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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
26: *[[Franz Ackerman|Ackerman, Franz]] (c1330-1387)
34: *[[Georg Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
43: ...Ackermann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
9: *[[John Adair|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Ke...
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 ... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
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...
23: ...the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few personal friends, including her physician, Armand Lestocq, he... - 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. - 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... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ... later drawn into the [[conflict]], while a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was ...
3: ...[Native Americans]]/[[First Nations]]) sided with France although some did fight alongside the British...
8: ...strian Succession]]. During that conflict, King [[Frederick II of Prussia]] had gained the rich provin...
10: ...e)|Hanoverian]] possession as being threatened by France. Great Britain's alliance with Prussia was a ...
14: ...ire|Great Britain]] and [[French colonial empires|France]]. - 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]]) - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: *[[366]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman ...
9: *[[1757]] - The [[United Kingdom]] captures [[Kolkata|Cal...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [...
28: ... - [[DeYoung Museum]] in [[Golden Gate Park]] San Francisco opens.
33: ...ship]] program with a stated goal of building 200 freighters. Over 2,700 ships will eventually be con... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
51: *[[Antonio Canova]] (1757 - 1822)
56: *[[Pierre Cartellier]] (1757-1831) - 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... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: ...ald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}}
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841) - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
45: ...mply as ''the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottom...
47: ...tantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the [[Byzantine Empire]], it became the Ottoman...
53: ... in the east to [[Hungary]] in the northwest, and from [[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in t...
60: ...his was the [[Crimean war]] in which the English, French, Ottomans and others united against Russia.
61: ...om foreign occupation (e.g. Egypt occupied by the French in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 18... - Beryllium (15119 bytes)
101: | 1757.1 kJ/mol
141: ...berated when it is hit by [[alpha particle]]s, as from [[radium]] or [[polonium]] (about 30 neutrons/m...
152: .../Telescope/mirrortale/ (Beryllium related details from NASA here)] will have 18 hexagonal beryllium se...
155: ...[beryl]] and in [[emerald]]s. [[Friedrich Woehler|Friedrich W?r]] and [[Antoine Alexandre Brutus Bussy...
167: ...d to examine [[soil erosion]], [[soil formation]] from [[regolith]], the development of [[laterite|lat... - Calcium (9166 bytes)
48: ...ng point]] </td><td>1757 K (2703?F)</td></tr>
106: ...llic element that is purified by [[electrolysis]] from [[calcium fluoride]]. It burns with a yellow-re... - Carolus Linnaeus (8550 bytes)
5: ... His interest in [[botany]] impressed a physician from his town and he was sent to study at [[Lund Uni...
11: ...tinent. While in the [[Netherlands]] he met [[Jan Frederik Gronovius]] and showed him a draft of his w...
15: ...g. Of all the features distinguishing the mammals from other animals, Linnaeus may have picked this on...
20: ...ulation at [[Lund University]]; the name deriving from the [[Small-leaved Lime|lime]] [http://linnaeus...
29: ...cans were reddish, stubborn, and angered easily. Africans were black, relaxed and negligent. Asians we... - Indian art (7305 bytes)
4: Islamic ascendancy (712-1757AD)
5: The colonial period (1757-1947)
17: ... The dancing girl from Mohenjodaro, various seals from Harappa and other art objects show that there w...
23: ...e supple and intense with myth, legends, snippets from epic, multitudinous gods born out of dream and ...
31: ...n Buddhism and the frequent exchanges of scholars from the 12th century onwards. - 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]].
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