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- Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...es plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
2: ...r]], added by 16th century Italian architectural theory and practice.)
4: ...emis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]].
5: ...et the [[torus]] (enriched with interlaced guilloche) it stands upon.]]
6: ...reek Ionic order was eventually reintroduced, in the later [[18th century]] [[Greek Revival]], it conv... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
7: *[[Charles d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
18: ...die, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
14: ...[Algonquian]] word ''aroughcoune'', "he who scratches with his hands". Raccoons are intelligent omnivo...
16: ...be albino. The characteristic eye colorings make the animal look like it is wearing a "bandit's mask".
18: ...od; some studies find that raccoons engage in it when water is not available.
20: ...litter will be weaned and will begin to fend for themselves. In severe winter climates, raccoons may b... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3:
5: ...[[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing G...
7: ...l the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...tly added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]]. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...nment and not a single person was executed during her reign.
7: ...by political opponents to challenge her right to the throne.
9: ...rom her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and vivacity.
11: ... found herself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress. - 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.]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
18: ...[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]).
22: ...], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...ions of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: ...ional]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]].
28: ...usness to be a handicap in his political career. These qualities were particularly manifested at a lat... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[April 28]], [[1758]]
18: ... of the [[United States]]. He is the namesake of the [[Monroe Doctrine]], although it was his [[United...
22: ...f William and Mary]], fought with distinction in the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law in [[Fred...
24: ...sident [[Thomas Jefferson]], he helped negotiate the [[Louisiana Purchase]].
28: ...ial election, 1820|re-elected in 1820]]. Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]] veteran to se... - Wolverine (3928 bytes)
13: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ...d, the [[Old World]] form ''Gulo gulo gulo'' and the [[New World]] form ''G. g. luscus''.
17: ...n known (and been filmed) to capture kills from other predators, such as [[polar bear]]s or a [[wolf]]...
19: ...ally male wolverines, require large home ranges. The wolverine is still trapped for its fur in some pa...
21: ...ing adult size within their first year, which is their first of up to 13. - Hippopotamus (6778 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ... and three (or four) recently extinct species in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Hippopotamidae]].
17: ...gainst other males. Male hippos challenge one another with threatening gapes.
19: ...thiopia]], west to [[Gambia]] as well as in [[Southern Africa]] ([[Botswana]], [[Republic of South Afr...
22: ...he higher values probably refer to short bursts. They can move at 8 km/h in water. - Giraffe (8140 bytes)
12: ...uthor=[[Linnaeus (taxonomy) | Linnaeus]] | date=[[1758]]}}
14: ...alis'') is an [[even-toed ungulate]] [[mammal]], the tallest of all land living [[animal]] [[species]]...
16: ...ng only of the giraffe and its closest relative, the [[okapi]].
18: There are nine generally accepted [[subspecies]], dif...
20: ... deep red and may also cover the legs. Range: northeastern Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia. - Vermont (39851 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Green Mountain State |
30: HighestElev = 1,339 |
36: ...he [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Quebec]] to the north.
38: ...tal is [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]...
42: ...m?), making it the 43rd largest in land area and the 47th in water area. - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...siana in compensation for its loss of Florida to the British.
5: ...and became part of the North American portion of the [[British Empire]].
9: .... The prior three wars, fought more as secondary theatres to European conflicts, resulted in little te...
13: ...garrison led by [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's capital.
15: ...ions in [[Acadia]] to Louisiana – creating the [[Cajun]] population – but this would not b... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ...hile a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was attacked in [[India]].
3: ...3), not the nine-year North American conflict or the Indian [[campaign]]s which lasted 15 years (inclu...
5: ...e fighting between Prussia and Austria is called the [[Silesian Wars|3rd Silesian War]].
8: ...[[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]] in order to rebuild her [[Army|military forces]] and to forge new [[Mili...
10: ...his allowed Britain to focus her soldiers towards her colonies. - 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]]) - Human (48024 bytes)
2: ...age of a man and a woman,<br> sent to space with the [[Pioneer 11]] mission}}
14: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
21: ...o the superfamily of [[Hominoidea]], with all of the [[apes]]: [[chimpanzee]]s, [[gorilla]]s, [[orangu...
24: ... and [[introspection]]. A concept current within the [[scientific community]] is that [[human evolutio...
26: <!-- this paragraph is is about the mind and its products --> - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
1: ..., is still remembered for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."]]
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns ev...
6: *[[1702]] - [[Queen Anne's War]] (War of the Spanish Succession) begins
10: *[[1713]] - Queen Anne's War ends with the [[Treaty of Utrecht (1713)|Treaty of Utrecht]]
17: ...begins with the preaching of [[Jonathan Edwards (theology)|Jonathan Edwards]] - Dodo (9332 bytes)
1: ... | color=pink | name=Dodo}}<br />{{StatusExtinct|when=[[1681]]}}
12: ...| author=[[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
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... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ... source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes|Stephen II]].
6: ...rovince'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
7: ...overeign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]).
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small>
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