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- New Jersey (35646 bytes)
41: ...]] (the land that would become New Jersey) to two friends who had been loyal through the [[English Civ...
43: ...lish Crown and gave sanctuary to the King. It was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that [[Charles I...
45: ...was in the Hudson River region and came primarily from New England. The first permanent English settl...
53: ...lized in [[Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze]]'s painting [[Washington Crossing the Delaware]].
63: ... However, by the close of the Civil War, several African-Americans in New Jersey were still in bondage... - Spider (29039 bytes)
11: ...er [[Mesothelae]]'''<br /> <!-- Families missing from this list: Microstigmatidae, Nemesiidae, Barych...
79: ... [[Liphistiidae]], rarely seen burrowing spiders from Asia. The study of spiders is known as [[arachn...
81: ... strong [[protein]] strand extruded by the spider from [[spinneret]]s on the end of the abdomen. All ...
106: ...age (Foelix, 1996). A spider does not transition from the nymph to the imago until it has become sexu...
114: ...s 'palpi'), the small, leg-like appendages on the front of his [[cephalothorax]], into the sperm, abso... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ... of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted in France's loss of all its possessions in North Americ...
5: ...the Conquest), since it is the war in which [[New France]] was conquered by the British and became par...
9: ...rench and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian allies, following the confl...
13: ...[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's capital.
15: ...of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking populations in [[Acadia]] to Louisia... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
22: ...pear to be part of the drum, but which stand away from it like buttresses, to absorb the outward thrus...
26: ...right|300px|Light streams down into the sanctuary from the dome cupola.]]
27: ...es]] in [[Paris]], [[United States Capitol]] in [[Washington, DC]], [http://www.pbase.com/yardbird/image/26416...
31: ...y [[Antonio Averulino]] ([[1455]]), and preserved from the previous basilica.
33: ...ating the most recent openings:<!-- This is taken from an old source, is the inscription new since 200... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ... for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ... time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even thoug...
35: ...ed four ideal time zones, the first centered on [[Washington, DC]], but by [[1872]] the first was centered 75?... - Holiday (7753 bytes)
5: ...ingdom]]) a holiday is rather a period spent away from home or business in [[travel]] or [[recreation]...
19: ...]], and [[Presidents' Day|Washington's Birthday]] from fixed dates to certain [[Monday]]s in [[1968]] ...
52: **[[Good Friday]] (Death of [[Jesus]])
135: ...ay celebrated in the [[Commonwealth of Virginia]] from [[1984]] to [[2000]] - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
6: ...ace Museum]] (NASM) on the [[National Mall]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] displays a moon rock sample which the pu...
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon... - Cave (10592 bytes)
2: ...caveexit.jpg|thumb|300px|The outside world viewed from a cave]]
22: ...ave in Big Four Glacier, [[Big Four Mountain]], [[Washington]], ca. [[1920]]]]
26: ... between layers of less soluble rock. These rocks fracture and collapse in blocks.
37: ...us fumes, rather than by acidic water percolating from the surface.
40: Caves are sparse in [[South America]], [[Africa]], and [[Antarctica]], but are found widely in... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]]) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...ally in [[Japan]]. ''Silk road'' is a translation from the [[German language|German]] ''Seidenstraߥ''...
3: ...hrough the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Africa]].
13: ... the way from the shores of the [[Pacific]] to [[Africa]], and deep into the heart of [[Europe]]. Thes...
18: [[Lapis lazuli]] was being traded from its only known source in the ancient world R...
28: ...ains, routes across them were, apparently, in use from very early times. - Classical antiquity (3940 bytes)
1: ...ng period of [[Europe]]an, Middle East and North African [[history]], that begins roughly with the ear...
9: ...] is a [[monarch]] who outranks a mere king dates from this period. In this political ideal, there wo...
11: ...rse, and the endless use of characters and themes from [[Greek mythology]] left a deep mark on Western...
13: ...e than Greek. Still, one needs only to look at [[Washington, DC]] to see a city filled with large [[marble]] ...
15: ...the strict rules of the [[Three Unities]] derived from a remark by Aristotle. The desire to [[dance]]... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scientist
53: *[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau|Jacques Cousteau]], [[France]] — [[Aqua-Lung|aqualung]]
56: ...illiam Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...ink area was claimed by Great Britain after the [[French and Indian War]], and the orange region was c...
2: ...ion of [[thirteen colonies]] in [[North America]] from the [[British Empire]] and the creation of the ...
4: ...[1763]]), and ended with the election of [[George Washington]] as the first [[President of the United States]]...
10: ..., if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonists in America considered...
19: ...vent that swept through all the British colonies, from New England to the Carolinas, as a common exper... - Geography of the United States (15104 bytes)
61: ...oods]], the most northerly part of the U.S. apart from Alaska. In the United States, there are [[Extre...
69: *14.3 times the size of the [[France|French Republic]]
71: *three-tenths the size of [[Africa]]
104: ...intermontane]] valleys, plateaus and basins range from treeless to desert with the very arid region be...
110: ...ada|Canadian]] and a United States portion. It is from the United States side, that the great - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...en the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 [[Northern United States|northern states...
53: ...mter]], South Carolina, Lincoln called for troops from all remaining states to recover the forts, resu...
58: ...estern counties of Virginia organized a secession from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for...
62: ...California_and_the_Civil_War|California]] was a [[free state]] and a part of the Union. Lincoln had wo... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ... Vietnam]]<br><br>[[Viet Cong|National Liberation Front<br>(Viet Cong)]]<br><br />[[Image:Viet cong fl...
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationa...
37: ...y experts consider the Vietnam War to just be one frontline in the larger [[Cold War]].
41: ...for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]], a South Vietnamese opposition movement with...
43: ...ort to maintain control of her former colony of [[French Indochina]]. - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1760]] to [[1789]]'''.
7: *[[1763]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1763)]] ends [[French and Indian War]]
55: *[[1789]] - [[George Washington]] becomes President - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1790]] to [[1819]]'''.
26: *[[1799]] - [[George Washington]] dies
27: *[[1799]] - [[Fries Uprising]]
50: *[[1808]] - U.S. [[slave trade]] with [[Africa]] ends
81: ...nd]]'' 17 US 316 1819 prohibits state laws from infringing upon Federal constitutional authority - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1860]] to [[1899]]'''.
15: ...[1861]] - [[Kansas]] admitted to the Union as a [[free state]]
36: *[[1865]] - [[Freedman's Bureau]]
45: *[[1867]] - [[Alaska Purchase]] from Russia
55: ...Wyoming]] becomes first state to grant [[woman suffrage]] - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
1: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1900]] to [[1929]]'''.
77: *[[1917]] - [[U.S. Virgin Islands]] purchased from [[Denmark]]
93: *[[1921]] - [[Washington Disarmament Conference]]
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