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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
31: | [[Connecticut]]
32: | [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]]
84: | [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]]
85: | [[1772]] — [[1779]]
95: | [[Minnesota]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
67: *[[James Cook]], (1728-1779), explored the [[Pacific]], discovering or mappin...
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
105: *[[Louis de Freycinet]], (1779-1842), explored coastal regions of [[Western Aust... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...ugustus]], Prince of [[Anhalt-Zerbst]], and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Eliza...
17: ...]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd statesman, Panin...
21: ...lish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years aft...
23: ...he [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[1780]] she s...
35: ...f the peasants held as serfs, Catherine had him banned to [[Siberia]]. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
7: ...me a bookseller in [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. ...
16: ...ties, and he was thrown into the prison of [[Vincennes]]. Here he remained for three months; then he w...
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31: ... the enterprise and other powerful colleagues, [[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune]], among t...
36: - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: For the role he played in winning and securing American independence, George Was...
24: ...e that the English year began on [[March 25]] ([[Annunciation]] Day, or [[Lady Day]]) at the time of h...
51: ...ckname "American [[Fabius Maximus|Fabius]]". In [[1779]], he ordered twenty percent of the army to carry...
53: ...ewburgh conspiracy|conspiracy]] that was being planned by some of his officers who were upset about ba...
58: ...hen meeting at the [[Maryland State House]] in [[Annapolis]]. This action was of great significance fo... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...achusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
35: ...ce in Congress was great, and almost from the beginning he was impatient for a separation of the colon...
44: ... [[Massachusetts constitution]] of [[1780]]. He penned the first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] an...
46: ...Comte de Vergennes|Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes?]] insistence, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeffer...
50: ...[[1787]]), in which he repudiated the views of [[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune|Turgot]] a... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...[[John F. Kennedy]] welcomed 49 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]], saying, "I...
125: There was grace, nevertheless, in his manners; and his frank and earnest address, his quick ...
141: ...n — [[Rhode Island]], [[Delaware]], and [[Pennsylvania]] never having had established religion.
145: ...First Amendment]] (see Letter to the [[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]] [[Baptist]] Association, [[1802]...
153: ...the ''Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom'' ([[1779]]), quoted from Merrill D. Peterson, ed., ''Thoma... - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...d term by Horace-Bedict de Saussure in the year [[1779]]. An older meaning of the word was first used by...
12: ...of [[Aristotle]], remained authoritative for millennia. However, its interpretation of fossils was not...
16: By the [[1700s]] [[Jean-Etienne Guettard]] and [[Nicolas Desmarest]] hiked centr...
36: ...y to provide the relative ages of strata or the manner in which they were formed.
48: ...han the one above it. Logically a younger layer cannot slip beneath a layer previously deposited. This... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
4: ...nd scientists such as [[Martin Luther]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some t...
11: ...monosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-...
29: ...nd productive debate. The German physicist [[Hermann von Helmholtz]] and the American astronomer [[Sim...
39: ...ierre Curie and his associate [[Albert Laborde]] announced that radium produces enough heat to melt it...
59: ...ticles and helium atoms, but he would prove the connection four years later. - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
59: ...as ceded to Britain. Restored to French rule in [[1779]], St. Vincent was regained by the British under ...
67: ...w very active hurricane seasons, with hurricane Lenny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coa... - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...Washington]], who had ordered on [[October 2]], [[1779]], that the uniform coats of the [[Continental Ar... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...d as the first Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1...
96: ...cean]] to the east, by [[North Carolina]] and [[Tennessee]] to the south, and by [[Kentucky]] and [[We...
133: ... tollways, bridges, tunnels, and three [[bridge-tunnel]] complexes.
235: *[[Tappahannock, Virginia|Tappahannock]]
237: *[[Vienna, Virginia|Vienna]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
17: ===[[9th millennium BC]]===
21: ===[[8th millennium BC]]===
24: ===[[7th millennium BC]]===
29: ===[[6th millennium BC]]===
33: ===[[4th millennium BC]]=== - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
9: ...olor="orange">Occasion</td><td bgcolor="#ffde80">Anniversary of the [[United States Declaration of Ind...
27: ...elebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as ...
33: ...American would find quite familiar: an official dinner for the Continental Congress, [[toast (honor)|t...
34: ...]]s John Adams and [[Benjamin Franklin]] held a dinner for their fellow Americans in [[Paris]], [[Fran...
35: * In [[1779]], the Fourth falls on a Sunday. Starting a long ... - African Buffalo (2744 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] | date = [[1779]]}} - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
26: ...[Melvin Calvin]] (1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
9: ...her-in-law, [[Tapping Reeve]], at [[Litchfield, Connecticut]]. His studies were put on hold for the [[...
14: ...estored order. He resigned from the army in March 1779 on account of ill health, renewing his study of l...
20: ...nly four months. During the month of their first anniversary, she sued for [[divorce]], citing infidel...
26: ..., Burr's defeat of General Schuyler marks the beginning of their personal quarrel. Hamilton felt Burr...
40: ...rr became Vice-President. His fair and judicial manner as [[President of the Senate|president of the S... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ... battles, but he gradually became disgruntled beginning with his not receiving what he felt was due cr...
6: ...n adult. In [[1762]] he moved to [[New Haven]], Connecticut and established himself in business as an ...
9: ...and Indian War]], was a militia captain in the (Connecticut) Governor's Second Company of Guards, and ...
10: ...with [[Ethan Allen]], who had a commission from Connecticut to capture the same fort and who did not c...
12: ...nce the role of the Green Mountain Boys and the Connecticut militia. Upon discovering this, Arnold cha... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
5: ...n [[Massachusetts]] rewrote its constitution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-...
13: ...ators heard about the [[mercenary]] army, they planned to return to the federal arsenal in [[Springfie...
17: In exchange for amnesty, Shays' followers were banned from elected office for three years and were no...
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