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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...ir, the Roman Catholic James II could attempt to return to the Throne. It was for this reason that the...
15: ...tuart|Henrietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], ...
19: ...d as joint monarchs. The [[Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne and h...
24: ...iam's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from ...
26: ...ended from [[James I of England]] through [[Elizabeth of Bohemia]]. Several genealogically senior clai... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
15: At the age of fifteen, Princess Mary became betrothed to the Protestant [[Stadtholder]] and [[Pri...
17: ...r. William long maintained an affair with [[Elizabeth Villiers]], one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting.
20: ... that the boy was "suppositions," having been secretly brought in as a substitute for the Queen's stil...
22: ...secretly requested William III—then in the Netherlands with Mary—to come to England with a...
24: ...Philip II remained King only during his wife's lifetime, and restrictions were placed on his power. Wi... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...wering plants, the term Angiosperm was used antithetically by botanical writers, but with varying limi...
18: ...g in the embryo-sac of flowering plants, and his determination of the correct relationships of these w...
19: [[Image:Fmarket7_012A_carnations.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Image prov...
22: ...bs and trees, and representing a much greater variety than is to be found in the other subdivision of ...
24: ...proximately 100 million years ago). By the late Cretaceous, angiosperms appear to have become the pred... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...n for its distinctive tone color, wide range, variety of character, and agility.
6: ...bled back on itself at the bottom, with a curved metal crook leading from the instrument body to the r...
8: ...rcell]]'s call for a "bassoon" in ''Dioclesian'' (1690) referring to the wooden double reed, the word be...
14: ...(or crook) <font color=red>(2)</font>, a crooked metal tube which attaches wing joint to reed <font co...
16: ...rnish]]ed. The top of the bell is frequently completed with a ring, often of plastic or [[ivory]]. The... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
16: Governor = [[Janet Napolitano]] |
61: Fossil = [[Petrified wood]] |
62: StateRock = [[Petrified wood]] |
87: Historians disagree about the [[etymology|origin]] of the name "Arizona" and its att...
96: ... southern Arizona and northern [[Sonora]]) in the 1690's and early 1700's. [[Spain]] founded fortified t... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...amplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, ...
38: ...ted by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provin...
48: ...rest in meadow, uplands, lakes, ponds and swampy wetlands.
50: ...areas of the state. Annual [[snow]]fall averages between 60 to 100 inches depending on elevation, givi...
57: ...95 feet. The state's average elevation is 1,000 feet.]] - Texas (39610 bytes)
41: * [[state flower]] — the [[bluebonnet]] (''Lupinus texensis'')
52: ...ith an area of [[1 E11 m?|690,000]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]], Texas forms the second-larges...
70: ...ckapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of Texas. For more information...
74: ...lony of [[New Spain]]; see [[Spanish Texas]] for details.
76: ...eza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...by arguing that [[orbit]]s (such as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could...
6: ...osed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentu...
14: ...as born in [[Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth]], a hamlet in the county of [[Lincolnshire]].Newton was prem...
19: ...f this love, but Newton had no other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc....
25: ...erms, [[Voltaire]] wrote in his ''Essay on Epic Poetry'' (1727), "Sir Isaac Newton walking in his... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...]] [[philosopher]] concerned primarily with [[society]] and [[epistemology]]. An [[English (people)|En...
6: ... [[Westminster School]] in [[London]]. After completing his studies there, he obtained admission to th...
8: ...with Locke and pressed him to become part of his retinue.
10: ...nd in [[1667]] moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House in London, ostensibly as the household ph...
14: ...ftesbury's household, during [[1671]], that the meeting took place, described in the Epistle to the re... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
9: | [[1 E11 m|778,412,027]] [[kilometre|km]]<br>5.203 363 01 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
12: | 4.888 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>32.675 AU
52: ! align="left" | [[Equator]]ial [[diameter]]
55: ... align="left" | [[geographical pole|Polar]] [[diameter]]
62: ...E16 m?|6.14×10<sup>10</sup>]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]]<br>(120.5 Earths) - Uranus (15207 bytes)
4: ...color="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
18: | 2,870,972,220 [[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
21: | 18.029 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>120.515 AU
61: !align="left"| [[Equator]]ial [[diameter]]
64: !align="left"| [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter - Palermo (10618 bytes)
21: ...eavily by the allied forces and were all but completely destroyed. Six decades later the city centre h...
23: ...ies were lost in the coming decades, due to incompetence, incapacity, [[corruption]] and [[abuse of po...
30: ...ry, beautiful palaces and churches, colourful markets, marvelous food and a distinctive cultural ident...
42: ...ral has a [[heliometer]] (solar "observatory") of 1690, one of a number{{fn|1}} built in Italy in the 17...
44: ...ortantly, did not have the same time as in [[St. Peter's Basilica]] in Rome. It was also important to ... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ... a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. Right: detail of a steamer]]
6: A '''steamboat''' or '''steamship''', sometimes called a '''steamer''', is a boat or vessel t...
15: ...707]] he constructed a paddle-powered boat, but whether it was full-size and steam-powered or not is u...
21: ...[[James Rumsey]] built a pump-driven boat (water-jet) that successfully steamed upstream on the [[Poto...
23: ...d boats propelled by cranked paddlewheels placed between the hulls, and he engaged the engineer [[Will... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[Unit...
4: ...include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improve...
9: ...[[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wif...
11: ...blings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[16...
13: ... for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several more c... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - Faience (4113 bytes)
11: ...arthenwares being imported from Italy were the [[Netherlands|Dutch]]. [[Delftware]] is a kind of faie...
15: ...arly [[18th century|eighteenth century]] led in [[1690]] by [[Quimper]] in Brittany [http://www.faience-...
19: ...the [[Body (ceramic)|body]], the character and palette of the [[glaze]], and the style of decoration, ...
21: ...al manufactories continued to supply regional markets with coarse and simple wares.
24: ...aience, and the large porcelain manufactories marketed revived faience, such as the "Majolica ware" of... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...wear wooden crosses, half a metre long by half a metre wide, around their necks. Although Christians w...
9: Together with the [[Knights Templar]], who were formed ...
15: ...e their new home. His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309...
17: ... Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
19: ...h the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, ... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...stan]], and among the earliest civilizations altogether. Ancient Elam lay to the east of [[Sumer]] an...
7: ==Etymology==
13: ...l, as [[Indus script|Harappan pictographs]] have yet to be deciphered. Several stages of the language ...
17: ...Elamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
19: .... [[4000 BC]], and during its history fluctuated between subjection to Mesopotamian and Elamite power....
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