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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
46: ...ngeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...n Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
58: *[[John Adams (Pitcairn)|Adams, John]], Patriarch Of Pitcairn
65: ...el Adams|Adams, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
67: ...1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
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]])
12: *Grand Duchess Margarita Petrovna ([[1714]]-[[1715]]) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
184: *[[François Boucher]] ([[1703]]-[[1770]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ... Hooke''' ([[July 18]], [[1635]] - [[March 3]], [[1703]]), one of the greatest experimental scientists o...
4: ...1665 he gained appointment as Professor of [[Geometry]] at [[Gresham College]].
8: ...ke displays a man's head that some have argued portrays Hooke. Both these claims remain in dispute, ho...
14: ...r outstripped the capabilities of any previous instruments.
16: ...'s other significant achievements include the construction of the first [[Gregorian telescope|Gregoria... - 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. - 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===
17: ...tember 20]], [[1701]]), Thomas ([[December 7]], [[1703]]), '''Benjamin''' ([[January 6]], [[1706]]), Lyd...
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 philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
66: *[[Anton Wilhelm Amo]], (1703-c. 1759){{fn|R}}
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}... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
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...
57: ...lemate with their European and Asian neighbor countries, the European development went into overdrive.... - Viking (18085 bytes)
4: ...tions in the [[18th century]]. Today, somewhat controversially, the word is also used as a generic adj...
6: Vikings travelled westward; [[Varangian]]s travelled eastward.
12: ...al sides of the [[Ledberg Runestone]] having illustrations of what probably are [[Varangians]] in the ...
13: ...hem to accompany him to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods. The next recorded attac...
15: ...rivers of [[France]] and [[Spain]], and gained control of areas in [[Russia]] and along the [[Baltic]]... - Jim Abbott (6907 bytes)
5: ...he most since [[Mark Fidrych]] won 19 for the [[Detroit Tigers]] in [[1976 in sports|1976]], and he fi...
11: ...he [[1996 in sports|1996]] season, posting a disastrous 2-18 record with a 7.48 ERA and briefly retire...
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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... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
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...
17: * [[1703]]: [[Saint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of R... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
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]].
22: * [[1703]]: [[Saint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of R...
23: *[[1703]]-[[1711]]: The [[Rákóczi's War for Independenc... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
13: ...f Russia|District]]: || [[Northwestern Federal District|North West Russia]]
19: | [[Area]]: || 606 [[Square kilometre|km�]]
33: ...00px|The [[Neva]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
36: ...;́д, [[1924]]–[[1991]]) and '''Petrograd''' (Петроk...
38: ..., it served thenceforth as the capital of the country during the [[Russian Empire|imperial period]] of...
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