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- 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... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
3: ...oin]]s, banknotes make up the cash forms of all modern [[money]]. With the exception of non-circulatin...
5: ...intrinsic value]] of the material the money was made of, such as [[silver]] or [[gold]]. However, car...
7: ...emand" from the Treasury. If a note is payable in demand for a fixed unit, it is said to be fully conv...
11: ...he monetary system, banknotes are now simply considered as money.
18: ...tandardized form, usually in precious metals. The development of money then comes from the role of agr... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...ation in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...of its proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence of a supreme being. In thi...
8: ...rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]]...
10: ... and the [[Renaissance]] and [[Reformation]] preceded it (if it is thought of as a long period). Furth...
14: ...the universe where God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton ... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...rm has been used to refer to raids across land borders by non-state actors. Piracy should be distingu...
3: == Definition ==
4: ...09-04-09 |accessdate=2009-04-09 |publisher=[[Open Democracy]]}}</ref>
10: ...liament/2587/trade.html Phoenician Economy and Trade].</ref> By the 1st century BC, there were pirate ...
12: ...ued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death. - 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... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: ...s [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] –...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]]...
26: *[[Harold Alden]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1890]] – [[196...
27: *[[Hannes Alfv鮝] ([[Sweden]], [[1908]] – [[1995]]) - 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) - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
2: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right...
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20: <td>[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] </td>...
32: <td>[[van der Waals radius]] </td><td>...
38: <td>[[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) </td><td>'''2''',3 (amphoteric... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...d in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire ...
10: ...unger brother was very fond, married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansen...
12: ... [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...ther stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: .... Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], ...
7: ...e distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[J...
13: ...te library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...; Bach was equally at home talking with organ builders and with performers.
19: ...essive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he was the first in his family to finish... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...d by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] - [[1694]]) to describe an [[Expression (mathematics)|expression]] ...
5: ... dominated [[eighteenth century]] mathematics and deduced many consequences of the newly invented [[ca...
10: ...ematics. Paul Euler, Leonhard's father, had attended [[Jakob Bernoulli]]'s mathematical lectures and ...
14: ... only three sons and two daughters survived. The descendants of these children, however, were in high...
16: ...or of the mathematical class at the [[Prussian Academy of Sciences]] in [[Berlin]]. His time in Berli... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]], which uses [[g...
7: ...lle]], translated and abridged Aristotle's book ''de Anima'' (''On Animals'') into Arabic. His origina...
9: ...nce in developing scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (15...
11: ... of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Rob...
13: ...toria Plantarum]] was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomou... - Rice (13724 bytes)
23: ...on [[grade (geography)|steep]] [[mountain|hill]]sides.
24: ... Africa, centuries of trade and exportation has made it a commonplace in many cultures.
27: ...be grown on dry land (including on terraced hillsides) with the help of chemical weed controls.
29: ...elop elongated stems capable of coping with water depths exceeding 2 meters (6 feet).
31: ...on]]s and [[Old World warbler|warblers]], and a wide range of [[Amphibia|amphibians]] and [[snake]]s. ...
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