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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: ...ul women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
6: ...nherit his united lands on his death. While many European monarchs agreed to the Pragmatic Sanction w...
26: ...of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antonie (1755-1793); married [[Louis XVI of France|HM King Loui... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...Archduchess of [[Austria]] (born [[2 November]] [[1755]] ? executed [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of...
4: ... Hofburg Palace in [[Vienna]] on [[2 November]] [[1755]]. She was christened Maria-Antonia-Josepha-Johan...
7: ...ed one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
9: ...oinette met the young child genius [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]. He performed a short musical concert f...
11: Maria-Antonia's sisters were soon married off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was m... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...numbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europe.
10: ...[plain weave]], and [[tapestry weave]]. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, ...
24: ...izontal looms have been used in the production of European and Oriental carpets.
41: ...stylized, angular calligraphy called [[Kufic]], pseudo-Kufic, or Kufesque.
47: ===Oriental Carpets in Europe=== - George Washington (29551 bytes)
31: ...h eventually became the [[Seven Years' War]] in [[Europe]].
33: ... to return to the Ohio Country for one year. In [[1755]], Washington returned, accompanying the [[Braddo...
40: ...851, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum]]]]
49: ...er the [[Prussia|German]] [[Baron Friedrich von Steuben]], steadily improving its fighting capabilitie...
73: In [[1798]], Washington was appointed [[Lieutenant General]] in the [[United States Army]] by ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...ung Adams graduated from [[Harvard]] College in [[1755]], and for a time taught school in [[Worcester, M...
31: ...in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law''), in which he argued that the opposition...
46: ... of commerce with Great Britain and again sent to Europe in September [[1779]]. The [[France|French]] ...
50: ...Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune|Turgot]] and other European writers as to the viciousness of the framew...
59: ...ef. At the time, the United States was drawn into European military affairs such as the [[XYZ Affair]]... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...]], and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is bordered by [[Spain]] to the nor...
7: ...nd the subsequent entry in the [[EEC]] (today's [[European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made signifi...
15: ...ves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local peoples, the [[...
38: ...?vares Pereira departed to besiege and conquer [[Ceuta]] in North [[Africa]], a rich Islamic trade cen...
40: ...d refuge in Portugal after being pursued all over Europe. The Templars had their own objective, search... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
22: ...mpared with statues of Khafre at the [[Cairo]] Museum, it is evident that the face on the Sphinx is di...
29: ...ewis Norden]] made in [[1737]] and published in [[1755]] illustrate the Sphinx without a nose. An Arab h...
31: ...re present in the British Museum and the Cairo Museum. - Vermont (39851 bytes)
60: The first [[Europe]]an to see Vermont is thought to be [[Jacques...
62: ...ification]] of Lake Champlain. This was the first European settlement in Vermont and the site of the f...
66: ...a and retreated to other forts along the [[Richelieu River]]. One year later a group of [[Mohawk natio...
68: ... Vermont's far southeast under the command of [[Lieutenant]] Timothy Dwight. This fort protected the n...
70: ...]]-Vermont border, a French fort constructed in [[1755]], was the site of two British offensives under L... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
9: ... three wars, fought more as secondary theatres to European conflicts, resulted in little territorial c...
13: ...marking the beginnings of the Seven Years' War in Europe. [[Native American]]s fought for both sides ...
15: ...wer Canada]]. Near the beginning of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking popul...
29: *[[Battle of Fort Beaus骯ur]] ([[June 16]], [[1755]])
30: ...hela aka Battle of the Wilderness) ([[July 9]], [[1755]]) - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...ile the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 50km across, the coma ...
11: ...t]] of [[England]] in [[1066]].{{hnote|Reading Museum, scene 1}}
15: ...nd to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary surfaces al...
31: ...d independently by the [[IRAS]] satellite and amateur astronomers Genichi Araki and George Alcock. In...
