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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...therine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarch]]."
13: ...erine proceeded to "Westernize" Russia. However, unlike [[Peter the Great]], Catherine scorned force a...
23: ...ator in the [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[178...
25: ...e of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. The Russian navy, command...
33: Catherine subscribed to [[the Enlightenment]] and considered herself a "philosopher... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
22: ...s-Auguste]] was shy, awkward and distant. He was only a year older than she was and had no sexual or r...
25: ... supposed to do on their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the ...
36: ...-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette's life changed suddenly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774...
63: ... marriage was soon consummated and by [[April]] [[1778]], the queen could happily announce that she was ...
66: ...ce of Versailles|Versailles]] 19th [[December]] [[1778]]. She was forced to endure the humiliation of a ... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...e of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he volun...
49: ...k at the [[Battle of Monmouth]] on [[June 28]], [[1778]].
79: ...the Army]] (five star), George Washington is the only President with military service to reenter the m...
95: ...ng the principle that even a former president is only, after all, a private citizen.
104: Unlike all the other slaveholding [[Founding Fathers]... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
35: ...f the [[Continental Congress]] from [[1774]] to [[1778]]. In June [[1775]], with a view to promoting the...
44: In [[1778]], Adams sailed for [[France]] to supersede [[Sil...
48: ... States and foreign powers after that of February 1778 with France.
52: Partly for this reason, Adams received only thirty-four out of sixty-nine votes in the [[U.S...
57: ...ers of opposing [[political party|parties]]. The only other time this would happen would be when [[Abr... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
39: ...es House of Representatives]]. Jefferson was the only Vice President elected to the Presidency to serv...
41: ... epitaph, written by him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, re...
141: ... had first submitted in [[1779]], and was one of only three accomplishments he put in his own epitaph....
143: ...nd material he considered preternatural, leaving only Jesus' moral philosophy, of which he approved. T...
149: ...s from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the induc... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... first of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English langu...
27: ...re he studied under [[William Peter van Ness]] ([[1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawyer and later [[Aaron ...
59: ...e, Maryland|Baltimore]]. He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank, at the...
63: ...ut one of Jackson's cabinet, and met with statesmanlike firmness the commercial crisis of [[1837]], al...
113: * [[John McKinley]] - 1838 - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...gy" was first used by Jean-Andreluc in the year [[1778]] and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bedict... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
85: ...as risen to 360,000 barrels/day, up from 220,000 only two years earlier.
107: ...io Muni lies between Cameroon and Gabon on the mainland; it includes the islands of Corisco, Elobey Gr...
112: ...a are believed to have been [[Pygmies]], of whom only isolated pockets remain in northern [[Rio Muni]]...
113: ...the [[Treaty of Paris]], and periodically, the mainland territories were united administratively under...
118: ...gest tribe, the [[Fang]], is indigenous to the mainland, but substantial migration to [[Bioko Island]]... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
39: ...ngered species]] capital of the world and is the only industrial producer of [[coffee]], and [[chocola...
54: ...lowly creating new volcanoes. This explains why only volcanoes on the the southern half of the Island...
66: ...awaii was visited by foreigners well before the [[1778]] arrival of [[United Kingdom|British]] [[explora...
71: ...republican regime, [[Iolani Palace]] — the only official royal residence in the United States to...
88: ...], a subset of [[American English]], is also commonly used for other formal business. Hawaiian is leg... - Washington (20186 bytes)
40: Washington is the only state named after a [[President of the United St...
49: In [[1778]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] explorer ...
71: ...(required by law) took place and, by a margin of only 42 votes out of more than 2.8 million cast, Ross...
79: ...ong the [[rain]]iest places in the world and the only rainforests in the continental [[United States]]...
83: ...ashington]], [[Inland Empire (Pacific Northwest)|Inland Empire]], [[Kitsap Peninsula]], [[Palouse]], [... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...along the [[Atlantic Ocean]], Vermont is noted mainly for the [[Green Mountains]] in the west and [[La...
66: ...ks]] burnt the settlement to the ground, leaving only chimneys and giving the area its name.
82: ...in [[1774]], acted as President of Vermont from [[1778]] to [[1789]] and from [[1790]] to [[1791]]. In [...
104: Vermont is the home state of the only two current members of the United States Congres...
121: Unlike other states, Vermont does not have a [[term l... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
42: ...overnment on March 15, 1776. On [[February 5]], [[1778]] South Carolina became the first state to ratify... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
36: .... Oregon is known for its abundant rainfall, but only the western 2/5 of the state is notably rainy; e...
49: ...z Perce]]. [[James Cook]] explored the coast in [[1778]] in search of the [[Northwest Passage]]. The [[L...
74: In [[1778]], [[Jonathan Carver]] used '''Oregon''' to label...
94: [[Crater Lake National Park]] is Oregon's only [[national park]].
101: ...n to serve a six-year term as Chief Justice. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of t... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
16: ...oderate success" Hargreaves' death on April 22nd, 1778. That year [[Samuel Crompton]] invented the [[spi... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
111: *[[James Hargreaves]], (1720-1778)
113: *[[Robert Heinlein]], (1907-1988), waterbed - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
39: *[[1778]] - [[Treaty of Alliance]] - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...a detachment of the British regular Army marched inland from [[Boston, Massachusetts]], in search of a...
13: ... Confederation]], proposed and put into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles...
31: ...ny, New York|Albany]]. Burgoyne's army advanced only a few miles during the whole Summer of 1777, and...
41: ...s encouraging commerce and economic development, only aggravated a gloomy outlook.
58: ...spotic and corrupt as [[Great Britain]] had been only decades earlier. The most notable Antifederalist... - History of California (38344 bytes)
86: ... San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá]] (the only Franciscan mission in all of Baja California) an...
90: ...lation "California" which had previously applied only to the Peninsula now called [[Baja California Pe...
112: ...gh his third and final voyage of exploration in [[1778]], sailed along the west coast of [[North America...
134: ...erican War]], this grew slowly with emigration mainly from the United States. The Republic, under Pres...
143: ... north of the Bay's mouth. San Diego Bay is the only natural harbor in California south of San Franci... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
17: It is commonly associated with [[parade]]s, [[barbecue]]s, [[pi...
29: Adams was off by two days, however. Certainly, the vote on [[July 2]] was the decisive act. Bu...
34: * In [[1778]], General [[George Washington]] marked the Fourt...
41: Independence Day, as the only holiday celebrating the [[country]] as a whole, ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
174: *[[Wendell Meredith Stanley]], (1904-1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [...
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