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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...twerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...2]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozhars...
12: ...ard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican...
15: ...ility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]]. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...air, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
37: ...s, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...at''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[Novembe...
5: ...nths later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by C...
9: ...-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine drew up ...
11: ...e status hereditary; and gave the nobles full control over their serfs and lands. In addition, Catheri...
13: Catherine proceeded to "Westernize" Russia. However, unlike [[P... - 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: ... [[1711]], both Sarah and her husband fell out of royal favor. Anne's death in [[1714]] restored thei...
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... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...eration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in ...
24: ...758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing d...
26: ... [[1764]] Adams married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]–[[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregati...
28: ...[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through his work as a constitutional lawyer. Impetuous...
31: ...which he pronounced the Stamp Act invalid on the ground that Massachusetts, being without representati... - 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 painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
25: *[[Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard]] ([[1744]]-[[1809]])
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]]) - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
3: ...'' refers to the [[18th century]] in [[Europe | European philosophy]], and is often thought of
4: ...h of [[socialism]]. It is matched by the high [[baroque]] and classical eras in music, and the [[neo-c...
6: ...losophers such as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing inst...
10: ...t is thought of as a long period). Furthermore, [[Romanticism]] followed the Enlightenment.
14: ...became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson. - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: '''Abigail Smith Adams''' ([[November 11]], [[1744]] – [[October 28]], [[1818]]) was the wife ...
3: ...ducation. On her mother's side she was descended from the Quincys, a family of great prestige in the [...
17: <td>[[November 11]], [[1744]]</td>
48: ...ams is remembered today for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he served his country in [...
50: ...tic post in [[Paris]]. After 1785, she filled the role of wife of the first United States Minister to ... - 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) - Celsius (3635 bytes)
4: ! Conversion from
18: ...a Christian of Lyons (1743), and the botanist [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1740); also independently invented...
20: ...etween the triple point of water and [[absolute zero]]. This definition ensures that one degree Celsiu...
22: ...s reversed in [[1747]], at the instigation of [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], or perhaps [[Daniel Ekstr...
24: ...rement, although Celsius or kelvin are used for aeronautical and scientific applications. - 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.]] - February 22 (10772 bytes)
6: * [[1290s BC]] - The coronation of [[Ramses II]], on whose face the sun's r...
9: ... France]] enters [[Naples]] to claim the city's throne.
11: * [[1744]] - The [[Battle of Toulon, 1744|Battle of Toulon]] begins.
13: ...Buena Vista]] - 5,000 [[United States|American]] troops drive off 15,000 [[Mexico|Mexican]].
19: ...- [[President of the United States|President]] [[Grover Cleveland]] signs a bill admitting [[North Dak... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
4: ...ng="1" align="right" style="margin-left:1em; background:#e3e3e3;"
36: ...́д, [[1924]]–[[1991]]) and '''Petrograd''' (Петрог...
38: ...est city, Europe's fourth largest city, a major European cultural center and the most important Russia...
40: ...1094;а). <!-- translator paraphrasing here from de: -->
48: ...st spaces, gardens and parks, decorative wrought-iron fences, monumental and decorative sculptures. T... - Temperature (22519 bytes)
1: '''Temperature''' is the [[physics|physical]] property of a system which underlies the common notio...
4: The formal properties of temperature are studied in [[thermodyna...
6: ...re difference does exist, heat will tend to move from the ''higher'' temperature system to the ''lower...
8: ...onds to a loss of heat from the system. On the microscopic scale this heat corresponds to the random m...
10: ...nd [[volume]] are [[extrinsic property|extrinsic properties]], and depend on the amount of material in...
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