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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
67: ...Karl Friedrich Abel|Abel, Karl Friedrich]], (1723-1787), German composer - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
34: ...Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843) - 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...
21: ...rkish War]] during Catherine's reign. This war ([[1787]]-[[1792]]) ended with the [[Treaty of Jassy]], w...
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...
85: ...me impatient with the jeweller and snapped, "Not only have I never commissioned you to make a jewel &h...
93: ...o suffered some terrible personal tragedies. In [[1787]], Marie-Antoinette's youngest daughter, Sophie-B... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...[1797|97]]). He also served as President of the [[1787]] [[History of the United States Constitution|Con...
21: ...e of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he volun...
62: ...stitutional Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]] in [[1787]]. For the most part he did not participate in th...
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. - 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...
38: Resuming the governorship of Massachusetts in [[1787]], he led his state toward ratification of the fe...
52: ...f Congress (1781). ''George Washington Papers''. Online: [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.ht...
59: ...=[[James Bowdoin]]| after=[[Samuel Adams]]| years=1787 – 1793}} - John Adams (18716 bytes)
50: ...stitution of Government of the United States'' ([[1787]]), in which he repudiated the views of [[Anne Ro...
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... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
23: ...nd his overall influence at [[Philadelphia]] in [[1787]] has led some historians to call him the "Father...
124: ...ple." -- Constitutional Convention [[June 29]], [[1787]] - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
22: ...]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He stud...
24: ...ter George Washington. (As of 2004, Adams is the only U.S. President to do so.)
32: ...o ensure that [[George Washington]] remained the only American president unanimously chosen by the [[U... - United States (58223 bytes)
37: [[September 17]], [[1787]]<br>[[May 23]], [[1788]]<br>[[March 4]], [[1789]...
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 ... - Sierra Leone (10596 bytes)
54: ...e land as a source for [[slave|slaves]], but in [[1787]] [[Freetown]] was established as a city for form...
91: ...ubsistence agriculture. Manufacturing consists mainly of the processing of raw materials and of light ...
98: ...]] is the official language, it is understood by only a minority, as most people speak their tribe's o... - Flag of Delaware (1314 bytes)
2: ...nd. Below the diamond, the date [[December 7]], [[1787]], declares the day on which Delaware became the ... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 7]], [[1787]] |
36: ...ion]]. Ratification occurred on [[December 7]], [[1787]].
58: Delaware only has 3 counties: [[Kent County, Delaware|Kent Cou...
74: ...y]], and a portion of [[St. Martin's Bay]]. The only harbors of consequence are Wilmington, [[Lewes, ...
136: #[[Henlopen Acres, Delaware|Henlopen Acres]]: $82,091 - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 12]] [[1787]] |
38: ...ng metropolitan area, and [[Pittsburgh]], a busy inland [[river port]] and major center for educationa...
65: ...ylvania became the second state on December 12, [[1787]] (five days after Delaware became the first).
86: ...y, the Pittsburgh police magistrate court is the only true city-level court in the state.
115: Pennsylvania's saltwater "shore" line, only 89 miles by official US figures, is the shortest... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 18]], [[1787]] |
107: ...emical manufacturing. Although the state is certainly not defined by these activities, their existence...
112: ...rcentages of immigrants in the country (trailing only [[California]] and [[New York]] and just ahead o...
126: ...populated state in the nation, and the first and only state that has had every one of its 21 counties ...
145: ...inatra]] was born [[December 12]], [[1915]], the only child of working-class Italian-American immigran... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
156: * [[1787]]: Non-condensing high pressure [[Engine]]: [[Oli...
311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
19: ...io the Younger|Quaglio, Domenico, the Younger]], (1787-1837), painter
66: *[[Karen Ann Quinlan|Quinlan, Karen Ann]], (1954-1985) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
115: *[[Pompeo Girolamo Batoni]] ([[1708]]-[[1787]])
392: *[[William Etty]] ([[1787]]-[[1849]])
871: *[[Patrick Nasmyth]] ([[1787]]-[[1831]])
991: *[[Domenico Quaglio the Younger]] ([[1787]]-[[1837]])
1151: *[[Eduard von Steinle]] ([[1810]]-[[1886]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
36: ... Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water ...
113: *[[Robert Heinlein]], (1907-1988), waterbed
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