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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
37: ...ms, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
40: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son o...
41: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War ...
42: *[[Charles Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
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...
28: ...], and exclude descendants of [[Peter the Great]] from inheriting the throne. - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...called one another by pet names, Sarah being "Mrs Freeman" and Anne "Mrs Morley". In [[1677]], Sarah ...
4: ...), the relationship between the queen and her old friend deteriorated greatly. In [[1711]], both Sara...
6: ...ederick, Prince of Wales]]. The Duchess remained friendly with the prince and his family, however, ev... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[October 30]], [[1735]]
18: '''John Adams''' ([[October 30]], [[1735]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the first ([[...
22: ...neration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in...
24: ...1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing ...
35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
32: MeanElev = 5,692 ft, 1735 |
38: ...[[Hispanic]] ancestry, many of whom are descended from [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[colonist]]s. It al...
46: ...ld. Dispatched from [[New Spain]], conquistador [[Francisco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] led a full-scale exp...
50: ..."The Royal Road" as a 700 mile (1100 km) lifeline from the rest of [[New Spain]] to his remote colony....
58: [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] of [[France]] sold the vast [[Louisiana Purchase]], which... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
10: ...' goes back to the book ''Meteorologica'' (dating from about [[340 BC]]) by [[Aristotle]], who combine...
14: ...Franklin]]'s kite experiments with [[lightning]]. Franklin was also the first American to keep accurat...
16: ...pheric circulation|global circulation]] was the [[1735]] study by [[George Hadley]] of the [[Trade Wind]...
18: ...d]]. These were solved when [[Luke Howard]] and [[Francis Beaufort]] introduced their systems for clas...
20: ...]], introducing the idea of [[front (meteorology)|front]]s, that is, sharply defined boundaries betwee... - 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]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1700]] to [[1759]]'''.
18: *[[1735]] - [[John Peter Zenger]] trial on freedom of the press issues.
26: *[[1752]] - [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s kite experiment - January 1 (18244 bytes)
15: ...8]] - [[Bouvet Island]] is discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de ...
20: *[[1804]] - [[France|French]] rule ends in [[Haiti]].
22: ...] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first ...
25: ...m under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]].
26: *[[1869]] - [[Sigma Nu]] fraternity is officially founded at the [[Virginia M... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...rk for the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution]]s, the Latin American independenc...
14: ...ne. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ...d by the ideas of [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]...
18: ...ies. If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw th...
20: ...figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]] with the axiomatic approach of Desca... - 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... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
169: The name platinum mainly derives from the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''platina'' me...
175: ... member of the [[Royal Society]] he was prevented from publishing a reference to the unknown metal unt...
182: ...rnational des Poids et Mesures]] in [[Sevres]], [[France]]. A platinum-iridium cylinder serves to this...
192: ...producer of platinum group metals from its South African mines. It mines, processes, refines and marke... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
3: [[Image:Voltaire.jpg|frame|Voltaire]]
4: ...y the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a [[France|French]] [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] ...
8: ...his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...nism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...Abbé de [[Châteauneuf]], a friend of François' mother, instructed him in ''les bel... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...ction (mathematics)|function]]" (defined by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] - [[1694]]) to describe an [...
12: ...alytical science"—that is, calculus). In [[1735]] he lost much of his vision in the right eye due...
29: ...f laws of motion in [[fluid dynamics]], directly from [[Newton's laws of motion]]. These equations ...
37: ...ical analysis, it was Euler who synthesised [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]'s differential [[calculus]] ...
39: He established his fame in 1735 by solving the long-standing [[Basel problem]]: - List of U.S. states by elevation (16995 bytes)
4: |valign="top"| [[Image:Death Valley from space.JPG|thumb|200px|[[Death Valley]] — ...
55: | 725 m ([[Mount Frissel]])
164: | 70 m ([[St. Francis River]])
253: | 1,085 m ([[Sassafras Mountain]])
339: | New Mexico ||4014 m ||859 m||1735 m||3155 m - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
17: ...ough twelve editions during his lifetime (1st ed. 1735). He is best known for his introduction of a meth...
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 (8231 bytes)
3: ...entury''''' refers to the [[century]] that lasted from [[1701]] through [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian ca...
5: ...ial]] capacity) were: [[Austria]], [[Britain]], [[France]], [[Prussia]], and [[Russia]].
9: ...t and create new competition in Europe other than France, England, and Spain.
11: ... parents. In [[Asia]], exploration and influences from Europe were beginning to shake the structures o...
20: * [[1715]]: [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] dies - 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]]. - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
40: ...#1094;а). <!-- translator paraphrasing here from de: -->
56: ...ikov]] Palace on the Neva Embankment, constructed from designs by Domenico Trezini in 1710–1716....
62: ...d by [[Count Orlov]] and built in 1768–1785 from various sorts of [[marble]] to a Neoclassical d...
72: ...reat]] and other [[tsar|Russian emperor]]s. Apart from these four principal cathedrals, which operate ...
74: ...Cathedral (1728–1740), St Pantaleon church (1735–1739), and St Andrew Cathedral (1764–...
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