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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
24: ...to eat less, Louis-Auguste replied "Why? I always sleep better when I have a full stomach!"
27: Since they were not sleeping together, Louis and Antoinette remained chi...
59: ...indictive rumours began that Marie-Antoinette was sleeping with her brother-in-law. Illegal presses in...
63: ...s. Whatever Joseph II said to Louis XVI, it obviously worked. For the marriage was soon consummated an...
97: The French government was now seriously in debt, thanks to inefficient taxation and cost... - Sheng (instrument) (1217 bytes)
5: ...the first shengs back to Europe in [[1740]] and [[1777]] respectively, although some believe shengs were... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ... the economic and cultural elite of the [[slavery|slave]]-owning planters of [[Virginia]]. His parents...
43: ...sive there. Washington lost the [[Battle of Long Island]] on [[August 22]] but managed to retreat, sav...
45: ...s at [[Princeton]] on the eve of [[January 2]], [[1777]], eventually retaking the colony. The successful...
47: ...r 11]] and succeeded in his task. An attempt to dislodge the British, the [[Battle of Germantown]], fa...
51: ...them there, Washington's forces moved to [[Rhode Island]], where he commanded military operations unti... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
10: ...is wealth, Hancock remained, ethically and virtuously, the same. With his generosity, he was regarded ...
15: ...a. In [[1768]], upon arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was impounded by British customs...
19: ...ing the British. In the same year, he was unanimously elected president of the Provisional Congress of...
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]]}} - United States (58223 bytes)
58: ...s]] in [[1754]], in which a union was first seriously proposed.
60: ...tion Proclamation]], mandating the freedom of all slaves in states in rebellion, though full emancipat...
74: ...e United States|Congress]] (the [[legislature|legislative]] branch), the [[President of the United Sta...
78: ...gave the power to elect senators to the state legislatures; the [[Seventeenth Amendment to the United ...
84: ...ich consists of nine justices and can declare legislation made at any level of the government as [[unc... - 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... - Boat (6417 bytes)
56: * [[Sloop]]
72: * In [[cockney rhyming slang]], "boat" means face, from "boat race".
116: * [[Steamboat]] (1777) - Vermont (39851 bytes)
46: ...pine running the most of the length of the state, slightly west of its center. In the southwest portio...
62: ...[[Fort Sainte Anne]] on [[Isle La Motte, Vermont|Isle La Motte]] in [[1666]] as part of their [[fortif...
76: On [[January 18]], [[1777]], representatives of the New Hampshire Grants co...
78: ...on]] of [[History of slavery in the United States|slavery]], [[suffrage]] for men who did not own land...
80: ...ories]]. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!" With reinforcements from the Vermon... - Texas (39610 bytes)
70: ...Kickapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of Texas. For more informati...
94: ...d joined the Union in [[1791]], operated autonomously of the United States during that period, but was...
117: ... the [[Camino Real]] - one of the oldest continuously-used roadways in the [[United States]].
121: ...tated the [[Texian]]s included the Mexican ban on slavery, the forcible disarmament of Texian settlers...
133: ...platform promising to annex Texas, and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United St... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
36: ...th smallest state. The state is named after the island of [[Jersey]] in the [[English Channel]].
43: During the [[English Civil War]] the Island of [[Jersey]] remained loyal to The English Cr...
57: ... week after victory at [[Trenton]], on January 3, 1777, the American forces scored an important victory ...
63: ...d to ratify the Constitutional Amendments banning Slavery and granting rights to America's black popul...
68: ...st of Governors of New Jersey]]; [[New Jersey Legislature]]'' - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
45: * [[sledges]] - [[Scandinavia]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
146: * [[1777]]: [[carding|Card teeth making machine]]: [[Olive...
147: * [[1777]]: [[Circular saw]]: [[Samuel Miller]]
281: * [[1877]]: [[Induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]] - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
6: ... colonies of [[Nova Scotia]] and [[Prince Edward Island]]—remained loyal to the British Crown an...
15: ...idence Plantations]], later [[Rhode Island|Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]]
29: ...*</nowiki>Vermont was an independent country from 1777 until it became the 14th state in 1791. Today it ...
37: ...ean'' or [[St. John's Island (Canada)|St. John's Island]]
54: * [[Cayman Islands]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
305: *[[Wladyslaw Czachorski]] ([[1850]]-[[1911]])
324: *[[Stanislaw Debicki]] ([[1866]]-[[1924]]) - 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: ...n of Vermont]], the first in the nation to outlaw slavery
38: *[[1777]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] adopted by the ... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
7: ...lonies, taking over governmental functions previously exercised by the King and Parliament of Great Br...
9: ...usion of his charges against George III regarding slavery.
31: ...anced only a few miles during the whole Summer of 1777, and finally was overwhelmed at [[Battle of Sarat...
41: ...s]] had drawn up [[Articles of Confederation]] in 1777, to regularize its own status. These described a...
45: ...ell as a two house legislature. The national legislature, or Congress, envisioned by the Congress emb... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
58: *[[1777]] - [[Christian Daniel Rauch]], German sculptor (...
65: *[[1877]] - [[Slava Raskaj]], Croatian painter (d.[[1906]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
17: ...e been associated with the Fourth of July since [[1777]].
23: ...]]. After hard debate, the Congress voted unanimously (12-0), but secretly, for independence from the ...
33: ... evening fell, on [[July 4]] in [[Bristol, Rhode Island]]. [[Philadelphia]] celebrated the first anniv...
36: ...n [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]] to recognize Independence Day.
45: ...e [[Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest]] in [[Coney Island]], [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], which supp... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
8: ...ed and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these i...
15: ...th caused by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation.
21: ...d [[Jacques Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise th...
70: ...t a thirty-years' purchase") specified in the legislation of [[August 4]], the course now remained set...
76: ...m the [[Roman Catholic Church]] to the State. Legislation enacted in 1790 included the abolition of th... - Baboon (5672 bytes)
9: ...Christian Polycarp Erxleben|Erxleben]] | date = [[1777]]}} - Bobcat (4586 bytes)
12: ...ristian Daniel von Schreber|Schreber]] | date = [[1777]]}}
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