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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
1: ...|H.I.M. Ekaterina I, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias]]
3: ...s also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
5: ...ork in the laundry of the regiment which captured her.
7: ...]] and changed her name to Ekaterina Alexeevna. She married Peter in [[February]] of [[1712]] and bor...
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]]) - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...usin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
10: ...e used to ensure that Scotland would co-operate. The [[Act of Union 1707]] (which united England and S...
12: ...gh]], who led the English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
15: ...advisors. Jennings later married John Churchill (the future Duke of Marlborough), who would later beco...
17: ...ce to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious a... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
2: ...[[1705]]) was a French [[author]], and patron of the arts.
4: ... unmarried Ninon entered a convent only to leave the next year.
6: ... Montaigne|Montaigne]] in particular, she devoted her life to pleasure, both physical and mental.
8: ...r old named [[Voltaire|Fran篩s Marie Arouet]] so he could buy books.
10: ...inal Mazarin]] on Ninon's behalf and arranged for her release. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...actical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ... of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
19: ... 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...y [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits, the [[aphelion|aphelia]] of which may be many times more distant than...
5: ...process, but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials may come to resemble ast...
9: ...across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and the tails can extend over 150 million km (1 [[Astrono...
11: ... Comet on the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], which records the [[Norman conquest]] of [[England]] in [[1066]].{{...
13: ...400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]] - 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]]) - 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. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language...
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]]... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...opher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabeticall...
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}} - Viking (18085 bytes)
4: ...adjective referring to Viking Age Scandinavians. The medieval Scandinavian population in general is mo...
12: ...strations of what probably are [[Varangians]] in the [[Byzantine Empire]] and a Byzantine ship]]
13: ...an]] history is filled with tales of Vikings and their plundering.
15: ...aids in the [[Mediterranean]] and as far east as the [[Caspian Sea]].
20: ... ''Ascomanni'' by our own people, pay tribute to the Danish king." - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
1: {{dablink|For the singer and songwriter of the same name, see [[Voltaire (band)]].}}
4: ...riter]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...oughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...other was very fond, married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] an...
12: ...], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage. - Olympia, Greece (5214 bytes)
3: ...0px|View onto the training ground from a room of the [[palestra]].]]
31: ...<br> -lowest:<br> -centre:<br> -highest:||<br>about 10 m<br>63 m(centre)<br><!--m-->
37: ... [[Municipal codes in Greece|Municipal code]]: || 1705
53: ...In [[394]] CE emperor [[Theodosius I]] abolished them.
55: ... was excavated in the [[1950]]s. Evidence found there such as sculptor's tools, corroborates this opi... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...e to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systematics|biologic...
5: ...r [[Aristotle]], who classified animals based on their means of transportation (air, land, or water).
9: ...work was a critical compilation of life known at the time.
11: ...ologist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (16...
13: ... were classified according to a pre-conceived, either/or type system, and instead classified plants ac... - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
5: * [[1705]]: [[Newcomen engine|Steam piston engine]]: [[Tho...
7: * [[1710]]: [[Thermometer]]: [[Ren頁ntoine Ferchault de R页mur]]
9: ...: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
28: ... [[1783]]: Hot air [[balloon]]: [[Montgolfier brothers]]
30: * [[1784]]: [[Shrapnel shell]]: [[Henry Shrapnel]] - Iceberg (3511 bytes)
1: ... that has broken off from a [[glacier]] or [[ice shelf]] and is floating in open water.
5: ...applied to a problem or difficulty, meaning that the problem is only a small manifestation of a more s...
9: ...from an iceberg collision was the destruction of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] on [[April 14]], ...
11: ...s in the northern [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reports their movements for safety purposes.
15: ...cating its point of origin and a running number. The letters used are as follows:
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