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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ... the [[House of Stuart]]; she was succeeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]...
10: ...ious coercive tactics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensur...
12: ...ho led the English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
15: ...r close friend and one of her most influential advisors. Jennings later married John Churchill (the fu...
17: ...however, declared her firm adherence to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continued to send her Catholic books... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...ho became the sole ruler upon her death. Popular histories usually know the joint reign as that of "[[...
11: ...s bore eight children, only Mary and her younger sister [[Anne of Great Britain|Anne]] survived into a...
13: ... her father married again in [[1673]], taking as his second wife the Catholic [[Mary of Modena]], also...
15: ...marriage, falsely assuming that it would improve his popularity amongst Protestants. The first cousins...
17: ... Dutch people, but her husband neglected or even mistreated her. William long maintained an affair wit... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...id sugar onto a cold surface. The resulting solid is amorphous, not crystaline like the sugar was orig...
3: ...be [[amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word...
5: The remainder of this article will be concerned with a specific type of...
9: ...perties lead to a great many uses of glass. Glass is, however, brittle and will break into sharp shard...
13: ...] ([[Silicon|Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), which is the same chemical compound found in [[quartz]], o... - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
10: ...nia]], [[List of Prime Ministers of Fiji|Prime Minister]] of [[Fiji]] (2000-present)
20: *[[Dennis Quaid|Quaid, Dennis]], actor
23: *[[Mary Quant|Quant, Mary]], (born 1934), British fashion designer
29: *[[Francis Quarles|Quarles, Francis]], (1592-1644), poet - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
8: ...[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
12: ...840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
13: ...([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubist]] artist - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 to 1699'''.
10: *[[1608]]-Popham Colony dissolved
11: *[[1608]]-[[France|French]] establish colony at [[Quebec]]
30: ...[[Roger Williams (theologian)|Roger Williams]] banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
32: *[[1636]]-[[Rhode Island Colony]] founded by Roger Williams - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...des [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbe...
6: ...ere, he obtained admission to the college of [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. The dean of the college at the...
8: ...sed with Locke and pressed him to become part of his retinue.
10: ...he household physician. In London, Locke resumed his medical studies, under the tutelage of [[Thomas S...
12: ...vived and prospered, crediting Locke with saving his life. - Dodo (9332 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[bird|Aves]]}}
9: ...authority | author = [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]] | date = 1760}}
15: ...d of the island of [[Mauritius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the gro...
20: ...e (9-inch) blackish hooked [[Beak|bill]] with reddish point, very small useless [[wing]]s, stout yello...
22: ...round-bound birds evolved to take advantage of an island [[ecology]] with no predators. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...was called ''New Year's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|...
9: *[[1438]] - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] is crowned King of [[Hungary]].
14: *[[1707]] - [[John V of Portugal|John V]] is crowned King of [[Portugal]]
15: ...scovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
16: ...eviously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published. - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...authorized by their national authorities, until this form of [[commerce raiding]] was outlawed in the ...
4: ...ance |date=2009-04-09 |accessdate=2009-04-09 |publisher=[[Open Democracy]]}}</ref>
7: ==History==
9: ...0px|Mosaic of a [[Trireme|Roman Trireme]] in [[Tunisia]].]]
10: ...t Rome|Romans]]. The island of [[Lemnos]] long resisted Greek influence and remained a haven for Thrac... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
2: ...r Henry Morgan''' (c. [[1635]] - [[August 25]], [[1688]]) was a [[privateer]] of Welsh birth, who made a...
4: ...when Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish shortly afterwards, Morgan was chosen by the buc...
6: ... claimed ignorance about this, whilst Morgan and his crew returned to their base at [[Port Royal]], Ja...
8: ...turn to Jamaica he was again reproved, but not punished by Modyford.
10: ...ounds. The fame of this brilliant exploit was tarnished by the habitual cruelty of Morgan's crews. - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ...in, and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman to explore or map parts of [[New Holland (Aus...
7: ...oast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] before returning to the ...
9: ...anila]], [[Pulo Condore]], [[China]], the [[Spice Islands]], and [[New Holland (Australia)|New Holland...
11: ...e of Good Hope]], penniless but in possession of his journals.
16: ...and of [[HMS Roebuck|HMS ''Roebuck'']] with a commission to explore Australia and New Guinea. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... was well known also for his many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a ...
9: ...to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife [[Mary Morrill]].
11: ...ne Child at Ecton; and over the next few years, this couple had three children, all of whom being half...
13: ...January 5]], [[1687]]), Joseph ([[February 5]], [[1688]]), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first...
21: ...rentice]] to his brother James, a printer who published the ''New England Courant''. - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
14: |population=(city) 416,474<br />(metropolis) 4,247,981
22: ... and commercial development. As a result, Atlanta is a common case study for college students who stud...
26: ...'s nicknames, "The Phoenix City", relates to its rise after the Civil War. The [[phoenix]] appears in...
28: ...uburbs OTP (Outside the Perimeter). The Perimeter is Atlanta's equivalent to the [[Capital Beltway]] a...
29: == History == - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...rs important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn...
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}} - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
1: {{History of Germany}}
5: ... territory of the empire originally included what is now [[Germany]], [[Austria]], the [[Czech Republi...
7: ...The [[History of Germany since 1945]] continues this page.
15: ...r of the [[Roman Empire]], giving way to the Romanisation of the left bank of the Rhine. Roman forts w...
17: ...s - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons, Frisians, Thuringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the ... - Lanthanum (10184 bytes)
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44: ... </td><td>solid ([[magnetism|_]])</td></tr>
46: ... </td><td>1193 [[Kelvin|K]] (1688 [[Fahrenheit|?F]])</td></tr>
60: ... colspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffbfff">'''Miscellaneous'''</th></tr> - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
1: {{History of Germany}}
5: ... territory of the empire originally included what is now [[Germany]], [[Austria]], the [[Czech Republi...
7: ...The [[History of Germany since 1945]] continues this page.
15: ...r of the [[Roman Empire]], giving way to the Romanisation of the left bank of the Rhine. Roman forts w...
17: ...s - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons, Frisians, Thuringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the ... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[bird|Aves]]}}
9: ...authority | author = [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]] | date = 1760}}
15: ...d of the island of [[Mauritius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the gro...
20: ...e (9-inch) blackish hooked [[Beak|bill]] with reddish point, very small useless [[wing]]s, stout yello...
22: ...round-bound birds evolved to take advantage of an island [[ecology]] with no predators. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...isbn=0340567511 | oclc=243883533}}</ref> [[File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Storming of...
6: ... christian fundamentalism of earlier centuries. This dream turned into a nightmare during the terror o...
13: ...b|250px|Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1700)]]
14: ...|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], English general.]]
15: ... of the [[Pacific Northwest]]; the coast of Japan is struck by a [[tsunami]].
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