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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
98: ...p://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/090303/b05w03abplanalp.html] - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
9: ...-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
19: ...1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened mon...
11: ...se of the peasant revolt. This process reached completion in [[1775]]. The reform created provinces an...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
19: In [[1764]] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatows...
21: ...n Empire's European holdings after the Polish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Cr... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...ficial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
11: ...arolina, was married to King Ferdinand of the [[Naples]].
17: ...y dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an angel...
24: ...en the king told him to eat less, Louis-Auguste replied "Why? I always sleep better when I have a full...
25: ... [[phimosis]]. Rather, it seems that no one had explained to either Louis or Antoinette what they were... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
11: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westm...
14: | place of death=[[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]], [[Virginia]]
21: ...[republic]]an [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
24: ...n his birth year. His birthplace was Pope's Creek Plantation, south of [[Colonial Beach, Virginia|Colo...
26: ... eventually inherited the estate, [[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]] in [[Fairfax County, Virg... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ...an [[eponym]] for "signature". However, other examples show that Hancock always wrote his signature th...
8: ...hile building relationships with customers and suppliers of his uncle's business. Shortly after his re...
15: ...iated Bostonians, depending as they did on the supplies on board.
27: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock:
30: ...n the Field." (United States Library of Congress, 1781.) - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]]
20: Many people consider Jefferson to be among the most brillian...
30: ...84]], Jefferson avoided the common practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. In...
32: ...Europe. However, it seems likely that he would be pleased with the quantity and quality of wine now be... - United States (58223 bytes)
9: national_motto = <br>''[[E Pluribus Unum]]'' ([[1789]]–present)<br>([[Lat...
35: ...s Constitution|'''Constitution''']]<br> - completed<br> - ratified<br> - effective|
52: ... profoundly changed in [[1788]] when the states replaced the [[Articles of Confederation]] with the [[...
58: ...er long [[Federalist papers|debate]], this was supplanted by the [[United States Constitution|Constitu...
60: ... rebellion, though full emancipation did not take place until after the end of the war in [[1865]], th... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
33: ... emerging Industrial Revolution, and greatly multiplied its productive capacity. (Without it, humans m... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...ipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and [[Jupiter]]. [[image:433eros.jpg|...
4: ... term to the small moons of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-...
6: ...solar system, and some argue that not every minor planet should be called an "asteroid".
10: ...em, and [[minor planet]] for a taxonomy of the subplanetary objects that include asteroids. The term '...
14: ...360) 1981 VA]]; the last numbered and named minor planet was [[99905 Jeffgrossman]] [http://cfa-www.ha... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
20: ...3) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scientist
77: ...Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple arch dam
80: ...6-1971) — [[vacuum tube]] [[television]] display - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ... Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."
4: ...adically transform colonial society, but simply replaced a distant government with a local one. The op...
10: ...Crown, with the same rights and obligations as people in Britain.
16: ...ication and communications between like-minded people opened new areas to question and consideration. ...
19: ... the wisdom of an established church. The revival placed emphasis on individual conscience and experie... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered
83: ...ry/United_States/People Pictures of Historical People]
85: ==Lesson Plans, Resources and Activites== - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
15: The perceived need for a more powerful and complete federal government led, in 1787, to the callin...
31: ...England from the rest. Failed communications and planning resulted in the army descending from Canada...
33: ... Revolution was also supposedly less intense. In 1781, a combined American and French Army, acting with...
35: ...nch not to seek a separate peace, which would cripple French efforts to gain concessions from the Brit... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
4: ..." bgcolor="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
145: ...] [[Uranus (mythology)|Ouranos]], and is the only planet in the [[solar system]] named after a Greek g...
149: ...res of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]] and [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] minus the massive liquid [[metallic...
155: ...xactly equivalent as physical descriptions of the planet but result in different definitions of which ... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: ...73]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circle]].
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
14: * [[1893]] - American [[sugar]] planters led by the [[Committee of Safety (Hawaii)|C...
20: ...oviet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Warsaw...
22: * 1945 - [[Sweden|Swedish]] diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]] disappears in [[Hungary]... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
34: ...artillery salute. Across the sea, [[Ambassador (diplomacy)|ambassador]]s John Adams and [[Benjamin Fra...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]...
37: ...ess]] made July 4 an unpaid holiday for federal employees.
41: ...e 4th; the evening is usually marked by public displays of fireworks. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...ple as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
25: ...mpted in the meanwhile to go ahead with Calonne's plans. When the measures were opposed in the ''Parl...
37: ...w demanded that credentialling itself should take place as a group. Negotiations with the other estat...
42: ...]], an assembly not of the Estates but of "the People". The National Assembly's first act was to pass ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...] period in the arts, and receives contemporary application in the unity of science movement which inc...
6: ...od, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] i...
8: ...sm | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]], [[government]] a...
12: ...purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think o...
14: ...r instability. Instead, (according to those that split the two periods), the Age of Reason sought to e... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on display at the [[National Archives and Records Administ...
9: ...ing committees in the House and 17 in the Senate, plus four joint permanent committees with members fr...
11: ...public, and evaluates executive performance. It applies to cabinet departments, executive agencies, re...
26: ... a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, including 1 million active-duty military person...
49: ...diction in cases in which a state government is a plaintiff and a citizen of another state the defenda...
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