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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
103: *[[John Franklin]], (1786-1847), disappeared exploring [[Arctic]] [[Canada]...
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...r brother, [[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A cour...
13: ...red to speak German. However, when her sister Johanna-Gabriella died of smallpox in [[1762]], Maria-An...
15: ... of Austria|Maria Theresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antoni...
17: ...osses for all shoulders." Maria-Antonia left [[Vienna]] in [[April]] [[1770]], when she was fourteen. ...
19: Two and half weeks after leaving [[Vienna]], Maria-Antonia was handed over to messengers f... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladies boardin...
7: ...bey]]'', pokes fun at the [[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann Radcliffe]], Austen is most famous for her later ... - 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: ...Yayebi]], may have even been a former vizier. Beginning with the reign of Sobekhotep IV, the power of ... - 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...
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...
83: ...ather, he gave the [[famous non-quotation]]: "I cannot tell a lie. It was I who chopped down the cherr... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
19: ...itish rule. On [[March 5]], [[1774]], the fourth anniversary of the [[Boston Massacre]], he gave a spe...
30: ...tate, is not regularly forwarded to the Army, I cannot consider myself as responsible for the maintena...
36: ..., from [[November 23]], [[1785]] to [[June 6]], [[1786]]. He was preceded in that position by [[Richard...
51: * Fradin, Dennis Brindell & McCurdy, Michael (2002). ''The Signe...
57: ...s=[[November 23]], [[1785]] – [[May 29]], [[1786]]}} - 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]...
161: ...en I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever" (''Notes on the State of Virgini... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
3: ... [[Thailand]] and is [[Johor#Links_to_Singapore|connected by a causeway and the second-link bridge]] o...
82: ... Penang, and Malacca. Penang was established in [[1786]] by Captain [[Francis Light]] as a commercial ou...
143: ...ate]] is [[equatorial]] and characterised by the annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (Oc...
145: ...al [[Asia]] — if [[Singapore]], an island connected to the continent by a man-made [[causeway]],...
165: ...u Hitam and Johor Baru in the south, which also connects roads into Thailand and Singapore. There are ... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
2: Name = Connecticut |
3: Fullname = State of Connecticut |
4: Flag = Connecticut state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Connecticut]] |
6: Seal = Connecticut state seal.png | - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...rginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[Virginia Convent...
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]] - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...lose to the [[Sun]]. When a comet approaches the inner solar system, radiation from the Sun causes its...
11: ...r appearance have been noticed by humans for millennia. One very famous old recording of a comet is t...
33: ... year, so that Comet Bennett 1969i became Comet Bennett 1970 II (it was the second comet to pass perih...
53: ...d for most of the next century. Even after [[Johannes Kepler]] had determined in [[1609]] that the pl...
55: ...e others, such as [[Christian Huygens]] and [[Johannes Hevelius]], supported comets' linear motion.{{h... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
54: ...on [[September 5]], [[1774]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], and endorsed the [[Suffolk Resolves]],...
76: *[[Shays' Rebellion]] - 1786
80: ...ned (including the right of rebellion against tyranny); the delegation of power through written consti... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
48: *[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]]
49: *[[1786]] - [[Annapolis Convention]] fails
52: *[[1787]] - [[Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania]] and [[New Jersey]] become states
53: *[[1788]] - [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Connecticut]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Maryland]], [[Sout... - 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...
66: *[[1845]] - [[Texas Annexation]]
100: ...s are not citizens of the [[United States]] and cannot sue
104: *[[1858]] - [[Minnesota]] becomes a state
109: *[[1859]] - [[Oil well]] in [[Titusville, Pennsylvania]] - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
10: ... of the [[Third Estate]] who administered the [[Tennis Court Oath]], made mayor of [[Paris]] after the...
17: *[[Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne]] - on [[Committee of Public Safety]], more radi...
23: *Cardinal [[Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne]] - [[royalist]], President of the Royal Council...
25: *[[Guillaume Marie Anne Brune]] - political journalist, [[Jacobin]], fri...
29: ...ery of the terrible state of French finances in [[1786]] precipitated the Revolution crisis - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...n]], full of irrationality, superstition, and tyranny (which they believed began during a historical p...
33: The "long" Enlightenment is seen as beginning the [[Renaissance]] drive for [[humanism]] and...
41: ...e mid-century, what was regarded by many as the pinnacle of purely Enlightenment thinking was being re...
43: ...dible reports, viewed through the lens of reason annealed knowledge, empirical observation, and knowle...
45: ...cted in the sciences by, for example, [[Carolus Linnaeus]]' categorization of [[biology]]. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
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]]
37: ...]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or ... - 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: ...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... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
17: ...enry (delegate)|William Henry]] of Lancaster, [[Pennsylvania]], having learned of Watt's engine on a v...
21: ...sion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a succe...
30: ... is preserved as a [[museum ship]] at [[Winona, Minnesota]]. For modern craft operated on rivers, see ...
37: ... operation on the inland [[Loch Lomond]], a forerunner of the lake steamers that still grace the [[Swi...
40: ...Britain]], and has sailed across the [[English Channel]] for a visit to commemorate the sinking of her... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...74, to [[October 26]], 1774, in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. [[Peyton Randolph]] served as the fir...
14: *Sept. 5, 1774- Oct. 26, 1774 [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
21: *Sept. 27, 1777 (one day only) [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
22: *Sept. 30, 1777- June 27, 1778 [[York, Pennsylvania]]
25: *Nov. 26, 1783- June 3, 1784 [[Annapolis, Maryland]]
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