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- James Madison (15187 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[James Monroe]]
21: ...Thomas Jefferson]]. In this capacity he became a prominent figure in [[Virginia]] state politics, help...
23: ...ted in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state representation depending ...
25: ...the political thought of [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu]].
27: Madison wrote thirty of the eighty-five essays that comprise ... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Monroe
3: | image name=jamesmonroe-npgallery.jpg
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
18: ...[[United States]]. He is the namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United States ...
22: ...Fredericksburg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (bor... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[James Monroe]]
22: ...]] at the [[University of Leiden]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was elec...
24: ...]], the daughter of an American merchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having ...
26: ...having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist Party.
28: ...14]], and Minister to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] from [[1815]] to [[1817]]. During this time, Adams an... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
1: ...age courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
6: ...usetts]], the son of a farmer, Whitney graduated from [[Yale University|Yale]] College in [[1792]], wh...
14: ...rn states]] of the United States, a prime cotton growing area; some historians believe that this inven...
16: ...ly duplicated by others. Whitney's company that produced cotton gins went out of business in [[1797]]...
18: ...tney received a [[patent]] for on [[March 14]], [[1794]], and its constituent elements should rightly be... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - Flag (13245 bytes)
3: A '''flag''' is a piece of [[cloth]] flown from a pole or mast, usually intended for signaling o...
5: The study of flags is known as [[vexillology]], from the Latin ''vexillum'' meaning flag or [[banner]...
9: ...s originated in [[China]], others held that the [[Roman Empire]]'s ''vexillum'' was the first true fla...
11: ...ng battles to identify individual leaders: in [[Europe]] they were the [[knight]]s, in [[Japan]] they ...
13: From the time of [[Christopher Columbus]] onwards, it... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
13: ...rge Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
29: ...r]], (1813-1898), [[England]] — [[Bessemer process]]
33: *[[Theobald Boehm]], ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), [[Germany]] — inventor of the ...
36: ...63;]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
1: [[Image:Map of Territorial Growth 1790 sm.jpg|right|thumb|U.S. territorial exten...
3: ...eline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1790]] to [[1819]]'''.
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]]
19: ...[1796]] - [[Tennessee]], formerly part of North Carolina, becomes a state - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ... conflicting interests of these initially allied groups would become the source of conflict and bloods...
5: ...easants covetously eyed the relatively greater prerogatives of the townspeople.
7: ...and challenged the [[Catholic Church]] and the prerogatives of the nobles.
9: ...t in a non-bourgeois manner. The entire French terrorism was just a [[plebeian]] way of dealing with t...
13: ...owever, because noble titles exempted the holder from future taxes, the purchasers of titles were effe... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...]]s overthrew the [[absolute monarchy]] and the [[Roman Catholic Church]] was forced to undergo radica...
8: ... conflicting interests of these initially allied groups would become the source of conflict and bloods...
12: * Resentment of royal [[political absolutism|absolutism]].
15: ... both caused by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation.
17: ...ge and dominance in public life by the ambitious professional classes. - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
5: ... X of France|Charles, comte d'Artois]] - younger brother of Louis XVI and one of the first émigrés.
6: ...e|Charles Pierre François Augereau]] - officer throughout the Revolutionary era and [[First French Em...
9: *[[François-Noël Babeuf]] - proto-[[socialism|socialist]], guillotined in [[1797]...
10: ... Bastille]], guillotined during the [[Reign of Terror]]
17: ...c Safety]], more radical [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespierre]], but survived on [[9 Thermidor]]; was ... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's empire u...
5: ...ctively, the nearly continuous period of warfare from [[April 20]], [[1792]], until [[November 20]], 1...
9: ...ars brought some great changes upon the face of Europe:
11: * France was no longer a dominant power in Europe, as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV ...
12: ...oyal Navy]] held unquestioned naval superiority throughout the world, and the United Kingdom's industr... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
3: ...'' refers to the [[18th century]] in [[Europe | European philosophy]], and is often thought of
4: ...h of [[socialism]]. It is matched by the high [[baroque]] and classical eras in music, and the [[neo-c...
6: ...losophers such as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing inst...
10: ...t is thought of as a long period). Furthermore, [[Romanticism]] followed the Enlightenment.
14: ...became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German invento...
28: *[[Heinrich Caro]], (1834-1910), German chemist
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemi... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
5: ==Introduction==
7: ...n [[North Yorkshire]], near the town of [[Middlesbrough]]. Cook was one of five children born to Grac...
8: ... start again at the lowest level in the British [[Royal Navy]].
12: ...nd]], which brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
14: ...to the Antarctic circle repeatedly and exploring around the [[Great Barrier Reef]]), ability to lead m... - Honolulu, Hawaii (19495 bytes)
16: metro pop = |
25: ... encompasses all of the Island of O‘ahu (approximately 600 square miles).
29: ...ieved by the [[California Current]] that passes through the islands much of year. The average daily lo...
31: ...16813_Hono.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station]]
33: ...strict boundary follows Hālawa Stream, then crosses Red Hill and runs just west of Aliamanu Crate... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[...
18: *[[Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs]] ([[Germany]], [[1912]] – [[1954]])
20: *[[Robert Grant Aitken|Robert Aitken]], ([[United States|USA]], [[1864]] &n...
23: *[[V. Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
11: *[[John Abercrombie]], (1780-1844)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
22: *[[Robert Adamson]], (1852-1902) - Cotton gin (2185 bytes)
1: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: ... screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through the screen, while brushes continuously remove ...
4: ...by the sight of a [[cat]] clawing a [[chicken]] through the slatted walls of its coop and retrieving a...
6: There exists controversy over whether the idea of the cotton gin and ...
10: ...fold. This made the widespread raising of cotton profitable in the [[American South]], and is often co...
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