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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...hildren. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, he...
26: ...ouis XVI of France|HM King Louis XVI of France]] (1754-1793); had issue
35: ...red to attack Prussia in [[1756]]. Frederick II attacked first however, invading [[Saxony]], another ...
37: ...loseted from her people. Her focus changed from attempting to regain Silesia, to maintaining the peac... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...lf-brother Lawrence in [[1751]], and survived an attack of [[smallpox]], although his face was scarred...
31: ...rench, which Washington could not read.) The "[[Battle of Jumonville Glen|Jumonville affair]]" became ...
33: ...[[Braddock Expedition#Battle of the Monongahela|Battle of the Monongahela]]. Washington distinguished ...
41: ... Army]] on [[June 15]], [[1775]]. The [[Massachusetts]] delegate [[John Adams]] suggested his appointm...
43: ...ving most of his forces. However, several other battles in the area sent Washington scrambling across ... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...iness, making him the wealthiest man in Massachusetts at the time.
13: ...o resist the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which attempted to restrict colonial trading.
17: ...oke that "[[Samuel Adams|Sam Adams]] writes the letters [to newspapers] and John Hancock pays the post...
19: ...eady to fight in sixty seconds—and his boycott of [[tea]] imported by the [[British East India C...
27: ... the Continental Congress's demand for [[beef]] cattle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1... - United States (58223 bytes)
9: national_motto = <br>''[[E Pluribus Unum]]'' ([[1789]]–pr...
22: population_estimate = 333,287,557 [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock] |
52: ...cientific]], [[technological]] and [[cultural]] matters.
58: ...ior to all these was the [[Albany Congress]] in [[1754]], in which a union was first seriously proposed.
60: ...veral federal laws were passed in an attempt to settle the dispute, including the [[Missouri Compromis... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
3: ...dash;[[August 19]], [[1819]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[mathematician]] and [[engineer]] whose imp...
9: * [[1754]]: Learned the trade of mathematical-instrument m...
14: ...Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved [[Watt steam engine]].
22: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...can]] name for the decisive nine-year conflict ([[1754]]-[[1763]]) in [[North America]] between [[Great ...
9: ...ary theatres to European conflicts, resulted in little territorial change.
13: ...s but primarily alongside the French. The major battles include French victories at [[Fort William Hen...
19: ...y commitments as well as limitation on colonial settlements imposed by the [[British Royal Proclamatio...
23: ...stance of [[George Washington]] surrendering in battle. - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ...m the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was attacked in [[India]].
18: ...]] in the [[Ohio River]] area of North America in 1754. The war spread to Europe on [[May 15]],[[1756]],...
24: ...d Austrian armies were unprepared, and at the [[Battle of Lobositz]] Frederick prevented the isolated ...
26: ...e siege after Frederick's first defeat at the [[Battle of Kolin]].
28: ...Battle of Rossbach]] and the Austrians at the [[Battle of Leuthen]]. With these complete victories at ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ... and continued after the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution ...
4: ...ound the time of the [[French and Indian War]] ([[1754]]–[[1763]]), and ended with the election of...
28: ...ement became the practice. In [[1761]], Massachusetts lawyer [[James Otis]] argued that the writs viol...
30: ...ance. In previous years, the colonies had shown little inclination towards collective action. Grenvill...
38: ...eized by customs officials in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] on [[June 10]], [[1768]]. Angry protest... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...ton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of dif...
19: ...other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Newton.html]
25: ...s is an exaggeration of Newton's own tale about sitting by the window of his home ([[Woolsthorpe Manor...
29: ... twenty-five years of his life were marred by a bitter dispute with [[Leibniz]], whom he accused of pl...
40: He once said, in a letter to Hooke dated [[5 February]] [[1676]]: - Ohio (19444 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 1]], [[1803]], declared retroa...
36: ...e first and eastern-most state in the Midwest admitted to the Union under the [[Northwest Ordinance]]....
42: ..., [[Shawnee (tribe)|Shawnees]], [[Ottawa (tribe)|Ottawa]]s, and [[Eries]]. During the [[18th century]]...
44: In [[1754]], France and [[Great Britain]] fought a war know... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and the...
4: ...e [[frontier]] had certain unifying features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the lat...
11: ...d wealth and power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Eur...
13: ...y close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans we...
16: ...]]. At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a colonia... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: ...right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
9: ...ah Folger, was born in [[Nantucket]], [[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a...
13: ...for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several more ch...
21: ...in was born on Milk Street in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tal...
23: ...te'' to which he contributed many essays. The Gazette gave Franklin a forum for agitating for a variet... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
13: ...t [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish settlers for [[Dunedin, New Zealand|Dunedin]], [[New Z...
16: ...Benjamin Harrison]] opens [[Oklahoma]] to white settlement starting on [[April 22]].
21: *[[1931]] - [[Bhagat Singh]] and [[Batukeshwar Dutt]] embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle ...
45: *[[1754]] - Baron [[Jurij Vega]], [[Slovenes|Slovene]] [[...
62: *[[1924]] - [[Bettie Nesmith Graham]], inventor (d. [[1980]]) - Augusta, Maine (4876 bytes)
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28: ... of [[1607]]. It was first inhabited by English settlers from the [[Plymouth Colony]] in [[1625]] as a...
30: ... Kennebec River in Augusta. The fort was built in 1754 and was called ''Fort Western''.
51: ==Attractions in and near Augusta== - Albany, New York (8184 bytes)
33: ... since 1398, generally to a younger son of the Scottish King. The name is derived from Alba; the Gaeli...
34: ...ork_state_map.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
37: In [[1754]], representatives of seven of the British North ...
41: *[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/...
43: *[http://www.nnp.org/ New Netherland Project] - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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62: *[[Grigory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
82: *[[Bhargav Bharat Bhatt]] (India)
86: *[[Errett Bishop]] ([[1928]] - [[1983]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: *[[Archibald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
6: | [[Image:Ottoman Coat of Arms.jpg|Ottoman Coat of Arms]]
8: | style="text-align: center;" | [[Ottoman Coat of Arms]]
11: ...png|Map of the Ottoman Empire]]<br/><small>''The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power''</small>
13: | '''[[Motto|Imperial motto]]'''
14: ... ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra)
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