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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]]
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]]
176: *[[Thomas Mitchell]] - (1792-1855), Scottish explorer of [[Australia]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
7: ...harles d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
46: ...tte Ackermann|Ackermann, Sophie Charlotte]] (1714-1792) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
92: *[[Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen]], (1792-1849), Queen-Consort of King [[William IV of the ... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...is page is about Maria Theresa of Austria (often only known as Empress Maria Theresa), ruler of the [[...
20: ...), married HRH Infanta Mar�Lu� of Spain (1745-1792); had issue. [[Grand Duke of Tuscany]]: 1765 (abd...
37: ...I, her eldest son, as coregent and emperor. She only allowed him limited powers because she felt he w...
41: She died in [[1780]], the only female to rule during the 650-year-long [[Habsbu... - 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: ...]] during Catherine's reign. This war ([[1787]]-[[1792]]) ended with the [[Treaty of Jassy]], which legi...
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...
117: ...ds were massacred. She and her ladies-in-waiting only narrowly escaped with their lives before the cro... - Rose (15436 bytes)
25: ...xception of ''[[Rosa sericea]]'' which often has only four), usually white or pink, in a few species y...
29: ...vily browsed by [[deer]]. A few species of roses only have vestigial thorns that have no points.
67: The [[rose hip|hips]] are sometimes eaten, mainly for their vitamin C content. They are usually pr...
77: ...mn. Four china roses ('Slater's Crimson China', [[1792]]; 'Parsons' Pink China', [[1793]]; 'Hume's Blush...
114: Roses are commonly portrayed by [[artist]]s. The [[France|French]] ... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...were primarily hung on walls or used on tables. Only with the opening of trade routes in the 17th cen...
16: ...ut forming a knot. Because of the loom structure only five colors can be used to create the design. Mo...
19: Unlike woven carpets, [[embroidery]] carpets are not ...
54: ...apestry]], made knotted pile carpets from 1780 to 1792. Carpet production in small, privately owned work...
63: ... can be used to cover a floor. They are usually only used in commercial settings and often are not af... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
11: ...ons seized after the English attacked San Juan in 1792.]] - 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.
104: Unlike all the other slaveholding [[Founding Fathers]...
122: ...rthwest]] of the U.S. is also named for him, the only state named for a president. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
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...
137: * [[U.S. presidential election, 1792]]
150: ...)</sup>| years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1792|1792]] (won Vice Presidency) <sup>(a)</sup>}}
154: ...unner-up would become Vice President. Thus, in [[1792]], with [[George Washington]] as the prohibitive ... - 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... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: '''George Mifflin Dallas''' ([[July 10]], [[1792]] – [[December 31]], [[1864]]) was a [[Unit... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
6: ...duated from [[Yale University|Yale]] College in [[1792]], where he was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. On... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
46: ...hree counties became "The Delaware State," and in 1792 that entity adopted its first constitution, decla...
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
169: Delaware's only two professional sports teams are the [[Wilmingt... - Kentucky (15076 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 1]], [[1792]] |
41: ...e final convention in April 1792. On [[June 1]], 1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the union... - Washington (20186 bytes)
40: Washington is the only state named after a [[President of the United St...
49: ...then by British Captain [[George Vancouver]] in [[1792]].
51: ...mouth of the [[Columbia river]] and, beginning in 1792, he established trade in [[Sea Otter]] pelts. In ...
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]]... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
38: ...as admitted to the Union as a separate state in [[1792]] while the latter broke away from Virginia durin... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
38: ...ng metropolitan area, and [[Pittsburgh]], a busy inland [[river port]] and major center for educationa...
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...
166: Pennsylvania has only one incorporated town, [[Bloomsburg, Pennsylvani...
255: ... the 15th President of the United States and the only President from that state.
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