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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...er, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
5: ...sant. She was married at the age of 17 to a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[dragoon]], having been working at th...
11: *Grand Duchess Nataliya Petrovna ([[1713]]-[[1715]])
12: *Grand Duchess Margarita Petrovna ([[1714]]-[[1715]])
13: *Grand Duke Pyotr Petrovich ([[1715]]-[[1719]]) - 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. - 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]]) - Dodo (9332 bytes)
17: ==Description==
18: ...ct museum specimens of the Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxf...
27: ...rd ''doudo'', meaning "simpleton", ''doido'' in modern Portuguese meaning fool or mad. (The island was...
29: ...found in the old [[midden]]s of the Dutch fort Frederik Hendrik.
31: ..., while humans destroyed the forests where they made their homes. - Uranus (15207 bytes)
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48: | 0.769 86°<br>(6.48? to Sun's equator)
50: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
51: | 74.229 88° - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: To summarize the areas of development in colonial America, historians typicall...
9: ... the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...on and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrative [[South America|South]] and [[Centr...
16: ...mercial enterprise]], [[over-population]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respec...
22: ...ir [[Walter Raleigh]]. The second resupply ship, delayed for several years by circumstances in Englan... - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ...nment]]. As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, th...
7: ...French. Many in France attacked the [[democracy|undemocratic]] nature of the government, pushed for [[...
9: ...e French terrorism was just a [[plebeian]] way of dealing with the enemies of the bourgeoisie: absolut...
12: ===Debt===
13: ...es; however, because noble titles exempted the holder from future taxes, the purchasers of titles were... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...Bonaparte]], the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to the ''[[ancien r駩me]]'', and ecl...
8: ...nment]]. As the revolution proceeded and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, th...
10: Certainly, causes of the revolution must include all of the following:
14: ... The rise of [[the Enlightenment|enlightenment]] ideals.
15: ... [[debt]], both caused by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation. - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: '''William Dampier''' ([[1652]] – March, [[1715]]) was a [[England|English]] explorer, sea captai...
7: ...ific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] before returning...
9: ...of ten vessels. In Mexico Cook died, and a new leader, Captain Davis, took command. Dampier transferre...
11: ...e ship was being [[careening|careened]] Dampier made notes on the fauna and flora he found there. Late...
20: On the return voyage to England, ''Roebuck'' foundered near [[Ascension Island]] on [[21 February]] [... - 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) - 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. - Dodos (9122 bytes)
17: ==Description==
18: ...ct museum specimens of the Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxf...
27: ...rd ''doudo'', meaning "simpleton", ''doido'' in modern Portuguese meaning fool or mad. (The island was...
29: ...found in the old [[midden]]s of the Dutch fort Frederik Hendrik.
31: ..., while humans destroyed the forests where they made their homes. - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ...tates are professional [[theatre]] companies outside of [[New York City]] that produce their own seaso...
11: ...r, Lewis Hallam's son, [[Lewis Hallam, Jr.]], founded the American Company which opened a theater in N...
13: ...t of [[Yale College]] in his "Essay on the Stage" declared that "to indulge a taste for playgoing mean...
19: ...a single play was shown in New York for an unprecedented three weeks.
26: ...as sparked by this rivalry, and brought about the deaths of 22 people. Then, at the end of the [[Unite... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
5: ...[[1789]], denoting the period of time between the death of [[Louis XIV of France]] and the start of th...
9: ... political changes began that would lead to the modern [[nation state]]. France's absolutism would gen...
13: ...]] style replaced the [[Baroque]], then was succeeded by the [[Neoclassical]] movement.
17: * [[1703]]: [[Saint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]. [[Russ...
19: ...eb]]'s death, the [[Mughal Empire]] enters a long decline. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...x|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[1776]], an iconic event of the [[Americ...
6: ...ut with the French revolution, they were on the side of the counterrevolution.
8: ...al revolution]] started in Britain. Despite its modest beginnings in the 18th century, it would radica...
15: ...[1700]]: The [[1700 Cascadia earthquake]] (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the [[Pacific Northwes...
17: * [[1700]]-[[1721|21]]: [[Russia]] supplants [[Sweden]] as the dominant [[Baltic region|Baltic]] power...
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