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- James Madison (15187 bytes)
18: ... Hamilton]], of the [[Federalist Papers]], and is traditionally regarded as the ''[[List of people kno...
23: ...nted in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state representation depending...
29: ...e governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
31: ...ed Jefferson and believed strongly in limiting centralized power.
33: ...[Dolley Madison|Dolley Payne Todd]], who cut as attractive and vivacious a figure as he did a sickly a... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
14: | wife=[[Elizabeth Kortright Monroe]]
18: ...d States]]. He is the namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United States Secreta...
24: ...to [[France]] in [[1794]]-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with [...
30: Monroe made strong Cabinet choices, naming a Southerner, [[John C...
34: ...s. The [[Missouri Compromise]] bill resolved the struggle, pairing Missouri as a slave state with [[Ma... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: John Quincy Adams was born in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]], (in a part of town which is n...
24: ...ppointed him Minister to the [[Netherlands]] in [[1794]], Minister to [[Portugal]] in [[1796]] and Minis...
28: ...a member of the commission which negotiated the [[Treaty of Ghent]] in [[1814]], and Minister to [[Uni...
30: ...-On�Treaty]] and helped develop the [[Monroe Doctrine]], which warned European nations not to meddle... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
14: ... time had been extremely labor-intensive. This contributed to the economic development of the [[Southe...
18: ... and its constituent elements should rightly be attributed to Eli Whitney; some contend that [[Catheri...
22: Whitney's greatest contribution to American industry was the development and implementation of the [[...
24: ...yle of manufacturing, where a skilled workman constructed individual items out of handmade and fitted ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
114: *[[Thomas Mann Baynes]] ([[1794]]-[[1854]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]]) - Flag (13245 bytes)
9: ...the [[Roman Empire]]'s ''vexillum'' was the first true flag.
14: [[Image:Australiaflag.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http:/...
15: ...h Century]], European knights were replaced by centralized [[Army|armies]], and flags became the means...
20: ... particularly inspirational to other nations, countries, or subnational entities in the design of thei...
22: ..., inspired the cross design of other [[Nordic countries]]. ''Examples'': the [[Flag of the Faroe Isla... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
13: ...orge Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
24: ...rdeen]], (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
25: *[[Trevor Baylis]], (1937- ) — [[clockwork radio]...
33: *[[Theobald Boehm]], ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), [[Germany]] — inventor of the ... - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]]
16: *[[1795]] - [[Treaty of Greenville]]
17: *[[1795]] - [[Jay Treaty]]
20: *[[1796]] - [[Pinckney's Treaty]] - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
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7: ...tween the American revolutionaries and the French troops who had assisted them resulted in the spread ...
9: ...he bourgeoisie, as they did in France in 1793 and 1794, <nowiki>[</nowiki>that is to say, during the [[R...
15: ...ebted, so deeply as to be effectively bankrupt. Extravagant expenditures by [[Louis XIV]] on luxuries ...
17: ...pital]] in France, as it was not nearly as much a trading nation as was Britain. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...he popular imagination. It downplays the previous trend of absolutism and people as subjects and ampli...
21: ...r-General of the Finances in [[1783]], pursued a strategy of conspicuous spending as a means of convin...
25: ...inced the short-term creditors on whom the French treasury depended to maintain its day to day operati...
33: ... meeting. Although it would appear that the magistrates were not specifically aware of the "forms of ...
53: ...f the military joined the mob; others remained neutral. - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
29: *[[Charles Alexandre de Calonne]] - French Controller-General of Finances from 1783 to 1787, whose...
30: ... under [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], chief contributor to the [[Napoleonic Code]]
33: ...son of the Duke of Orleans, he defected to the Austrians along with [[Charles Dumouriez|Dumouriez]] in...
43: ...ustin de Coulomb]] - major contributor to the [[metric system]]
53: ...irondist cabinet, eventually defected to the [[Austria]]ns - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ... the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's empire ...
5: ...aterloo]] and the [[Treaty of Paris (1815)|Second Treaty of Paris]]. Collectively, the nearly continuo...
8: [[Image:Napoleon1.jpg|left|frame|Portrait of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]]]]
12: ...roughout the world, and the United Kingdom's industrial economy made it the most powerful commercial n...
13: ...es have remained: for instance, many European countries have a [[Civil law (legal system)|Civil law]] ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...progress]] and out of a long period of doubtful [[tradition]], full of irrationality, superstition, an...
6: ... proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence of a supreme being. In this peri...
8: ...nment]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]].
14: ...here God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jef...
16: ...z’s treatise On Wisdom ". . . identified the central concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its t... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
23: ...r]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
26: ...an chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: ...ert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
41: ...st, winner of the [[1950]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
48: ...st, winner of the [[1967]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...t.jpg|thumb|250px|British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime...
5: ==Introduction==
8: ...ebra]], [[trigonometry]], [[navigation]], and [[astronomy]], skills he would need one day to command h...
12: ...phy and was responsible for mapping much of the entrance to the [[Saint Lawrence River]] during the si...
14: ...xtent of his explorations and going beyond the instructions given by the [[Admiralty]]. - Honolulu, Hawaii (19495 bytes)
16: metro pop = |
25: ...nsus]] estimates (2004), the population of the district is 390,000 and that of the county is 900,000. ...
29: ...7.826182){{GR|1}}. While this is clearly in the [[tropics]], the [[climate]] ([[temperature]] and [[hu...
33: ...orce Base]] are actually all in the ‘Ewa District.
35: Most of the city's commercial and industrial developments are located on a narrow but rela... - 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 astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
33: *[[Anders Ůgstr? ([[Sweden]], [[1814]] – [[1874]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[1557...
72: *[[Wilhelm von Biela]] ([[Austria]], [[1782]] – [[1856]])
82: *[[John Gatenby Bolton]] ([[England]], [[Australia]], [[1922]] – [[1993]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}}
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}... - Cotton gin (2185 bytes)
2: ...hitney]] (granted a [[patent]] on [[March 14]], [[1794]]) to mechanize the production of [[cotton]] fibe...
4: ...ken]] through the slatted walls of its coop and retrieving a paw full of feathers.
6: ...gin and its constituent elements can rightly be attributed to Eli Whitney; it is unresolved whether [[...
10: ...cotton gin revolutionised the cotton-growing industry because it increased the quantity of cotton that...
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