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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: ...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... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
469: *[[Francois Girardon]] ([[1628]]-[[1715]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - Dodo (9332 bytes)
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20: ... renditions we know that the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked ...
27: ...language|Portuguese]] word ''doudo'', meaning "simpleton", ''doido'' in modern Portuguese meaning fool...
29: ...t the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant taste and texture of the meat. No dodo bone... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
4: ..." bgcolor="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
145: ...] [[Uranus (mythology)|Ouranos]], and is the only planet in the [[solar system]] named after a Greek g...
149: ...res of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]] and [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] minus the massive liquid [[metallic...
155: ...xactly equivalent as physical descriptions of the planet but result in different definitions of which ...
158: ...n of the planet it collided with an enormous protoplanet, resulting in the skewed orientation. - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
6: ==Motives for exploration and colonization==
9: ... [[Renaissance]], a development that encouraged exploration and colonization in many ways. A revival ...
11: ...power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe began to ...
13: ...ed States]] presented themselves as an attractive place for these new powers to establish colonies. T...
16: ...lation]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respective parts. - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ...itain]] and the [[Netherlands]] did the common people have more freedom and less chance of arbitrary p...
5: ...he relatively greater prerogatives of the townspeople.
7: ...e [[American Revolution]] showed them that it was plausible that Enlightenment ideals about government...
9: ... manner. The entire French terrorism was just a [[plebeian]] way of dealing with the enemies of the bo...
15: ...the revolution, France was deeply indebted, so deeply as to be effectively bankrupt. Extravagant expen... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...ple as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the status of citizens.
21: ...mes of [[Louis XV of France | Louis XV]] (ruled [[1715]]–[[1774]]) and Louis XVI several different...
25: ...mpted in the meanwhile to go ahead with Calonne's plans. When the measures were opposed in the ''Parl...
37: ...w demanded that credentialling itself should take place as a group. Negotiations with the other estat...
42: ...]], an assembly not of the Estates but of "the People". The National Assembly's first act was to pass ... - 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... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
318: *[[Johannes Kepler]] ([[Germany]], [[1571]] – [[1630]])
346: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1827]])
353: *[[Pierre Lemonnier]] ([[France]], [[1715]] – [[1799]])
463: *[[Philip Plait]] ([[United States|USA]])
464: *[[Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana]] ([[Italy]], [[1781]] – [[1864]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
383: *[[ɴienne Bonnot de Condillac]], (1715-1780){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
409: *[[Christian August Crusius]], (1715-1775){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
468: *[[Humphry Ditton]], (1675-1715)
538: ...Fran篩s de Salignac de la Mothe-F鮥lon]], (1651-1715){{fn|R}} - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
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 ...
22: ...He returned to Paris in the winter and his second play, ''Artemire'', was produced in February [[1720]... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
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20: ... renditions we know that the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked ...
27: ...language|Portuguese]] word ''doudo'', meaning "simpleton", ''doido'' in modern Portuguese meaning fool...
29: ...t the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bird") for the unpleasant taste and texture of the meat. No dodo bone... - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
11: ...esented the first professionally-mounted American play, ''[[The Prince of Parthia]]'' by [[Thomas Godf...
13: ... the Stage" declared that "to indulge a taste for playgoing means nothing more or less than the loss o...
19: ...long runs" of a production, and in 1841, a single play was shown in New York for an unprecedented thre...
21: ...d existed, but are mostly forgotten now. American plays of the period are mostly [[melodrama]]s, often...
24: ...eatured white actors dressed in [[blackface]] and playing up [[racial stereotype]]s. These shows becam... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
5: ...times specifically refer to the 18th century as [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between t...
11: ... breaking away from their parents. In [[Asia]], exploration and influences from Europe were beginning ...
13: ...began. In the visual arts, the [[Rococo]] style replaced the [[Baroque]], then was succeeded by the [[...
20: * [[1715]]: [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] dies
38: * [[1757]]: [[Battle of Plassey]] signals the beginning of [[British]] rule ... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ... Aileen| title=Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789 (revised edition)|publisher=Yale University ...
17: * [[1700]]-[[1721|21]]: [[Russia]] supplants [[Sweden]] as the dominant [[Baltic region|Ba...
21: * [[1702]]-[[1715]]: [[Camisard|Camisard Rebellion]] in [[France]].
26: ... long decline and the [[Maratha Empire]] slowly replaces it.
40: ...: First [[Jacobite rising#The Rebellion/Rising of 1715 ('The Fifteen')|Jacobite rebellion]] breaks out
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