .... It was a development that not only transformed Detroit and Michigan, but permanently altered the soc...
50: Since [[World War II]], Detroit's industrial base has eroded as auto companie...
56: ...Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan]], the first European settlement in Michigan - 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... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Photosynthesis (9830 bytes)
1: ... is meant to be very nontechnial and accessible. Details come later. -->
10: ...lex sequence of steps, and are very different in detail.
13: ...f a million chloroplasts for every square [[millimetre]] of leaf. The surface of the leaf is uniformly...
16: ..., and many are autotrophic. However, some are [[heterotroph]]ic, relying on materials produced by oth...
18: ...em. The other photosynthetic bacteria have a variety of different pigments, called [[bacteriochloroph... - 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: ...and of the lines of Westchester County, a region between the British post at Kingsbridge and that of t...
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]]...
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