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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]], [... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...stria]], wife of [[Louis XVI]] and mother of [[Louis XVII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the ...
4: ...nd ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a s...
6: ...nia was brought up in the company of her closest sister, Maria-Carolina (two years older) and brother,...
9: ... asked him what he would like as a reward, Mozart is said to have responded by saying he would like th...
11: ...rince of [[Parma]] and Maria-Antonia's favourite sister, Maria-Carolina, was married to King Ferdinand... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...h century by the Moors. The Crusades brought Turkish carpets to all of Europe, where they were primar...
3: ...d to a floor and the latter a floor covering that is loose-laid, most often for decorative purposes. ...
10: ...ven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[damask]], list, [[haircloth]], and [[ingrain]] (aka double clot...
12: ... a sturdy fabric such as burlap. This type of rug is now generally made as a [[handicraft]].
14: ...t a perpendicular angle. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of three knot types (... - 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... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ...sh;[[1801]]) [[President of the United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth Preside...
22: ...gland]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...t, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: ...[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, Joh... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands]]).
5: ...e Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal declined.
9: == History ==
10: {{Main|History of Portugal}}
15: ...Lusit⮩a" paragraph 1}} The [[Conii]] were established in southern Portugal for a long time. The [[Ce... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
3: ...lateau on the west bank of the [[Nile River]], it is the largest single-stone statue on Earth.
9: ...ching from [[Memphis, Egypt|Memphis]], the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]]...
11: ... [[1925]], to the great pleasure of its numerous visitors.
15: ...inx has the head of a man, and therefore the name is not technically accurate.
18: ... Sphinx", a nod to its Greek namesake, although this phrase should not be confused with the original [... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
33: ISOCode = US-VT |
36: ...coast]]line along the [[Atlantic Ocean]], Vermont is noted mainly for the [[Green Mountains]] in the w...
38: ...ier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]].
41: ...es]], [[Vermont towns|List of Vermont towns]], [[List of mountains in Vermont|Vermont mountains]]
42: ...ses 9249 square miles (23,955 km?) and water comprises 366 square miles (948 km?), making it the 43rd ... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...n compensation for its loss of Florida to the British.
5: ...e part of the North American portion of the [[British Empire]].
9: ...ngly, [[French and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian allies, following ...
13: ...es Wolfe]] defeated a French garrison led by [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France...
15: ...; creating the [[Cajun]] population – but this would not be possible in Canada. - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...helion|aphelia]] of which may be many times more distant than [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]]'s orbit. Often ...
5: ... are [[temperature|cool]] enough that [[water]] exists in a [[solid]] (rather than [[gas]]eous) [[phas...
7: == Physical characteristics ==
9: ... solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 50km across, the coma may be ...
11: ...lennia. One very famous old recording of a comet is the appearance of Halley's Comet on the [[Bayeux ... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...[[pronunciation]] information, word derivations, histories, or [[etymology|etymologies]], illustration...
5: ...''(See [[collation]] for more information on linguistic sorting).''
8: ...ng the 2000 most frequently used words in the English language).
11: ...dictionaries, including bilingual, multilingual, historical, biographical, and geographical dictionari...
14: ...phabet|Roman]] script, entry words in the non-English language may either be printed and sorted in the... - 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 - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
1: This is a '''list of inventors'''.
3: ''See also:'' [[list of scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline o...
5: ==Alphabetical list==
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
23: ...Baird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]] - 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...
18: ...[[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]], were burned in 1755.
20: ...e (9-inch) blackish hooked [[Beak|bill]] with reddish point, very small useless [[wing]]s, stout yello... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
1: ...c plates]] into which the Earth's [[lithosphere]] is divided. Events that occur at plate boundaries a...
3: == Characteristics ==
4: ...jpg|thumb|250px|Children near the ruins of the Pakistan Earthquake]]Earthquakes occur every day on Ear...
5: ... of life, but for most of the earthquakes shaking is the dominant and most widespread cause of damage.
7: ...|thumb|200px|none|Damage from the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]].]] - Brine shrimp (4112 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Crustacea]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''pollicaris'''''}}
12: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Species}}
13: ''Artemia franciscana''<br>
14: ''Artemia gracilis''<br> - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...rated when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[land...
4: ...ngth]] (often hundreds of kilometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming...
6: ...e term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[oceanographer|oceanographers]].
10: ...se is an undersea earthquake. An earthquake which is too small to create a tsunami by itself may trigg...
12: ...es are particularly effective in generating tsunamis, and occur where denser oceanic plates slip under... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...the autocracy of Augustus, the pre-Augustan state is conventionally described as the [[Roman Republic]...
5: ...ern Roman Empire]]. The end of the Western Empire is traditionally set in [[476]], when [[Odovacar]] d...
7: ...ire]], which are used interchangably throughout this article to mean the same as Roman Empire.
9: ... one thousand years after they were created, and displays of imperial majesty were common from the ear...
11: ...tsar|czars]]), and the [[German Empire]] (see [[Kaiser]]). See also [[Roman culture]]. - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
1: ...dian War]] battle, see [[Battle of the Wilderness 1755]].''
8: ...ption=''Battle of the Wilderness'' by Kurz and Allison.
12: |result=Inconclusive (Grant continued his offensive)
24: ...[Battle of Chancellorsville]] in May [[1863]]. It is often said that the Wilderness and Chancellorsvil...
26: ...k at Chancellorsville. But Grant chose to set up his camps to the west of the old battle site before m... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...mage:captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance...
3: ...], [[1779]]) was a [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[explorers|explorer]] and [[navigator]]. He m...
7: ...laborer on a farm. As a child, Cook moved with his family to [[Great Ayton]].
8: ...r]] to start again at the lowest level in the British [[Royal Navy]].
12: ...allowing [[James_Wolfe | General Wolfe]] to make his famous stealth attack on the [[Plains of Abraham]...
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