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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
159: | [[Rhode Island]]
160: | [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]]
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wi...
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...
11: ...ich were more manageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the ge...
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: ...]] in [[1781]], [[Louis XVII|Louis-Charles]] in [[1785]] and Sophie-Bé¡´rix in [[1786]]. - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...relative in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladie...
7: While her first novel, the posthumously published ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'', pokes fun at...
12: ...of gentle but keen satire: she appeals rarely and slightly to the deeper feelings; and the enforcement... - 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: From [[1780]]–[[1785]], he was [[governor of Massachusetts]]. Hancock'...
36: ... in Congress assembled]], from [[November 23]], [[1785]] to [[June 6]], [[1786]]. He was preceded in th... - 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...
48: ... had been authorized to execute the duties previously assigned to Laurens, and secured the recognition...
50: In [[1785]] John Adams was appointed the first American min... - 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)
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... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
57: ...stone was laid by Governor [[Patrick Henry]] in [[1785]].
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]]
149: * [[1785]]: [[Power loom]]: [[Edmund Cartwright]]
150: * [[1785]]: [[Production line|Automatic flour mill]]: [[Ol...
155: * [[1785]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Jean Pierre Blanchard]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
68: *[[John James Audubon]] ([[1785]]-[[1851]])
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
305: *[[Wladyslaw Czachorski]] ([[1850]]-[[1911]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
68: *[[Karl Drais]], (1785-1851), [[Germany]] — [[bicycle]] ([[Draisin...
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
198: *[[Henry Miller Shreve]], (1785-1854) — [[sidewheeler]], [[snagboat]], vari... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
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]]...
77: *[[Northwest Indian War]] ([[1785]]-[[1795]]) - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
37: ...n of Vermont]], the first in the nation to outlaw slavery
47: *[[1785]] - [[Treaty of Hopewell]] - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
13: ... and by his vigilance in the retreat from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture.
14: ...Burr established a thorough patrol system, rigorously enforced [[martial law]], and quickly restored o...
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... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
5: ...burns. This led them to cry and yell at the fire, slapping it with all their might. That only got them...
22: ...g a crossing of the English Channel on January 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. Bal... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
19: ...leagues had made a working steamboat that was too slow for river use. In [[1783]] a new [[paddle steam...
21: ...lliam Henry, had made a model paddle steamer in [[1785]], and subsequently developed propulsion by float...
42: ...e Scottish canals and to serve the Highlands and Islands. They were immortalised by the tales of [[Par...
44: ...gers on their trips from [[Glasgow]], past the [[Isle of Arran]], down the [[Firth of Clyde]], and one... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
1: ... '''Continental Congress''' was the federal [[legislature]] of the [[Thirteen colonies|Thirteen Coloni...
27: *Jan 11, 1785- Nov. 4, 1785 [[New York, New York]]
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786 - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
38: ...cribed (as it would have been [http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/kite.html dramatic but fatal]). Instead he u...
48: ... obtained a charter from the [[Pennsylvania]] legislature to establish a hospital. [[Pennsylvania Hos...
69: ...pendence. Ben Franklin remained in France until [[1785]], a favorite of French society. Franklin was so ...
71: When Franklin was recalled to America in 1785, Le Ray honored him with a commissioned portrait ...
73: ...his return from France in [[1785]], he became a [[slavery]] [[abolitionist]] who eventually became pre...
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