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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wi... - 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... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ... and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Elizabeth of Holstein]]. In [[1744]], Tsarin...
11: ...ich were more manageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the ge...
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.) - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...nchester, Hampshire|Winchester]] to seek medical attendance, but so rapid was the progress of her mala...
9: ...ed when they were published, with [[Sir Walter Scott]] in particular praising her work: - 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... - 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]] - Geology (12007 bytes)
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...
29: ... Lyell]]'s ''Principles of Geology'' reiterated Hutton's uniformitarianism, which influenced the thoug... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 25]], [[1788]] |
38: ...Union as a separate state in [[1792]] while the latter broke away from Virginia during the [[American ...
44: ...n what now is Virginia were the [[Powhatan]], [[Nottaway]], [[Meherrin]], [[Pohick]], [[Monacan]], [[S...
46: ...ement in the New World which was at [[Jamestown Settlement|Jamestown]] in the [[Virginia Colony]] in [... - 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]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
68: *[[John James Audubon]] ([[1785]]-[[1851]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]]) - 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: ... and continued after the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution ...
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]]) - 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: ... led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[Albany, New York|Albany]] in [[...
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 ... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
11: ... 19 sent up the fourth living beings in a basket attached to the ham: a sheep named Montauciel (meanin...
22: ...g a crossing of the English Channel on January 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. Bal...
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... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
17: ... to England, made his own engine and in [[1763]] attempted to put it in a boat. The boat sank, and whi...
21: ...lliam Henry, had made a model paddle steamer in [[1785]], and subsequently developed propulsion by float...
23: ...Lord Dundas]] and in March [[1802]] the ''[[Charlotte Dundas]]'' towed two 70 ton barges 30 km (almost...
25: ...]] he ordered a [[Watt steam engine|Boulton and Watt steam engine]], and on return built the ''North R...
27: In [[Scotland]] the ideas of the ''Charlotte Dundas'' were taken up by [[Henry Bell]], and in... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...Congress was planned through the permanent [[committees of correspondence]], which kept the local colo...
6: ...e "Intolerable Acts" were not repealed. The boycott was successfully implemented, but its potential a...
8: ...ntry through the war with very little money and little real power. The Congress had disagreements wit...
27: *Jan 11, 1785- Nov. 4, 1785 [[New York, New York]]
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786 - 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...
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