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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
85: | [[1772]] — [[1779]]
159: | [[Rhode Island]]
160: | [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]]
193: | [[1919]] — [[1928]] (Legislative Building) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
66: ... to the [[Indies]]; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]]
67: ...Pacific]], discovering or mapping many lands and islands - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
9: ...w up a document to reform the code of laws. A legislative commission representing all classes except t...
19: ...] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatowski]], a former lover, on the [[List of...
23: ...he [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[1780]] she s... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
10: ...e'' (1743); with two colleagues he produced a translation of James's ''Dictionary of Medicine'' (1746&...
23: ...derot with a project for the publication of a translation into French of [[Ephraim Chambers]]'s ''[[Cy...
31: ...wrote several hundred articles, some of them very slight, but many of them most laborious, comprehensi...
38: ...n Wolfgang von Goethe]], who thought it worth translating, as "a magnificent work, which speaks even m...
40: ... of Europe. Diderot helped Grimm between 1759 and 1779, by writing for him an account of the annual exhi... - 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...
47: ...r 11]] and succeeded in his task. An attempt to dislodge the British, the [[Battle of Germantown]], fa...
51: ...ckname "American [[Fabius Maximus|Fabius]]". In [[1779]], he ordered twenty percent of the army to carry...
62: ...rt convinced many, including the [[Virginia]] legislature, to support the [[U.S. Constitution|Constitu... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ... their representatives; in August 1765 he anonymously contributed four notable articles to the [[Bosto...
33: ...diers; but two soldiers were found guilty of [[manslaughter]]. These claimed benefit of [[clergy]] and...
46: ...t Britain and again sent to Europe in September [[1779]]. The [[France|French]] government, however, did...
48: ... had been authorized to execute the duties previously assigned to Laurens, and secured the recognition... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ...itect]], [[Archaeology|archaeologist]], [[slavery|slaveowner]], [[author]] and founder of the [[Univer...
25: ...t R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare the draft of the ...
68: *Abolition of the external [[slave trade]] in [[1808]]
123: ...-one-half inches (189 cm) in height, large-boned, slim, erect and sinewy. He had angular features, a v...
127: ...th to prepare to learn [[Gaelic]] in order to translate [[Ossian]], and sent to [[James Macpherson]] f... - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...d term by Horace-Bedict de Saussure in the year [[1779]]. An older meaning of the word was first used by...
12: ...l after the [[Scientific Revolution]]. It was translated into [[Latin]] and the other languages of Eur...
20: ...that the Earth must be much older than had previously been supposed in order to allow enough time for ...
26: ...e) |uniformitarianism]]. This theory states that slow geological processes have occurred throughout t...
48: ... younger layer cannot slip beneath a layer previously deposited. This principle allows sedimentary lay... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
11: ...monosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-...
19: ... perpetual change, eroding and reforming continuously, and the rate of this change was roughly constan... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
59: ...aribs were eventually deported to [[Roatan]], an island off the coast of [[Honduras]].
61: ... 1860s. Conditions remained harsh for both former slaves and immigrant agricultural workers, as depres...
63: ... Crown Colony government installed in 1877, a legislative council created in 1925, and universal adult...
65: ...d the Grenadines became the last of the Windward Islands to gain independence.
67: ...ausing extensive damage to the west coast of the island. - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...Washington]], who had ordered on [[October 2]], [[1779]], that the uniform coats of the [[Continental Ar... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...d as the first Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1...
59: ...ssembly]] is still in existence as the oldest legislature in the Western Hemisphere. Today, the '''Ge...
61: ..., the '''General Assembly''' continued as the legislature, the '''Supreme Court of Appeals''' acted as...
63: ...ate Government is composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
65: The '''legislative branch''' or [[state legislature]] is the [[Virginia General Assembly]], a [[... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
45: * [[sledges]] - [[Scandinavia]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
148: * [[1779]]: [[Spinning mule]]: [[Samuel Crompton]]
281: * [[1877]]: [[Induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]]
303: ...]) [[electric motor|induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
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...
35: * In [[1779]], the Fourth falls on a Sunday. Starting a long ...
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... - African Buffalo (2744 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] | date = [[1779]]}} - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
82: *[[Jaroslav Heyrovsk?1890-1967), Czech chemist
182: *[[Miha Tisler]], (born 1926), chemist. - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
13: ... and by his vigilance in the retreat from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture.
14: ...estored order. He resigned from the army in March 1779 on account of ill health, renewing his study of l...
24: ... from [[1784]] to [[1785]], but Burr became seriously involved in politics in [[1789]], when [[George ...
30: ...7, and instead went into the [[New York state legislature]], serving from 1798 through 1801. During [...
36: ...gainst Thomas Jefferson. At the time, [[state legislature]]s elected the electors to the [[U.S. Electo... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...[[United States]], much like [[Vidkun Quisling|Quisling]] in [[Norway]], or [[Philippe P鴡in|P鴡in]]...
6: ...overnor)|namesake]] colonial governor of [[Rhode Island]], Arnold grew up in a well-to-do Connecticut ...
13: ... and protested vehemently when the suspicious legislators closely examined each item. In June he becam...
17: ...sh force near [[Battle of Valcour Island|Valcour Island]], New York on [[October 11]], [[1776]]. Thoug...
21: ...olution)|Loyalist]] sympathies. On [[April 9]], [[1779]] he married 18 year-old Peggy, by whom he would ... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
5: ...n [[Massachusetts]] rewrote its constitution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-...
13: ...empathy for the Regulators, the Massachusetts legislature was unwilling to approve a raising of the mi...
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