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- 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]]
37: *[[Andrew Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...er birth is uncertain, but is usually taken to be 1797.
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourne...
26: * [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1044&pt=S... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
28: ...e larger growing species, such as ''I. germanica, fiorenhina, pallida, variegata, amoena, flavescens, ...
30: ...in, covering of half-decayed leaves or fresh coco-fibre refuse. To this set belong ''milifolia'', ''j...
41: ...hich in probing the [[perianth]] for nectar, will first come in contact of perianth, three with the st...
44: .... Like some older sources, the influential classification by G. I. Rodionenko removed some groups (pa...
56: ...ked flowers. Between 30 and 60 species are classified in this section, depending on the authority. C... - 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)
7: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1797]]
19: ...nder the [[U.S. Constitution]]. ([[1789]]–[[1797|97]]). He also served as President of the [[1787]...
21: ...generally recognized as one of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolut...
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... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1797]]
18: ...ident]] of the [[United States]], and the second (1797–[[1801]]) [[President of the United States]...
24: ...assachusetts|Worcester]] and studied law in the office of [[James Putnam]]. In [[1758]], he was admitt...
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... - 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: ...of the United States, under [[John Adams]] from [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after g... - 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... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
18: ...]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First Lady [[Abigail Adams|Abigail Smith]].
24: ... a foreign-born wife, Adams wed Louisa Johnson in 1797. The couple named one of their sons after George ...
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]. - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
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...
34: ...John Adams. Jackson's election represented a significant break from that past. - South Africa (40100 bytes)
9: ... India]] in number. As a result, there are many official names for the country.
11: ...e non-official languages may be used in certain official uses in limited areas where it has been deter...
13: Many of the "unofficial languages" of the [[Bushmen|San]] and [[Khoik...
17: ... English on the front cover and lists the other official names of South Africa on an inner page.
19: ...ica]] feel that their languages, despite having official status, are being sidelined in favour of Engl... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
14: Whitney is credited with creating the first [[cotton gin]] in [[1793]], a mechanical devic...
16: ...at produced cotton gins went out of business in [[1797]].
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... - 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 people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer
89: *[[Zhang Yimou|Yimou, Zhang]], (born [[1950]]), film director
91: ...rvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]] - 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]]-) - 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
22: *[[1797]] - [[John Adams]] (Federalist) inaugurated, Jeff...
23: *[[1797]] - [[XYZ Affair]]
35: ...rt]] to invalidate law passed by [[Congress]] for first time, the [[Judiciary Act (United States)#Judi... - New Year (5703 bytes)
7: *[[January 1]] : the first day of the [[year]] in the [[Gregorian calenda...
11: ...New Year is generally celebrated with [[fireworks|firecrackers]], and in some places with a [[parade]]...
33: ...he [[Middle Ages]] in [[Europe]] a number of significant feast days in the [[Ecclesiastical calendar]]...
35: ... be used in [[England]] until [[1752]] for some official records such as the tax year, but over that p...
38: ...[[Republic of Venice]] until its destruction in [[1797]], and in [[Russia]] until the [[14th century]]. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...uary 1 was to be either [[New Year's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England beg...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], pr...
17: *[[1797]] - Albany replaces New York City as the capital ...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered b... - Clock (10086 bytes)
9: Clocks are in homes and offices; smaller ones ([[watch]]es) are carried; big o...
18: ... circular. An ideal clock is more appropriately defined in relationship to the set of all physical pro...
21: This leads to the following definitions:
24: ..., when used to measure other recurrent processes, finds many of them to be periodic.
29: ...hey are currently the best instantiation of the definition. - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
5: ...s]] - younger brother of Louis XVI and one of the first émigrés.
6: ... - officer throughout the Revolutionary era and [[First French Empire|Empire]], general, later [[Marsh...
9: ...- proto-[[socialism|socialist]], guillotined in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'etat|coup]]'' attempt
11: ...agnard'']], then a [[9 Thermidor|Thermidorian]], finally the main executive leader during the [[Frenc...
13: ...xiled to [[French Guiana]], returned during the [[First French Empire|Empire]]
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