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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
11: *Grand Duchess Nataliya Petrovna ([[1713]]-[[1715]])
12: *Grand Duchess Margarita Petrovna ([[1714]]-[[1715]])
13: *Grand Duke Pyotr Petrovich ([[1715]]-[[1719]])
17: ...hikov, and the Supreme Privy Council. She was the first royal owner of the Sarskoje Selo estate, later... - 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... - 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]]-) - Dodo (9332 bytes)
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported flight and it is beli...
27: ...|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ...[Asia]], but neither historical nor archeological findings corroborate this. Dodos were hardly ever ea...
31: However, when humans first arrived on Mauritius, they also brought with t...
33: ...tion of the dodo is commonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]], reported by [[shipwreck... - 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: ...ed observed Uranus twice again, in [[1712]] and [[1715]]. [[Bradley]] observed it in [[1748]], [[1750]] ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...glish]] began to colonize [[North America]]. The first attempts, notably the [[Colony of Roanoke]], r...
4: ...the [[Southern Colonies]]. Some historians add a fifth region – the [[frontier]] had certain un...
11: ...e route to the [[East Indies|"Indies"]] would benefit immensely. It was in this atmosphere that [[Chr...
16: ...lizabeth]]. At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a...
25: The first truly successful English colony was establishe... - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
5: ...tives of the [[Second Estate|nobility]] and the [[First Estate|clergy]], the remnants of [[feudalism]]...
13: ... resort to a legislature. Kings had managed their fiscal affairs by increasing the burden of the ancie...
15: This led to the long-running fiscal crisis of the French government. On the eve o...
17: ...se conflicts, but Britain had a far more advanced fiscal structure to deal with it. There was no coun...
22: ...ating the regions of France, which prevented a unified market from developing in the country. Taxes s... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...end of absolutism and people as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the s...
21: ...itors of the confidence and stability of France's finances.
23: ...ly of Notables would restore confidence in French finances, and allow further borrowing until the land...
25: ...ing the convocation of the Estates-General within five years, but also attempted in the meanwhile to g...
27: ...8]], and Necker again took charge of the nation's finances. He used his position not to propose new r... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ...]] ([[Australia]]) and [[New Guinea]]. He was the first person to [[circumnavigate]] the world twice, ...
6: ==First circumnavigation==
7: ...[Panama]] and captured Spanish ships on the [[Pacific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided...
9: ...[[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], calling at [[Guam]]...
18: ...mpier Archipelago]] and then [[Roebuck Bay]], but finding none he was forced to bear away north for [[... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
353: *[[Pierre Lemonnier]] ([[France]], [[1715]] – [[1799]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
383: *[[ɴienne Bonnot de Condillac]], (1715-1780){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
10: He was the fifth child of his parents, preceded by twin boys (o...
14: ...ed to remove him from such society by sending him first to [[Caen]] and then, in the suite of the marq...
16: ...lampoon]]s on him. In May [[1716]] he was exiled, first to [[Tulle]], then to [[Sully]], later, having...
20: ...seems to have begun his long series of successful financial speculations.
28: ..., ''Marianne'', appeared and was well received at first but underwent complete damnation before the cu... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported flight and it is beli...
27: ...|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ...[Asia]], but neither historical nor archeological findings corroborate this. Dodos were hardly ever ea...
31: However, when humans first arrived on Mauritius, they also brought with t...
33: ...tion of the dodo is commonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]], reported by [[shipwreck... - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ... story to appear in all forms. Regions with significant music scenes often have have strong theater a...
11: ...ch opened a theater in New York and presented the first professionally-mounted American play, ''[[The ...
24: ...this time was the [[minstrel show]], arguably the first uniquely American style of performance. These ...
38: ...y]], and is notable for heavily influencing early film, [[radio]], and television productions in the c...
43: ...n due in part to the fact the [[Silent film|early films]] had no sound, and could thus not compete. Mo... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
5: ...times specifically refer to the 18th century as [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between t...
9: ...ld generate the [[peasant revolt]]s that, for the first time, would begin to shake the old ways and fe...
20: * [[1715]]: [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] dies
23: * [[1721]]: [[Robert Walpole]] becomes the first [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime M...
46: ...anish]] [[missionary|missionaries]] establish the first of 21 [[Spanish Missions of California|mission... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ..., an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250p...
6: ...f Maximlien de Robespierre in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenme...
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in...
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the ev...
14: [[File:Marlborough-duke-first.jpg|thumb|upright|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke o...
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