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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... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]]
23: ...]] for several generations. He attended and then attempted to institute many reforms at the [[College ...
25: ...herman]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prep...
27: ...e definitive book on the original buildings, or [http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/grizzard Academic...
29: [[Image:Jefferson1web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]] - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...od years. In [[1769]], he left the plantation to attend [[Princeton University]] (it was called the ''...
33: ...[[Dolley Madison|Dolley Payne Todd]], who cut as attractive and vivacious a figure as he did a sickly ...
40: ...], the [[Treaty of Ghent]] ended the war. The [[Battle of New Orleans (1815)]], in which [[Andrew Jack...
83: ...n="left"|[[Attorney General of the United States|Attorney General]]||align="left"|'''[[Caesar A. Rodne...
107: === States Admitted to the Union === - Geology (12007 bytes)
16: ...canic]] origins of this part of France. [[James Hutton]] recorded his ''Theory of the Earth'' in the [...
18: [[William Smith (geologist)|William Smith]] (1769-1839) drew some of the first geological maps and ...
20: ...d and for [[sediment]] to form new rocks at the bottom of the sea, which in turn were raised up to bec...
22: ...Neptunists]]'', who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dro...
26: ...vents and remained unchanged thereafter. Though Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not... - Canada (35540 bytes)
10: ...[[as of 2005|June 2005]] is 32.2 million people [http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/clock/population.ht...
15: ... head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
52: ...nd]]||[[Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island|Charlottetown]]
70: ...al, Quebec]]; [[Vancouver, British Columbia]]; [[Ottawa, Ontario]]; [[Edmonton, Alberta]] and [[Calgar...
75: ...village", "settlement", or "collection of huts" [http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-... - 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...
13: * [[1769]]: [[Patent]]ed separate condensing chamber for s...
14: ...Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved [[Watt steam engine]].
22: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ... [[fiber]] that grows around the seeds of the [[cotton plant]], a [[shrub]] native to the tropical and...
3: ...-plants-growing-in-a-field.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
4: ...d in a neat series of natural springs. When the cotton boll (seed case) is opened the fibers dry into ...
7: ...Image:Alabama-cotton-farm.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Cotton Farm in Alabama.]]
9: ...ica and India domesticated different species of cotton independently thousands of years ago. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ...60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
15: * 12 KYA: [[Pottery]] by [[Jomon]] in [[Japan]]
123: * [[1645]]: [[Vacuum pump]]: [[Otto von Guericke]]
136: ...1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle)]]
143: * [[1769]]: [[Steam engine]]: [[James Watt]] - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: ...quests ushered in centuries of Greco-Macedonian settlement and rule over non-Greek areas, a period kno...
14: ... King of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander b...
23: ...vid story, Alexander proclaimed that it did not matter how the knot was undone, and hacked it apart wi...
25: ...r the command of Darius III Codomannus at the [[Battle of Issus]] in [[333 BC]]. Proceeding down the ...
27: ...feated Darius and a third Persian army at the [[Battle of Gaugamela]]. Darius was forced to flee the f... - 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]]) - Uranus (15207 bytes)
89: ...nus;]]0.718 333 333 d (17 h 14 min 24.000 00 s) [http://www.hnsky.org/iau-iag.htm <sup>1</sup>]
149: ...us ices, with only about 15% [[hydrogen]] and a little [[helium]] (in contrast to Jupiter and Saturn w...
157: ... its equatorial regions. Uranus is nevertheless hotter at its equator than at its poles, although the ...
160: ...uring the Voyager 2 flyby, Uranus' banded cloud patterns were extremely bland and faint. Recent [[Hubb...
168: ...es in [[1750]], twice in [[1768]], six times in [[1769]], and one last time in [[1771]]. He was a victim... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...has been occupied for millennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in t...
13: ...s]] and [[European colonization of the Americas|settlers]] appeared, they found many [[Native American...
19: ...silver. About the same time, Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a w...
50: ... inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was disc...
78: ...n Diego, California|San Diego]] on [[June 29]], [[1769]], establishing the [[Presidio of San Diego]]. Ea... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
25: ...[[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{bibleverse||Matthew|16:18-19|}}, he received the keys to the kingd...
1230: | <small>[[Città ¤i Castello]], Umbria, Italy</small>
1393: | <small>Ottobuono [[Fieschi]]</small>
1449: | <small>Benedetto Caetani</small>
1603: | <small>Giovanni Battista Cybo</small> - James Cook (14770 bytes)
12: ...st of [[Newfoundland]], which brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
14: Cook's huge achievements can be attributed to a combination of excellent [[seamanship...
18: ...eaving in [[1768]], he arrived on [[April 13]], [[1769]] in [[Tahiti]], where he built a small [[Fortifi...
28: ...ts name to the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']], as well the Endeavour River.
32: ... [[Joseph Banks]] was a bigger hero. Banks even attempted to take command of Cook's second voyage, bu... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
5: ...dition, always referring to Clark as "Captain" ([http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/v02.appendix.a.h...
7: ...d. Soon they passed Le Rochette, the last white settlement on the [[Missouri River]]. On [[August 20]]...
9: ...December of 1805. At this point in time, Lewis spotted [[Mt. Hood]], a mountain known to be very close...
10: ...". By that time the expedition faced its second bitter winter during the trip, so the group decided to...
16: ... States. Without these calm meetings, the white settlers from the East would have stormed the Indian C... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
10: ...73]] - [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton]] sells his part of [[New Jersey]] to the [[Qu...
16: ...Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham radi...
18: ...ited Kingdom|British]] & [[France|French]] naval attack on the [[Dardanelles]].
23: ...[Italy|Italian]] forces a grave defeat at the [[Battle of Guadalajara]].
26: *[[1945]] - World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack [[Berlin]]. - 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 ...
46: *[[1769]] - [[William Smith (geologist)|William Smith]], ...
62: *[[1924]] - [[Bettie Nesmith Graham]], inventor (d. [[1980]]) - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
3: ...ith a view to improving the cod fishery, and in [[1769]]-[[1772]] he was employed in north-western disco...
5: His first attempt (from 6 November 1769) failed through the desertion of his Indians; his... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
13: *[[Nicaragua Naval Battles]] (1854–1858)
17: *[[Shinmiyangyo|Shinmiyangyo Battle in Korea]] (1871)
50: *[[Battle of Mogadishu]] (1993)
60: ==Native American conflicts, wars, battles, expeditions and campaigns==
70: *[[Little Belt Affair]] (1811) - 18th century (8231 bytes)
18: ...7|Act of Union]] passed merging the [[Scotland|Scottish]] and the [[England|English]] Parliaments, thu...
33: * [[1741]]: [[Russia]]ns begin settling the [[Aleutian Islands]].
35: * [[1750]]: peak of the [[Little Ice Age]]
38: * [[1757]]: [[Battle of Plassey]] signals the beginning of [[British...
43: ...]]: [[Konbaung Dynasty|Burmese]] conquer the [[Ayutthaya kingdom]].
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