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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: ...the most powerful women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
6: ...f [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles VI]] whose sole male heir - his son Leopold Johann - died a...
8: ...of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
15: ...el of Spain (1741-1763), then HSH Princess Marie Josephe of Bavaria (1739-1767); no surviving issue. [...
18: *HI&RH Archduke Karl (1745-1761) - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...uly 31]], [[1784]]) was a [[France|French]] [[philosopher]] and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Cha...
5: ...nd content, while also examining [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is a...
7: ...ictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10:
12: ...desperate and unfathomable uncertainty of the philosophy which professes to be so high above both chur... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
19: ...amaoka|Yamaoka, Akira]] (born 1968), Japanese composer
26: *[[Bosa Yankovich|Yankovich, Bosa]]
42: ...2]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video game]] music composer
47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of Ne...
69: *[[A. B. Yehoshua|Yehoshua, A. B.]], author of ''Mr. Mani'' - 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]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787...
51: ...[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
54: ... Cros]], (1842-1888) — [[phonograph]]... almost - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...etween a pair of conductors on which equal but opposite electric charges have been placed. Intentional...
7: ...ctric. Because each plate stores an equal but opposite charge, the ''total'' charge in the device is ...
9: ...|The electrons in the molecules shift toward the positively charged left plate. The molecules then cr...
13: ...ference]] or ''voltage'' (''V'') which appears across the plates:
16: ... causes a potential difference of one [[volt]] across the plates. Since the farad is a very large uni... - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...n, we find that like-charged objects repel and opposite-charged objects attract one another. The magn...
8: ...for, though. There are other descriptions of supposedly electrical devices on [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptia...
10: ...University]] by [[Pieter van Musschenbroek]] in [[1745]]. [[William Watson (scientist)|William Watson]]...
12: ... (less frequently) who created the convention of positive and negative electricity.
16: ...rie Amp貥]], and [[Georg Ohm|Georg Simon Ohm]] whose work provided the basis for modern electrical te... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
3: ...acques-Étienne Montgolfier''' ([[January 6]], [[1745]] – [[August 2]], [[1799]]), [[inventor|inve...
22: ...is was followed by further flights, including a crossing of the English Channel on January 7, 1785, by...
25: .../webprojects2003/hetherington/final/montgolfier_bros.html "Lighter than air: the Montgolfier brothers"... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
9: *[[1608]] - [[Sissinios of Ethiopia|Sissinios]] formally crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]]
22: ...w London School explosion]] kills three hundred, mostly children.
32: ...t]] [[Aleksei Leonov]], leaving his spacecraft [[Voskhod 2]] for 12 minutes, becomes the first person ...
36: *[[1974]] - [[Oil embargo crisis]]: Most [[OPEC]] nations end a five-month [[oil]] [[emba...
37: ...were killed at an explosion of a [[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2M]] rocket on its launch pad during a fueling... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - 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... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
19: ...the territory of the former Roman Empire without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The min...
33: ...nomic and cultural centres ([[Aachen]] being the most famous).
41: ...n imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to th...
43: ...peror was compelled to submit to the Pope at [[Canossa]] in 1077, after having been excommunicated. In...
46: ... the [[Knights Templar|Templars]], the [[Knights Hospitaller|Knights of St John]] and the [[Teutonic K... - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
1: '''Samuel Hearne''' ([[1745]] – November [[1792]]), [[England|English]]... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
76: ...olspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0" | '''Most stable isotopes'''
92: |[[osmium|<sup>186</sup>Os]]
159: ...l]] and [[copper]] ores along with some native deposits. Platinum is used in [[jewelry]], laboratory e...
162: ...re, and malleable and ductile. The metal is [[corrosion]]-resistant. The [[catalyst|catalytic]] proper...
171: ... Dari鮠([[Panama]]) and Mexico ("up until now impossible to melt by any of the Spanish arts"). - 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... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
19: ...the territory of the former Roman Empire without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The min...
33: ...nomic and cultural centres ([[Aachen]] being the most famous).
41: ...n imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to th...
43: ...peror was compelled to submit to the Pope at [[Canossa]] in 1077, after having been excommunicated. In...
46: ... the [[Knights Templar|Templars]], the [[Knights Hospitaller|Knights of St John]] and the [[Teutonic K... - History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
8: ...to synthesize hundreds of organic compounds. The most important among them are [[mauve]], [[magenta]],...
12: ...Dalton]] and those who did not, such as [[Wilhelm Ostwald]] and [[Ernst Mach]]. Although such propone...
20: ...]]'s development of the [[periodic table]], and, most impressively, Mendeleev's use of it to predict t...
23: ...aterials for clothing, medicine, and everyday disposable resources, by the twentieth century.
27: ...the internal structure of atoms, [[Henry Moseley|Moseley]]'s attendant systematic explanation of the p... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
36: ...(c. 2094 - c. 2047 BCE). Eventually the Elamites rose in rebellion and overthrew the 3rd Ur dynasty, a...
43: ...with the rise to power of the Anzanite dynasty, whose homeland probably lay in the mountains northeast...
51: ...ressive followed this founder of a new dynasty, whose home was probably [[Susa]]; and in this period E...
68: ...their ancient and recent kings I devastated, I exposed to the sun, and I carried away their bones towa...
72: ...decline of the Assyrians were the [[Persians]], whose presence around [[Lake Urmia]], i.e. to the nort... - 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]].<... - Leyden jar (3953 bytes)
7: ...ectrode]] and a plate, each of which stores an opposite charge. These two elements are conductive and ...
14:
16: ...l motion of charges, even in vacuum, where he supposed that it corresponded to motion of [[dipole]] ch...
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