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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
85: | [[1772]] — [[1779]]
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
67: *[[James Cook]], (1728-1779), explored the [[Pacific]], discovering or mappin...
105: *[[Louis de Freycinet]], (1779-1842), explored coastal regions of [[Western Aust...
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 - 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...
23: ...he [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[1780]] she s...
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... - 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... - 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...
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...
43: ...t Britain|British]] forces out of [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] on [[March 17]], [[1776]] by statio... - 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 [... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...s the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the ...
29: [[Image:Jefferson1web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning...
32: ...e the many vine diseases native to the Americas. Thus, Jefferson himself was never able to produce win...
34: [[Image:TJeff.jpe|thumb|190px|left|Thomas Jefferson]]
56: [[Image:Jefferson memorial 1.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Jefferson Memorial]] in [[Washington, DC]... - 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...
10: ...hell]]s in a geological [[stratum]] in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that t...
16: ...olcanic]] origins of this part of France. [[James Hutton]] recorded his ''Theory of the Earth'' in the...
20: [[James Hutton]] is often viewed as the first modern geologi...
22: Followers of Hutton were known as ''[[Plutonism |Plutonists]]'' b... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...els vary between several millions up to about one hundred million years, the exact age of the Earth is...
6: ...mankind, or far into the future beyond the end of humankind. One who did was [[Aristotle]], who though...
9: ...separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thousands of years before.
11: ...monosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-...
27: ... themselves but were based on faulty assumptions. Huxley was correct, and in fact Thomson's estimates ... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
59: ...ed a revolt fomented by the French radical Victor Hugues. More than 5,000 black Caribs were eventually...
67: ...1999 also saw very active hurricane seasons, with hurricane Lenny in 1999 causing extensive damage to ...
85: [[Image:Vc-map.png|thumb|Map of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]
96: ...problem..[[Image:Port Elizabeth, Bequia.jpg|left|thumb|340px|Port Elizabeth, Bequia]]
97: [[Image:Mother & children, Bequia.jpg|thumb|340px|Mother & children, Bequia]] - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
1: [[Image:NewJersey_flag.jpg|thumb|right|Flag of New Jersey.Image provided by[http...
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...
79: *Secretary of Health and Human Resources
92: [[Image:National-atlas-virginia.PNG|left|thumb|Map of Virginia]]
107: [[Image:virginia topographic.jpg|thumb|500px|centre|Virginia - topographic map]]
167: *[[Falls Church, Virginia|Falls Church]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
27: * [[Wine]] in [[Jiahu|Jiahu,China]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
84: *[[Ludolf Bakhuysen]] ([[1631]]-[[1708]])
89: *[[Balthus]] ([[1908]]-[[2001]])
187: *[[Arthur Boyd]] ([[1920]]-[[1999]])
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
13: [[Image:Fourth july fireworks.jpg|thumb|These fireworks over the [[Washington Monument]...
35: * In [[1779]], the Fourth falls on a Sunday. Starting a long ...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]] to recognize... - African Buffalo (2744 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] | date = [[1779]]}}
22: [[Image:Nb_307_114.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomc...
23: [[Image:Nb_307_105.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomc... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and minera...
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
49: *[[Arthur Eichengr?(1867-1949) - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
1: [[Image:AaronBurr-flipped.jpg|thumb|Vice President Aaron Burr]]
13: [[Image:Aaron_burr.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
14: ...ce missions for Revolutionary generals such as Arthur St. Clair, and he rallied a group of [[Yale Univ...
20: ...n she realized her fortune was dwindling from her husband's land speculation, they separated after onl...
24: ...nder Hamilton's father-in-law, General [[Philip Schuyler]] -- for a seat in the [[United States Senate... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
1: [[Image:B_arnold.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Benedict Arnold. Image provided by ...
3: ...ich would have given the British control of the [[Hudson River]] and split the [[Thirteen Colonies|col...
9: ...]]. They appointed him a [[colonel]] in the Massachusetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirel...
10: ...ho did not care that Arnold had orders from Massachusetts. Arnold could not talk Allen out of relinqui...
12: ...ivered the letter announcing the victory to Massachusetts, doing his best to diminish Arnold's partici... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...llion''' was an armed uprising in [[Western Massachusetts]] that lasted from [[1786]] to [[1787]]. Ma...
3: [[Image:Shays_rebellion_9.jpg|thumb|250px|Shays Rebellion, Image provided by [http:...
5: ...stitution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-day [[Maine]] were unable to cont...
7: ...ted governor, many of the people in Western Massachusetts became restless.
9: ...ster, Massachusetts|Worcester]], [[Concord, Massachusetts|Concord]], and elsewhere. After the passage ...
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