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- 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
6: *[[Bernard Accama|Accama, Bernard]] (1697-1756), Dutch painter
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
31: *[[Dorothea Ackermann|Ackermann, Dorothea]] (born 1752) - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
9: *[[Olof Ũlstr?hlstr?Olof]] ([[1756]]-[[1835]]), composer - 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... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...beth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709...
3: ...xorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Ras...
7: ...litical opponents to challenge her right to the throne.
9: ...these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by he...
11: ... dislike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her mother (... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...mbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europe.
3: ... woven in strips. In the real estate and home improvement industries a distinction is made between ca...
10: ...lain weave]], and [[tapestry weave]]. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[...
12: ... pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as burlap. ...
14: ...s alternate with a supplementary weft that rises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular angl... - 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... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ...later drawn into the [[conflict]], while a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was a...
3: ...nly to the [[Europe]]an portions of the conflict (1756–1763), not the nine-year North American con...
7: ==Roots==
8: ... [[Frederick II of Prussia]] had gained the rich province of [[Silesia]]. Empress [[Maria Theresa of A...
10: ...as, as well as exert some influence on mainland Europe. Furthermore, this allowed Britain to focus her... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]]) - Uranus (15207 bytes)
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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... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
1: ...mage:AaronBurr-flipped.jpg|thumb|Vice President Aaron Burr]]
3: ...cratic-Republican party]] in [[New York]] and a strong supporter of Governor [[George Clinton (politic...
7: ...rn in [[Newark]], [[New Jersey]], to the Rev. [[Aaron Burr, Sr.]], who was the second president of the...
9: ...aw in the celebrated law school conducted by his brother-in-law, [[Tapping Reeve]], at [[Litchfield, C...
13: ...rom [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture. - March 17 (9666 bytes)
7: ...ation of the [[Cathay Company]] to send [[Martin Frobisher]] back to the New World for more gold
9: ... in [[New York City]] for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
13: *[[1861]] - The Kingdom of [[Italy]] is proclaimed.
14: *[[1886]] - [[Carrollton Massacre]]: 20 [[African American]]s are kil...
21: ...President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. - 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) - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
3: ...ns of the [[Hudson Bay]] coasts with a view to improving the cod fishery, and in [[1769]]-[[1772]] he ...
5: ...uide on his arctic overland journey, massacred a group of unsuspecting [[Inuit]]; this would be known ...
7: ...ch under [[Jean-Fran�ois de La P�rouse|La P�rouse]] in 1782. He returned to England in [[1787]] ... - 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... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
1: ...er aged 49 (oil painting by [[Emanuel Handmann]], 1756)]]
5: ...eventeen years of his life, during which time he produced almost half of his total output.
7: The [[asteroid]] [[2002 Euler]] is named in his honour.
12: .... Euler was the first to publish a systematic introduction to [[mechanics]] in [[1736]]: ''Mechanica ...
16: ...es]] in [[Berlin]]. His time in Berlin was very productive; however, he did not have an easy position... - 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.]] - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12500 bytes)
1: ...nsidered one of the greatest [[composer]]s of [[European classical music]] (especially, of the [[Class...
7: ...l independent [[Archbishopric]] within the [[Holy Roman Empire]], to his father [[Leopold Mozart|Leopo...
11: ...irth. Mozart received intensive musical training from his father, including instruction in both the [[...
13: ...companied her brother on Leopold's tours. Mozart wrote a number of piano pieces, in particular [[Duet ...
15: ... Mozart completed several journeys throughout [[Europe]], beginning with an exhibition in 1762 at the ...
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