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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
47: | [[Hawaii]]
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
63: | [[Iowa]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
67: *[[James Cook]], (1728-1779), explored the [[Pacific]], discovering or mappin...
105: *[[Louis de Freycinet]], (1779-1842), explored coastal regions of [[Western Aust...
131: ...lls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]...
134: *[[Sir Edmund Hillary]], with [[Tenzing Norgay]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes... - 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: ...he [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[1780]] she s... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3:
7: ...adame Puisieux and with Sophie Voland, to whom he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters t...
14: ...comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any subject that he approached, that in th...
16: ...nes]]. Here he remained for three months; then he was released, to enter upon the gigantic undertaking...
25: ...ast of the letterpress was issued in 1765, but it was 1772 before the subscribers received the final v... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
15: | wife=[[Martha Washington]]
19: ...ontinental Army]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first ...
21: ...tarily relinquished power even though some others wanted him to retain that power for life (as [[monar...
24: ... the difference in his birth year. His birthplace was Pope's Creek Plantation, south of [[Colonial Bea... - 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]]. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he too...
18: ...pril 13]], [[1743]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the third ([[1801]]–[[1809]]) [[President ...
23: ...he [[College of William & Mary]] — where he was a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] —...
25: Jefferson was the primary author of the [[United States Declar...
27: ...nded from the sale of his collection (the Library was founded in [[1800]]; Jefferson sold his third li... - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...n the year [[1779]]. An older meaning of the word was first used by [[Richard de Bury]]. He used it to...
10: ...f miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by [[erosion]] of the [[mountain]]s and b...
12: ...ned until after the [[Scientific Revolution]]. It was translated into [[Latin]] and the other language...
14: ...nd [[alum]], and administrative issues. The book was published in [[1556]].
26: ...gh Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
4: ...on tales]]. The [[Han Chinese]] thought the Earth was created and destroyed in cycles of over 23 milli...
6: ...e future beyond the end of humankind. One who did was [[Aristotle]], who thought the Earth and [[unive...
9: ..., regarded as the founder of [[Russia]]n science, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, sug...
11: ... cooling. This led him to estimate that the Earth was about 75,000 years old.
13: ... simply assumed that the Earth always had been, always would be. However, there were many naturalists ... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
33: | '''[[Area]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water
59: ... Restored to French rule in [[1779]], St. Vincent was regained by the British under the [[Treaty of Ve...
61: Slavery was [[abolition of slavery|abolished]] in [[1834]]; ...
63: ...atus under the British. A representative assembly was authorized in 1776, Crown Colony government inst...
65: ...ent and the Grenadines became the last of the Windward Islands to gain independence. - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...en, on [[February 28]], [[1780]], the Continental War Officers in Philadelphia directed that all regim... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Mark R. Warner]] |
17: WaterArea = 8,220 |
18: PCWater = 7.4 |
38: ...ke away from Virginia during the [[American Civil War]].
40: ...f them were re-elected to a second term: [[George Washington]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[James Madison]... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
34: ...ntury BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
55: * [[Water clock]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - 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]])
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
13: ...ly fireworks.jpg|thumb|These fireworks over the [[Washington Monument]] are typical of Fourth of July ...
23: ...ned by the members of the Congress, but even that was kept secret to protect the members from British ...
27: ...of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore.
29: ...ess, was first adopted by the vote of the 4th. It was also the first day Philadelphians heard the offi...
34: * In [[1778]], General [[George Washington]] marked the Fourth with a double ration ... - African Buffalo (2744 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] | date = [[1779]]}}
17: ...ape Buffalo is not closely related to the Asian [[Water Buffalo]], but its ancestry remains unclear. I...
19: ...hey are found in [[Zimbabwe]], [[Namibia]], [[Botswana]], [[Mozambique]] and [[South Africa]], with a ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
42: * [[Edward Doisy]], (1893-), American biochemist, winner o...
134: *[[Wilhelm Ostwald]], (1853-1932), [[1909]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemi... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ates|American]] [[politician]] and adventurer. He was a major formative member of the [[United States ...
7: ...ghter of [[Jonathan Edwards (theology)|Jonathan Edwards]], the famous [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] [[theolo...
9: ...ich he served under [[Benedict Arnold]], [[George Washington]] and [[Israel Putnam]].
13: ...[[Quebec]]. Burr's courage earned him a place on Washington's staff, but the general never quite trus...
14: ...t Arnold led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[Albany, New York|Albany... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...], much like [[Vidkun Quisling|Quisling]] in [[Norway]], or [[Philippe P鴡in|P鴡in]] in [[France]].
8: ==Wartime career==
9: ...our, had fought in the [[French and Indian War]], was a militia captain in the (Connecticut) Governor'...
10: ...ps that held it and who were not aware that a war was in progress.
13: ...jamin Hinman]] arrived and Arnold learned that he was second to Hinman, he resigned his commission (la... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: '''Shays' Rebellion''' was an armed uprising in [[Western Massachusetts]] t...
3: ... farmers. In addition, the tax system at the time was highly [[regressive tax|regressive]]. As a resul...
5: ...n [[Massachusetts]] rewrote its constitution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-...
7: ...uirement]]s for office at the time. When Bowdoin was elected governor, many of the people in Western ...
11: ...olutionary Army]]. Another leader, [[Luke Day]], was the son of a wealthy family in [[West Springfiel...
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