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  1. Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
    7: ...toinette's mother, the Empress Maria-Theresa, had ruled the Austrian Empire for fifteen years before A...
    22: ...'s personal wedding gift to her. It was a fan, encrusted with diamonds.
    25: ...mpotent]], but this was not the case. Nor was it true that he suffered from [[phimosis]]. Rather, it s...
    34: ...Comte Mercy d'Argenteau, who reported with great frustration that she was doing nothing to further [[A...
    36: ... [[Louis XV]] died of [[smallpox]]. The courtiers rushed over to Marie-Antoinette's apartments to swea...
  2. Sheng (instrument) (1217 bytes)
    3: ...hēng'') is a [[mouth]]-blown [[free reed instrument]] (the first) consisting essentially of verti...
    5: ...the first shengs back to Europe in [[1740]] and [[1777]] respectively, although some believe shengs were...
  3. George Washington (29551 bytes)
    10: | date of birth=[[February 22]], [[1732]]
    19: '''George Washington''', ([[February 22]], [[1732]] – [[December 14]], [[1799...
    24: ... - as this paragraph says--> ([[old style]])/[[February 22]], [[1732]] ([[new style]]). His birthday i...
    26: ...eemasonry|Freemason]] in Fredericksburg on [[4 February]] [[1752]]. On Lawrence's death in July [[1752...
    45: ...s at [[Princeton]] on the eve of [[January 2]], [[1777]], eventually retaking the colony. The successful...
  4. John Hancock (8787 bytes)
    19: ...llion, he later became a public critic of British rule. On [[March 5]], [[1774]], the fourth anniversa...
    23: ...ddleton]]. He would serve until [[October 30]], [[1777]], when he was himself succeeded by [[Henry Laure...
    56: ...rs=[[May 24]], [[1775]] – [[October 31]], [[1777]]}}
  5. United States (58223 bytes)
    2: ...veral territorial water boundaries with Canada, [[Russia]] and [[The Bahamas]]. It is otherwise bounde...
    9: ...([[Latin]]: "Out of Many, One")<br>''[[In God We Trust]]'' ([[1956]]&ndash;present) |
    52: ...nce|Declaration of Independence]]. However, the structure of the United States was profoundly changed ...
    58: ... political structure was a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Conf...
    80: ...tiebreaking vote. These two posts are elected, as running mates, by the people via the [[U.S. Electora...
  6. Flag of Delaware (1314 bytes)
    4: ...nter of the flag was adopted on [[January 17]], [[1777]]. It depicts a shield of horizontal red, blue an...
  7. Boat (6417 bytes)
    3: A boat consists of one or more [[buoyancy]] structures called [[hull (ship)|hull]]s and some syste...
    23: * [[Cruising|Cruiser]]
    85: ...his is the bows. A bow is one of the two curved structures each side of the foremost point of he hull....
    94: ...eads". Some are important parts of the vessel's structure.
    102: ...g rigging and a sheet or a halyard is part of the running rigging.
  8. Vermont (39851 bytes)
    38: ...for its scenery, [[dairy]] products and [[maple syrup]], Vermont has long been known for its [[Liberal...
    46: ...[tree-line|timberline]], form a north-south spine running the most of the length of the state, slightl...
    50: ...rs. The northern part of the state, including the rural northeastern section (dubbed the "[[Northeast ...
    66: In [[1731]], the French arrived. Here they constructed a small temporary wooden stockade (Fort de Pi...
    68: ...tlement was established in [[1724]] with the construction of [[Fort Dummer]] in Vermont's far southeas...
  9. Texas (39610 bytes)
    84: ...tm Travis' Appeal for Aid from the Alamo] [[24 February]] [[1836]]
    94: ...n the California Republic operated under military rule from [[1848]] until California's admission to t...
    100: === Reconstruction Texas ===
    116: * [[18 February]] [[1685]]: [[Ren魒obert Cavelier, Sieur de L...
    121: ...responded to rising unrest at the policies of the ruling [[Mexico|Mexican]] government. Policies that ...
  10. New Jersey (35646 bytes)
    45: ...s]] in England (with [[William Penn]] acting as trustee for a time) who settled the Delaware Valley r...
