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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: Ad (7741 bytes)
26: ...us|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
41: ...35-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
43: ... Charles Francis]] (born 1910), son of above, president of [[Raytheon]]
44: ..., (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
54: ...John Adams|Adams, John]], (1735-1826), second President of the United States - 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. ...
21: ...atherine made Russia the dominant power in the [[Middle East]] after her [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-177...
25: From 1788 to 1790 Russia was engaged in a [[Gustav III's Ru... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
5: | order=1st President
17: | vicepresident=[[John Adams]]
19: ...[1789]]–[[1797|97]]). He also served as President of the [[1787]] [[History of the United States...
31: ...n|Jumonville affair]]" became an international incident, and helped to ignite the [[French and Indian ... - Geology (12007 bytes)
3: ...ed into [[tectonic plates]] that move over a [[rheid|rheic]] upper [[Mantle (geology)|mantle]] ([[asth...
16: ...n]] recorded his ''Theory of the Earth'' in the [[1788]] Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,...
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... - Australia (39438 bytes)
48: ... settled as a British colony on [[January 26]], [[1788]]. As the population grew and new areas were expl...
56: ...used the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency. Gover...
63: ...[[Australian Aborigine]]s, and arrived via land bridges and navigation of short sea crossings from pre...
65: ... and claimed for [[Britain]]. His discoveries provided impetus for the establishment of a [[penal colo...
67: ...y were never penal colonies, although the former did receive some convicts from Tasmania. Western Aust... - United States (58223 bytes)
15: ...br>[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] |
16: leader_names = [[Joe Biden]]<br>[[Kamala Harris]] |
37: [[September 17]], [[1787]]<br>[[May 23]], [[1788]]<br>[[March 4]], [[1789]]|
52: ...n" (became part of the United States). Since the mid-[[20th century]], the United States has become a ...
57: ...eorge-Washington.jpg|thumb|250px|left|First [[President of the United States]], [[George Washington]]]... - Marshall Islands (8760 bytes)
2: ... 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
7: | align="center" width="140px" colspan="2" | [[Image:Wikipedia flag re...
10: | align="center" width="140px" colspan="2" | ([[Flag of the Marshall I...
23: | '''President'''
53: ...[England|English]] captain [[John Marshall]] in [[1788]]; the islands owe their name to him. - James Watt (5070 bytes)
11: ...asgow Green]]'s ''"Golf Course"'', comes upon the idea of a separate condensing chamber for the steam ...
18: * [[1788]]: Adapted [[centrifugal governor]] for use on st...
26: ...n Hornblower]] who tried to develop engines that did not fall foul of his 'catch-all' patents. Boulton...
33: .... (Without it, humans might have continued to provide power.) It was also essential in later [[transpo...
38: ...[[Lunar Society Moonstones|Moonstones]], two individual statues, and a [[Boulton, Watt and Murdoch|sta... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Bridgeport, Connecticut|Bridgeport]] |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 9]], [[1788]] |
28: Width = 113 |
43: ...n [[Algonquin]] Indian word meaning "on the long tidal river". Connecticut is one of the original 13 s...
47: ... also 9 incorporated boroughs, eight of which provide additional services to a section of town. One, ... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 2]], [[1788]] |
28: Width = 370 |
36: ...[United States Constitution]] on [[January 2]], [[1788]]. Georgia's population in [[As of 2000|2000]] w...
50: ...t the Spanish moving north from their base in Florida. In [[1724]], it was first suggested that what w...
52: ...wn as [[Georgia Day]], which is not a [[public holiday]], but is mainly observed in [[school]]s and by... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[April 28]], [[1788]] |
28: Width = 145 |
36: ...he [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] or [[Mid-Atlantic States]]). Its U.S. postal abbreviation ...
47: ..., and were given land for a settlement called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans...
51: In 1708 the seat of government was moved to Providence, renamed Annapolis in honor of [[Anne of Grea... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 25]], [[1788]] |
28: Width = 320 |
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... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
28: Width = 195 |
41: ...ibly [[Creek (people)|Creek]] word. It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river", or "riv...
43: ... third county to be established in what is now [[Middle Tennessee]] "Tennessee County". When a [[const...
50: ...nfederate state to secede from the Union when it did so on [[June 8]], [[1861]]. After the [[American ...
52: ...Lincoln's vice president and succeeded him as president, due to the assassination. - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[May 23]], [[1788]] |
28: Width = 320 |
44: ...he newly-elected President [[Abraham Lincoln]] decide the matter. On April 12, 1861, Confederate batte...
54: ...teen judicial circuits, each with at least one resident circuit judge.
56: ... panels with three judges each. The Court may preside in any state county. - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 21]], [[1788]] |
28: Width = 110 |
36: ... presidential primary|primary]] in the [[U.S. presidential election]]s, and has probably the most famo...
40: ...unt Washington]] weather observatory in the [[Presidential Range]].
51: ...ticipating in the [[Underground Railroad]] in providing safe routes into Canada, primarily via the [[C... - Anacharsis (4399 bytes)
6: ...the [[Cimmerian Bosporus]]. He cultivated the outsider's knack of seeing the illogic in familiar thing...
8: ...stepped significantly across the threshold, and said that, now that he was in Solon's country, it woul...
10: ...e Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.
12: ...s has been lost. It was he who compared laws to spiders' webs, which catch small flies and allow wasps...
20: When he did return to the Scythians, he was killed, Herodotus... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...e evaluation of [[knowledge]]. This change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are...
11: ...emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ... some fields of [[study]] which are no longer considered scientific). An account of the development o...
27: ...ommunicated across generations with much greater fidelity. Combined with the [[Origins of agriculture|...
31: ...my]] was practiced in several civilizations. Considerable observation of macrobiotic flora and fauna ... - 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]]) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
16: ...]]-[[1641]]), [[Thomas Gainsborough]] ([[1727]]-[[1788]]), and [[John Constable]] ([[1776]]-[[1837]]).
21: ...den.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Francis Picabia]], ''Ridens'', (c. 1929), gouache and watercolor on cardbo...
31: ... areas within the painting. This transparency provides watercolor its characteristics of brightness, '...
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