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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...aval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
22: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]]) - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: ...and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Rom...
14: ...], and [[King of Bohemia|Queen of Bohemia]]: 1740-1741
15: ...]], [[King of Bohemia]]: 1780 ([[Heir-Apparent]]: 1741-1780)
20: ...; had issue. [[Grand Duke of Tuscany]]: 1765 (abdicated 1790); [[Holy Roman Emperor]]: 1790; [[Archduk...
21: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Caroline (1748) - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow Germans in the government and...
7: ...hat time, her illegitimacy would be used by political opponents to challenge her right to the throne.
9: ... good, if not brilliant, but unfortunately her education was both imperfect and desultory. Her father ...
11: ...incess found herself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress.
13: ...ov and hated the memory of Peter the Great, practically banished Peter's daughter from court. Elizabet... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]]...
36: ... east, [[New York]] to the west, and the [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Quebec]] to the north.
38: ...aunchly independent political thinking. The state capital is [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while...
42: Vermont is located in the New England region in the [[eastern Uni...
44: ...ed States and separates Vermont from New York and Canada in the northwest portion of the state. The st... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
13: *[[1729]]: [[Province of Carolina]] proprietors sell out to Crown
19: ...eorge Whitefield]] tours the colonies ([[1739]]-[[1741]]) to preach the Great Awakening
45: ...mageFolio.cgi?direct=History/United_States Historical Pictures of the United States]
46: ...d_States/American_Revolution Pictures of the American Revolution]
49: ...States/Colonial_America Pictures of Colonial America] - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...an]] ''Venezia''), the city of [[canal]]s, is the capital of the region of [[Veneto]], population 271,...
6: ...tate]] (an Italian [[thalassocracy]] or ''Repubblica Marinara'', the other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pi...
10: ...gean]], including [[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]], and became a major power-broker in the [[Near East]]. By t...
12: Venice became an imperial power following the [[Fourth Crusad...
14: ...[[knight tenure]] within the city itself. The ''[[Cavalieri di San Marco]]'' was the only order of [[c... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
43: *[[Caspar Buberl]] (1834 - 1899)
48: *[[Alexander Calder]] (1898 - 1976)
49: *[[Alexander Milne Calder]] (1845 - 1923)
50: *[[Alexander Stirling Calder]] (1870 - 1945) - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...lot was thwarted, but Arnold successfully avoided capture by Continental forces. Shortly thereafter, ...
6: ...uired considerable property, and engaged in the [[Caribbean|West Indies trade]], sometimes commanding ...
8: ==Wartime career==
9: ...ty (American Revolution)|Committee of Safety]] to capture [[Fort Ticonderoga]] on [[Lake Champlain]]. ...
10: ...necticut to capture the same fort and who did not care that Arnold had orders from Massachusetts. Arno... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...ts to the [[glass harmonica]], and possibly [[bifocals]].
21: ...t son. His schooling ended at ten and at 12 he became an [[apprenticeship|apprentice]] to his brother...
23: ...Franklin a forum for agitating for a variety of local reforms. His intelligence combined with a great...
27: ...t)|enlightenment]] partly contributed to the American colonies' struggle to maintain their privileges.... - 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]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]]...
106: *[[Jonathan Borwein]] (Scotland/Canada, [[1951]]-) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...tate under the King of Sicily. The medi涡l Order can be said to have come to an end following its eje...
5: ...rno]] in [[Italy]] were given permission by the [[Caliph]] Haroun el Raschid of [[Egypt]] to rebuild t...
7: ...epulchre]] in Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem bu...
9: ...e [[Krak des Chevaliers]], and [[Margat]], both located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The propert...
15: ...s well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]]. - Platinum (10600 bytes)
18: |[[Chemical series]] || [[transition metal]]s
22: |[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] || 21450 [[kilogram per cubic metre|...
30: |[[Atomic radius]] (calc.) || 135 (177) [[picometre|pm]]
44: ...an="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0" | '''Physical properties'''
58: |[[Vapor pressure]] || 0.0312 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 2045 K - Timeline of chemical element discovery (10490 bytes)
6: * antiquity - [[Carbon]]
32: *[[1741]] - [[Platinum]] discovered by [[Charles Wood (sc...
36: *[[1766]] - [[Hydrogen]] discovered by [[Henry Cavendish]]. From the [[Greek language|Greek]] word...
40: **[[Chlorine]] discovered by [[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]].
42: ... - [[Hydrogen]] isolated and described by [[Henry Cavendish]], named by [[Antoine Lavoisier]] - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
8: ...hout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ... been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger brother ...
12: ... there till [[1711]]. Though he deprecated the education he had received, it formed the basis of his c...
14: ...r stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it.
16: ...e [[Bastille]] on [[May 16]], [[1717]], here he recast ''Oedipe'', began the ''Henriade'' and decided ... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...s credited with being one of the first to apply [[calculus]] to [[physics]].
5: ...deduced many consequences of the newly invented [[calculus]]. He was completely [[blindness|blind]] f...
10: ...ther, had attended [[Jakob Bernoulli]]'s mathematical lectures and respected his family. When Daniel ...
12: ...explained with analytical science"—that is, calculus). In [[1735]] he lost much of his vision i...
14: ...arina Gsell, the daughter of the director of the academy of arts. They had thirteen children, of whom... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
3: ...from [[1701]] through [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]].
5: ... this period (in terms of [[industry|industrial]] capacity) were: [[Austria]], [[Britain]], [[France]]...
9: ...ghtened absolutism]]" and was the time when political changes began that would lead to the modern [[na...
11: ...being established, and, in the case of [[USA|America]], breaking away from their parents. In [[Asia]],...
13: ...[[Baroque]], then was succeeded by the [[Neoclassical]] movement. - 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... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
17: | [[Geographic coordinate system|Location]]: || {{coor dm|59|56|N|30|20|E|region:RU_typ...
33: ..._spit.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[Neva]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
36: ...69;д, [[1914]]–[[1924]]), is a city located in [[Northwestern Russia]] on the delta of the...
38: ... "window to Europe", it served thenceforth as the capital of the country during the [[Russian Empire|i...
40: ...nd to honor it people call it often "the Northern Capital" (северн... - Articles of Confederation (19574 bytes)
3: ==The Articles of Confederation: America's First Attempt at Governance==
5: In the tumultuous aftermath of the American Revolutionary War, the fledgling nation faced th...
13: ...centralized system of government, granting significant autonomy to individual states. Some key feature...
15: ...ntionally weak, with no executive branch and a unicameral legislature known as the Congress of the Con...
18: ...tes, making the process arduous and often impractical.
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