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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
1: ...459.jpg|thumb|right|230px|H.I.M. Ekaterina I, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias]]
3: ...eter the Great]] and Empress of [[Russia]] from [[1725]] until her death. With Peter, she was also co-ru...
5: ...to minister Gluck of [[Marienburg]]. Russian forces captured the city, she was captured and forced to...
7: ... Marfa, and shortly after he took her as his mistress. In [[1705]], she converted to [[Orthodoxy]] an...
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]]) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: ... [[Fabriano]], Italy, opened in [[1276]], and Arches, France, opened in [[1492]].
10: ...wet [[plaster]]. One well-known example of buon fresco is the [[Sistine Chapel]], begun in [[1508]] an...
12: ...d full-scale cartoons as precursors for tapestry designs.
18: ... [[18th century]] [[Britain]], [[Paul Sandby]] ([[1725]]–[[1809]]) was called the father of Britis...
27: ==Techniques== - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
14: ...of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Ana...
22: ...U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
28: ...liner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]] - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...work for [[classical mechanics]]. Newton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm...
4: ...r's laws of planetary motion]]. He would expand these laws by arguing that [[orbit]]s (such as those o...
6: ...nomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular mom...
17: ...l|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
19: ...ge of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss Storey married someo... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ..., as well as a very important center of commerce (especially the [[spice trade]]) and [[art]] in the [...
6: ...568]]. In the mid-[[8th century]], the Venetians resisted the empire-building efforts of [[Peppin III|...
8: ...rsenal]] was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of the [[Brenner pass]] from Verona in...
10: ...nd the citizens of such towns as [[Bergamo]], [[Brescia]], and [[Verona, Italy|Verona]] rallied to the...
12: ...sport the men, supplies, and (especially) war horses. - Concord, New Hampshire (5290 bytes)
22: west_coord = 71.5491|
25: .... state|state]] of the [[United States|United States of America]]. As of the [[2000]] census, it has ...
30: ...dest state capitol in which the legislative branches meet in their original chambers.
32: ...oncord has also been known historically by the names '''Rumford''' (as part of the [[colony]] of [[Mas...
35: ...is located at 43°13'12" North, 71°32'57" West (43.220093, -71.549127){{GR|1}}. - 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]]) - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...donesia]], [[Brazil]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Bangladesh]].
4: ...l member of the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]], since the union's dissolution in December [[19...
13: ...ch as the [[Merya]], the [[Muromian]]s and the [[Meshchera]].
15: ...ies]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperous, due to diver...
17: ...om the [[Belarusians]] and [[Ukrainians]] in the west. - July 24 (8660 bytes)
5: ...aced by her 1 year old son [[King James I|King James VI]].
7: ...[Niagara]] to halt [[Jacob Brown]]'s [[United States|American]] invaders.
9: ... pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of [[Salt Lake City]].
10: ...eneral [[George Crook]] in an effort to keep Yankees out of the [[Shenandoah Valley]].
11: ...U.S. state]] to be readmitted to the [[United States|Union]] following the [[American Civil War]]. - Native American (42651 bytes)
1: ...f_Red_Bird.jpg|thumb|A [[Sioux]] in traditional dress including [[war bonnet]], about 1908]]
3: ...many of them still enduring as political communities. A comprehensive tribal list can be found under "...
5: ...al and genetic commonality with other arctic peoples not native to the American continent, such as tho...
7: ...onstitution with various treaty rights, some long established and many more currently under negotiatio...
9: ... people (Canada)|M鴩s]] of [[Canada]] and the [[Mestizo]]s and [[Zambo]]s of [[Latin America]]. - Abraham Clark (2137 bytes)
1: ...ersey]] and later attended the [[Continental Congress ]].
3: ...nd in [[1775]] was elected to the Provincial Congress. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safe...
5: ...tockton]], and [[John Witherspoon]] as new delegates. They arrived in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Phi...
7: Clark remained in the Continental Congress through [[1778]]. New Jersey returned him twice ...
9: ==Sources== - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
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]]...
18: ...o 'v' and 'j' to 'i' according to the ordinary rules of the game. - Fin Whales (8533 bytes)
12: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''B. physalus'''''}}
17: ... the second largest whale and also the second largest animal ever to have lived, after the [[Blue Whal...
20: ...y in the nineteenth century. The specific name comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''physa'', mean...
22: ...species are quite common - for every 1000 Fin Whales there is a hybrid Blue-Fin Whale.
24: ... drifting and some sources recognise two sub-species ''B. p. physalus'' (Northern Fin Whale) and ''B. ... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...tory 1688-1832 (The Arnold History of Britain Series) |publisher=A Hodder Arnold Publication| year=199...
6: ...spierre in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenment ideals, but with...
8: ...l revolution]] started in Britain. Despite its modest beginnings in the 18th century, it would radical...
13: ...Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1700)]]
15: ...de 9) occurs off the coast of the [[Pacific Northwest]]; the coast of Japan is struck by a [[tsunami]]... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
13: ...rict]]: || [[Northwestern Federal District|North West Russia]]
15: ...visions of Russia|Subdivision]]: || [[Federal cities of Russia|federal city]]
36: ...4]]–[[1924]]), is a city located in [[Northwestern Russia]] on the delta of the river Neva at th...
38: ...ssia]]'s second largest city, Europe's fourth largest city, a major European cultural center and the m...
40: ...rs Russia's political and cultural centre, is impressive even today and to honor it people call it oft... - Lawyer (33471 bytes)
2: ...asses or ranks of [[jurist]]s. In the United States, lawyers are formally called "Attorneys at Law". ...
4: ...ns who retain (i.e. hire) lawyers for legal services.
6: ...awyers in [[England]] and [[Commonwealth]] countries such as [[Canada]] (excluding the province of [[Q...
8: ...ch as the [[civil law notary]] or even by non-professionals.
10: ...rs are "attorneys at law", authorized to plead cases on behalf of their [[client]]s.
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