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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
52: *[[Hussam Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornithologist]]
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
14: *[[Arthur Aikin|Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer - 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...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
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... - 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... - 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 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: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock: - 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]... - United States (58223 bytes)
57: [[Image:George-Washington.jpg|thumb|250px|left|First [[President of the United Stat...
58: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
73: [[Image:Uscapitolindaylight.jpg|thumb|350px|right|United States Capitol]]
74: ...nd relations between the states, and protecting [[human rights]]. In addition to these explicitly stat...
97: ... [[active duty]] [[personnel]] along with several hundred thousand each in the [[Reserves]] and [[Nati... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
33: ... multiplied its productive capacity. (Without it, humans might have continued to provide power.) It wa... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...net)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|thumb|right|250px|This picture of [[433 Eros]] shows ...
10: Thus, it would be safest to use the term "asteroid" f...
13: [[Image:4 Vesta (HST).png|thumb|right|[[4 Vesta]], one of the largest asteroids...
14: Hundreds of thousands of asteroids have been discove...
29: [[Image:253 Mathilde small.jpg|thumb|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]].]... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
35: *[[Hugo Borchardt]] (1844-1924) German–American i...
51: *[[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynch...
132: ...Kotelnikov]] - [[Russia]]n inventor of the [[parachute]].
178: ..., invented the Jolly Jumper baby harness with her husband, circa. [[1959]]
200: *[[George Stephenson]], (1781-1848), [[England]] — steam locomotive, civi... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: [[Image:map of territorial growth 1775.jpg|thumb|300px|Before the Revolution: The [[13 colonies]...
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
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 ... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
1: [[Image:Boston Massacre.jpg|thumb|"The Boston Massacre," an engraving by patriot ...
28: ** [[Massachusetts Government Act]] ([[May 20]]),
40: [[Image:Map of territorial growth 1775.jpg|right|thumb|The extent of America's territorial growth as o...
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]] - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ... group of militia at a bridge in [[Concord, Massachusetts|Concord]], and were turned back. Retreating...
13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
25: ...in the aftermath of armed clashes between [[Massachusetts]] militia and British Regular Army detachmen...
27: ...[cannon]] through the wilderness of western Massachusetts to the outskirts of Boston. The appearance ...
31: ...ritish Army, which was supposed to advance up the Hudson to meet Burgoyne, went, instead, to Philadelp... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
160: ...patterns were extremely bland and faint. Recent [[Hubble Space Telescope]] observations, however, show...
170: ...3]], [[1781]], but reported it on [[April 26]], [[1781]] as a "[[comet]]": ''Account of a Comet, By Mr. ... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
5: * [[1562]] - [[France]] recognized the [[Huguenot]]s under the [[Edict of St. Germain]].
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
22: ...h]] diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]] disappears in [[Hungary]] while in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] custody.
25: ...$2 million from an armored car in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
51: *[[1811]] - [[Joshua A. Norton]], Emperor of the United States and Pr... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
13: [[Image:Fourth july fireworks.jpg|thumb|These fireworks over the [[Washington Monument]...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]] to recognize... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...e [[absolute monarchy]] and the [[Roman Catholic Church]] was forced to undergo radical restructuring....
20: [[Image:Taking of the Bastille.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The storming of the Bastille, July 14 1789]]
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
44: Louis XVI shut the Salle des ɴats where the Assembly met. The ...
76: ...Republic|Third Republic]] on the [[separation of church and state]] on [[December 11]], [[1905]]. - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: [[Image:Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg|thumb|right|225px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a...
4: ...n American independence movement, the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish]] [[Constitution of May ...
6: ...and attacked the existing institutions of both [[Church]] and [[State]].
18: ... to some in the present-day, where belief is that human beings apprehend a truth that is more provisio...
20: ...d that the world was accessible to the faculty of human reason, and that the "laws" which governed its... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
51: ... and decided by state courts. Both court systems thus have exclusive jurisdiction in some areas and co...
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