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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...]]. Also, see [[International Space Station]] for ISS explorers, and for the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] n...
11: ...cisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...eorge Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Ca...
23: ... de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
33: ... Christian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarch]]."
5: ...July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine's suppor...
9: ...rvative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1774]].
11: ...ageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the gentry to petitio...
13: ...orms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encour... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ...es show that Hancock always wrote his signature this way.
8: ...business. Shortly after his return from England, his uncle died and he inherited the fortune and busin...
10: ...mained, ethically and virtuously, the same. With his generosity, he was regarded as a man of integrity...
13: ...onial trade business naturally disposed him to resist the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which attempte...
15: ...ustoms officials for violation of revenue laws. This caused a [[riot]] among some infuriated Bostonian... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ...sh;[[1801]]) [[President of the United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth Preside...
22: ...gland]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...t, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: ...[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, Joh... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...he [[Old World]] and the [[New World]]. The fiber is most often spun into [[yarn|thread]] and used to ...
4: ...d together and interlocked. This interlocked form is ideal for [[spinning]] into a fine [[yarn]].
6: ==History==
9: ...ated back to approximately 7,000 years ago. There is clear archaeological evidence that people in Sout...
11: ...of [[sheep]]. The Indians make their clothes of this tree wool". - Vermont (39851 bytes)
33: ISOCode = US-VT |
36: ...coast]]line along the [[Atlantic Ocean]], Vermont is noted mainly for the [[Green Mountains]] in the w...
38: ...ier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]].
41: ...es]], [[Vermont towns|List of Vermont towns]], [[List of mountains in Vermont|Vermont mountains]]
42: ...ses 9249 square miles (23,955 km?) and water comprises 366 square miles (948 km?), making it the 43rd ... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
2: ...i-spool [[spinning wheel]]. It was invented circa 1764 by [[James Hargreaves]] in Stanhill, near Blackbu...
4: ...rite. He moved to Stanhill looking for work and raised a family there, working as a spinner and carpen...
6: ...y told about the invention of the device is that his daughter, Jenny, knocked over one of their own sp...
12: ...ennies in secret for one Mr. Shipley, with the assistance of a joiner named James.
14: ...lied for a patent on the jenny in July 1770. By this time a number of spinners in [[Lancashire]] were ... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...humb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ... literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian capital and national libra...
6: ...ng his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which h...
9: ...aining in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy.
11: ...cended from [[Heracles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neopto... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
8: ...[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
12: ...840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
13: ...([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubist]] artist - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...ote that this map does not show the bulk of [[British North America]] of that time.]]
2: ...xington and Concord]] and continued after the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktow...
4: ...cant changes that had a profound impact on world history. Most current interpretations fall somewhere ...
7: <!-- I think this section should briefly summarize the political, s...
10: ...a considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crown, with the same rights and obligations as p... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1760]] to [[1789]...
7: *[[1763]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1763)]] ends [[French and Indian War]]
9: *[[1763]] - [[British Royal Proclamation of 1763]]
10: *[[1764]] - [[Currency Act]], passed by [[Parliament]]
11: *[[1764]] - [[Revenue Act of 1764|Revenue Act]] is passed to enforce the [[Sugar Act]] - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
1: {{histphil}}
3: ...entury]] in [[Europe | European philosophy]], and is often thought of
4: ... science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of both [[Church]] and [[State]]...
8: ...ernment]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]]. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... was well known also for his many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a ...
9: ...to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife [[Mary Morrill]].
11: ...ne Child at Ecton; and over the next few years, this couple had three children, all of whom being half...
21: ...rentice]] to his brother James, a printer who published the ''New England Courant''.
23: ...m for agitating for a variety of local reforms. His intelligence combined with a great deal of savvy ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ian]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by...
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
22: ...Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni]] (Uzbekistan, [[973]] - [[1048]])
40: *[[Aristotle]] (Greece, [[384 BC|384 B.C.]] - [[322 BC|32...
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: ...he second [[President of the United States]], and is seen as the second [[First Lady of the United Sta...
3: ... and other forebearers were [[Congregational]] ministers, leaders in a society that held its clergy in...
48: ...ional Convention|Constitutional Convention]]. She is perhaps best known for her request that he and th...
50: ...ed the role of wife of the first United States Minister to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. They retu...
56: ...r husband in [http://www.ufpc.org United First Parish Church] (also known as the <i>Church of the Pres... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – cir...
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[169...
58: *[[Francis Baily]] ([[Britain]], [[1774]] – [[1844]]) - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...nderlying support maintains the rails at a fixed distance ([[Rail gauge|gauge]]) apart. Usually vehicl...
8: ... the space of about one U.S. ten cent piece. This is more comfortable than most other forms of land tr...
9: ...rthermore, together with the sleepers, the rails distribute the weight of the train evenly, allowing s...
11: Rail transport is also one of the safest modes of transport, and al...
13: As a result, rail transport is often the major form of public transport in many ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...rs important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn...
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}} - Polonium (10219 bytes)
1: <!-- Here is a table of data; skip past it to edit the text. -...
5: <tr><td colspan="2" align="center">[[bismuth]] – '''polonium''' – [[astatine]]...
15: ...Name]], [[List of elements by symbol|Symbol]], [[List of elements by number|Number]]</td><td>Polonium,...
44: ... </td><td>Solid ([[magnetism|nonmagnetic]])</td></tr>
48: ...] </td><td>1235 K (1764 ?F)</td></tr>
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