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- Illinois (27007 bytes)
45: ...ban center of the pre-Columbian [[Mississippian culture]], was located near present-day [[Collinsville...
48: ... The area was ceded to the new United States in [[1783]] and became part of the [[Northwest Territory]].
60: ...nt with adaptations originating from traditions cultivated during the state's frontier era. As codifi...
76: ...rized by small towns and mid-sized cities. Agriculture, particularly [[maize|corn]] and [[soybeans]],...
88: Illinois' agricultural outputs are corn, soybeans, hogs, cattle, dai... - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
7: ...s and the French troops who had assisted them resulted in the spread of revolutionary ideals to the Fr...
24: ... put justice out of reach of everybody but the wealthy classes.
34: ...dre de Calonne]], appointed finance minister in [[1783]], restored lavish spending more reminiscent of t...
40: ...pe II, Duke of Orleans]] suffered banishment, resulting in a further series of conflicting decrees by ...
45: ...sants suffered doubly from the economic and agricultural problems. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
21: ...o became Controller-General of the Finances in [[1783]], pursued a strategy of conspicuous spending as ...
25: ...s to withdraw their loans, leading to a near-default, which forced Louis and Brienne to surrender.
33: ...ding to the forms observed at its last meeting. Although it would appear that the magistrates were no...
37: ...eir members. The question of whether voting was ultimately to be by head or by order was again put as...
44: ...[June 27]] the royal party had overtly given in, although the military began to arrive in large number... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
2: ...ution. It attempts to give identifying facts and ultimate fates. ''As a rule, the best place to clarif...
29: ...ne]] - French Controller-General of Finances from 1783 to 1787, whose discovery of the terrible state of...
34: ...]], like [[Jacques Hébert]] a devotee of the [[Cult of Reason]], guillotined with Hébert
66: *[[Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles]] - on [[Committee of Public Safety...
98: *[[Honoré Mirabeau]] - Although noble, entered the [[Estates-General of 1789... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...ndence movement, the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish]] [[Constitution of May 3]] as well as le...
6: ... prominent Enlightenment philosophers such as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned an...
14: ...ge." This goal in the Age of Reason, which was built on self-evident axioms, reached its height with [...
16: ...f with the mechanics of physical observation, resulted in a coherent system of verifiable predictions ...
20: ...stressed that the world was accessible to the faculty of human reason, and that the "laws" which gover... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
36: *[[John Dalton]], (1766-1844), physicist
93: *[[Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner]] (1783 - 1857)
97: *[[Izaak Kolthoff]], (1894-1993) the "Father of [[analytical ch...
156: *[[Henri Victor Regnault]] (1810-1878), [[France|French]] chemist and [[Ph... - Hot air balloon (8769 bytes)
1: ...irst manned flight was made on [[November 21]], [[1783]], in [[Paris]] by [[Pilⴲe de Rozier]] and the ...
6: ...that has different speed winds than the previous altitude, during the flight. Recent balloons have be...
9: ...ns were basically paper bags with a smoky fire built on a grill attached to the bottom, so they had a ...
26: ...direction of flight depends on the wind, but the altitude of the balloon can be controlled by changing...
28: ...ing, which make controlling a balloon more difficult. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
6: *[[Wäinö Aaltonen]] ([[1894]] - [[1966]])
133: *[[Herbert Haseltine]] (1877 - 1962)
139: *[[Milton Horn]] (1906 - 1995),
194: *[[Franz Xaver Messerschmidt]] (1736 - 1783)
237: *[[Auguste Présult]] - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ...ferson]] as for his [[duel]] with [[Alexander Hamilton]] and his trial and acquittal on charges of [[t...
14: ...Haven]], where Benedict Arnold led a British assault in [[1780]]. Burr was admitted to the bar at [[A...
18: ...aughter [[Theodosia Alston|Theodosia]], born in [[1783]], became widely known for her beauty and accompl...
20: ...y which was hopefully not lost on the younger Hamilton.
24: ... he defeated a favored candidate -- Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law, General [[Philip Schuyler]] --... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
44: <br>[[1783]]
63: ...e two sources of water, sweet water springs and salty water in the surrounding seas.
69: ...ims, and to define themselves, as well as their culture to be Arabic, and not Persian.
73: ...tted Bahrain, but its downturn was not as badly felt, as the economy of Bahrain began to diversify.
