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- James Madison (15187 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Port Conway, Virginia]]
18: ...d States|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was co-author, with [[John Jay]] and [[Alexander Ham...
21: ...plantation to attend [[Princeton University]] (it was called the ''College of New Jersey'' at the time...
23: ...would be represented in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state represen...
25: ... as to the thinking of what Thomas Jefferson (who was in France at the time) called an "assembly of de... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
18: ... namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary...
24: ... States Senator]]. As Minister to [[France]] in [[1794]]-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for th...
28: ...evolutionary War]] veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested in his two elections.
30: ... Southerner, [[John C. Calhoun]], as Secretary of War, and a Northerner, [[John Quincy Adams]], as Sec...
32: Monroe's presidency was later labeled "The Era of Good Feelings", in par... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
18: ...d States|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First La...
22: ...ected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[...
24: .... The couple named one of their sons after George Washington. (As of 2004, Adams is the only U.S. Pres...
26: .... House of Representatives]] in the same year. He was elected as a [[United States Federalist Party|Fe... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
2: ...December 8]], [[1765]] - [[January 8]], [[1825]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[inventor]] and m...
6: ...On [[January 6]], [[1817]] he married Henrietta Edwards and they had four children.
18: ...such as [[George Washington|George]] and [[Martha Washington]]).
22: ...nufacturing]] and the [[assembly line]], which he was the first to use when producing [[musket]]s for ...
24: ...manufactured cheaply, because the supply of goods was no longer limited by the number of skilled artis... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
114: *[[Thomas Mann Baynes]] ([[1794]]-[[1854]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]]) - Flag (13245 bytes)
1: [[Image:Delaware_flag.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Delaware State Flag]]
9: ...ers held that the [[Roman Empire]]'s ''vexillum'' was the first true flag.
13: From the time of [[Christopher Columbus]] onwards, it has been customary (and later a legal requ...
15: ...uch danger to those carrying them, and by [[World War I]] these were withdrawn from the battlefields, ...
22: ... [[Flag of Iceland|Iceland]], [[Flag of Norway|Norway]], [[Flag of Sweden|Sweden]], [[Ŭand]]. - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada...
33: *[[Theobald Boehm]], ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), [[Germany]] — inventor of the ...
36: ...1-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-invento...
48: *[[Wallace Carothers]], (1896-1937) — [[Nylon]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
13: ...- ''[[Chisholm v. Georgia]]'' 2 US 419 1793 paves way for passage of [[Eleventh Amendment to the Unite...
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]]
26: *[[1799]] - [[George Washington]] dies
43: *[[1805]] - [[Barbary War]]: Barbary pirates defeated in Tripoli - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ...bourgeoisie]], allied with aggrieved peasants and wage-earners and with individuals of all classes who...
5: ...bility to act on his theoretically absolute power was hemmed in by the (equally resented) power and pr...
7: ...f the [[American Revolution]] showed them that it was plausible that Enlightenment ideals about govern...
9: ...e entire French terrorism was just a [[plebeian]] way of dealing with the enemies of the bourgeoisie: ...
15: ...res on the [[Seven Years War]] and the [[American War of Independence]]. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...lute monarchy]] and the [[Roman Catholic Church]] was forced to undergo radical restructuring. While [...
8: ... [[bourgeoisie]], allied with aggrieved peasants, wage-earners, and individuals of all classes who had...
13: ...ntment of the [[seigneurial system]] by peasants, wage-earners, and, to a lesser extent, the bourgeois...
23: ... France's financial situation, determined that it was not sustainable, and proposed a uniform land tax...
25: ...new taxes. The King, seeing that Calonne himself was now a liability, dismissed him and replaced him ... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
17: ...e|Robespierre]], but survived on [[9 Thermidor]]; was later deported to [[French Guiana]]
19: ...f the Assembly of the 500 at the time of the coup was invaluable to his brother's success. Later fell...
24: *[[Jacques Pierre Brissot]] de Warville - [[Girondist]] (faction), (Girondists are ...
38: ... After the [[9 Thermidor|Thermidorian Reaction]], was deported to French Guiana, where he died
41: ...ssessions, and managed to survive the Terror. He was expelled from France by the Directory, and died ... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ... [[Conquest|conquering]] most of Europe; the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasi...
5: ...ely these days) referred to as the [[Great French War]].
7: ==Political effects of the wars==
9: The Napoleonic Wars brought some great changes upon the face of Eur...
11: * France was no longer a dominant power in Europe, as it had ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...and regarded their purpose as leading the world toward [[progress]] and out of a long period of doubtf...
6: ...tury philosophy, which was closely related to it, was characterized by a focus on belief and piety. So...
14: ...knowledge." This goal in the Age of Reason, which was built on self-evident axioms, reached its height...
16: ... program" (Cassirer 1979: 121–123). There was a wave of change across European thinking at this time...
18: ...ruth that is more provisional, but in that era it was a powerful notion which turned on its head the p... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
42: * [[Edward Doisy]], (1893-), American biochemist, winner o...
104: *[[Antoine Lavoisier]], (1743-1794), French pioneer chemist
134: *[[Wilhelm Ostwald]], (1853-1932), [[1909]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemi... - 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 ...
18: ... precise [[scientific instrument]]s, there was no way to accurately measure it. - Honolulu, Hawaii (19495 bytes)
3: state = Hawaii |
9: county = [[Honolulu County, Hawaii|City & County of Honolulu]] |
12: area water = |
18: time zone = Hawaii-Aleutian|
25: ...at the county level, and the [[Honolulu County, Hawaii|City & County of Honolulu]] encompasses all of ... - 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]])
113: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]] (English, c. [[1290]] - [[1349]])
120: *[[Viggo Brun]] (Norway, [[1885]] - [[1978]]) - 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)
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}}
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}} - Cotton gin (2185 bytes)
2: ...hitney]] (granted a [[patent]] on [[March 14]], [[1794]]) to mechanize the production of [[cotton]] fibe...
4: ...[[cat]] clawing a [[chicken]] through the slatted walls of its coop and retrieving a paw full of feath...
6: ...such as [[George Washington|George]] and [[Martha Washington]]). Additional credence is lent by the f...
8: ...owered; larger ones were harnessed to horses or [[water wheel]]s.
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