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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
23: ... [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had been evacuated...
29: ...h Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast to the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwe...
60: ... be her home. She also spends time at [[Balmoral Castle]] in [[Scotland]] and at [[Sandringham House]] ...
64: ...literacy, Queen Elizabeth has witnessed over the past 50 years a gradual transformation of the British ...
68: ...[[Harold Macmillan]] and [[Harold Wilson]]. Her least favourite was undoubtedly [[Margaret Thatcher]], ... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...continued to reign until her death. Anne was the last British monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she w...
10: ...hat Scotland would co-operate. The [[Act of Union 1707]] (which united England and Scotland into Great B...
19: ...is Edward]]) in [[1688]], for a Roman Catholic dynasty became apparent. Princess Anne's sister and brot...
26: ...[[1700]], the future Queen had been pregnant at least eighteen times; thirteen times, she miscarried or...
31: ...ope opposed him, fearing that the French royal dynasty would become too powerful. The will included a ... - Apple (20408 bytes)
39: ...er]]. [[Cider apple]]s are typically too tart and astringent to eat fresh, but they give the beverage a...
68: ...bston Pippin]]: [[Yorkshire]], [[Great Britain]] (1707)
78: Tastes in apples vary from one person to another and h...
113: ...st is less likely. Areas of the USA, such as the eastern shore of [[Lake Michigan]], the southern shore... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
58: ...Republic of Ireland]]. Six counties in the north-eastern portion of the island, meanwhile, remained a p...
60: The UK is situated off the north-western coast of continental [[Europe]], and has a land border ...
62: ...formed by the [[Act of Union 1707|Act of Union of 1707]], it was customary to refer officially to Scotla...
69: ...1543|Act of Union 1536]]. With the [[Act of Union 1707]], the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland,...
113: ...reland Assembly|Assembly]] emerged from the [[Belfast Agreement|Good Friday Agreement]], but it is curr... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...al]], [[Gibraltar]] and [[Andorra]]. To the northeast, along the [[Pyrenees]] mountain range, it border...
60: ...]] successively settled along the Mediterranean coast and founded trading colonies there over a period ...
62: ...iterranean coast on the East, leaving the south coast to the Phoenicians. The Greeks are responsible fo...
66: ... Empire]], [[Hispania Taraconensis]] in the northeast, [[Hispania Baetica]] in the south and [[Lusitani...
85: ...he Aragon court and changed the title of king of Castilla and Aragon for the current king of Spain. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
274: *[[Evert Collier]] ([[1640]]-[[1707]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
543: *[[William Hoare]] (ca.[[1707]]-[[1792]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
742: *[[Louis-Michel van Loo]] ([[1707]]-[[1771]]) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...le)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[astronomer]], [[philosopher]], and [[alchemist]] who ...
29: ...s among the brightest scientists of his era, the last twenty-five years of his life were marred by a bi...
52: ...s not the first of the age of reason: he was the last of the magicians." Newton's interest in alchemy c...
61: ...with whom he formed an intense relationship that lasted until [[1693]]. The end of this friendship led ...
75: ...f the temporary Chester branch). Newton became [[master of the Mint]] upon Lucas' death in [[1699]]. Th... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...orge Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
8: ...cke earned a bachelor's degree in [[1656]] and a master's degree in [[1658]]. Although Locke never beca...
16: ...the churchyard of the village of [[High Laver]], east of [[Harlow]] in [[Essex]], where he had lived in...
18: ...e see the [[Act of Union 1707|Act of Union]] of [[1707]], though the office of King of England and King ...
45: ...es, monopolizing the good farming land near the coast. Poor people, desperate for land, squatted on bit... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes...
14: *[[1707]] - [[John V of Portugal|John V]] is crowned King...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered by [[Giuseppe Pi...
42: *[[1937]] - [[Anastasio Somoza]] becomes [[President of Nicaragua]].
52: ...the Republic of Cuba]], is overthrown by [[Fidel Castro]]'s forces. - Prague (7962 bytes)
14: ...Prague is located at 50°5' North, 14°28' East (50.08333, 14.4667). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/g...
20: ...pe|central Europe]] which is actually inside the Castle, and the [[University of Prague|Charles Univers...
