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- China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng2.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in th...
5: ...]] [[Chinese dynasty|dynastic]] change. The [[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a ...
7: ...orld War II. Since then the ROC has maintained control over Taiwan and the [[Pescadores]], islands off...
14: ...e centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states.
16: ...although being continually redefined while the central political influence expanded territorially, and... - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
5: ...ev|Afanasyev, Viktor M.]], (born 1948), Russian astronaut
15: ...nso VI of Portugal|Afonso VI of Portugal]], (1643-1683), king in 1656 - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...7;евна) ([[April 15]], [[1683]]/[[1684]]–[[May 17]],[[1727]]) was the sec...
7: ...et Marfa, and shortly after he took her as his mistress. In [[1705]], she converted to [[Orthodoxy]] ...
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: ... as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland would co-op...
15: ...ulthood. Anne suffered from an eye infection; for treatment, she was sent to [[France]]. She lived wit...
17: ...ccessor, suggested to Princess Anne that he would try to make her his heir if she converted to Catholi...
22: ..., the Marlboroughs' home. Princess Anne was then stripped of her guard of honour, and the guards at th...
24: ...s government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from maki... - Biography (6028 bytes)
8: ...e lives of [[chief]]s, [[kings]], [[tribes]], [[patriarchs]] and [[prophets]]. ...
12: ... reign of the [[Roman Empire]], the [[Gospels]] attributed to [[John]], [[Luke]], [[Mark]] and [[Matth...
16: ...dern biographies. Their subjects were usually restricted to [[church father]]s, [[martyr]]s, [[papacy...
22: ...x style of biographical writing used today. In [[1683]], the first [[English language]] biography appea... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall o...
64: *[[Trisha Yearwood|Yearwood, Trisha]] (born 1964), musician
68: ...egorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...sei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut
74: *[[Philip Yeo|Yeo, Philip]], industrial and systems engineer - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
287: *[[Pietro da Cortona]] ([[1596]]-[[1669]]) - John Locke (14749 bytes)
2: [[Image:Locke-John-portrait-photo-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Im...
3: ...George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
8: ... of Shaftesbury]], who had come to Oxford seeking treatment for a liver infection. Cooper was impresse...
12: ...he advice of several physicians and was likely instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to undergo an op...
16: ...e fled to the [[Netherlands]] in [[1683]], under strong suspicion of involvement in the [[Rye House Pl... - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: ... populated by [[missionary|missionaries]] and fur trappers, to a land of opportunity and wealth, first...
11: ...and, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the la...
13: ...ada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the acidic [[tan...
19: ...ries of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a wonderful country far to the northwest, populated with [[Amazons|A...
30: ... applied in the account of this voyage. It can be traced back to a series of romances that were very p... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ... of [[New Holland (Australia)|New Holland]] ([[Australia]]) and [[New Guinea]]. He was the first perso...
7: ...th [[buccaneer]]s on the [[Spanish Main]] of [[Central America]], twice visiting the [[Bay of Campeach...
9: ...and [[New Holland (Australia)|New Holland]] ([[Australia]]).
11: ... small craft and sailed it to [[Acheen]] in [[Sumatra]]. After further adventures Dampier returned to ...
16: ...HMS ''Roebuck'']] with a commission to explore Australia and New Guinea. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...is many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a member of the [[Freemasons...
8: ===Ancestry===
11: ...([[May 16]], [[1681]]), and Hannah ([[May 25]], [[1683]]).
13: Sometime during the second half of 1683, the Franklins left [[England]] for [[Boston, Mas...
21: Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. His fathe... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}...
191: *[[Bhartrhari]], (5th century){{fn|R}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
11: ...gn: center; background: white;" | [[Image:Ottoman 1683.png|Map of the Ottoman Empire]]<br/><small>''The ...
45: ...'the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottoman]] name...
47: ...much of this was under indirect control of the central government(see ''Main article: [[State organiza...
53: ... [[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[...
55: ...[spice]] trade. In Aceh, the Ottomans built a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlan... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
5: ...e [[Low Countries]], and parts of northern and central [[Italy]]. But its sovereign was usually the Ge...
10: ...[[Germanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germania Inferior]], [[Ger...
15: ...e Rhine. Roman forts were built at [[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to sec...
17: ... the emergence of a number of large West Germanic tribes - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons,...
19: ...heir own ancestral land. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to t... - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...ry in [[South America]] occupying a long coastal strip between the [[Andes]] mountains and the [[Pacif...
6: {{Infobox Country |
56: ...ra]] ''tchili'' meaning "snow"; another meaning attributed to ''chilli'' is the onomatopoeic ''cheele-...
64: ...cognized the agricultural potential of Chile's central valley, and Chile became part of the [[Viceroya...
66: ...apuche land to the south, and permitted increased trade between colonists and Mapuches. - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
5: ...e [[Low Countries]], and parts of northern and central [[Italy]]. But its sovereign was usually the Ge...
10: ...[[Germanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germania Inferior]], [[Ger...
15: ...e Rhine. Roman forts were built at [[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to sec...
17: ... the emergence of a number of large West Germanic tribes - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons,...
19: ...heir own ancestral land. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to t... - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
1: This timeline tries to compile dates of important historical event...
3: ...icles|articles on the histories of individual countries]]. See [[Ancient Near East]] for ancient histo...
29: ... water]] is added, significantly expanding it and transforming it from a fresh-water landlocked lake i...
68: * [[Troy]] I-V
76: * Major migration of Central Saharans into [[West Africa]] possibly due to [... - Temperature (22519 bytes)
6: ...onal discussion of the various mechanisms of heat transfer).
10: ...[mass]] and [[volume]] are [[extrinsic property|extrinsic properties]], and depend on the amount of ma...
13: ...t all fields of science, including physics, chemistry, and biology.
15: ...hich a [[tungsten]] filament is [[electricity|electrically]] heated to a temperature at which signific...
29: *[[Langmuir probe]]s (for electron temperature of a [[plasma]])
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