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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
32: ...[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] explorer
39: *[[James Bruce]]
40: *[[William S. Bruce]], (1867-1921) Scottish explorer of Antarctica
41: *[[Cornelis de Bruijn]], (1652-1727), Dutch traveler and artist
77: *[[Simon Dezhnev|Semyon Dezhnev]], [[Russians|Russian]] explorer, first European who sailed throug... - 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... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladies boardin... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
4: ...d onto the long land of Egypt, and the provincial ruling family in [[Xois]], located in the marshes of...
6: ... by a group of Hyksos princes and chieftains, who ruled in the eastern Delta with their local Egyptian...
8: ... to have been a mere vassal of the Hyksos princes ruling there; his successors held onto their diminis...
10: ...d It-tawy fell to the Hyksos, the native Egyptian ruling house in [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] declared it... - 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...
49: ...itions and drilled during the spring under the [[Prussia|German]] [[Baron Friedrich von Steuben]], ste... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
19: ...llion, he later became a public critic of British rule. On [[March 5]], [[1774]], the fourth anniversa...
36: ..., from [[November 23]], [[1785]] to [[June 6]], [[1786]]. He was preceded in that position by [[Richard...
57: ...s=[[November 23]], [[1785]] – [[May 29]], [[1786]]}} - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
23: ...;[[August 17]], [[1757]]) and Jane Randolph ([[February 20]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), ...
39: ...dential election, 1800]]. It was resolved on [[February 17]], [[1801]] when Jefferson was elected Pres...
123: ...erect and sinewy. He had angular features, a very ruddy complexion, sandy hair and hazel-flecked, grey...
141: ...axes in Virginia to support churches. Instead, in 1786 the [[Virginia General Assembly]] passed Jefferso...
147: ...clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the 'wall of separ... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
5: ... by [[Indonesia]] and borders the Sultanate of [[Brunei]] on the east, south, and west.
30: | '''[[Yang di-Pertuan Agong|Paramount Ruler]]'''
76: ...nd [[Lembah Bujang]] in [[Kedah]], as well as [[Beruas]] and [[Gangga Negara]] in [[Perak]] and [[Pan ...
80: ...w. After the fall of [[Malacca]], three nations struggled for the control of the [[Malacca Strait]]: t...
82: ... were formed. These settlements were collectively ruled from the [[British East India Company]] seat o... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
36: ...thirteen colonies]] that revolted against British rule in the [[American Revolution]].
56: ...os of [[Southeastern Connecticut]]. Connecticut's rural areas and small towns in the northeast and nor...
79: ...e coastline north of New Haven, with spur service running northwards to cities such as [[Hartford]]. (...
81: ...to I-95 before turning north of [[New Haven]] and running parallel to I-91, finally becoming a surfac...
83: ...lls over to clog the parallel Merritt Parkway. At rush hours, multiple backups tens of miles long are ... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
36: ...e [[United States]] that revolted against British rule in the [[American Revolution]] and is generally...
48: ...rginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[Virginia Convent...
52: ...]], [[1870]], after a period of post-war military rule.
54: ...since [[Reconstruction era (United States)|Reconstruction]] when he was elected Governor of Virginia.
59: ...d [[Native American]]s could not vote. Later the rules for voting changed, making it necessary for me... - Comet (30542 bytes)
1: ..., showing a white dust tail and blue gas tail (February 1997)]]
15: ...anics that tend to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometar...
31: ...he large numbers of comets discovered on some instruments has rendered this system impractical, and no...
35: ... fourth comet discovered in the second half of February 2006 would be designated 2006 D4. Prefixes ar...
61: ... for a series of cometary apparitions observed in 1786, 1795, 1805, and 1818, concluded they were same c... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: ...hat, interpretations vary. At one end of the spectrum is the view that the American Revolution was not...
62: ...ge the American colonies to unite against British rule.]]
66: ...s]]), the [[Canada|Canadian]] provinces of [[New Brunswick]] and [[Ontario]], and [[Freetown]], [[Sier...
76: *[[Shays' Rebellion]] - 1786
80: ...lution did not produce the kind of epoch-breaking rupture with past customs and institutions as the [[... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
48: *[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]]
49: *[[1786]] - [[Annapolis Convention]] fails - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
12: *[[1823]] - Treaty with Russia
14: ...etary of State]], which Jackson calls their "[[Corrupt Bargain]]"
30: *[[1831]] - [[Cyrus McCormick]] invents the [[reaper]]
31: ...eople)|Cherokees]]; President Jackson ignores the ruling
37: ... the [[Second Bank of the United States]]; this struggle leads to the [[Panic of 1837]] - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
2: ...give identifying facts and ultimate fates. ''As a rule, the best place to clarify complexities is in t...
20: ...ower as [[First Consul]] in the ''coup'' of [[18 Brumaire]]
25: *[[Guillaume Marie Anne Brune]] - political journalist, [[Jacobin]], friend o...
29: ...ery of the terrible state of French finances in [[1786]] precipitated the Revolution crisis
32: ...]], ousted in [[French_Directory#18_Fructidor|18 Fructidor]] ''coup'' - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
14: ...xioms, reached its height with [[Baruch Spinoza|Baruch (Benedictus de) Spinoza]]'s Ethics, which expou...
18: ...y, where belief is that human beings apprehend a truth that is more provisional, but in that era it wa...
22: ...uman terms. The quest for the expression of this truth would lead to a series of philosophical works w...
24: The focus on law, involving the separation of rules from the particulars of behavior or experience...
39: ...For [[Voltaire]] « ''Écrasez l'infâme!'' » ("Crush Infamy!") would be a battle cry for the ideal o... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
61: *[[Alexander Naumovich Frumkin]], (1895-1976), electrochemist
138: *[[Rudolph Pariser]], (born 1923), [[theoretical chemis...
161: *[[Leopold Ruzicka]], (1887-1976), [[1939]] [[Nobel Prize in Ch...
166: *[[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]], (1742-1786), Swedish [[18th century]] chemist, discovered nu...
196: ...iley]], (1844-1930), US [[chemist]], Pure food & drug advocate - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...urdens. The rebellion started on [[August 29]], [[1786]].
9: ...om [[debtor's prison]]s. In the late summer of [[1786]] the conflict escalated when armed Regulators sh...
15: ...Massachusetts]], where they were defeated on [[February 3]], 1787. Shays and many of the leaders escap...
19: .... In addition many states moved their capitals to rural regions, where state governments would be bett... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ...was developing steam engines. In [[1707]] he constructed a paddle-powered boat, but whether it was ful...
21: ...sion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a succe...
37: ...in operation on the inland [[Loch Lomond]], a forerunner of the lake steamers that still grace the [[S...
40: ...] in the world. This ship sails a full season of cruises every year from places around [[United Kingdo...
49: ...east coast of the [[United States]] began on [[February 28]], [[1849]] with the arrival of the [[SS C... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786
29: *Nov. 6, 1786- Oct. 30, 1787
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