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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...ed a group of troops to the palace in which Peter was residing. He immediately fled to a distant castl...
9: ...ion representing all classes except the [[serf]]s was created to make this document the law, but she d...
17: ... succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
21: ...usso-Turkish War]] during Catherine's reign. This war ([[1787]]-[[1792]]) ended with the [[Treaty of J...
23: ...ed an important role, acting as mediator in the [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]])... - Banksia (1867 bytes)
15: ...nks]], of the [[James Cook|Cook]] expedition in [[1768]]. They are native to [[Australia]], growing in ... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ...show that Hancock always wrote his signature this way.
8: ...d received a business degree in [[1754]], when he was 17. Upon graduation, he worked for his uncle. Fr...
10: ...and virtuously, the same. With his generosity, he was regarded as a man of integrity and honor.
15: ... arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was impounded by British customs officials for viola...
19: ...ngly condemning the British. In the same year, he was unanimously elected president of the Provisional... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[George Washington]]
18: ... United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825...
22: ...o [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...se of the American colonies. Years later, when he was an old man, Adams undertook to write out, at len...
26: ...h]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]]. - Nepal (22444 bytes)
14: ...br />(transliteration: Ja'nani Jan'mabhumis'hcha Swar'gadapi Gariya'si)<br />[[Sanskrit]]: Mother and ...
30: ...'''[[Area]]'''<br /> - Total <br /> - % water
37: | [[1768]]
58: ... century BC]]. By [[200]] AD, the Buddhist empire was displaced by resurgent Hindu fiefdoms such as th...
60: ...u. In [[1814]], Nepal fought the [[Anglo-Nepalese War]] with the [[British East India Company]] that e... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
24: *[[Jimmy Yancey|Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy"]] (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie mus...
47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of New York (1823-18...
75: ...-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas, Edward]] (1901-1964), [[World War II|WW2]] SOE agent
130: *[[Yoshikawa Eiji|Yoshikawa, Eiji]], ([[1892]]-[[1962]]), novelist
131: *[[Yoshikawa Takeo|Yoshikawa, Takeo]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]])
230: *[[Canaletto]] ([[1697]]-[[1768]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ... [[French and Indian War]], and the orange region was claimed by [[Spain]]. Note that this map does no...
2: ...commenced," wrote [[John Adams]]. "The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."
4: ...The opposite view is that the American Revolution was a unique and radical event, producing significan...
10: ...ican]] lands east of the [[Mississippi River]]. A war against France's former Indian allies—[[Po...
19: ... of [[Baptist]] views throughout the colonies. It was also the first event that swept through all the ... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ...argest by diameter and fourth largest by mass. It was named after the [[Greek mythology|Greek god]] [[...
149: ...us (like [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]]) is in many ways similar to the cores of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupi...
153: ...e of Uranus' orbit the orientation of the poles towards the Sun is reversed. Between these two extreme...
155: ...ger 2]]'s passage in [[1986]], Uranus' south pole was pointed almost directly at the Sun. Note that th...
164: ...ectrically conductive, super-pressurized ocean of water and ammonia once thought to lie between the co... - History of California (38344 bytes)
11: The coast of California was an inviting pathway even for the earliest inhabitants of [[North Ame...
13: ...al tribes were a major source of trading beads ([[wampum]]), which were produced from [[mussel]] shell...
19: ... and silver. About the same time, Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]]...
23: ...fornia]]), and laid out and founded the city that was to become LaPaz later that spring.
28: In July [[1539]], moved by the renewal of those stories, Cortés sent Francisco de Ullo... - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
1: The '''Boston Tea Party''' was a political protest by [[Boston, Massachusetts]]...
5: ...ficials and he was charged with [[smuggling]]. He was defended by [[John Adams]] and eventually the ch...
7: ...ompany had large debts, huge stocks of tea in its warehouses, and no prospect of selling it because sm...
9: ...om landing as most American ports turned the tea away; at Boston however, the East India Company had t...
11: ... they had destroyed only the tea. The whole event was remarkably quiet and peaceful. - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...Piave]] (north) Rivers. The [[Venetian Republic]] was a major sea power and a [[staging area]] for the...
6: ...of autonomy and eventual [[independence]]. Venice was a [[city state]] (an Italian [[thalassocracy]] o...
8: ...wer of Venice were laid: the [[Venetian Arsenal]] was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested contr...
10: ...ed to the defence of Venetian sovereignty when it was threatened by invaders.
12: ...tly transport the men, supplies, and (especially) war horses. - James Cook (14770 bytes)
3: ...], in which its main shorelines were mapped. Cook was also a [[cartographer|map maker]].
7: ...hire]], near the town of [[Middlesbrough]]. Cook was one of five children born to Grace and James, Sr...
8: ...n collier in 1755 on the eve of the [[Seven Years War]] to start again at the lowest level in the Brit...
12: ...ed a talent for [[surveying]] and cartography and was responsible for mapping much of the entrance to ...
16: ==First voyage ([[1768]]-[[1771]])== - March 21 (10586 bytes)
7: ...ing an armed conflict, [[Pope Pius VII|Pius VII]] was [[Papal Coronation|crowned Pope]] in [[Venice]] ...
8: * [[1801]] - The [[Battle of Alexandria]] was fought between [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[...
9: *[[1804]] - [[Napoleonic code|Code Napol鯮]] was adopted as [[France|French]] [[civil law]].
13: *[[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Battle of the Somme (1918)|Second Battle ...
17: *[[1945]] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
27: *[[Al-Khwarizmi|Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi]] (Persia, [[780]] - [[850]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
113: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]] (English, c. [[1290]] - [[1349]]) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: ...rst Lady of the United States]], though that term was not coined until after her death.
3: ...lacked formal education. On her mother's side she was descended from the Quincys, a family of great pr...
48: ...ohn Quincy Adams]] (1767-1848), Susanna Boylston (1768-70), Charles (1770-1800), Thomas Boylston (1772-1...
52: ...tates]], Abigail became a good friend to [[Martha Washington]] helped in official entertaining, drawin...
54: When John Adams was elected [[President of the United States]], she ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876...
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[1989]...
51: *[[Walter Baade]] ([[Germany]], [[1893]] – [[1960...
65: *[[Edward Emerson Barnard]] ([[United States|USA]], [[185...
88: *[[Edward L. G. Bowell|Edward (Ted) L. G. Bowell]] ([[United States|USA]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
175: *[[Walter Benjamin]], (1892-1940){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
195: *[[Harry Binswanger]], (born 1944)
238: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]], (c. 1290-1349){{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}}
276: *[[Walter Burley]], (c. 1275-c. 1345){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Great Barrier Reef (3888 bytes)
5: ...rier Reef was [[Captain James Cook]] during his [[1768]] voyage. Cook discovered the reef by running agr...
7: Due to its vast biodiversity, warm clear waters and its accessibility from the floating guest...
16: ...Both are considered significant factors affecting water quality.
18: ...less, revealing their white skeletons, and if the water does not cool within about a month the coral d...
20: ...lient and recover from storm battering. With an upward trend in temperature apparently continuing, muc... - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
1: ...mber [[1792]]), [[England|English]] [[explorer]], was born in [[London]].
3: ...ving the cod fishery, and in [[1769]]-[[1772]] he was employed in north-western discovery, searching e...
5: ... but in his third (December 1770 to June 1772) he was successful, not only discovering the [[copper]] ...
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