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- Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...id nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
5: ...girls of her time, and took early to writing, her first tale being begun in [[1798]]. Her life was a s...
7: While her first novel, the posthumously published ''[[Northang...
12: ...presence of women. Some contemporary readers may find the world she describes, in which people's chie...
18: * ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' (1814) - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...ary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first [[President of the United States]] under the [...
21: ...generally recognized as one of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolut...
24: ...February 11]], [[1731]]<!-- Please do not remove: 1731 is correct - Old Style New Year's Day was Mar 25 ...
26: ... he trained as a [[surveyor]] (obtaining his certificate from the [[College of William and Mary]]) and...
31: ... now commissioned a [[lieutenant colonel]] in the First Virginia Regiment, led a mission into the Ohio... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...fferson]]. In this capacity he became a prominent figure in [[Virginia]] state politics, helping to dr...
25: ...[[Federalist Papers]], which are considered the definitive contemporary commentary on the [[Constituti...
27: Madison wrote thirty of the eighty-five essays that comprise the Federalist Papers. His...
29: ... men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable government to control the governed; and...
31: ... federal government to form its own bank that the first political parties in the United States were fo... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
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36: ...ion (608,827) ranks as the second smallest of the fifty states. As the only [[New England]] state not ...
48: ...everal mountains do have timberlines: [[Mount Mansfield]], the highest mountain in the state and [[Kil...
54: ...6 degrees Celsius), at [[Bloomfield, Vermont|Bloomfield]] on [[December 30]], [[1933]].
57: ...sfield 20040926.jpg|280px|thumb|right|[[Mount Mansfield]], at 4,393 feet, is the highest elevation poi... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
79: *[[Marcello Bacciarelli]] ([[1731]]-[[1818]])
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
30: *[[Henry Cavendish]], (1731-1810), Bristish scientist
56: *[[Hermann Emil Fischer]], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
57: *[[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]]
58: *[[Hans Fischer]], German organic chemist, [[1930]] [[Nobel ...
64: *[[Johan Gadolin]], (1760–1852), [[Finns|Finnish]] chemist - Benjamin Banneker (3034 bytes)
1: ...Banna Ka''', or '''Bannakay''' ([[November 9]], [[1731]] – [[October 9]], [[1806]]) was an [[Afric...
18: " The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The first African-American Man of Science" by Silvio A. ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
95: *[[Mino da Fiesole]] (c.1429 - 1484)
96: *[[Steve Fiorilla]]
97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-) - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...edical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improvements to the [[glass harmonica]], and...
13: ...[1688]]), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth).
15: Josiah's first wife Anne died in Boston on [[July 9]], [[1689...
23: ...now the [[Church of St Batholomew the Great, Smithfield]]. Following this he returned to Philadelphia ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
176: *[[John Craig]] (Scotland, [[1663]] - [[1731]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
64: *[[Benjamin Banneker]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1731]] – [[1806]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Martha Washington (3111 bytes)
3: ...s inauguration, but fulfilled her duties as the official state hostess nonetheless.
8: ...the [[United States Supreme Court]]. The Court affirmed a Circuit Court decision that the property in...
10: In [[1902]] she was the first woman to be commemorated by a U.S. postal stam...
13: [http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/mw1.html White House biography]
22: <td width="40%" align="center">[[First Ladies of the United States]]</td> - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
11: * [[1731]]: [[Sextant]]: [[John Hadley]]
28: * [[1783]]: Hot air [[balloon]]: [[Montgolfier brothers]]
34: * [[1791]]: [[Steamboat]]: [[John Fitch]]
35: * [[1791]]: [[Artificial Teeth]]: [[Nicholas Dubois De Chemant]] - Cricket (27178 bytes)
4: ... game can last six or more hours a day, for up to five days (and occasionally more) — the numero...
13: ...m ''[[bowling (cricket)|bowls]]'' and ''[[fielder|fields]]''.
17: The batting team keeps two batsmen on the field. Each player bats until he is out, and then is...
23: ...a two innings match, the target is the sum of the first- and second-innings scores.) Matches usually e...
29: ...isks drawing the match by leaving themselves insufficient time to dismiss the other team, which is the... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
36: ...f the river Neva at the east end of the [[Gulf of Finland]] on the [[Baltic Sea]].
52: ... the outdoor museum of [[Neoclassicism]], was the first Russian patrimony inscribed in the [[UNESCO]] ...
62: ...med for its opulent interiors and named after its first lodger, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, now hous...
70: ...chitect, [[Auguste de Montferrand]]. Another magnificent church in the [[Empire style]] is the [[Kazan...
74: ...s lost at sea. The church of Sts Simeon and Anna (1731–1734), St Sampson Cathedral (1728–174... - Temperature (22519 bytes)
13: Temperature plays an important role in almost all fields of science, including physics, chemistry, and...
15: ...ctrically]] heated to a temperature at which significant quantities of visible [[light]] are emitted.
21: ... glass thermometer. This consists of a glass tube filled with mercury or some other liquid, which acts...
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