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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
89: | [[1795]] — [[1798]]
125: | [[1790]] — [[1795]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Ameri...
3: ...nd. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out...
5: ...Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472...
9: ...]], the [[Columbian Exchange]] of species (both those harmful to humans, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacter...
11: ...est Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and c... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...r with several powerful political groups which opposed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-da...
9: ... disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly having turned more conservative after the [[...
19: ...ssia, [[Austria]] and [[Prussia]] (1772, 1793 and 1795).
25: ... had lost 50 to 60 ships and 9,500 men. Swedish losses were 6 ships and 6,000 to 7,000 killed. A tre...
33: ...the Enlightenment]] and considered herself a "philosopher on the throne." She became known as a patron... - Brass instrument (5234 bytes)
1: ...onator]]. Brass instruments are also called ''labrosones'', literally meaning "lip-vibrated instrument...
3: The view of most scholars (see [[organology]]) is that the term "...
41: ...t]] was a natural brass instrument prior to about 1795, and the [[French horn]] before about 1820. Natur...
76: Most brass instruments are fitted with a removable [[...
78: ... on the other hand, are highly directional, with most of the sound produced traveling straight outward... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ... [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], [[revolutionary]], [[Agriculture|agricult...
20: ... ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alo...
37: ...s]] from [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after getting second place in the presidenti...
102: ...d States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]'''||align="left"|1801
123: ...r. In later years he was negligent in dress and loose in bearing. - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...ime of the [[United Provinces]] ([[1581]]–[[1795]]). After the Napoleonic era, Holland became a me...
55: ...t, the home of the monarch, and the location for most foreign embassies. The Netherlands ranked fifth ...
62: ...vinces]] of the Netherlands, which also includes most of present-day [[Belgium]]. In [[1568]] the [[Ei...
64: ...the [[Dutch Golden Age]], colonies and [[trading post]]s were established all over the globe.
66: ...]]) and the first full-time [[stock exchange]], whose inventiveness led to [[insurance]] and retiremen... - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
69: ...ed in blacks outnumbering whites by a ratio of almost 20 to one, leading to constant threat of revolt....
80: ...roving bills, and other state functions. For the most part, the monarch (through her representative, t...
84: ...inister, and the parliamentary [[Leader of the Opposition]].
94: ...aining Depot Newcastle. As on the British model NCOs are given several levels of professional training...
96: ...by the British empire in policing the empire from 1795 to 1926. Other units in the JDF heritage include... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = HI |
39: ... continues to grow due to active [[lava]] flows, most notably from [[Kilauea|Kīlauea]]. Ethnicall...
46: ...ritten by [[Kalakaua|King Kalākaua]] and composed by [[Henri Berger]]. ''[[Hawaii Aloha|Hawaii A...
51: Nineteen islands and atolls extending across a distance of 2,400 km (1,500 mi) comprise the ...
56: ...ion ]] created impressive geological features. Those conditions created made [[Mount Waialeale|Mount ... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...en described as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane...
5: ...ifferent process, but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials may come to res...
9: ...d the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 50km across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and the ta...
11: ...and the gases glowing due to [[ion|ionization]]. Most comets are too faint to be visible without the a...
17: ...highly charged [[ions]] fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and molecu... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787...
41: *[[Edwin Beard Budding]], (1795-1846) England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjusta...
51: ...[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]] - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: ...erpretations fall somewhere in between these two positions.
10: ...nquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonists in America considered themselves...
15: ===Philosophy and radical thought===
16: ... arguments born of tradition and authority with those based on observation and independent reasoning. ...
23: ... sought to overhaul his expansive North American possessions. In order to make the Empire more stable ... - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
16: *[[1795]] - [[Treaty of Greenville]]
17: *[[1795]] - [[Jay Treaty]]
18: *[[1795]] - [[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Con...
66: ...]] - [[Hartford Convention]]; [[New England]] proposes [[secession]]. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
15: ...both caused by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation.
21: ...l of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French tax system to a more unifo...
23: ..., determined that it was not sustainable, and proposed a uniform land tax as a means of setting France...
25: ...[Grenoble]]. Even more importantly, the chaos across France convinced the short-term creditors on who... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
12: *[[Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave]] - [[Constitutional monarchy|co...
15: *[[Joséphine de Beauharnais]] - Empress, wife of Napole...
18: *[[Joseph Bonaparte]] - oldest Bonaparte brother, suppor...
19: ...r of Napoleon, a politician under the Directory whose presence as President of the Assembly of the 500...
26: *[[Edmund Burke]] - English philosopher and politician, author of a famous 1790 pole... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...illiam Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
3: ...o the [[18th century]] in [[Europe | European philosophy]], and is often thought of
4: ...ity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ... of the age. However, prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rou...
8: ... continued rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[politica... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
10: | date of birth=November 2, 1795
19: ...1849]]. Polk was born in [[North Carolina]], but mostly lived in and represented the [[U.S. state|stat...
21: ...gton Monument]], and the issuance of the first [[postage stamp]]s in the United States.
24: ...unty, Tennessee|Maury County]]. The family grew prosperous, with Samuel Polk becoming one of the leadi...
31: ... of Tennessee (1821–1823); he resigned the position in order to run his successful campaign for ... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: ...roys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves most of the town in ruins.
20: ...ntiary]] on an island in [[San Francisco Bay]], closes.
24: ...lamation was issued by [[San Francisco]] Mayor [[Joseph Alioto]].
27: ...[[boycott]] of the [[1980 Summer Olympics]] in [[Moscow]] to [[protest]] the [[Soviet Invasion of Afgh...
30: ... allegations that tie [[baseball]] player [[Pete Rose]] to [[baseball]] [[gambling]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[198...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
45: *[[Joseph Ashbrook]] ([[United States|USA]], [[April 4]]...
54: *[[Oskar Backlund]] ([[Sweden]], [[1846]] – [[191...
85: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Dalmatia]], [[1711]] &n...
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