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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
3: ...''Anne''' <br><small>Queen of Great Britain and Ireland</small>]]
8: ...ngland]], [[Scotland]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] on [[8 March]] [[1702]]. On [[1 May]] [[1707...
10: ...lowing the Crown to pass to the House of [[Welf|Guelph]]. When the [[Scottish Parliament]] refused to ...
12: Anne's reign was marked by the development of the two-party system. Anne personally pr...
19: ...e the realm on [[11 December]] 1688, succeeding twelve days later. In [[1689]], a [[Convention Parliam... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
2: ...II''' <br><small>Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland</small>]]
8: ... although a Sovereign in her own right, did not wield actual power during most of her reign. She did, ...
11: Mary, who was born in [[London]], was the eldest daughter of the Duke of York (the future Jame...
15: ...ent, the Duke of York agreed to the marriage, falsely assuming that it would improve his popularity am...
17: ...ted her. William long maintained an affair with [[Elizabeth Villiers]], one of Mary's ladies-in-waitin... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
12: ...n]]s called [[flower]]s, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. The other [[seed plant]]s are called...
16: ...in the form Angiospermae by [[Paul Hermann]] in [[1690]], as the name of that one of his primary divisio...
18: ...ing plants, and his determination of the correct relationships of these with the [[Vascular plant|Cryp...
22: ...s innumerable leaves, while beneath the soil a widely-branching root-system covers an area of correspo...
24: ...d plants, and many fossil plants recognizable as belonging to modern families (including [[beech]], [[... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...ring in its modern form in the 1800s after the model of its precursors, particularly the [[dulcian]], ...
4: ==History and development==
6: ...w finger-holes to be drilled obliquely, with its bell flared slightly at the end. However, there were ...
8: ...rcell]]'s call for a "bassoon" in ''Dioclesian'' (1690) referring to the wooden double reed, the word be...
10: ...f the instrument. A Dutch painting, "Der Fagottspieler", in the [[Suermondt Museum]], which scholars d... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
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96: ...[Mexican War]] in [[1848]]. In [[1853]] the land below the [[Gila River]] was acquired from Mexico in ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
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38: .... The state capital is [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Ver... - Texas (39610 bytes)
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57: ...States|US Southwest]]. Texas shares some cultural elements with both regions, with more similarities w...
70: ...o]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of Texas. For more information on T... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...ed Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of differential [[calculus]]. While they bo...
4: ...h as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could also be [[hyperbola|hyperbolic...
6: Newton also developed a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]],...
17: According to [[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
19: ...he romance cooled and Miss Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love,... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...], which includes [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with ...
6: ... college at the time was [[John Owen]], vice-chancellor of the university and also a [[Puritan]]. Alt...
8: ...medicine in [[1674]]. He studied medicine extensively during his time at Oxford, working with such not...
10: ..., Locke resumed his medical studies, under the tutelage of [[Thomas Sydenham]]. Sydenham had a major i...
12: ...to undergo an operation (then life-threatening itself) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and pr... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
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1: ... past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border:...
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53: ...gument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]] - Palermo (10618 bytes)
3: ...he autonomous region of [[Sicily]], [[Italy]] as well as the capital of the [[Province of Palermo]]
6: ...cause of its fine natural harbour. Palermo is widely considered to be the most conquered city in the ...
8: ...c War]] ([[264 BC|264]]-[[241 BC]]), when Sicily fell under [[Roman Republic|Roman]] rule. The [[Rome|...
12: ...architecture]] as can be seen in the Palatine Chapel, the church San Giovanni degli Eremiti and the Zi...
14: ...man dynasty did not last, and Sicily in [[1194]] fell under the control of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. ... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ...l.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Left: original [[paddlewheel]] from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. R...
6: ...y [[steam]] power driving a propeller or paddlewheel. The term '''steamboat''' is usually used to refe...
8: ...out of nostalgia, for [[diesel]] motor driven vessels, prefix "'''MV'''".
13: ==Early development==
15: ...0]]) was the physicist [[Denis Papin]] who was developing steam engines. In [[1707]] he constructed a ... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... of the [[Lunar Society]] and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Frankli...
11: ...y included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[1681]]), and Hannah ([[May 25]], [...
15: ...he [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Rev. Samuel Willard.
17: ...d the following children: John ([[December 7]], [[1690]]), Peter ([[November 22]], [[1692]]), Mary ([[Se...
23: ...ivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great deal of socia... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ica...
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
19: *[[Selman Akbulut]] (Turkey) - Faience (4113 bytes)
1: ...glish]] for fine tin-glazed [[earthenware]] on a delicate pale buff body.
4: ...e of producing high temperatures exceeding 1000[[Celsius|� C ]] was required to achieve this result ...
6: "Majolica" (pronounced and also spelled "maiolica") is a garbled version of "Maiorica"...
8: ...mic]] composed primarily of [[quartz]]. Approximately two hundred of these "masterpieces of faience" a...
11: ...th century|sixteenth century]], but it quickly developed its own recognisably Dutch d�cor. - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ...ohn the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was s...
9: ...ght of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other estates in the a...
15: ...ll as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
19: ...nder the command of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this for... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
1: :''For biblical characters named Elam, see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]].''
4: ...2700 BC]] to [[539 BC]], with a preceding [[Proto-Elamite]] period beginning around [[3200 BC]].
8: ... offspring of Elam, eldest son of [[Shem]] (see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]]).
10: ...he Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which means "Elam."
12: ==Elamite language==
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