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- James Madison (15187 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
18: ...omething|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]]''.
20: ==Biography==
21: ...territories (consisting of most of modern-day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Tennessee]]) to the [[Conti...
23: ...cates of state representation depending on population. - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
22: ...ollege of William and Mary]], fought with distinction in the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law i...
24: ...with [[Robert R. Livingston]] and under the direction of President [[Thomas Jefferson]], he helped neg...
28: ...president, was almost uncontested in his two elections.
34: ...9]] when their application for admission to the Union as a [[slave state]] failed. An amended bill for... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
20: ==Biography==
22: ...y, Massachusetts]]), and acquired his early education in [[Europe]] at the [[University of Leiden]]. H...
24: ...rchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having a foreign-born wife, Adams wed Lou...
26: ...802]], and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the [[United States House of Representatives|... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
4: ==Biography==
8: ==Invention and innovation==
14: ...ing area; some historians believe that this invention allowed for the African [[slavery]] system in th...
18: ...vention of the cotton gin, or at least its conception. It is known that she associated with Eli Whitn...
20: ===Other innovations=== - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ...[[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...6]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ...[[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
31: *[[Aetion]] ([[4th century BC]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Flag (13245 bytes)
3: ...poses, though at this less formal end the distinction between a flag and a simple cloth banner is blur...
13: ...in various systems of flag signals (see [[International maritime signal flags]]).
15: ...ields, and have been used only at ceremonial occasions ever since.
17: ==National flags==
20: ...spirational to other nations, countries, or subnational entities in the design of their own flags. So... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...entions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
23: ...ird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]]
25: ...[Trevor Baylis]], (1937- ) — [[clockwork radio]]
33: *[[Theobald Boehm]], ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), [[Germany]] — inventor of the ...
56: ...ullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] con...
13: ...[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution|11th Amendment]]
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]]
18: ...[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution|11th Amendment]] - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
1: {{French_Revolution}}
2: ...the ideas of [[the Enlightenment]]. As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarch...
7: ...ad assisted them resulted in the spread of revolutionary ideals to the French. Many in France attacked...
9: ...he bourgeoisie, as they did in France in 1793 and 1794, <nowiki>[</nowiki>that is to say, during the [[R...
15: ...f the French government. On the eve of the revolution, France was deeply indebted, so deeply as to be ... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
1: {{French Revolution}}
2: ... in the popular imagination. It downplays the previous trend of absolutism and people as subjects and ...
6: ''See main article [[Causes of the French Revolution]].''
8: ...the ideas of [[the Enlightenment]]. As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarch...
10: Certainly, causes of the revolution must include all of the following: - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
1: {{French_Revolution}}
2: ...ities is in the article on the individual in question.''
6: ...nçois Augereau]] - officer throughout the Revolutionary era and [[First French Empire|Empire]], gener...
12: ...|constitutional monarchist]] / [[Feuillant]] (faction)
23: ...yal Council of Finances shortly before the Revolution - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...ulting in the [[Bourbon Dynasty, Restored|restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France]].
5: ...f Paris]]. Collectively, the nearly continuous period of warfare from [[April 20]], [[1792]], until [[...
12: ...l economy made it the most powerful commercial nation as well.
13: ...of the reforms induced by the occupation. Institutional legacies have remained: for instance, many Eur...
14: ...s the force that spelled the beginning of some nations, and the end of others. The map of Europe was t... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...od in the arts, and receives contemporary application in the unity of science movement which includes ...
6: ...au]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of both [[Church]] and [[State]].
8: ...ciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]].
10: ...n]] preceded it (if it is thought of as a long period). Furthermore, [[Romanticism]] followed the Enli...
12: ...eptable to think of them conjoined as one long period. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
31: ...ka-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
37: ...mist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
42: ...mist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
47: ...mist, winner of the [[1908]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
75: *[[John Haldane]], British biochemist - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...es Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
5: ==Introduction==
8: ... to study [[algebra]], [[trigonometry]], [[navigation]], and [[astronomy]], skills he would need one d...
12: ... [[Newfoundland]], which brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
14: ... of his explorations and going beyond the instructions given by the [[Admiralty]]. - Honolulu, Hawaii (19495 bytes)
25: ...test [[U.S. Census]] estimates (2004), the population of the district is 390,000 and that of the count...
29: ... [[humidity]]) is moderated by the mid-ocean location and some cooling achieved by the [[California Cu...
31: ...Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station]]
43: ... of England was the first foreigner to sail, in [[1794]], into what is now Honolulu Harbor. More foreig...
46: ... in the islands, with descendants of American missionaries establishing their businesses in downtown H... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]])
128: *[[Eugenio Calabi]], (United States)
143: *[[Giovanni Ceva]] (Italy, [[1648]] - [[1734]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
117: *[[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] a.k.a. Jean-Dominique Cas...
172: *[[Giovanni Battista Donati]], ([[Italy]], [[1826]] &nda...
206: *[[Camille Flammarion]] ([[France]], [[1842]] – [[1925]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
30: *[[Giorgio Agamben]]
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{...
97: *[[Ariston of Chios]], (fl. 250 BC){{fn|R}}
131: *[[Alain Badiou]], (born 1937)
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}} - Cotton gin (2185 bytes)
2: ...and the sometimes sticky seeds. It uses a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull th...
4: The traditional account of Whitney's invention of the gin tells of his being inspired by the si...
6: ...ington|George]] and [[Martha Washington]]). Additional credence is lent by the fact that women were n...
10: The cotton gin revolutionised the cotton-growing industry because it incre...
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