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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...attle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the [[Thirty Years'...
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5: ...ourdon stor.jpg|center|185px|Christina of Sweden, depicted by S颡stien Bourdon]]
12: ...td>'''Predecessor'''<td>[[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]]
13: ...lign=top><td>'''Successor'''<td>[[Charles X of Sweden]] - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...monarch of the [[House of Stuart]]; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain...
10: ... crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland would co-opera...
12: Anne's reign was marked by the development of the two-party system. Anne personally...
15: ...rom France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who would bec...
17: ...nued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion. - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...William III]], who became the sole ruler upon her death. Popular histories usually know the joint reig...
11: ...harles II]]; her maternal grandfather, [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]], served for a lengthy pe...
13: ...aking as his second wife the Catholic [[Mary of Modena]], also known as Mary Beatrice d'Este.
15: ...Mary became betrothed to the Protestant [[Stadtholder]] and [[Prince of Orange]], William III. William...
17: ...t enjoy a happy marriage; her three pregnancies ended in miscarriage or stillbirth. She became popular... - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...rguments or evidence to the contrary, please provide them on the talk page, and wait until the consens...
3: ...o keep this overview article concise, please consider adding information instead to one of the many "m...
6: ...the second largest in area (after [[Russia]]). Bordering the [[United States]], its territorial claims...
8: ...iamentary system|parliamentary]] [[representative democracy]] and is a [[constitutional monarchy]] wit...
15: ... who is the head of government, have official residences in Ottawa. - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
16: government_type = Democratic [[republic]] |
17: ...er_titles = [[List of Presidents of Slovenia|President]]<br>[[Prime Minister of Slovenia|Prime Ministe...
18: leader_names = [[Janez Drnovsek|Janez Drnovšek]]<b...
20: area_magnitude = 1_E10 |
28: population_density = 96 | - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
2: ...ing and [[Puritan]] [[paranoia]] which led to the deaths of at least 25 people and the imprisonment of...
6: ...chusetts|Manchester]], [[Malden, Massachusetts|Malden]], [[Charlestown, Massachusetts|Charlestown]], [...
9: ...at last one concluded that it was the hand of the Devil on them; in other words, they were possessed. ...
11: ...nal interpretations of the trials, there is no evidence that she was anything but Native American.
13: ...rminer|Court of Oyer and Terminer]] (to "hear and determine"). By then, Sarah Osborne had died in jail... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...'' is the [[United States|American]] name for the decisive nine-year conflict ([[1754]]-[[1763]]) in [...
5: ...ne|French Canadians]] refer to it as the ''Guerre de la conquê´¥'' (War of the Conquest), since it is ...
9: ...own in North America as [[King William's War]] ([[1689]]-[[97]]), [[Queen Anne's War]] ([[1702]]-[[1714]...
13: ... defeated a French garrison led by [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's capital...
17: ..., preferring to keep the Caribbean island of [[Guadeloupe]] because of its rich [[sugar]] crops and th... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: Modern [[science]] is a body of verifiable [[empirical...
4: ... change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still...
6: ...] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects and systems, which differs ...
11: ...mphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
13: ...e, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...r writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 - 1668) to have invent...
6: * [[1609]] - [[Galileo Galilei]] develops an ''occhiolino'' or compound microscope wi...
7: ...o'' to [[Poland|Polish]] king [[Sigismund I of Sweden|Sigismund III]].
10: ... Prince Federico Cesi, founder of the ''Accademia dei Lincei'' (in English, ''The [[Linceans]]'').
16: ...[1981]] - [[Gerd Binnig]] and [[Heinrich Rohrer]] develop the [[scanning tunneling microscope]]. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...fried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of differential [[calculus]]. While they...
4: ...a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in t...
6: ...ped a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]], describing the rate of cooling of objects when expos...
12: ...ief biography of Newton's early life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life a...
14: ... said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three months bef... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: ...[[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
23: *[[1624]]-[[New Netherlands]] founded by the [[Dutch West India Company]] in present-d...
24: *[[1626]]-[[New Amsterdam]] founded by the Dutch in present-day [[New York City]]
25: *[[1629]]-[[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] founded, led by [[John Winthrop]]
29: *[[1634]]-[[Province of Maryland]] founded - John Locke (14749 bytes)
2: ...-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...up called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is...
6: ...found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical mat...
8: ...ed a bachelor's degree in [[1656]] and a master's degree in [[1658]]. Although Locke never became a me...
10: ...n Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...s]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on num...
6: ...] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
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29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]]...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small> - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...klin was a member of the [[Freemasons]], corresponded with members of the [[Lunar Society]] and was al...
4: Franklin's [[invention]]s include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]],...
9: ...[[Ecton]], [[Northamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, ...
11: ...ing half-siblings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...ndonesia]], [[Brazil]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Bangladesh]].
4: ... Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR).
15: ...e and was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
17: ...nd]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north fr...
19: ...y. Nevertheless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted to colonize the region. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[Nat...
4: ...Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (peopl...
6: ...artes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...abandoning his three children to the care of an older brother Francis. Hobbes was educated at Westport...
12: ... Hardwick (and later [[Duke of Devonshire|Earl of Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ...ear particles from which all ordinary matter is made ([[particle physics]]) to the behavior of the mat...
4: ...of the underlying molecules, which are accurately described by areas of physics such as [[quantum mech...
6: ...cs, known as [[mathematical physics]], devoted to developing the mathematical structure of physical th...
15: ...hich no practical experimental test has ever been devised.
19: ...research into more specialized topics, and any student of physics, regardless of his or her specializa... - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
1: ... use the terms "democracy," "republic," and "presidency.") -->
4: ... monarch involves inheritance according to an [[order of succession]], usually within one [[royal fami...
6: ... symbolism of monarchy alongside the symbolism of democracy can lead to division over the apparently c...
9: ...kings, Achaemenid kings of Persia. Other monarchs derived their power by acclamation of the ruling or ...
11: ...iderable power. There are also recent ([[2003]]) developments in [[Liechtenstein]], wherein the regna...
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