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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...Parliament, various coercive tactics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) wer...
19: ...Catholics was not well-received by the English people. Public alarm increased when James's second wife...
24: ...lliam's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained fro...
26: ...otally extinguished, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne...
38: ...ed by an overwhelming majority of the Scottish People) on [[16 January]] [[1707]]. Under the Act, Engl... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...'' ([[30 April]] [[1662]]–[[28 December]] [[1694]]) reigned as Queen of [[England]] and [[Ireland]...
17: ... stillbirth. She became popular with the Dutch people, but her husband neglected or even mistreated he...
22: ...tch army landed on [[5 November]]. The English people's confidence in James stood so low that they did...
24: ...during his wife's lifetime, and restrictions were placed on his power. William, however, demanded that...
31: ...ine of succession would be any children of the couple, to be followed by Mary's sister Anne and her ch... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
7: ...y occurs when there are restrictions in the time, place, manner or amount of exchange.
9: ...a Hours]] which are backed by the labor of the people of [[Ithaca, NY]].
11: ...ls from the monetary system, banknotes are now simply considered as money.
18: ...l capital and precious metals having a privileged place in the economy.
24: ...664]] and ceased operating in that year. It was [[1694]] when the [[Bank of England]] issued the first p... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...] period in the arts, and receives contemporary application in the unity of science movement which inc...
6: ...od, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] i...
8: ...sm | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]], [[government]] a...
12: ...purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think o...
14: ...r instability. Instead, (according to those that split the two periods), the Age of Reason sought to e... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
4: ... any state, in fact piracy has been the first example of universal jurisdiction. Nevertheless today th...
10: ...tances of piracy are the exploits of the [[Sea Peoples]] who threatened the [[Aegean civilization|Aege...
12: ...odecanese]] islet of [[Farmakos|Pharmacusa]].<ref>Plutarch, ''Caesar'' 1-2.</ref> He maintained an att...
16: ...ng some of the most famous ancient pirateering peoples were the [[Illyrians]], populating the western ...
24: ...he sea for their [[hit-and-run tactics]] - a safe place to retreat to if the battle turned against the... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...blic servant]], [[scientist]], [[librarian]], [[diplomat]], and [[inventor]]. One of the leaders of th...
11: ...ld at Ecton; and over the next few years, this couple had three children, all of whom being half-sibli...
17: ...vember 22]], [[1692]]), Mary ([[September 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[Ju...
25: ...y earned" are now commonly quoted every day by people all over the world.
27: ...o included works on history, geography, poetry, exploration and science. The success of this library e... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
100: ...mael Bullialdus]] ([[France]], [[1605]] – [[1694]])
318: *[[Johannes Kepler]] ([[Germany]], [[1571]] – [[1630]])
346: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1827]])
463: *[[Philip Plait]] ([[United States|USA]])
464: *[[Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana]] ([[Italy]], [[1781]] – [[1864]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
103: *[[Antoine Arnauld]], (1612-1694){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
804: ...cis Hutcheson (philosopher)|Francis Hutcheson]], (1694-1746){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}} - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
107: == Applications ==
116: * [[electroplating]] because of its appearance, hardness, and r...
122: * Cobalt-60 has multiple uses as a [[gamma ray]] source:
127: ...in known quantity, and very large amounts - by simply exposing natural cobalt to [[neutron]]s in a rea...
130: ...in [[Canada]]. In fact the first machine is on display in the [[Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|Saskatoon]] Ca... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...ançois-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by ...
8: ...heless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
14: ...im to the famous and dissipated coterie of the Temple, of which the [[knights of Malta|grand prior]] V...
16: ... to Paris, to fall once more into literary and Templar society and to make the tragedy of ''Oedipe'', ...
18: ...8]] he was known as ''Arouet de Voltaire'', or simply ''Voltaire'', though legally he never abandoned ... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
11: ... we can assume J. S. Bach began copying music and playing various instruments at an early age.
13: ... until Johann Christoph heard the young Sebastian playing some of the distinctive tunes from his priva...
17: ... a unique counterpoint to his unequalled skill in playing it; Bach was equally at home talking with or...
19: ...d Latin school when he was 18, an impressive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he...
22: ... masterful use of [[counterpoint]] but also for exploring, for the first time, the full glory of keys ... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ... He is credited with being one of the first to apply [[calculus]] to [[physics]].
5: ...es of the newly invented [[calculus]]. He was completely [[blindness|blind]] for the last seventeen y...
12: ...ntia analytice exposita'' ("Mechanics or motion explained with analytical science"—that is, calc...
18: ...ler continued to be very productive, despite a complete loss of vision, due to his extraordinary power...
20: ... [[Legendre]] that often he would write down a complete mathematical proof between the first and the s... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...tency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]]...
11: ... of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Rob...
13: ...ed, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences tha...
21: ...sy to identify unambiguously any given species of plant or animal. He proceeded further to introduce i...
23: ...a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the two-part scientific name makes it po... - Rice (13724 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox divisio entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
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