Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- 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]] ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...n [[Vienna]] on [[2 November]] [[1755]]. She was christened Maria-Antonia-Josepha-Johanna. ''Maria'' w...
11: ...were soon married off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was married to the Regent of t...
39: ..."Qu'ils mangent de la brioche."'') However, this phrase was never uttered by Marie-Antoinette ? althou...
53: ...her twenty-first birthday, she participated in a three-day long gambling party, in which huge amounts ...
66: ...reds of courtiers. The queen actually passed out through a combination of embarrassment and pain. It w... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...s went to sea, eventually becoming admirals. In [[1783]], she was educated briefly by a relative in [[Ox...
12: ...t detail as to retain their individuality intact through their entire development, and they are uncolo...
23: She also wrote three shorter pieces:
32: *The Three Sisters - Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
13: ...amuel Cooper, Who Departed This Life December 29, 1783'' - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ... [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first [[President of the United ...
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: ...t tremendous odds, Washington sustained his army throughout the Revolution, keeping British forces tie...
53: ...r in [[1783]], by means of the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]], the [[Kingdom of Great Britai... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
29: ...Republican Party|Republicans]] were divided into three factions, followers respectively of [[George Cl...
41: ...nited States of America|vice-president]]; but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy whic...
49: ...gainst the appointment of [[Samuel Swartwout]] ([[1783]]-[[1856]]), who was later a defaulter to a large...
138: ...]| before=[[Nathaniel Pitcher]]| after=[[Enos T. Throop]]| years=1829}} - United States (58223 bytes)
36: ...]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[[September 3]], [[1783]]<br><br><br>
58: ...volutionary War|Revolutionary War]] (1775–[[1783]]). The original political structure was a [[conf...
62: ... and U.S. settlers acquired those emptied lands. Through coercion, military prowess, and diplomatic le...
70: ...le of a [[representative democracy]]. There are three levels of government in the United States&mdash...
74: ...tes|Supreme Court]] (the judicial branch). These three branches are said to supply [[checks and balanc... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
59: ... to the [[List_of_Portuguese_monarchs|Portuguese throne]], Antonio, Prior of Crato, sold exclusive tra...
61: ...the regions of the Senegal and Gambia Rivers. The 1783 Treaty of Versailles gave Great Britain possessio...
63: ...e operated. In 1807, slave trading was abolished throughout the British Empire, and the British tried ...
84: ...hed the [[Constitution Review Commission]] (CRC) through [[decree]] in March 1995. In accordance with ...
121: ...lims constitute more than 95% of the population. Christians of different denominations account for mos... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
59: ...e British under the [[Treaty of Versailles]] in [[1783]]. Conflict between the British and the black Car...
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 - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
41: ...me New Jersey) to two friends who had been loyal through the [[English Civil War]]: [[George Carteret|...
59: ...earned of the signing of the [[Treaty of Paris]] (1783) which ended the war.
88: New Jersey is broadly divided into three geographic regions: they are [[North Jersey]], ...
107: ... their existence and visibility to those passing through the state along some of its major highways do...
135: *Other Christian – 4% - 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]]
151: * [[1783]]: [[Multitubular boiler engine]]: [[John Stevens... - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
10: ...om north to south, as follows (the division into three regions is a later construct of historians):
50: * [[St. Christopher]], now [[Saint Kitts]]
75: ...a/namerica.htm British North American Colonies to 1783 - Military History & Institutions] - History of science (41710 bytes)
13: ...hn]], who argued that scientific knowledge moves through "[[paradigm shift]]s" and is not necessarily ...
29: ... astronomical information in a systematic manner through simple observation. Though they had no knowl...
40: ...ophic school of [[scholasticism]]. The rise of [[Christianity]] saw a strange paradox: classical Greek...
61: ...y observations. For example, an [[arrow]] flying through the air after leaving a bow contradicts with ...
65: ... made during this time by [[Galileo Galilei]], [[Christiaan Huygens]], [[Johannes Kepler]], and [[Blai... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
34: *[[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]] ([[1667]]-[[1719]])
83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
167: *[[Aaron Bohrod]] ([[1907]]-[[1992]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
263: *[[Anthony Christian]] ([[1945]]-) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...o the first time prehistoric man observed birds. Through all of recorded history aspects of this desir...
17: ...nt in his observation that powering the aircraft through the air was the crux of flying. Sufficiently...
19: ...wn human flight ever took place in [[Paris]] in [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois...
21: ...e]], with a steam engine mounted on a dirigible. Throughout the latter half of the 19th century and th...
29: ...at led to the first truly practical [[glider]]s. Three names in particular remain well known in the av... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ... [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) was one part of the revolution, but the revolu...
19: ...colonies. It was also the first event that swept through all the British colonies, from New England to...
23: ...l resentment of these new policies grew steadily throughout the decade, and had a significant impact o...
28: ...sion of these laws had long been tolerated. Now, through the use of open-ended search warrants ([[Writ...
80: ...ellion against tyranny); the delegation of power through written constitutions; and the notion that co... - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
3: ...ndence]]. The treaty with the United Kingdom in [[1783]] defined the original borders of the [[United St...
21: ... made up mainly of American settlers who had overthrown the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]]. - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
46: *[[1783]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1783)]] ends [[United States Revolutionary War]] - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
11: ... Great Britain, settled by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]], which endowed the nascent Uni...
27: ...onderoga, New York]] and to transport [[cannon]] through the wilderness of western Massachusetts to th...
35: ...h Great Britain was termed the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)]].
56: ...e [[Federalists]], and quickly gained supporters throughout the nation. The most well-known Federalist... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
48: ...e [[1838]], the city has also been noted for its thriving furniture industry.
60: ...in to the United States by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] that ended the [[American Revo...
82: ...s]] and [[1900s]] [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], [[Chrysler]] and [[General Motors]] were founded in sou...
140: ...mobile]] industry. However, it is also home to a thriving tourist industry, with destinations such as ...
146: ...Motors]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], [[Daimler-Chrysler]]), [[Amway]], [[Cereal]] ([[Kellogg's]]), [...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).