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1. Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
   1: ''This page is about Maria Theresa of Austria (often only known as Empress Maria Theresa), ru...
   3: ..., Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]]
   4: ...owerful women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
   6: ...ued, on Charles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
   8: ...ng to adulthood. She made him co-regent of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the p...
2. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
   1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767...
   5: ...enged conventions regarding [[novel]]s and their structure and content, while also examining [[philoso...
   7: ...suits]], and became a bookseller in [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Rom...
   10: ...reece'' (1743); with two colleagues he produced a translation of James's ''Dictionary of Medicine'' (1...
   12: ...ptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, to the vanity of...
3. Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
   1: ...abeth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (170...
   3: ...jects of her favourite architect, [[Bartolomeo Rastrelli]], particularly in [[Peterhof]] and [[Tsarsko...
   9: ...r earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and vivacity.
   11: ...elf at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress.
   13: ...s sensual temperament and, being free from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without res...
4. Carpet (15753 bytes)
   1: ...ry were significant numbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europe.
   3: ...ps. In the real estate and home improvement industries a distinction is made between carpet (or carpe...
   10: ...th]], and [[ingrain]] (aka double cloth, two-ply, triple cloth, or three-ply).
   12: ...g''' is a simple type of rug handmade by pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the me...
   14: ...supplementary weft cut-loop pile''' carpet), the structural weft threads alternate with a supplementar...
5. George Washington (29551 bytes)
   19: ...alled '''[[Father of the Nation|Father of his Country]]'''^[[#Notes|1]], 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...
6. Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
   9: | date of birth=[[April 13]], [[1743]]
   18: '''Thomas Jefferson''' ([[April 13]], [[1743]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was the third ([[...
   20: ... in [[1962]], saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge...
   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.
7. 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.
8. South Dakota (14035 bytes)
   25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] <small...
   38: ...] ([[Sioux]]) [[Native American|American Indian]] tribe.
   39: ...rth Dakota]] was admitted on the same day (see '''Trivia''', below).
   41: ...]. It is one of the six states of the [[Frontier Strip]].
   50: :'''[[List of U.S. state trees|State tree]]:''' Black Hills [[Spruce]]
9. List of painters (54090 bytes)
   14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
   188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
   206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
   219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
   287: *[[Pietro da Cortona]] ([[1596]]-[[1669]])
10. January 1 (18244 bytes)
    1: ...ay of the Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. Th...
    27: ...rdinand de Lesseps]] begins [[France|French]] construction of the [[Panama Canal]].
    33: ...Federation|federate]] as the [[Commonwealth of Australia]]; [[Edmund Barton]] becomes first [[Prime Mi...
    37: ...th Australia]] and transferred to Commonwealth control.
    39: *[[1934]] - [[Alcatraz Island]] becomes a [[United States|U.S.]] feder...
11. 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...
12. List of chemists (10401 bytes)
    23: ...r]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
    26: ...an chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
    33: ...ert Curl]], winner of 1996 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
    41: ...st, winner of the [[1950]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
    48: ...st, winner of the [[1967]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
13. Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
    2: ...is many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a member of the [[Freemasons...
    8: ===Ancestry===
    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...
    27: ...t]] partly contributed to the American colonies' struggle to maintain their privileges.
14. 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]])
15. 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}}
16. Celsius (3635 bytes)
    18: ... Elvius from Sweden (1710), a Christian of Lyons (1743), and the botanist [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1740); a...
    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...
17. Holmium (7766 bytes)
    24: | 8800[[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m³]], ND
    35: | 247 (ND) [[picometre|pm]]
    38: | 158 [[picometre|pm]]
    43: | [[Electron configuration]]
    46: | [[electron|e^-]] 's per [[energy level]]
18. 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...

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