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- 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... - 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...
10: ...lume of bawdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years he repented of this work. In 174...
12: ...ptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extravagances of Catholicism; second, to the vanity of...
14: ...election]]. It is worth noticing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Dide... - 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... - 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]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
10: ...ds with the [[Treaty of Utrecht (1713)|Treaty of Utrecht]]
18: *[[1735]] - [[John Peter Zenger]] trial on freedom of the press issues.
22: ...[[1740]] - [[King George's War]] ([[War of the Austrian Succession]]) begins
23: *[[1748]] - King George's War ends with the [[Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle]]
27: *[[1758]] - [[Treaty of Easton]] - Uranus (15207 bytes)
15: ...span="2"| [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] [[J2000]])
18: ...870,972,220 [[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
21: | 18.029 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>120.515 AU
23: !align="left"| [[Eccentricity (orbit)|Eccentricity]]
71: ...5 km2|8.084×10<sup>9</sup>]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]]<br>(15.849 Earths) - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...politics|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
11: ...ded up lucrative [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]].
13: ...he [[United States]] presented themselves as an attractive place for these new powers to establish col...
22: ...g only the mysterious word "CROATOAN" carved on a tree. Over a hundred men, women, and children had ap...
25: ...d|James I]] - very nearly became the next in the string of failed colonies. - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
3: ...a flotilla of naval vessels to save some of those trapped in the seaside towns.
9: ...reece|Greek]] and [[Phoenicia]]n sailors. When [[Etruscans]] threatened an attack, Pompeii allied with...
11: ...y [[Lucius Cornelius Sulla|Sulla]]. Although the troops of the [[Social League]], headed by [[Lucius ...
18: ...an world was stunned when on [[August 24]] a catastrophic volcanic eruption of the volcano buried the ...
20: ...ius: a large dark cloud shaped rather like a pine tree emanating from the mouth of the mountain. After... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
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]] - 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. - 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 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]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
139: *[[John Balguy]], (1686-1748)
178: *[[Jeremy Bentham]], (1748-1832){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}} - Time (15299 bytes)
3: ...le discussion, it is difficult to provide an uncontroversial and clear definition of the nature of tim...
5: ... technologists, and was a prime motivation in [[astronomy]]. Time is also a matter of significant soc...
21: One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a [[dimension]] in which [...
23: ...g view is that time is part of a fundamental [[abstract]] conceptual framework (together with [[space]...
25: ...eat time and space as independent dimensions, but treats both as features of [[spacetime]] – a c... - 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... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
18: |[[Chemical series]] || [[transition metal]]s
22: ... scale|Hardness]] || 21450 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m³]], 3.5
30: |[[Atomic radius]] (calc.) || 135 (177) [[picometre|pm]]
36: |[[Electron configuration]] || <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[xenon|Xe...
38: |[[electron|e<sup>-</sup>]] 's per [[energy level]] || 2, 8... - 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... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
12: ...]. Euler was the first to publish a systematic introduction to [[mechanics]] in [[1736]]: ''Mechanica...
18: ..., despite a complete loss of vision, due to his extraordinary powers of memory and mental calculation....
33: He made important contributions to the theory of [[differential equations...
49: ... is [[Euler's formula]], which establishes the central role of the
58: ... of the [[Euler-Maclaurin formula]] which is an extremely useful tool for calculation - 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...
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