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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
20: ...ost recently during her [[2004]] state visit to [[France]] to commemorate the centenary of the [[Enten...
29: ...7]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast t...
33: ...t-great-grandmother. They are also both descended from [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (she being a great-...
38: ...] [[1996]]) [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Frances Spencer]] ([[1961]]–[[1997]]); married...
55: ...e's health declined during [[1951]] and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events. She vi... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...ntil her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
7: ...ilovich Menshikov|Aleksandr Menshikov]], the best friend of [[Peter the Great]]. In [[1703]], while vi...
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]]) - 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... - 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]] ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ...nd an American [[statesman]], [[ambassador]] to [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosoph...
23: ...0]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from families who had settled in [[Virginia]] for se...
25: ...ch included Jefferson, [[John Adams]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livin...
27: ...[curriculum]] of which Jefferson also designed. [[Frank E. Grizzard]], Jr., a scholar at the Universit...
30: ...at the layers of occupation, and draw conclusions from them. - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
56: ...r, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The ...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: The [[British Isles]] is a term frequently used to refer to the [[archipelago]] whic...
71: ...nce]] of [[Ulster]], immediately opted out of the Free State and to remain in the UK. The nomenclature... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
8: Nickname = Old Line State; Free State |
47: ...sm mandatory, a large number of Puritans migrated from Virginia to Maryland, and were given land for a...
51: In 1708 the seat of government was moved to Providence, r...
53: ... that [[the Star Spangled Banner]] was written by Francis Scott Key.
81: ...summers and cold winters. Growing climate varies from USDA Zone 8 on the Eastern Shore and in the cit... - 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]]) - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
24: ...lty, docked his pay for the voyage, and dismissed from the [[Royal Navy]].
37: Dampier was engaged in [[1708]] by the privateer [[Woodes Rogers]] as sailing m...
44: * His reports on [[breadfruit]] led to [[William Bligh]]'s ill-fated voyage ...
61: ...675 A Voyage to New Holland], by William Dampier, from [[Project Gutenberg]].
63: ...w.nndb.com/people/943/000096655/ William Dampier] from the [http://www.nndb.com/ Notable Names Databas... - 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 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...Again [[Catherine de Medici]] and [[Charles IX of France]] make substantial concessions to the [[Hugue...
8: *[[1708]] - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the [[Firth of Fort...
17: *1889 - The free [[Woolwich Ferry]] officially opens in east [[L...
19: ...New York]] for a post-presidency [[safari]] in [[Africa]]. The trip is sponsored by the [[Smithsonian ...
38: ...nflict of [[2003 invasion of Iraq|Operation Iraqi Freedom]] - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - 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... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...u Granth Sahib]], the Sikh holy book. It departs from some of the social traditions and structure of ...
4: ...tain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyond wha...
6: ...h and last Guru, Guru Gobind (AD [[1666]]–[[1708]]) initiated the Sikh ceremony in AD [[1699]] ; a...
10: ...arance that it is a blend of insights originating from two very different faiths. Sikhism's coherence ...
12: ...d matter as a veil, so that only spiritual minds, free of desire, can penetrate it by the grace of the... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...rly every musician in the [[Europe]]an tradition, from [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] to [[Arnold ...
7: ... more distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and...
11: ...cles were also all professional musicians ranging from church organists and court chamber musicians to...
13: ...g Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his private library, at which point the elder b...
22: ...ression made possible by their slight differences from each other — available to keyboard musici... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
11: ...578–1657), and [[Edward Tyson]] (1649–1708). Advances in classification due to the work of [...
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
19: ...as [[binomial nomenclature]], and the name formed from the two parts is known as the [[scientific name...
23: ...p at a given layer is composed of a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the tw... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calenda...
4: ..., [[July 14]], [[1789]], an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the ...
6: ...urope embraced enlightenment ideals, but with the French revolution, they were on the side of the coun...
8: ...became a major power worldwide with the defeat of France in the Americas in the 1760s and the conquest...
21: ...]]-[[1715]]: [[Camisard|Camisard Rebellion]] in [[France]]. - Temperature (22519 bytes)
6: ...ure difference does exist, heat will tend to move from the ''higher'' temperature system to the ''lowe...
8: ...ease in temperature corresponds to a loss of heat from the system. On the microscopic scale this heat ...
15: ...ype and quantity of [[thermal radiation]] emitted from a surface. One application of this effect is th...
21: ...ot really used much in practice, but is important from a theoretical standpoint is the '''gas thermome...
32: ...that the wind increases the rate of heat transfer from the body, resulting in a larger reduction in bo...
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