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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
3: ==Ada==
4: === Adac - Adal ===
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and ...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...#1085;а) ([[April 15]], [[1683]]/[[1684]]–[[May 17]],[[1727]]) was the second wife of [[P...
5: ...ven the birthname of Marfa Skavronska and was the daughter of Samuil Skavronski, a [[Lithuania]]n peas...
7: ...v]], the best friend of [[Peter the Great]]. In [[1703]], while visiting Menshikov at his home, Peter me...
20: ...r=[[Peter II of Russia|Peter II]]|years=[[1724]]–[[1727]]<br>''with [[Peter the Great|Peter I]] ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ... Hooke''' ([[July 18]], [[1635]] - [[March 3]], [[1703]]), one of the greatest experimental scientists o...
8: He died in [[London]] in 1703. No authenticated portrait of him survives, altho...
16: ... although the Italian mathematician [[Girolamo Cardano]] had proposed the idea about a century earlier... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...sh; [[31 March]] [[1727]] by the [[Gregorian calendar]]) was an [[English (people)|English]] [[physici...
19: ...eventually became engaged to the apothecary's stepdaughter, Anne Storey, before he went off to [[Cambr...
25: ..., to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events.
31: ...]]. Any fellow of Cambridge or Oxford had to be ordained at the time. However the terms of the Lucasia...
38: ... at its rear side, dispassionately noting "white, darke & coloured circles" so long as he kept stirrin... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
1: ...William_Dampier.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|William Dampier, pirate, navigator and explorer]]
2: '''William Dampier''' ([[1652]] – March, [[1715]]) was a [[England|English]] exp...
4: Dampier was born at [[East Coker]] in [[Somerset]] a...
7: ...ed a raid across the [[Dari鮠Province|Isthmus of Dari鮝] in [[Panama]] and captured Spanish ships on...
9: ...the [[East Indies]], calling at [[Guam]] and [[Mindanao]]. Leaving Swan and 36 others behind, the rest... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...'Benjamin Franklin''' ([[January 17]], [[1706]] – [[April 17]], [[1790]]) was an [[United States...
17: ...tember 20]], [[1701]]), Thomas ([[December 7]], [[1703]]), '''Benjamin''' ([[January 6]], [[1706]]), Lyd...
25: ... is a penny earned" are now commonly quoted every day by people all over the world.
34: ...ally became the [[University of Pennsylvania]], today a member of the [[Ivy League]]. He founded an Am...
36: ...esses. He created a partnership with his foreman, David Hill, which provided Franklin with half of the... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn...
19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}}
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra)
45: ...sition as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empire was also commonly referred t...
47: ...ised an area of over [[1 E13 m?|19.9m km²]]—though much of this was under indirect control ...
66: ...ng the [[Turkish War of Independence]] ([[1918]]–[[1923]]), and the [[Turkey|Republic of Turkey]...
83: ...50) and the Ottoman Penal code (1858).” (Haddad, Y.Y., Byron H. and Ellison F., Eds.) - Viking (18085 bytes)
4: ...omantic]] connotations in the [[18th century]]. Today, somewhat controversially, the word is also used...
13: ...ng tax on their goods. The next recorded attack, dated June 8, [[793]], was on the monastery at [[Lin...
15: ...d and colonised large parts of [[England]] (see [[Danelaw]]). They travelled up the rivers of [[France...
17: ===Adam of Bremen===
18: [[Adam of Bremen]] records in his book ''Gesta Hammabur... - Jim Abbott (6907 bytes)
5: In [[1988 in sports|1988]], Abbott won a gold medal pitching for the [[United States]] in the [[1988...
32: ...GE 94 94 .500 23 1 1674 1703 880 803 659 1085 4.32 0 - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...sh; [[July 28]], [[1750]] <small>[[Gregorian calendar|(N.S.)]]</small>){{an|birthanddeath}} was a Germ...
19: ...en]]. Some of Bach's earliest extant compositions date to this period (including, according to some sc...
22: ...ble by their slight differences from each other — available to keyboard musicians when their ins...
24: ...otables as [[Johann Friedrich Agricola]]. Still today, students of nearly every instrument encounter B...
28: ...for Solo Violin'', and the ''Orchestral Suites'', date from this period. - 18th century (8231 bytes)
3: ...[[1701]] through [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]].
9: ...st time, would begin to shake the old ways and feudal life. [[The Enlightenment]] was in full bloom an...
17: * [[1703]]: [[Saint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of R...
34: ...ad Shah]] founds the [[Durrani Empire]] in modern day [[Afghanistan]].
52: ...ves from [[London]] found [[Freetown]] in present-day [[Sierra Leone]]. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: ...o [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], in accordance with the [[Anno Domini]]/[[Common Era]] number...
6: ...aming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of earlier centuries. This dream turned ...
18: ...01-1714 |publisher=Historyofwar.org |date= |accessdate=2009-04-25}}</ref>
19: ...'' and the ''The Norwich Post'' becomes the first daily newspapers in England.
22: * [[1703]]: [[Saint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of R... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
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36: ...086;гра́д, [[1914]]–[[1924]]), is a city located in [[Northwestern ...
38: ...about 4.7 million inhabitants ([[2002]]), it is today [[Russia]]'s second largest city, Europe's fourt...
40: ...litical and cultural centre, is impressive even today and to honor it people call it often "the Northe...
50: ...nights are closely linked to another attraction — the nine drawbridges spanning the Neva. Touri...
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