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- 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: ...stria]], and Queen of [[Hungary]] and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when ...
8: ...g of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him,...
26: ...arried [[Louis XVI of France|HM King Louis XVI of France]] (1754-1793); had issue - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... Hofburg Palace in [[Vienna]] on [[2 November]] [[1755]]. She was christened Maria-Antonia-Josepha-Johan...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
14: ...ds alternate with a supplementary weft that rises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular ang...
16: ...uard mechanism (see [[Jacquard loom]]) in 1812 in France and c. 1825 in England. The addition of stea...
21: ...r Axminster]] (1890). These types were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s invent...
26: The warp threads are set up on the frame of the loom before weaving begins. A number o...
30: ...al carpet production are: [[Turkey]], [[Northern Africa]], the [[Caucasus]], [[Iran]], [[Nepal]], [[Tu... - 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]] ... - 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 ...
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 ...
39: ...a committee with [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Robert R. Livingston]] and [[Roger She... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... the country's early history, stemming as it does from the Roman name ''Portus Cale'', a possibly mixe...
15: ...C]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local ...
17: ...Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the [[Conii]]. Over decades, the R...
25: ...s. From there they aimed to reconquer their lands from the [[Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Ar...
27: ...r of the Iberian Peninsula, faced new competition from other regions. The lords of the cities of [[Coi... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
9: ...Egypt|Memphis]], the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]].
11: ...arty which, after much effort, managed to dig the front paws out. To commemorate this effort, Tutmosis...
19: ...inx.01.jpg|280px|left|thumb|The Sphinx against Khafre's pyramid]]
22: ... evident that the face on the Sphinx is different from the face on the statues.
24: ...e Great Pyramid. He suggests it was built by Djedefre in the image of his father Khufu, identifying hi... - 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... - 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: ...rench and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian allies, following the confl...
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... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
8: ...ary]] (e.g. a dictionary containing the 2000 most frequently used words in the English language).
23: ...f the simplest meanings of the simplest concepts. From these, other concepts can be explained and defi...
31: ...agreement. But the softening of usage notations, from the previous edition, for two words, ''ain't'' ...
42: ...rovide the basis for all lexicographic decisions, from the selection of entry words, over the choice o...
47: ... words, whose usage was illustrated by quotations from early Roman authors. - 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]]
76: *[[Oliver Evans]] (1755-1819) - [[amphibious vehicle]], amongst others
87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...itius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
18: ...[[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]], were burned in 1755.
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]] ... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
1: ...s are called [[interplate earthquake]]s; the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the li...
7: ...6.JPG|thumb|200px|none|Damage from the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]].]]
9: ...yCa1989.jpg|thumb|200px|none|Section of collapsed freeway after the 1989 [[Loma Prieta earthquake]].]]
11: ...sm]]s. It is usually possible to identify a point from which the earthquake's [[seismic wave]]s appear...
30: ...y, earthquakes (in a broad sense) can also result from the detonation of [[explosive]]s. Thus scienti... - Brine shrimp (4112 bytes)
13: ''Artemia franciscana''<br>
27: ...rst discovered in [[Lymington]], [[England]] in [[1755]]. There are mixed views on whether all brine shr...
29: ...ain in this state for several years in dry oxygen-free conditions. Once placed in water, the cyst-like...
39: ..., California]]. In [[1987]], Dr. Dennis D. Murphy from [[Stanford University]] petitioned the [[United... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...te a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
4: The term ''tsunami'' comes from the [[Japanese language]] meaning ''harbour'' (...
18: ...pate quickly and rarely affect coastlines distant from the source area due to the small area of sea af...
22: ...by the huge mass of water behind the initial wave front, as the height of the sea keeps rising fast an...
24: ...ve decreases as the inverse power of the distance from the source. This is the two-dimensional equiva... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
9: ...ted, and displays of imperial majesty were common from the earliest days of the Empire.
11: ...tities with imperial pretensions, including the [[Frankish]] kingdom, the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [...
23: ...final step in the evolution of the [[Roman Army]] from a [[citizen army]] to a professional one.
33: ...Romanizing extensive territories in the East, in Africa, in Hispania and Gaul, beyond those areas that...
40: ...few, works of poetry, legislation and engineering from this period provide important insights into Rom... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
1: ...dian War]] battle, see [[Battle of the Wilderness 1755]].''
26: ... Maj. Gen. [[George G. Meade]], but taking orders from Grant, crossed the [[Rapidan River]] at three s...
34: ...j. Gen. [[Winfield Scott Hancock]] and a division from the [[VI Corps (ACW)|VI Corps]]. He held his gr...
36: ...ion reinforcements on Ewell's front prevented Lee from sending Second Corps men to aid Hill. By late m...
38: ...nths. (Ironically, Longstreet was the victim of [[friendly fire]], just as fellow general [[Stonewall ... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ...et but declined the command of his own collier in 1755 on the eve of the [[Seven Years War]] to start ag...
20: ...ok Strait]], which separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not gues...
26: ..." was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kanga...
30: ... forced his men to eat such foods as [[citrus]] [[fruit]]s and [[sauerkraut]]—under punishment o...
32: ...mand of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began.
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