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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...ctics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland ...
12: ...he English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
15: ...aunt, [[Henrietta Anne Stuart|Henrietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[167...
17: ...James II continued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conv...
19: ...illiam and Mary. They were to be followed by any descendants of William by a future marriage. - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...ame the sole ruler upon her death. Popular histories usually know the joint reign as that of "[[Willia...
11: ... Clarendon]], served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor. Although her parents bore eight ...
13: ...[[Mary of Modena]], also known as Mary Beatrice d'Este.
15: ... that it would improve his popularity amongst Protestants. The first cousins Mary and William married ...
17: ...ir with [[Elizabeth Villiers]], one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting. - Banknote (6576 bytes)
3: ...nits, while banknotes are utilised for higher values.
5: ...transfer ownership in exchange for goods or services.
7: ...it. Limited convertibility occurs when there are restrictions in the time, place, manner or amount of ...
9: ...his is no longer true; the currency of all countries is now [[fiat money]] not backed by gold or silve...
11: ... precious metals from the monetary system, banknotes are now simply considered as money. - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...tion in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...h as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of b...
8: ...o [[political economy]], [[government]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]...
12: ...The Age of Reason]]." For the present purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; howeve...
14: ...ngs of [[Michel de Montaigne]] and [[René Descartes]], was based on extreme skepticism, and inquiry i... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...ate actors, authorized by their national authorities, until this form of [[commerce raiding]] was outl...
4: ...challenges global governance |date=2009-04-09 |accessdate=2009-04-09 |publisher=[[Open Democracy]]}}</...
10: ...ref> By the 1st century BC, there were pirate states along the [[Anatolia]]n coast, threatening the co...
12: ...sar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death.
14: ...e threat. (See [[Pompey#Campaign against the pirates]]). - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
8: ===Ancestry===
17: ... [[1692]]), Mary ([[September 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[July 9]], [[...
21: ...n [[apprenticeship|apprentice]] to his brother James, a printer who published the ''New England Couran...
23: ...tual young man earned him a great deal of social respect. - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] – [[1951]])
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – [[1956]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
16: <td>[[Chemical series]] </td><td>[[transit...
20: <td>[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] </td><td>8.9 [[kilogram per cubic metre|Mg/...
24: ...lign="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0">'''Atomic properties'''</th></tr>
42: ...gn="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0">'''Physical properties'''</th></tr>
49: ... </td><td>6.67 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre per mole|m<sup>3<... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...ançois-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by ...
8: ...Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
12: ...making. At the age of ten, he was sent to the [[Jesuit]] Collège Louis-le-Grand, and remained ...
14: ...[The Hague]]. Here he met Olympe Dunoyer, a [[Protestant]] girl from a poor family, but his father sto...
16: ...spy named Beauregard into a real or burlesque confession he was sent to the [[Bastille]] on [[May 16]]... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...d, and is universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. His works, noted for thei...
7: ...ns, as well as numerous other more distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Ca...
11: ... In an era when sons were expected to be apprentices to their fathers, we can assume J. S. Bach began ...
13: ...oung Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his private library, at which point the elde...
19: - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...]]) to describe an [[Expression (mathematics)|expression]] involving various [[parameter|argument]]s; ...
5: ...invented [[calculus]]. He was completely [[blindness|blind]] for the last seventeen years of his life...
10: ... [[Jakob Bernoulli]]'s mathematical lectures and respected his family. When Daniel and Nikolaus Berno...
12: ...ost much of his vision in the right eye due to excessive observation of the [[Sun]].
14: ...and two daughters survived. The descendants of these children, however, were in high positions in Rus... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...mon descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]], which uses [[genome|genomic DNA]] [[bioinformatics|analysis]...
5: ...iest known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who cla...
7: ... translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: ...fessor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life know...
11: ... of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Rob... - Rice (13724 bytes)
2: ...{Taxobox image | image = [[Image:Rice-fields-Indonesia-(Java).jpg|250px|Rice field]] | caption = Rice ...
7: {{Taxobox ordo entry | taxon = [[Poales]]}}
11: ...vision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = Species}}
19: ...ion | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = References}}
23: ...n [[grade (geography)|steep]] [[mountain|hill]]sides.
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