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- President of the United States (42878 bytes)
7: ...ernment in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[...
14: ...ates Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Madeleine Albright]], born in [[Czechoslovakia]]; and [...
18: ==Presidential elections==
19: ...es (provided that such a number was a majority of electors) became President, while the individual who...
21: ...ffice on [[January 20]] of the year following the election, an event called [[Inauguration Day]]. Alt... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
10: | date of birth=[[February 22]], [[1732]]
11: ...e of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland]], [[Virginia]]
19: '''George Washington''', ([[February 22]], [[1732]] – [[December 14]], [[1799]]), called '''[...
21: ... other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he voluntarily relinquished power even though some others wanted him...
24: ...nial Beach, Virginia|Colonial Beach]] in [[Westmoreland County, Virginia]]. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... of the [[Lunar Society]] and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Frankli...
11: ...y included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[1681]]), and Hannah ([[May 25]], [...
15: ...he [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Rev. Samuel Willard.
23: ...ivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great deal of socia...
25: In [[1732]] he began to issue the famous ''[[Poor Richard's... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[198...
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] &ndash...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] – [[1992]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] – [[1875]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640) - Anton van Leeuwenhoek (4111 bytes)
3: ...w in [[capillary|capillaries]] (small [[blood vessel]]s).
5: ...n in a house at the corner of ''Lion's Gate'' in Delft. ''Van Leeuwenhoek'' translates as "from lion's...
7: ... Royal Society until he died at 91, on August 30, 1732. In his lifetime, Leeuwenhoek was visited by many...
11: ...art of van Leeuwenhoek's job as a chamberlain of Delft.
15: ... microbiologists as the highest honour in their field. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
8: ... grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes impli...
10: ... a strong [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...erable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
16: ...en concerned in the composition of two violent libels. Inveigled by a spy named Beauregard into a real...
20: ...tre Français]] on [[November 18]] and was well received, though a rivalry grew between parties ... - Carolus Linnaeus (8550 bytes)
9: In [[1732]] the Academy of Sciences at Uppsala financed his...
11: ...em now known as [[binomial nomenclature]] was developed by the [[Bauhin|Bauhin brothers]] almost 200 ...
13: ... human species, ''Homo [[troglodyte]]s'' ("cave-dwelling man", by which he meant the [[Common Chimpanz...
18: ...y attempting a convenient way of categorizing the elements of the natural world.
23: ...he system of [[scientific classification]] now widely used in the [[biology|biological sciences]]. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...Delaware.png|thumb|250px|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[1776]], an iconi...
21: * [[1702]]-[[1715]]: [[Camisard|Camisard Rebellion]] in [[France]].
39: ...ession of [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], Elector of Hanover, to the throne of Great Britain.
40: ...ellion/Rising of 1715 ('The Fifteen')|Jacobite rebellion]] breaks out
47: ...llion/Rising of 1719 ('The Nineteen')|Jacobite rebellion]] fails. - February 22 (10772 bytes)
6: ...e face the sun's rays fall each year in [[Abu Simbel]] temple.
19: ...ent of the United States|President]] [[Grover Cleveland]] signs a bill admitting [[North Dakota]], [[S...
23: ...ancomunitat de Catalunya]] and conducted by [[Rafael de Campalans]].
24: ... the first [[President of the United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House]...
25: ...the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders General [[Douglas MacArthur]] out of th... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
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36: ...a city located in [[Northwestern Russia]] on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the [[Gulf...
48: ...tal and decorative sculptures. The Neva River itself, together with its many canals and their granite...
50: ...the "[[white night]]s." The white nights are closely linked to another attraction — the nine dr...
58: ...o called the Fountain House), and the Beloselsky-Belozersky palace (1846–1848) on the Nevsky Pro...
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