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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
101: *[[Matthew Flinders]], (1774-1814), first to circumnavigate [[Australia]] and ...
140: ...p it to [[Albany, New York|Albany]], discovered [[Hudson Bay]]
141: *[[Alexander von Humboldt]], (1769-1859), German naturalist, explored...
142: *[[Hamilton Hume]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
166: *[[Meriwether Lewis]], (1774-1809), leader of the first American expedition to... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
26: ...Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
29: *[[Arthur Adamov|Adamov, Arthur]], (1908-1997), dramatist, author
65: ...(1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
111: *[[Gustavus Adolphus|Adolphus, Gustavus]], (1594-1632), King of Sweden
112: ... of Cambridge|Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge]], (1774-1850) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...veral powerful political groups which opposed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on cur...
9: ...lyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1774]].
16: ...Buberel Coronation coach Catherine the Great.jpg|thumb|250px|Catherine the Great's coronation coach is...
21: ... War]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] ([[1768]]-[[1774]]). She attempted to partition the Ottoman Empire...
25: ...the Russians, the Swedes were faced with mounting human and territory losses. After [[Denmark]] decla... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel...
12: ...losophy which professes to be so high above both church and world.
25: His enthusiasm infected the publishers; they collected a su...
31: ...task to an end as he best could. He wrote several hundred articles, some of them very slight, but many...
34: [[Image:Greuze, Portrait of Diderot.jpg|thumb|200px|Portrait by [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], 176... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon sho...
7: [[Image:MariaTheresa.JPG|thumb|right|Marie-Antoinette's mother, the Empress Ma...
21: ...ouis_xvi.jpg|right|thumb|260px|Marie-Antoinette's husband, Louis-Auguste (the future [[Louis XVI]]). A...
22: ...the other members of the royal family. Her future husband, the Dauphin [[Louis XVI|Louis-Auguste]] was...
24: ...Marie-Antoinette wearing a magnificent dress with huge white hoops covered in diamonds and pearls. The... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: [[Image:Seal_us_presdent.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]...
21: ...lfilled this duty in emergencies. See [[Sarah T. Hughes]].
27: [[Image:George-Washington.jpg|200px|right|thumb|'''[[George Washington]]''', 1st President (178...
51: ...dependence|Declaration of Independence]] and was thus arguably the first president who was not born a ...
136: ...ublican Party (United States)|Republican]] || [[Schuyler Colfax]] and [[Henry Wilson]]{{ref 5}} - George Washington (29551 bytes)
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg|thumb
29: [[Image:Washington 1772.JPG|thumb|right|275px|This, the earliest portrait of Wash...
37: By [[1774]], Washington had become one of the colonies' wea...
40: [[Image:Washington Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|left|350px|''[[Washington Crossing the Delaware...
41: ...ntal Army]] on [[June 15]], [[1775]]. The [[Massachusetts]] delegate [[John Adams]] suggested his appo... - 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...
19: ...ver its Committee of Safety. Under Hancock, Massachusetts raised bands of "[[Minutemen (militia)|minut...
22: [[Image:Hancock-John-LOC.jpg|thumb|John Hancock]]
27: ...Congress's demand for [[beef]] cattle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Wa... - 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 [... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ...rginia. His parents Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]]) were w... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
53: ... trading posts along the east coast. From about [[1774]] to [[1824]], it was a favorite haunt for [[pira...
76: ...d by the [[FFKM]] (Malagasy Christian Council of Churches) drafted a new Constitution. Troops guarding...
156: [[Image:Ma-map.png|thumb|Map of Madagascar. ''Nosy'' means ''island'' in...
207: ... that should be abandoned. Many of the Christian churches are influential in politics. In the coastal ...
218: ...rnal and Paternal Lineages. ''American Journal of Human Genetics, 76:894-901, 2005.'' - James Watt (5070 bytes)
14: * [[1774]]: Started a business in [[Soho, Birmingham|Soho]...
33: ... multiplied its productive capacity. (Without it, humans might have continued to provide power.) It wa...
57: ..., ''James Watt, Vol 1, His time in Scotland, 1736-1774'' (2002), 480pp, many illus., Landmark Publishing... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ... Champlain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the eas...
57: ...[[Mount Ellen]], [[Mount Abraham]], and [[Camel's Hump]]. The lowest point in the state is [[Lake Cham...
58: ...ribes out of Vermont, later using the area as a [[hunting]] ground and warring with the remaining Aben...
62: ...rmont and the site of the first [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]].
68: ... settlements were made by the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]] to protect its settlers on the western... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
84: *[[Ludolf Bakhuysen]] ([[1631]]-[[1708]])
89: *[[Balthus]] ([[1908]]-[[2001]])
187: *[[Arthur Boyd]] ([[1920]]-[[1999]])
264: *[[Frederick Edwin Church]] ([[1826]]-[[1900]])
435: *[[Caspar David Friedrich]] ([[1774]]-[[1840]]) - 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... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
1: [[Image:Boston Massacre.jpg|thumb|"The Boston Massacre," an engraving by patriot ...
23: *[[1774]] - First [[Continental Congress]]
24: *[[1774]] - [[Dunmore's War]]
25: *[[1774]] - British pass [[Intolerable Acts]], including:
28: ** [[Massachusetts Government Act]] ([[May 20]]), - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
12: ...r = [[Constantine John Phipps|Phipps]] | date = [[1774]]}}
17: [[Image:Polar_bear2.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Polar Bear photo courtesy of [http:/...
18: ...t is unpigmented and hollow, like white hair in [[human]]s. Neither does the hair have [[Optical fiber...
22: ...], which is stored in its [[liver]]: in the past, humans have been poisoned by eating liver of polar b...
24: ...05. The decrease in several regions was caused by hunting, not by climate change [http://thescotsman.s... - 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... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...ann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Pete...
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...sed officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Siricius]], and the...
6: ...One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (reli...
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
1: [[Image:Michel-eyquem-de-montaigne 1.jpg|thumb|right|Michel de Montaigne]]
2: ... He was a [[Skepticism|skeptic]] and a [[Humanism|humanist]].
8: ... Parlement, he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de la Boétie...
12: ...nd Sebond]]'s ''Theologia naturalis'', then a posthumous edition of Boétie's works. In 1571 he ...
14: [[Image:Michel_de_Montaigne 1.jpg|left|thumb|Michel de Montaigne]]
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