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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
85: | [[1772]] — [[1779]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Am...
67: *[[James Cook]], (1728-1779), explored the [[Pacific]], discovering or mappin...
77: ...ns|Russian]] explorer, first European who sailed through [[Bering Strait]]
105: *[[Louis de Freycinet]], (1779-1842), explored coastal regions of [[Western Aust...
214: *[[Zebulon Pike]], (1779-1813), explored [[Louisiana Purchase]], [[Pikes P... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...fled to a distant castle, and Catherine took the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely sup...
11: ...charter that: allowed the gentry to petition the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles from state s...
13: ...sant revolt in 1773 led by [[Yemelyan Pugachev]] threatened Eastern Russia. As a result, Catherine the...
17: ...luence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd statesman, Panin dedicated much effort and mil...
19: ...]]. Russia gained the largest part of [[Poland]] through repeated [[Partitions of Poland|partitions]] ... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
14: ...ts the possibility of teaching the blind to read through the sense of touch.
16: ...he prison of [[Vincennes]]. Here he remained for three months; then he was released, to enter upon the...
23: ...e publication of a translation into French of [[Ephraim Chambers]]'s ''[[Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dic...
27:
40: ... of Europe. Diderot helped Grimm between 1759 and 1779, by writing for him an account of the annual exhi... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
33: ...ro, and he commanded the First Virginia Regiment throughout the rest of war. In [[1758]], he was a par...
45: ...ersey]], who did not anticipate an attack near [[Christmas]]. Washington followed up the assault with ...
51: ...ckname "American [[Fabius Maximus|Fabius]]". In [[1779]], he ordered twenty percent of the army to carry...
75: ... a [[strep throat|streptococcal infection of the throat]] or, since he was bled as part of the treatme...
79: ...798 been appointed a ''Lieutenant General'' (now three stars), it seemed, somewhat incongruously, that... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
28: ...[[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through his work as a constitutional lawyer. Impetuou...
46: ...t Britain and again sent to Europe in September [[1779]]. The [[France|French]] government, however, did...
48: Throughout the negotiations Adams was especially dete...
111: * [[Bushrod Washington]] - [[1799]] - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
32: ...ce]] ([[1784]]-[[1789]]) he took extensive trips through [[France|French]] and other [[Europe]]an wine...
131: ...ellectual. He was singularly sweet-tempered, and shrank from the impassioned political bitterness that...
137: ...[[religion]], but to be understood, if possible, through [[reason]] and [[science]].
141: ...first submitted in [[1779]], and was one of only three accomplishments he put in his own epitaph. Virg...
143: ...rines to the standard of reason, justice & philanthropy, and to inculcate the belief of a future state... - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...d term by Horace-Bedict de Saussure in the year [[1779]]. An older meaning of the word was first used by...
12: The work on rocks ''Peri lithōn'' by [[Theophrastus]], a student of [[Aristotle]], remained auth...
26: ...tes that slow geological processes have occurred throughout the Earth's history and are still occurrin...
40: ...e whether the fault is a [[normal fault]] or a [[thrust fault]].
50: ...ocks. As organisms exist at the same time period throughout the world, their presence or (sometimes) a... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
11: ...monosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-...
13: ...ave them an appreciation that the Earth had been through many changes during its existence, however lo...
39: The breakthrough that would ultimately resolve the conflict to...
49: ...e age of the Earth. Radioactivity, which had overthrown the old calculations, yielded a bonus by provi...
63: ...ess in which radium emitted five alpha particles through various intermediate products to end up with ... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
59: ...as ceded to Britain. Restored to French rule in [[1779]], St. Vincent was regained by the British under ...
63: From 1763 until independence, St. Vincent passed through various stages of colonial status under the B...
65: ...r Windward Islands in order to govern the region through a unified administration. The most notable wa...
67: Natural disasters have plagued the country throughout the 20th century. In 1902, La Soufriere vo...
100: ...cess to [[Intelsat]] earth station in Martinique through Saint Lucia - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...Washington]], who had ordered on [[October 2]], [[1779]], that the uniform coats of the [[Continental Ar... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...d as the first Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1...
63: ...onstitution, the State Government is composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
67: ...inia]], and the state [[Attorney General]]. All three officers are separately elected to four-year te...
127: ...ton Roads]] area, tobacco and peanut farming all through [[Southside Virginia]], manufacturing and tra...
133: ...l limited access tollways, bridges, tunnels, and three [[bridge-tunnel]] complexes. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
124: * [[1657]]: [[Pendulum clock]]: [[Christiaan Huygens]]
128: ... [[Seed drill]]: [[Jethro Tull (agriculturist)|Jethro Tull]]
133: ...14]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
148: * [[1779]]: [[Spinning mule]]: [[Samuel Crompton]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
34: *[[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]] ([[1667]]-[[1719]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
167: *[[Aaron Bohrod]] ([[1907]]-[[1992]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
35: * In [[1779]], the Fourth falls on a Sunday. Starting a long ...
49: * The legality of state separation through a [[declaration of independence]]. - African Buffalo (2744 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] | date = [[1779]]}}
21: ...ick, or immature buffaloes. The [[Leopard]] is a threat only to newborn calves. Crossbreeding with do... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
47: *[[Paul Ehrlich]], (1854-1915), German chemist, winner of the...
85: * Sir [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] (1893-1970), English chemis... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
13: ...a dangerous journey of 120 miles to [[Montreal]] through [[Great Britain|British]] lines to notify Gen...
14: ...estored order. He resigned from the army in March 1779 on account of ill health, renewing his study of l...
18: ...While their younger daughter, Sarah, died at age three, their older daughter [[Theodosia Alston|Theodo...
30: ...[New York state legislature]], serving from 1798 through 1801. During [[John Adams]]' term, [[politic...
38: ...the election devolved to the point where it took three days and 36 ballots for Burr?s moderate Federal... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
6: ...Mansfield on [[February 22]], [[1767]]. They had three sons; Margaret died [[June 19]],[[1775]].
19: ...ll accounts) won it personally, leading a charge through the British line at the turning point of the ...
21: ...olution)|Loyalist]] sympathies. On [[April 9]], [[1779]] he married 18 year-old Peggy, by whom he would ...
25: ...martialed several times, notably on [[June 1]], [[1779]], because of disputes with civil authorities. He...
27: ...ed with British [[Major]] [[John Andr靝, likely through his wife, who had been courted by Andr頤urin... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
5: ...n [[Massachusetts]] rewrote its constitution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-...
17: ...s' followers were banned from elected office for three years and were not allowed to serve on juries o...
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