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- James Madison (15187 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Madison
14: | wife=[[Dolley Madison]]
18: ...pers]], and is traditionally regarded as the ''[[List of people known as the father or mother of somet...
21: ...nia]] to give their northwestern territories (consisting of most of modern-day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] ...
23: ...ates would be represented in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state rep... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[James Madison]]
18: ...f State]], [[John Quincy Adams]], who actually devised it.
22: ...d practiced law in [[Fredericksburg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and...
24: ...[Thomas Jefferson]], he helped negotiate the [[Louisiana Purchase]].
28: ...to serve as president, was almost uncontested in his two elections. - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
14: | wife=[[Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams]]
22: ... is now [[Quincy, Massachusetts]]), and acquired his early education in [[Europe]] at the [[University...
24: ... sons after George Washington. (As of 2004, Adams is the only U.S. President to do so.)
26: ...ix months early after Adams broke with the Federalist Party.
28: ...[1815]] to [[1817]]. During this time, Adams and his wife lost to illness an infant daughter, born in ... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
14: ...tton growing area; some historians believe that this invention allowed for the African [[slavery]] sys...
16: While his ideas were innovative and useful, they were so ea...
18: ...he associated with Eli Whitney (along with other historical figures such as [[George Washington|George...
22: ...ut]] and [[Hamden, Connecticut]], on a road which is now named [[Whitney Avenue]].
24: ...was no longer limited by the number of skilled artisans. - 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 - Flag (13245 bytes)
3: ... attached, though many flags are recognisable if displayed in other forms.
5: The study of flags is known as [[vexillology]], from the Latin ''vexill...
7: ==History==
9: ...igin of flags in the modern sense is a matter of dispute. Some believe flags originated in [[China]], ...
13: From the time of [[Christopher Columbus]] onwards, it has been customary (... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
1: This is a '''list of inventors'''.
3: ''See also:'' [[list of scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline o...
5: ==Alphabetical list==
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
23: ...Baird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1790]] to [[1819]...
6: *[[1790]] - [[Rhode Island]] becomes a state
13: *[[1793]] - ''[[Chisholm v. Georgia]]'' 2 US 419 1793 paves way for pa...
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ...ded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these ...
4: == Absolutism and privilege==
5: ... [[First Estate|clergy]], the remnants of [[feudalism]]. Similarly, the peasants covetously eyed the r...
7: ... revolutionaries and the French troops who had assisted them resulted in the spread of revolutionary i...
9: ... feudalism and [[philistinism]]." [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/12/15.htm] - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...nation. It downplays the previous trend of absolutism and people as subjects and amplifies the power o...
8: ...ded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these ...
12: ...Resentment of royal [[political absolutism|absolutism]].
13: ...wage-earners, and, to a lesser extent, the bourgeoisie
14: * The rise of [[the Enlightenment|enlightenment]] ideals. - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
2: ...As a rule, the best place to clarify complexities is in the article on the individual in question.''
5: ...Charles, comte d'Artois]] - younger brother of Louis XVI and one of the first émigrés.
6: ...ugereau, duc de Castiglione|Charles Pierre François Augereau]] - officer throughout the Revolutionary...
9: ...rançois-Noël Babeuf]] - proto-[[socialism|socialist]], guillotined in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'et...
10: ...red the [[Tennis Court Oath]], made mayor of [[Paris]] after the [[storming of the Bastille]], guillot... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
1: {{History of France }}
3: ...ope; the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's emp...
5: ...pril 20]], [[1792]], until [[November 20]], 1815, is sometimes (though rarely these days) referred to ...
11: ... been since the times of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]].
13: ...state pre-revolutionary [[absolute monarch|absolutism]], and were forced to keep some of the reforms i... - 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]]. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
1: This is a list of famous chemists:
6: *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877-1950), German chemist
7: *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869-1910), German chemist
8: ...ikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
9: ...ohan August Arfwedson]], (1792-1841), Swedish chemist - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...mage:captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance...
3: ...], [[1779]]) was a [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[explorers|explorer]] and [[navigator]]. He m...
7: ...laborer on a farm. As a child, Cook moved with his family to [[Great Ayton]].
8: ...r]] to start again at the lowest level in the British [[Royal Navy]].
12: ...allowing [[James_Wolfe | General Wolfe]] to make his famous stealth attack on the [[Plains of Abraham]... - Honolulu, Hawaii (19495 bytes)
25: ...ity & County of Honolulu]] encompasses all of the Island of O‘ahu (approximately 600 square mile...
29: ...anuary is 65/80 °F (18/27 °C) and in July is 74/88 °F (23/31 °C). Temperatures exceed ...
31: [[image:ISS007E16813_Hono.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Honolulu as s...
33: ... Force Base]] are actually all in the ‘Ewa District.
35: ...l plain divide Honolulu's residential areas into distinct neighborhoods: some spread along valley floo... - 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]] - ) - 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]]) - 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}} - Cotton gin (2185 bytes)
2: ...hitney]] (granted a [[patent]] on [[March 14]], [[1794]]) to mechanize the production of [[cotton]] fibe...
4: ...count of Whitney's invention of the gin tells of his being inspired by the sight of a [[cat]] clawing ...
6: ... and [[Martha Washington]]). Additional credence is lent by the fact that women were not allowed pate...
10: ... cotton profitable in the [[American South]], and is often considered to have greatly increased the de...
12: ...gin" is unrelated to the drink called [[gin]]; it is related to the word ''[[engine]]'' and means "dev...
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