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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
7: ...ldhood except for Anna and [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta]].
10: *[[Empress]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
14: *Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich ([[1717]]-[[1717]])
17: ...Sarskoje Selo estate, later renamed [[Tsarskoye Selo]]. - 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... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
2: ...between [[1615]] and [[1623]] - [[October 17]], [[1705]]) was a French [[author]], and patron of the art...
4: ... 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, and when her mother died ten years later the unm...
6: ...fluenced by [[Epicureanism]] in general and [[Michel de Montaigne|Montaigne]] in particular, she devot...
10: ...Mazarin]] on Ninon's behalf and arranged for her release.
12: ...sibility of living a good life in the absence of religion, notably in 1659's ''La coquette veng饧' ("... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...bed as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[...
5: Comets are believed to originate in a cloud (the [[Oort cloud]])...
9: ...e solar wind than dust is, and follows magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. While ...
11: ... with the naked eye. Before the invention of the telescope, comets seemed to appear out of nowhere in ...
13: ...age:Cometorbit.png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]] - 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,... - 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) - 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) - Viking (18085 bytes)
6: Vikings travelled westward; [[Varangian]]s travelled eastward.
15: ...Russia]] and along the [[Baltic]] coast. Stories tell of raids in the [[Mediterranean]] and as far eas...
19: ...co. Ipsi enim piratae, 'quos illi Wichingos as appellant, nostri Ascomannos regi Danico tributum solvu...
29: ... of participants in expeditions collecting [[Danegeld]] in England, and at least two rune stones menti...
37: :''Fell ᠆? (He fell on the [[Fyrisvellir]]) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
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.
14: ...non de Lenclos]]. When she died, tragically, in [[1705]], she left him money so he could buy books. In A...
16: ...en concerned in the composition of two violent libels. Inveigled by a spy named Beauregard into a real... - Olympia, Greece (5214 bytes)
5: ...g="2" cellspacing="1" style="float:right; empty-cells:show; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:0,5em; bac...
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31: | Elevation:<br> -lowest:<br> -centre:<br>&n...
37: ... [[Municipal codes in Greece|Municipal code]]: || 1705
53: ...hian Games]] held in [[Delphi]]. Both games were held every [[olympiad]] (i.e. every four years), the ... - 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: ...pists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]...
13: [[John Ray]] (1627–1705) was an English naturalist who published importan... - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
5: * [[1705]]: [[Newcomen engine|Steam piston engine]]: [[Tho...
9: ... [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
16: * [[1762]]: [[Iron smelting process]]: [[Jared Eliot]]
21: ...ine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]]
23: * [[1777]]: [[Circular saw]]: [[Samuel Miller]] - Iceberg (3511 bytes)
1: ...that has broken off from a [[glacier]] or [[ice shelf]] and is floating in open water.
16: ... to 90° W ([[Bellingshausen Sea]], [[Weddell Sea]])
19: ... 90° E ([[Amery Ice Shelf]], Eastern Weddell Sea)
21: Iceberg B15, which calved from the [[Ross Ice Shelf]] in 2000 and initially had an area of 11 000 km...
36: '''Iceberg''' is also a fashion label and a [[lettuce]] variety.
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