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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: She is also [[Head of the Commonwealth]], [[Supreme Governor of the Church of England|S...
27: ... ATS) where she was known as No 230873 Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor, and was trained as a driver...
29: ...life to the service of the people of the Commonwealth and Empire.
33: ...dinburgh]] before their marriage. This marriage, although not arranged as such, was eminently suitable...
55: ...events. She visited [[Greece]], [[Italy]] and [[Malta]] (where Philip was then stationed) during the y... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...Ireland]] on [[8 March]] [[1702]]. On [[1 May]] [[1707]], when England and Scotland combined into a sing...
10: ...hat Scotland would co-operate. The [[Act of Union 1707]] (which united England and Scotland into Great B...
15: ...f the Duke and Duchess of York to survive into adulthood. Anne suffered from an eye infection; for tre...
22: Soon after their accession, William and Mary exalted Lord Churchill by granting him the Earldom of M...
31: ...e|Louis XIV]], to succeed to the Spanish Throne. Although Philip was named in the will of the previous... - Apple (20408 bytes)
16: ...ily [[Rosaceae]], and is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Table apples are of the specie...
25: ...e is no hard evidence for this in older apple [[cultivar]]s. These and other ''Malus'' species have be...
27: ...es, and it was probably the earliest tree to be cultivated. To a greater degree than other tree fruit,...
29: ==Apple cultivars==
30: ... 7,500 known [[cultivar]]s of apples. Different cultivars are available for [[temperate]] and [[subtro... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ...ge --> in [[western Europe]]. It is a [[Commonwealth Realm]], and a member of the [[European Union]] ...
56: ...d Kingdom's principal international land border, although there is also a nominal frontier with France...
60: ...e [[North Sea]], the [[English Channel]], the [[Celtic Sea]], the [[Irish Sea]], and the [[Atlantic Oc...
62: ...formed by the [[Act of Union 1707|Act of Union of 1707]], it was customary to refer officially to Scotla...
64: ...ion out of date in the Irish case since 1922. An alternative, the ''Islands of the North Atlantic'' (I... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...on the Mediterranean side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such a...
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
58: ...ettled throughout the peninsula, becoming the [[Celt-Iberian]]s.
66: ...ce of [[Hispania]]. It was divided in [[Hispania Ulterior]] and [[Hispania Citerior]] during the late ...
77: ...s of present-day Spain were politically unified, although not as a modern centralized state. The grand... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]])
51: *[[Albrecht Altdorfer]] ([[1480]]-[[1538]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
69: *[[George Ault]] ([[1891]]-[[1948]])
74: *[[Milton Avery]] ([[1885]]-[[1965]]) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
25: ...tly to the earth's centre." In similar terms, [[Voltaire]] wrote in his ''Essay on Epic Poetry'' (1727...
29: ...ulus independently and used different notations. Although Newton had worked out his own method before ...
36: ...)|lens]] and a second prism could recompose the multicoloured spectrum into white light. From this wor...
46: ...II, referring to combining the effect of colour filters, Newton refers to Hooke's experiments: " ... M...
52: ...theory of gravity. (See also [[Isaac Newton's occult studies]].) - John Locke (14749 bytes)
6: ...ellor of the university and also a [[Puritan]]. Although he was a capable student, Locke chafed under...
8: ...e in [[1656]] and a master's degree in [[1658]]. Although Locke never became a medical doctor, he earn...
16: ... died in [[1704]] after a prolonged decline in health, and is buried in the churchyard of the village ...
18: ...e see the [[Act of Union 1707|Act of Union]] of [[1707]], though the office of King of England and King ...
22: ...expressed themselves in his published writings. Although widely regarded as an important influence on... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...r's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England began its numbered year on [[March 2...
14: *[[1707]] - [[John V of Portugal|John V]] is crowned King...
33: ...ustralian Federation|federate]] as the [[Commonwealth of Australia]]; [[Edmund Barton]] becomes first ...
37: ...m [[South Australia]] and transferred to Commonwealth control.
70: **The [[Brunei|Sultanate of Brunei]] becomes independent of the [[Uni... - Prague (7962 bytes)
14: ...ity of the [[Czech Republic]]. Situated on the [[Vltava]] river in central [[Bohemia]], it is home to ...
16: ...he [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|UNESCO]] list of [[world heritag...
30: ...|Gothic]], [[Neoclassicism|Neo-Classical]] and [[ultra-modern]]. Some of its many tourist attractions ...
