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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
37: *[[Andrew Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...er birth is uncertain, but is usually taken to be 1797.
8: ...[[women's rights]] movement. Perhaps one of her most famous speeches was "[[Ain't I a Woman?]]," a sh... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
28: ...garden varieties. ''Iris unguicularis'' (or ''stylosa'') is a remarkable winter flowering species from...
41: ...en from one flower, will in entering a second, deposit the pollen on the stigma, while in backing out ...
54: ...''Iris'', and classify it as ''Hermodactylus tuberosus''.
56: ...nished with narrow sickle shaped leaves and the blossoms are usually borne singly on the stalks. The b...
58: ...st planted in September or October in warm sunny positions, the rhizomes being lifted the following Ju... - 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 ...
27: ...|'''[[George Washington]]''', 1st President (1789-1797)]] - George Washington (29551 bytes)
7: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1797]]
19: ...nder the [[U.S. Constitution]]. ([[1789]]–[[1797|97]]). He also served as President of the [[1787]...
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... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1797]]
18: ...ident]] of the [[United States]], and the second (1797–[[1801]]) [[President of the United States]...
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... - 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. - 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...
35: In [[1797]] Madison left Congress; in [[1801]] he became Je... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
22: ... admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
24: ... a foreign-born wife, Adams wed Louisa Johnson in 1797. The couple named one of their sons after George ...
28: ...o [[1817]]. During this time, Adams and his wife lost to illness an infant daughter, born in [[1811]].
30: .... He is sometimes called the "Lone Wolf" for his positions during this time, because he often did not ...
32: ...emained the only American president unanimously chosen by the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral colle... - 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'... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
3: ...scent) community in Africa, making it one of the most ethnically diverse countries on the continent. R...
5: ...e [[economy of South Africa]] is the largest and most well-developed of the entire [[Africa]]n contine...
9: ...ish]], [[Zulu language|Zulu]], [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]], [[Swati language|Swati]], [[Ndebele language|...
17: ...cross racial barriers, even though it is not the most widely spoken language by population. Afrikaans ...
24: ...one of the oldest nations in Africa. Extensive [[fossil]] remains at the [[Sterkfontein]], [[Kromdraai... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
16: ...at produced cotton gins went out of business in [[1797]].
24: ...ubassemblies as identical and interchangeable as possible by machinery, then assembling the parts on a... - 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]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
19: ...amaoka|Yamaoka, Akira]] (born 1968), Japanese composer
26: *[[Bosa Yankovich|Yankovich, Bosa]]
42: ...2]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video game]] music composer
47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of Ne...
69: *[[A. B. Yehoshua|Yehoshua, A. B.]], author of ''Mr. Mani'' - 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]]) - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
22: *[[1797]] - [[John Adams]] (Federalist) inaugurated, Jeff...
23: *[[1797]] - [[XYZ Affair]]
66: ...]] - [[Hartford Convention]]; [[New England]] proposes [[secession]]. - New Year (5703 bytes)
5: The most common modern celebrations are:
7: ...e [[year]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]] used by most [[developed country|developed countries]]. (For ...
9: ...ashanah to be not earlier than [[September 6]]. Rosh Hashanah cannot occur later than [[October 5]], ...
11: ...ms) cycling every sixty years. It is perhaps the most important Chinese holiday. The Chinese New Year ...
31: ...ly in [[leap year]]s). Because [[consul]]s were chosen in January, and because years were named after ... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
12: ...egular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
17: *[[1797]] - Albany replaces New York City as the capital ...
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]]) - Clock (10086 bytes)
5: ==Purposes ==
11: The main purpose of a clock is not always to ''display'' the time...
19: [[Image:PDphotos-org_alarm_clock_1_bg_050304.jpg|thumb|200px|right...
25: ...a clock (i.e., recurrent process) that makes the most other recurrent processes periodic.
27: ...rrent, periodic process (a [[metronome]]) is an [[oscillator]] and typically generates a ''clock signa... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
9: ...- proto-[[socialism|socialist]], guillotined in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'etat|coup]]'' attempt
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...
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