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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region in north-ea... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
3: ...humb|150px|'''Anne''' <br><small>Queen of Great Britain and Ireland</small>]]
8: ...ceeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
10: ...] (which united England and Scotland into Great Britain) was a product of subsequent negotiations.
15: ...ta Maria|Queen Henrietta Maria]], and afterwards with her aunt, [[Henrietta Anne Stuart|Henrietta Anne...
22: ...hat is, one who believed that James II was the legitimate monarch), Mary II dismissed him from all his... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...s II of England|James II]]. Mary reigned jointly with her husband and first cousin, [[William III of E...
11: ...nly Mary and her younger sister [[Anne of Great Britain|Anne]] survived into adulthood.
15: ...falsely assuming that it would improve his popularity amongst Protestants. The first cousins Mary and ...
17: ...[[Elizabeth Villiers]], one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting.
20: ...lenged the boy's legitimacy, leading to a breach with her father. - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...rnicus]] in [[1543]], while others wish to extend it into the [[18th century]]. Nevertheless, the basi...
3: ...science was highly [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]]; at its end, science was [[mathematics|mathematical]], [...
7: ...oses in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differences.
9: ...ed in the modern world; there is no concern here with "other narratives" or alternate ways of knowing,...
11: ...of the causes of the revolution (Margolis, 2002). It may be summarized in the following lists of signi... - Comet (30542 bytes)
1: ....jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a white dust tail and blue gas tail (February 1997)]]
3: ...en [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and various [[mineral]] aggregates mixe...
9: ...an extend over 150 million km (1 [[Astronomical unit]]) or more.
11: ...om ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, it is known that their appearance have been noticed ...
13: ....png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]] - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...erifiable [[empirical knowledge]], a global community of [[scholar]]s, and a set of [[technique]]s for...
4: ...any place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of science.
6: ...conception). [[Technology]] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects a...
11: ...''is'', how it ''functions'', and whether it exhibits large-scale patterns and trends. The [[sociology...
15: ...ommunity and those in the social sciences or humanities (for example, the "[[Science wars]]"). - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ... its meetings. In [[1665]] he published a book entitled ''[[Micrographia]]'', which contained a number...
6: ...bservatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]] (which became known as 'Bedlam').
8: ...h the historian [[Lisa Jardine]] claims one portrait of [[John Ray]] represents Robert Hooke, and a se...
12: ...iece. It coils and uncoils with a natural periodicity, allowing for fine adjustment of the period of t...
14: ...x magnification, which far outstripped the capabilities of any previous instruments. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...classical mechanics]]. Newton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] ...
4: ...ht]] passed through a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Baco...
6: ... when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of ...
14: ...on was two years of age, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in the care of ...
19: ...ance cooled and Miss Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love, but N... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
3: ...called the '''Temple of Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''π...
9: ...ad charge of the sculptural decoration. The [[architect]]s were [[Iktinos]] and [[Kallikrates]]. Const...
11: ...o make the temple look even more symmetrical than it actually is.
13: ...er. The stylobate has an upward curvature towards its centre of 60 millimetres on the east and west en...
19: ...not known what was depicted on the northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]]. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...ety]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
9: ...mas Franklin, a blacksmith and farmer, and Jane White. His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in [[Nantuck...
13: ... ([[August 23]], [[1685]]), Ann ([[January 5]], [[1687]]), Joseph ([[February 5]], [[1688]]), and Joseph...
23: ...with a great deal of savvy about cultivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young...
25: ...ssue the famous ''[[Poor Richard's Almanack]]'' (with content both original and borrowed) on which a l... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], sea...
8: ...mes the site of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken).
11: *[[1914]] - [[Giuseppe Mercalli]], Italian volcanologist (b. [[1850]])
13: ...off in pursuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the first [[United States]] air-combat mission in history.
14: *[[1918]] - The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] establishes [[time zone]... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
6: ...ymouth Colony]] sign a peace treaty with [[Massasoit]] of the [[Wampanoag]]s.
10: *[[1765]] - The [[British Parliament]] passes the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp...
17: ...rld War II]]: [[Germany]] takes [[Memel]] from [[Lithuania]].
18: ...[[Grand Coulee Dam]] begins to generate [[electricity]].
19: *[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: In the [[Mediterranean sea]], [[Regia Marina]] defeats [[Royal N... - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
6: ...[duality]] that we now identify as [[astrology]]. It is important to recognize that before about [[175...
8: ...scientists, astronomers cannot directly interact with the [[celestial body|celestial bodies]], and so ...
18: ... and classified stars by [[Apparent magnitude|magnitude]].
24: |Reitererated the heliocentric model of universe.
27: ...his Persian astronomer gave the first extant exposition of the whole system of plane and spherical [[t... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
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11: ...<br/><small>''The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power''</small>
14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra)
19: | '''[[Capital]]'''
20: ...Istanbul|İstanbul]] ([[Constantinople]]/[[Asitane]]/[[Konstantiniyye]] ) - Ur (11926 bytes)
1: ...5|E|}}, and named Tell el-Mukayyar [1], near the city of [[Nasiriyah]] south of [[Baghdad]].
3: ... [[bitumen]], in the upper stage they are joined with [[Mortar (masonry)|mortar]].
5: ...thumb|350px|left|Ur seen across the Royal tombs, with the Great Ziggurat in the background, January 17...
9: ...erian king list|Early Dynastic Period III]], the city was again thriving. Ur by this time was consider...
13: ...t the following second dynasty, during which the city was in eclipse. - Silicon (13233 bytes)
10: {{Elementbox_density_gpcm3nrt | 2.33 }}
11: {{Elementbox_densityliq_gpcm3mp | 2.57 }}
12: {{Elementbox_meltingpoint | k=1687 | c=1414 | f=2577 }}
16: {{Elementbox_heatcapacity_jpmolkat25 | 19.789 }}
44: ...ith [[reverse leakage current]] flow, and because its [[passivation|native oxide]] forms better semico... - Physics (25628 bytes)
4: ...ology]], [[chemistry]], [[geology]], etc.) deals with particular types of material systems that obey t...
6: ...stract patterns that need not have any bearing on it. However, the distinction is not always clear-cut...
12: ..., most individual physicists have specialized in either [[theoretical physics]] or [[experimental phys...
15: ...n go in the wrong direction; this is one of the criticisms that have been levelled against [[M-theory]...
19: ...asically correct, within a certain domain of validity. For instance, the theory of [[classical mechani...
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