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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
47: *[[1744]] - [[Johann Bernoulli, III]], [[Switzerland|Swis...
48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]]) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
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 ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...eat''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[Novemb...
5: ...onths later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by ...
11: ...tion the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status here...
13: ...the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the mode...
17: ...|Nikita Panin]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd sta... - 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)
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 ...
26: ... [[1764]] Adams married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]–[[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregati...
35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis...
37: ... "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of ... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ... of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted in France's loss of all its possessions in North Americ...
5: ...the Conquest), since it is the war in which [[New France]] was conquered by the British and became par...
9: ...([[1702]]-[[1714]]), and [[King George's War]] ([[1744]]-[[48]]). The prior three wars, fought more as s...
13: ...[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's capital.
15: ...of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking populations in [[Acadia]] to Louisia... - 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
25: *[[Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard]] ([[1744]]-[[1809]])
29: *[[Franklin Adams]] - 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... - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: '''Abigail Smith Adams''' ([[November 11]], [[1744]] – [[October 28]], [[1818]]) was the wife ...
3: ...education. On her mother's side she was descended from the Quincys, a family of great prestige in the ...
17: <td>[[November 11]], [[1744]]</td>
52: ...ent of the United States]], Abigail became a good friend to [[Martha Washington]] helped in official e... - 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-Fré¤İric 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: ...spheric pressure]]. Several other people; Elvius from Sweden (1710), a Christian of Lyons (1743), and...
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 ... - 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]]. - February 22 (10772 bytes)
9: * [[1495]] - King [[Charles VIII of France]] enters [[Naples]] to claim the city's thron...
11: * [[1744]] - The [[Battle of Toulon, 1744|Battle of Toulon]] begins.
18: * [[1879]] - In [[Utica, New York]], [[Frank Woolworth]] opens the first of many of 5 and 1...
24: ... United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House]].
25: ...]: [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders General [[Douglas Mac... - 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 ...
82: ...nd early 20th-century temples are all constructed from [[Russian Revival]] or [[Byzantine architecture... - 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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