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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
85: | [[1772]] — [[1779]]
104: | [[Jefferson City, Missouri|Jefferson City]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region in north-ea... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...entricities and policies, including an obsession with neighboring and enemy country Prussia, alienated...
9: ... the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly having turned more conserva...
11: ...es full control over their serfs and lands. In addition, Catherine gave land in [[Ukraine]] to favored...
13: ...ine the Great instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established th...
16: ...reat's coronation coach is exhibited in the [[Hermitage Museum]], [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3:
5: ... as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon which many an artic...
7: ... had affairs with the writer Madame Puisieux and with Sophie Voland, to whom he was constant for the r...
10: ... ''Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit'' (1745), with some original notes of his own. He composed a vo... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
19: ... [[History of the United States Constitution|Constitutional Convention]].
26: ...h in July [[1752]], he rented and eventually inherited the estate, [[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount V...
29: ...72.JPG|thumb|right|275px|This, the earliest portrait of Washington, was painted in [[1772]] by [[Charl...
31: ...ecame an international incident, and helped to ignite the [[French and Indian War]], which eventually ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ... Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]).
24: ... out, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: In [[1764]] Adams married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]–[[1818]]), the daughter of a [... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
16: ...icepresident=[[Aaron Burr]]; [[George Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]
18: ...veowner]], [[author]] and founder of the [[University of Virginia]].
20: ...uisiana Purchase]] and the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]].
23: ...is own vision of higher education at the [[University of Virginia]]. - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...erties, history, and the processes that shape it. It is one of the [[Earth science]]s.
3: ...s]], [[perlite]], [[mica]], [[phosphates]], [[zeolites]], [[clay]], [[pumice]], [[quartz]], and [[sili...
7: ...rd was first used by [[Richard de Bury]]. He used it to distinguish between earthly and [[Theology|the...
10: ... [[mountain]]s and by [[Deposition (geology)|deposition]] of [[silt]].
12: ...turned until after the [[Scientific Revolution]]. It was translated into [[Latin]] and the other langu... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ation of the Ca-Al-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Since the accretion time of the Earth is not e...
6: ... the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
11: ...embled the Earth in composition and then measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that t...
13: ...at the Earth had been through many changes during its existence, however long that might be.
15: ...ffering locations contained similar fossils, then it was very plausible that the layers were the same ... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
14: ...lspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Pax et justitia<br>([[Latin]]: Peace and justice)''</small>
21: | '''[[Capital]]'''
25: | [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]
36: ...uly 2003 est)<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
59: ... Versailles]] in [[1783]]. Conflict between the British and the black Caribs continued until 1796, whe... - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...ted that all regiments were to have state flags, with the background colors of the state flags the sam... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Virginia Beach, Virginia|Virginia Beach]...
21: DensityRank = 14<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 69.03 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 10<sup>th</sup> | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...ntion into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded versio...
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
62: ...century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
99: ...eglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
4: <td bgcolor="#ffde80">[[United States|Americans]]</td></tr>
9: ...</td><td bgcolor="#ffde80">Anniversary of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration ...
15: ...ral holiday]] celebrating the adoption of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration ...
17: ...dependence Day)|Fireworks]] have been associated with the Fourth of July since [[1777]].
23: ...hat was kept secret to protect the members from British reprisal. - African Buffalo (2744 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] | date = [[1779]]}}
15: ...') is a bovid from the family of the [[Bovidae]]. It is up to 1.7 meters high, 3.4 meters long, and ca...
17: ...ater Buffalo]], but its ancestry remains unclear. It is a very powerful creature, demanding respect fr...
19: ...Botswana]], [[Mozambique]] and [[South Africa]], with a significant seasonal presence in [[Kenya]] and...
21: ...breeding with domestic [[cattle]] has had only limited success, and the African Buffalo remains a wild... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
56: ... Emil Fischer]], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
66: ...ham (chemist)|Thomas Graham]] not to be confused with:
72: *[[Fritz Haber]], (1868-1934) - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...with [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and acquittal on charges of [[treason]].
7: ...[[College of New Jersey]], now [[Princeton University]]; his mother Esther Edwards was the daughter of...
9: ...d by his brother-in-law, [[Tapping Reeve]], at [[Litchfield, Connecticut]]. His studies were put on ho...
11: ==Military service==
13: ...ce on Washington's staff, but the general never quite trusted Major Burr. However, [[Israel Putnam]] ... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...s a colloquial synonym for [[traitor]] in the [[United States]], much like [[Vidkun Quisling|Quisling]...
6: ...w up in a well-to-do Connecticut family that had hit hard times by the time he became an adult. In [[1...
9: ...ilitary expedition by the colonists against the British.
10: ...ga was taken from the 22 British troops that held it and who were not aware that a war was in progress...
12: ...of the Green Mountain Boys and the Connecticut militia. Upon discovering this, Arnold challenged Easto... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...to [[1787]]. Many of the rebels, known as [[Shaysites]] or Regulators, were small farmers angered by ...
3: ... to consumers, in large part small farmers. In addition, the tax system at the time was highly [[regre...
5: ...n [[Massachusetts]] rewrote its constitution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-...
7: ... the government because of the [[property eligibility requirement]]s for office at the time. When Bow...
9: ...groups called out to fight the Regulators often switched sides.
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