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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
33: *[[Bud Abbott|Abbott, Bud]], (1895-1974), US actor
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
35: *[[Diane Julie Abbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
36: *[[Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
37: *[[Emma Abbott|Abbott, Emma]], (1849-1891), American singer - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
9: ..., (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ... and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Elizabeth of Holstein]]. In [[1744]], Tsarin...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
21: ...mpire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792|sec...
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 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: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock: - 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]] - 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: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
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...
14: ...Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved [[Watt steam engine]].
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
22: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...s of the [[gas giant|giant planets]]. The first [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibco...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "minor planet" (or "planetoid") carr...
14: ...d named minor planet was [[99905 Jeffgrossman]] [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs95001...
56: ...ain and any moving object would, hopefully, be spotted. The expected motion of the missing planet was ...
67: ...ld be measured relative to known star locations [http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/About/People/CarolynShoe... - 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]] - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
4: ...ture and extent of the American Revolution is a matter of interpretation. It is generally agreed that ...
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... - 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: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
21: ...essary to world Empire. The British Parliament's attempt to raise taxes on the North American colonist... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
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... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
6: ...arles I of England|King Charles I]] and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the [[Englis...
9: ...Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]] in [[South Carolina]].
12: * [[1873]] - [[First Battle of the Stronghold]] in the [[United States|US]]...
13: ...force defeats a large [[Dervish]] army at the [[Battle of Abu Klea]] in the [[Sudan]].
14: ...the [[Committee of Safety (Hawaii)|Citizen's Committee of Public Safety]] overthrow the government of ... - 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...
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 ...
53: * An extensive [http://www.american.edu/heintze/fourth.htm history] o... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
23: ..., and proposed a uniform land tax as a means of setting France's finances in order in the long term. ...
25: ...ing's tactlessness), Brienne went on the attack, attempting to disband the parlements entirely and col...
33: ...part of the opposition that the government would attempt to gerrymander an assembly to its liking. In...
35: Almost immediately the "Committee of Thirty", a body of liberal Parisians, mostly... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
6: ...e]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of both [[Church]]...
12: ...resent purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to ...
16: ...ced by the ideas of [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo...
24: ... as England's own "[[Star Chamber]]" court would attest to. However, once the concept established that...
28: ... to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.'' - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
9: ...ing committees have also spawned some 150 subcommittees.
13: * Committee inquiries and hearings;
20: * Studies by congressional committees and support agencies such as the [[Congression...
47: ...eals or state supreme courts (on constitutional matters), as well as having [[original jurisdiction]] ...
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