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- Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
1: ...|Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra]]
3: ...fe did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
5: ...r and was buried in the [[Winchester_Cathedral|cathedral]].
7: ...f young, unmarried, upper-class English women in the early [[1800s]].
9: ... with [[Sir Walter Scott]] in particular praising her work: - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...served as President of the [[1787]] [[History of the United States Constitution|Constitutional Convent...
21: ...n [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
24: ...or [[Lady Day]]) at the time of his birth, hence the difference in his birth year. His birthplace was ...
26: ...uly [[1752]], he rented and eventually inherited the estate, [[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]...
29: ...], and shows Washington in uniform as colonel of the 1st Virginia Regiment.]] - James Madison (15187 bytes)
18: ...n as the father or mother of something|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]]''.
21: ...day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Tennessee]]) to the [[Continental Congress]].
23: ...resented in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state representation depen...
25: ...adison's arguments were powerfully influenced by the political thought of [[Charles de Secondat, Baron...
27: ...e thirty of the eighty-five essays that comprise the Federalist Papers. His most famous passage comes ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Green Mountain State |
30: HighestElev = 1,339 |
36: ...he [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Quebec]] to the north.
38: ...tal is [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]...
42: ...m?), making it the 43rd largest in land area and the 47th in water area. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...actical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ... of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
19: ... 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painte...
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
27: *[[Andreas Achenbach]] ([[1815]]-[[1910]]) - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
1: This is a list of famous chemists:
6: *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877-1950), German chemist
7: *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869-1910), German chemist
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
9: ...[[Johan August Arfwedson]], (1792-1841), Swedish chemist - Benjamin Banneker (3034 bytes)
1: ...[[publisher]], and was instrumental in surveying the [[District of Columbia]].
3: ...er of a farm and married one of her slaves, whom she freed.
5: ...d his name to Banneker. Once he was old enough to help on his parents' farm, his formal education ende...
7: ...lf, and used the parts to make a striking clock. The clock continued to work, striking each hour, for ...
9: ...mpressed with his work and lent him books on [[mathematics]] and [[astronomy]]. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
30: *[[Arnold Henry Bergier]]
45: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]] (1475 - 1564)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-)
103: *[[Daniel Chester French]] (1850 - 1931) - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...[[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improvements to the [[glass harmonica]], and possibly [[bifocals]].
9: ...[[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife [[Mary Morrill]].
11: ...f whom being half-siblings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samu...
13: ..., [[1688]]), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth). - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language...
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]]... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] &nda...
41: *[[Svante Arrhenius]] ([[Sweden]], [[1859]] – [[1927]])
42: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]] – [...
64: *[[Benjamin Banneker]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1731]] – [[1806]])
68: *[[Wilhelm Beer]] ([[Germany]], [[1797]] – [[1850]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...opher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabeticall...
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}} - Martha Washington (3111 bytes)
3: ...led her duties as the official state hostess nonetheless.
5: ...nn Dandridge]], who had a bastard child by her nephew, Martha's son, John Parke Custis. According to F...
8: ...f $150,000 for the purchase of the property from the Lee Family.
10: In [[1902]] she was the first woman to be commemorated by a U.S. postal s...
22: <td width="40%" align="center">[[First Ladies of the United States]]</td> - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
7: * [[1710]]: [[Thermometer]]: [[Ren頁ntoine Ferchault de R页mur]]
9: ...: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
11: * [[1731]]: [[Sextant]]: [[John Hadley]]
28: ... [[1783]]: Hot air [[balloon]]: [[Montgolfier brothers]]
30: * [[1784]]: [[Shrapnel shell]]: [[Henry Shrapnel]] - Cricket (27178 bytes)
2: ...anguage|English]]-speaking [[Caribbean]] (called the West Indies).
4: ... to [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] outrage, especially the infamous [[Bodyline]] series played between [[Eng...
6: ...ople wearing black trousers on the far right are the [[umpire (cricket)|umpires]].]]
10: ...re more ''[[run (cricket)|runs]]'' (points) than the opposing team.
12: <!--Note that cricket ALWAYS uses the term "innings" and NEVER "inning" - see [[innings... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
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33: ...g|thumb|300px|The [[Neva]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
36: ...va at the east end of the [[Gulf of Finland]] on the [[Baltic Sea]].
38: ...rgest city, a major European cultural center and the most important Russian Baltic Sea port.
40: ...080;ца). <!-- translator paraphrasing here from de: --> - Temperature (22519 bytes)
1: ...s a measure of the average [[kinetic energy]] of the particles in a sample of matter.
4: ...ormal properties of temperature are studied in [[thermodynamics]].
6: ...dditional discussion of the various mechanisms of heat transfer).
8: ...increase in the rate of movement of the atoms in the system.
10: ...rties]], and depend on the amount of material in the system.
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