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- 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: - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
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25: ...[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
27: ...1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawyer and later [[Aaron Burr]]'s second in the duel with [[Alexander Ham...
29: ...e a member of the [[Court for the Correction of Errors]], the highest [[Court (judicial)|court]] in Ne...
33: ...a Federalist. He had already, in [[1808]], moved from Kinderhook to [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]], and i... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
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25: ...y by Jackson's aggressive handling of the South Carolina [[nullification]] issue.
36: *Robert Tyler ([[September 9]], [[1816]] - [[December...
51: *Robert Fitzwalter Tyler ([[March 12]], [[1856]] - [[...
58: ... office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one exceptio... - Peru (12264 bytes)
2: ...cean]] to the west. Peru is rich in cultural anthropology, and is well-known as the ''cradle of the [...
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22: ... of Presidents of Peru|President]]''' || [[Alejandro Toledo Manrique]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
16: *[[Yamagata Hiro]] (born 1964), author
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
23: *[[Yan Chia-kan]] (1905-1993), ROC politician
27: ...nkovic|Yankovic, "Weird Al"]] (born 1959), US [[parody]] musician
31: ...ssociation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - Nutrition (42689 bytes)
4: ...ssive ingestion of elements that have no apparent role in health, (e.g. [[lead]], [[mercury (element)|...
8: ...[hormones]]/[[vitamins]], [[phospholipids]], [[hydroxyapatite]]), both in the [[human body]] and in or...
10: ... amount of digestive juice is eliminated by this process; the intestines reabsorb most of it; otherwis...
14: ...time-consuming and expensive, and explains why a proper science of human nutrition is rather new.
16: ... medium-sized meals every 3 to 4 hours) has also proven more hormonally and metabolically favourable t... - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...cussed under [[electrical phenomenon]] and [[electromagnetism]].
6: ...r]]", which came from an old [[root (linguistics)|root]] ''ēlek-'' = "shine".
8: ... is believed by some to have been used for [[electroplating]]. There is no firm documentary evidence t...
10: ...xperimenting with the Leyden jar, discovered in [[1747]] that a discharge of static electricity was equi...
11: ...art provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] - 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) - Mustard (7834 bytes)
16: ...lant species in the genus ''[[Brassica]]'' whose proverbially tiny [[mustard seed]]s are used as a [[s...
22: ...]], the U.S. and some European countries. Canada grows 90% of all the mustard seed for the internation...
26: ...to be an effective [[pesticide]]. [http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/pdfs/bcota/abstracts/19/z347.p...
32: ...nd bring back to him a single mustard seed taken from a house where no person had died. [[Jesus]]'s pa...
34: ...a [[glucoside]] from the seeds, resulting in the production of the oil [[allyl isothiocyanate]]. - 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. - Vitamin (5982 bytes)
1: ...ism cannot synthesize, and therefore must obtain from its [[diet (nutrition)|diet]]. The term vitamin...
7: ...to be caused by a [[Vitamin A]] deficiency. In [[1747]], the [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[surgeon]] [[James ...
9: ... Cecil Drummond]] proposed that the final "e" be dropped, to deemphasize the "amine" reference, after ...
11: Throughout the early [[1900]]s, scientists were able t...
73: |[[Lamisterol]] - 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... - 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.]] - Articles of Confederation (19574 bytes)
5: ...st constitution of the United States, laying the groundwork for the nation's early experiment in self-...
9: ...at respected the sovereignty of each state while providing a framework for collective action in matter...
17: ...o levy taxes, relying on voluntary contributions from states. This financial weakness severely hampere...
18: ...us approval from all thirteen states, making the process arduous and often impractical.
22: ... a crucial role in the nation's formative years, providing a blueprint for cooperation among states du...
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