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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
116: ...Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
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....
34: ...t of Diderot.jpg|thumb|200px|Portrait by [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], 1766]] - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
62: ...l around [[10 BCE]]. To the south, this kingdom captured [[Sindh]] and extended to the coast of the [[...
72: ...British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Empire co...
76: ...nah]] a British-educated Indian Muslim leader, adopted the cause, and later earned the title of Quaid-...
90: ...he [[Persian language|Persian]] language the concepts of "Pak" meaning "Pure" and "stan" for "land" or...
130: ...73]] Pakistan itself had. The US also did not accept Bangladesh in favor of Pakistan until after the [... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
50: ...bed the "[[Northeast Kingdom]]") is known for exceptionally cold winters, often averaging more than te...
64: ...settlers from [[Albany, New York|Albany]] under Captain Jacobus de Warm established the De Warm Stocka...
66: ...ey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst|Jeffrey Amherst]] captured the fort. The French were driven out of the a...
74: ...], a series of 135 [[land grant]]s made between [[1749]] and [[1764]] by New Hampshire's colonial govern...
78: ...ah West during a violent thunderstorm, and was adopted by the delegates after four days of debate. Thi... - 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]]) - 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...
44: ... storms travel'', eventually leading to the ''synoptic charts'' of ''dynamic meteorology'', replacing ... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
20: ...nded when a charter is adopted in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]].
96: *[[1687]] - [[Jean Baptiste Lully]], French [[composer]] (b. [[1632]])
98: ...lfgang von Goethe]], German writer and poet (b. [[1749]]) - March 23 (10340 bytes)
25: ...]: In the [[Indian Ocean]], [[Japan]]ese forces capture the [[Anadaman Islands]].
30: ... initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
44: *[[1749]] - [[Pierre Simon de Laplace]], French mathemati... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
149: *[[ɭilie du Chⴥlet]] (1706-1749) (France)
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1822]])
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
346: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1827]])
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}}
368: *[[Catherine Trotter Cockburn]], (1679-1749){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
478: *[[ɭilie du Chⴥlet]], (1706-1749){{fn|R}}
646: *[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], (1749-1832){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - 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... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
10: ... later capital, [[Susa]], and geographers after [[Ptolemy]] called it ''Susiana''. Though primarily ce...
13: ...uch links are at best conjectural, as [[Indus script|Harappan pictographs]] have yet to be deciphered....
17: ...sel, Proto-Elamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
19: ...and texts in the undeciphered [[Proto-Elamite script]] continue to be present until ca. [[2700 BC]]. T...
24: ...e: ca. 3200 BC – 2700 BC (Proto-Elamite script in Susa) - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
27: * [[1707]]: [[Mount Fuji]] erupts in Japan.
47: * [[1719]]: Spanish attempt to restart the [[Jacobite rising#The Rebellion/Ri...
88: * [[1740]]: British attempt to capture [[St. Augustine, Florida]] but lose to the Spa...
94: ...t the [[Jacobite Rising#1744 French invasion attempt|Jacobite rebellion]] fails
105: ...English and English allies. The North American chapter of the [[Seven Years' War]]. - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
48: ...rought-iron fences, monumental and decorative sculptures. The Neva River itself, together with its ma...
58: ...khail Illarionovich Vorontsov|Vorontsov]] palace (1749–1757, now a military school), and the [[Med...
62: ...nd the [[Yelagin Palace]] (1818–1822), a sumptuous summer [[dacha]] of the imperial family, situ...
70: ...g [[onion dome|onion spires]], this church is exceptional in the city with its onion-shaped tower.
82: ...al|Gothic Revival]] style, those of St John the Baptist (1776–1781) and the Chesmenskaya (1777&n...
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