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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explore...
75: *[[Alexandra David-Néel]], (1868-1969), French explorer, visited [[...
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
104: ...s Republican Party|Republican]] nominee for [[President of the United States]]
129: ...[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
45: *[[Rudolph Ackermann|Ackermann, Rudolph]] (1764-1834) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...k the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[...
13: ... law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class.
17: ...ita Ivanovich Panin|Nikita Panin]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. ...
19: In [[1764]] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stan...
21: ...atherine made Russia the dominant power in the [[Middle East]] after her [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-177... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ...ll>[[Gregorian calendar|(N.S.)]]</small>) was President of the [[Continental Congress]], and the first...
8: ...n, he worked for his uncle. From [[1760]]–[[1764]], Hancock lived in England while building relati...
15: ...ng some infuriated Bostonians, depending as they did on the supplies on board.
19: ...he Provisional Congress of Massachusetts, and presided over its Committee of Safety. Under Hancock, Ma...
23: ...the [[Continental Congress]], succeeding [[Henry Middleton]]. He would serve until [[October 30]], [[1... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Adams
4: | order=2nd President
16: | vicepresident=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
18: ...His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]])...
26: In [[1764]] Adams married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]&... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
4: ...ogether and interlocked. This interlocked form is ideal for [[spinning]] into a fine [[yarn]].
9: ... 7,000 years ago. There is clear archaeological evidence that people in South America and India domest...
17: ..., when the invention of the [[Spinning Jenny]] ([[1764]]) and Arkwright's [[spinning frame]] ([[1769]]) ...
28: ...n chemicals such as [[fertilizer]]s and [[insecticide]]s, although some farmers are moving towards an ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
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44: ...h, from east to west, is 89 miles (the narrowest width is at 37 miles). The state's geographic center ...
72: ...s's claims in Vermont and New Hampshire were invalid and fixed Massachusetts's northern boundary at it...
74: ...f 135 [[land grant]]s made between [[1749]] and [[1764]] by New Hampshire's colonial governor, [[Benning...
78: ...nited States|slavery]], [[suffrage]] for men who did not own land, and public schools. The tavern has ... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
2: ...i-spool [[spinning wheel]]. It was invented circa 1764 by [[James Hargreaves]] in Stanhill, near Blackbu...
6: ...p with demand, and Hargreaves spent some time considering how to improve the process. The most common ...
8: Whatever the inspiration, the basic idea was developed as a machine with eight spindles ... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ...s known in some eastern traditions such as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Curse...
6: ...Alexander died, probably of [[malaria]] or [[typhoid]]. His conquests ushered in centuries of Greco-M...
9: ...ympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the compa...
16: ...marched south with his armies in a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Emp...
23: ...e most vivid story, Alexander proclaimed that it did not matter how the knot was undone, and hacked it... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-)
144: *[[George Biddle]] ([[1885]]-[[1973]])
162: *[[David G. Blythe]] ([[1815]]-[[1865]])
170: *[[David Bomberg]] ([[1890]]-[[1957]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...can Revolution''' refers to the series of events, ideas, and changes that resulted in the political se...
4: ...Revolution was not revolutionary at all, that it did not radically transform colonial society, but sim...
10: ...ern frontier. Most white colonists in America considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crow...
16: ...this European Enlightenment and were a source for ideas regarding [[separation of church and state]] a...
19: ...ished church. The revival placed emphasis on individual conscience and experience as the source of val... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
10: *[[1764]] - [[Currency Act]], passed by [[Parliament]]
11: *[[1764]] - [[Revenue Act of 1764|Revenue Act]] is passed to enforce the [[Sugar Ac...
55: *[[1789]] - [[George Washington]] becomes President
75: *[http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=History/United_States Hist...
76: *[http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=History/United_States/Amer... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...lled the "[[Dark Ages]]"). This movement also provided a framework for the [[American Revolution|Ameri...
8: ... rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]...
14: ... the universe where God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton...
16: ...natural philosophy]] of [[Sir Isaac Newton]]. The ideas of Newton, which combined the mathematics of [...
18: ...s merely the most visible and famous example. The idea of uniform laws for natural phenomena mirrored ... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: ...jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
30: [[Image:B_franklin_4.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
32: ===Middle years===
36: ...18 years. This lucrative business arrangement provided leisure time for study, and in a few years he h...
38: ...d]]. If Franklin did perform this experiment, he did not do it in the way that is often described (as ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
124: *[[William Burnside]] (UK, [[1852]]-[[1927]])
187: *[[David van Dantzig]] (Netherlands, [[1900]] - [[1959]])
192: *[[Ingrid Daubechies]] ([[1954]] - ) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: ... was the wife of [[John Adams]], the second [[President of the United States]], and is seen as the sec...
3: ...Abigail lacked formal education. On her mother's side she was descended from the Quincys, a family of ...
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48: ...l Congress "remember the ladies" -- that they consider the needs and rights of women as well as of men...
52: As wife of the first [[Vice President of the United States]], Abigail became a good ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892...
59: *[[John Bainbridge]] ([[Britain]], [[1582]] – [[1643]])
77: ...athaniel Bliss]] ([[Britain]], [[1700]] – [[1764]])
102: *[[Margaret Burbidge]] ([[Britain]], [[1919]] – )
194: *[[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]] ([[Cnidus]], circa [[408 BC]] – circa [[347 BC]]) - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...ils are arranged in a [[train]] (a series of individual powered or unpowered vehicles linked together)...
8: ...nd transport known. The [[Rail tracks|rails]] provide very smooth and hard surfaces on which the [[whe...
15: ...xe]]). Conversely, US freight railways have consolidated and become more efficient in their progress t...
17: ...tracks as they run through cities and the countryside is impractical.
22: ...ary elements, and should be viewed from a system-wide perspective when planning, constructing and main... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
95: *[[Aristides (Apologist)|Aristides]], (fl. 2nd century)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{f...
154: *[[Basilides]], (c. 117-138){{fn|C}} - Polonium (10219 bytes)
17: ...series|Series]] </td><td>[[Metalloid]]s</td></tr>
39: <td>[[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) </td><td>'''4''', 2 ([[amphot...
44: ... of matter]] </td><td>Solid ([[magnetism|nonmagnetic]])</td></tr>
48: ...] </td><td>1235 K (1764 ?F)</td></tr>
68: ... </td><td>20 [[watt per metre-kelvin|W/(m·K)]]</td></tr>
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