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- President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...ee world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
14: .... Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed to remove or amend this requirement, but none h...
21: ... majority, the President and Vice President are chosen by the [[United States House of Representatives...
25: ...(United States)|Election Day]] and campaigning across the country to explain their views and plans to ...
29: ...[[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is tradit... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ...and Feudal Law''), in which he argued that the opposition of the colonies to the Stamp Act was a part ...
33: ...of the officer who commanded the detachment, and most of the soldiers; but two soldiers were found gui...
35: ...my]]. His influence in Congress was great, and almost from the beginning he was impatient for a separa...
39: ...n its adoption. Before this question had been disposed of, Adams was placed at the head of the Board o...
41: ...John Adams, as depicted on a two-cent American [[postage stamp]].]] - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
9: ...<td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</td></tr>
22: ... of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|En...
35: ... politics of New York and powerfully influenced those of the nation, and which did more than any other...
39: ..., then gradually abandoned the [[protectionist]] position.
43: ...rnal improvements and declined to support the proposal for a Panama Congress. As chairman of the judic... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...coast of north-west [[Europe]]. It is the westernmost state of the [[European Union]], and has a [[dev...
58: ...r the state, ''Ireland'' is used for official purposes such as treaties, government and legal document...
67: ...land. (Any tariff barriers would, it was feared, most heavily hit that region.) In addition, the Prote...
71: ...ent of Ireland Act 1920]]'') could opt out and choose to remain part of the United Kingdom, which it d...
73: ...people have no right to do wrong". They objected most to the fact that the state would remain part of ... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
3: ...d|Scottish]] [[mathematician]] and [[engineer]] whose improvements to the [[steam engine]] were a key ...
16: * [[1782]]: Invented double-acting engine.
22: ...pproximate straight-line motion (of which he was most proud) and the steam indicator to measure steam ...
26: Watt was opposed to the use of high-pressure steam and is held b...
33: ...ficiency]] and many applications. It was the foremost energy source in the emerging Industrial Revolut... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
143: *[[Henryka Beyer]] ([[1782]]-[[1855]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
12: ...egular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
35: *[[1902]] - The first [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game is played in [[Pasadena, California]...
79: **[[Velvet Divorce]]: [[Czechoslovakia]] is divided into the [[Slovakia|Slovak Re...
108: *[[1752]] - [[Betsy Ross]], American seamstress (d. [[1836]])
121: *[[1894]] - [[Satyendra Nath Bose]], Indian mathematician (d. [[1974]]) - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...habitants after European colonization means that most of the known '''history of California''' begins ...
5: ...e, the area has gone from a [[Spain|Spanish]] outpost of interest primarily populated by [[missionary|...
10: ...Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
11: ...Woman]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early in...
13: ...from [[mussel]] shells using stone tools, while those in the northern [[Cascade Range]] traded [[obsid... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...etween a pair of conductors on which equal but opposite electric charges have been placed. Intentional...
7: ...ctric. Because each plate stores an equal but opposite charge, the ''total'' charge in the device is ...
9: ...|The electrons in the molecules shift toward the positively charged left plate. The molecules then cr...
13: ...ference]] or ''voltage'' (''V'') which appears across the plates:
16: ... causes a potential difference of one [[volt]] across the plates. Since the farad is a very large uni... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
14: ...ed to the bar at [[Albany, New York|Albany]] in [[1782]], and began to practice in [[New York City]] aft...
18: ...or her beauty and accomplishments. She married [[Joseph Alston]] of [[South Carolina]] in [[1801]], an...
20: ... a famous duel, an irony which was hopefully not lost on the younger Hamilton.
28: ...'s access to the [[National Archives|archives]], possibly because the former colonel had been a noted ...
30: ...ational parties]] became clearly defined. Burr loosely associated himself with the Democratic-Republi... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
3: The '''Montgolfier brothers''', '''Joseph-Michel Montgolfier''' ([[August 26]], [[1740]]...
7: On [[December 14]], [[1782]] they succeeded in an outdoor launch of an 18 m&...
22: ...is was followed by further flights, including a crossing of the English Channel on January 7, 1785, by...
25: .../webprojects2003/hetherington/final/montgolfier_bros.html "Lighter than air: the Montgolfier brothers"... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
5: ...''. Often imitated or parodied, it is one of the most famous images relating to the American Revolutio...
25: Most [[American Indian]] communities east of the [[Mi...
30: [[Image:Boston concord 1775.jpg|thumb|400px|Boston - Concord Area, Route of British Troops, April...
31: ...ulars (about 4,000 men) from his headquarters in Boston, but the countryside was in the hands of the c...
33: ... nearly constant fire during the return march to Boston. The shooting war had started. - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...r)|Alexander Mackenzie]], the first European to cross North America by land north of Mexico, in [[1793...
7: ...d guided them westward. [[Sacagawea]] and her [[Shoshone]] tribe came from further west. Not only did ...
9: ...otted [[Mt. Hood]], a mountain known to be very close to the ocean.
10: ... from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife. Mostly they just endured the persistent rain.
16: ...much too soon, and there would have been total chaos. - March 17 (9666 bytes)
10: ...]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] forces evacuate [[Boston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] p...
21: ...esident [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
29: ...Stalker", commits his first two [[murder]]s in [[Los Angeles, California]] murder spree.
31: ...d injures 242 at the [[Israel]]i embassy in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]].
33: ...oyed [[Serb Orthodox]] shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis. - March 18 (10594 bytes)
9: *[[1608]] - [[Sissinios of Ethiopia|Sissinios]] formally crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]]
22: ...w London School explosion]] kills three hundred, mostly children.
32: ...t]] [[Aleksei Leonov]], leaving his spacecraft [[Voskhod 2]] for 12 minutes, becomes the first person ...
36: *[[1974]] - [[Oil embargo crisis]]: Most [[OPEC]] nations end a five-month [[oil]] [[emba...
37: ...were killed at an explosion of a [[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2M]] rocket on its launch pad during a fueling... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[198...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
45: *[[Joseph Ashbrook]] ([[United States|USA]], [[April 4]]...
54: *[[Oskar Backlund]] ([[Sweden]], [[1846]] – [[191...
72: *[[Wilhelm von Biela]] ([[Austria]], [[1782]] – [[1856]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
7: ...Jean-Fran�ois de La P�rouse|La P�rouse]] in 1782. He returned to England in [[1787]] where he died... - Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
3: ...h century]]. Like [[Henry Clay]], he had a predisposition to compromises marked by a passionate patrio...
11: ...ampshire]]. In [[1807]] his father took over the Boscawen firm when Webster opened a new practice in [...
17: ...n [[1816]] and moving to [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]].
23: ...ngress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] from Boston, and in [[1827]] he was elected to the [[Unite...
25: ...on, now and forever, one and inseparable". It is possibly one of the greatest speeches ever delivered ...
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