24: ...頍ěsto]] (the New Town, further south and east). The city underwent further expansion with the a...
32: [[Image:Prague_4.jpg|thumb]].jpg|thumb|300px|The astronomical clock in the Old-Town Square of Prague]]
37: * [[Hradcany|Hradčany]] with the [[Prague Castle]] and [[St. Vitus Cathedral]] - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ... the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period referred to as India's "Gol...
11: ...ndian Mathematics|mathematics]], [[Indian science|astronomy]], [[Ancient Indian science and technology|...
14: ...]], and later, by the [[Mughal empire|Mughal]] dynasty. Nevertheless, some indigenous kingdoms remained...
20: ...nt-day India was under the sway of the [[British East India Company]]. A failed insurrection in [[1857]...
26: ...[[1991]], have transformed India into one of the fastest growing economies in the world. - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ...is Papin]] who was developing steam engines. In [[1707]] he constructed a paddle-powered boat, but wheth...
17: ...[[William Henry (delegate)|William Henry]] of Lancaster, [[Pennsylvania]], having learned of Watt's eng...
39: ...ces had started across the [[Irish Sea]] to [[Belfast]]. By [[1900]] there were over 300 [[Clyde steame...
40: ...], is the last survivor of these fleets, and the last sea-going [[paddle steamer]] in the world. This s...
44: ...king passengers on their trips from [[Glasgow]], past the [[Isle of Arran]], down the [[Firth of Clyde]... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
4: Dampier was born at [[East Coker]] in [[Somerset]] and went to sea at the ag...
7: ...] and captured Spanish ships on the [[Pacific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish ...
9: ...]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], calling at [[Guam]] and [[Mindanao]]. L...
11: ...[1688]] ''Cygnet'' was beached on the northwest coast of Australia, near [[King Sound]]. While the ship...
18: ...north. Sailing east, he traced the southeastern coasts of [[New Hanover]], [[New Ireland]] and [[New Br... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
190: *[[Jean Gaston Darboux]] ([[France]], [[August 14]],[[1842]] -...
238: *[[Leonhard Euler]] (Switzerland, [[1707]] - [[1783]])
299: * [[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]] (Scotla...
372: *[[Gaston Julia|Gaston Maurice Julia]] (Algeria, France, [[1893]] - [[... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century)
268: *[[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]], (1707-1788){{fn|R}} - Praseodymium (9138 bytes)
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62: | 1204 [[Kelvin|K]] (1707.8 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
149: ...ored under a light [[mineral oil]] or sealed in plastic or glass.
165: ...]] and [[bastnasite]], and can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an [[ion exchange]] process.... - Centrifuge (2358 bytes)
7: English military engineer [[Benjamin Robins]] (1707-1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determ...
20: ...to test the reactions of [[aviator|pilots]] and [[astronaut]]s to acceleration above those experienced ... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
3: [[Image:JSBach.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Johann Sebastian Bach, [[1748]] portrait by Elias Gottlob Hauss...
5: '''Johann Sebastian Bach''' ([[March 21]], [[1685]] <small>[[Julia...
13: ...h point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
22: ...[minor key]], a monumental work not only for its masterful use of [[counterpoint]] but also for explori...
32: ...ental ''St. Matthew Passion'' among his greatest masterpieces; in his correspondence, he referred to it... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...'Leonhard Euler''' [oi'lər] ([[April 15]], [[1707]] - [[September 18]], [[1783]]) was a [[Ancien R...
5: .... He was completely [[blindness|blind]] for the last seventeen years of his life, during which time he...
7: The [[asteroid]] [[2002 Euler]] is named in his honour.
10: Leonhard Euler was born on [[April 15]], [[1707]] as the son of a [[Lutheran]] minister in [[Base...
27: ... [[proportional]] to a measure of the [[elastic|elasticity]] of the material and the [[moment of inerti... - Carolus Linnaeus (8550 bytes)
2: ...]]ized name '''Carolus Linnaeus''' ([[May 23]], [[1707]] – [[January 10]], [[1778]]), was a [[Swed...
18: ...gdom of animals and the kingdom of minerals. The last strikes us as somewhat odd, but the theory of [[e...
34: ...o the form we are familiar with today [http://www.astro.uu.se/history/Celsius_eng.html].
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