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- George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...e of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he volun...
79: ...the Army]] (five star), George Washington is the only President with military service to reenter the m...
95: ...ng the principle that even a former president is only, after all, a private citizen.
104: Unlike all the other slaveholding [[Founding Fathers]...
111: ...and there shall be none to make him afraid." This letter was seen by the Jewish community as highly signif... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
17: ... joke that "[[Samuel Adams|Sam Adams]] writes the letters [to newspapers] and John Hancock pays the postag...
19: At first only a financier of the growing rebellion, he later b...
30: ... Extracts of a Letter, of Yesterday, from Major Genl. Heath, you will see our present situation, and f...
52: ...f Congress (1781). ''George Washington Papers''. Online: [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.ht... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
29: [[Image:Jefferson1web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]]
39: ...es House of Representatives]]. Jefferson was the only Vice President elected to the Presidency to serv...
41: ... epitaph, written by him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, re...
129: ...In addition to the fact that he burned all of his letters between himself and his wife upon her death crea...
141: ... had first submitted in [[1779]], and was one of only three accomplishments he put in his own epitaph.... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... first of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English langu...
59: ...e, Maryland|Baltimore]]. He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank, at the...
63: ...ut one of Jackson's cabinet, and met with statesmanlike firmness the commercial crisis of [[1837]], al...
67: ...minated for president in [[1844]], and his famous letter of [[April 27]], in which he frankly opposed the ...
113: * [[John McKinley]] - 1838 - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
67: ...king [[Shays' Rebellion]]. He ended his published letter.
152: ...he could take office, which could mean he is the only American president to die on foreign soil, depen...
162: ...mem/rbpe:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbpe16901500)) Tyler's letters refusing government intervention, April and May,... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
48: ...uction and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the [[New Deal]] some 70 years later...
75: ...ived into adulthood. Of Robert's three children, only Jessie Lincoln had any children (2 - Mary Lincol...
89: ...e stand claiming he witnessed the crime in the moonlight. Lincoln produced a [[Farmer's Almanac]] to s...
102: ... in the [[American South|South]] — and won only 2 of 996 counties in the entire South. Even befo...
117: ...and his later position of emancipation in an 1864 letter to Albert G. Hodges[http://showcase.netins.net/we... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ... civilization|Hellenistic]] world — second only to [[Rome]] in size and wealth throughout much o...
23: ...e silt thrown out by Nile mouths. An Egyptian townlet, Rhacotis, already stood on the shore and was a...
27: ...age]]; and for some centuries more it was second only to [[Rome]]. Nominally a free Greek city, Alexa...
29: It was not only a center of [[Hellenism]], but was also the grea...
36: ...er seems to have been carried out even beyond the letter, for a general massacre was the result. - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
92: ...ان (Bakstaan), as the Arabic alphabet lacks the letter "P."
132: ...although (because of the [[Pressler amendment]]) only a few were eventually supplied. However, China c...
138: ...r Soviet allies, [[Libya]] and [[Syria]] are the only two middle eastern countries with whom Pakistan ...
140: ...te a [[renaissance]] and [[Age of Enlightenment|enlightenment]] in the Islamic world. Besides the OIC...
142: ...ar states|declared nuclear power]] – the only Islamic nation to have that status – als... - Flag of California (3028 bytes)
15: ...w times as it was lowered, would later write in a letter to his mother "Cuffy came down growling"--"Cuffy"... - Flag of North Carolina (1696 bytes)
4: ...ere shall be a similar scroll containing in black letters the inscription: "April 12th, 1776." - Flag of Ohio (981 bytes)
2: ...with its red center not only represents the first letter of the state name, but also its nickname, "the Bu...
4: ...ate [[flag]] that is non-rectangular, and one of only two non-rectangular official jurisdictional flag... - Egyptian hieroglyph (6639 bytes)
12: ... widespread among the Egyptian people, simplified letter forms developed, resulting in the [[hieratic]] (p...
26: ...at stood for single consonants, much like English letters). It would have been possible to write all Egypt... - Luxor (8772 bytes)
13: Rising to political power only in the middle of the second millennium before Ch...
16: ...un]], the notorious [[Ankhesenamun]], who wrote a letter to the Hittite king and urged him to send her som...
18: ...ense past and a legendary name of radiation that only Babylon could claim to match. [[Wenamun]], the p...
20: ...the invaders; [[Assurbanipal]] was the first and only to attack and destroy Thebes. Doing so, he acted... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...along the [[Atlantic Ocean]], Vermont is noted mainly for the [[Green Mountains]] in the west and [[La...
66: ...ks]] burnt the settlement to the ground, leaving only chimneys and giving the area its name.
78: ...lphia]], a supporter of the delegates who wrote a letter advising them on how to achieve statehood. The de...
104: Vermont is the home state of the only two current members of the United States Congres...
121: Unlike other states, Vermont does not have a [[term l... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ..., [[356 BC]]–[[June 10]], [[323 BC]]), commonly known in the West as '''Alexander the Great''' o...
14: ...ed King of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander bla...
23: ...he coast held no major ports, so Alexander moved inland. At Pisidian [[Termessus]] Alexander humbled b...
29: ...ign (although he allowed those that wished to re-enlist as mercenaries in his imperial army). His thre...
56: Many discussed his ambiguous sexuality. Letter 24 of those ascribed to [[Diogenes of Sinope]], t... - Anacharsis (4399 bytes)
6: ...enians took to him as a natural philosopher, not unlike the way the French took to [[Benjamin Franklin...
16: His famous ''Letter to [[Croesus]]'', the proverbially rich king of [... - Ptolemy II of Egypt (4048 bytes)
14: ...himself, but properly it belongs to Arsinoë only, not to the king.
18: ...ved in the [[pseudepigraphy|pseudepigraphical]] [[Letter of Aristeas]] which connects the [[Septuagint]] t... - Comet (30542 bytes)
11: ...ugh the inner solar system, the dust reflecting sunlight directly and the gases glowing due to [[ion|i...
15: ...vered that [[Comet Borrelly]]'s surface reflects only 2.4% to 3% of the light that falls on it; by com...
17: ...-rays and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits].
29: ... their discoverers, but comets that had appeared only once continued to be referred by the year of the...
33: ...e year of their discovery followed by a lowercase letter indicating its order of discovery in that year (f... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
8: ...is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in October ...
31: ...ime until [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to t...
41: ...they border, including islands. About [[1950]], a letter suffix was added to the zone description, assigni...
43: ...eas that do not have a legal standard time ([[Greenland]]'s [[ice sheet]] and all of [[Antarctica]]&md...
45: ...it to within 50 ms of UT1, reducing the error to only 20 m. - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...examples in sentences. Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a book.
8: ...]]), whereas a dictionary that attempts to cover only a limited selection of words from a speech commu...
17: ...imizing dictionaries, i.e. they attempt to cover only a limited number of the specialized vocabulary c...
23: ...mmercial defining dictionaries typically include only one or two meanings of under 2000 words. With t...
33: ...ly confused. ''[[Merriam-Webster]]'' is subtle, only adding italicized notations such as, ''sometimes...
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