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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
85: | [[1772]] — [[1779]]
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ... and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Elizabeth of Holstein]]. In [[1744]], Tsarin...
21: ...mpire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792|sec...
23: ...he [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[1780]] she s...
25: ...em not faced by the anchored Swedish ships. At battle's end, the Russians had lost 50 to 60 ships and... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
7: ...m he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the p...
14: ...ism to the concept of [[God]]. What makes the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' interesting is its presentat...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the author...
23: ...he Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, bu...
25: ... volume was given to the world. The last of the letterpress was issued in 1765, but it was 1772 before... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...lf-brother Lawrence in [[1751]], and survived an attack of [[smallpox]], although his face was scarred...
31: ...rench, which Washington could not read.) The "[[Battle of Jumonville Glen|Jumonville affair]]" became ...
33: ...[[Braddock Expedition#Battle of the Monongahela|Battle of the Monongahela]]. Washington distinguished ...
41: ... Army]] on [[June 15]], [[1775]]. The [[Massachusetts]] delegate [[John Adams]] suggested his appointm...
43: ...ving most of his forces. However, several other battles in the area sent Washington scrambling across ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...rated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boyl...
24: ...[[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. O...
26: ...gregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[176... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]]
23: ...]] for several generations. He attended and then attempted to institute many reforms at the [[College ...
25: ...herman]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prep...
27: ...e definitive book on the original buildings, or [http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/grizzard Academic...
29: [[Image:Jefferson1web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]] - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...d term by Horace-Bedict de Saussure in the year [[1779]]. An older meaning of the word was first used by...
16: ...canic]] origins of this part of France. [[James Hutton]] recorded his ''Theory of the Earth'' in the [...
20: ...d and for [[sediment]] to form new rocks at the bottom of the sea, which in turn were raised up to bec...
22: ...Neptunists]]'', who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dro...
26: ...vents and remained unchanged thereafter. Though Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
4: ...inue to defend [[young earth creationism]] (see [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belie...
11: ...monosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-...
19: ...h as static, with changes brought about by intermittent [[catastrophe]]s. Many naturalists were influe...
27: ...olutionists had used others; and ultimately the latter two groups were proven more correct.
37: ...confident of himself, and the fact that multiple attempts to determine the age of the Earth seemed to ... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
14: ...al-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Pax et justitia<br>([[Latin]]: Peace and just...
59: ...as ceded to Britain. Restored to French rule in [[1779]], St. Vincent was regained by the British under ...
61: ...the resulting labor shortages on the plantations attracted Portuguese immigrants in the 1840s and east...
65: ...is period, the British made several unsuccessful attempts to affiliate St. Vincent with other Windward...
83: ... Grenadines is divided into 6 [[parish]]es: Charlotte, Grenadines, Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint Ge... - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
1: ...thumb|right|Flag of New Jersey.Image provided by[http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...Washington]], who had ordered on [[October 2]], [[1779]], that the uniform coats of the [[Continental Ar...
5: *[http://www.nj.gov/njfacts/flag.htm Minutes of the New... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 25]], [[1788]] |
38: ...Union as a separate state in [[1792]] while the latter broke away from Virginia during the [[American ...
44: ...n what now is Virginia were the [[Powhatan]], [[Nottaway]], [[Meherrin]], [[Pohick]], [[Monacan]], [[S...
46: ...ement in the New World which was at [[Jamestown Settlement|Jamestown]] in the [[Virginia Colony]] in [... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ...60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
15: * 12 KYA: [[Pottery]] by [[Jomon]] in [[Japan]]
123: * [[1645]]: [[Vacuum pump]]: [[Otto von Guericke]]
136: ...1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle)]]
143: * [[1769]]: [[Steam engine]]: [[James Watt]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
23: ...ss reworked the text of the Declaration until a little after eleven o'clock, July 4th, when twelve [[c...
35: * In [[1779]], the Fourth falls on a Sunday. Starting a long ...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]] to recognize Ind...
45: ...posedly started on July 4, [[1916]] as a way to settle a dispute among four immigrants as to who was t...
52: * [http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/holidays/july4/ US State ... - African Buffalo (2744 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] | date = [[1779]]}}
21: ... newborn calves. Crossbreeding with domestic [[cattle]] has had only limited success, and the African...
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34: *[http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.c... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
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14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
41: *[[Otto Diels]], (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of...
74: *[[Otto Hahn]], (1879-1968) - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ith [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and acquittal on charges of [[treason]].
13: ...n arriving before the [[Battle of Quebec (1775)|Battle of Quebec]], he disguised himself as a [[Roman ...
14: ... led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[Albany, New York|Albany]] in [[...
24: ...d him [[List of New York State Attorneys General|Attorney General of New York]]. He was commissioner o...
38: ... Representatives|House of Representatives]]. The attempts of a powerful faction among the Federalists ... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
1: ...|right|250px|Benedict Arnold. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
3: ...nderoga]]. Some five years later, in 1780, he plotted with the British to take control of the fort at...
9: ...They appointed him a [[colonel]] in the Massachusetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirely of...
10: ...Allen and his [[Green Mountain Boys]]. In a dawn attack on [[May 10]], [[1775]], Ticonderoga was taken...
12: ...ed the letter announcing the victory to Massachusetts, doing his best to diminish Arnold's participati... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...n''' was an armed uprising in [[Western Massachusetts]] that lasted from [[1786]] to [[1787]]. Many o...
3: ...|thumb|250px|Shays Rebellion, Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]The c...
5: ...ution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-day [[Maine]] were unable to contribu...
7: ...governor, many of the people in Western Massachusetts became restless.
9: ..., Massachusetts|Worcester]], [[Concord, Massachusetts|Concord]], and elsewhere. After the passage of t...
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