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- 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)
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...
19: ...Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne and her descendants were to be i... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - Dodo (9332 bytes)
12: ... | binomial_name = Raphus cucullatus | author=[[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ...is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
20: Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had bl...
22: ...e ever supported flight and it is believed these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of an is...
24: ...ipe fruits at the end of the wet season to live through the dry season where food was scarce; contempo... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: <!-- To edit the text of this article, scroll down past the table -->{| border="2" cellpaddin...
15: ...pan="2"| [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] [[J2000]])
18: ...70,972,220 [[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
88: !align="left"| Rotation period
89: | [[retrograde motion|−]]0.718 333 333 d (17 h 14 min... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ... Virginia|Jamestown]], and the [[convict]]s of [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]] each came to the new co...
4: ...features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different ...
8: ===Europe===
9: ...ring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...lear that the first nation to find a direct trade route to the [[East Indies|"Indies"]] would benefit ... - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ... conflicting interests of these initially allied groups would become the source of conflict and bloods...
5: ...easants covetously eyed the relatively greater prerogatives of the townspeople.
7: ...and challenged the [[Catholic Church]] and the prerogatives of the nobles.
9: ...t in a non-bourgeois manner. The entire French terrorism was just a [[plebeian]] way of dealing with t...
13: ...owever, because noble titles exempted the holder from future taxes, the purchasers of titles were effe... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...]]s overthrew the [[absolute monarchy]] and the [[Roman Catholic Church]] was forced to undergo radica...
8: ... conflicting interests of these initially allied groups would become the source of conflict and bloods...
12: * Resentment of royal [[political absolutism|absolutism]].
15: ... both caused by and exacerbating the burden of a grossly inequitable system of [[tax]]ation.
17: ...ge and dominance in public life by the ambitious professional classes. - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: '''William Dampier''' ([[1652]] – March, [[1715]]) was a [[England|English]] explorer, sea captai...
7: ...1679]] he accompanied a raid across the [[Dari鮠Province|Isthmus of Dari鮝] in [[Panama]] and captur...
9: ...et'', and on [[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], callin...
11: ...t year, by agreement, he and two shipmates were marooned on one of the [[Nicobar Islands]]. They built...
13: ==The ''Roebuck'' expedition== - 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]]) - 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... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
12: ... | binomial_name = Raphus cucullatus | author=[[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ...is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
20: Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had bl...
22: ...e ever supported flight and it is believed these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of an is...
24: ...ipe fruits at the end of the wet season to live through the dry season where food was scarce; contempo... - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ...unities sometimes awe audiences with extravagant productions.
4: ...on spellings in the U.S. when referring to stage productions, and "theatre" is often encountered when ...
11: ...ed a theater in New York and presented the first professionally-mounted American play, ''[[The Prince ...
13: Throughout the [[18th century]] there was widespread o...
17: ... Abthorpe Cooper]], similarly became well known throughout the young nation. - 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]] ... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar...
4: ...Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250px|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[177...
6: ...in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenment ideals, but with the Fre...
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spanish Successi...
14: ...thumb|upright|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], English general.]]
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