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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...neteenth century enabled the manufacture of more production machines for manufacturing in other indust...
3: ...lway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the growth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the ...
5: The effects spread throughout [[Western Europe]] and [[North America]], eventually affecting t...
7: The term industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste ...
10: ...tain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effici... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...Maria Theresa), ruler of the [[Habsburg Empire]] from [[1740]]-[[1780]]. Also see [[Maria Theresa of S...
3: ...MariaTheresa.JPG|frame|H.I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduc...
4: ... women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
6: ...erit his united lands on his death. While many European monarchs agreed to the Pragmatic Sanction whe...
8: ...ir apparent to the king of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. She h... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...e:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: ...ngres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Ag...
5: Diderot also contributed to [[literature]], notably with...
7: ...743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the writer Mad...
10: - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
4: ...cing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-co...
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36: | From [[United Kingdom|the British]]<br>[[1919]]
55: ...fghanistan. The remainder of the name originates from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''stā...
60: ...ntral Asia]], has had a very turbulent history. Through the ages, the region today known as ''Afghanis... - 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]]) - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
5: ...[[Thomas Jefferson]]; the territory was acquired from [[France]].
7: ...River Basin]]''', acquired in [[1818]] by treaty from Great Britain
9: *'''[[Florida Purchase]]''', made in [[1819]] from [[Spain]], under the administration of [[John Qu...
11: ...residency, but before he took office, Congress approved the annexation of Texas on [[February 28]], [[...
13: ...regon Treaty]], the two countries had jointly controlled the area since 1818 - January 17 (12233 bytes)
7: ...ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the [[Jacobite]] dynasty.
8: ...ain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circle]].
9: ...leton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]] in [[South Carolina]].
10: * [[1819]] - [[Simol�r]] proclaims the Republic of [[Colombia]].
12: * [[1873]] - [[First Battle of the Stronghold]] in the [[United States|US]] [[Modoc War]]... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...ducting plates (usually made of metal) stacked or rolled to form a compact device, but '''every''' mul...
7: ...e, the ''total'' charge in the device is always zero.
9: [[Image:Dielectric.png|frame|The electrons in the molecules shift toward the positively ch...
13: ...fference]] or ''voltage'' (''V'') which appears across the plates:
16: ...acitors are usually expressed in microfarads (µF), nanofarads (nF) or picofarads (pF). - 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]]) - 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) - Thallium (12570 bytes)
7: <tr><td rowspan="3" valign="center">[[Indium|In]]<br>'''Tl''...
19: ...riod]], [[periodic table block|Block]]</td><td>[[group 13 element|13 (IIIA)]], [[period 6 element|6]],...
25: ...n="2" align="center" bgcolor="#cccccc">'''Atomic properties'''</th></tr>
35: <td>[[Electron configuration]] </td><td><...
37: <td>[[electron|e<sup>−</sup>]]s per [[energy level]]</td>... - Zinc (12445 bytes)
9: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | '''Zn'''<br>[[Cadmium|...
23: | [[periodic table group|Group]], [[periodic table period|Period]], [[periodic...
24: | [[group 12 element|12]], [[period 4 element|4]], [[d-bl...
32: ..."2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0" | '''Atomic properties'''
46: | [[Electron configuration]] - 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... - List of U.S. states by elevation (16995 bytes)
4: |valign="top"| [[Image:Death Valley from space.JPG|thumb|200px|[[Death Valley]] — l...
92: | 85 m ([[Cairo, Illinois|Cairo]])
210: | [[North Carolina]]
211: | 2,037 m ([[Mount Mitchell (North Carolina)|Mount Mitchell]])
252: | [[South Carolina]] - History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
2: ...istinction of [[chemistry]] from [[alchemy]] by [[Robert Boyle]] in his work ''The Skeptical Chymist''...
3: ....jpg|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
5: [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
8: ...ore had an organic [[compound]] been synthesized from inorganic material. This opened a new research f...
12: ...gation of [[Einstein]]'s atomic explanation of [[Brownian motion]] in the first decade of the [[20th c... - 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.]] - Leyden jar (3953 bytes)
7: ... metal ball. Typical designs consist of an [[electrode]] and a plate, each of which stores an opposite...
14: ..., independently made the same discovery. Musschenbroek made the storage jar known to the scientific wo...
16: ...e's law remains valid (a changing electric field produces a magnetic field). The displacement current ...
24: ...ugh surface area to discharge it. The conductors provide this surface area.
26: ...ltages present when the conductors are separated from the dielectric "spraying" charge onto the dielec...
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