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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
6: ...s VI]] whose sole male heir - his son Leopold Johann - died as an infant in [[1716]]. In [[1713]] Char...
13: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Anna (1738-1739)
22: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Johanna (1750-1762)
26: ...of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antonie (1755-1793); married [[Louis XVI of France|HM King Loui...
35: ...invading [[Saxony]], another ally of Austria, beginning the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war ended in [[... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...Archduchess of [[Austria]] (born [[2 November]] [[1755]] ? executed [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of...
4: ...r brother, [[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A cour...
13: ...red to speak German. However, when her sister Johanna-Gabriella died of smallpox in [[1762]], Maria-An...
15: ... of Austria|Maria Theresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antoni...
17: ...osses for all shoulders." Maria-Antonia left [[Vienna]] in [[April]] [[1770]], when she was fourteen. ... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...a]] or [[Turkestan]] between the 4th and 2nd millennium BC. Carpet-making was introduced to Spain in ...
16: ...s駧'). These textiles have a low pile and are thinner than hand knotted pile carpets. This form of ca...
21: ...pes were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s invention called the "nipper".
28: ...s), '''asymmetrical''' (also called: Persian or Senna), and '''single warp''' (also called: Spanish).
37: ...a]] or [[Turkestan]] between the 4th and 2nd millennium BC. - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: For the role he played in winning and securing American independence, George Was...
24: ...e that the English year began on [[March 25]] ([[Annunciation]] Day, or [[Lady Day]]) at the time of h...
33: ... to return to the Ohio Country for one year. In [[1755]], Washington returned, accompanying the [[Braddo...
53: ...ewburgh conspiracy|conspiracy]] that was being planned by some of his officers who were upset about ba...
58: ...hen meeting at the [[Maryland State House]] in [[Annapolis]]. This action was of great significance fo... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...achusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...ung Adams graduated from [[Harvard]] College in [[1755]], and for a time taught school in [[Worcester, M...
35: ...ce in Congress was great, and almost from the beginning he was impatient for a separation of the colon...
44: ... [[Massachusetts constitution]] of [[1780]]. He penned the first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] an...
46: ...Comte de Vergennes|Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes?]] insistence, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeffer... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Port...
42: ... it. At the end of the [[1200s|13th]] and the beginning of the [[1300s|14th]] centuries, those who tri...
47: ...no son and heir to the throne, decided to go personnaly into battle, where he was slain. Because [[Phi...
51: The [[1755 Lisbon earthquake]] and [[tsunami]], which killed...
57: ...is㯠Constitucional, preamble}}India invaded and annexed [[Portuguese India]] in [[1961]]. Independenc... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
11: ...] that the first modern dig, supervised by [[Giovanni Battista Caviglia|Captain Caviglia]], uncovered ...
13: ...ose removed stones some weighing upwards of 200 tonnes were used to construct the adjoining Sphinx Tem...
24: ... 2004, French [[Egyptologist]] [[Vassil Dobrev]] announced the results of a 20-year re-examination of ...
29: ...ewis Norden]] made in [[1737]] and published in [[1755]] illustrate the Sphinx without a nose. An Arab h... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
44: The west bank of the [[Connecticut River]] marks the eastern border of the st...
46: ...ree-line|timberline]], form a north-south spine running the most of the length of the state, slightly ...
50: ...(F) colder than the southern areas of the state. Annual [[snow]]fall averages between 60 to 100 inches...
62: ...art of [[New France]], and erected [[Fort Sainte Anne]] on [[Isle La Motte, Vermont|Isle La Motte]] in...
66: ...o take the Fort St. Fr餩ric four times between [[1755]] and [[1758]]; in [[1759]] a combined force of 1... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
9: ...[King William's War]] ([[1689]]-[[97]]), [[Queen Anne's War]] ([[1702]]-[[1714]]), and [[King George's...
13: ...y declared war on France in 1756, marking the beginnings of the Seven Years' War in Europe. [[Native ...
15: ...wer Canada]]. Near the beginning of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking popul...
29: *[[Battle of Fort Beaus骯ur]] ([[June 16]], [[1755]])
30: ...hela aka Battle of the Wilderness) ([[July 9]], [[1755]]) - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...lose to the [[Sun]]. When a comet approaches the inner solar system, radiation from the Sun causes its...
11: ...r appearance have been noticed by humans for millennia. One very famous old recording of a comet is t...
33: ... year, so that Comet Bennett 1969i became Comet Bennett 1970 II (it was the second comet to pass perih...
53: ...d for most of the next century. Even after [[Johannes Kepler]] had determined in [[1609]] that the pl...
55: ...e others, such as [[Christian Huygens]] and [[Johannes Hevelius]], supported comets' linear motion.{{h... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
31: ...iptivists would charge that prescriptivism is an unnatural attempt to dictate usage or curtail change,...
49: ...nson]]'s famous and more complete dictionary of [[1755]].
88: *[[Le dictionnaire de l'Acad魩e fran硩se]] (prescriptive)
210: *''Manual of Specialised Lexicography'', Henning Bergenholtz/Sven Tarp (eds.), Benjamins Publis...
213: ...English Dictionary'', Simon Winchester, HarperPerennial, New York, 1998, trade paperback, ISBN 0-06-01... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
94: *[[Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]] ([[1591]]-[[1666]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
41: ...England — [[lawnmower]] and [[adjustable spanner]]
66: *[[W.K. Dickson|William Kennedy Laurie Dickson]], motion picture camera
76: *[[Oliver Evans]] (1755-1819) - [[amphibious vehicle]], amongst others
105: *[[Johann Gutenberg]], (circa 1390s-1468), [[Germany]] &mda... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
12: ...= Raphus cucullatus | author=[[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ... called ''Didus ineptus'' by [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metr...
18: ...[[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Museum]], were burned in 1755. - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
30: ...ing information about these tests along normal channels. Earthquakes such as these, that are caused by...
50: *[[1755_Lisbon_earthquake|Lisbon earthquake]] (1755).
72: ...[[tsunami]] which caused nearly 300,000 deaths spanning several countries. - Brine shrimp (4112 bytes)
27: ...rst discovered in [[Lymington]], [[England]] in [[1755]]. There are mixed views on whether all brine shr...
39: ..., [[Mono County, California]]. In [[1987]], Dr. Dennis D. Murphy from [[Stanford University]] petition... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...sunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
4: ...lometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in th...
28: ...n less than one metre. This is often practically unnoticeable to people on ships. The energy of a tsun...
45: Tsunamis cannot be prevented or precisely predicted, but there ...
55: ...inutes or hours before a tsunami strikes shore (Kenneally, [http://www.slate.com/id/2111608]''). - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
5: ...nsignia to [[Constantinople]]. After another millennium, in [[1453]], the Eastern Empire, better known...
37: ...]], a disorganized work which remains the best [[annals]] of the Augustan period, and
66: ...o his mother and his tutors, particularly Lucius Annaeus [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]. However, as he...
88: ... in much the same way of his Julio-Claudian forerunners, the latter having difficulty even obtaining, ...
101: ...strangled in his sleep in 192, a day before he planned to march into the Senate dressed as a gladiator... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
1: ...dian War]] battle, see [[Battle of the Wilderness 1755]].'' - 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...
45: ...be kept away from the sea. A third voyage was planned to find the [[Northwest Passage]]. Cook would ...
49: ...HMS ''Discovery'']]. Ostensibly the voyage was planned to return Omai to Tahiti; this is what the gene...
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