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  1. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
    15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
    22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
    99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure
    103: ...rahams|Abrahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
  2. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
    34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
    41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
    59: *[[John Quincy Adams|Adams, John Quincy]], (1767-1848), sixth President of the United States
    66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
  3. Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
    15: ... then HSH Princess Marie Josephe of Bavaria (1739-1767); no surviving issue. [[Holy Roman Emperor]]: 176...
    23: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Josephe (1751-1767)
    35: ...ttack Prussia in [[1756]]. Frederick II attacked first however, invading [[Saxony]], another ally of ...
  4. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
    1: ...ortrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
    3: ...[[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enli...
    10: ...ded to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
    12: ...romenade du sceptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, t...
    14: ...f some points in aesthetics. The philosophic significance of the two essays is in the advance they mak...
  5. John Adams (18716 bytes)
    18: ...], [[1735]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the first ([[1789]]–[[1797]]) [[Vice President of ...
    24: ...assachusetts|Worcester]] and studied law in the office of [[James Putnam]]. In [[1758]], he was admitt...
    26: ...etts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]].
    31: Adams first rose to influence as a leader of the Massachus...
    33: ...und guilty of [[manslaughter]]. These claimed benefit of [[clergy]] and were branded in the hand and r...
  6. John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
    9: | date of birth=[[July 11]], [[1767]]
    18: ...]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First Lady [[Abigail Adams|Abigail Smith]].
    43: |align="right"|'''OFFICE'''||align="left"|'''NAME'''||align="left"|'''TE...
    78: ...humb|Adams posed for this photograph in 1843, the first taken of a US President]]
    84: ...tly reinterred in the [http://www.ufpc.org United First Parish Church].
  7. Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
    9: | date of birth= March 15, 1767
    18: ... lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associated with one of the origi...
    22: ...When he refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the irate redcoat slashed him with a sword, g...
    26: ...ave been "tough as old hickory" wood on the battlefield, which gave him his nickname. The war, and par...
    32: ...lection, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first nominee of the [[Democratic Party (United Stat...
  8. James Watt (5070 bytes)
    12: * [[1767]]: Surveyor of Forth and Clyde canal.
    22: ...the working cycle of the engine, so showing its efficiency.
    24: ...significantly increased the efficiency. Further refinements ([[insulation]] of the steam cylinder, the...
    33: ... converted a machine of limited use to one of [[efficiency]] and many applications. It was the foremos...
    40: ...rth Ayrshire Campus) and Greenock (2 in Greenock, Finnart Campus and Waterfront Campus) and a campus i...
  9. Delaware (15006 bytes)
    8: Nickname = The First State |
    13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
    36: ...to ratify the [[United States Constitution]]. Ratification occurred on [[December 7]], [[1787]].
    40: Europeans first settled in a [[Netherlands | Dutch]] trading p...
    44: ...s Mason]] and [[Jeremiah Dixon]] between 1763 and 1767. Part of the Line now forms the east-west boundar...
  10. 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]]
  11. Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
    10: ...at lacked strength, but it was still suitable for filling out the weft of the fabric, using stronger y...
    12: ...is machines, forcing him to flee to Nottingham in 1767. There he set up shop producing jennies in secret...
    14: ...acturers met, and offered Hargreaves ?3000. He at first demanded ?7000, and at last stood out for ?400...
  12. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
    120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
    218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
    381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
    394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
  13. American Revolution (17069 bytes)
    2: ...he revolution began before the [[first shot]] was fired at [[Battle of Lexington and Concord|Lexington...
    4: ...on was a unique and radical event, producing significant changes that had a profound impact on world h...
    10: ...llion]]—had, if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonists in A...
    16: ...asoning. The implications of the earlier [[scientific revolution]] began to have a greater effect on e...
    19: ...]] views throughout the colonies. It was also the first event that swept through all the British colon...
  14. Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
    14: *[[1765]] - [[First Quartering Act]]
    15: *[[1767]] - [[Townshend Acts]]
    23: *[[1774]] - First [[Continental Congress]]
    37: ...nt]], passes the [[Constitution of Vermont]], the first in the nation to outlaw slavery
    43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
  15. Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
    5: ...his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was seized by customs officials and he was charged with [[smuggling]]. He wa...
    7: ...a large part in the boycott and it was one of the first times women collectively attempted to influenc...
    11: ...heir shoes, swept the decks, and made each ship's first mate attest that they had destroyed only the t...
    13: This act drew criticism from colonial and British figures. For instance, [[Benjamin Franklin]] stated...
    18: ... (PD)] -- [http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/00000016.htm large version]
  16. Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
    3: ...e credit in a raid on [[Fort Ticonderoga]]. Some five years later, in 1780, he plotted with the Briti...
    6: ... married Margaret Mansfield on [[February 22]], [[1767]]. They had three sons; Margaret died [[June 19]]...
    9: ... the Massachusetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirely offensive military expedition by the ...
    17: ...in [[1776]] oversaw the construction of America's first gunships on [[Lake Champlain]], in the town of...
    19: ... and again had trouble getting along with other officers. While he was rallying troops, his horse was...
  17. 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 ...
  18. Annapolis, Maryland (7226 bytes)
    34: ...[[January 14]], [[1784]], so Annapolis became the first peacetime capital of the US.
    38: ...house is a monument to [[Thurgood Marshall]], the first black justice of the [[US Supreme Court]] and ...
    52: ...ian]], 0.03% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 2.22% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|othe...
    65: ...apolis on the [[slave ship]] [[Lord Ligonier]] in 1767.
    70: *[http://www.ci.annapolis.md.us/ Annapolis official website]
  19. Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
    1: ... the United States]], and is seen as the second [[First Lady of the United States]], though that term ...
    33: <td>[[First Lady of the United States]]</td>
    48: ...65-1813), future President [[John Quincy Adams]] (1767-1848), Susanna Boylston (1768-70), Charles (1770-...
    50: ...]. After 1785, she filled the role of wife of the first United States Minister to the [[Kingdom of Gre...
    52: ... good friend to [[Martha Washington]] helped in official entertaining, drawing on her experience of co...
  20. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] &ndash; [[986]])
    87: *[[Alexis Bouvard]] ([[France]], [[1767]] &ndash; [[1843]])
    205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] &ndash; [[1964]])
    375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] &ndash; [[1764]])
    437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] &ndash; [[2001]])

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