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- Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ...s, which are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of...
8: ...rtant that smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iro...
11:
17: ...n this case, expansion occurs. Internal stresses from this expansion generally take the form of [[com... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...hers, who was the queen consort of [[Louis XIV of France]].''
3: [[Image:MariaTheresa.JPG|frame|H.I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Quee...
4: ..., and Queen of [[Hungary]] and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husba...
6: ...Sanction when it was issued, on Charles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...g of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him,... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...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. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...ountry into the [[War of Austrian succession]] ([[1740]] - [[1748]]) and the [[Seven Years War]] (1756-6...
9: ... these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by h...
11: ...tention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but the pride of the [[Bou...
13: ...d her fathers sensual temperament and, being free from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites...
19: ... seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La Chetardie, who was plotting to... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
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...
40: ...l, thus causing the stone to land some space away from the tower's bottom. This effect is not observed... - Sheng (instrument) (1217 bytes)
3: ...[[Pinyin]] ''shēng'') is a [[mouth]]-blown [[free reed instrument]] (the first) consisting essent...
5: ... and brought the first shengs back to Europe in [[1740]] and [[1777]] respectively, although some believ... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...eader [[Saddam Hussein]] and his [[Ba'ath Party]] from power. Although, the legality of the invasion ...
29: ... '''[[Independence]]''' || [[1 October]] [[1919]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]]
30: [[3 October]] [[1932]] from the [[United Kingdom|British]]
44: ...>''(Citizens have [[Freedom of religion|religious freedom]])'' || [[Islam]]
49: ...ion of Iraq]] removed Saddam Hussein's Government from power, replacing it with an interim American-ba... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
5: ...1604;ت اسلامی افغانست...
36: | From [[United Kingdom|the British]]<br>[[1919]]
55: ...Afghanistan. The remainder of the name originates from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''stā...
64: ...ans. The Mohammadzay furnished the Saddozay kings frequently with top counsellors, who served occasion...
72: ...an were able to capture 90% of the country, aside from [[Northern Alliance]] strongholds primarily in ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...British possession after France's defeat in the [[French and Indian War]]. For many years, rightful co...
44: ...north to south, is 159 miles. Its greatest width, from east to west, is 89 miles (the narrowest width ...
52: ...particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and climate conditions unique ...
58: ...ing the era Native Americans migrated year-round. From [[1000 BCE]] to [[1600|1600 CE]] was the Woodla...
60: ..., [[1609]], [[French colonization of the Americas|French explorer]] [[Samuel de Champlain]] claimed th... - 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... - Politics (7193 bytes)
9: ...d equal right to every resource in nature and was free to use any means to acquire those resources. H...
16: The word "Politics" is derived from the Greek word for city-state, "Polis". Corpor...
21: ...governed. However, this democracy was limited to free, male, landholders.
25: ...bility of education and leisure to otherwise disenfranchised classes along with a desire to participat...
78: [[fa:سیاست]] - 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.
21: === [[1740s]] ===
22: *[[1740]] - [[King George's War]] ([[War of the Austrian ...
26: *[[1752]] - [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s kite experiment - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ... features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different...
9: ...d [[16th century|16th]] centuries, Europe emerged from the [[Middle Ages]] and entered the [[Renaissan...
13: ... as the Europeans were concerned, they were still free for the taking.
16: ...[over-population]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respective parts.
20: [[Image:ronokmap.JPG|right|framed|1584 map of Chesapeake Bay by John White]] - Sundial (16148 bytes)
14: Sundials are known from ancient Egypt, and were developed further by ot...
24: ...rection table, and must be adjusted for longitude from the center of the time zone. The admittedly in...
34: The sun casts a shadow from the gnomon to a surface called the ''dial face'...
67: ...t of the gnomon (the ''substyle'') are calculated from the formula face-angle = arctan(sin(latitude)*t...
72: ...t|Wall sundial on East-facing wall, Prague, about 1740]] - List of popes (77758 bytes)
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{bibleverse||Matthew|16:18-...
91: | <small>[[Aquileia]], Friuli, Italy</small>
119: | <small>[[North Africa|Northern Africa]]</small>
165: ===From 250===
255: | <small>Africa</small> - 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 sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
18: *[[John Bacon]] (1740 - 1799)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865) - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
3: ...'''Joseph-Michel Montgolfier''' ([[August 26]], [[1740]] – [[June 26]], [[1810]]) and '''Jacques-É...
5: ...at only got them more burnt, so they were scarred from the fire for the rest of their life.
11: ...erformed at [[Versailles]], before [[Louis XVI of France]], to gain his permission for a trial human f...
15: On [[November 21]], [[1783]], the first free flight by humans was made by [[Pilâtre de Rozi...
16: (A flight by Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781 with his "ornithopter", a... - 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... - Celsius (3635 bytes)
4: ! Conversion from
18: ...ns (1743), and the botanist [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1740); also independently invented the same measuremen...
20: ...he [[SI]] ''centi-'' prefix. While the values for freezing and boiling of water remain approximately c...
22: Anders Celsius originally proposed that the freezing point should be 100 degrees and that the bo...
24: ...-to-day purposes. In broadcast media it was still frequently referred to as centigrade until the late ...
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