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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
44: *[[Abd-ar-rahman I]], (died 788), Muslim Spain ruler
47: *[[Abd-ar-rahman IV]], (circa 1017), Muslim Spain ruler
48: *[[Abd-ar-rahman V]], (1023-1024), Muslim Spain ruler
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
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15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
25: *[[John Aislabie|Aislabie, John]], (1670-1742), director of the [[South... - 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...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
19: ...] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatowski]], a former lover, on the [[List of... - 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...
71: ...[Louis-Joseph-Xavier-Fran篩s|Louis-Jos鰨]] in [[1781]], [[Louis XVII|Louis-Charles]] in [[1785]] and S... - 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: ...them there, Washington's forces moved to [[Rhode Island]], where he commanded military operations unti...
53: ...rces and a French fleet had [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|trapped General Cornwallis]] at [[Yorktown, Virg... - 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...
27: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock:
30: ...n the Field." (United States Library of Congress, 1781.) - 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... - 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... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
56: ...f the discovery, by Sir [[William Herschel]] in [[1781]], of the planet [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] at th...
64: ...oids, beginning with [[323 Brucia]], whereas only slightly more than 300 had been discovered up to tha...
67: ...cope, the image of the body would appear to float slightly above the background of stars. Third, once ...
134: ...the review: [http://www.badmovies.org/movies/greenslime/]. The movie inspired the classic [[board game... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
151: *[[Elijah McCoy]] — son of former slaves, patented many [[lubrication]] devices
173: *[[Slavoljub Eduard Penkala]], (1871-1922), [[Croatia]]...
186: ...]], [[United States|USA]] — automatic bread-slicing machine
200: *[[George Stephenson]], (1781-1848), [[England]] — steam locomotive, civi...
206: ...ication]], [[robot]]ics, [[logic gate]]s, the [[Tesla turbine|bladeless turbine]], radio and [[VTOL|V... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
30: ...ritish goods, and to the emergence of the popular slogan "[[no taxation without representation]]," in ...
66: ...al component of the populations of the [[Abaco]] islands (in the [[Bahamas]]), the [[Canada|Canadian]]... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
37: ...n of Vermont]], the first in the nation to outlaw slavery
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered - 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.
13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
33: ... Revolution was also supposedly less intense. In 1781, a combined American and French Army, acting with...
45: ...ell as a two house legislature. The national legislature, or Congress, envisioned by the Congress emb... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
155: ...or it can be described as having an axial tilt of slightly less than 90° and rotating in a [[retro...
170: ...3]], [[1781]], but reported it on [[April 26]], [[1781]] as a "[[comet]]": ''Account of a Comet, By Mr. ... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
15: ...The [[United States]] takes possession of [[Wake Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
18: ...$25 million for the [[U.S. Virgin Islands|Virgin Islands]].
19: ...nal character | character]] created by [[Elzie Crisler Segar]], first appeared in a [[newspaper]] [[co...
142: * [[2004]] - [[Czeslaw Niemen]], Polish musician (b. [[1939]]) - 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...
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: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
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... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
70: ...lgebra | algebraic thinking]], acquired from the Islamic world over the previous two centuries, and [[...
116: * [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]] (1729-1781) ''German'' Dramatist, critic, political philosop...
118: ...tín]] (1760-1828) ''Spanish''. Dramatist and translator, support of [[republicanism]] and free thinki... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
2: ...tive branch|executive]], [[Legislative branch|legislative]], and [[judicial branch]]es. The federal le...
6: ==Legislative branch==
7: ...States Constitution|Constitution]] grants all legislative powers of the federal government to the [[Un...
9: ...er, so did the need for investigating pending legislation more thoroughly. The 108th Congress ([[2003]...
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