Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...a, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
5: ...1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
31: *[[Dorothea Ackermann|Ackermann, Dorothea]] (born 1752)
44: *[[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952) - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...til her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
5: ...rfa Skavronska and was the daughter of Samuil Skavronski, a [[Lithuania]]n peasant. She was married a...
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]])
10: *[[Empress]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
11: *Grand Duchess Nataliya Petrovna ([[1713]]-[[1715]]) - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...e''' ([[6 February]] [[1665]]–[[1 August]][[1714]]) became Queen of [[England]], [[Scotland]] and ...
10: ...d England and Scotland into Great Britain) was a product of subsequent negotiations.
12: ...s husband was [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], who led the English armies in the [[War of ...
15: ... married John Churchill (the future Duke of Marlborough), who would later become one of Anne's most im...
17: ...nded the Throne as James II. James, desirous of a Roman Catholic successor, suggested to Princess Anne... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more ...
12: ...tranged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the...
14: ...oria's uncle, the Prince of Wales, inherited the Crown, becoming King George IV. Though she occupied a...
16: ...the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent ...
18: ...sons for marrying Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage. - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...II of Orange|William of Orange]] to the British throne and was rewarded with an earldom.
4: ...sband fell out of royal favor. Anne's death in [[1714]] restored their fortunes, but the Duke died in [...
6: Close links with the Royal Family remained. In a move which anticipated ...
8: {{succession box | title=[[Mistress of the Robes]] | before=— | after=[[Elizabeth Seymour... - Contrabassoon (3761 bytes)
5: ...Additional support is sometimes given by a strap around the player's neck. A wider hand position is al...
7: ...ey to expel condensation, and a tuning slide for gross pitch adjustments.
11: ...iated by appropriate reed design changes. While prominent in solo and small ensemble situations, the ...
14: ...d had only three keys, was built in 1714. It was around that time that the contrabassoon began gaining... - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...[Gulf of Bothnia]] to the west. Finland has land frontiers with [[Sweden]], [[Norway]] and [[Russia]] ...
3: ...cing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-co...
6: ... border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:center;"
14: | align=center colspan=2 style="background:#f9f9f9;" | [[image:LocationFinland.png|Locati...
33: | style="vertical-align: top;" | From [[Russia]]<br/>[[6 December]] [[1917]]<br/>[[22 ... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ... the [[Islas Chafarinas|Chafarine]] islands, the "rocks" (es: ''pes'') of [[Pede V鬥z de la G...
20: ...s頌uis Rodr�ez Zapatero|Jos頌uis Rguez. Zapatero]] |
40: currency = [[Euro]] (€)<sup>2</sup> |
42: time_zone = [[Central European Time|CET]]<sup>3</sup> |
44: time_zone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...ctical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where the...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
10: * 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]] - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
9: ...hree wars, fought more as secondary theatres to European conflicts, resulted in little territorial cha...
13: ...ictories at [[Fort William Henry]], [[Fort Ticonderoga]], and against the [[Braddock Expedition]] and ...
15: ...tain gained control of a large French-speaking, [[Roman Catholic]] population in [[Lower Canada]]. Nea...
17: ...r]] crops and the ease with which it could be controlled.
19: ...onial settlements imposed by the [[British Royal Proclamation of 1763]] in the newly acquired French t... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
45: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]] (1475 - 1564)
54: *Sir [[Anthony Caro]] (1924 - ) - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves mos...
7: ...[Pope Pius VII|Pius VII]] was [[Papal Coronation|crowned Pope]] in [[Venice]] with a temporary [[Papal...
17: ...] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]]
18: ...[[Moondog Coronation Ball]], the first [[rock and roll]] concert, in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]
19: ...ville]], [[South Africa]]: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, k... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[...
18: *[[Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs]] ([[Germany]], [[1912]] – [[1954]])
20: *[[Robert Grant Aitken|Robert Aitken]], ([[United States|USA]], [[1864]] &n...
23: *[[V. Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]]) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: The oldest surviving archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE, ...
7: Other stone tools from the [[Middle Palaeolithic|Middle Paleolithic Era...
9: ...out between the [[Mediterranean]] and [[Central Europe]].
11: ... archeological digs and burial places scattered across Slovakia, and even more surprisingly, in the no...
13: ...years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨ory. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
11: *[[John Abercrombie]], (1780-1844)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
22: *[[Robert Adamson]], (1852-1902) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: '''François-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30...
8: ...etimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relation...
12: ...the basis of his considerable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...oor family, but his father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ...ly every musician in the [[Europe]]an tradition, from [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] to [[Arnold S...
7: ...r were all professional musicians, as well as numerous other more distant relatives, while his sons [[...
11: ...les were also all professional musicians ranging from church organists and court chamber musicians to ...
13: ...om his private library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to le...
17: ...erience with the innards of the instrument would provide a unique counterpoint to his unequalled skill... - Anne Bonny (5802 bytes)
5: ...ame public, Cormac moved to [[Charleston, South Carolina]] where he made a fortune and bought a large ...
10: ...so true that after the arrival of Governor Woodes Rogers in the summer of 1718, James Bonny became an ...
12: ...he New Providence, James dragged Anne before Gov. Rogers to demand she be flogged for adultery and ret...
15: ...ever, known to all from the start, including Gov. Rogers, who named them in a "pirates wanted" circula...
18: ... commanded a ship of her own. Her renown derives from the fact that she was a rarity: a female pirate. - 18th century (8231 bytes)
3: ...rs to the [[century]] that lasted from [[1701]] through [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]].
5: ...nd the start of the [[French Revolution]]. In [[Europe]], the principal nations of this period (in ter...
9: ...way from the west and create new competition in Europe other than France, England, and Spain.
11: ..., where civil war enabled the British to take control of the entire sub-continent.
13: ...isual arts, the [[Rococo]] style replaced the [[Baroque]], then was succeeded by the [[Neoclassical]] ...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).