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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...ngdom of Great Britain|Kingdom]], Anne became the first Sovereign of [[Great Britain]]. She continued ...
15: ...ames, Duke of York, (afterwards James II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Ed...
17: ...Catholicism. Princess Anne, however, declared her firm adherence to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continue...
22: ...te monarch), Mary II dismissed him from all his offices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed fro...
24: ...our by restoring Lord Marlborough to all of his offices. In return, Princess Anne publicly supported W... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...ver, govern the realm when her husband was abroad fighting wars.
11: ...the Duke of York (the future James II) and of his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]]. Mary's uncle was...
15: ...d improve his popularity amongst Protestants. The first cousins Mary and William married in London on ...
22: ...landed on [[5 November]]. The English people's confidence in James stood so low that they did not atte...
28: ... more divided than the English Parliament — finally declared that James was no longer King of Sc... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...in the form Angiospermae by [[Paul Hermann]] in [[1690]], as the name of that one of his primary divisio...
18: ...of these with the [[Vascular plant|Cryptogamia]], fixed the position of Gymnosperms as a class distinc...
22: ...direction of the establishment of a vegetation of fixed habit and adapted to the vicissitudes of a lif...
24: ...million years ago). Fossil plants with some identifiable angiosperm characteristics appear in the Jura...
26: == Classification == - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
6: ...slightly at the end. However, there were only six finger-holes and two keys.
8: ...rcell]]'s call for a "bassoon" in ''Dioclesian'' (1690) referring to the wooden double reed, the word be...
10: ...omposer-performers—spurred on the further refinement of the bassoon. Increased sophistication bo...
16: ... the finger holes are drilled obliquely to aid in fingering, and wooden instruments are lined with a h...
20: ...even [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s famously difficult opening solo in [[The Rite of Spring]] only a... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] Only [[...
37: ISOCode = US-AZ ([[FIPS state code|FIPS Code]] 04) |
50: Fish = [[Trout|Arizona Trout]] |
61: Fossil = [[Petrified wood]] |
62: StateRock = [[Petrified wood]] | - Vermont (39851 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
36: ...ion (608,827) ranks as the second smallest of the fifty states. As the only [[New England]] state not ...
48: ...everal mountains do have timberlines: [[Mount Mansfield]], the highest mountain in the state and [[Kil...
54: ...6 degrees Celsius), at [[Bloomfield, Vermont|Bloomfield]] on [[December 30]], [[1933]].
57: ...sfield 20040926.jpg|280px|thumb|right|[[Mount Mansfield]], at 4,393 feet, is the highest elevation poi... - Texas (39610 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None''. [[English language|English...
46: * official [[state song]] — ''[[Texas Our Texas]]'...
52: ..." reputation, especially in [[Western Film|cowboy films]].
76: ...nquistador]] [[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas.
94: In 1845, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|in... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...le]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour...
6: ...rvation of [[momentum]] and [[angular momentum]]. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and v...
14: ...her also said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three mo...
25: ...;Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon see...
27: ...Numeri Terminorum Infinitas'' (''On Analysis by Infinite Series''), and later in ''De methodis serieru... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ... philosophy of mind also had a great deal of significant influence well into the [[The Age of Enlighte...
18: ...ion 1707|Act of Union]] of [[1707]], though the office of King of England and King of Scotland had bee...
22: ...cke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political affiliation expressed themselves in his published writ...
24: Locke's first major published work was ''[[A Letter Concerni...
27: ...entary on the exclusion crisis than it was a justification of the [[Glorious Revolution]] of 1688, tho... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
134: | [[Hydrogen sulfide]]
138: '''Jupiter''' is the fifth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] and by far the [[S...
140: ...o the planet as the ''Wood Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
145: ...warf]], although the latter possesses rather specific spectral lines, but in any case it would need to...
149: ...o]] (now known as the [[Galilean moon]]s) was the first discovery of a celestial motion not apparently... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
142: | [[Carbon monoxide]]<br>[[Hydrogen sulfide]]
155: ...criptions of the planet but result in different definitions of which pole is the [[North Pole]] and wh...
162: ===Magnetic Field===
164: ...g corkscrew shape behind the planet. The magnetic field's source is unknown; the electrically conducti...
168: ...her star. The earliest recorded sighting was in [[1690]] when [[John Flamsteed]] catalogued it as 34 [[T... - Palermo (10618 bytes)
6: ... '''Panormus''', meaning all-port, because of its fine natural harbour. Palermo is widely considered ...
8: Palermo remained a Phoenician city until the [[First Punic War]] ([[264 BC|264]]-[[241 BC]]), when ...
16: ...ay. Palermo was the scene ([[January 12]]) of the first of [[Europe]]'s revolutionary upheavals of [[1...
25: ... process, which was an important element in the Mafia's transition from a mostly rural phenomenon into...
27: ...widespread. Being the city in which the Italian Mafia historically had its main interests, it has also... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
3: ...ley|PS ''Waverley'']] leaving [[Dunoon]] on the [[Firth of Clyde]].]]
8: ...ostalgia, for [[diesel]] motor driven vessels, prefix "'''MV'''".
15: ...e. One of the first to propose the idea (around [[1690]]) was the physicist [[Denis Papin]] who was deve...
19: ...essfully steamed up the [[river Saône]] for fifteen minutes before the engine failed, but bureau...
21: ...aware River]], but then patent disputes dissuaded Fitch from continuing. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...edical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improvements to the [[glass harmonica]], and...
13: ...[1688]]), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth).
15: Josiah's first wife Anne died in Boston on [[July 9]], [[1689...
17: ...d the following children: John ([[December 7]], [[1690]]), Peter ([[November 22]], [[1692]]), Mary ([[Se... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]])
256: *[[Thomas Fincke]] (Denmark, [[1561]] - [[1656]]) - Faience (4113 bytes)
1: ...entional name in [[English language|English]] for fine tin-glazed [[earthenware]] on a delicate pale b...
4: ...roduced for export as early as the [[15th century|fifteenth century]]. A [[kiln]] capable of producing...
6: ...[Majorca]], which was a transshipping point for refined tin-glazed earthenwares shipped to [[Italy]] f...
8: ...ject of the on-line article posted at [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n3_v154/ai_2...
11: The first northerners to imitate the tin-glazed earthenw... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ... was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permiss...
7: ..., established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near to the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]...
9: ...ings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work of either t...
15: ...order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in the politics...
17: ...y were forced to become a more militarized force, fighting especially with the [[Barbary pirates]]. Th... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...;م in [[Persian language|Persian]]) was the first [[civilization]] based in [[Iran]], the [[Ilam...
10: The high country of Elam was increasingly identified by its low-lying later capital, [[Susa]], and g...
19: ... with the establishment of the Awan dynasty. The first attestation of the name of the kingdom is in a...
72: ...run and little beyond. Among the nations that benefitted from the decline of the Assyrians were the [[...
76: ...tyles; the use of Elamite as the first of three official languages of the empire used in thousands of...
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