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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explore...
75: *[[Alexandra David-Néel]], (1868-1969), French explorer, visited [[...
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
104: ...s Republican Party|Republican]] nominee for [[President of the United States]]
129: ...[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
19: ...; instead, she quickly defected to the invader's side. James attempted to flee the realm on [[11 Decem...
22: ...our, and the guards at the royal palaces were forbidden to salute her husband.
24: ...licly supported William's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law,...
26: ...enacted the [[Act of Settlement 1701]], which provided that, failing the issue of Princess Anne and of...
28: ...ress when her father died later in [[1701]]. She did not, however, endear herself to her half-brother,... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...wield actual power during most of her reign. She did, however, govern the realm when her husband was a...
17: ...erlands]], where she lived with her husband. She did not enjoy a happy marriage; her three pregnancies...
20: ...e Queen's stillborn baby. Although there was no evidence to support the allegation, Mary publicly chal...
22: ...ple's confidence in James stood so low that they did not attempt to save their King. On [[11 December]...
24: ...g even after his wife's death. Although some individuals proposed to make her the sole ruler, Mary, re... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...osophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not u...
3: ... change. But at that time the word "[[science]]" did not have its current meaning, and "scientist" had...
31: ...far to fill fourteen centuries, and the other candidates are few:
40: ...d been accepted by all but a few astronomers. The idea that the earth moved around the sun, as advocat...
44: ...Laws_of_Motion|laws of motion]] were to be the solid foundation of mechanics; his [[gravity|law of uni... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...omets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and v...
5: ...[[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
9: ... rather than an orbital trajectory. While the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is gen...
11: ...dually vanish out of sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or...
17: ...ons]] fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and molecules. In these coll... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...e evaluation of [[knowledge]]. This change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are...
11: ...emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ... some fields of [[study]] which are no longer considered scientific). An account of the development o...
27: ...ommunicated across generations with much greater fidelity. Combined with the [[Origins of agriculture|...
31: ...my]] was practiced in several civilizations. Considerable observation of macrobiotic flora and fauna ... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hooke 2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
4: ...n [[1660]], he discovered [[Hooke's law]] of [[solid mechanics|elasticity]], which describes the linea...
14: ...epiece, a field lens and an objective). While he did give much advice on new microscope designs to the...
16: ...thematician [[Girolamo Cardano]] had proposed the idea about a century earlier and may or may not have...
20: ...bert Hooke and [[Isaac Newton]] entertained a considerable mutual dislike for each other. They fell ou... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...his [[Newton's laws of motion|laws of motion]], laid the groundwork for [[classical mechanics]]. Newto...
4: ...heliocentrism]]. Newton is also credited with providing mathematical substantiation for [[Kepler's law...
14: ...o said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three months be...
19: ...corded 'sweethearts' and never married. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Newton.html]
23: ...], but Newton preferred to read the more advanced ideas of modern philosophers such as [[Ren頄escarte... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: ...under the general supervision of the sculptor [[Phidias]], who also had charge of the sculptural decor...
13: ...ast and west ends, and of 110 millimetres on the sides.
19: ...t is not known what was depicted on the northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]]...
21: ...stival honouring Athena. On the fourth, eastern, side was a frieze showing all the gods of the Greek [...
31: ... of war they were willing to demolish them to provide materials for walls and fortifications. A [[mina... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: ...jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
13: ... ([[August 23]], [[1685]]), Ann ([[January 5]], [[1687]]), Joseph ([[February 5]], [[1688]]), and Joseph...
30: [[Image:B_franklin_4.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
32: ===Middle years===
36: ...18 years. This lucrative business arrangement provided leisure time for study, and in a few years he h... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], sea...
16: *[[1932]] - [[Sydney Harbour Bridge]] opens.
28: ...ately to cease its military action and withdraw [[IDF|its forces]] from all [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] terri...
37: ...tial election on March 20. See [[3-19 Shooting Incident]].
43: *[[1813]] - [[David Livingstone]], missionary and explorer (d. [[1873... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a...
50: *1912 - [[Wilfrid Brambell]], Irish actor (d. [[1985]])
64: *1933 - [[Abolhassan Banisadr]], President of Iran
96: *[[1687]] - [[Jean Baptiste Lully]], French [[composer]] ...
112: *[[1999]] - [[David Strickland]], American actor (b. [[1969]]) - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
2: ...cus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
6: ...les of the gods, led to a [[duality]] that we now identify as [[astrology]]. It is important to recogn...
36: ...Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ([[1687]]), containing the "[[Newton's laws of motion]]",...
39: ... calculate the [[Chandrasekhar limit]], which he did, without a calculator, on a boat journey.
42: ...ionship between luminosty and periodicity in Cepheids -- leading to [[Ejnar Hertzsprung|Hertzprung]]'s... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892...
59: *[[John Bainbridge]] ([[Britain]], [[1582]] – [[1643]])
102: *[[Margaret Burbidge]] ([[Britain]], [[1919]] – )
194: *[[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]] ([[Cnidus]], circa [[408 BC]] – circa [[347 BC]])
198: *[[David Fabricius]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1564]] – [[... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
95: *[[Aristides (Apologist)|Aristides]], (fl. 2nd century)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{f...
154: *[[Basilides]], (c. 117-138){{fn|C}}
159: *[[David Baumgardt]], (1890-1963){{fn|R}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
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45: ...ht of its power, it included [[Anatolia]], the [[Middle East]], part of [[North Africa]], and south-ea...
53: ...s]] in the north. The Empire was situated in the middle of East and West and interacted throughout its...
66: ...tion of the Armenians]] is today viewed as [[genocide]] by most historians. Militarily the Ottomans ma...
76: ...n Europe that the citizens of the Ottoman Empire did. - Ur (11926 bytes)
1: ...] rivers on the [[Persian Gulf]] and close to [[Eridu]]. Because of marine regression, the remains are...
9: ... city was again thriving. Ur by this time was considered sacred to [[Nanna]], the [[moon]] [[god]] in ...
15: ... [[irrigation]]. His code of laws (a fragment was identified in [[Istanbul]] in [[1952]]) is one of th...
19: ...II of Babylon]]. The last Babylonian king, [[Nabonidus]] of Babylonia improved the ziggurat. However t...
22: ...]]ns, who settled there around [[900 BC]]. The Kasidim could also refer to the [[Kassites]] who were p... - Silicon (13233 bytes)
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9: {{Elementbox_phase | [[solid]] }}
12: {{Elementbox_meltingpoint | k=1687 | c=1414 | f=2577 }}
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44: ...nt]] flow, and because its [[passivation|native oxide]] forms better semiconductor/dielectric interfac... - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ...y the behavior and properties of [[matter]] in a wide variety of contexts, ranging from the sub-nuclea...
4: ...physics|laws of physics]]. Physics is sometimes said to be the "fundamental science", because each of ...
12: ...ve been successful in both forms of research <sup id="fn_1_back">[[#fn_1|1]]</sup>.
15: ...tating the formulation of new theories. Likewise, ideas arising from theory often inspire new experime...
19: ...] accurately describes the motion of objects, provided they are much larger than [[atom]]s and moving ...
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