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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - 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]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
86: *[[Filippo Addis|Addis, Filippo]], (1884-1974), writer - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
7: *[[Ron Affif|Affif, Ron]], (born 1965), musician
9: *[[Denis Auguste Affre|Affre, Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[Paris]]
10: ...al|Afonso I Henriques of Portugal]], (1109-1185), first king of Portugal in [[1139]] - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
26: ...XVI of France|HM King Louis XVI of France]] (1754-1793); had issue
35: ...ttack Prussia in [[1756]]. Frederick II attacked first however, invading [[Saxony]], another ally of ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...nd [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarc...
5: ...herine became involved with other prominent court figures. She soon became popular with several powerf...
13: ...veral drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]]...
19: ... among Russia, [[Austria]] and [[Prussia]] (1772, 1793 and 1795).
21: ...ndence from the Ottoman Empire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-T... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...2 November]] [[1755]] ? executed [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], wife...
4: ...in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but compl...
6: ...d]], and Ferdinand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ...as considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
15: ...eing going on intermittently since [[1494]] would finally end. [[Louis XV]]'s heir was his grandson, L... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...ist in the early [[1800s]] and is credited as the first "[[feminist]]", but more accurately, the launc...
5: ...he very early 1800s. Lucretia Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[aboliti...
7: ...ime and remains so, and the United States was the first country and still one of the few that allows "...
11: ...rea, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers were given cus...
13: ...ericans the right to vote. She remained a central figure in the women's movement as a peacemaker, a cr... - Rose (15436 bytes)
2: ...-07_10a.jpg|240px]]| caption = ''Rosa arvensis'' (Field Rose)}}
25: The [[flower]]s have five petals (with the exception of ''[[Rosa sericea]...
27: ...ds in their droppings. Some birds, particularly [[finch]]es, also eat the seeds.
67: ...essed and filtered to make rose hip syrup, as the fine hairs surrounding the seeds are unpleasant to e...
69: There is no single system of classification for garden roses. In general, however, rose... - Bass clarinet (3454 bytes)
13: ...], a Belgian manufacturer of musical instruments, first designed the straight-bodied form of the bass ...
21: ...arge duet for bass clarinet and snare drum in the final movement
31: [[Eric Dolphy]] was the first major jazz soloist on the instrument, and esta... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ...resident of the [[Continental Congress]], and the first person to sign the [[United States Declaration...
15: ...]] ''Liberty'' was impounded by British customs officials for violation of revenue laws. This caused a...
17: ... region's resistance to British authority and his financial contributions led Bostonians to joke that ...
19: ...mdash;soldiers who claimed they could be ready to fight in sixty seconds—and his boycott of [[te...
25: In the first month of his presidency, on [[June 19]], [[177... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: ... Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
27: ... at the University of Virginia, has written the definitive book on the original buildings, or [http://...
32: ...extensive vineyards planted at Monticello, a significant portion were of the European wine grape ''[[V...
35: ...potential of the United States and is often classified a forefather of [[American exceptionalism]] (se...
37: Jefferson was the first [[Secretary of State]] of the United States, s... - 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... - Australia (39438 bytes)
8: official_languages =[[English language|English]]|
48: ...Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] in 1770, and officially settled as a British colony on [[January 26...
54: ... not specifically to the Australian continent. In 1793 [[George Shaw]] and [[James Smith (botanist)|Sir ...
56: ...lly accepted that the continent should be known officially as Australia.
63: ...and 48,000 years ago{{mn|Gillespie2002|1}}. These first Australians were the remote ancestors of the c... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
14: ...dited with creating the first [[cotton gin]] in [[1793]], a mechanical device which removed the seeds fr...
18: ...ted with Eli Whitney (along with other historical figures such as [[George Washington|George]] and [[M...
22: ...ing]] and the [[assembly line]], which he was the first to use when producing [[musket]]s for the U.S....
24: ... constructed individual items out of handmade and fitted pieces. Whitney's innovation consisted of mak...
26: ...ism as to give all that regularity, accuracy, and finish to the work which is there affected by a skil... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...both the [[Old World]] and the [[New World]]. The fiber is most often spun into [[yarn|thread]] and us...
3: ...eld.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
4: ...interlocked form is ideal for [[spinning]] into a fine [[yarn]].
9: ...co|Mexican]] caves (cotton cloth and fragments of fiber interwoven with [[feather]]s and [[fur]]) whic...
13: ...ople in the region, familiar only with [[animal]] fibers ([[wool]] from [[sheep]]), could only imagine... - 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)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
360: *[[Thomas Doughty]] ([[1793]]-[[1856]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
7: ...United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]] ratified
8: *[[1791]] - [[First Bank of the United States]] chartered
11: *[[1793]] - [[Eli Whitney]] invents [[cotton gin]]
12: *[[1793]] - [[Fugitive Slave Law of 1793|Fugitive Slave Act]] passed
13: *[[1793]] - ''[[Chisholm v. Georgia]]'' 2 US 419 1793 paves way for passage of [[Eleventh Amendment to ... - Ohio (19444 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
36: ...stern corner of the [[United States]]. It was the first and eastern-most state in the Midwest admitted...
48: ...so known as the Freedom Ordinance because for the first time slavery would be prohibited from an entir...
50: ...hower|President Eisenhower]] signed an act that officially declared [[March 1]], [[1803]] the date of ...
70: ... the river), and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie. It borders [[Pennsylvania]] on ... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
7: ...ius became [[Pope]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the...
11: *[[1793]] - [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Syd...
21: *[[1890]] - [[Alice Sanger]] becomes the first female staffer for the [[White House]].
27: *[[1921]] - The first religious [[radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in ...
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