57: ...[[November 14]], [[1680]]. Astronomers throughout Europe tracked its position for several months. In ... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
49: ...nson]]'s famous and more complete dictionary of [[1755]].
130: #*[http://www.dwds.de/wdg Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache] (Dictionary of contempor...
160: #* [http://www.pseudodictionary.com Pseudodictionary] A collection of slang, colloquialism...
171: ...ogy database of the EU], with 11 [[European Union|EU]] languages
189: * [[PseudoDictionary]] New coinages and unusual words, mos... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]])
185: *[[Eugene Boudin|Eugène Boudin]]
216: *[[Tadeusz Brzozowski (painter)|Tadeusz Brzozowski]] ([[1818]]-[[1887]])
330: *[[Eugène Delacroix|Eugène Delacroix]] ([[1798]]-[[1863]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
62: ...nardo DaVinci]], (1452-1519), [[Italy]] — [[euclidean geometry]]
76: *[[Oliver Evans]] (1755-1819) - [[amphibious vehicle]], amongst others
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
153: *[[Antonio Meucci]], inventor of the telephone
184: *[[Norbert Rillieux|Norbert Rilleaux]], (1806-1894), [[United States... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
12: ...aphus cucullatus | author=[[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ...lled ''Didus ineptus'' by [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-h...
18: ...[[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]], were burned in 1755.
24: ...y Andrew Kitchener, a biologist at the [[Royal Museum of Scotland]] (reported in ''National Geographic...
37: ...s. A Dodo egg is on display at the East London museum in South Africa. Genetic material has been recov... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
26: ...scale]], but the more consistent and analytical [[European Macroseismic Scale]] (EMS) is now increasin...
50: *[[1755_Lisbon_earthquake|Lisbon earthquake]] (1755).
104: *[http://www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/hazard/ems1.htm The European Macroseismic Scale]
110: *[http://www.emsc-csem.org/ European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC)] - Brine shrimp (4112 bytes)
27: ...rst discovered in [[Lymington]], [[England]] in [[1755]]. There are mixed views on whether all brine shr... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
55: ...the first documented case of such a phenomenon in Europe. The phenomenon was also noted in [[Sri Lanka...
73: ===1755 - Lisbon, Portugal===
74: ...ousands of Portuguese who survived the great '''[[1755 Lisbon earthquake]]''' were killed by a tsunami w...
76: ...amples of Portugal's [[Manueline]] architecture). Europeans of the 18th century struggled to understan...
87: The '''[[Aleutian Island earthquake]]''' tsunami that killed 16... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
47: [[Image:Coliseum_rome.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http:/...
66: ...is mother and his tutors, particularly Lucius Annaeus [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]. However, as he gr...
78: ...t was he who first commissioned the [[Roman Colosseum]]; he also built a [[forum]] whose centerpiece w...
88: ...Rome, wild spectacles in the newly finished Colosseum, and continuing the public works projects of his...
158: ...led [[Alaric I]] to vandalize the site of the [[Eleusinian Mysteries]]. - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
1: ...dian War]] battle, see [[Battle of the Wilderness 1755]].''
22: ...le of the Wilderness''' was the first battle of Lieut. Gen. [[Ulysses S. Grant]]'s [[1864]] Virginia [...
30: ...ell]], and the Third Corps under the command of Lieut. Gen. [[A.P. Hill]], in an effort to engage Gran...
34: ...V Corps]] under the command of Maj. Gen. [[Gouverneur K. Warren]], and fought it to a standoff. For mu... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
8: ...et but declined the command of his own collier in 1755 on the eve of the [[Seven Years War]] to start ag...
20: ...reach [[New Zealand]], becoming only the second [[European]] in history to do so (behind [[Abel Tasman...
24: ...cts with Australian [[Aborigines]], and the first European sightings of Australian [[flora]] and [[fau...
28: ...nd [[New Guinea]], again becoming only the second European to do so (the first being [[Luis Vaez de To...
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