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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
6: ...es' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...hood. She made him co-regent of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the power to her...
26: ...of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antonie (1755-1793); married [[Louis XVI of France|HM King Loui...
29: ...t, leaving her to learn the job on her own. Additionally, the army was weak and the treasury depleted...
31: The [[War of the Austrian Succession]] began with [[Frederick II of Prussia]] invadin... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ... guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... Hofburg Palace in [[Vienna]] on [[2 November]] [[1755]]. She was christened Maria-Antonia-Josepha-Johan...
13: ...red as child, Maria-Antonia had little real education. She was flighty, artistic and read almost nothi...
22: ...lection of gems was valued at approximately 2 million [[livre]]s. Marie-Antoinette then received King ...
27: ...nt back to [[Austria]]. The young dauphine's position was not helped by the fact that she had earned t... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...e not commonly used on the floor in European interiors until the 18th century. The hand-knotted pile ...
3: ... estate and home improvement industries a distinction is made between carpet (or carpeting) and rug. ...
16: ... 1812 in France and c. 1825 in England. The addition of steam power in the mid-19th century further i...
19: ...ompositions include highly illusionistic, 3-dimensional flowers. Patterns for tiled (composed of a se...
21: ...om the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s invention called the "nipper". - George Washington (29551 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
14: | place of death=[[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]], [[Virginia]]
19: ... United States Constitution|Constitutional Convention]].
21: ...gures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he voluntarily relinquished power ...
24: ...irth year. His birthplace was Pope's Creek Plantation, south of [[Colonial Beach, Virginia|Colonial Be... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
20: ==Biography==
22: ...r, a farmer, also named John, was a fourth-generation descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[...
24: ...s undertook to write out, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the...
26: ...4]]–[[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. The... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...[[Atlantic Ocean]] to the west and south. In addition, Portugal includes several [[island]] territorie...
5: ...witnessed a constant flow of different [[civilization]]s during the past 3100 years. [[Iberians|Iberia...
7: ...equent entry in the [[EEC]] (today's [[European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social...
15: ...ginians]] occupied the Iberian coasts. In this period several small tribes occupied the territory, the...
17: ..., a process of [[Culture of Ancient Rome|Romanization]] was carried out, leading [[Lusitania]] to gain... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
7: ==Description==
9: ...ne]], with the face of a man and the body of a [[lion]]. It is 57 metres (260 feet) long, 6 m (20 ft) ...
11: ...817]] that the first modern dig, supervised by [[Giovanni Battista Caviglia|Captain Caviglia]], uncove...
15: ... the legendary Greek creature with the body of a lion and the head of a woman, but the Egyptian Sphinx...
18: The Great Sphinx is an international symbol of mystery and controversy. It is the w... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = VT |
36: ...nks 45th in land area (24,923km?), and its population (608,827) ranks as the second smallest of the fi...
38: ...and after the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. Famous for its scenery, [[dairy]] prod...
42: Vermont is located in the New England region in the [[eastern United States]] and comprises 9...
44: ...ont from New York and Canada in the northwest portion of the state. The state's greatest length, from ... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...d Canada while Spain gained Louisiana in compensation for its loss of Florida to the British.
5: ...British and became part of the North American portion of the [[British Empire]].
9: ...nd [[King George's War]] ([[1744]]-[[48]]). The prior three wars, fought more as secondary theatres to...
13: ... Ticonderoga]], and against the [[Braddock Expedition]] and British victories at [[Fortress Louisbourg...
15: ...o Louisiana – creating the [[Cajun]] population – but this would not be possible in Canada... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and various [[mineral]] aggregates mixed in.
5: ...onsisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; the outer edges of su...
9: ...an the Sun, and the tails can extend over 150 million km (1 [[Astronomical unit]]) or more.
11: ...o be visible with the naked eye. Before the invention of the telescope, comets seemed to appear out of...
15: ... objects known to exist in the solar system. The Giotto probe found that [[Comet Halley]]'s nucleus re... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...s, usage guidance, and examples in sentences. Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a bo...
5: ...ctionaries. ''(See [[collation]] for more information on linguistic sorting).''
8: ...is called a [[minimizing dictionary]] (e.g. a dictionary containing the 2000 most frequently used word...
10: ==Special-purpose dictionaries==
11: ...l, historical, biographical, and geographical dictionaries. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ...[[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...6]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ...[[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
31: *[[Aetion]] ([[4th century BC]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...entions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
23: ...ird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]]
25: ...[Trevor Baylis]], (1937- ) — [[clockwork radio]]
56: ...ullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
63: ...ph Day]] --(1855-1946) Two Stroke Internal Combustion Engine - Dodo (9332 bytes)
2: ...mage = [[Image:ExtinctDodoBird.jpeg|200px]] | caption = }}
12: {{Taxobox_section_binomial_parens | color = pink | binomial_name =...
17: ==Description==
18: ...[[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]], were burned in 1755.
20: Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]]... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
1: ...; the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called [[intrapla...
5: ... failure (e.g. [[earthquake liquefaction|liquefaction]], [[landslide]]), and [[fire]] or a release of ...
9: ...:EarthquakeFreewayCa1989.jpg|thumb|200px|none|Section of collapsed freeway after the 1989 [[Loma Priet...
11: ...cus is known as the "[[hypocenter]]" and the location on the surface directly above it is the "[[epice...
13: ...sunamis, either as a direct result of the deformation of the sea bed due to the earthquake, or as a re... - Brine shrimp (4112 bytes)
2: ... image = [[Image:Artemia_salina.jpg|175px]] | caption = ''Artemia salina''}}
12: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Species}}
27: ...rst discovered in [[Lymington]], [[England]] in [[1755]]. There are mixed views on whether all brine shr...
29: ...in scientific research, including [[Space exploration|space experiments]].
31: ... [[School Biology experiments and demonstrations|biology experiment in school]] is to investigate the ... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ... a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
6: ...sort of cresting waves that are formed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people are more famil...
10: ...uch as an [[earthquake]], [[volcano|volcanic eruption]], [[landslide]] or [[meteorite impact]]. Howeve...
12: ...r continental plates in a process known as subduction.
14: ...oor. Similarly, a violent submarine volcanic eruption can uplift the water column and generate a tsuna... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...acy of Augustus, the pre-Augustan state is conventionally described as the [[Roman Republic]], since t...
5: ... Empire]]. The end of the Western Empire is traditionally set in [[476]], when [[Odovacar]] deposed th...
7: ... by historians to distinguish various semantic periods or eras. Such names include [[Byzantine Empire]...
9: ...orical forms continued until the [[Byzantine]] period, more than one thousand years after they were cr...
11: ...or states and other entities with imperial pretensions, including the [[Frankish]] kingdom, the [[Holy... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
1: ...dian War]] battle, see [[Battle of the Wilderness 1755]].''
8: |caption=''Battle of the Wilderness'' by Kurz and Allison...
24: ... Brock Road on the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] army's left flank.
26: ...battle site before moving southward. Unlike the Union army of a year before, Grant had no desire to fi...
30: ...left flank, and Hill on the right, clashed with Union soldiers. - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...es Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
5: ==Introduction==
8: ...et but declined the command of his own collier in 1755 on the eve of the [[Seven Years War]] to start ag...
12: ... [[Newfoundland]], which brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
14: ... of his explorations and going beyond the instructions given by the [[Admiralty]].
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