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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
67: ...Karl Friedrich Abel|Abel, Karl Friedrich]], (1723-1787), German composer - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
34: ...Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843) - 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...
21: ...rkish War]] during Catherine's reign. This war ([[1787]]-[[1792]]) ended with the [[Treaty of Jassy]], w... - 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...
93: ...o suffered some terrible personal tragedies. In [[1787]], Marie-Antoinette's youngest daughter, Sophie-B... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...[1797|97]]). He also served as President of the [[1787]] [[History of the United States Constitution|Con...
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... - 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...
38: Resuming the governorship of Massachusetts in [[1787]], he led his state toward ratification of the fe...
59: ...=[[James Bowdoin]]| after=[[Samuel Adams]]| years=1787 – 1793}} - 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: ...stitution of Government of the United States'' ([[1787]]), in which he repudiated the views of [[Anne Ro... - 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... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
23: ... strong central government with a [[bicameral legislature]]. When the issue arose of how states would ...
113: ...madisonmus.org/resources/will.htm] Madison was a slaveholder throughout his entire life.
120: ...s are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
124: ...ple." -- Constitutional Convention [[June 29]], [[1787]] - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
22: ...]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He stud...
32: ...on]] remained the only American president unanimously chosen by the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral...
80: ...nish ship where they were being held as illegal [[slave]]s, should not be returned to [[Spain]], but r... - United States (58223 bytes)
37: [[September 17]], [[1787]]<br>[[May 23]], [[1788]]<br>[[March 4]], [[1789]...
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 ... - Sierra Leone (10596 bytes)
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46: | [[.sl]]
54: ...[[Freetown]] was established as a city for former slaves living in [[London]].
60: ...uly 7]], [[1999]] in [[Lom靝, [[Togo]] offered a slight hope that the country will be able to termina...
81: [[Image:Sl-map.gif|thumb|Map of Sierra Leone]] - Flag of Delaware (1314 bytes)
2: ...nd. Below the diamond, the date [[December 7]], [[1787]], declares the day on which Delaware became the ... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 7]], [[1787]] |
36: ...ion]]. Ratification occurred on [[December 7]], [[1787]].
42: ... the "three lower counties" gained a separate legislature, and in 1710 a separate executive council.
48: ...n the country was chartered in Delaware by former-slave [[Peter Spencer]] in 1813 as the "[[Spencer Ch...
50: ...stitution and so voted unsuccessfully to continue slavery beyond the Civil War. Delaware ratified the ... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 12]] [[1787]] |
63: ...ew Castle, Kent, and Sussex gained a separate legislature, and in 1710 a separate executive council, t...
65: ...ylvania became the second state on December 12, [[1787]] (five days after Delaware became the first).
77: ... an [[executive (government)|executive]], a [[legislature]], and a [[judiciary]], the powers and dutie...
82: ===Legislative branch=== - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 18]], [[1787]] |
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: Slightly more than a week after victory at [[Trenton...
63: ...d to ratify the Constitutional Amendments banning Slavery and granting rights to America's black popul... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
45: * [[sledges]] - [[Scandinavia]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
156: * [[1787]]: Non-condensing high pressure [[Engine]]: [[Oli...
281: * [[1877]]: [[Induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]]
303: ...]) [[electric motor|induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]] - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
19: ...io the Younger|Quaglio, Domenico, the Younger]], (1787-1837), painter
84: *[[Vidkun Quisling|Quisling, Vidkun]], (1887-1945), Norwegian Nazi sympath... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
115: *[[Pompeo Girolamo Batoni]] ([[1708]]-[[1787]])
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)
36: ... Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water ...
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
206: ...ication]], [[robot]]ics, [[logic gate]]s, the [[Tesla turbine|bladeless turbine]], radio and [[VTOL|V...
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