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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...f [[Russia]] from [[1725]] until her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his ...
7: ... except for Anna and [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta]].
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]])
10: *[[Empress]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
11: *Grand Duchess Nataliya Petrovna ([[1713]]-[[1715]]) - 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... - 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]]) - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...innaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[Mauriti...
20: ...at the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked [[Beak|bill]] with red...
24: ...ntemporary reports speak of the birds "greedy" appetite. Thus, in captivity with its ready availabilit...
27: ...[[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ... Dutch records concur. The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] settlers called it the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bir... - 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 - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and th...
13: ...f Great Britain|Britain]], [[France]], and the [[Netherlands]]. The lands that now make up the [[Unit...
16: ...h Monarchs|Queen]] [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]]. At this time, however, there was no official ...
25: ...alled [[Virginia]] (named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"). It lay on an island in t...
27: ... colonists had little incentive to protect their settlement or work towards its long-term growth. - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ... [[Europe]]; only in [[Great Britain]] and the [[Netherlands]] did the common people have more freedom...
5: ...ants of [[feudalism]]. Similarly, the peasants covetously eyed the relatively greater prerogatives of ...
7: ...h the French intellectuals; furthermore, contact between the American revolutionaries and the French t...
9: ...nt from those of the bourgeoisie or they did not yet constitute independent classes or class divisions...
13: ...equal system of taxes, by borrowing money, and sometimes by selling noble titles and other privileges;... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]], the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to the ''[[ancien ...
21: ...mes of [[Louis XV of France | Louis XV]] (ruled [[1715]]–[[1774]]) and Louis XVI several different...
23: ...e, and proposed a uniform land tax as a means of setting France's finances in order in the long term. ...
27: ...ropose new reforms, but only to prepare for the meeting of the nation's representatives.
31: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[August 8]], [... - 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... - 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]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...er 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was ...
8: ...n. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] backgro...
10: ...ither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger brother was very fond, marri...
12: ...edil;ois' mother, instructed him in ''les belles lettres'' and deism, and the child showed a faculty f...
14: ...opped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Dodos (9122 bytes)
15: ...innaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[Mauriti...
20: ...at the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked [[Beak|bill]] with red...
24: ...ntemporary reports speak of the birds "greedy" appetite. Thus, in captivity with its ready availabilit...
27: ...[[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ... Dutch records concur. The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] settlers called it the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bir... - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ...their own seasons. Even tiny rural communities sometimes awe audiences with extravagant productions.
4: ...ncountered when there might be some doubt as to whether someone is discussing cinema or the stage.
11: ...most popular plays from London, including ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[The Recruiting Officer]]'', and ''Richar...
13: ...he performance of plays were passed in [[Massachusetts]] in 1750, in [[Pennsylvania]] in 1759, and in ...
19: ...oductions were much more rudimentary then, and sometimes plays would be staged in [[barn]]s or [[dinin... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
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...
17: ...aint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]. [[Russia|Russian]] [[capital]] unt...
20: * [[1715]]: [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] dies - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ... Aileen| title=Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789 (revised edition)|publisher=Yale University ...
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]]]]
21: * [[1702]]-[[1715]]: [[Camisard|Camisard Rebellion]] in [[France]].
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