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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...cle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fict...
28: ...[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast...
30: ...st Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other places
31: *[[Nicolas Baudin]] - [[18th century]] [[France|French]] ex...
38: ... - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
18: *[[Jakob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...[April 15]], [[1683]]/[[1684]]–[[May 17]],[[1727]]) was the second wife of [[Peter I of Russia|Pet...
5: ... city, she was captured and forced to work in the laundry of the regiment which captured her.
7: Later she was sent to, and became the mistress of, P...
17: ...he first royal owner of the Sarskoje Selo estate, later renamed [[Tsarskoye Selo]].
20: ...o ruler Prince [[Alexander Menshikov]] [[1725]]-[[1727]]''}} - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...Peterhof]] and [[Tsarskoye Selo]]. The [[Winter Palace]] and the [[Smolny]] Cathedral remain the chief...
9: ..., German and Swedish, and could converse in these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her ...
11: ...er beloved sister Anne, her only remaining near relation, the princess found herself at the age of eig...
13: ...red to be her lover. The [[Dolgorukov]]s, who supplanted Menshikov and hated the memory of Peter the G...
17: == Palace Revolution of 1741 == - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia]]
13: | place of death=[[New York City]]
22: ...urg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]...
24: ...displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with [[Robert R. Livingston]] and under the d...
28: ... election, 1820|re-elected in 1820]]. Monroe, the last American [[Revolutionary War]] veteran to serve... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politician
7: ...nder Nikolaevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich]] (born 1923)
12: ...ander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
21: ...i]] (1885-1946), Japanese lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines
31: ...onal Basketball Association|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
5: Shortcuts to highly popular [[painter]]s:
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [...
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impress...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]] - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
1: ...av Carl Larsson 1897.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Carl Larsson]], ''Crayfishing'', watercolor, 1897]]
3: ...aper. Others include [[papyrus]], bark papers, [[plastic]]s, [[leather]], [[fabric]], wood, and [[canv...
6: ...]] and the technology spread to [[Italy]] decades later. Some of the oldest paper manufactures include...
10: ...inting using pigments in a water medium on wet [[plaster]]. One well-known example of buon fresco is t...
16: ...] ([[1599]]-[[1641]]), [[Thomas Gainsborough]] ([[1727]]-[[1788]]), and [[John Constable]] ([[1776]]-[[1... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
14: ...nt of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
20: ...) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
22: *[[Steve Baer]] - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
23: *[[John Logie Baird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]] - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
4: ...nd not added by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in the [[13th century]].
6: ...nciples of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular momentum]]. Finally, he studied the speed of sou...
19: ...thecary]], [[William Clarke (apothecary)|William Clarke]] and eventually became engaged to the apothec...
23: ... closed down as a precaution against the [[Great Plague]]. For the next two years Newton worked at hom... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: ...66]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman Empire]].
8: *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surr...
11: ...1793]] - [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland]].
12: *[[1815]] - [[Lord Byron]] marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, [[Seaham]], [[County Durham]].
15: ...[[1860]] - The discovery of the planet [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] was announced at a meeting of the [[... - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
9: The skyscraper first emerged in the land-strapped areas of [[New York City]] and [[Chica...
11: ...m curtain wall for tall systems of glass that are laterally supported by these skeletal frames. Specia...
19: ... the [[CN Tower]], [[TV masts]], bridges, or oil platforms.
30: |2||[[Petronas Tower 1]]||[[Kuala Lumpur]]||452 m||1,483 ft||88||1998||
32: |3||[[Petronas Tower 2]]||Kuala Lumpur||452 m||1,483 ft||88||1998 - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ... the greatest of all [[writer]]s in the [[English language]], as well as one of the world's pre-eminen...
4: ...nd the world. Shakespeare was among the very few playwrights who have excelled in both [[tragedy]] and...
6: ...hronology of Shakespeare plays|chronology of the plays]] attributed to him are often uncertain. His pr...
8: ... the many [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
12: ...ee that William Shakespeare{{fn|1}}—actor, playwright and poet—was one individual whose li... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemis...
18: *[[Joseph Black]], (1728-1799), chemist
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
43: *[[Davorin Dolar]], (born 1921), chemist - March 20 (10075 bytes)
7: ...Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of [[England]].
11: ...[[Paris]] after escaping from [[Elba]] with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around ...
15: ...ctional Facility|Sing Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[elec...
16: ...ister Crowley]] invokes [[Horus]] in Egypt and declares the start of the New Aeon known as the Aeon Of...
17: ...unded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ... [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteratio...
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
20: *[[Yousef Alavi]]
29: ...nderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
23: *[[V. Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]])
28: *[[Lawrence Aller]]
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] – [[1875]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
7: *[[Nicola Abbagnano]], (1901-1990)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
31: *[[Rodolphus Agricola]], (1443-1485){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202) - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3:
5: ...]. He was completely [[blindness|blind]] for the last seventeen years of his life, during which time ...
10: ...es and respected his family. When Daniel and Nikolaus Bernoulli asked him to allow his son to study m...
12: ...tia analytice exposita'' ("Mechanics or motion explained with analytical science"—that is, calcu...
16: ...owever, he did not have an easy position due to a lack of the king's favor. Therefore he returned to ... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...h century]] been preoccupied with the question of large-scale patterns and trends in the development o...
7: ..., most natural philosophers worked in relative isolation, due to the difficulty and slowness of commun...
9: ...e scrutiny of their peers, though a number of scholarly critics from both inside and outside the scien...
11: ... an exclusive membership rule: discovery of a new law of nature was a prequisite for admission. It was...
13: ...[[Accademia del Cimento]], [[Florence]] [[1657]], lasted 10 years. The [[Royal Society]] of [[London]]...
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