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- 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 ... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...ve their northwestern territories (consisting of most of modern-day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Tenne...
23: ...ith a [[bicameral legislature]]. When the issue arose of how states would be represented in the new Co...
27: ... essays that comprise the Federalist Papers. His most famous passage comes in Federalist No. 51:
31: ...s home state of [[Virginia]]. He successfully proposed the first ten [[amendment]]s to the Constitutio...
40: ... party, who were considered traitors when they opposed the war. - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...ackson, nicknamed "Old Hickory," was neither of those. He was the first president who had lived on the...
24: ... career by his own merits, and soon he began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law....
32: ...presentatives|House of Representatives]], which chose [[John Quincy Adams]] instead. The election was...
40: ===Jackson's opposition to the National Bank===
43: ...in the growth of the U.S. economy, but Jackson opposed the concept on ideological grounds. In Jackson'... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
23: | [[April 23]], [[1791]]
50: '''James Buchanan''' ([[April 23]], [[1791]] – [[June 1]], [[1868]]) was the [[15]]th ...
53: ...anklin County, Pennsylvania]], on [[April 23]], [[1791]] to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear. He move...
55: ...]. Rumors and speculation that the two had a [[homosexual]] relationship began at the time and have pe...
61: ... help to draft the [[Ostend Manifesto]] which proposed the purchase of Cuba under the threat of force. - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...lso has a collection of overseas territories and possessions around the world. Each of the 50 states h...
58: ...[1754]], in which a union was first seriously proposed.
60: ...on of slavery. The northern states had become opposed to slavery, while the southern states saw it as...
62: ...Cuba]] to the [[Philippines]], though it gave up most of these over time. ''See also [[United States t...
66: ...]]s and [[peacekeeping]], including actions in [[Kosovo]], [[Haiti]], [[Somalia]] and [[Liberia]], and... - Canada (35540 bytes)
6: ... is a country in [[North America]], the northern-most in the world and the second largest in area (aft...
21: ...ficient in energy due to its large fossil fuel deposits, [[nuclear energy]] generation, and [[hydroele...
90: ...nce and [[Great Britain]]. France progressively lost territory to [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]], s...
92: ...bec into [[Lower Canada]] and [[Upper Canada]] in 1791.
111: ...claim is not universally recognized. The northernmost settlement in Canada (and in the world) is Canad... - Washington (20186 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = WA |
45: ...ach with its own unique culture. Today, they are most notable for their [[totem pole]]s and their orna...
47: ...imed all the coastal lands up to the [[Russia]]n possessions in the north for [[Spain]].
49: ...uimper]] in [[1790]] and [[Francisco Eliza]] in [[1791]], then by British Captain [[George Vancouver]] i...
51: ...ry to explorers and trappers from other nations, most notably Britain and then the United States. Capt... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = VT |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 4]], [[1791]] |
38: ...t was claimed by [[France]] but became a British possession after France's defeat in the [[French and ...
46: ...lain Valley]]. In the south of the valley is [[Bomoseen Lake]].
50: ...on, giving Vermont some of New England's best [[cross-country skiing]] areas. - Texas (39610 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = TX |
36: ...]] in [[1845]]. It has the [[U.S. Postal Service|postal abbreviation]] '''TX'''.
42: * [[List of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
55: ...nd [[Arkansas]] on the east. To the southwest, across the [[Rio Grande]], Texas borders the [[Mexico|M...
94: ...] Republic in [[1777]], and joined the Union in [[1791]], operated autonomously of the United States dur... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = PA |
38: ...tional and technological advance. The [[The Poconos|Pocono Mountains]] and the [[Delaware Water Gap]]...
40: Pennsylvania is one of the U.S.'s most historic states. Philadelphia is often called th...
69: ...ania, which supplied the vast majority of U.S. kerosene for years thereafter, and saw the rise and fal...
80: ...|Philadelphia]]. The other elected officials composing the executive branch are the Lieutenant Govern... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
65: * [[3rd century BC|200s BC]]: [[Crossbow]] in [[History of China|China]]
70: ...[[Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
118: * [[1609]]: [[Microscope]]: [[Galileo Galilei]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ...rm is usually in reference to non-fiction. As opposed to a [[profile]] or [[curriculum vitae]], a bio...
12: ... During the reign of the [[Roman Empire]], the [[Gospels]] attributed to [[John]], [[Luke]], [[Mark]] ...
16: ...ion and knowledge. During this time, the only repositories of knowledge and records of early history ...
18: ...[knight]]s and [[tyrant]]s began to appear. The most famous of these such biographies was ''[[Le Mort...
24: ...ell]]'s ''[[Life of Johnson]]'' (first edition, [[1791]]). Filled with seemingly verbatim accounts of th... - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
2: ...us flag large Betsy Ross.png|right|thumb|[[Betsy Ross]] purportedly sewed the first [[Flag of the Unit...
6: Other British North American possessions—the former [[French colony]] of [[Q...
10: Contemporaneous documents almost always listed the colonies in geographical order...
29: ...untry from 1777 until it became the 14th state in 1791. Today it is considered part of [[New England]].
47: * [[Barbados]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787...
51: ...[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
7: *[[1791]] - [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights...
8: *[[1791]] - [[First Bank of the United States]] chartered
9: *[[1791]] - [[Vermont]], formerly part of New York, becom...
66: ...]] - [[Hartford Convention]]; [[New England]] proposes [[secession]]. - Sloth Bear (2146 bytes)
12: ...ursinus | author = [[George Shaw|Shaw]], | date = 1791}}
16: ...uburn to black, and have a white snout and black nose. It has a distinctive "V" shaped white mark on t... - 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... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
15: ...both caused by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation.
21: ...l of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French tax system to a more unifo...
23: ..., determined that it was not sustainable, and proposed a uniform land tax as a means of setting France...
25: ...[Grenoble]]. Even more importantly, the chaos across France convinced the short-term creditors on who... - 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...
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