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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
12: ... later when the Duchess of Marlborough was banned from court during the [[War of the Spanish Successio...
15: ...nce of Sarah Jennings, who would become her close friend and one of her most influential advisors. Jen...
19: ...rth to a son ([[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Francis Edward]]) in [[1688]], for a Roman Catholic ...
22: ...ffices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed from the Royal Household, leading Princess Anne to a...
24: ...mplete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from making her his Regent during his military campa... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...9]] until her death, and as Queen of [[Scotland]] from [[11 April]] 1689 until her death. Mary, a [[Pr...
15: ...ash; he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the [[Louis, the Grand Dauphin|Dauphi...
20: ...o a son—[[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Francis Edward]]—in June [[1688]], for the son...
24: ...en. The only precedent for a joint monarchy dated from the sixteenth century: when Queen [[Mary I of E...
26: ...ffered the Crown not to James's eldest son, James Francis Edward (who would have been the heir-apparen... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...osophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not u...
7: ...ncor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differ...
21: *Inertia and inertial frames of reference
31: ...s by means of light emitted from bodies, not rays from the eye. Giving this important work its full va...
36: ... and what changes in society and thought resulted from it. Other accounts of what constitutes the revo... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...r [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scien...
11: ...fic data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ...ccount of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found i...
27: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
52: ...oration by bringing together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world. - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: Born in [[Freshwater]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], Hooke receive...
12: ... balance spring also regulates the flow of energy from the mainspring of a timepiece. It coils and unc...
22: ... published his ''[[Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]], including a proof of an inverse square law, he...
27: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/ric.martin/vectis/hookeweb/robe...
29: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/iw.history/hooke/face.htm The F... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...n also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of diffe...
25: ...later life, to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events.
31: ...ience). Newton argued that this should exempt him from the normal ordination requirement, and [[Charle...
36: ...'s ideas, Newton was so offended that he withdrew from public debate. The two men remained enemies un...
38: ...hristianson is not clear on what Newton concluded from this--> - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
1: ...:ac.parthenon5.jpg|thumb|300px|The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west]]
3: ...thena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''παρθέ...
9: ...he treasury of the Delian League, which was moved from the Panhellenic sanctuary at [[Delos]] to the A...
19: ...ted on the northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]].
21: ...ouring Athena. On the fourth, eastern, side was a frieze showing all the gods of the Greek [[pantheon]... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: [[Image:B franklin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
2: ...d a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster...
4: Franklin's [[invention]]s include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[li...
9: ...]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and farmer, and Jane White. H...
11: ...dren, all of whom being half-siblings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[16... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], sea...
10: ... days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
19: ...[[aircraft carrier]] [[USS Franklin (CV-13)|USS ''Franklin'']], killing 800 of her crew and crippling ...
21: ...become overseas [[departement|d鰡rtements]] of [[France]].
26: ...s]] ''[[Getz/Gilberto]]'', including ''[[The Girl from Ipanema]]'', sung by [[Astrud Gilberto|Astrud]]... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
9: *[[1638]] - [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious diss...
10: ...Act 1765|Stamp Act]], the first direct tax levied from [[England]] on the American colonies.
12: ... first governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be removed from office by [[impeachment]].
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a bill le...
17: ...] - [[World War II]]: [[Germany]] takes [[Memel]] from [[Lithuania]]. - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
2: [[image:copernicus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus.Image provided by [http://...
36: ...Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ([[1687]]), containing the "[[Newton's laws of motion]]",... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
45: ...mply as ''the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottom...
47: ...tantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the [[Byzantine Empire]], it became the Ottoman...
53: ... in the east to [[Hungary]] in the northwest, and from [[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in t...
60: ...his was the [[Crimean war]] in which the English, French, Ottomans and others united against Russia.
61: ...om foreign occupation (e.g. Egypt occupied by the French in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 18... - Ur (11926 bytes)
3: ...erian mythology]], and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined...
9: ...e. Scholars believe that, as the climate changed from relatively moist to drought in the early [[3rd ...
15: ...roved through [[irrigation]]. His code of laws (a fragment was identified in [[Istanbul]] in [[1952]])...
19: ...the ziggurat. However the city started to decline from around [[550 BC]] and was no longer inhabited a...
26: ...ook of Jubilees]]'' states that Ur was founded in 1687 ''Anno Mundi'' (year of the world) by 'Ur son of ... - Silicon (13233 bytes)
12: {{Elementbox_meltingpoint | k=1687 | c=1414 | f=2577 }}
47: ...-efficient of [[resistance]], since the number of free charge carriers increases with temperature.
50: ...] and [[animal]] life. [[Diatom]]s extract silica from water to build their protective cell walls. Oth...
51: ...[Pottery]]/[[Vitreous enamel|Enamel]] - It is a refractory material used in high-temperature material ...
54: *[[Glass]] - Silica from sand is a principal component of glass. Glass c... - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ... contexts, ranging from the sub-nuclear particles from which all ordinary matter is made ([[particle p...
12: The culture of physics research differs from the other sciences in the separation of [[theor...
15: ...mulation of new theories. Likewise, ideas arising from theory often inspire new experiments. In the ab...
34: | [[Boltzmann's constant]], [[Entropy]], [[Free energy]], [[Heat]], [[Partition function (stati...
42: ...lence principle]], [[Four-momentum]], [[Reference frame]], [[Spacetime]], [[Speed of light]]
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