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- 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... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
13: ...atholic [[Mary of Modena]], also known as Mary Beatrice d'Este.
15: At the age of fifteen, Princess Mary became betrothed to the Protestant [[Stadtholder]] and [[Prin...
17: ...utch people, but her husband neglected or even mistreated her. William long maintained an affair with ...
20: ...reland, and as James VII in Scotland. He had a controversial religious policy; his attempts to grant f...
24: ...ined King only during his wife's lifetime, and restrictions were placed on his power. William, however... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = '''Magnoliophyta'''}}
16: ... Brown]] had established in 1827 the existence of truly naked ovules in the [[Cycadophyta|Cycadeae]] a...
22: ... creeping, erect or climbing in habit, shrubs and trees, and representing a much greater variety than ...
24: ...te]]s diverged from one another during the late [[Triassic]] (220-202 million years ago). Fossil plant... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...y the [[dulcian]], the bassoon is a part of orchestral, concert band, and chamber music literature. It...
6: ...It was, like the modern instrument,frequently constructed of maple, with thick walls to allow finger-h...
8: ...ed, the word began to be used to refer to this instrument in particular.
10: ...e great improvements in the playability of the instrument. A Dutch painting, "Der Fagottspieler", in t...
12: ==Construction and characteristics== - Arizona (24367 bytes)
50: Fish = [[Trout|Arizona Trout]] |
56: Tree = [[Palo Verde]] |
61: Fossil = [[Petrified wood]] |
62: StateRock = [[Petrified wood]] |
72: Ships = U.S.S. Arizona (Destroyed 1941) | - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...nch and Indian War]]. For many years, rightful control of the area was disputed by the surrounding [[1...
46: ...their relatively low altitude allows for little [[tree-line|timberline]], form a north-south spine run...
50: ...ng Vermont some of New England's best [[cross-country skiing]] areas.
52: ...ch to the presence of a particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and cl...
58: ...the [[Iroquois]] drove many of the smaller native tribes out of Vermont, later using the area as a [[h... - Texas (39610 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]]<br />[...
44: * [[state tree]] — the [[pecan]]
52: ...th an area of [[1 E11 m?|690,000]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]], Texas forms the second-largest...
57: Texas lies in the south-central part of the United States of America. Depending...
70: ...a]] Tribes of Texas, the [[Kickapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of... - 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]]) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[astronomer]], [[philosopher]], and [[alchemist]] who w...
4: ...lity]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour]]s observed when [[white]] [[...
21: ...b|left|Engraving after [[Enoch Seeman]]'s 1726 portrait of Newton]]
23: ...rantham Grammar School]]. In [[1661]] he joined [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where his uncle Willia...
25: ...ry was invented by him in his later life, to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events. - 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... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
6: ...pan="2" | [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] J2000)
9: ...78,412,027]] [[kilometre|km]]<br>5.203 363 01 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
12: | 4.888 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>32.675 AU
14: ! align="left" | [[Eccentricity (orbit)|Eccentricity]]
53: | [[1 E8 m|142,984 km]] [http://www.onasch.de/astro/showobject.php?lang=en&obj=p05]<br>(11.209 Earth... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
15: ...span="2"| [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] [[J2000]])
18: ...870,972,220 [[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
21: | 18.029 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>120.515 AU
23: !align="left"| [[Eccentricity (orbit)|Eccentricity]]
71: ...5 km2|8.084×10<sup>9</sup>]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]]<br>(15.849 Earths) - Palermo (10618 bytes)
3: ...ulation 680,000) is the principal city and administrative seat of the autonomous region of [[Sicily]],...
6: ...s founded in the 8th century BC by [[Phoenicia]]n tradesmen around a natural harbour on the north-west...
8: ... calm, Palermo coming under the provincial administration in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. When the [[...
10: ... In the Muslim period Palermo was a major city of trade, culture and learning, with (it is said) more ...
14: ...ot last, and Sicily in [[1194]] fell under the control of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. Palermo was the p... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ...ver boatmen took exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up.
21: ...en built a steamboat which underwent a successful trial in [[1787]]. The following year a second boat ...
23: ...us development of steamboats. Although plans to introduce boats on the Forth and Clyde canal were thwa...
30: ... few of which survive to the present day, most destroyed by boiler explosions or fires. One of the fe...
32: ...identally, the cartoon ''[[Steamboat Willie]]'' introduced steamboat pilot [[Mickey Mouse]] to the pub... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...is many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a member of the [[Freemasons...
8: ===Ancestry===
17: ...d the following children: John ([[December 7]], [[1690]]), Peter ([[November 22]], [[1692]]), Mary ([[Se...
21: Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. His fathe...
23: ...vvy about cultivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...n [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
42: *[[Emil Artin]] (Austria, [[1898]] - [[1962]])
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]]) - Faience (4113 bytes)
6: ...", for the [[island]] of [[Majorca]], which was a transshipping point for refined tin-glazed earthenwa...
8: ...European [[15th century]] is in fact inferior in strength and durability to the faience that was produ...
13: ...rn (and Protestant) Germany established German centres of faience: the first manufactories in Germany ...
15: ...oted to faience, and followed by [[Rouen]] and [[Strasbourg]],
19: ...n the 18th century, leading to the '''''Faience patriotique''''' that was a specialty of the years of ... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...alta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ... [[John the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It w...
9: ... [[Margat]], both located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided int...
15: ...] surrendered to the knights. They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the...
19: ... the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, t... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
8: The Elamites called their country ''Haltamti'' (in later Elamite, ''Atamti''), bor...
10: ...lemy]] called it ''Susiana''. Though primarily centred in the province of [[Khuzestan]] for the durati...
17: ...lamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
19: ...dating to ca. [[2650 BC]]. But we can only really trace Elamite history from records dating to beginni...
21: ..., this was done through a federated governmental structure.
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