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- List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...ba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
4: ...iarch Acacius|Acacius, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
14: ...illas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
46: ...harlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Sophie Charlotte]] (1714-1792)
62: *[[Loren Acton|Acton, Loren]], (born 1936), US astronaut - 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)
8: ...e''' ([[6 February]] [[1665]]–[[1 August]][[1714]]) became Queen of [[England]], [[Scotland]] and ...
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... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
9: ...a|Victorian Era]] was at the height of the [[Industrial Revolution]], a period of great social, econom...
12: ...e king. At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn married [[Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld...
16: ... that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, would act as Regent during the queen's mi...
18: ... Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage.
25: ...m which had shared a monarch with Britain since [[1714]]. Hanover went not to Victoria, but to her uncle... - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
4: ...sband fell out of royal favor. Anne's death in [[1714]] restored their fortunes, but the Duke died in [...
8: {{succession box | title=[[Mistress of the Robes]] | before=— | after=[[Eliz... - Contrabassoon (3761 bytes)
1: The '''contrabassoon''' or '''double bassoon''' is a larger ve...
4: ... particularly at the register change and in the extreme high range.
5: ...trap. Additional support is sometimes given by a strap around the player's neck. A wider hand position...
6: ...y more air volume required in playing, and the instrument does not respond as quickly.
7: *The contrabassoon has a water key to expel condensation, an... - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...ken Finland'') is a [[Nordic countries|Nordic country]] in northeastern [[Europe]], bordered by the [[...
27: |[[List of countries by area|Ranked 63th]] <br>[[1 E11 m?|338,145 k...
30: |[[List of countries by population|Ranked 109th]] <br>5,211,311<br>...
44: | '''[[List_of_country_calling_codes|Calling Code]]''' || +358
51: ...ally in the northern and eastern parts of the country. - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...entral]] and [[South America|South American]] countries.<!--
6: {{Infobox Country |
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
42: time_zone = [[Central European Time|CET]]<sup>3</sup> |
44: time_zone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | - 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]] - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ...ritain]] and [[France]], which was one of the theatres of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted i...
9: ...he prior three wars, fought more as secondary theatres to European conflicts, resulted in little terri...
13: ...addock Expedition]] and British victories at [[Fortress Louisbourg|Louisburg]], [[Fort Niagara]], [[Fo...
15: ... One result of the war was that Britain gained control of a large French-speaking, [[Roman Catholic]] ...
17: ...ar]] crops and the ease with which it could be controlled. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
33: *[[Treffle Berthlaume]] (1803 - 1884)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
190: *[[Pietro Masni]]
195: *[[Ivan Mestrovic|Ivan Meštrović]] (1883 - 1962) - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves mo...
11: ...] - Journalist [[Henry Morton Stanley]] began his trek to find the missionary and explorer [[David Liv...
14: ...he [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] flight.
17: ...]] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]]
19: ...e on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180 - 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]])
39: *[[Yoriyuki Arima]] (Japan, [[1714]]-[[1783]])
42: *[[Emil Artin]] (Austria, [[1898]] - [[1962]]) - 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]]) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
9: ...arried out between the [[Mediterranean]] and [[Central Europe]].
11: ...logical standpoint, the discovery of different instruments and objects made of pottery, in several arc...
13: ...sly inhabited for more than 800 years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov...
15: ...lt, it became an important crossroads of European trade routes.
19: ...ngs and administrative centers, a large growth in trades and agricultural technologies. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
160: *[[Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten]], (1714-1762){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
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.
16: ...t Voltaire lent himself to the duchess' frantic hatred of the regent, [[Philippe II of Orl�ans]], an... - 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... - Anne Bonny (5802 bytes)
1: ...as an [[Irish American]] [[pirate]] who plied her trade in the [[Caribbean]].
8: ...exist seem to reflect that she was intelligent, attractive, and quick-tempered. When she was 13, she s...
10: ...b and base for many pirate operations. It is also true that after the arrival of Governor Woodes Roger...
16: ...turing many ships and bringing in an abundance of treasure.
21: ... fought fiercely and managed to hold off Barnet's troops for a short time. After their capture, Rackha... - 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...
16: * [[1701]]-[[1714|14]]: [[War of the Spanish Succession]]
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