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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...lative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Louis XIV of France]].''
6: ...rchs agreed to the Pragmatic Sanction when it was issued, on Charles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Au...
8: ...o was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him, with 6 daughte...
12: ...37-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the title [[List of rulers of Austria|Archduchess of Austria]], [...
14: ...40-1741). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the title [[List of rulers of Austria|Archduchess of Austria]], [... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...o.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[Jul...
5: ...ilosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets o...
7: ...of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...losophiques'' (1746), and he presently added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...egitimate daughter of Judith van Hard, a Dutch Jewish [[courtesan]] known as "Youle." Her father was r...
8: ...or [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of books and plays throughout her life.
10: ...[Lou Tellegen]]). She married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala (aka [[Jacques Damala]]) in London in...
12: ...ll. The latter included ''Sarah Bernhardt ࠂelle-Isle'' ([[1912]]), a film about her daily life at ho...
16: ...he is buried in [[Le P貥 Lachaise Cemetery]], Paris, France. - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...). He also served as President of the [[1787]] [[History of the United States Constitution|Constitutio...
21: ...as [[monarch]]s and [[dictator]]s do). This established an important precedent of [[republic]]an [[dem...
24: ...s birth, hence the difference in his birth year. His birthplace was Pope's Creek Plantation, south of ...
26: ...smallpox]], although his face was scarred by the disease. He was initiated as a [[Freemasonry|Freemaso...
29: [[Image:Washington 1772.JPG|thumb|right|275px|This, the earliest portrait of Washington, was painted... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Madison
9: | date of birth=[[March 16]], [[1751]]
14: | wife=[[Dolley Madison]]
18: ...pers]], and is traditionally regarded as the ''[[List of people known as the father or mother of somet...
21: ...nia]] to give their northwestern territories (consisting of most of modern-day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] ... - 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 - January 17 (12233 bytes)
1: '''January 17''' is the 17th day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calen...
6: ...tting the scene for the second phase of the [[English Civil War]].
7: ...e of Hanover|Hanoverian]] army at [[Falkirk]] in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the t...
9: ...er Brigadier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarle...
13: ...ted Kingdom|British]] force defeats a large [[Dervish]] army at the [[Battle of Abu Klea]] in the [[Su... - 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...
21: ...rentice]] to his brother James, a printer who published the ''New England Courant''.
23: ...m for agitating for a variety of local reforms. His intelligence combined with a great deal of savvy ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...rs important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
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) - Nickel (13955 bytes)
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15: ...Name]], [[List of elements by symbol|Symbol]], [[List of elements by number|Number]]
59: |solid ([[magnetism|ferromagnetic]])
82: !colspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0"|'''Miscellaneous'''
108: ..." align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0"|'''Most stable isotopes''' - Timeline of chemical element discovery (10490 bytes)
1: [[Image:Chemistry_flask.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
3: ...ce time immemorial. Most have been discovered in historic times.
16: ...hristian زsted in 1825 (see [[Aluminium#History|history of aluminium]])
19: *[[1250]] - [[Arsenic]] discovered by [[Albertus Magnus]]
25: *[[1526]] - [[Zinc]] discovered by [[Paracelsus]] - Centrifuge (2358 bytes)
3: ...erent kinds of centrifuges, often for very specialised purposes.
5: == History and predecessors ==
7: ...glish military engineer [[Benjamin Robins]] (1707-1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine d...
9: The [[ultracentrifuge]] is a device invented in [[1925]] by [[Theodor Svedbe...
10: ...on the [[1926]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for his invention. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...lightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came fro...
10: ...t]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...considerable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...r, a [[Protestant]] girl from a poor family, but his father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lett... - 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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