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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...veral powerful political groups which opposed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on cur...
16: ...Buberel Coronation coach Catherine the Great.jpg|thumb|250px|Catherine the Great's coronation coach is...
21: ...o-Turkish War]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] ([[1768]]-[[1774]]). She attempted to partition the Ottom...
25: ...the Russians, the Swedes were faced with mounting human and territory losses. After [[Denmark]] decla...
27: ...narchies. Catherine took advantage of [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] impotent government, before t... - Banksia (1867 bytes)
15: ...nks]], of the [[James Cook|Cook]] expedition in [[1768]]. They are native to [[Australia]], growing in ...
17: ...ften produce magnificent flower spikes containing hundreds of flowers. In the photos you can clearly s... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ... business, making him the wealthiest man in Massachusetts at the time.
13: ...f Representatives|representative]] to the [[Massachusetts General Court]], his colonial trade business...
15: ...ggling|smuggle]] glass, lead, paper and tea. In [[1768]], upon arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Li...
19: ...ver its Committee of Safety. Under Hancock, Massachusetts raised bands of "[[Minutemen (militia)|minut...
22: [[Image:Hancock-John-LOC.jpg|thumb|John Hancock]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna ...
24: ... of [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]...
26: ...[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [... - Nepal (22444 bytes)
14: ...360;ि<br />(transliteration: Ja'nani Jan'mabhumis'hcha Swar'gadapi Gariya'si)<br />[[Sanskrit]]:...
37: | [[1768]]
60: ...nasty that ruled until the [[18th century]]. In [[1768]], the Gorkha king, [[Prithvi Narayan Shah]], cap...
62: ...51]] and sponsored the Nepali Congress Party. Tribhuvan's son, King [[Mahendra]] dissolved the democra...
80: [[Image:Map_of_Nepal.png|right|thumb|350px|Map of Nepal]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
13: *[[Elihu Yale|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of New York (1823-18...
62: *[[Chuck Yeager|Yeager, Chuck]] (b. 1923), US pilot, broke [[sound barrier]]
69: *[[A. B. Yehoshua|Yehoshua, A. B.]], author of ''Mr. Mani''
86: *[[Yi Jachun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] office... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
84: *[[Ludolf Bakhuysen]] ([[1631]]-[[1708]])
89: *[[Balthus]] ([[1908]]-[[2001]])
187: *[[Arthur Boyd]] ([[1920]]-[[1999]])
230: *[[Canaletto]] ([[1697]]-[[1768]])
264: *[[Frederick Edwin Church]] ([[1826]]-[[1900]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: [[Image:map of territorial growth 1775.jpg|thumb|300px|Before the Revolution: The [[13 colonies]...
16: ...ere a source for ideas regarding [[separation of church and state]] and other liberties.
19: ...alled into question the wisdom of an established church. The revival placed emphasis on individual con...
28: ...forcement became the practice. In [[1761]], Massachusetts lawyer [[James Otis]] argued that the writs ...
36: [[Image:Boston Massacre.jpg|300px|right|thumb|This exaggerated depiction of the "[[Boston Mas... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
160: ...patterns were extremely bland and faint. Recent [[Hubble Space Telescope]] observations, however, show...
168: ...]] observed it four times in [[1750]], twice in [[1768]], six times in [[1769]], and one last time in [[... - History of California (38344 bytes)
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California ...
10: [[Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
13: ...s now California. Among the tribes were the ''[[Chumash]]'', ''[[Maidu]]'', ''[[Miwok]]'', ''[[Modoc]...
19: ..., Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a wonderful country far to the...
47: [[Image:Island of California.jpg|thumb|300px|left|"California" shown as an island on t... - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
1: ...rty''' was a political protest by [[Boston, Massachusetts]] residents against the [[Kingdom of Great B...
2: [[Image:Boston tea party.jpg|thumb|Destruction of tea at the "Boston Tea party".]]
3: ...indischen Thee ins Meer am 18. December 1773.jpg|thumb|Engraving shows citizens of Boston, disguised a...
5: ...arges were dropped, though he later faced several hundred more indictments.
7: ...olonies. By [[1773]] the Company had large debts, huge stocks of tea in its warehouses, and no prospec... - Venice (22017 bytes)
1: [[Image:Venice_italy_2.jpg|thumb]]
9: [[Image:VEN74_1625W.jpg|thumb|]]
11: [[Image:VEN74_1627LW.jpg|thumb]]
14: ...s, but the social order was entirely [[feudal]]. Church and various private properties were tied to mi...
15: [[Image:VEN74_1631W.jpg|thumb]] - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: [[Image:captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explorer James Cook, portrait by ...
10: [[Image:Nfld chartofcook.jpg|thumb|200px|James Cook's 1775 Chart of Newfoundland]]
14: Cook's huge achievements can be attributed to a combination...
16: ==First voyage ([[1768]]-[[1771]])==
18: ...nsit of Venus]] across the [[Sun]]. Leaving in [[1768]], he arrived on [[April 13]], [[1769]] in [[Tahi... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
7: *[[1800]] - With the church leadership driven out of the [[Vatican]] durin...
29: ...anada|Canadian]] [[paraplegic]] [[athlete]] and [[humanitarian]] [[Rick Hansen]] begins his [[circumna...
40: *[[1768]] - [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier]], [[France|Fr...
53: *[[1921]] - [[Arthur Grumiaux]], Belgian violinist (d. [[1986]])
105: * 2001 - [[Chung Ju-young]], Korean industrialist (b. [[1915]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
95: *[[Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai]] (Hungary, [[1775]] - [[1856]])
96: *[[Jᮯs Bolyai]] (Hungary, [[1802]] - [[1860]])
108: *[[Raoul Bott]] (Hungary, [[1923]]-) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
3: ...uincys, a family of great prestige in the [[Massachusetts]] colony; her father and other forebearers w...
21: <td>[[Weymouth, Massachusetts|Weymouth]], [[Massachusetts]]</td>
29: <td>[[Quincy, Massachusetts|Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]</td>
48: ...bered today for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he served his country in [[Philadelphi...
56: ...nited First Parish Church] (also known as the <i>Church of the Presidents</i>) . - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
32: *[[Andronicus of Cyrrhus]]
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[2...
46: *[[Arthur Auwers]] ([[Germany]], [[1838]] – [[1915]]...
115: *[[C鳡r-Fran篩s Cassini de Thury]] ([[France]], [[1714]] – [[1784]])
138: *[[Arthur Edwin Covington]] ([[Canada]], [[1914]] – ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
31: *[[Rodolphus Agricola]], (1443-1485){{fn|R}}
59: *[[Louis Althusser]], (1918-1990){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
70: *[[Anaxarchus]], (fl. 340 BC){{fn|R}}
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
144: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (1915-1975) - Great Barrier Reef (3888 bytes)
1: [[Image:GreatBarrierReef-EO.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Satellite image of a part of the Gr...
5: ...rier Reef was [[Captain James Cook]] during his [[1768]] voyage. Cook discovered the reef by running agr...
14: ... during tropical flood events caused by cyclones (hurricanes), and no major towns, the largest being l... - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
3: ...pany]]. In [[1768]] he examined portions of the [[Hudson Bay]] coasts with a view to improving the cod...
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