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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...lizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
7: ...d Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ... second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thail...
11: ...], and is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ..."Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]] - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...usin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
10: ...hat Scotland would co-operate. The [[Act of Union 1707]] (which united England and Scotland into Great B...
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... - Apple (20408 bytes)
16: ...dely cultivated tree fruits. Table apples are of the species ''M. domestica'' or hybrids of it.
23: ... wild in the mountains of [[Central Asia]] in southern [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Tajikistan]],...
25: ...or this in older apple [[cultivar]]s. These and other ''Malus'' species have been used in some recent ...
27: ...the [[United States]] since the [[Immigration to the United States|arrival of Europeans]].
30: ...pples do not flower in tropical climates because they have a chilling requirement. - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
5: ...ve_name = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
6: common_name = the United Kingdom |
11: national_anthem = [[God Save the Queen]]<sup>3</sup> |
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom|None]]; [[English language|English...
17: ...[British monarchy|Queen]]<br>[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] | - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...ins widely spoken outside of the country, and is the official language of nearly all [[Central America...
12: ...al_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
13: national_anthem = ''[[Marcha Real]]'' |
19: ...>[[President of the Government of Spain|Pres. of the Gov.]] |
38: established_events = | - 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. - 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. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...th Night]], a holiday when gifts were exchanged. There are 364 days remaining (365 in [[leap year]]s).
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
10: *[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
13: *[[1700]] - [[Russia]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - Prague (7962 bytes)
12: ...rague.png|Map of the Czech Republic highlighting the Prague region]]
14: ...istics, however, that an additional 300,000 work there without having registered as residents.) Prague...
16: ...nd Cultural Organization|UNESCO]] list of [[world heritage site]]s.
20: ...al Europe north of the [[Alps]]. Prague was then the third-largest city in Europe.
24: ...,000. Most of the city's 50,000 [[Jew]]s died in the [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[genocide]] of [[World War II]].... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...aked between the [[26th century BC|2600 BC]] and the [[20th century BC|1900 BC]].
8: ...ry]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period referred to as India's "Golden Age".
11: ...y|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
14: ...the [[Vijayanagara Empire]], which declined with the 16th Century AD.
17: ...[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]] - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ...riginal [[paddlewheel]] from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. Right: detail of a steamer]]
3: ...Waverley|PS ''Waverley'']] leaving [[Dunoon]] on the [[Firth of Clyde]].]]
6: ...lakes and rivers, particularly [[riverboat]]s in the [[USA]]; '''steamship''' generally refers to stea...
8: ... [[Paddle steamer]]s have the prefix "'''PS'''". The term ''steamer'' is occasionally used, out of nos...
15: ...k exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up. - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ...]. He was the first person to [[circumnavigate]] the world twice, and went on to complete a third circ...
4: ... manager on [[Jamaica]], but he soon returned to the sea,
7: ...nish settlements in [[Peru]] before returning to the Caribbean.
9: ...ised to [[Manila]], [[Pulo Condore]], [[China]], the [[Spice Islands]], and [[New Holland (Australia)|...
11: ...ures Dampier returned to England in [[1691]] via the [[Cape of Good Hope]], penniless but in possessio... - 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}} - Praseodymium (9138 bytes)
1: ...-- Here is a table of data; skip past it to edit the text. -->
18: | [[Chemical series]]
54: | hexagonal
62: | 1204 [[Kelvin|K]] (1707.8 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
70: | [[Heat of vaporization]] - Centrifuge (2358 bytes)
3: ... a motor drives the rotary motion of the sample. There are many different kinds of centrifuges, often ...
7: English military engineer [[Benjamin Robins]] (1707-1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determ...
9: ...cromolecule]]s, allowed for the determination of their approximate
10: ...t]]s. Svedberg won the [[1926]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for his invention.
14: ...g biocompounds on the basis of molecular weight. These will tend to rotate at a slower rate than an ul... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ... Minor (Bach)|Mass in B Minor]] and the [[St. Matthew Passion]].
7: ...ch]] became important musicians and composers in their own right. (See [[Bach family]].)
11: ... sons were expected to be apprentices to their fathers, we can assume J. S. Bach began copying music a...
13: ...demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...n. This practical experience with the innards of the instrument would provide a unique counterpoint to... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...'' = F(''x''). He is credited with being one of the first to apply [[calculus]] to [[physics]].
5: ...st seventeen years of his life, during which time he produced almost half of his total output.
7: The [[asteroid]] [[2002 Euler]] is named in his honou...
10: ...ics he finally agreed and Euler began to study mathematics.
12: ...in the right eye due to excessive observation of the [[Sun]]. - Carolus Linnaeus (8550 bytes)
2: ...[[taxonomy]]. He is also considered one of the fathers of modern [[ecology]] (see [[Ecology (history)|...
5: ...[botany]] impressed a physician from his town and he was sent to study at [[Lund University]], transfe...
7: ...rote a short work on the subject that earned him the position of adjunct professor.
8: ...ft|Carl Linnaeus liked to wear a dress he got by the natives in Lapland]]
9: ...e result of this was the ''Flora Laponica'' published in [[1737]].
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