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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... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
11: ...ut not actual money. As banknotes became more widely used, they became more accepted as equivalent to...
16: ...in two forms: drafts, that is receipts for value held on account, and "bills", which were issued with ...
18: ...dardized form, usually in precious metals. The development of money then comes from the role of agricu...
22: ...aper money as a circulating medium is intimately related to shortages of metal for coins. In the [[600...
24: ...664]] and ceased operating in that year. It was [[1694]] when the [[Bank of England]] issued the first p... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...mmonwealth|Polish]] [[Constitution of May 3]] as well as leading to the rise of [[capitalism]] and the...
6: ...ce of a supreme being. In this period, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[na...
12: ... Enlightenment cover much of the 17th century as well, though others term the previous era "[[17th cen...
14: ...is goal in the Age of Reason, which was built on self-evident axioms, reached its height with [[Baruch...
18: ...m overreaching to some in the present-day, where belief is that human beings apprehend a truth that is... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...t does not normally include crimes on board a vessel among passengers or crew. The term has been used ...
4: ...e first example of universal jurisdiction. Nevertheless today the [[international community]] is facin...
10: ...]] and [[Tyrrhenians]] were known as pirates, as well as [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]] and [[Ancient Rome|...
12: ...esar]] was kidnapped by [[Cilicia]]n pirates and held prisoner in the [[Dodecanese]] islet of [[Farmak...
20: ... had been raiding the coasts of [[Armorica]] and Belgic [[Gaul]]. - 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: ...vember 22]], [[1692]]), Mary ([[September 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[Ju...
23: ...ivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great deal of socia... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[198...
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] &ndash...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] – [[1992]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] – [[1875]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640) - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
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5: ...nter">[[iron]] – '''cobalt''' – [[nickel]]</td>
14: ... [[List of elements by symbol|Symbol]], [[List of elements by number|Number]]</td><td>cobalt, Co, 27 <...
18: ...lock]]</td><td>[[group 9 element|9 ]], [[period 4 element|4]], [[d-block|d]]</td></tr> - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...ançois-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by ...
8: ... grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes impli...
10: ... a strong [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...erable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
16: ...en concerned in the composition of two violent libels. Inveigled by a spy named Beauregard into a real... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
3: ...right|Johann Sebastian Bach, [[1748]] portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann]]
5: ...rks include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], the [[Mass in B Minor (Bach)...
7: ... [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[Johann Christian Bach]] became impor...
11: ...iled organizing all the secular music in town as well as participating in church music at the directio...
13: ...unes from his private library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had com... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
1: ...mb|Leonhard Euler aged 49 (oil painting by [[Emanuel Handmann]], 1756)]]
3: ...]]" (defined by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] - [[1694]]) to describe an [[Expression (mathematics)|expr...
5: ...f the newly invented [[calculus]]. He was completely [[blindness|blind]] for the last seventeen years...
10: ...ical lectures and respected his family. When Daniel and Nikolaus Bernoulli asked him to allow his son...
14: In [[1733]] he married Katharina Gsell, the daughter of the director of the academy of ... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systemati...
7: ...ow lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: The next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Sw...
11: ... of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Rob...
17: ... work, the ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', ran through twelve editions during his lifetime (1st ed. 1735). He... - Rice (13724 bytes)
2: ...-(Java).jpg|250px|Rice field]] | caption = Rice fields on [[Java (island)|Java]]}}
23: ...he world's human population. Rice cultivation is well suited to countries with low [[labor]] costs and...
27: ... land (including on terraced hillsides) with the help of chemical weed controls.
29: ...lled ''floating rice'' is grown. This can develop elongated stems capable of coping with water depths ...
33: ...y and prevent floods from reaching a dangerous level.
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