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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...children. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, h...
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the titl...
17: ...lisabeth of Austria|HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth]] (1743-1808)
26: ...of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antonie (1755-1793); married [[Louis XVI of France|HM King Loui...
29: ...itionally, the army was weak and the treasury depleted due to two wars near the end of her father's re... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marria...
2: ...Archduchess of [[Austria]] (born [[2 November]] [[1755]] ? executed [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of...
4: ...cial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
7: ...he Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most bri...
9: ...ess's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...y by the Moors. The Crusades brought Turkish carpets to all of Europe, where they were primarily hung...
3: ...ries a distinction is made between carpet (or carpeting) and rug. The former indicates a covering tha...
5: [[Image:Carpet.png|350px|thumb|Contemporary Afghan Rug]]
7: == Carpet types ==
8: ...et 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of machine-made carpet]] - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...shed power even though some others wanted him to retain that power for life (as [[monarch]]s and [[dic...
33: ...and showed coolness under fire in organizing the retreat. In Virginia, Washington was acclaimed as a h...
40: ...uel Leutze]], 1851, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum]]]]
41: ...l Army]] on [[June 15]], [[1775]]. The [[Massachusetts]] delegate [[John Adams]] suggested his appoint...
43: ...of Long Island]] on [[August 22]] but managed to retreat, saving most of his forces. However, several ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...grated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boy...
24: ... [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. ...
26: ...ngregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[17... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other col...
15: .... The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
23: ...he [[Visigoth]]s, invaded the Iberian peninsula, set up kingdoms, and became assimilated. The [[Vandal...
25:
27: ...ds of the cities of [[Coimbra]] and [[Porto]], together with the clergy of Braga, demanded the indepen... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
5: ...Great Sphinx faces due east, with a small temple between its paws.
9: ...nd the body of a [[lion]]. It is 57 metres (260 feet) long, 6 m (20 ft) wide, and has a height of 20 m...
11: ... uncovered the Sphinx' chest completely. The entirety of the Sphinx was finally dug out in [[1925]], t...
18: ...he world's largest statue and one of its oldest, yet basic facts about it are unknown, such as the rea...
29: ...re inserted at the base of the nose to remove it between the [[10th century|10th]] and [[15th century|... - 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.]] - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...onflict ([[1754]]-[[1763]]) in [[North America]] between [[Great Britain]] and [[France]], which was o...
9: ...omewhat confusingly, [[French and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian all...
15: ...wer Canada]]. Near the beginning of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking popul...
19: ...ry commitments as well as limitation on colonial settlements imposed by the [[British Royal Proclamati...
29: *[[Battle of Fort Beaus骯ur]] ([[June 16]], [[1755]]) - Comet (30542 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hale-Bopp-large.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a white dust tail and blue g...
3: ...composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and various [[m...
5: ...riginate via a different process, but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials...
9: ...bital trajectory. While the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 5...
11: ...rding of a comet is the appearance of Halley's Comet on the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], which records the [[N... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...tion, word derivations, histories, or [[etymology|etymologies]], illustrations, usage guidance, and ex...
5: ... list words in alphabetical or some analogous phonetic order. Words and characters in [[ideographic]] ...
14: ...omanization|romanized]] and sorted in Roman alphabetical order.
23: ...en the 4000 most common English [[idiom]]s and [[metaphor]]s, can be defined.
25: ==Variations between dictionaries== - 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]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
36: ...]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
40: ...Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...innaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[Mauriti...
18: ...[[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]], were burned in 1755.
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.) - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
5: ...truction]] and massive loss of life through a variety of agents of damage, including fault rupture, vi...
9: ...ion of collapsed freeway after the 1989 [[Loma Prieta earthquake]].]]
11: ...ge earthquakes, it can spread over the entire planet. Ground motions caused by very distant earthquake...
20: ...quakes measures horizontal movement. The press sometimes mistakenly reports such values as "Richter ma...
22: ... recorded by the [[Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network]] that shows the instrument recorded [[intens... - Brine shrimp (4112 bytes)
17: ''Artemia parthenogenetica''<br>
25: ...old as novelty gifts, most commonly under the marketing name [[Sea-Monkey]]s.
27: ...shrimp are part of one species or whether the varieties that have been identified are properly classif...
29: ...rs, and will grow to a length of around one centimeter on average. Brine shrimp have a [[biological li...
35: ...or larva, of brine shrimp are less than 500 micrometers when they first emerge. They eat micro-algae, ... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...andslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have the potential to generat...
4: ... very long [[wavelength]] (often hundreds of kilometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoti...
10: ...[volcano|volcanic eruption]], [[landslide]] or [[meteorite impact]]. However, the most common cause is...
14: Sub-marine landslides; which are sometimes triggered by large earthquakes; as well as co...
21: ...ushika Hokusai|Hokusai]]). In fact, a tsunami is better understood as a new and suddenly higher sea le... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as [[Caesar Augustus]]). Although Rome ...
5: ...her millennium, in [[1453]], the Eastern Empire, better known as the [[Byzantine Empire]], fell to the...
9: ...y]], and the [[Dominate]], the period from [[Diocletian]] until the end of the Empire in the West. Acc...
11: ...ccessor states and other entities with imperial pretensions, including the [[Frankish]] kingdom, the [...
17: ...re is held to have begun with the constitutional settlement following the [[Battle of Actium]] in [[31... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
1: ...dian War]] battle, see [[Battle of the Wilderness 1755]].''
24: ... A number of battles were fought in the vicinity between [[1862]] and 1864, including the bloody [[Bat...
26: ...ht flank at Chancellorsville. But Grant chose to set up his camps to the west of the old battle site b...
30: ...ng for the arrival of Lieut. Gen. [[James Longstreet]]'s First Corps, which had been posted 25 miles (...
32: ... the Wilderness 1864 map.png|thumb|left|300px|''Sketch of the battle of the Wilderness. Position of 2d... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ...et but declined the command of his own collier in 1755 on the eve of the [[Seven Years War]] to start ag...
12: ...h brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
18: In [[1766]], the Royal Society hired him to travel to the [[Pacific Ocean]] to ...
20: ...ntury earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistake...
22: ...tain [[Arthur Phillip]] arrived with the First Fleet in [[1788]], he felt that Botany Bay was unsuitab...
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