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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - 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... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladies boardin...
12: ...ers may find the world she describes, in which people's chief concern is obtaining socially prominent ...
14: The order in which she began and completed her novels is different from that of their pu...
26: *The Watsons (incomplete novel)
27: *[[Sanditon]] (incomplete novel) - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
4: ...enth dynasty of Egypt|Fourteenth Dynasty]]. The splintering of the land accelerated after the reign o... - 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: ... sought out for his ability to raise funds and supplies for American troops. Despite his skill in the ...
30: ...uation, and future prospects. If therefore the supply of Beef Cattle demanded by the requisitions of C... - 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... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
82: ... Penang, and Malacca. Penang was established in [[1786]] by Captain [[Francis Light]] as a commercial ou...
84: ...nd civil war, British [[gunboat diplomacy]] was employed to bring about a peaceful resolution that fav...
88: ...mergency|communist insurgency]]. Post-war British plans to form a "Malayan Union" were scuppered by st...
111: ... [[lower house]] (''Dewan Rakyat'', literally "People's Hall"). All 69 Senators sit for 6-year terms; ...
120: ...ines and two-year prison terms, while Malaysian employers face up to a year in jail and a fine of up t... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
56: ...t and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the co...
65: ..."[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast]]", for example, is often derided by residents of the rest of th...
79: ...ly''' have been a miracle.) [[Bus]] service is supplied by [[Connecticut Transit]], owned by the [[Con...
81: ...hey exited. A series of terrible crashes at these plazas eventually led to abandonment of the whole to...
83: ...e daily radio broadcasts of where crashes have completely blocked traffic are a fact of life for commu... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
44: Among [[Native American]] people living in what now is Virginia were the [[Powhat...
46: ...long the coast of [[North America]], eventually applying to the whole coast from [[South Carolina]] to...
48: ...rginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[Virginia Convent...
59: ...uld vote in the colony. Each county chose two people or burgesses to represent it, while the [[Colleg...
98: ...nia]]'), a part of the [[Delmarva Peninsula]], completely separate (an [[exclave]]) from the rest of t... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ... be many times more distant than [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]]'s orbit. Often described as "dirty snowballs...
15: ...the light that falls on it. It is thought that complex [[organic compound]]s are the dark surface mate...
21: ... star [[Nemesis (star)|Nemesis]]; or an unknown [[Planet X]].
23: ...being more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined.
25: ...it it turns out to be an old "lost" comet. An example is Comet [[11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR]], which was ... - 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)
48: *[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]]
49: *[[1786]] - [[Annapolis Convention]] fails
83: ...ry/United_States/People Pictures of Historical People]
85: ==Lesson Plans, Resources and Activites==
86: ...al_Studies/US_History/index.htm US History Lesson Plans] - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
31: ... Supreme Court]] rules in favor of [[Cherokee (people)|Cherokees]]; President Jackson ignores the ruli...
37: ... re-elected amid struggle with [[Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844)|Nicholas Biddle]] over the fate of the [[Se...
133: ...ry/United_States/People Pictures of Historical People]
135: ==Lesson Plans, Resources and Activites==
136: ...al_Studies/US_History/index.htm US History Lesson Plans] - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
2: ... fates. ''As a rule, the best place to clarify complexities is in the article on the individual in que...
18: ...r, supported his brother and later made King of Naples, and then of Spain.
22: *[[Louis de Breteuil]] - [[royalist]], briefly supplanted [[Jacques Necker|Necker]] in the royal cabin...
29: ...ery of the terrible state of French finances in [[1786]] precipitated the Revolution crisis
65: ...dvocating yet more radical measures than those in place - 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... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
142: *[[John Pople|John A. Pople]], (1925-2004), [[theoretical chemistry|theoreti...
143: *[[Roy J. Plunkett]], (1910-1984), discoverer of [[Teflon]]
166: *[[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]], (1742-1786), Swedish [[18th century]] chemist, discovered nu...
171: *[[K. Barry Sharpless]]. (1941- ) [[2001]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistr... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...urdens. The rebellion started on [[August 29]], [[1786]].
7: ...When Bowdoin was elected governor, many of the people in Western Massachusetts became restless.
9: ...om [[debtor's prison]]s. In the late summer of [[1786]] the conflict escalated when armed Regulators sh...
13: ...gulators heard about the [[mercenary]] army, they planned to return to the federal arsenal in [[Spring...
17: ...h by an improving economy and by elections that replaced some [[incumbent]]s with individuals sympathe... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ... [[steam engine]] powered vessel involved many people, sometimes working at the same time. One of the ...
21: ...sion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a succe...
23: ...by continuous development of steamboats. Although plans to introduce boats on the Forth and Clyde cana...
30: ...ve to the present day, most destroyed by boiler explosions or fires. One of the few surviving Mississ...
40: ...ip sails a full season of cruises every year from places around [[United Kingdom|Britain]], and has sa... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...rable Acts]]. The First Continental Congress was planned through the permanent [[committees of corres...
6: ...ere not repealed. The boycott was successfully implemented, but its potential at altering British col...
10: ==Dates and places of sessions==
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786
29: *Nov. 6, 1786- Oct. 30, 1787
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