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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...onour of her elder brother, [[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the E...
6: ... year younger.) Her other brothers ? [[Joseph II|Josef]], [[Leopold II|Leopold]], and Ferdinand-Karl ?...
7: ...ntoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
13: ... education. She was flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she prefer...
15: ...r was his grandson, Louis-Auguste, and it was proposed that he should marry one of [[Maria Theresa of ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...rn canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce ...
5: ...in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladies boardin...
7: ...[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann Radcliffe]], Austen is most famous for her later works, which took the form ...
10: ...d characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with''.
12: ...e story, without a word of formal moralising. Almost every scene in her novels features women, purpor... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
2: ... the [[Hyksos]] made their appearance in Egypt, whose reign comprised the [[Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt...
4: ...welfth Dynasty]] came to an end around [[1780s BC|1786 BC]], and was succeeded by the much weaker [[Thir...
6: ...sty. This dynasty was succeeded by a group of Hyksos princes and chieftains, who ruled in the eastern ...
8: ...]]) appears to have been a mere vassal of the Hyksos princes ruling there; his successors held onto th...
10: ...adition credited with the final defeat of the Hyksos. With the [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt|Eighteent... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...Washington is generally recognized as one of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many o...
26: ...enandoah Valley]] in Virginia. He visited [[Barbados]], with his sick half-brother Lawrence in [[1751]...
31: ...ting party, killing ten, including its leader, [[Joseph Coulon de Jumonville|Ensign Jumonville]]. Wash...
37: ... colonies' wealthiest men. In that year, he was chosen as a [[delegate]] from Virginia to the First [[...
40: ...he Delaware.png|thumb|left|350px|''[[Washington Crossing the Delaware]],'' by [[Emanuel Leutze]], 1851... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...hant in [[New England]]. After graduating from [[Boston Latin School]], he attended [[Harvard College]...
10: ...ethically and virtuously, the same. With his generosity, he was regarded as a man of integrity and hon...
13: ...ourt]], his colonial trade business naturally disposed him to resist the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]],...
15: ...ws. This caused a [[riot]] among some infuriated Bostonians, depending as they did on the supplies on ...
17: ...etters [to newspapers] and John Hancock pays the postage" (Fradin & McCurdy, 2002). - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ... [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], [[revolutionary]], [[Agriculture|agricult...
20: ... ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alo...
37: ...s]] from [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after getting second place in the presidenti...
102: ...d States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]'''||align="left"|1801
123: ...r. In later years he was negligent in dress and loose in bearing. - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
45: | '''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]''' (PPP) <br> - Tota...
58: | Bunga Raya: ''[[Hibiscus]]'', Rosa sinensis
78: ... and within that time period spread [[Islam]] to most of the [[Malay archipelago]]. [[Malacca]] was an...
82: ... by Captain [[Francis Light]] as a commercial outpost granted by the Sultan of Kedah. Malacca came int...
88: ...stem, and demanding only single citizenship as opposed to the dual-citizenship option which would have... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = CT |
36: ...S.)|New England]] region, as well as the southernmost state in New England and one of the wealthiest s...
47: ...incorporated cities and towns across the state. Most cities are coterminal with their namesake towns ...
49: ...ors are [[Christopher J. Dodd]] (Democrat) and [[Joseph I. Lieberman]] (Democrat). Connecticut current...
56: ...nd farms of the [[Litchfield Hills]] and the casinos of [[Southeastern Connecticut]]. Connecticut's ru... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = VA |
48: ...rginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[Virginia Convent...
52: ...n on [[January 26]], [[1870]], after a period of post-war military rule.
59: ...olk]], [[Williamsburg]], and [[Jamestown]] each chose one burgess. The Burgesses met to make laws for...
63: ...der the Constitution, the State Government is composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and ... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...en described as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane...
5: ...ifferent process, but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials may come to res...
9: ...d the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 50km across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and the ta...
11: ...and the gases glowing due to [[ion|ionization]]. Most comets are too faint to be visible without the a...
17: ...highly charged [[ions]] fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and molecu... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: ...erpretations fall somewhere in between these two positions.
10: ...nquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonists in America considered themselves...
15: ===Philosophy and radical thought===
16: ... arguments born of tradition and authority with those based on observation and independent reasoning. ...
23: ... sought to overhaul his expansive North American possessions. In order to make the Empire more stable ... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
1: [[Image:Boston Massacre.jpg|thumb|"The Boston Massacre," an engraving by patriot Paul Revere...
18: *[[1770]] - [[Boston Massacre]]
22: *[[1773]] - [[Boston Tea Party]]
26: ** [[Boston Port Act]] ([[March 31]])
48: *[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]] - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
20: ...sident) anonymously publishes ''South Carolina Exposition and Protest'' arguing that states can [[null...
37: ... re-elected amid struggle with [[Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844)|Nicholas Biddle]] over the fate of the [[Se...
43: *[[1836]] - [[Gag Rule]] imposed
54: *[[1838]] - [[Aroostook War]]
69: *[[1846]] - [[Wilmot Proviso]] proposed - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
12: *[[Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave]] - [[Constitutional monarchy|co...
15: *[[Joséphine de Beauharnais]] - Empress, wife of Napole...
18: *[[Joseph Bonaparte]] - oldest Bonaparte brother, suppor...
19: ...r of Napoleon, a politician under the Directory whose presence as President of the Assembly of the 500...
26: *[[Edmund Burke]] - English philosopher and politician, author of a famous 1790 pole... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
3: ...o the [[18th century]] in [[Europe | European philosophy]], and is often thought of
4: ...ity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ... of the age. However, prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rou...
8: ... continued rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[politica...
11: == History of Enlightenment philosophy == - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
18: *[[Joseph Black]], (1728-1799), chemist
19: *[[Carl Bosch]], (1872-1940), German chemist
57: *[[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]]
82: *[[Jaroslav Heyrovsk?1890-1967), Czech chemist
134: *[[Wilhelm Ostwald]], (1853-1932), [[1909]] [[Nobel Prize in Ch... - 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: ...solution, Governor James Bowdoin and a number of Boston-area bankers then assembled 4,400 privately-pa...
15: ... In the end, only two men, John Bly and Charles Rose were hanged for their part in the rebellion.
19: ...gates to a meeting in [[Philadelphia]]. Their purpose was to change the [[Articles of Confederation]],... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
8: ...he term ''steamer'' is occasionally used, out of nostalgia, for [[diesel]] motor driven vessels, prefi...
15: ...working at the same time. One of the first to propose the idea (around [[1690]]) was the physicist [[D...
19: ... new [[paddle steamer]], the [[PS Pyroscaphe|''Pyroscaphe'']], successfully steamed up the [[river Sa&...
21: ...sion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a succe...
23: ...Forth and Clyde canal were thwarted by fears of erosion of the banks, development was taken up both in... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...communication with one another as their common opposition to Britain grew. It lasted only from [[Sept...
8: ...re reopened in defiance of the Navigation Acts. Most importantly, on [[July 4]], [[1776]], they adopt...
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786
29: *Nov. 6, 1786- Oct. 30, 1787
44: *Lynn Montross; ''The Reluctant Rebels; the Story of the Contin...
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