83: ...bin Salman Ali Khalifa]]. Both rule through consultation with ministers. The judiciary system is rel... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
7: ...unch of an 18 m³ silk bag, which reached an altitude of 250 m.
9: ...ed 2 km, lasted 10 minutes, and had an estimated altitude of 1600 - 2000 m.
11: ...l, to ascertain the effects of the air at higher altitude. This was performed at [[Versailles]], befor...
13: ... 15]] (12 or 14 according to Montgolfier), to an altitude of 26 m.
15: On [[November 21]], [[1783]], the first free flight by humans was made by [[... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
19: ...g steamboat that was too slow for river use. In [[1783]] a new [[paddle steamer]], the [[PS Pyroscaphe|'...
21: ...n a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a successful trial in...
23: ...ollowed by continuous development of steamboats. Although plans to introduce boats on the Forth and Cl...
25: ...Boulton and Watt steam engine]], and on return built the ''North River Steamboat'' (often called the [...
30: ...oats on the major American rivers soon followed Fulton's success. [[Mark Twain]], in his [[Life on the... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
27: ...ly. They also plundered all the coasts of the [[Baltic Sea]], ascending the rivers of Eastern Europe a...
31: ... Sea. By 642 they invaded southern Italy and assaulted Siponte in [[Benevento]]. Their raids in the Ad...
39: ...aritime trade in both the [[North Sea]] and the Baltic Sea was seriously in danger of attack by the pi...
50: ...n the one side stood the Muslim-ruled [[Bahmani Sultanate]], and on the other stood the Hindu kings ra...
52: ...f_world_history/v012/12.2risso.html|title=Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Piracy: Maritime Violence in t... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
6: ...s successfully implemented, but its potential at altering British colonial policy was cut off by the o...
19: *Dec. 20, 1776- Mar. 4, 1777 [[Baltimore, Maryland]]
23: *July 2, 1778- June 21, 1783 Philadelphia
24: *June 30, 1783- Nov. 4, 1783 [[Princeton, New Jersey]]
25: *Nov. 26, 1783- June 3, 1784 [[Annapolis, Maryland]] - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ...widened far beyond [[British North America]], resulted in the overthrow of British rule in the thirtee...
12: ... short-term colonial militia throughout the war. Although as many as 250,000 men may have served the c...
69: ...the season, the British entered winter quarters. Although Howe had missed several opportunities to cru...
73: Washington reacted by taking the offensive, stealthily [[Battle of Trenton|crossing the Delaware]] o...
95: ...secured the Delaware River by taking (with difficulty) forts [[Fort Mifflin|Mifflin]] and [[Fort Merce... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
9: ...5]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife [[Mary Morrill]].
23: ...gence combined with a great deal of savvy about cultivating a positive image of an industrious and int...
27: ...ibraries in other American cities, and Franklin felt that this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenment...
38: ...ays that he was aware of the dangers and offered alternative ways to demonstrate that lightning was el...
63: ... This perceived conflict of interest, and the resulting outcry, is widely regarded as a deciding facto... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
19: *[[1909]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] leaves [[New York]] for a post-presidency [[saf...
23: ...] - [[Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines]]
68: *[[1942]] - [[Walter Rodney]], historian and political figure (d. [[...
99: *[[1842]] - [[Stendhal]], French writer, (b. [[1783]]) - Annapolis, Maryland (7226 bytes)
25: ...of the [[Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area|Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area]], 28 miles eas...
28: ...e [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] in [[1783]].
34: ...workings of the government from [[November 26]] [[1783]] to [[August 13]] [[1784]], and the Treaty of Pa...
36: ...the [[Continental Congress]] on [[December 23]] [[1783]]. George Washington, who had argued vigorously f...
63: The [[United States Naval Academy]] was built in [[1854]] on the site of [[Fort Severn]], and n... - Albany, New York (8184 bytes)
73: ...ral in the [[Revolutionary War]], died there in [[1783]].
88: *[http://www.metroland.net Metroland] "The Alternative Newsweekly of New York's Capital Region" - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: ...[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
39: *[[Yoriyuki Arima]] (Japan, [[1714]]-[[1783]])
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]])
80: *[[ɴienne B麯ut]] (France, [[1730]]–[[1783]])
221: *[[Walther Franz Anton von Dyck]] (Germany)
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