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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
39: | [[Florida]]
40: | [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]]
51: | [[Idaho]]
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
160: | [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] - 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]] - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...k the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[...
11: ...ich were more manageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the ge...
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. ...
21: ...atherine made Russia the dominant power in the [[Middle East]] after her [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-177... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
7: ...teen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures i...
9: ...d him what he would like as a reward, Mozart is said to have responded by saying he would like the han...
15: ...daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to ...
25: ...n their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the awkwardness betwe...
36: ...r knees in prayer, with Louis saying "Dear God, guide and protect us. We are too young to reign." Mari... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...el of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fi...
5: ...inchester]] to seek medical attendance, but so rapid was the progress of her malady that she died ther...
12: ...r novels features women, purportedly because she did not know how men spoke when not in the presence o...
17: * ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813)
39: Reference: David Cecil, ''A portrait of Jane Austen'' (1978) - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ...ll>[[Gregorian calendar|(N.S.)]]</small>) was President of the [[Continental Congress]], and the first...
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...
25: In the first month of his presidency, on [[June 19]], [[1775]], Hancock commission... - 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]])...
28: ...iod—as, for example, during his term as president. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
4: | order=Third President
16: | vicepresident=[[Aaron Burr]]; [[George Clinton (politician)|...
18: ...sh;[[1809]]) [[President of the United States|President]] of the [[United States]] and an American [[s...
20: ...s Jefferson dined alone." Achievements of his presidency include the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and the [[... - Geology (12007 bytes)
3: ...ed into [[tectonic plates]] that move over a [[rheid|rheic]] upper [[Mantle (geology)|mantle]] ([[asth...
20: ...often viewed as the first modern geologist. In [[1785]] he presented a paper entitled ''Theory of the E...
26: ... believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time.
36: ...geology. Many of these involve the ability to provide the relative ages of strata or the manner in whi...
46: ...on of modern marine and nonmarine sediments in a wide variety of environments supports this generaliza... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
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36: ...ly, as an extension of the [[Mid-Atlantic_States|Mid-Atlantic]]. Its official name is the '''Commonwe...
40: ...chary Taylor]] round out the list of American Presidents from the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Historica...
50: ...ng the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. When it did, some counties were separated as [[State of Kanaw...
57: ...stone was laid by Governor [[Patrick Henry]] in [[1785]]. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
54: ...d]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
70: ...Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
99: ...280s]]: [[Glasses|Eyeglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
68: *[[John James Audubon]] ([[1785]]-[[1851]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-)
144: *[[George Biddle]] ([[1885]]-[[1973]])
162: *[[David G. Blythe]] ([[1815]]-[[1865]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
30: *[[Tim Berners-Lee]] — [[World Wide Web]]
62: ...o DaVinci]], (1452-1519), [[Italy]] — [[euclidean geometry]]
68: *[[Karl Drais]], (1785-1851), [[Germany]] — [[bicycle]] ([[Draisin...
81: *[[James Fergason]] — [[liquid crystal display]]
95: ...], (1882-1945), [[United States|USA]] — liquid fuel rocket - 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)
47: *[[1785]] - [[Treaty of Hopewell]]
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...
77: *[http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=History/United_States/Civi... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
1: [[Image:AaronBurr-flipped.jpg|thumb|Vice President Aaron Burr]]
3: ...rd [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] under [[Thomas Jefferson]] as for his [[duel...
7: ... Rev. [[Aaron Burr, Sr.]], who was the second president of the [[College of New Jersey]], now [[Prince...
13: ...hard Montgomery]] of Arnold's arrival. Burr is said to have carried the fallen Montgomery for a short...
14: ... of ill health, renewing his study of law. Burr did perform occasional intelligence missions for Revo... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
22: ...g heated air rather than lighter-than-air gasses did not return until the [[1960s]], when [[Raven Indu... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ...at the same time. One of the first to propose the idea (around [[1690]]) was the physicist [[Denis Pap...
21: ...lliam Henry, had made a model paddle steamer in [[1785]], and subsequently developed propulsion by float...
27: In [[Scotland]] the ideas of the ''Charlotte Dundas'' were taken up by [...
32: Incidentally, the cartoon ''[[Steamboat Willie]]'' intr...
37: ...[[Loch Katrine]], while on Loch Lomond the [[PS Maid of the Loch]] is being restored. - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...]. [[Peyton Randolph]] served as the first [[President of the Continental Congress]].
8: ...ms, with the help of the Continental Congress?s guidance throughout the war, the colonists prevailed.
27: *Jan 11, 1785- Nov. 4, 1785 [[New York, New York]]
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786
36: *[[President of the Continental Congress]] - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
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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 ...
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