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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...is page is about Maria Theresa of Austria (often only known as Empress Maria Theresa), ruler of the [[...
26: ...of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antonie (1755-1793); married [[Louis XVI of France|HM King Loui...
37: ...I, her eldest son, as coregent and emperor. She only allowed him limited powers because she felt he w...
41: She died in [[1780]], the only female to rule during the 650-year-long [[Habsbu... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...Archduchess of [[Austria]] (born [[2 November]] [[1755]] ? executed [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of...
4: ... Hofburg Palace in [[Vienna]] on [[2 November]] [[1755]]. She was christened Maria-Antonia-Josepha-Johan...
22: ...s-Auguste]] was shy, awkward and distant. He was only a year older than she was and had no sexual or r...
25: ... supposed to do on their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the ...
36: ...-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette's life changed suddenly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...were primarily hung on walls or used on tables. Only with the opening of trade routes in the 17th cen...
16: ...ut forming a knot. Because of the loom structure only five colors can be used to create the design. Mo...
19: Unlike woven carpets, [[embroidery]] carpets are not ...
57: ...Thomas Moore]], 5 extant carpets), and Axminster (1755-1835, owned by [[Thomas Whitty]], numerous extant...
63: ... can be used to cover a floor. They are usually only used in commercial settings and often are not af... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...e of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he volun...
33: ... to return to the Ohio Country for one year. In [[1755]], Washington returned, accompanying the [[Braddo...
79: ...the Army]] (five star), George Washington is the only President with military service to reenter the m...
95: ...ng the principle that even a former president is only, after all, a private citizen.
104: Unlike all the other slaveholding [[Founding Fathers]... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...ung Adams graduated from [[Harvard]] College in [[1755]], and for a time taught school in [[Worcester, M...
52: Partly for this reason, Adams received only thirty-four out of sixty-nine votes in the [[U.S...
57: ...ers of opposing [[political party|parties]]. The only other time this would happen would be when [[Abr... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
17: ...out. Rome sent numerous legions, but success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill...
25: ...Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Arab]], mainly expelled after the [[Christian]] reconquest or [...
31: ...g Ferdinand]] was dying with no male heirs. His only child, a single daughter, married King [[John I ...
42: ... ''feitoria'' (a trading post) for commerce with inland Africa thus, circumventing the Arab [[caravan]...
47: ...ip III]] tried to further enforce integration, openly attacking the Portuguese nobility that was not i... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
11: ... [[Dream Stela]] placed between the paws. It was only in [[1817]] that the first modern dig, supervise...
22: ...ver, the idea that the face is that of Khafre is only based on the fact that his pyramid is behind the...
29: ...ewis Norden]] made in [[1737]] and published in [[1755]] illustrate the Sphinx without a nose. An Arab h...
36: ...ich the Sphinx's body was carved), it could have only been built no later than 6,000BC, the last time ... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...along the [[Atlantic Ocean]], Vermont is noted mainly for the [[Green Mountains]] in the west and [[La...
66: ...ks]] burnt the settlement to the ground, leaving only chimneys and giving the area its name.
70: ...]]-Vermont border, a French fort constructed in [[1755]], was the site of two British offensives under L...
104: Vermont is the home state of the only two current members of the United States Congres...
121: Unlike other states, Vermont does not have a [[term l... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
13: The French and Indian War, unlike the others, began on North American soil and t...
15: ...wer Canada]]. Near the beginning of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking popul...
23: ...ing engagements of the war, marked the first and only instance of [[George Washington]] surrendering i...
29: *[[Battle of Fort Beaus骯ur]] ([[June 16]], [[1755]])
30: ...hela aka Battle of the Wilderness) ([[July 9]], [[1755]]) - Comet (30542 bytes)
11: ...ugh the inner solar system, the dust reflecting sunlight directly and the gases glowing due to [[ion|i...
15: ...vered that [[Comet Borrelly]]'s surface reflects only 2.4% to 3% of the light that falls on it; by com...
17: ...-rays and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits].
29: ... their discoverers, but comets that had appeared only once continued to be referred by the year of the...
