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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
11: *Grand Duchess Nataliya Petrovna ([[1713]]-[[1715]])
12: *Grand Duchess Margarita Petrovna ([[1714]]-[[1715]])
13: *Grand Duke Pyotr Petrovich ([[1715]]-[[1719]]) - 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.
26: ...shed, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne. To preclude a...
31: ...eirs died. (This was not an unrealistic worry: most of family was killed by [[smallpox]] shortly bef... - 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]]) - Dodo (9332 bytes)
20: ...ft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large birds, weighing about 23 kg (50 p...
29: ...ly ever eaten by the Portuguese, who found the dodos hard to eat and very messy. Dutch records concur....
35: ...th a 95% [[confidence interval]] of [[1688]] to [[1715]].
37: ... its analysis has confirmed that the dodo was a close relative of [[pigeon]] species that are to be fo...
45: ...ly one - that reached Europe and were kept as curiosities. - Uranus (15207 bytes)
119: ...ff" colspan="2"| [[celestial body's atmosphere|Atmospheric]] characteristics
121: !align="left"| [[Atmospheric pressure]]
145: ...nus B.png|10px|Astronomical symbol for Uranus]] (mostly astronomical).
148: ===Composition===
149: ...r is due to the absorption of [[red]] light by atmospheric [[methane]]. - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ... these different colonies found themselves more closely united than ever before, at odds with the [[Ki...
9: ...ing]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...es"]] would benefit immensely. It was in this atmosphere that [[Christopher Columbus]] left Spain on ...
13: .... Though these northerly lands were relatively close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little i...
16: ...roto-[[nationalism]] and national assertiveness blossomed under the threat of Spanish invasion, assist... - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ...[France]] in [[1789]] was one of the richest and most powerful nations in [[Europe]]; only in [[Great ...
7: ...om of the individual, brought about by such [[philosopher]]s as [[Voltaire]], [[Denis Diderot]], [[Ann...
9: ...sses or class divisions. Therefore, where they opposed the bourgeoisie, as they did in France in 1793 ...
19: ...ileges, the king of France lacked the means to impose a "just and proportioned" tax. The desire to do ...
22: ...ike the trading nations, France could not rely almost solely on [[tariff]]s to generate income. While... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
15: ...both caused by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation.
21: ...l of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French tax system to a more unifo...
23: ..., determined that it was not sustainable, and proposed a uniform land tax as a means of setting France...
25: ...[Grenoble]]. Even more importantly, the chaos across France convinced the short-term creditors on who... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: '''William Dampier''' ([[1652]] – March, [[1715]]) was a [[England|English]] explorer, sea captai...
7: ...mnavigation: in [[1679]] he accompanied a raid across the [[Dari鮠Province|Isthmus of Dari鮝] in [[P...
9: ...t'', and on [[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], calling...
11: ... via the [[Cape of Good Hope]], penniless but in possession of his journals.
22: Although many papers were lost with the ''Roebuck'', Dampier was able to save m... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[198...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
45: *[[Joseph Ashbrook]] ([[United States|USA]], [[April 4]]...
54: *[[Oskar Backlund]] ([[Sweden]], [[1846]] – [[191...
85: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Dalmatia]], [[1711]] &n... - 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) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ... [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...g established in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his lif...
10: ...ather appears to have been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom...
14: ...he famous author [[Ninon de lEnclos|Ninon de Lenclos]]. When she died, tragically, in [[1705]], she le...
16: ...was suspected of having been concerned in the composition of two violent libels. Inveigled by a spy na... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
20: ...ft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large birds, weighing about 23 kg (50 p...
29: ...ly ever eaten by the Portuguese, who found the dodos hard to eat and very messy. Dutch records concur....
35: ...th a 95% [[confidence interval]] of [[1688]] to [[1715]].
37: ... its analysis has confirmed that the dodo was a close relative of [[pigeon]] species that are to be fo...
46: ...ly one - that reached Europe and were kept as curiosities. - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ... theater, though this [[art]] form appears all across the country. [[Regional theatre|Regional or resi...
11: ...ies|colonies]]. They brought a repertoire of the most popular plays from London, including ''[[Hamlet]...
13: ...means nothing more or less than the loss of that most valuable treasure: the immortal soul.". However ...
19: Most cities only had a single theater. Productions we...
21: ...ers such as the heroic but ill-fated Indian. The most enduring melodrama of this period is ''[[Uncle T... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
5: ...times specifically refer to the 18th century as [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between t...
11: ...tenment, and impression to the rest of Europe. Across the globe, European colonies were both being est...
13: ...c, the era of [[Baroque music]] reached its apotheosis in the music of [[J.S. Bach]], and the [[Classi...
20: * [[1715]]: [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] dies
50: ...between British and [[Boer]] settlers and the [[Xhosa]]s in [[South Africa]] - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...rossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250px|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[1776...
6: ...ilosophy and science increased in prominence. Philosophers were dreaming about a better age without th...
8: ...nquest of large parts of India. However, Britain lost the USA after the American revolution. The [[ind...
16: ...ds (geologic event)|Bridge of the Gods]] forms across the [[Columbia River]].
18: ...anish Succession]] was a conflict which involved most of [[Louis XIV#The Spanish Succession|Europe]].<...
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