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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...[[1780]]. Also see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consor...
3: ... Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]]
4: ...emia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire...
6: ...arles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...ne]] with whom she had sixteen children. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be p... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...]] [[philosopher]] and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a promin...
5: ... which many an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...o her are among the most graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic...
10: ... he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
12: ...omable uncertainty of the philosophy which professes to be so high above both church and world. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...s.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...[[St Petersburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow...
5: ==Life before becoming Empress==
7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine ...
9: ...es with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordina... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...ficant numbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europe.
3: ...at is loose-laid, most often for decorative purposes.
7: == Carpet types ==
8: ...[Image:Swatches of carpet 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of machine-made carpet]]
10: ...k]], [[plain weave]], and [[tapestry weave]]. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, D... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg|thumb
5: | order=1st President
11: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland]], [[Virginia]]
17: | vicepresident=[[John Adams]] - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=Third President
8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]]
9: | date of birth=[[April 13]], [[1743]] - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...nia]]. The [[Ŭand|Ŭand Islands]], off the southwestern coast, are under Finnish [[sovereignty]] whil...
20: |'''Largest City''' || [[Helsinki]]
22: |'''[[List of Presidents of Finland|President]]''': || [[Tarja Halonen]]
27: |[[List of countries by area|Ranked 63th]] <br>[[1 E11 m?|338,145 km?]...
30: |[[List of countries by population|Ranked 109th]] <br>5,211,311<br>17.... - South Dakota (14035 bytes)
6: Seal = SouthDakotastateseal.jpg |
11: LargestCity = [[Sioux Falls, South Dakota|Sioux Fall...
25: ...]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] <small>(western)</small> |
30: HighestElev = 2,207 |
32: LowestElev = 294 | - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...of the Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The G...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
7: ...st known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
11: *[[1651]] - [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] crowned King of [[Scotland]]
15: ...y [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]]. - 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... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
59: *[[Carl Remigius Fresenius]]
60: *[[Wilhelm Fresenius]], son of Carl, German chemist, (1913-2004)
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who disc... - 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 mathematicians (37424 bytes)
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 B... - 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}} - Celsius (3635 bytes)
8: |Celsius ||Fahrenheit ||°F = °C × 1.8 + 32
18: ... Elvius from Sweden (1710), a Christian of Lyons (1743), and the botanist [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1740); a...
20: ...is definition ensures that one degree Celsius represents the same temperature difference as one [[kelv...
22: ...grees and that the boiling point should be 0 degrees. This was reversed in [[1747]], at the instigatio...
24: ...[Radio Telif�ɩreann|RTɝ]. In the [[United States]] and [[Jamaica]], [[Fahrenheit]] remains the pre... - Holmium (7766 bytes)
7: ...n="3" valign="center" | '''Ho'''<br>[[Einsteinium|Es]] <br> <br>
17: | [[Chemical series]]
23: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
29: ...gn="center" bgcolor="#ffbfff" | '''Atomic properties'''
55: ...="center" bgcolor="#ffbfff" | '''Physical properties''' - 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.
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