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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
64: *[[Clarke Abel|Abel, Clarke]], (1780-1826), English surgeon and naturalist
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
75: *[[John Abercrombie|Abercrombie, John]], (1780-1844), musician - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
38: ...[[Johann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853)
49: *[[Edward Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Edward]] (1810-1887) - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...sa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Louis XIV of France]].''
4: ...ted [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was undoubtedly one of the most powerful women of he...
6: ...it was issued, on Charles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...o Louis, heir apparent to the king of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis X...
15: ...[King of Bohemia]]: 1780 ([[Heir-Apparent]]: 1741-1780) - 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: ...778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[1780]] she set up a group designed to defend neutral s... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ... all of Europe, where they were primarily hung on walls or used on tables. Only with the opening of t...
3: ...peting'''. In this usage, the latter are wall-to-wall and are often woven in strips. In the real est...
8: [[Image:Swatches of carpet 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of machine-made carpet]]
10: ...'flatweave''' carpet is created by interlocking [[warp]] (vertical) and [[weft]] (horizontal) threads....
14: ...ngle. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of three knot types (see below) to form ... - 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 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]]. - Richard Mentor Johnson (4804 bytes)
3: ...r 17]], [[1780]]–[[November 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[United States House of Representatives|Repre...
5: ...he Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War.
7: ...mber 10]], [[1819]] to [[March 3]], [[1829]]. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1829...
9: ... Roads and the Committee on Military Affairs. He was selected as [[Martin Van Buren]]'s Vice Presiden...
11: Johnson was a member of the state House of Representatives i... - 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]] |
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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]... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...sphere. They are [[temperature]], [[pressure]], [[water vapor]], and the gradients and interactions of...
10: ...hed by [[Theophrastus]], a pupil of Aristotle. It was centered more on predicting the weather by inter...
12: ...he most important meteorological instruments in [[1780]] with the hair [[hygrometer]], which measures [[...
14: ...cords of weather conditions on a daily basis, and was one of the first Americans to forecast the weath...
16: ...gy yield of machines with rotating parts, such as waterwheels. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada...
36: ...1-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-invento...
48: *[[Wallace Carothers]], (1896-1937) — [[Nylon]]
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scientist - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
1: ...ion]], [[September 2004]]. [[NASA]] photo by [[Edward Fincke]].]]
6: ...em, which moves heat from the equatorial region toward the higher latitudes.
9: ... the release of the [[heat of condensation]] from water vapor condensing at high altitudes. Because of...
11: ... combine to produce the violent winds, incredible waves, torrential rains and [[floods]] associated wi...
13: ... engine, a tropical cyclone must remain over warm water, which provides the atmospheric moisture neede... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
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... - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
2: ...fitte was engaged in the [[slave trade]] after it was banned.
4: Lafitte was a colorful character, said to have been born in ...
6: ...language]] and published. The original manuscript was purchased by [[Texas]] Governor [[Price Daniel]]...
8: ...antic]] figure in [[Cajun]] Louisiana. His legend was perpetuated in [[Cecil B. DeMille]]’s clas...
13: After the [[War of 1812]], Lafitte was active in the Neutral strip of coast between Spa... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ... colonies|thirteen North American colonies]]. The war, which eventually widened far beyond [[British N...
3: ...ctive, including the origins and aftermath of the war, see the [[American Revolution]].
5: ...ous images relating to the American Revolutionary War.]]
10: When the war began, the thirteen American colonies did not ha...
12: ...personally commanded in the field at any one time was fewer than 17,000.
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