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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ... and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Elizabeth of Holstein]]. In [[1744]], Tsarin...
21: ...mpire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792|sec...
23: ...ator in the [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[178...
25: ...em not faced by the anchored Swedish ships. At battle's end, the Russians had lost 50 to 60 ships and... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marriag...
2: '''Marie-Antoinette''', Queen of [[France]] and Archduchess of [[Aus...
4: Marie-Antoinette was the fifteenth child (the youngest daughter; ...
7: ...e Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most bril...
9: ...ss's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - 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 Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...rated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boyl...
24: ...[[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. O...
26: ...gregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[176... - 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]] - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
27: ... fall under his influence. In [[1803]] he was admitted to the bar and continued in active and successf...
29: ...George Clinton]] (and later of his nephew, [[De Witt Clinton]]), [[Robert R. Livingston]] and Aaron Bu...
33: ...812]]-[[1820]]). In [[1815]] he became the state attorney-general, an office which he held, still as a...
35: ... originate the system, but won the nickname of "Little Magician" for the skill with which he exploited...
43: ...anama Congress. As chairman of the judiciary committee, he brought forward a number of measures for th... - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...gy" was first used by Jean-Andreluc in the year [[1778]] and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bedict...
16: ...canic]] origins of this part of France. [[James Hutton]] recorded his ''Theory of the Earth'' in the [...
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... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
14: ... align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Unidad, Paz, Justicia<br>([[Spanish language|...
36: - Total ([http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ek....
74: On [[December 15]], [[2002]] [http://allafrica.com/stories/200212160112.html], Equa...
76: According to a March 2004 [[BBC]] profile [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3516588.stm],...
78: ...atcher]] as the financial backer of a March 2004 attempt to topple Obiang organized by [[Simon Mann]]. - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 50<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[August 21]], [[1959]] |
39: This state most recently admitted into the Union has many distinctions. In additi...
46: ...song]] is ''[[Hawai'i pono'i|Hawaii ponoi]]'', written by [[Kalakaua|King Kalākaua]] and composed...
56: ...unt Waialeale|Mount Waiʻaleʻale]] the wettest place on earth; it averages 11.7 m (460 in) of... - Washington (20186 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 42<sup>nd</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[November 11]], [[1889]] |
36: ...st city in Washington is [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]]. As of the [[2000]] census, the state populat...
42: The [[battleship]] [[USS Washington|USS ''Washington'']] was... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 14<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 4]], [[1791]] |
36: ...mplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, [...
38: ...ed by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provinc...
46: ...ecause their relatively low altitude allows for little [[tree-line|timberline]], form a north-south sp... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
8: Nickname = Palmetto State |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 8<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[May 23]], [[1788]] |
42: ...overnment on March 15, 1776. On [[February 5]], [[1778]] South Carolina became the first state to ratify...
44: ...cide the matter. On April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries began shelling [[Fort Sumter]], which stands... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 33<sup>rd</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[February 14]], [[1859]] |
36: ...Range]] - form the two boundaries of the [[Willamette Valley]], one of the most fertile and agricultur...
43: ...'s environmental problems, such as the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pa...
49: ...ver. Fort Astoria was the first permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the [[War of 1812]], the [[Br... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
6: ...ombined linen warp and cotton weft. At the time cotton production could not keep up with demand, and H...
8: ... wheel at the other. A set of eight rovings were attached to a beam that could roll from the spindle e...
10: The [[flying shuttle]] had increased yarn demand by the weavers by d...
12: ...nd smashed his machines, forcing him to flee to Nottingham in 1767. There he set up shop producing jen...
16: ...oderate success" Hargreaves' death on April 22nd, 1778. That year [[Samuel Crompton]] invented the [[spi... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
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32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor of the [[transi...
60: *[[Gottlieb Daimler]], (1834-1900), [[Germany]] — [...
65: ... [[James Dewar]], (1842-1923) — [[Thermos bottle]] - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
19: *[[1771]] - [[Battle of Alamance]] in [[North Carolina]]
20: *[[1772]] - [[Samuel Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Correspondence]]
28: ** [[Massachusetts Government Act]] ([[May 20]]),
31: *[[1775]] - [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]]
35: *[[1777]] - [[Battle of Oriskany]] ([[August 6]]) - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...e subjected to continual sniper attacks. The [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]], coming after a doze...
9: ... was reviewed by Franklin at length and then submitted to the Congress where numerous changes were mad...
11: ...ican Revolutionary War]] against Great Britain, settled by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Pari...
13: ... Confederation]], proposed and put into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles...
21: ...essary to world Empire. The British Parliament's attempt to raise taxes on the North American colonist... - 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...
102: ...erved to protect the missions and other Spanish settlements in Upper California. Each of these posts f... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
23: ...ss reworked the text of the Declaration until a little after eleven o'clock, July 4th, when twelve [[c...
34: * In [[1778]], General [[George Washington]] marked the Fourt...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]] to recognize Ind...
45: ...posedly started on July 4, [[1916]] as a way to settle a dispute among four immigrants as to who was t...
52: * [http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/holidays/july4/ US State ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
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14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
41: *[[Otto Diels]], (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of...
74: *[[Otto Hahn]], (1879-1968)
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