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- Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: ...ovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias, Duchess of Courland]]
3: ...[[1693]] - [[October 28]],[[1740]]) reigned as Duchess of [[Courland]] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empres...
5: ==Ascension to the throne==
7: ...fter the death of her husband, but was reputed by her enemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count...
10: ...s an autocratic ruler, using her popularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility. - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...er reign. She did, however, govern the realm when her husband was abroad fighting wars.
11: ...gh her parents bore eight children, only Mary and her younger sister [[Anne of Great Britain|Anne]] su...
13: ...ied again in [[1673]], taking as his second wife the Catholic [[Mary of Modena]], also known as Mary B...
15: ...ould improve his popularity amongst Protestants. The first cousins Mary and William married in London ...
17: ...ple, but her husband neglected or even mistreated her. William long maintained an affair with [[Elizab... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...served as President of the [[1787]] [[History of the United States Constitution|Constitutional Convent...
21: ...n [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
24: ...or [[Lady Day]]) at the time of his birth, hence the difference in his birth year. His birthplace was ...
26: ...uly [[1752]], he rented and eventually inherited the estate, [[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]...
29: ...], and shows Washington in uniform as colonel of the 1st Virginia Regiment.]] - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
11: national_anthem = [[Zdravljica]] |
36: established_events = • Declared<br> • R...
37: established_dates = From [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yug...
47: footnotes=<sup>1</sup> In the residential municipalities of Italian or Hungaria...
52: ...[[Hungary]] to the northeast, and [[Austria]] to the north. - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
1: ...Trial.jpg|right|thumb|400px|1876 illustration of the courtroom]]
2: ...mprisonment of scores more. [[Witch trial]]s were held in [[Europe]] several hundred years before thos...
4: ...ic (paranormal)|magically]] possessing them, and therefore of being [[witch]]es or [[warlock]]s in lea...
6: ...husetts|Lynn]], [[Marblehead, Massachusetts|Marblehead]], and [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]].
8: ==The beginning== - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painte...
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
27: *[[Andreas Achenbach]] ([[1815]]-[[1910]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
14: ...n]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
24: ...hn Bardeen]], (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
29: *[[Henry Bessemer]], (1813-1898), [[England]] — [...
31: *[[Bi Sheng]] — primitive movable [[printing]] types - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...th discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
4: ...d by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in the [[13th century]].
6: ...he speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of [[star]]s.
12: :''The following is a brief biography of Newton's early ...
14: ...sband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmother. - John Locke (14749 bytes)
1: {{otherpeople|John Locke}}
3: ... period. Locke has been placed in a group called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [[David H...
6: ...nteresting than the classical material taught at the University.
8: ...bert Hooke]] and [[Richard Lower]]. In [[1666]], he met [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesb...
10: ...pact that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. - Dodo (9332 bytes)
1: ... | color=pink | name=Dodo}}<br />{{StatusExtinct|when=[[1681]]}}
15: ...ich is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
18: ... the Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Mu...
20: ...]]s, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large b...
22: ...to have ever supported flight and it is believed these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
2: ...mmonite]]s. Many of these orders went extinct at the same time in any of several [[mass extinction]] e...
18: See also [[List of extinct animals of the British Isles]].
20: ...merica]], (43 bird species, 39 mammal species in the [[USA]]) ===
22: * [[List of extinct animals of the United States]]
38: * [[Dodo]] (1693) - Sicily (18450 bytes)
21: ...egion of [[Italy]] and the largest [[island]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]], with an area of 25,700 sq....
24: ...w over red, with the ''[[trinacria]]'' symbol in the center.
30: ...he tallest volcano in Europe. It is also one of the world's most active volcanos.
32: ... the north-west, and the [[Pelagian Islands]] to the south-west.
34: ... [[1800s|19th century]], but have declined since the [[1950s]]. - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] &nda...
41: *[[Svante Arrhenius]] ([[Sweden]], [[1859]] – [[1927]])
42: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]] – [...
68: *[[Wilhelm Beer]] ([[Germany]], [[1797]] – [[1850]])
71: *[[Friedrich Bessel|Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel]] ([[Germany]], [[1784]] – [[1846]... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
1: ... | color=pink | name=Dodo}}<br />{{StatusExtinct|when=[[1681]]}}
15: ...ich is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
18: ... the Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Mu...
20: ...]]s, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large b...
22: ...to have ever supported flight and it is believed these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of...
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