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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ''This page is about Maria Theresa of Austria (often only known as Empress Maria Theresa), ru...
3: ..., Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]]
4: ...owerful women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
6: ...ued, on Charles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...ng to adulthood. She made him co-regent of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the p... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...alled '''[[Father of the Nation|Father of his Country]]'''<sup>[[#Notes|1]]</sup>, was an [[United Sta...
26: ...[[Chotank]] in King George County. As a youth, he trained as a [[surveyor]] (obtaining his certificate...
29: ... 1772.JPG|thumb|right|275px|This, the earliest portrait of Washington, was painted in [[1772]] by [[Ch...
31: ...irginia Regiment, led a mission into the Ohio Country. He ambushed a [[French Canadian]] scouting part...
33: ...nd showed coolness under fire in organizing the retreat. In Virginia, Washington was acclaimed as a he... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
2: ...f Hancock [[:Image:JohnHancockLarge.jpeg|(full portrait)]]]]
8: ...ard College]] and received a business degree in [[1754]], when he was 17. Upon graduation, he worked for...
13: ...Stamp Act]], which attempted to restrict colonial trading.
17: ...istance to British authority and his financial contributions led Bostonians to joke that "[[Samuel Ada...
19: ...ary of the [[Boston Massacre]], he gave a speech strongly condemning the British. In the same year, he... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...fty [[U.S. state|states]] located primarily in central [[North America]]. The United States has land b...
4: {{Infobox Country |
9: ...>([[Latin]]: "Out of Many, One")<br>''[[In God We Trust]]'' ([[1956]]–present) |
52: ...ence|Declaration of Independence]]. However, the structure of the United States was profoundly changed...
58: ...ior to all these was the [[Albany Congress]] in [[1754]], in which a union was first seriously proposed. - James Watt (5070 bytes)
3: ...e [[steam engine]] were a key stage in the [[Industrial Revolution]].
5: ...iety]]. Many of his papers are in [[Birmingham Central Library]].
9: * [[1754]]: Learned the trade of mathematical-instrument making in [[London]] before returning to [[G...
18: * [[1788]]: Adapted [[centrifugal governor]] for use on steam engine.
22: ...e]] to convert circular motion to an approximate straight-line motion (of which he was most proud) and... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...ritain]] and [[France]], which was one of the theatres of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted i...
9: ...he prior three wars, fought more as secondary theatres to European conflicts, resulted in little terri...
13: ...addock Expedition]] and British victories at [[Fortress Louisbourg|Louisburg]], [[Fort Niagara]], [[Fo...
15: ... One result of the war was that Britain gained control of a large French-speaking, [[Roman Catholic]] ...
17: ...ar]] crops and the ease with which it could be controlled. - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ...onflict]], while a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was attacked in [[India]].
5: ...c War]] while the fighting between Prussia and Austria is called the [[Silesian Wars|3rd Silesian War]...
8: ... Theresa of Austria]] had only signed the peace [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]] in order to rebuild her ...
10: ...h was given since the ruling dynasty saw its ancestral [[Hanover (state)|Hanoverian]] possession as be...
12: The Austrian army had undergone an overhaul according to th... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
287: *[[Pietro da Cortona]] ([[1596]]-[[1669]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: ...t revolutionary at all, that it did not radically transform colonial society, but simply replaced a di...
7: ...c, etc. situations before the revolution, and the trends which led to the coming revolution -->
16: ...ilosophy]] and began to replace arguments born of tradition and authority with those based on observat...
18: ===Religious trends===
23: ...e stable and profitable, new economic and land distribution policies were implemented. Colonial resent... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[astronomer]], [[philosopher]], and [[alchemist]] who w...
4: ...lity]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour]]s observed when [[white]] [[...
21: ...b|left|Engraving after [[Enoch Seeman]]'s 1726 portrait of Newton]]
23: ...rantham Grammar School]]. In [[1661]] he joined [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where his uncle Willia...
25: ...ry was invented by him in his later life, to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events. - Ohio (19444 bytes)
24: ...mittanceDate = [[March 1]], [[1803]], declared retroactively on [[August 7]], [[1953]] |
42: ...up a system of trading posts to control the [[fur trade]] in the region.
44: ...ris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]], the French ceded control of Ohio and the old Northwest to Great Britain.
46: ...nists]] from settling in Ohio Country. British control of the region ended with the American victory i...
48: ...been known as [[Ohio Country]] and [[Illinois Country]]. As Ohio prepared for statehood, [[Indiana Ter... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...politics|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
11: ...ded up lucrative [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]].
13: ...he [[United States]] presented themselves as an attractive place for these new powers to establish col...
22: ...g only the mysterious word "CROATOAN" carved on a tree. Over a hundred men, women, and children had ap...
25: ...d|James I]] - very nearly became the next in the string of failed colonies. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...is many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a member of the [[Freemasons...
8: ===Ancestry===
21: Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. His fathe...
23: ...vvy about cultivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great...
27: ...t]] partly contributed to the American colonies' struggle to maintain their privileges. - March 23 (10340 bytes)
9: *[[1775]] - [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Patrick Henry]] delivers his famous speech - "[[give m...
10: ...uck with a sword, then [[strangle]]d, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Pala...
11: *[[1806]] - After traveling through the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and rea...
19: ...r a post-presidency [[safari]] in [[Africa]]. The trip is sponsored by the [[Smithsonian Institution]]...
21: ...war Dutt]] embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot b... - Augusta, Maine (4876 bytes)
8: founded = [[1754]] |
16: metro pop = |
28: ...ers from the [[Plymouth Colony]] in [[1625]] as a trading post. Located on the Kennebec River at highe...
30: ... Kennebec River in Augusta. The fort was built in 1754 and was called ''Fort Western''.
32: ...well in [[1771]]. In February of [[1797]], the upstream area of Hallowell know as "the Fort" was incor... - Albany, New York (8184 bytes)
25: metro pop = |
33: ...he company constructed [[Fort Nassau]], its first trading post near present-day Albany. In [[1624]] [[...
37: In [[1754]], representatives of seven of the British North ...
41: *[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/ny_state_capitol.html PBS report on the Sta...
48: ...1.8 [[square mile|mi²]] (56.6 [[square kilometre|km²]]). 21.4 mi² (55.4 km²) of i... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...n [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
42: *[[Emil Artin]] (Austria, [[1898]] - [[1962]])
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}...
191: *[[Bhartrhari]], (5th century){{fn|R}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
45: ...'the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottoman]] name...
47: ...much of this was under indirect control of the central government(see ''Main article: [[State organiza...
53: ... [[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[...
55: ...[spice]] trade. In Aceh, the Ottomans built a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlan...
57: ...lemate with their European and Asian neighbor countries, the European development went into overdrive....
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