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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
43: ...Ackermann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
9: *[[John Adair|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Ke...
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
5: ...He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon whi...
7: ...om he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the ...
10: ...ed a volume of bawdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years he repented of this wor...
14: ...any subject that he approached, that in this theoretic essay he suggests the possibility of teaching t...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the autho... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...zabeth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (17...
3: ... remain the chief monuments of her reign in [[St Petersburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best love...
7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine I of Russia|Martha ...
11: It was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the...
13: ...ree from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without reserve. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
23: ...& Mary]] — where he was a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] — before founding his own...
25: ...]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare th...
27: ...nitive book on the original buildings, or [http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/grizzard Academical Vil...
29: ...ght|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]]
30: ...mon practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. Instead, he cut a wedge out of th... - 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...
19: ...ry commitments as well as limitation on colonial settlements imposed by the [[British Royal Proclamati...
35: *[[Battle on Snowshoes]] ([[January 21]], [[1757]])
36: *[[Battle of Sabbath Day Point]] ([[July 26]], [[1757]]) - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ... while a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was attacked in [[India]].
5: ...rmed the [[2nd Carnatic War]] while the fighting between Prussia and Austria is called the [[Silesian ...
14: ...r war was formed by the heated colonial struggle between [[British Empire|Great Britain]] and [[French...
18: ...ons of the [[coalition]] opposing him, Frederick determined to strike first. On [[August 29]], his wel...
26: In the spring of [[1757]], Frederick again took the initiative by marchin... - 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]]) - January 2 (10888 bytes)
9: *[[1757]] - The [[United Kingdom]] captures [[Kolkata|Cal...
14: ...e]] publishes ''[[The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette]]''.
15: ...t [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[Acad魩e des Sciences]] in [[Paris]].
19: ...-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]] against [[England]].
22: ...ece Standards in North America: [[Railroad chronometers]]. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
51: *[[Antonio Canova]] (1757 - 1822)
56: *[[Pierre Cartellier]] (1757-1831)
62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865) - 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 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}}
57: ...ald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...x130;mparatorluğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
45: ...as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empi...
53: ...[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[Hu...
55: ... a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestants]] were helped by th...
61: ...h in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 1876 etc.). Socially, the advent of nationalism and the y... - Beryllium (15119 bytes)
20: | [[Alkaline earth metal]]s
26: | 1848 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], 5.5
29: | align="center" | white-gray metallic<br />[[Image:Be,4.jpg|125px|]]
37: | [[1 E-10 m|112]] [[picometre|pm]]
60: | [[solid]] ([[diamagnetic]]) - Calcium (9166 bytes)
17: ...eries]] </td><td>[[alkaline earth metal]]</td></tr>
21: ...|Hardness]] </td><td>1550 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], 1.75</td></tr>
29: ...) </td><td>180 (194) [[picometre|pm]]</td></tr>
44: ... </td><td>solid ([[magnetism|paramagnetic]])</td></tr>
48: ...ng point]] </td><td>1757 K (2703?F)</td></tr> - Carolus Linnaeus (8550 bytes)
11: ...o the continent. While in the [[Netherlands]] he met [[Jan Frederik Gronovius]] and showed him a draft...
15: ...otherhood. He campaigned against the practice of wet-nursing, declaring that even aristocratic women s...
20: ...of Sweden|Adolf Fredrik]], ennobled Linnaeus in [[1757]], and after the privy council had confirmed the ...
25: ...st notably phyla (singular: phylum) or divisions between kingdoms and classes. Groups of organisms at ...
33: ...)|Mars]] and ♀ - (hand mirror) [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] glyphs as the symbol for [[male]] and [[... - Indian art (7305 bytes)
4: Islamic ascendancy (712-1757AD)
5: The colonial period (1757-1947)
12: ...the single purpose and ideal of life to be interpreted in art
15: ...ground of the artworks. In India the distinction between fine and decorative arts is not pronounced.
20: ...ed to imitate them at Badami, Aihole, Ellora, Salsette, Elephanta, Aurangabad and Mamallapuram. Hindu ... - 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...
33: * [[1741]]: [[Russia]]ns begin settling the [[Aleutian Islands]]. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
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]]]]
22: ...aint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]. [[Russia]]n [[Capital (political)|...
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