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- List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
26: ...ria Gaetana Agnesi|Agnesi, Maria Gaetana]], (1718-1799), Italian polymath
30: *[[Joaquim Agostinho|Agostinho, Joaquim]], (1942-1984), Portuguese cyclist
31: *[[Paolo Agostino|Agostino, Paolo]], (1593-1629), Italian musician
32: *[[Benjamin Agosto|Agosto, Benjamin]], (born 1982), American skater
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer - 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... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
13: | date of death=[[December 14]], [[1799]]
19: ...ebruary 22]], [[1732]] – [[December 14]], [[1799]]), called '''[[Father of the Nation|Father of hi...
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)
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)
22: ... of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|En...
29: ...ston]] and Aaron Burr. Federalist control after [[1799]] depended upon coalition with one or other of th...
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... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
53: ...r. He moved to Mercersburg with his parents in [[1799]], was privately tutored and then attended the vi...
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.
76: ...e Federal Government reached a stalemate. Bitter hostility between Northern and Southern members preva...
78: Sectional strife rose to such a pitch in [[1860]] that the Democratic ... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
51: ...t is the [[List of countries by population|sixth most populous country]] with the second largest [[Mus...
59: ...tion, the Pakistani region has long been at the crossroads of history. Pakistan was the site of the [[...
62: ...a was conquered by various Central Asian groups, most notably the [[Tocharian]] [[Kushan]]s.
64: ...ma Takto]] conquered territory now in India, but lost much of the western parts of the kingdom, includ...
66: ...[Sassanian]] Persian Empire then came to control most of western Pakistan and parts of Sind came under... - 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...
117: ...e [[Rio Grande]] to establish [[San Francisco de los Tejas]] Mission in East Texas, effectively blazin... - 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 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]]) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...r himself and his son. His son Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, destroying the wi...
19: ...g of the relationship between altitude and the atmosphere.
25: ...and off on the problem, during which he invented most of basic [[aerodynamics]] and introduced such te...
29: ...d by the "gentleman scientists" that represented most research efforts until the 20th century. Startin...
35: ...t one that humans would have to do manually. The most disconcerting problem was longitudinal stability... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787...
51: ...[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
54: ... Cros]], (1842-1888) — [[phonograph]]... almost - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
26: *[[1799]] - [[George Washington]] dies
27: *[[1799]] - [[Fries Uprising]]
28: *[[1799]] - [[Logan Act]]
66: ...]] - [[Hartford Convention]]; [[New England]] proposes [[secession]]. - Orangutan (5406 bytes)
10: ...la Ville, Comte de Lacepede|Lacepede]] | date = [[1799]]}}
20: Orangutans are the most arboreal of the great apes, spending nearly all ...
27: Major conservation centres in Borneo include those at Semenggok in Sarawak, and Sepilok near Sandak...
49: ...lok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center Photos] - Photos from a rehabilitation center in Borneo, Malaysia - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...upreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of...
27: | <small>''post''[[42]]/''ante''[[57]] to [[64]]/[[67]](?)</smal...
315: | '''[[Pope Zosimus]]'''<br><small>Saint Zosimus</small>
316: | Papa '''Zosimus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
405: | <small>[[Frosinone]], Southern Latium, Italy</small> - 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... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...ench power rose quickly, [[Conquest|conquering]] most of Europe; the fall was also rapid, beginning wi...
5: ... Other versions put the period of warfare between 1799 and [[1802]] in the context of the French Revolut...
12: ... United Kingdom's industrial economy made it the most powerful commercial nation as well.
13: * In most European countries, the importation of the ideal...
20: ...ming independent and mobile artillery units as opposed to the previous tradition of attaching artiller... - Ape (10931 bytes)
24: ...ir diet consisting of fruit, grass seeds, and in most cases small quantities of meat (either hunted or...
26: ...gered]]. The chief threat to most ape species is loss of tropical rainforest habitat, though some popu...
29: ...th the specific meaning of extinct animals more closely related to humans than the other great apes (f...
35: ... finds indicated that ''Ramapithecus'' was more closely related to the orangutan, and new biochemical ...
49: ...one of gradual demotion of humans from a special position in the taxonomy to being one branch among ma... - 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... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
2: ...cal orders are extinct, e.g. [[dinosaur]]s, [[pterosaur]]s and [[ammonite]]s. Many of these orders wen...
31: * [[Bluebuck]], or Blue Antelope (1799)
58: * [[Moa-nalos]]
68: ...[[Hawaiian honeycreeper|Kona Grosbeak]], ''Psittirostra kona''
71: ...neycreeper|Greater Amakihi]], ''Viridonia sagittirostris''
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