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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)
8: ...'' ([[30 April]] [[1662]]–[[28 December]] [[1694]]) reigned as Queen of [[England]] and [[Ireland]...
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... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
5: ... gold or silver coins) backing the banknote could transfer ownership in exchange for goods or services...
7: .... Limited convertibility occurs when there are restrictions in the time, place, manner or amount of ex...
9: ..., this is no longer true; the currency of all countries is now [[fiat money]] not backed by gold or si...
22: ...y]] ended paper money, and closed much of Chinese trade.
24: ...664]] and ceased operating in that year. It was [[1694]] when the [[Bank of England]] issued the first p... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...progress]] and out of a long period of doubtful [[tradition]], full of irrationality, superstition, an...
6: ... proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence of a supreme being. In this peri...
8: ...nment]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]].
14: ...here God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jef...
16: ...z’s treatise On Wisdom ". . . identified the central concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its t... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
9: ....jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mosaic of a [[Trireme|Roman Trireme]] in [[Tunisia]].]]
10: ...Parliament/2587/trade.html Phoenician Economy and Trade].</ref> By the 1st century BC, there were pira...
22: In the Roman province of Britannia, [[Saint Patrick]] was captured and enslaved by [[Ireland|Irish...
24: ...their [[hit-and-run tactics]] - a safe place to retreat to if the battle turned against them.
27: ...s far as the Black Sea and Persia. The lack of centralized powers all over [[Europe]] during the [[Mid... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...is many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a member of the [[Freemasons...
8: ===Ancestry===
17: ...vember 22]], [[1692]]), Mary ([[September 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[Ju...
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 astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
33: *[[Anders Ůgstr? ([[Sweden]], [[1814]] – [[1874]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[1557...
72: *[[Wilhelm von Biela]] ([[Austria]], [[1782]] – [[1856]])
82: *[[John Gatenby Bolton]] ([[England]], [[Australia]], [[1922]] – [[1993]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
103: *[[Antoine Arnauld]], (1612-1694){{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}... - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
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8: <tr><td align="center">[[Image:Co-TableImage.png]] - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...ançois-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by ...
8: ...shed in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltai...
10: ... married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relatio...
12: ...il;ois' mother, instructed him in ''les belles lettres'' and deism, and the child showed a faculty for...
14: ...s father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
3: ...mb|250px|right|Johann Sebastian Bach, [[1748]] portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann]]
5: ...tion to nearly every musician in the [[Europe]]an tradition, from [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] t...
11: .... Bach began copying music and playing various instruments at an early age.
13: ..., late one night, when the house was asleep, he retrieved a manuscript (which may have been a collecti...
17: ...s practical experience with the innards of the instrument would provide a unique counterpoint to his u... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...]]" (defined by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] - [[1694]]) to describe an [[Expression (mathematics)|expr...
12: ...]. Euler was the first to publish a systematic introduction to [[mechanics]] in [[1736]]: ''Mechanica...
18: ..., despite a complete loss of vision, due to his extraordinary powers of memory and mental calculation....
33: He made important contributions to the theory of [[differential equations...
49: ... is [[Euler's formula]], which establishes the central role of the - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...], who classified animals based on their means of transportation (air, land, or water).
7: ...bic. His original commentary is now lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives....
11: ... of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Rob...
17: ...fetime (1st ed. 1735). He is best known for his introduction of a method of modern classification; he ...
19: ...cies. When a species is further subdivided, the [[trinomial nomenclature]] is used. For a scientific n... - Rice (13724 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox regnum entry | taxon = [[Plantae]]}}
5: {{Taxobox divisio entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox classis entry | taxon = [[Liliopsida]]}}
7: {{Taxobox ordo entry | taxon = [[Poales]]}}
8: {{Taxobox familia entry | taxon = [[Poaceae]]}}
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