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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...t of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufactur...
3: ...wth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power gen...
5: ...red to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|no...
10: ...he accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumula...
12: ...h often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them. - Finland (29511 bytes)
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9: ...center width=130px| ([[Coat of Arms of Finland|In Detail]])
22: |'''[[List of Presidents of Finland|President]]''': || [[Tarja Halonen]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
7: *[[Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich]] (born 1923)
8: *[[Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Sergeyevich]] (1906-1989)
11: *[[Yakubu Gowon]] (born 1934), military leader of [[Nigeria]]
12: *[[Alexander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
13: *[[Elihu Yale|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor - 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]])
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]]) - 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> - 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 ... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: ...for the mouth of the [[Mississippi River]], is murdered by his own men.
10: ... By the end of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, Nort...
20: ...s and communications facilities in [[Germany]] be destroyed.
21: ... [[Martinique]] and [[R鵮ion]] become overseas [[departement|d鰡rtements]] of [[France]].
22: *[[1953]] - [[Academy Awards]] are first televised. - Estonia (13391 bytes)
2: ...uth, with [[Russia]] to the east, and maritime border with [[Finland]] to the north.
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12: ...er" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Estonia|In Detail]]) - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
2: ...ory of his affair with his student, [[Heloise (student of Abelard)|Héloïse]] has become legendary.
7: ...; but whether this was in early youth, when he wandered from school to school for instruction and exer...
11: ...ster in argument, resulting in a long duel that ended in the downfall of the philosophic theory of [[R...
13: ...ialectic, he next turned to [[theology]] and attended the lectures of Anselm at [[Laon]]. His triumph ...
15: ...ery regular life, enlivened only by philosophical debate: now, at the height of his fame, he encounte... - 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. - 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... - Anne Bonny (5802 bytes)
1: ...an [[Irish American]] [[pirate]] who plied her trade in the [[Caribbean]].
5: ...oved to [[Charleston, South Carolina]] where he made a fortune and bought a large [[plantation]]. Dili...
10: ...s also true that after the arrival of Governor Woodes Rogers in the summer of 1718, James Bonny became...
12: ...vidence, James dragged Anne before Gov. Rogers to demand she be flogged for adultery and returned to h...
15: ...r fellow pirates. She and Mary Read's name and gender were, however, known to all from the start, incl... - 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... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
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13: ...stricts of Russia|District]]: || [[Northwestern Federal District|North West Russia]]
15: ...ia|Subdivision]]: || [[Federal cities of Russia|federal city]]
23: | [[Population density]]: || 7691 persons/km�
25: | [[Altitude]]: || 3 m
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