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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the r...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, ...
15: ...ut [[Duke of Albany]], a royal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died bef...
24: ...rd to the altar and put her gently in the throne set up there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep h...
28: ...child's head, where it rested on a circlet of velvet. The Cardinal steadied the crown and Lord Livings... - 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... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: national_motto = [[Dieu et mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|F...
18: ...mes = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Tony Blair]] |
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50: ...rnish language|Cornish]]: ''An Rywvaneth Unys a Vreten Veur hag Iwerdhon Gl館'' - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - 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... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
40: ... Canal]] in 1825, which brought large numbers of settlers.
46: .... It was a development that not only transformed Detroit and Michigan, but permanently altered the soc...
50: Since [[World War II]], Detroit's industrial base has eroded as auto companie...
56: ...Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan]], the first European settlement in Michigan - Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Cetacea]]}}
21: ...nder 4m (13 feet). This compares with a 2.5m (8 feet) average in a population off Florida. Those in co...
23: ...and mammals (from which dolphins and all other [[cetacea]]ns evolved some 50 million years ago).
31: ...in a mixed pod. Several of these pods can join together to form larger groups of one hundred dolphins ...
33: ...es, preventing an attack from the shark, as they returned to shore. (See [6].) - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
2: ...to have run ashore near what is now Beaufort's Inlet, North Carolina in 1718.
6: ... the west coast of [[Africa]], taking English, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] and [[Portugal|Portuguese]] ships...
8: Hornigold then retired, taking advantage of an amnesty extended to p...
10: ...rborough|HMS ''Scarborough'']] added to his notoriety.
12: ...ns from the ship and if there was no resistance, let the merchant ship go. On ships which resisted, al... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ...umnavigate]] the world twice, and went on to complete a third circumnavigation.
4: ...a plantation manager on [[Jamaica]], but he soon returned to the sea,
7: ...en raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] before returning to the Caribbean.
9: ...he ''Cygnet'', and on [[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]...
11: ...in [[Sumatra]]. After further adventures Dampier returned to England in [[1691]] via the [[Cape of Goo... - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
2: ...h Bradley Cox Oort. They had two daughters: Elizabeth and Sarah Kidd. The marriage brought to Kidd a c...
8: ...ght a few days later, Kidd threw an ironbound bucket at Moore which killed him.
10: ...nglish ship. Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners but they refused.
14: ...nd leaky. With the loyal remnant of his crew, he returned home in the captured ''Quedah Merchant''.
16: ...arges and was [[hanging|hanged]] on [[May 23]], [[1701]] in [[London]]. His body was left to hang in an ... - 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]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - July 24 (8660 bytes)
6: *[[1701]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] founded.
13: ...lishes first account of [[Paul Bunyan]] in the [[Detroit News]].
16: *[[1923]] - The [[Treaty of Lausanne]], settling the boundaries of modern [[Turkey]], is sign...
23: ...rry Lewis]] perform their last [[comedy show]] together which started on [[July 25]], [[1946]].
25: ...orting a bombing raid at [[Kang Chi]] are the targets of [[antiaircraft missile]]s in the first such a... - Celsius (3635 bytes)
18: ...fter the Swedish astronomer [[Anders Celsius]] ([[1701]]–[[1744]]), who first proposed a similar s...
20: ... to be 1/273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point of water and [[absolute zero...
22: ... Ekstr?, the manufacturer of most of the [[thermometer]]s used by Celsius.
24: ... particularly by weather forecasters on European networks such as the [[BBC]], [[ITV]], and [[Radio Te... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
7: ...ion of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given a...
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust int...
25: ...s anointed by the Church. The Frankish kings now set up as protectors of the [[Pope]], and began to ta...
35: Between 843 and 880 the Carolingian empire was succes...
37: ...isively defeated near [[Augsburg]] and the Slavs between the [[Elbe]] and the [[Oder]] were submitted.... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
7: ...ion of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given a...
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust int...
25: ...s anointed by the Church. The Frankish kings now set up as protectors of the [[Pope]], and began to ta...
35: Between 843 and 880 the Carolingian empire was succes...
37: ...isively defeated near [[Augsburg]] and the Slavs between the [[Elbe]] and the [[Oder]] were submitted.... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
3: ...'''' refers to the [[century]] that lasted from [[1701]] through [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]].
5: ...s [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between the death of [[Louis XIV of France]] and the ...
9: ...ce of power away from the west and create new competition in Europe other than France, England, and Sp...
13: In a strictly aesthetic analysis, the 18th century is generally conside...
16: * [[1701]]-[[1714|14]]: [[War of the Spanish Succession]] - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], in a...
4: ...s [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between the death of [[Louis XIV of France]] and the ...
6: ...n prominence. Philosophers were dreaming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of ea...
8: ...18th century, it would radically change human society and the geology of the surface of the earth.
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in the [[Battle of Poltava]]]]
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