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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Am...
77: ...ns|Russian]] explorer, first European who sailed through [[Bering Strait]]
103: *[[John Franklin]], (1786-1847), disappeared exploring [[Arctic]] [[Canada]...
189: *[[Joseph Nicollet]], (1786-1843), explorer of the Upper [[Mississippi River]...
230: *[[John Rae]], (1813-1893), travelled widely through the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] - 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: ...in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladies boardin...
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 - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
4: ...welfth Dynasty]] came to an end around [[1780s BC|1786 BC]], and was succeeded by the much weaker [[Thir... - 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: ...t tremendous odds, Washington sustained his army throughout the Revolution, keeping British forces tie...
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 Hancock (8787 bytes)
36: ..., from [[November 23]], [[1785]] to [[June 6]], [[1786]]. He was preceded in that position by [[Richard...
57: ...s=[[November 23]], [[1785]] – [[May 29]], [[1786]]}} - 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... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
80: ...still exists now. After the fall of [[Malacca]], three nations struggled for the control of the [[Mala...
82: ... Penang, and Malacca. Penang was established in [[1786]] by Captain [[Francis Light]] as a commercial ou...
90: ...ysia''' was formed on [[September 16]], [[1963]] through a merging of the Federation of Malaya and the...
149: ...own, Penang|George Town]], [[Ipoh]] and [[Johor Bahru]]. See also [[List of cities in Malaysia]].
154: ...income country, transformed itself from [[1971]] through the late [[1990s]] from a producer of raw mat... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
49: ...l]] (Republican) and the two U.S. senators are [[Christopher J. Dodd]] (Democrat) and [[Joseph I. Lieb...
54: The Connecticut River cuts through the center of the state, flowing into Long Is...
89: ...America, Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven are three of the ten cities with the lowest per capita in...
97: ...pment changed "made in the United States" from a phrase connoting shoddy workmanship and expensive mai...
101: ...by the [[Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company]]. [[Christopher Spencer]] designed the [[Spencer repeatin... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...rginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[Virginia Convent...
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. - Comet (30542 bytes)
11: ...e visible from the [[Earth]] when a comet passes through the inner solar system, the dust reflecting s...
17: ...the solar wind: when highly charged [[ions]] fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with come...
21: ... to other [[star]]s as the Sun follows its orbit through the [[Milky Way]] [[Galaxy]]; the Sun's hypot...
31: ...his remains today. A comet is named after up to three independent discoverers. In recent years, many ...
33: ...very in 1969). Once the comet had been observed through perihelion and its orbit had been established... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
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...
76: *[[Shays' Rebellion]] - 1786
80: ...ellion against tyranny); the delegation of power through written constitutions; and the notion that co... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
48: *[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]]
49: *[[1786]] - [[Annapolis Convention]] fails - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
37: ... re-elected amid struggle with [[Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844)|Nicholas Biddle]] over the fate of the [[Se... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
6: ...ne|Charles Pierre François Augereau]] - officer throughout the Revolutionary era and [[First French E...
29: ...ery of the terrible state of French finances in [[1786]] precipitated the Revolution crisis
30: ...an Jacques Régis de Cambacérès]] - a moderate throughout the Revolutionary era, [[French Consulate|...
56: ...Elliott]] - Scottish courtesan resident in Paris through the revolution who published an account of he...
73: *[[François Christophe Kellermann]] - longtime officer, became ge... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
14: ... became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
20: ...lief in a comprehensible world, under an orderly Christian God, provided much of the impetus for philo...
43: ...s of the Enlightenment, credible reports, viewed through the lens of reason annealed knowledge, empiri...
47: ...al discipline began with the work of [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]] and [[Johann Gottfried Herder]]. Bot...
57: ... end the [[Roman Catholic Church]], and indeed [[Christianity]] in France, in addition to changing the... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
47: *[[Paul Ehrlich]], (1854-1915), German chemist, winner of the...
85: * Sir [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] (1893-1970), English chemis...
166: *[[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]], (1742-1786), Swedish [[18th century]] chemist, discovered nu... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...urdens. The rebellion started on [[August 29]], [[1786]].
9: ...om [[debtor's prison]]s. In the late summer of [[1786]] the conflict escalated when armed Regulators sh...
17: ...s' followers were banned from elected office for three years and were not allowed to serve on juries o... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ... is unclear. River boatmen took exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up.
21: ...sion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a succe... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...s]]. The First Continental Congress was planned through the permanent [[committees of correspondence]...
8: ... the help of the Continental Congress?s guidance throughout the war, the colonists prevailed.
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786
29: *Nov. 6, 1786- Oct. 30, 1787
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