50: ==Culture==
52: Prague is a traditional cultural center, hosting many theaters including: Nati... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first known perm...
8: ...king [[Ashoka]], contributed greatly to India's cultural landscape. Beginning around [[180 BC]], a ser...
14: ...or rose to power, especially in the relatively sheltered south, where the [[Hoysala Empire]] flourishe...
17: ...|Sanchi stupa]] in Sanchi, [[Madhya Pradesh]] built by emperor [[Ashoka]] in the 3rd century BC .]]
20: ...oy Mutiny|First War of Indian Independence]], resulted in India coming under the direct rule of the Br... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ...is Papin]] who was developing steam engines. In [[1707]] he constructed a paddle-powered boat, but wheth...
21: ...n a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a successful trial in...
23: ...ollowed by continuous development of steamboats. Although plans to introduce boats on the Forth and Cl...
25: ...Boulton and Watt steam engine]], and on return built the ''North River Steamboat'' (often called the [...
30: ...oats on the major American rivers soon followed Fulton's success. [[Mark Twain]], in his [[Life on the... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
11: ...rooned on one of the [[Nicobar Islands]]. They built a small craft and sailed it to [[Acheen]] in [[Su...
16: ... [[1697]] created interest at the British [[Admiralty]] and in [[1699]] Dampier was given the command ...
22: Although many papers were lost with the ''Roebuck'', ...
24: ...y vindication of his conduct, but he was found guilty, docked his pay for the voyage, and dismissed fr...
34: Dampier returned to England in [[1707]] and in [[1709]] his ''A Continuation of a Voyag... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]])
221: *[[Walther Franz Anton von Dyck]] (Germany)
238: *[[Leonhard Euler]] (Switzerland, [[1707]] - [[1783]])
244: *[[Gerd Faltings]] (Germany, [[1954]] - )
247: *[[Walter Feit]] (Austria/USA, [[1930]] - [[2004]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
59: *[[Louis Althusser]], (1918-1990){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
175: *[[Walter Benjamin]], (1892-1940){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
221: *[[Ludwig Boltzmann]], (1844-1906){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}
268: *[[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]], (1707-1788){{fn|R}}
270: *[[Rudolf Bultmann]], (1884-1976){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Praseodymium (9138 bytes)
61: | [[Melting point]]
62: | 1204 [[Kelvin|K]] (1707.8 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])
116: ! [[decay energy|DE]] [[mega|M]][[electron volt|eV]]
162: ...s, Praseodymium and [[Neodymium]], which gave [[salt]]s of different [[color]]s. - Centrifuge (2358 bytes)
7: English military engineer [[Benjamin Robins]] (1707-1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determ...
9: The [[ultracentrifuge]] is a device invented in [[1925]] by...
14: ...ese will tend to rotate at a slower rate than an ultracentrifuge, and have larger rotors, and be optim...
26: ...in the rotor head, those who have experienced an ultracentrifuge losing a rotor compare the experience... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
11: ...anists and court chamber musicians to composers, although Bach would later surpass them all in his art...
19: ...nist at [[Arnstadt]] in [[1703]]. He apparently felt cramped in the small town and began to seek his f...
28:
38: ...e}} They had 7 children, 4 of whom survived to adulthood. Little is known of Maria Barbara. She died s...
42: ...as her husband Bach's student [[Johann Christoph Altnikol]]. Most of the music we have from Bach was p... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...'Leonhard Euler''' [oi'lər] ([[April 15]], [[1707]] - [[September 18]], [[1783]]) was a [[Ancien R...
10: Leonhard Euler was born on [[April 15]], [[1707]] as the son of a [[Lutheran]] minister in [[Base...
18: ...ticed that his own result and the assistant's result differed in the 50th digit. A recalculation show...
59: of difficult integrals, sums and series. - Carolus Linnaeus (8550 bytes)
2: ...]]ized name '''Carolus Linnaeus''' ([[May 23]], [[1707]] – [[January 10]], [[1778]]), was a [[Swed...
5: Carl Linnaeus was born at [[Stenbrohult]], in the province of [[Smalandia]] in southern [...
9: ...aponia|Lapland]], then virtually unknown. The result of this was the ''Flora Laponica'' published in [...
11: ...ted and arranged in a simple and orderly manner. Although the system now known as [[binomial nomencla...
23: Although taxonomists, in almost any biological field,...
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