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- President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...d is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was ...
7: ...head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nation...
11: == Requirements to hold office ==
14: ...mmigrants to American society. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because ...
16: ...wo four-year terms or a maximum of ten years in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency prev... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
10: | date of birth=[[February 22]], [[1732]]
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: ...agraph says--> ([[old style]])/[[February 22]], [[1732]] ([[new style]]). His birthday is celebrated on ...
26: ... he trained as a [[surveyor]] (obtaining his certificate from the [[College of William and Mary]]) and... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - 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 astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
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205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
343: *[[J鲴me Lalande]] ([[France]], [[1732]] – [[1807]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
375: *[[Arthur Collier]], (1680-1732){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Anton van Leeuwenhoek (4111 bytes)
3: ... was the first to observe and describe [[muscle]] fibers, [[bacterium|bacteria]], [[spermatozoon|sperm...
7: ...ifetime, Leeuwenhoek was visited by many powerful figures, including [[Queen Anne of England]] and [[P...
11: ...ed, van Leeuwenhoek was appointed curator for the financial affairs of Vermeer's widow. This has led s...
15: ...by microbiologists as the highest honour in their field. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
10: He was the fifth child of his parents, preceded by twin boys (o...
14: ...ed to remove him from such society by sending him first to [[Caen]] and then, in the suite of the marq...
16: ...lampoon]]s on him. In May [[1716]] he was exiled, first to [[Tulle]], then to [[Sully]], later, having...
20: ...seems to have begun his long series of successful financial speculations.
28: ..., ''Marianne'', appeared and was well received at first but underwent complete damnation before the cu... - Carolus Linnaeus (8550 bytes)
7: ...til]]s of [[flower]]s lay the basis for the classification of [[plant]]s, and he wrote a short work on...
9: In [[1732]] the Academy of Sciences at Uppsala financed his expedition to explore [[Laponia|Lapland...
11: ... be said to have popularized it within the scientific community.
15: ...med for their mammary glands because one of the defining characteristics of mammals is that they nurse...
18: ...d, the [[Lutheran]] Linnaeus would have been horrified by it. Linnaeus was only attempting a convenien... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ..., an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250p...
6: ...f Maximlien de Robespierre in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenme...
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in...
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the ev...
14: [[File:Marlborough-duke-first.jpg|thumb|upright|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke o... - February 22 (10772 bytes)
12: ...of Florida|Florida]] to the [[United States]] for five million [[United States dollar|U.S. dollars]].
15: ...tes Republican Party|Republican Party]] opens its first national meeting in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
18: ...[Utica, New York]], [[Frank Woolworth]] opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
21: * [[1920]] - In [[Emeryville, California]], the first [[dog race]] track to employ an imitation [[ra...
22: * [[1923]] - The [[United States]] begins the first transcontinental [[air mail]] route. - 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...
72: The [[Peter and Paul Cathedral]] (1712–1732), a long-time [[symbol]] of the city, contains th...
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