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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her life.
17: ...obert I of Scotland|Robert I, the Bruce]]). James truly believed that Mary marked the end of the Stewa...
19: ...land. Two months later, Mary and her mother, who strongly opposed the marriage proposition, went into ...
24: ...bes in miniature. A crimson velvet mantle, with a train furred with ermine, was fastened around her ti...
26: ...y. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped ... - 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... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
4: {{Infobox_Country|
54: ... "state", "nation", "union", etc, please first contribute to the extensive discussion of this topic on...
69: ...s since the 10th century. Wales, under English control since the [[Statute of Rhuddlan]] in 1284, beca...
71: ...art of the United Kingdom. As provided for in the treaty, Northern Ireland, which consists of six of t...
74: ... The first half of the 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The se... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ''Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - 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. - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
25: ...per Peninsula counties bordering Wisconsin are Central time.)</small> |
40: ... [[Lake Erie|Erie]]. The town became a major fur-trading and shipping post. Most of the rest of the ...
42: ...rea. Ultimately, Congress awarded the "[[Toledo Strip]]" to Ohio, and Michigan, having received the w...
46: ... It was a development that not only transformed Detroit and Michigan, but permanently altered the soci... - Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
6: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Mammal]]ia}}
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Cetacea]]}} - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
6: ...] during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] ([[1701]]-[[1713]]), and later served aboard a Jamaican s...
14: ...sau, Bahamas|Nassau]] where he was named the Magistrate of the "Privateers Republic". The governor of ...
16: ...nder Spottswood]]. Spottswood replied by sending troops to hunt him down. It is questionable as to w...
18: ...'Pearl'']], with instructions to hunt down and destroy Blackbeard. [[Maynard]] sailed from [[James Riv...
20: ...[[Robert Maynard]]. His head was then placed as a trophy on the [[bowsprit]] of their ship. - 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. - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
2: ...m "Captain" Kidd''' ([[1645]]–[[May 23]], [[1701]]) is often remembered as a notorious [[pirate]],...
4: During a trading trip to [[England]], Kidd was offered a [[privateer]...
10: ...at he had in fact captured an English ship. Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its...
16: ... Kidd's [[Whig]] backers were embarrassed by his trial. Gilbert indicates that they participated in t...
19: ...nd]]''. It also gave impetus to the never-ending treasure hunts on [[Oak Island]] in [[Nova Scotia]],... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...is many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a member of the [[Freemasons...
8: ===Ancestry===
17: ...uly 9]], [[1699]]), Ebenezer ([[September 20]], [[1701]]), Thomas ([[December 7]], [[1703]]), '''Benjami...
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]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
33: *[[Anders Å®gstr? ([[Sweden]], [[1814]] – [[1874]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[1557...
72: *[[Wilhelm von Biela]] ([[Austria]], [[1782]] – [[1856]])
82: *[[John Gatenby Bolton]] ([[England]], [[Australia]], [[1922]] – [[1993]]) - July 24 (8660 bytes)
6: *[[1701]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] founded.
8: ...- [[Benjamin Bonneville]] leads the first [[wagon train]] across the [[Rocky Mountains]] by using [[Wy...
9: *[[1847]] - After 17 months of travel, [[Brigham Young]] leads 148 [[Mormon]] pione...
10: ...rly|Jubal Early]] defeats [[United States|Union]] troops led by General [[George Crook]] in an effort ...
11: *[[1866]] - [[Reconstruction]]: [[Tennessee]] becomes the first [[U.S. s... - Celsius (3635 bytes)
18: ...fter the Swedish astronomer [[Anders Celsius]] ([[1701]]–[[1744]]), who first proposed a similar s...
20: ...3.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point of water and [[absolute zero]]. This de...
22: ...rolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], or perhaps [[Daniel Ekstr?, the manufacturer of most of the [[thermometer]]...
26: ... scale used in British cooking and temperature controllers (for example, room thermostats); however so... - 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... - 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... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
3: ...'''' refers to the [[century]] that lasted from [[1701]] through [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]].
5: ...s of [[industry|industrial]] capacity) were: [[Austria]], [[Britain]], [[France]], [[Prussia]], and [[...
9: ...ower of [[theology]]. The rise of nations like Austria, Russia, and Prussia began to shift the balance...
11: ...], where civil war enabled the British to take control of the entire sub-continent.
13: In a strictly aesthetic analysis, the 18th century is gene... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], in a...
4: ...ear=2001 | isbn=0199246777 | oclc=174866045}}, "Introduction" by P. J. Marshall, page 1</ref> or even ...
8: ...the USA after the American revolution. The [[industrial revolution]] started in Britain. Despite its m...
15: ...the [[Pacific Northwest]]; the coast of Japan is struck by a [[tsunami]].
18: ...ession.html |title=War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 |publisher=Historyofwar.org |date= |accessda...
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