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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...ent of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: ...hess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the title [[List of rulers of Austria|Arc...
14: ...chess Marie Caroline (1740-1741). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the title [[List of rulers of Austria|Arc...
21: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Caroline (1748)
33: In [[1748]], [[France]] gave the Austrian Low Countries tha... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
10: ...lume of bawdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years he repented of this work. In 174...
12: In 1747 he wrote the ''Promenade du sceptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extr...
14: ...cation of the principle of relativism to the concept of [[God]]. What makes the ''Lettre sur les aveug...
23: ...at were then moving the cultivated class to its depths, but still were comparatively ineffectual by re...
31: ...in correcting proofs, and in bringing the manuscript of less competent contributors into decent shape.... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ... the [[War of Austrian succession]] ([[1740]] - [[1748]]) and the [[Seven Years War]] (1756-63). Her dom...
25: ...most often, a wise suspense of judgment under exceptionally difficult circumstances; and to this may b...
31: ...Russia's proper system. Hence the reiterated attempts of [[Frederick the Great]] and [[Louis XV]] to g...
33: ...to the [[treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]] (October 18, 1748). By sheer tenacity of purpose, Bestuzhev had ext...
39: ...began with a fainting-fit at [[Tsarskoe Selo]] (September 19, 1757), nor the fall of Bestuzhev (Februa... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
23: *[[1748]] - King George's War ends with the [[Treaty of A... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
5: <small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
149: ...ibuted. Uranus' [[cyan]] color is due to the absorption of [[red]] light by atmospheric [[methane]].
155: ...riptions are exactly equivalent as physical descriptions of the planet but result in different definit...
164: ...ion at relatively shallow depths within Uranus. Neptune has a similarly displaced magnetic field, sugg...
168: ...1712]] and [[1715]]. [[Bradley]] observed it in [[1748]], [[1750]] and [[1753]]; [[Mayer]] in [[1756]]. ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...an to colonize [[North America]]. The first attempts, notably the [[Colony of Roanoke]], resulted in ...
11: ...alth and power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe ...
16: ...At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a colonial em...
37: ...ng - not the sort of audience that is usually receptive to the call of religion. It did not attract m...
56: ...t America would be a "redeemer nation" (see [[exceptionalism]]). Though they fled from religious repre... - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
3: ...e [[volcano]] [[Mount Vesuvius]] in 79 CE. The eruption was described by [[Pliny the Younger]] (see be...
13: ...f Campania. In the time between 62 and 79 (the eruption), it was rebuilt, perhaps richer than before i...
18: ... when on [[August 24]] a catastrophic volcanic eruption of the volcano buried the city and obscured th...
22: ...ral earth tremors were felt at the time of the eruption and were followed by a very violent shaking of...
26: ...o the fact that the sun was blocked out by the eruption and the daylight hours were left in darkness. ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist
209: *[[Ahmed H. Zewail]] (born 1946), [[Egyptian]], [[1999]] Nobel Prize Winner for his work on... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
9: ... Josiah Franklin, was born at [[Ecton]], [[Northamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]...
17: ...7]]), Sarah ([[July 9]], [[1699]]), Ebenezer ([[September 20]], [[1701]]), Thomas ([[December 7]], [[1...
23: ...o to [[London]] where, finding Keith's promises empty, he again worked as a compositor in a printer's ...
27: ...and Franklin felt that this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenment]] partly contributed to the Americ...
36: In [[1748]], he retired from printing and went into other b... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
74: *[[Johann Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1667]] - [[1748]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
116: *[[Dominique, comte de Cassini]] ([[France]], [[1748]] – [[1845]])
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
139: *[[John Balguy]], (1686-1748)
178: *[[Jeremy Bentham]], (1748-1832){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}} - Time (15299 bytes)
3: Attempting to understand the nature of '''Time''' has alw...
9: ...ay are "non-SI" units, but ''are'' officially accepted for use ''with'' the International System. The...
23: ...t time is part of a fundamental [[abstract]] conceptual framework (together with [[space]] and [[numbe...
25: ... both as features of [[spacetime]] – a conception that challenges intuitive notions of [[simulta...
27: ...ical]] entity itself, or simply a [[concept |conceptual]] framework we need to think (and talk) about ... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
12: ...nelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman fr...
21: .... In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of...
69: ...e Holy Roman Emperor until [[1806]] (with the exception of the years between [[1742]] and [[1745]]). H...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t...
108: In the [[War of Austrian Succession]] ([[1740]]-[[1748]]) [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] fou... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
8: ...an="3" valign="center" | [[Palladium|Pd]]<br />'''Pt'''<br />[[Darmstadtium|Ds]]
10: | align="center" | [[image:Pt-TableImage.png]]<br />
16: ...[List of elements by number|Number]] || Platinum, Pt, 78
24: ...ppearance]] || <center>grayish white<br />[[Image:Pt,78.jpg|125px|]]</center>
87: |<sup>190</sup>Pt - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
18: ...origin of the name has been much debated and attempts have been made to show that it existed in the Da...
26: ...sels]], where he met and quarrelled with [[Jean-Baptiste Rousseau]], went on to the Hague and then ret...
34: ...ent for the second time to the Bastille. He was kept in confinement a fortnight, and was then packed o...
42: ...d in England, was accepted for performance, but kept back for a time by the author; and he began the c...
44: ...ire went to [[Rouen]] to get ''Charles XII'' surreptitiously printed. In [[1732]] two more [[tragedy|t... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
3: ...ch.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Johann Sebastian Bach, [[1748]] portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann]]
5: ...l time. His works, noted for their intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty, have pr...
13: ...when the house was asleep, he retrieved a manuscript (which may have been a collection of works by Joh...
32: ...on" and carefully prepared a calligraphic manuscript of the work, which required every available music...
44: ...de frequent visits to Bach's house and may have kept up frequent correspondence with him. Interestingl... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3:
61: ...ovae theoriae musicae'' in 1739 which was an attempt to combine [[mathematics]] and [[music]]; a biogr...
75: * Euler, Leonhard (1748). ''Introductio in analysin infinitorum''. Englis... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
12: ...nelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman fr...
21: .... In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of...
69: ...e Holy Roman Emperor until [[1806]] (with the exception of the years between [[1742]] and [[1745]]). H...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t...
108: In the [[War of Austrian Succession]] ([[1740]]-[[1748]]) [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] fou...
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