35: ...lost, and A/ indicating an object that was mistakenly identified as a comet, but is actually a [[minor... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...examples in sentences. Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a book.
8: ...]]), whereas a dictionary that attempts to cover only a limited selection of words from a speech commu...
17: ...imizing dictionaries, i.e. they attempt to cover only a limited number of the specialized vocabulary c...
23: ...mmercial defining dictionaries typically include only one or two meanings of under 2000 words. With t...
33: ...ly confused. ''[[Merriam-Webster]]'' is subtle, only adding italicized notations such as, ''sometimes... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
542: *[[Prince Hoare]] ([[1755]]-[[1834]])
1151: *[[Eduard von Steinle]] ([[1810]]-[[1886]])
1152: *[[Théophile Steinlen]] ([[1859]]-[[1923]])
1167: *[[Gilbert Stuart]] ([[1755]]-[[1828]])
1266: *[[Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun]] ([[1755]]-[[1842]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
76: *[[Oliver Evans]] (1755-1819) - [[amphibious vehicle]], amongst others
113: *[[Robert Heinlein]], (1907-1988), waterbed - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...us'' by [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bir...
18: ...[[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]], were burned in 1755.
33: ...] states that "the extinction of the dodo is commonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]]...
45: ...r of [[Albinism|albinotic]] dodos - perhaps even only one - that reached Europe and were kept as curio...
49: ...ed that the dodos ate the seeds of the tree, and only by passing through the digestive tract of the do... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
20: ...s horizontal movement. The press sometimes mistakenly reports such values as "Richter magnitude", and ...
31: ...lated to gas movement in the earth's interior, mainly methane (see related topics [[http://www.people....
50: *[[1755_Lisbon_earthquake|Lisbon earthquake]] (1755).
117: *[http://www.armageddononline.org/earthquake.php The Destruction of Earthqua... - Brine shrimp (4112 bytes)
25: ...lina'', has been sold as novelty gifts, most commonly under the marketing name [[Sea-Monkey]]s.
27: ...rst discovered in [[Lymington]], [[England]] in [[1755]]. There are mixed views on whether all brine shr...
33: ...ely to be one reason that brine shrimp are found only in highly salinated waters, as these areas are u...
39: ...ty commonly as Mono Lake brine shrimp, are found only in [[Mono Lake]], [[Mono County, California]]. I... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
4: ...hy they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in the ocean.
18: ...aking, tsunamis generated from these mechanisms, unlike the ocean-wide tsunamis caused by some earthqu...
21: ... a tsunami is better understood as a new and suddenly higher sea level, which manifests as a shelf or ...
22: ... ships and boulders can be carried several miles inland before the tsunami subsides.
28: ...bed, unlike surface waves, which typically reach only down to a depth of 10 m or so. - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
9: ... word ''princeps'', meaning "first citizen", the only title Augustus would permit himself) the realiti...
35: ...k covered all of Roman history through [[9 BC]], only [[epitome]]s survive of his coverage of the Late...
46: ...ion of the ''gens'' [[Claudius (gens)|Claudia]], only slightly less ancient than the Julians. Their t...
56: ... commander of the guard [[Cassius Chaerea]]. The only member left of the imperial family to take charg...
78: ... excesses and the civil wars. To do this, he not only increased taxes, but created new forms of taxati... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
1: ...dian War]] battle, see [[Battle of the Wilderness 1755]].''
24: ...was actually fought a few miles to the west, and only overlapped the old battlefield along the Brock R...
26: ... of the old battle site before moving southward. Unlike the Union army of a year before, Grant had no ...
38: ...o hours, the situation was totally reversed. Not only had Longstreet regained all the ground lost, he ...
45: ...t's strategy was to wage a war of attrition. The only way that Lee could escape from the trap that Gra... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ...et but declined the command of his own collier in 1755 on the eve of the [[Seven Years War]] to start ag...
20: ...apped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistakes (such as calling [[Banks Peninsul...
26: ...collections of Australian flora and there were mainly peaceful meetings with the local Aboriginal peop...
28: ...een Australia and [[New Guinea]], again becoming only the second European to do so (the first being [[...
41: Cook almost discovered the mainland of [[Antarctica]], but turned back north towar...
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