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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...i Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-...
7: ...|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
18: ...Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
26: ...Aiswarya, Queen]], (died 2001), non-reigning Nepalese queen - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...A cousin to [[Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enl...
4: == Life before becoming empress ==
5: ...er, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine...
7: == Internal policies ==
9: ...s. A legislative commission representing all classes except the [[serf]]s was created to make this doc... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ... [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], wife of [[Louis XVI]] and mother o...
4: ... baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
6: ...erdinand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ...nsidered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
9: ...r in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg|thumb
5: | order=1st President
11: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland]], [[Virginia]]
17: | vicepresident=[[John Adams]] - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
3: ...ted States Declaration of Independence|United States Declaration of Independence]]]]
5: ... [[eponym]] for "signature". However, other examples show that Hancock always wrote his signature this...
8: ...d the fortune and business, making him the wealthiest man in Massachusetts at the time.
10: Despite his wealth, Hancock remained, ethically and v...
13: ...[[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which attempted to restrict colonial trading. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=Third President
8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]]
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]] - United States (58223 bytes)
1: ...USA''', '''the U.S.''', '''America''', '''the States''', and
2: ... possessions around the world. Each of the 50 states has a high level of local autonomy under the [[fe...
5: native_name = United States of America |
6: common_name = the United States |
9: ...ne")<br>''[[In God We Trust]]'' ([[1956]]–present) | - James Watt (5070 bytes)
2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
3: '''James Watt''' ([[January 19]], [[1736]]–[[August ...
11: ...ugh the [[Glasgow Green]]'s ''"Golf Course"'', comes upon the idea of a separate condensing chamber fo...
14: * [[1774]]: Started a business in [[Soho, Birmingham|Soho]], near Birmingham, w...
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ... its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as 35 m across can be seen.]]
4: ... in [[March 28|late March]] of the same year, to describe their star-like appearance; the other then-k...
6: ...or planet" (or "planetoid") carries no strong suggestion about the composition of the object or its ge...
10: ...m '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate man-made objects which have ended up in sol...
13: ...(HST).png|thumb|right|[[4 Vesta]], one of the largest asteroids.]] - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
14: ...of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Ana...
22: ...U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...liner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]] - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...on was claimed by [[Spain]]. Note that this map does not show the bulk of [[British North America]] of...
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
4: ...rrent interpretations fall somewhere in between these two positions.
10: ...ost white colonists in America considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crown, with the sam...
16: ...separation of church and state]] and other liberties. - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1760]] to [[1...
13: *[[1765]] - [[Stamp Act Congress]] convenes
20: ...[Samuel Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Correspondence]]
21: *[[1773]] - [[British Parliament]] passes [[Tea Act]]
23: *[[1774]] - First [[Continental Congress]] - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...f escalating political conflict between the colonies and the British Parliament, marked the beginning ...
7: ...spatched him to Boston, where local militia were besieging a British Army.
9: ...es were made, including the exclusion of his charges against George III regarding slavery.
11: ...ssippi River, and including the southern Great Lakes region.
13: ... was to be a nation-state or a mere league of States, acting in cooperation. - Uranus (15207 bytes)
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13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
67: !align="left"| [[Oblateness]]
71: | [[1 E15 km2|8.084×10<sup>9</sup>]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup...
74: | 6.834×10<sup>13</sup> [[cubic kilometre|km<sup>3</sup>]... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
6: ...egotiations with [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] and thereby setting the scene for the second ...
7: ...ian]] army at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the [[Jaco...
8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circl...
9: ...dier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at...
11: ...recognizes the independence of the [[Boer]] colonies of the [[Transvaal]]. - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
4: <td bgcolor="#ffde80">[[United States|Americans]]</td></tr>
9: ...bgcolor="#ffde80">Anniversary of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Indepe...
13: [[Image:Fourth july fireworks.jpg|thumb|These fireworks over the [[Washington Monument]] are t...
15: ...ay]] celebrating the adoption of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Indepe...
17: ...nts. [[fireworks#Home Fireworks in the United States (Independence Day)|Fireworks]] have been associat... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...d of absolutism and people as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the sta...
5: == Causes ==
6: ''See main article [[Causes of the French Revolution]].''
8: ...egislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these initially allied groups would become the source ...
10: Certainly, causes of the revolution must include all of the followi... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...tion in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...h as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of b...
8: ...o [[political economy]], [[government]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]...
12: ...The Age of Reason]]." For the present purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; howeve...
14: ...ngs of [[Michel de Montaigne]] and [[René Descartes]], was based on extreme skepticism, and inquiry i... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...rchives and Records Administration|National Archives]].]]
2: ...ional Court of Justice]] jurisdiction, with many reservations.
4: ...his government, the [[President of the United States]], frequently is referred to as "the most powerfu...
7: ...es House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]. The Senate is composed of two members from eac...
9: ... committees have also spawned some 150 subcommittees.
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