    49: ...thirteen colonies]] that revolted against British rule in the [[American Revolution]].
    57: ... week after victory at [[Trenton]], on January 3, 1777, the American forces scored an important victory ...
    63: Ironically, on [[February 15]], [[1804]] New Jersey became the last nort...
    72: ...[1948]], [[1968]], and [[1976]]. The state was a crucial [[swing state]] in the elections of [[1960]],...
  11. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    53: * [[Rubber]] in [[Mesoamerica]]
    74: * [[1st century]]: [[Rudder|Stern mounted rudder]] in [[History of China|China]]
    76: * [[132]]: Rudimentary [[Seismometer]]: [[Zhang Heng]]
    79: * [[4th century|300s]]: [[Stirrup]] in [[Jin Dynasty (265-420)|China]]
    119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
  12. Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
    10: ... (the division into three regions is a later construct of historians):
    29: ...*</nowiki>Vermont was an independent country from 1777 until it became the 14th state in 1791. Today it ...
    35: * [[Nova Scotia]] (including present day [[New Brunswick]])
    40: ... the red and pink areas on this map and [[Spain]] ruled the orange west of the [[Mississippi river]]. ...
  13. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
    188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
    210: *[[Rush Brown]] ([[1948]]-)
    211: *[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] ([[1568]]-[[1625]])
    212: *[[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] ([[1601]]-[[1678]])
  14. Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
    35: *[[1777]] - [[Battle of Oriskany]] ([[August 6]])
    36: *[[1777]] - [[Battle of Saratoga]] ([[October 7]])
    37: *[[1777]] - [[Vermont]], as the [[Republic of Vermont]], ...
    38: *[[1777]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] adopted by the ...
  15. History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
    21: ...inant power, but found itself mired in debt and struggling to finance the Navy and Army necessary to w...
    25: ...anize itself as a [[federal government]], and instructed the colonies to write constitutions for thems...
    31: ...anced only a few miles during the whole Summer of 1777, and finally was overwhelmed at [[Battle of Sarat...
    41: ...gations incurred during the war, or to become a forum for productive cooperation among the States enco...
    51: ... ratification convention became the focus for a struggle over the wisdom of adopting the Constitution.
  16. January 2 (10888 bytes)
    11: *[[1793]] - [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland]].
    16: *[[1870]] - Construction of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] begins.
    20: ...tes his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[trust]].
    25: *[[1905]] - [[Russo-Japanese War]]: The [[Russia]]n fleet surrenders at [[L?ou|Port Arthur]], ...
    31: *[[1935]] - [[Bruno Hauptmann]] goes on trial for the murder of Cha...
  17. Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
    17: ...e been associated with the Fourth of July since [[1777]].
    29: ...ence from the Continental Congress, as opposed to rumors in the street about secret votes.
    33: * In [[1777]], British officers noted the firing of 13 guns, ...
    34: ...ton]] marked the Fourth with a double ration of [[rum]] for his soldiers and an artillery salute. Acro...
  18. French Revolution (36529 bytes)
    2: ...tholic Church]] was forced to undergo radical restructuring. While [[France]] would oscillate between ...
    21: ...d [[Jacques Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777&ndash;1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise th...
    25: ...d to endorse his measures, insisting that only a truly representative body &mdash; preferably the [[Es...
    53: ...e reformist minister Necker and completely reconstructed the ministry. Much of Paris, presuming this t...
    57: ...ecame the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the ''commune''. The king visited P...
  19. Baboon (5672 bytes)
    9: ...Christian Polycarp Erxleben|Erxleben]] | date = [[1777]]}}
    29: ...Females initiate mating by presenting her swollen rump to the male.
  20. Bobcat (4586 bytes)
    10: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''L. rufus'''''}}
    12: ...ristian Daniel von Schreber|Schreber]] | date = [[1777]]}}
    15: The '''Bobcat''' (''Lynx rufus'', or ''Felis rufus'') is a small wild [[Felidae|cat]] indigenous ...
    26: *''Lynx rufus rufus'', northeastern USA
    27: *''Lynx rufus baileyi'', southwestern USA

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