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- Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
1: ...]] to [[1789]], a period that included the [[American Revolutionary War]] and the [[Articles of Confed...
4: ...ich kept the local colonial governments in communication with one another as their common opposition t...
8: ... as an [[ambassador]] of the United States. American ports were reopened in defiance of the Navigatio...
21: *Sept. 27, 1777 (one day only) [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
25: *Nov. 26, 1783- June 3, 1784 [[Annapolis, Maryland]] - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ...ment of the [[United States|United States of America]].
3: ... origins and aftermath of the war, see the [[American Revolution]].
5: ...ne of the most famous images relating to the American Revolutionary War.]]
10: ...ld often come and go as they saw fit. Militia typically lacked the training and discipline of regular ...
15: ...list (American Revolution)|Loyalists]]—American colonists who sided with the British—field... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...ckenzie]], the first European to cross North America by land north of Mexico, in [[1793]].
5: ... of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain" ([http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/v02....
7: ...estward. [[Sacagawea]] and her [[Shoshone]] tribe came from further west. Not only did Lewis and Clark...
10: ...rest of the men of the party. The party agreed to camp on the south side of the river (modern Astoria,...
16: ... now belonged to the United States. Without these calm meetings, the white settlers from the East woul... - Annapolis, Maryland (7226 bytes)
4: nickname = "America's Sailing Capital" |
25: ...]]. It is also home to the [[United States Naval Academy]] and [[St. John's College, U. S.|St. John's ...
28: ...a wealthy seaport, Annapolis became the temporary capital of the [[United States]] after the signing o...
34: ...[[1784]], so Annapolis became the first peacetime capital of the US.
36: ... to model the dome of the [[United States Capitol|Capitol building]] in [[Washington DC]] after it. - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
25: ... region, though in truth the city has more communication and transportation links with the [[Delaware ...
27: ...s the state's most dangerous criminals, is also located in Trenton.
29: ...ogether and referred to as "Greater Trenton" by locals.
32: ...ecuted in [[England]] at this time and North America provided the perfect opportunity to exercise thei...
36: ... new country, but the southern states favored a location south of the [[Mason-Dixon Line]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...elow in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ... Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
37: *[[Cahit Arf]] (Turkey, [[1910]] - [[1997]])
78: ...ich Bessel|Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel]] (Germany, [[1784]] - [[1846]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]]... - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
3: ...ymouth, Massachusetts]], Abigail lacked formal education. On her mother's side she was descended from ...
50: In 1784, she joined John Adams at his diplomatic post in ...
52: ...[Vice President of the United States]], Abigail became a good friend to [[Martha Washington]] helped i... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
39: ...tarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
55: *[[John Bahcall]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1934]] – )
71: ...Bessel|Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel]] ([[Germany]], [[1784]] – [[1846]])
109: *[[William Wallace Campbell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1862]] – ...
110: *[[Annie Jump Cannon]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1863]] – [[... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: ...g archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE, the Early Paleolithic E...
7: ...0,000 - 80,000 BCE) were discovered in the Pr鶴t cave near Bojnice and other nearby sites. Artifacts ...
9: ...the most ancient evidence of commercial exchanges carried out between the [[Mediterranean]] and [[Cent...
11: ... characterized by remarkable modelling and by delicate linear decoration, revealing the first attempts...
13: ...rs long, inhabited to a depth of 700 meters. This cave is one of the biggest Neolithic deposits in Eur... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}} - William Henry Harrison (11790 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
18: ...rning the [[nickname]] "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). As a [[general]] in the subsequent [[War of...
22: ==Early years and military career==
23: ...n's brother, [[Carter Bassett Harrison]], later became a member of the House of Representatives, repre...
25: ...t-day Ohio to settlement by [[whites|white]] Americans. - Zachary Taylor (11484 bytes)
3: ...tion><font size="+1">'''Zachary Taylor'''</font></caption>
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>November 24, 1784</td></tr>
16: ...t of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''</td><td>[[Whig]]</td></tr>
20: ...50]]. Taylor was noted for his extensive military career, becoming the first president not previously ...
23: Taylor was born in a [[log cabin]] to Richard Taylor and Sarah Strother in Barb... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
1: ...blishment of the states in 1776, and either are located within territorial boundaries of the United St...
4: ...n which U.S. military units (primarily regular, occasionally [[irregular_military|irregular]]) partici...
6: *'''[[American Revolutionary War]]''' (1775–1783)
11: *'''[[Mexican-American War]]''' (1846–1848)
13: *[[Nicaragua Naval Battles]] (1854–1858) - Sea Lamprey (9084 bytes)
2: ...| image = [[Image:Sea_Lamprey_mouth.jpg|250px]] | caption = The mouth of a [[Sea Lamprey]],<br/> showi...
16: ...lampreys are not considered to be true [[fish]] because of their vastly different morphology and physi...
18: ==Physical description==
19: ...ad, and seven gills on each side. A lamprey has [[cartilage]] instead of [[bone]]s and is on the borde...
23: ...er into an efficient swimming predator, which typically moves into the sea to begin a predatory/[[para... - Pterosaurs (10375 bytes)
2: ...image | image = [[Image:Pteronodon2.jpg|250px]] | caption = A Pteronodon from a 1914 study — ima...
20: Pterosaurs were first discovered in [[1784]] by the Italian [[natural history|naturalist]] [...
22: ...in the late Jurassic [[Solnhofen limestone]] in [[1784]], twenty-nine kinds of pterosaurs have been foun...
24: ...n, when the bones were deposited, the sediments encapsulated the bones, rather then crushing them. Thi...
30: ...and extending along the sides of the body. A bone called the pteroid connects to the wrist and helped ... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: ...sted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], in accordance with the [[Anno Domini]]/[...
4: ...ic event of the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]]]]
6: ...Enlightenment]] culminated in the French and American revolutions. Philosophy and science increased in...
8: ...dest beginnings in the 18th century, it would radically change human society and the geology of the su...
15: * [[1700]]: The [[1700 Cascadia earthquake]] (magnitude 9) occurs off the coas... - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
18: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]]
22: * [[1777]]: [[carding|Card teeth making machine]]: [[Oliver Evans]]
25: * [[1785]]: [[Power loom]]: [[Edmund Cartwright]]
29: * [[1784]]: [[Bifocals]]: [[Benjamin Franklin]]
30: * [[1784]]: [[Shrapnel shell]]: [[Henry Shrapnel]] - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12500 bytes)
1: ...ean classical music]] (especially, of the [[Classical music era]]). He composed an astonishingly large...
7: ...ed]] on the day after his birth at [[St. Rupert's Cathedral]] as ''Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Th...
11: ...ruction in both the [[piano]] and [[violin]]. Musically, he developed very rapidly and began to compos...
13: ..., to play with her. On one occasion when Mozart became ill, Leopold expressed more concern over the lo...
19: ... as a member of the famous ''[[Accademia Filarmonica]]''. A highlight of the Italian journey, which is...
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