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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
103: *[[John Franklin]], (1786-1847), disappeared exploring [[Arctic]] [[Canada]...
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]] - 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: ...uis-Charles]] in [[1785]] and Sophie-B顴rix in [[1786]].
75: ...ounds of [[Palace of Versailles|Versailles]] in [[1786]]. - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladies boardin...
12: ...bear in mind that a "good marriage" was then the only available form of social security other than deg... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
4: ...welfth Dynasty]] came to an end around [[1780s BC|1786 BC]], and was succeeded by the much weaker [[Thir...
8: ...ter kings of the Thirteenth Dynasty appear to be only ephemeral monarchs under the control of a powerf... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...e of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he volun...
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.
100: ... wrote to his friend [[John Francis Mercer]] in [[1786]], "I never mean... to possess another slave by p...
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...
30: ... Extracts of a Letter, of Yesterday, from Major Genl. Heath, you will see our present situation, and f...
36: ..., from [[November 23]], [[1785]] to [[June 6]], [[1786]]. He was preceded in that position by [[Richard...
52: ...f Congress (1781). ''George Washington Papers''. Online: [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.ht...
57: ...s=[[November 23]], [[1785]] – [[May 29]], [[1786]]}} - 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... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
80: ... the [[Aceh|Sultanate of Aceh]]; and the attacks only stopped in [[1641]], when the [[Netherlands|Dutc...
82: ... Penang, and Malacca. Penang was established in [[1786]] by Captain [[Francis Light]] as a commercial ou...
88: ...ho wanted a more pro-Malay system, and demanding only single citizenship as opposed to the dual-citize...
105: ...ount Ruler or ''[[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]]'', commonly referred to as the king. Kings are selected for ...
154: ...1]]. [[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]] in 2001 grew only 0.3% due to an estimated 11% contraction in expo... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
47: ...overnments or [[county seat]]s; rather, there is only the state government and the governments of the ...
89: ...her tax-paying businesses with them, and leaving only the [[urban poor]] in the now impoverished Conne...
97: ...ed that industry, in all senses of the word, not only strengthened individual moral fiber, but also se...
99: ...ract from the [[secretary of war]], which led to enlarging his factory to 8,500 square feet (790 m&sup...
105: ...and [[tool]]s continue to be manufactured by [[Stanley Corporation]] in [[New Britain]], despite havin... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...rginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[Virginia Convent... - Comet (30542 bytes)
11: ...ugh the inner solar system, the dust reflecting sunlight directly and the gases glowing due to [[ion|i...
15: ...vered that [[Comet Borrelly]]'s surface reflects only 2.4% to 3% of the light that falls on it; by com...
17: ...-rays and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits].
29: ... their discoverers, but comets that had appeared only once continued to be referred by the year of the...
35: ...lost, and A/ indicating an object that was mistakenly identified as a comet, but is actually a [[minor... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
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...
76: *[[Shays' Rebellion]] - 1786 - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
48: *[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]]
49: *[[1786]] - [[Annapolis Convention]] fails - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
37: ... re-elected amid struggle with [[Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844)|Nicholas Biddle]] over the fate of the [[Se... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
29: ...ery of the terrible state of French finances in [[1786]] precipitated the Revolution crisis
51: *[[Denis Diderot]] - [[the Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] author and [[atheist]] philosopher, i...
99: ... Montesquieu|Montesquieu]] - [[the Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] political philosopher, influential on...
100: ... intrigues, victor of [[Battle of Hohenlinden|Hohenlinden]]
121: *[[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] - [[the Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] political philosopher, influential on... - 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 == - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
166: *[[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]], (1742-1786), Swedish [[18th century]] chemist, discovered nu...
174: *[[Wendell Meredith Stanley]], (1904-1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...urdens. The rebellion started on [[August 29]], [[1786]].
9: ...om [[debtor's prison]]s. In the late summer of [[1786]] the conflict escalated when armed Regulators sh...
13: ...pringfield" resulted in a rebel defeat, although only four rebels were actually killed.
15: ...nt, Massachusetts|South Egremont]]. In the end, only two men, John Bly and Charles Rose were hanged f... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
21: ...sion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a succe...
37: ... years a steamer service was in operation on the inland [[Loch Lomond]], a forerunner of the lake stea...
60: ...ld.html Cruising The World TV Show (RTP-TV 2001) Online video showing trip down Mississippi on the Del... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...ir common opposition to Britain grew. It lasted only from [[September 5]], 1774, to [[October 26]], 1...
21: *Sept. 27, 1777 (one day only) [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786
29: *Nov. 6, 1786- Oct. 30, 1787
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