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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
18: *[[Jakob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
33: *[[Bud Abbott|Abbott, Bud]], (1895-1974), US actor
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
35: *[[Diane Julie Abbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
36: *[[Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...[April 15]], [[1683]]/[[1684]]–[[May 17]],[[1727]]) was the second wife of [[Peter I of Russia|Pet...
20: ...o ruler Prince [[Alexander Menshikov]] [[1725]]-[[1727]]''}} - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
11: ...d to her, so that on the death of her mother (May 1727) and the departure to [[Holstein]] of her beloved...
19: ... of Peter the Great on the Russian throne. As a matter of fact, beyond lending the [[tsesarevna]] 2000...
25: ...turally indolent and self-indulgent woman, with little knowledge and no experience of affairs, suddenl...
31: ...dly Russia's proper system. Hence the reiterated attempts of [[Frederick the Great]] and [[Louis XV]] ...
37: ...Germany of the troops of every foreign power) as utterly subversive of the previous conventions betwee... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ...urg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]...
34: ...avery in [[Missouri]] precipitated two years of bitter debate in Congress. The [[Missouri Compromise]]...
68: ...n="left"|[[Attorney General of the United States|Attorney General]]||align="left"|'''[[Richard Rush]]'...
91: == States Admitted to the Union ==
107: *[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/monroepa.h... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
115: *[[Yoannis XVII of Alexandria]], ([[1727]]-[[1745]]), Coptic Pope
125: *[[Charlotte Mary Yonge|Yonge, Charlotte M]], ([[1823]]-[[1901]]), British novelist
157: *[[Francis Brett Young|Young, Francis Brett]], (1884-1954), British novelist
162: *[[James Young|Young, James]], (1811?1883), Scottish chemist
166: *[[John W. Young|Young, John Watts]], (b. 1930), US astronaut - 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]]) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
16: ...] ([[1599]]-[[1641]]), [[Thomas Gainsborough]] ([[1727]]-[[1788]]), and [[John Constable]] ([[1776]]-[[1... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
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32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor of the [[transi...
60: *[[Gottlieb Daimler]], (1834-1900), [[Germany]] — [...
65: ... [[James Dewar]], (1842-1923) — [[Thermos bottle]] - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...ton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of dif...
19: ...other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Newton.html]
25: ...s is an exaggeration of Newton's own tale about sitting by the window of his home ([[Woolsthorpe Manor...
29: ... twenty-five years of his life were marred by a bitter dispute with [[Leibniz]], whom he accused of pl...
40: He once said, in a letter to Hooke dated [[5 February]] [[1676]]: - January 2 (10888 bytes)
9: ... - The [[United Kingdom]] captures [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[India]].
14: ...]] publishes ''[[The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette]]''.
27: ...religious [[radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]) .
47: *[[1991]] - [[Sharon Pratt Dixon]] is sworn in as mayor of [[Washington, DC]...
57: *[[1727]] - [[James Wolfe]], British general in [[French ... - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
15: ...ing the "world's tallest..." depends greatly on matters of definition.
19: This table is adapted from [http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/tp/wo/] and utiliz...
119: |38||[[Bank of America Tower]]||[[Seattle]]||285 m||937 ft||76||1985 ||
164: |[[Manhattan Life Insurance Building]]||1894||Destroyed||348...
186: ...ter]]||1972||Destroyed||1368 ft||417 m||1727 ft|| 526 m||110 || - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
6: ...y of Shakespeare plays|chronology of the plays]] attributed to him are often uncertain. His prolific o...
8: ...h-speaking world shows in the widespread use of [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakespeare quotations f...
14: ...ormed within a few days of birth, tradition has settled on [[April 23]] as his birthday. It provides a...
19: ...neven. It is presumed that the young Shakespeare attended this school, since he was entitled to, altho...
29: ...t of actors in ''[[Every man in his Humour]]'' written by [[Ben Jonson]]. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
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14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
41: *[[Otto Diels]], (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of...
74: *[[Otto Hahn]], (1879-1968)
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered [[... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
17: ...list party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
22: ...alia]], makes his famous speech regarding the [[Battle of the Philippines (1942)|fall of the Philippin...
29: *[[1974]] – A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness [[Anne, Princes...
30: *[[1976]] – [[Patty Hearst]] is found guilty of the armed robbery of... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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62: *[[Grigory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
82: *[[Bhargav Bharat Bhatt]] (India)
86: *[[Errett Bishop]] ([[1928]] - [[1983]]) - 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}... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...unction (mathematics)|function]]" (defined by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] - [[1694]]) to describe an...
10: ...mathematics. Paul Euler, Leonhard's father, had attended [[Jakob Bernoulli]]'s mathematical lectures ...
12: In [[1727]] Euler was called to [[Saint Petersburg|St. Pete...
37: ...atical analysis, it was Euler who synthesised [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]'s differential [[calculus]...
61: ...en novae theoriae musicae'' in 1739 which was an attempt to combine [[mathematics]] and [[music]]; a b... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...en preoccupied with the question of large-scale patterns and trends in the development of [[science]],...
7: ...ad of waiting months or years for a hand-copied letter to arrive, today scientific communication can b...
11: ...munity; founded in [[Naples]] [[1560]] by [[Giambattista della Porta]]. The Academy had an exclusive m...
33: ==Patterns in the history of science==
35: ...f science is whether or not it displays certain patterns or trends, usually along the question of chan...
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