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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
103: *[[John Franklin]], (1786-1847), disappeared exploring [[Arctic]] [[Canada]...
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
189: *[[Joseph Nicollet]], (1786-1843), explorer of the Upper [[Mississippi River]... - 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... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
1: [[Image:Jane Austen (chopped) 2.jpg|thumb|Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn b...
2: [[Image:Jane Austen (House in Chawton).jpg|thumb|House of Jane Austen (today it is a museum)]]
5: ...in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladies boardin...
7: While her first novel, the posthumously published ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'', pokes f...
20: * ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'' (1818) posthumous - 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...
6: ... who wrote in the time of [[Ptolemy II]] Philadelphus. Manetho recorded that it was during the reign ... - 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: ...Congress's demand for [[beef]] cattle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Wa... - 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]... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
69: [[Image:KLCC_PetronasTowers.JPG|thumb|300px|Kuala Lumpur's landmark, the Petronas Twi...
80: ...lacca a colony in [[1511]] by military conquest, thus ending the [[Sultanate of Malacca]]. The first e...
82: ... Penang, and Malacca. Penang was established in [[1786]] by Captain [[Francis Light]] as a commercial ou...
86: ...der the rule of the Sultanate of Sulu, whilst the huge jungle territory of [[Sarawak]] was the persona...
106: [[Image:Malaysiaparliament.jpg|thumb|Parliament]] - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
43: ...y in Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fund...
52: ...st by [[New York State]], on the north by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The ...
56: ... Green]]. Near the green may stand a small white church, a town meeting hall, a tavern and several col...
63: [[Image:National-atlas-connecticut.png|right|thumb|300px|Connecticut]]
79: ...astline from [[New York City]] to [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], including [[commuter rail]] servic... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...rginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[Virginia Convent...
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]] - Comet (30542 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hale-Bopp-large.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a white dust...
9: ... The streams of dust and gas this releases form a huge but extremely tenuous atmosphere around the com...
11: ... known that their appearance have been noticed by humans for millennia. One very famous old recording...
13: [[image:Cometorbit.png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Not...
20: [[Image:Comet Kohoutek orbit p391.jpg|thumb|376px|right|Orbits of [[Comet Kohoutek]] and [[... - 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 ...
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...
48: *[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]]
49: *[[1786]] - [[Annapolis Convention]] fails - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
4: [[Image:National-atlas-1970-1820.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1820]]
24: [[Image:National-atlas-1970-1830.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1830]]
37: ... re-elected amid struggle with [[Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844)|Nicholas Biddle]] over the fate of the [[Se...
58: [[Image:National-atlas-1970-1840.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1840]]
74: *[[1847]] - [[Treaty of Cahuenga]] ended [[Mexican-American War]] hostilities ... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
29: ...ery of the terrible state of French finances in [[1786]] precipitated the Revolution crisis
112: ...ctory|Directory]] he sat in the [[Council of Five Hundred]] - 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... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and minera...
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
49: *[[Arthur Eichengr?(1867-1949)
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]].
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 ... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
1: [[Image:steamboat_lucerne_small.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Paddle steamers - [[Lake Lucerne|Lucerne]...
2: [[Image:paddle_wheel_small.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Left: original [[paddlewheel]] from a pad...
3: [[Image:PS Waverley leaving Dunoon 1989.jpg|thumb|right|240px|[[PS Waverley|PS ''Waverley'']] lea...
17: In [[1736]] Jonathan Hulls took out a patent in [[England]] for a [[Thoma...
21: ...sion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a succe... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786
29: *Nov. 6, 1786- Oct. 30, 1787
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