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- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her...
7: ...[head of state]] of [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Australia]], the [[Bahamas]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]],...
9: ...ate in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving curren...
11: About 125 million people live in the countries of which she is Head of State. Her reign has s...
15: ...re and Kinghorne]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her... - 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]]) - 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... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...alled '''[[Father of the Nation|Father of his Country]]'''<sup>[[#Notes|1]]</sup>, was an [[United Sta...
26: ...[[Chotank]] in King George County. As a youth, he trained as a [[surveyor]] (obtaining his certificate...
29: ... 1772.JPG|thumb|right|275px|This, the earliest portrait of Washington, was painted in [[1772]] by [[Ch...
31: ...irginia Regiment, led a mission into the Ohio Country. He ambushed a [[French Canadian]] scouting part...
33: ...nd showed coolness under fire in organizing the retreat. In Virginia, Washington was acclaimed as a he... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ... in [[1962]], saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge...
23: ...n's parents were Peter Jefferson ([[March 29]], [[1708]]–[[August 17]], [[1757]]) and Jane Randolp...
25: ... of Independence]], and a source of many other contributions to American political and civil culture. ...
32: ...n Virginia, to say nothing of the rest of the country.
35: ... agricultural nation of [[yeoman]] farmers, in contrast to the vision of [[Alexander Hamilton]], who e... - 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... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
45: ...d, and the [[William Penn|Penn family]], which controlled Pennsylvania, engaged two surveyors, [[Charl...
47: ...ed until 1658 when the Calvert family regained control and re-enacted the Toleration Act.
51: In 1708 the seat of government was moved to Providence, r...
71: ...collectively as the Eastern Shore. A portion of extreme western Maryland in [[Garrett County, Maryland...
81: ...rs and colder winters, where snow often falls. Extreme western Maryland has a mountain climate with m... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
84: *[[Ludolf Bakhuysen]] ([[1631]]-[[1708]])
115: *[[Pompeo Girolamo Batoni]] ([[1708]]-[[1787]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]]) - 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: ...([[January 6]], [[1706]]), Lydia ([[August 8]], [[1708]]), and Jane ([[March 27]], [[1712]]).
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... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
8: *[[1708]] - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the ...
9: *[[1775]] - [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Patrick Henry]] delivers his famous speech - "[[give m...
10: ...uck with a sword, then [[strangle]]d, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Pala...
11: *[[1806]] - After traveling through the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and rea...
19: ...r a post-presidency [[safari]] in [[Africa]]. The trip is sponsored by the [[Smithsonian Institution]]... - 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 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}} - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...t departs from some of the social traditions and structure of [[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]] (such as the ...
4: ... as well as certain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted t...
6: ...h and last Guru, Guru Gobind (AD [[1666]]–[[1708]]) initiated the Sikh ceremony in AD [[1699]] ; a...
10: ...rnally One, the Sovereign and omnipotent God (the Truth of Love).
12: ...hat only spiritual minds, free of desire, can penetrate it by the grace of the Guru (Gurprasad). - 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... - 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: ...578–1657), and [[Edward Tyson]] (1649–1708). Advances in classification due to the work of [...
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... - 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]].
29: ...o form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies.
30: * [[1708]]-[[1709]]: [[Famine]] kills one-third of [[East ... - 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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