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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
11: *Grand Duchess Nataliya Petrovna ([[1713]]-[[1715]])
12: *Grand Duchess Margarita Petrovna ([[1714]]-[[1715]])
13: *Grand Duke Pyotr Petrovich ([[1715]]-[[1719]]) - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...arious coercive tactics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ens...
15: ...ards with her aunt, [[Henrietta Anne Stuart|Henrietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from F...
17: ...r Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion.
19: ... as joint monarchs. The [[Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne and he...
26: ...ning the Crown, Parliament enacted the [[Act of Settlement 1701]], which provided that, failing the is... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]]) - Dodo (9332 bytes)
24: ...s marked dry and wet seasons, the dodo probably fattened itself on ripe fruits at the end of the wet s...
27: ...[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ...Dutch records concur. The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] settlers called it the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bird...
35: ...th a 95% [[confidence interval]] of [[1688]] to [[1715]].
43: ... ''Pezophaps solitarius'' on [[Rodrigues]]. The latter became extinct during the 1760s. - Uranus (15207 bytes)
89: ...nus;]]0.718 333 333 d (17 h 14 min 24.000 00 s) [http://www.hnsky.org/iau-iag.htm <sup>1</sup>]
149: ...us ices, with only about 15% [[hydrogen]] and a little [[helium]] (in contrast to Jupiter and Saturn w...
157: ... its equatorial regions. Uranus is nevertheless hotter at its equator than at its poles, although the ...
160: ...uring the Voyager 2 flyby, Uranus' banded cloud patterns were extremely bland and faint. Recent [[Hubb...
168: ...ed observed Uranus twice again, in [[1712]] and [[1715]]. [[Bradley]] observed it in [[1748]], [[1750]] ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and the...
4: ...e [[frontier]] had certain unifying features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the lat...
11: ...d wealth and power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Eur...
13: ...y close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans we...
16: ...]]. At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a colonia... - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
7: ...volutionary ideals to the French. Many in France attacked the [[democracy|undemocratic]] nature of the...
9: ...e: absolutism, feudalism and [[philistinism]]." [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/12/15...
22: ... private collectors ("tax farmers") who were permitted to raise far more than the government requested...
28: ===Attempts at reforms===
30: ... this position hereditarily (the so-called ''Paulette'' tax). Membership in such courts, or appointmen... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
21: ...mes of [[Louis XV of France | Louis XV]] (ruled [[1715]]–[[1774]]) and Louis XVI several different...
23: ..., and proposed a uniform land tax as a means of setting France's finances in order in the long term. ...
25: ...ing's tactlessness), Brienne went on the attack, attempting to disband the parlements entirely and col...
33: ...part of the opposition that the government would attempt to gerrymander an assembly to its liking. In...
35: Almost immediately the "Committee of Thirty", a body of liberal Parisians, mostly... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: '''William Dampier''' ([[1652]] – March, [[1715]]) was a [[England|English]] explorer, sea captai...
4: ...e [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]] and fought at the [[Battle of Schooneveld]] in June [[1673]]. In [[1674]] ...
7: ...f that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] before returning to the Caribb...
37: ... profit. However, Dampier died in [[London]] in [[1715]] before he received his share.
40: ...e had an unusual degree of influence on figures better known than he: - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
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10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
136: *[[Pablo Cottenot]] ([[France]])
150: *[[William Rutter Dawes]] ([[Britain]], [[1799]] – [[1868]]... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: *[[Archibald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...r 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a...
12: ...dil;ois' mother, instructed him in ''les belles lettres'' and deism, and the child showed a faculty fo...
14: ...is father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it.
16: ...he tragedy of ''Oedipe'', which he had already written, privately known. He was introduced to the famo...
18: ...The origin of the name has been much debated and attempts have been made to show that it existed in th... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
24: ...s marked dry and wet seasons, the dodo probably fattened itself on ripe fruits at the end of the wet s...
27: ...[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ...Dutch records concur. The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] settlers called it the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bird...
35: ...th a 95% [[confidence interval]] of [[1688]] to [[1715]].
44: ... ''Pezophaps solitarius'' on [[Rodrigues]]. The latter became extinct during the 1760s. - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
11: ...fore that. A theatre was built in Williamsburg in 1715, and [[Thomas Kean]] played the part of [[Richard...
13: ...e performance of plays were passed in [[Massachusetts]] in 1750, in [[Pennsylvania]] in 1759, and in [...
17: ...n actors]], such as [[Edwin Forrest]] and [[Charlotte Cushman]]. Many theater owners, such as [[Willia...
21: ...rights of the period existed, but are mostly forgotten now. American plays of the period are mostly [[...
26: ...ially female actors, were looked upon as little better than [[prostitute]]s. A serious rivalry between... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
5: ...times specifically refer to the 18th century as [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between t...
18: ...7|Act of Union]] passed merging the [[Scotland|Scottish]] and the [[England|English]] Parliaments, thu...
20: * [[1715]]: [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] dies
33: * [[1741]]: [[Russia]]ns begin settling the [[Aleutian Islands]].
35: * [[1750]]: peak of the [[Little Ice Age]] - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...he [[Glorious Revolution]] of [[1688]] to the [[battle of Waterloo]] in [[1815]]<ref>{{cite book | aut...
6: ... prominence. Philosophers were dreaming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of ear...
12: ...a battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in the [[Battle of Poltava]]]]
18: ... Spanish Succession|Europe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_spanishsucc...
20: * [[1702]]: [[Forty-seven Ronin]] attack [[Kira Yoshinaka]] and then commit [[seppuku]]...
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