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- Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: '''Christina''' ([[1626]] – [[1689]]) or '''Kristina''', later known as '''Maria Chr...
10: <td>"[[Royal mottos of Swedish monarchs|Columna regni sapientia]]"<br...
16: ...gn=top><td>'''Date of Death'''<td>[[April 19]], [[1689]]
25: ...self, may have prejudiced Christina against the prospect of having to produce a heir to the throne.
27: ... precociousness that astonished the brilliant philosopher [[René „escartes|Descartes]], who had been i... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...es II of England|James II]], had been forcibly deposed in [[1688]]; her sister and brother-in-law then...
12: ...e [[Whig]]s. Her closest friend, and perhaps her most influential advisor, was [[Sarah Churchill, Duch...
15: ...rlborough), who would later become one of Anne's most important generals.
19: ...who ruled as joint monarchs. The [[Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne...
26: ...shed, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne. To preclude a... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...her own right, did not wield actual power during most of her reign. She did, however, govern the realm...
15: ...e William II of Nassau]]. At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with a Dutch ruler — he pref...
20: ...oman Catholic. Some charged that the boy was "suppositions," having been secretly brought in as a subs...
22: ...liam was reluctant; he was jealous of his wife's position as the heiress to the English Crown, and fea...
24: ...r his wife's death. Although some individuals proposed to make her the sole ruler, Mary, remaining loy... - Canada (35540 bytes)
6: ... is a country in [[North America]], the northern-most in the world and the second largest in area (aft...
21: ...ficient in energy due to its large fossil fuel deposits, [[nuclear energy]] generation, and [[hydroele...
90: ...nce and [[Great Britain]]. France progressively lost territory to [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]], s...
111: ...claim is not universally recognized. The northernmost settlement in Canada (and in the world) is Canad...
113: ...ns, however, and thus Canada has only the fourth most arable land area behind Russia, [[China]], and t... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
37: ...rom [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]<br>[[June 25]], [[1991]]<br>[[1992]] |
54: ... of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] from [[1945]] until gaining independence i...
59: ...d in the [[7th century]]. In [[745]], Carantania lost its independence, being largely subsumed into th...
61: ...rian Empire]], with Slovenians inhabiting all or most of the provinces of [[Carniola]], [[Gorizia]] an...
65: ...[25 June]] [[1991]] upon its independence from Yugoslavia. Slovenia joined [[NATO]] on [[29 March]] [[... - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
2: ...held in [[Europe]] several hundred years before those in Salem.
4: ...er townsfolk of [[magic (paranormal)|magically]] possessing them, and therefore of being [[witch]]es o...
6: ...usetts|Marblehead]], and [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]].
9: ... Sheldon, Mercy Short, and Mary Warren, to name those who afflicted them. At last the girls began to b...
11: ...e town beggar, noted for her strange "muttering." Osborne was a bedridden elderly woman who had gotten... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...e Spain gained Louisiana in compensation for its loss of Florida to the British.
9: ...own in North America as [[King William's War]] ([[1689]]-[[97]]), [[Queen Anne's War]] ([[1702]]-[[1714]...
13: ...olfe]] defeated a French garrison led by [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's c...
15: ...Cajun]] population – but this would not be possible in Canada.
19: ... as well as limitation on colonial settlements imposed by the [[British Royal Proclamation of 1763]] i... - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...ntific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of ...
6: ... [[theory|theories]] on established [[fact]], philosophy also enquires about other areas of knowledge,...
11: ...d on the ways in which scientists work, looking closely at the ways in which they "produce" and "const...
13: ...nature of ''theory change'' in science. Three philosophers in particular who represent the primary pol...
15: ... lines of those in the scientific community and those in the social sciences or humanities (for exampl... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
1: '''[[Timeline]] of [[microscope]] [[technology]]'''
3: [[Image:Microscope_08.jpg|thumb|200px]]
5: ...668) to have invented a [[Microscope|compound microscope]].
6: ...ilei]] develops an ''occhiolino'' or compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens.
8: ...[[1633]]) presents, in [[London]], a compound microscope with two convex lenses. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...sopher]], and [[alchemist]] who wrote the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' (publis...
4: ...also notable for his arguments that light was composed of [[particle]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]...
6: ...describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entiret...
19: ...versity]] at the age of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss St...
23: ...obtained his degree in [[1665]], the University closed down as a precaution against the [[Great Plague... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
65: *[[1688]]-[[Glorious Revolution]] deposes James II and replaces him with [[William and Ma...
66: *[[1689]]-[[King William's War]] (1689-1697), part of the wider [[War of the Grand Allia... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
6: ...rriculum of the time. He found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesti...
8: ... his time at Oxford, working with such noted virtuosi as [[Robert Boyle]], [[Thomas Willis]], [[Robert...
10: ...ydenham had a major impact on Locke's natural philosophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply...
12: ...f) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke with saving his life. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...upreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of...
27: | <small>''post''[[42]]/''ante''[[57]] to [[64]]/[[67]](?)</smal...
315: | '''[[Pope Zosimus]]'''<br><small>Saint Zosimus</small>
316: | Papa '''Zosimus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
405: | <small>[[Frosinone]], Southern Latium, Italy</small> - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...]s, improvements to the [[glass harmonica]], and possibly [[bifocals]].
9: Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin, was born at [[Ecton]], [[Northampton...
11: In around [[1677]], Josiah married a one Anne Child at Ecton; and over th...
13: ...), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth). - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ... area|largest]] country in the world, covering almost twice the territory of the next-largest nation, ...
6: Most of the area, population, and industrial producti...
15: ...us]] became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe ...
27: ...is process, consolidated surrounding areas under Moscow's dominion, and annexed the vast expanses of [...
29: ... however, and on the eve of [[World War I]], the position of Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ... [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviath...
6: ... also wrote numerous other books on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of hu...
14: ...ring the tour in contrast to the [[scholastic philosophy]] which he had learned in Oxford. His scholar...
16: ...enne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...l back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite the separate phenomena of Body, Man an... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ...avior of the material [[Universe]] as a whole ([[cosmology]]).
6: ...athematics]]. Physical [[theory|theories]] are almost invariably expressed using mathematical relation...
12: ... and [[experiment]]. Since the [[20th century]], most individual physicists have specialized in either...
13: In contrast, almost all the successful theorists in [[biology]] and ...
19: ...of classical mechanics known as [[chaos theory|chaos]] was discovered in the 20th century, three centu... - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
1: ...archy''', (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''monos'', "one," and ''archein'', "to rule") is a [[form...
4: ...may claim to hold authority by virtue of God's choosing, or other religious-based authority.
6: In most [[country|countries]] with monarchies, the monar...
11: ...ions until after the [[Glorious Revolution]] in [[1689]]. Among the few states that have [[absolute mona...
16: ...f state by [[Juan Carlos I of Spain|King Juan Carlos]].
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