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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
30: ... several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other pla... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
14: ... thinker, his famous ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' (1749). The immediate object of this short work was to ...
25: ...751 the first volume was given to the world. The last of the letterpress was issued in 1765, but it was...
27:
31: ...k was just drawing to an end, he encountered one last and crowning mortification: he discovered that th... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
51: ...h Asia]] that overlaps onto the Greater [[Middle East]] and [[Central Asia]]. The country borders [[Ind...
62: ... and propered greatly under Menander's rule. The last Greek king to rule independently was probably [[S...
72: ...British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Empire co...
74: ...Independence was organized under the rule of the last Mughal Emperor [[Bahadur Shah Zafar]], the Britis...
79: ...the Muslim majority part of [[Bengal]]) became [[East Pakistan]]. The [[Partition of India]] was so mis... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
36: ...husetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, [[New York]] to the west, and the [[Canada|Canad...
42: ...nt is located in the New England region in the [[eastern United States]] and comprises 9615 square mile...
44: ... [[Washington, Vermont|Washington]], three miles east of [[Roxbury, Vermont|Roxbury]].
46: ...New Hampshire)|White Mountains]] are in the northeast. In the northwest off Lake Champlain is the ferti... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
567: *[[Jan van Huysum]] ([[1682]]-[[1749]])
686: *[[Adelaide Labille-Guiard]] ([[1749]]-[[1803]])
858: *[[Friedrich Muller]] ([[1749]]-[[1825]]) - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
46: ...]]; six with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] and one as [[Master of Arts]].
67: ...urn home in [[1775]] he lost his position as postmaster through his share in divulging to [[Massachuset...
77: ...[[1787]], a group of prominent ministers in [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]] proposed the foundation of a ne...
89: ...lar]]. He has also appeared on a $50 bill in the past, as well as several varieties of the $100 bill fr... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
55: *1924 - [[Bill Wendell]], American broadcast announcer (d. [[1999]])
81: ...952]] - [[Bob Costas]], sports commentator, broadcaster, [[talk show]] host
98: ...lfgang von Goethe]], German writer and poet (b. [[1749]])
119: ...endar]] 22nd March is the earliest date on which Easter Sunday can fall ([[25th April]] is the latest). - March 23 (10340 bytes)
17: ... The free [[Woolwich Ferry]] officially opens in east [[London]].
32: *1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter [[Near-Earth asteroid]] misses the [[Earth]] by 400,000 miles.
44: ...erre Simon de Laplace]], French mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1827]])
94: *[[1369]] - King [[Peter I of Castile]] (b. [[1334]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
149: *[[ɭilie du Chⴥlet]] (1706-1749) (France)
190: *[[Jean Gaston Darboux]] ([[France]], [[August 14]],[[1842]] -...
299: * [[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]] (Scotla...
372: *[[Gaston Julia|Gaston Maurice Julia]] (Algeria, France, [[1893]] - [[... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
90: *[[Louis Boyer (astronomer)|Louis Boyer]] ([[France]])
132: *[[Josep Comas Sol ([[Spain]])<!--Last name = "Comas Solᦱuot;, list under C -->
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1822]])
166: *[[Terence Dickinson]], ([[Canada]]), astronomer and author - 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)
311: *[[Hector-Neri Casta]], (1924-1991){{fn|C}} - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
14: ...fession at all. So Voltaire studied [[law]], at least nominally. The Abbé de Châteauneuf ...
16: ... [[Bastille]] on [[May 16]], [[1717]], here he recast ''Oedipe'', began the ''Henriade'' and decided to...
18: Ever after his exit from the Bastille in April [[1718]] he was known as ''Arouet de...
22: ...[[1720]]. It was a failure, and though it was recast with some success, Voltaire never published it as...
28: ...m he passed [[1724]] and the next year chiefly recasting the now successful ''Marianne'', but also writ... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...rn [[Iran]]. The Elamite period is considered to last from ca. [[2700 BC]] to [[539 BC]], with a preced...
13: ...sation found in the Indus Valley somewhat to the East, but such links are at best conjectural, as [[Ind...
19: ...period ends with the establishment of the Awan dynasty. The first attestation of the name of the kingd...
21: ...plateau]]; examples of Elamite remains north and east of Iran are [[Sialk]] in [[Isfahan Province]] and...
25: ... 1600 BC (earliest documents until the Eprati dynasty) - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian ca...
4: ...a Bastille.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Storming of the Bastille, [[July 14]], [[1789]], an iconic event of th...
15: ...off the coast of the [[Pacific Northwest]]; the coast of Japan is struck by a [[tsunami]].
29: ...d Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies.
30: ...1708]]-[[1709]]: [[Famine]] kills one-third of [[East Prussia]]'s population. - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
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36: ...n Russia]] on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the [[Gulf of Finland]] on the [[Baltic Se...
42: ...rg is administrative center of the [[Leningrad Oblast]] (while being a separate region) and the [[North...
48: ...ral details including long, straight boulevards, vast spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought-iro...
50: ...o]] (60° [[latitude|N]]), causes twilight to last all night in May, June and July. This celebrated...
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