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- Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: [[Image:Annaioannovnarussia1693-2.jpg|thumb|H.I.M. Anna Ivanovna, Empress and Aut...
3: ...]] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
7: ...g as Duchess of Courland (now western [[Latvia]]) from 1711 to 1730, with the Russian resident, [[Best...
19: ...ving a distrust of Russian nobles, Anna kept them from powerful positions, instead giving those to Bal...
24: ...gitimate southern boundaries which was brought to fruition by [[Catherine the Great]]. Anna's reign sa... - 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... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...e was initiated as a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] in Fredericksburg on [[4 February]] [[1752]]. On Lawren...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...nternational incident, and helped to ignite the [[French and Indian War]], which eventually became the...
33: ...ition]], which successfully drove the French away from [[Fort Duquesne]].
37: ...en. In that year, he was chosen as a [[delegate]] from Virginia to the First [[Continental Congress]] ... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
37: established_dates = From [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugo...
54: ...rope]], [[NATO]], and has observer status in [[La Francophonie]].
59: ...its independence, being largely subsumed into the Frankish empire. Many [[Slavs]] [[christianization|c...
61: The [[Freising manuscripts]], the earliest surviving writt...
65: ...med on [[25 June]] [[1991]] upon its independence from Yugoslavia. Slovenia joined [[NATO]] on [[29 Ma... - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
6: The community, under threat from [[Native American|Indian]]s and without any for...
11: ...haned as a teenager at the death of her mother, a French innkeeper, was the town beggar, noted for her...
17: ... explained as a way of preventing his possessions from being confiscated by the state, this is not tru...
22: The witch trials ended in January [[1693]], although people already jailed for witchcraft ...
33: *The Rev. [[Francis Dane]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
53: *[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau|Jacques Cousteau]], [[France]] — [[Aqua-Lung|aqualung]]
56: ...illiam Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas...
88: *[[William Friese-Greene]], (1855-1921) — [[cinematograph... - 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--> - John Locke (14749 bytes)
6: ...rn in [[Wrington]], [[Somerset]], about ten miles from [[Bristol]], [[England]], in [[1632]]. His fat...
14: ...ter become Essay. Two extant Drafts still survive from this period.
16: ...x]], where he had lived in the household of [[Sir Francis Masham]] since [[1691]].
24: ...ing theological viewpoints. He recoiled, however, from what he saw as the divisive character of some n...
27: ... the bulk of the writing took place in the period from 1679-1682. It was therefore much more of a comm... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...itius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
20: Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had b...
24: ...easons, the dodo probably fattened itself on ripe fruits at the end of the wet season to live through ...
27: ...sness, made it easy prey. The name ''dodo'' comes from the archaic [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ...
29: ...en found in the old [[midden]]s of the Dutch fort Frederik Hendrik. - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
29: ===[[Africa]]===
38: * [[Dodo]] (1693) - Sicily (18450 bytes)
6: ...r = Salvatore Cuffaro <br/>(''[[House of Freedoms]]'') |
24: ...sala]], [[Corleone]], [[Castellammare del Golfo]] Francavilla di Sicilia, and [[Abacaenum]] (now [[Tri...
43: ...h trains are loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland. Officially, the Stretto di Messin...
47: ...ional and international flights (mainly European) from to [[Palermo International Airport]] and [[Cata...
52: ...o d'India]] (from Palermo), [[Vincenzo Bellini]] (from [[Catania]]), as well as the [[sculpture|sculpt... - 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]]) - Dodos (9122 bytes)
15: ...itius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
20: Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had b...
24: ...easons, the dodo probably fattened itself on ripe fruits at the end of the wet season to live through ...
27: ...sness, made it easy prey. The name ''dodo'' comes from the archaic [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ...
29: ...en found in the old [[midden]]s of the Dutch fort Frederik Hendrik.
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