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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
31: | [[Connecticut]]
32: | [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]]
84: | [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]]
95: | [[Minnesota]]
96: | [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer
119: *[[Thomas Gann]], explorer - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...ugustus]], Prince of [[Anhalt-Zerbst]], and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Eliza...
11: ...ich were more manageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the ge...
17: ...]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd statesman, Panin...
21: ...lish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years aft...
35: ...f the peasants held as serfs, Catherine had him banned to [[Siberia]]. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...r brother, [[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A cour...
13: ...red to speak German. However, when her sister Johanna-Gabriella died of smallpox in [[1762]], Maria-An...
15: ... of Austria|Maria Theresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antoni...
17: ...osses for all shoulders." Maria-Antonia left [[Vienna]] in [[April]] [[1770]], when she was fourteen. ...
19: Two and half weeks after leaving [[Vienna]], Maria-Antonia was handed over to messengers f... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...relative in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladie...
7: ...bey]]'', pokes fun at the [[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann Radcliffe]], Austen is most famous for her later ... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
19: ...itish rule. On [[March 5]], [[1774]], the fourth anniversary of the [[Boston Massacre]], he gave a spe...
27: From [[1780]]–[[1785]], he was [[governor of Massachusetts]]. Hancock'...
30: ...tate, is not regularly forwarded to the Army, I cannot consider myself as responsible for the maintena...
36: ... in Congress assembled]], from [[November 23]], [[1785]] to [[June 6]], [[1786]]. He was preceded in th...
51: * Fradin, Dennis Brindell & McCurdy, Michael (2002). ''The Signe... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...achusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
35: ...ce in Congress was great, and almost from the beginning he was impatient for a separation of the colon...
44: ... [[Massachusetts constitution]] of [[1780]]. He penned the first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] an...
46: ...Comte de Vergennes|Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes?]] insistence, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeffer...
50: ...[[1787]]), in which he repudiated the views of [[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune|Turgot]] a... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...[[John F. Kennedy]] welcomed 49 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]], saying, "I...
125: There was grace, nevertheless, in his manners; and his frank and earnest address, his quick ...
141: ...n — [[Rhode Island]], [[Delaware]], and [[Pennsylvania]] never having had established religion.
145: ...First Amendment]] (see Letter to the [[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]] [[Baptist]] Association, [[1802]...
161: ..." (''Notes on the State of Virginia'', [[1781]]-[[1785]] Query 18). Though not religious himself, he vie... - Geology (12007 bytes)
12: ...of [[Aristotle]], remained authoritative for millennia. However, its interpretation of fossils was not...
16: By the [[1700s]] [[Jean-Etienne Guettard]] and [[Nicolas Desmarest]] hiked centr...
20: ...often viewed as the first modern geologist. In [[1785]] he presented a paper entitled ''Theory of the E...
36: ...y to provide the relative ages of strata or the manner in which they were formed.
48: ...han the one above it. Logically a younger layer cannot slip beneath a layer previously deposited. This... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
57: ...stone was laid by Governor [[Patrick Henry]] in [[1785]].
96: ...cean]] to the east, by [[North Carolina]] and [[Tennessee]] to the south, and by [[Kentucky]] and [[We...
133: ... tollways, bridges, tunnels, and three [[bridge-tunnel]] complexes.
235: *[[Tappahannock, Virginia|Tappahannock]]
237: *[[Vienna, Virginia|Vienna]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
17: ===[[9th millennium BC]]===
21: ===[[8th millennium BC]]===
24: ===[[7th millennium BC]]===
29: ===[[6th millennium BC]]===
33: ===[[4th millennium BC]]=== - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
68: *[[John James Audubon]] ([[1785]]-[[1851]])
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
41: ...England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner]]
66: *[[W.K. Dickson|William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]], motion picture camera
68: *[[Karl Drais]], (1785-1851), [[Germany]] — [[bicycle]] ([[Draisin...
105: *[[Johann Gutenberg]], (circa 1390s-1468), [[Germany]] &mda... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
54: ...on [[September 5]], [[1774]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], and endorsed the [[Suffolk Resolves]],...
77: *[[Northwest Indian War]] ([[1785]]-[[1795]])
80: ...ned (including the right of rebellion against tyranny); the delegation of power through written consti... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
47: *[[1785]] - [[Treaty of Hopewell]]
49: *[[1786]] - [[Annapolis Convention]] fails
52: *[[1787]] - [[Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania]] and [[New Jersey]] become states
53: *[[1788]] - [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Connecticut]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Maryland]], [[Sout... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
9: ...her-in-law, [[Tapping Reeve]], at [[Litchfield, Connecticut]]. His studies were put on hold for the [[...
20: ...nly four months. During the month of their first anniversary, she sued for [[divorce]], citing infidel...
24: ...he [[New_York_State_Assembly]] from [[1784]] to [[1785]], but Burr became seriously involved in politics...
26: ..., Burr's defeat of General Schuyler marks the beginning of their personal quarrel. Hamilton felt Burr...
40: ...rr became Vice-President. His fair and judicial manner as [[President of the Senate|president of the S... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
1: ...:Jacques_Montgolfier.jpg|thumb|250px|Jacques Étienne Montgolfier]]
3: ...– [[June 26]], [[1810]]) and '''Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier''' ([[January 6]], [[1745]] – ...
5: ...s were the sons of a [[paper]] manufacturer at [[Annonay]], south of [[Lyon]], [[France]]. When playi...
9: ...as a first public demonstration, they sent up at Annonay a 900 m³ linen bag inflated with hot air...
22: ...g a crossing of the English Channel on January 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. Bal... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
17: ...enry (delegate)|William Henry]] of Lancaster, [[Pennsylvania]], having learned of Watt's engine on a v...
21: ...lliam Henry, had made a model paddle steamer in [[1785]], and subsequently developed propulsion by float...
30: ... is preserved as a [[museum ship]] at [[Winona, Minnesota]]. For modern craft operated on rivers, see ...
37: ... operation on the inland [[Loch Lomond]], a forerunner of the lake steamers that still grace the [[Swi...
40: ...Britain]], and has sailed across the [[English Channel]] for a visit to commemorate the sinking of her... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...74, to [[October 26]], 1774, in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. [[Peyton Randolph]] served as the fir...
14: *Sept. 5, 1774- Oct. 26, 1774 [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
21: *Sept. 27, 1777 (one day only) [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
22: *Sept. 30, 1777- June 27, 1778 [[York, Pennsylvania]]
25: *Nov. 26, 1783- June 3, 1784 [[Annapolis, Maryland]] - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
11: ...] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[1681]]), and Hannah ([[May 25]], [[1683]]).
13: ...including: Josiah Jr. ([[August 23]], [[1685]]), Ann ([[January 5]], [[1687]]), Joseph ([[February 5]]...
15: Josiah's first wife Anne died in Boston on [[July 9]], [[1689]]. He then...
23: ... house of his own from which he published ''The Pennsylvania Gazette'' to which he contributed many es...
25: ...s from this almanac such as "A penny saved is a penny earned" are now commonly quoted every day by peo...
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