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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...air, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
37: ...s, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
41: ... General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...er birth is uncertain, but is usually taken to be 1797.
8: ...51]] at the Women's Convention in [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[Ohio]].
10: ...he worked with a neighbor, [[Olive Gilbert]], to produce a biography in [[1850]], the ''Narrative of S...
13: ...o [[Washington, D.C.]], after the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] was issued to work with former slaves....
19: ...he [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" after Sojourner Truth. - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
9: ...Iris'''''}}<br />{{Taxobox authority|author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]|date = [[1753]]}}
15: ...low to white, blue, blue-violet, lavender, tan, maroon and purple.
20: ...re many species of ''Iris'', widely distributed throughout the north temperate zone.
21: ...lopes, meadowlands, stream banks and deserts of Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa, Asia and ...
23: ...e are 3 - 10 basal, sword-shaped [[leaf|leaves]] growing in dense clumps. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...a]]. Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed to remove or amend this requirement, but non...
16: ...e served two full terms: [[Dwight Eisenhower]], [[Ronald Reagan]], and [[Bill Clinton]]. Incumbent Pre...
19: ...e person receiving the greatest number of votes (provided that such a number was a majority of elector...
21: ...mendment XII]] in [[1804]] changed the electoral process by directing the electors to use separate bal...
25: ...ess is concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising... - 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: ...blic]]an [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
26: ...nia. He visited [[Barbados]], with his sick half-brother Lawrence in [[1751]], and survived an attack ...
31: ...eventually became the [[Seven Years' War]] in [[Europe]]. - 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]...
22: ...eration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in ...
24: ...758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing d...
28: ...[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through his work as a constitutional lawyer. Impetuous... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
16: | vicepresident=[[Aaron Burr]]; [[George Clinton (politician)|George Cli...
18: ...ulturalist]], [[Horticulture|horticulturist]], [[Property|land owner]], [[architect]], [[Archaeology|a...
23: ...]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from families who had settled in [[Virginia]] for sev...
25: ..., [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unani...
27: The [[Library of Congress]] was founded from the sale of his collection (the Library was foun... - 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 ... - 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: ... a foreign-born wife, Adams wed Louisa Johnson in 1797. The couple named one of their sons after George ...
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... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: ...axhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] of [[North Carolina]]
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
18: ... first president who had lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associat...
22: ...rust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favor...
24: ...egan to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militi... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ...sotho]] is an independent [[nation]], entirely surrounded by South African territory.
3: ...al Party (South Africa)|National Party]] began introducing the policy of [[apartheid]] after winning t...
5: ...ontinent, with modern [[infrastructure]] common throughout the country.
13: ...people, who are a physically distinct population from other Africans, have their own cultural identity...
15: Many white South Africans also speak other [[Europe]]an languages, such as [[Portuguese language|Po... - 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: ...at produced cotton gins went out of business in [[1797]].
22: ..., Connecticut]] and [[Hamden, Connecticut]], on a road which is now named [[Whitney Avenue]]. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...ctical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where the...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
10: * 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
16: *[[Yamagata Hiro]] (born 1964), author
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
23: *[[Yan Chia-kan]] (1905-1993), ROC politician
27: ...nkovic|Yankovic, "Weird Al"]] (born 1959), US [[parody]] musician
31: ...ssociation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - 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]]) - 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]]'''.
19: ...[1796]] - [[Tennessee]], formerly part of North Carolina, becomes a state
22: *[[1797]] - [[John Adams]] (Federalist) inaugurated, Jeff...
23: *[[1797]] - [[XYZ Affair]] - New Year (5703 bytes)
9: ...Hashanah to be not earlier than [[September 6]]. Rosh Hashanah cannot occur later than [[October 5]],...
11: ...lendar]]. Because the [[Chinese calendar]] is astronomically defined, unlike the Gregorian Calendar, ...
16: ...celebrated from [[April 13]] to [[April 15]] by throwing water.
31: ...ius Caesar]] introduced the [[Julian calendar]], dropping Mercedonius and decreeing that the New Year ...
33: ... days in the [[Ecclesiastical calendar]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] came to be used as the begin... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...n about 1450 and 1600. The Gregorian calendar as promulgated in [[1582]] did ''not'' specify that Janu...
7: ...404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
9: *[[1438]] - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] is crowned King of [[Hungary]].
11: *[[1651]] - [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] crowned King of [[Scotland]]
14: *[[1707]] - [[John V of Portugal|John V]] is crowned King of [[Portugal]] - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...ment, an especially accurate one is called a [[chronometer]]. The clock in its modern form (24 hour c...
12: It may also be used to ''control'' a device according to time, e.g. an alarm cloc...
14: ...rch projects are developing CPUs based on [[asynchronous circuit]]s). Some computers also maintain tim...
18: ...fined in relationship to the set of all physical processes.
23: ...clock is a [[process|recurrent]], [[periodic]] [[process]] and a [[counter]]. - 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: ...- proto-[[socialism|socialist]], guillotined in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'etat|coup]]'' attempt
10: ... Bastille]], guillotined during the [[Reign of Terror]]
17: ...c Safety]], more radical [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespierre]], but survived on [[9 Thermidor]]; was ...
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