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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labor to one...
10: ...the surplus population who could no longer find employment in [[agriculture]] into the cities to seek ...
12: ... other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, which often imposed tolls ...
14: ...to produce more goods to meet the needs of the people.
16: From 1430, people in Europe discovered sea routes to Asia and Amer... - 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...
35: ... great victory at the [[Battle of Blenheim]] in [[1704]]. The Whigs quickly rose to power; soon, due to ... - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...e of Marlborough]], and they made a glittering couple. Churchill, though he had supported James, also...
4: ...ut the Duke died in [[1722]] and never saw the completion of [[Blenheim Palace]], the house built for ...
6: ...e prince and his family, however, even after this plan had failed.
8: ...ess of Somerset|The Duchess of Somerset]] | years=1704–1710}} - Hungary (18459 bytes)
57: ...e development of a great Slavonic power, and Swatopluk, ruler of Great Moravia, sought to establish a ...
59:
61: ...e]]. Hungarian culture influenced others, for example the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. Together...
65: ...ylvanian nobleman, [[Ferenc II Rczi]], between 1704 and 1711. The revolution and war of 1848–18...
69: ...rces were defeated and the Soviet Republic was toppled on [[August 6]], 1919. Rightist military forces... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
84: ...nd civil war, British [[gunboat diplomacy]] was employed to bring about a peaceful resolution that fav...
88: ...mergency|communist insurgency]]. Post-war British plans to form a "Malayan Union" were scuppered by st...
92: ...ast territories to the [[Sultanate of Sulu]] in [[1704]]. The Philippine claim is still on-going.
111: ... [[lower house]] (''Dewan Rakyat'', literally "People's Hall"). All 69 Senators sit for 6-year terms; ...
120: ...ines and two-year prison terms, while Malaysian employers face up to a year in jail and a fine of up t... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such as the [[Islas Chafari...
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
58: ...[[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a sepa...
68: Hispania supplied the Roman Empire with food, olive oil, wine an...
77: ...st of the world. The unification of Iberia was complete when Carlos I's son, [[Philip II of Spain|Feli... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
42: ...d was part of the colony of [[Pennsylvania]]. In 1704 the "three lower counties" gained a separate legi...
74: Delaware lies on a level plain, the highest elevation being less than 442 fee...
77: ...y of Delaware is a part of the [[Atlantic Coastal Plain]], the climate is moderated by the effects of ...
82: As of 2003, there were 817,491 people living in Delaware.
96: The religious affiliations of the people of Delware are: - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
55: ...nnsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for [[Quaker]]s, and name...
63: In [[1704]] the "three lower counties" of New Castle, Kent,...
69: ...dustry was born in western Pennsylvania, which supplied the vast majority of U.S. kerosene for years t...
71: ...; dramatic, sometimes violent confrontations took place between [[organized labor]] and the state's in...
86: ...stricts[http://www.courts.state.pa.us/Index/CommonPleas/Judicialdistricts.asp], each of which has dist... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ... the [[Gregorian calendar]]) was an [[English (people)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[a...
4: ...athematical substantiation for [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion]]. He would expand these laws by ar...
6: ...binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular m...
17: According to [[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and ...
23: ...y closed down as a precaution against the [[Great Plague]]. For the next two years Newton worked at ho... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
1: {{otherpeople|John Locke}}
3: ...ightenment|Enlightenment]] period. Locke has been placed in a group called the [[British Empiricists]]...
6: ...us [[Westminster School]] in [[London]]. After completing his studies there, he obtained admission to ...
10: ...losophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human...
14: ...household, during [[1671]], that the meeting took place, described in the Epistle to the reader of the... - 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... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
1: ...ht|250px|William Dampier, pirate, navigator and explorer]]
2: ...rcumnavigate]] the world twice, and went on to complete a third circumnavigation.
4: ...ld]] in June [[1673]]. In [[1674]] he worked as a plantation manager on [[Jamaica]], but he soon retur...
16: ... Roebuck|HMS ''Roebuck'']] with a commission to explore Australia and New Guinea.
24: ... in [[Brazil]]. Fisher returned to England and complained about his treatment to the Admirality. Dampi... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
8: ...s Marquette]] and [[Louis Jolliet]] begin their exploration of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi riv...
10: ...ston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] places [[artillery]] overlooking the city.
32: ...Minister, [[Robin Cook]], resigns over government plans for [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war with Iraq]].
39: ...[1804]] - [[Jim Bridger]], American trapper and explorer (d. [[1881]])
49: *[[1894]] - [[Paul Green]], novelist, playwright (d. [[1981]]) - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
5: ...any devoted to subjects to which mathematics is applied (such as [[theoretical computer science]] and ...
17: ... mathematicians are motivated by either the sheer pleasure of mathematical activity or by expectation ...
23: ...ures is probed by testing them on a number of examples, generally using [[computer|computers]].
27: ...e, Marquis de l'H?al|Marquis de l'Hopital]] (1661-1704) was rich enough to hire [[Johann Bernoulli]] to ...
31: As is the case in many scientific disciplines, the field of mathematics has been disproport... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
177: *[[Gabriel Cramer]] (Switzerland, [[1704]] - [[1752]])
351: ...ntoine, Marquis de l'H?al]] (France, [[1661]] - [[1704]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
279: *[[Richard Burthogge]], (1638-1704){{fn|R}}
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}}
907: *[[Johannes Kepler]], (1571-1630){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - 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 ... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as [[17...
17: * [[1700]]-[[1721|21]]: [[Russia]] supplants [[Sweden]] as the dominant [[Baltic region|Ba...
24: * [[1704]]: End of Japan's [[Genroku]] period.
26: ... long decline and the [[Maratha Empire]] slowly replaces it.
51: ...edition]] from Mexico and travel into the [[Great Plains]] - Flying shuttle (5068 bytes)
2: ...al Revolution]]. It was patented by [[John Kay]] (1704 - 1764) in 1733.
5: ...ng)|beater]] pulled forward to push the weft into place. This action (called a "pick") requires a lot ...
10: ...n the shed is closed and the beater is used to complete the pick as before. The operator does not need...
12: ...lied with pirns of weft thread, a job that was simplified with the invention of the [[Northrop Loom]],...
17: ...ries sustained, and in several instances (for example, an extended exchange in 1901) the [[House of Co... - Social justice (17329 bytes)
1: ...uld be. In ''[[Republic (Plato)|The Republic]]'', Plato formalised the argument that an [[ideal]] [[st...
3: ...al Justice'' from the concept of [[justice]] as applied in the [[law]] — state-administered syst...
6: ... the catalyst for a problem that can be stated simply: If a moral code may sometimes require a person ...
9: ...to more complex and evolving civilisations. If simple survival is to be transformed into long-term sec...
11: ...e responsibility of any one class of citizens? People will not accept the surrender of any of their fr...
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