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  1. President of the United States (42878 bytes)
    51: * [[Martin Van Buren]], born [[December 5]], [[1782]], was the first president born after the [[Unite...
    62: {| {{prettytable}} cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2
    289: ...sprawling retreat occasionally used as a casual setting for hosting foreign dignitaries.
    315: ...gov/research_room/jfk/house_select_committee/committee_report_gunmen.html]
    319: **[[Warren G. Harding]], died of [[heart attack]] in [[1923]]
  2. 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...
  3. Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
    9: ...<td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</td></tr>
    22: '''Martin Van Buren''' ([[December 5]], [[1782]] &ndash; [[July 24]], [[1862]]), nicknamed '''Ol...
    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...
  4. Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
    12: national_motto = none |
    67: ...rliamentary Party]] moved to prominence with its attempts to achieve [[Home Rule]], which would have g...
    69: ... 1919]]. However it was not admitted. After the bitterly fought [[Anglo-Irish War|War of Independence]...
    73: ..., arguing in the face of public support for the settlement that the "people have no right to do wrong"...
    75: ...an army which was able to overwhelm them on the battlefield. British supplies of artillery, aircraft, ...
  5. 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]].
    16: * [[1782]]: Invented double-acting engine.
    22: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ...
  6. List of painters (54090 bytes)
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    38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
    102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
    130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
    143: *[[Henryka Beyer]] ([[1782]]-[[1855]])
  7. January 1 (18244 bytes)
    30: ...eater New York. The four initial boroughs, [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], and [[The Bronx]],...
    43: *[[1937]] - The first [[Cotton Bowl (game)|Cotton Bowl]] game is played in [[Dallas, Texas]].
    58: *[[1971]] - [[Cigarette]] [[advertisement]]s are banned on [[United Stat...
    59: ...reland]], and the [[Republic of Ireland]] are admitted into the [[European Community]].
    64: **The [[Greece|Republic of Greece]] is admitted into the [[European Community]].
  8. 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...
  9. Capacitor (29664 bytes)
    18: ...the plates. It is also proportional to the [[permittivity]] of the [[dielectric]] (that is, non-[[elec...
    34: ...e [[impedance]] in [[frequency domain]] can be written as
    80: ... this new design as "suppression of combustion" [http://www.niccomp.com/faq.html-ssi].
    84: ... to supercapacitors, but using carbon aerogel to attain immense electrode surface area.
    95: ...ndustry instruments,some types of pressure transmitter use a capacitor element to measure pressure and...
  10. Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
    3: ...ith [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and acquittal on charges of [[treason]].
    13: ...n arriving before the [[Battle of Quebec (1775)|Battle of Quebec]], he disguised himself as a [[Roman ...
    14: ...ed to the bar at [[Albany, New York|Albany]] in [[1782]], and began to practice in [[New York City]] aft...
    24: ...d him [[List of New York State Attorneys General|Attorney General of New York]]. He was commissioner o...
    38: ... Representatives|House of Representatives]]. The attempts of a powerful faction among the Federalists ...
  11. Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
    7: On [[December 14]], [[1782]] they succeeded in an outdoor launch of an 18 m&...
    11: ... 19 sent up the fourth living beings in a basket attached to the ham: a sheep named Montauciel (meanin...
    25: *[http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2003/hetheringto...
    26: *[http://www.start-flying.com/Montgolfier.htm "Balloons...
    27: *[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-64386 "Karl Frie...
  12. American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
    19: ...in]] entered the war against Great Britain in an attempt to dilute Britain's super power status. Franc...
    29: === Massachusetts, 1774-76 ===
    31: ...o resign or to seek refuge in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. Gage commanded four [[regiment]]s of B...
    33: ...the British moved on to Concord, sparking the [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]]. By the time the "re...
    35: ...inter of the American Revolution, witnessed the battle.]]
  13. 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...
  14. March 17 (9666 bytes)
    6: ...[[Gnaeus Pompeius|Pompey the Younger]] in the [[Battle of Munda]].
    8: *[[1673]] - [[Jacques Marquette]] and [[Louis Jolliet]] begin their exploration ...
    10: ...dom|British]] forces evacuate [[Boston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] places [[artillery...
    17: *[[1910]] - [[Luther Gulick]] and his wife Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in...
    20: ...39]] - [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)]]: The [[Battle of Nanchang]] between the [[Kuomintang]] and th...
  15. 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]].
  16. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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    62: *[[Grigory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
    63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
    75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]])
    82: *[[Bhargav Bharat Bhatt]] (India)
  17. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
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    10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] &ndash; [[1928]])
    11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] &ndash; [[1982]])
    72: *[[Wilhelm von Biela]] ([[Austria]], [[1782]] &ndash; [[1856]])
    136: *[[Pablo Cottenot]] ([[France]])
  18. 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}...
  19. Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
    5: His first attempt (from 6 November 1769) failed through the des...
    7: ...Jean-Fran�ois de La P�rouse|La P�rouse]] in 1782. He returned to England in [[1787]] where he died...
  20. Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
    3: '''Daniel Webster''' ([[January 18]], [[1782]] &ndash; [[October 24]], [[1852]]) was a [[Unite...
    17: ...ess in [[1816]] and moving to [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]].
    21: ... argued the case. The peroration of his speech [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/speeches/dartmouth...
    23: ...tes Senate|Senate]] from the state of [[Massachusetts]]. Shortly after that, in [[1828]], his first wi...
    25: ...dwebster/speeches/hayne-speech.html] in which he uttered the famous phrase, "liberty and Union, now an...

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