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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer - 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...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
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...
71: ...[Louis-Joseph-Xavier-Fran篩s|Louis-Jos鰨]] in [[1781]], [[Louis XVII|Louis-Charles]] in [[1785]] and S...
85: ...me impatient with the jeweller and snapped, "Not only have I never commissioned you to make a jewel &h... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...e of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he volun...
53: ...rces and a French fleet had [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|trapped General Cornwallis]] at [[Yorktown, Virg...
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 Hancock (8787 bytes)
19: At first only a financier of the growing rebellion, he later b...
27: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock:
30: ...n the Field." (United States Library of Congress, 1781.)
52: ...f Congress (1781). ''George Washington Papers''. Online: [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.ht... - 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... - United States (58223 bytes)
58: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
66: ...oviet Union]], was considered one of the world's only two "[[superpower]]s". With the [[collapse of th...
84: ...e appealed from a state court to a federal court only if there is a federal question, the [[State supr...
90: ...nty|counties]] have little or no power, existing only as geographic distinctions. In other areas, coun...
115: ...er 48; [[Alaska]], which is physically connected only to Canada, and the [[archipelago]] of Hawaii in ... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
16: ...; both have diameters of ~500 km. 4 Vesta is the only main belt asteroid that is sometimes visible to ...
21: ...details of the [[visible spectrum|spectrum]] of sunlight they reflect.
30: ...'s surface material. Originally, they classified only three types of asteroids:
56: ...f the discovery, by Sir [[William Herschel]] in [[1781]], of the planet [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] at th...
64: ...overed up to that point. Still, a century later, only a few thousand asteroids were identified, number... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
113: *[[Robert Heinlein]], (1907-1988), waterbed
200: *[[George Stephenson]], (1781-1848), [[England]] — steam locomotive, civi... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
16: ...r form of government have roots in this European Enlightenment and were a source for ideas regarding [...
30: ...epresentation]]," in which colonists argued that only their colonial assemblies, and not [[Parliament ...
42: ...utionaries, who stood firm on the principle that only their colonial representatives could levy taxes ...
71: ...t entitled ''[[Common Sense]]'' arguing that the only solution to the problems with Britain would be r... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered - 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: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
31: ...ny, New York|Albany]]. Burgoyne's army advanced only a few miles during the whole Summer of 1777, and...
33: ... Revolution was also supposedly less intense. In 1781, a combined American and French Army, acting with...
41: ...s encouraging commerce and economic development, only aggravated a gloomy outlook. - Uranus (15207 bytes)
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
145: ...god]] [[Uranus (mythology)|Ouranos]], and is the only planet in the [[solar system]] named after a Gre...
149: ...omposed primarily of rock and various ices, with only about 15% [[hydrogen]] and a little [[helium]] (...
170: ...3]], [[1781]], but reported it on [[April 26]], [[1781]] as a "[[comet]]": ''Account of a Comet, By Mr. ...
176: [[NASA]]'s [[Voyager 2]] is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet. Launched... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[... - 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...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]...
41: Independence Day, as the only holiday celebrating the [[country]] as a whole, ... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
8: ...d come under the influence of the ideas of [[the Enlightenment]]. As the revolution proceeded and as p...
10: Certainly, causes of the revolution must include all of th...
14: * The rise of [[the Enlightenment|enlightenment]] ideals.
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
25: ... refused to endorse his measures, insisting that only a truly representative body — preferably t... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
3: The '''Age of Enlightenment''' refers to the [[18th century]] in [[...
4: ...fers to a historical intellectual movement, "The Enlightenment." This movement advocated [[rationalism...
6: ...itical]] theories of the age. However, prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as [[Voltaire]] and [...
10: ...riod). Furthermore, [[Romanticism]] followed the Enlightenment.
11: == History of Enlightenment philosophy == - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
45: ...d the tax court, are specialized courts handling only certain kinds of cases. The bankruptcy courts a...
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