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- List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
3: ...eter van der Aa|Aa, Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
7: ...nna was the daughter of [[Ivan V of Russia]], as well as the niece of [[Peter the Great]]. The latter...
10: ...nconvenience to her, and soon she established herself as an autocratic ruler, using her popularity wit...
17: ...mpany of her foolish and ignorant maids. Finding delight in humiliating old nobility, she arranged the...
19: ... other foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and [[Burkhar...
24: ...ia during the [[War of the Polish Succession]] ([[1733]]-[[1735]]). Afterwards, they made [[Augustus II... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
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38: ...]], ''[[Georgia on My Mind]]'' by [[Hoagy Carmichael]] was originally written about a woman of that na...
48: ...lorer)|Hernando de Soto]] in [[1540]], had completely disappeared by [[1560]]. - 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]] - 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,... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events fro...
13: *[[1729]]: [[Province of Carolina]] proprietors sell out to Crown
16: *[[1733]] - [[Province of Georgia]] founded.
19: *[[1739]] - [[George Whitefield]] tours the colonies ([[1739]]-[[1741]]) to prea...
23: ...George's War ends with the [[Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle]] - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...onies with very different [[social]], [[religion|religious]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|...
4: ...hese different colonies found themselves more closely united than ever before, at odds with the [[King...
9: ...ellectual growth of the Renaissance led to the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to mak...
11: ...ands he came upon were found to belong to an entirely different landmass. [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] ...
13: ...lonies. Though these northerly lands were relatively close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken li... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German inventor, chemist
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
26: ...1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
33: *[[Robert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - 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) - Zinc (12445 bytes)
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17: ... [[List of elements by symbol|Symbol]], [[List of elements by number|Number]]
24: | [[group 12 element|12]], [[period 4 element|4]], [[d-block|d]]
46: | [[Electron configuration]] - 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.
16: ...en concerned in the composition of two violent libels. Inveigled by a spy named Beauregard into a real...
20: ...tre Français]] on [[November 18]] and was well received, though a rivalry grew between parties ... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
1: ...mb|Leonhard Euler aged 49 (oil painting by [[Emanuel Handmann]], 1756)]]
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...
12: ..., with an additional mathematics appointment in [[1733]]. Euler was the first to publish a systematic i...
14: In [[1733]] he married Katharina Gsell, the daughter of the director of the academy of ... - Crow (4780 bytes)
14: ...Kyo.jpg|thumb|''Crow on a branch'', Maruyama Kyo (1733-1795)]]
15: ...[New Caledonian Crow]], has recently been intensively studied because of its ability to manufacture an...
21: They range in size from the relatively small [[Dove|pigeon]]-sized [[jackdaw]]s ([[Eura...
28: **[[Relict Raven]] ''C. t. boreus''
30: *[[Little Raven]] ''C. mellori'' - History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
8: ..., and other synthetic [[dye]]s, as well as the widely used drug [[aspirin]]. The discovery also contri...
12: ...ohn Dalton]] and those who did not, such as [[Wilhelm Ostwald]] and [[Ernst Mach]]. Although such pro...
14: ...a branch of [[physics]], but was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in chemistry, not physics, for his work.
20: ...ound to have roughly the same properties that Mendeleev predicted for it.
27: ...ment, Pauling was awarded the first of his two Nobel prizes. - 18th century (8231 bytes)
27: * [[1733]]-[[1738|38]]: [[War of the Polish Succession]]
30: ...efeats the [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]] and sacks [[Delhi]].
41: * [[1763]]-[[1766|66]]: [[Pontiac's Rebellion]] in North America
54: * [[1789]]: [[George Washington]] elected [[President of the United States]].
62: * [[1798]]: Irish [[Irish Rebellion of 1798 | Rebellion]] against British Rule - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...Delaware.png|thumb|250px|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[1776]], an iconi...
21: * [[1702]]-[[1715]]: [[Camisard|Camisard Rebellion]] in [[France]].
39: ...ession of [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], Elector of Hanover, to the throne of Great Britain.
40: ...ellion/Rising of 1715 ('The Fifteen')|Jacobite rebellion]] breaks out
47: ...llion/Rising of 1719 ('The Nineteen')|Jacobite rebellion]] fails. - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
9: ... [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
12: * [[1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle...
16: * [[1762]]: [[Iron smelting process]]: [[Jared Eliot]]
21: ...ine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]]
23: * [[1777]]: [[Circular saw]]: [[Samuel Miller]] - Flying shuttle (5068 bytes)
1: ...humb|Flying shuttle showing metal capped ends, wheels, and a [[pirn]] of weft thread|100px]]
2: ... It was patented by [[John Kay]] (1704 - 1764) in 1733.
8: ...ng the shuttle on its return trip. The shuttle itself has some subtle differences from the older form....
10: ...t need to touch the shuttle until it needs to be reloaded, so fabrics of great width can be woven; but...
12: ... reloaded the shuttle automatically. Kay's son developed a modification that allowed the use of an arr...
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