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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... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...hildren. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, he...
14: ...], and [[King of Bohemia|Queen of Bohemia]]: 1740-1741
15: ...]], [[King of Bohemia]]: 1780 ([[Heir-Apparent]]: 1741-1780)
26: *[[Marie Antoinette|HM Queen Marie Antoinette of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antonie...
35: ...red to attack Prussia in [[1756]]. Frederick II attacked first however, invading [[Saxony]], another ... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ... '''Elizabeth''', was an Empress of [[Russia]] ([[1741]] - [[1762]]) who took the country into the [[War...
17: == Palace Revolution of 1741 ==
19: ... of Peter the Great on the Russian throne. As a matter of fact, beyond lending the [[tsesarevna]] 2000...
23: At midnight on the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few personal friends, including her phy...
25: ...turally indolent and self-indulgent woman, with little knowledge and no experience of affairs, suddenl... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
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24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 4]], [[1791]] |
36: ...mplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, [...
38: ...ed by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provinc...
46: ...ecause their relatively low altitude allows for little [[tree-line|timberline]], form a north-south sp... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
99: *[[James Barry (painter)|James Barry]] ([[1741]]-[[1806]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
19: ...eorge Whitefield]] tours the colonies ([[1739]]-[[1741]]) to preach the Great Awakening
28: ...attle of the Plains of Abraham]], part of the [[Battle of Quebec (1759)]]
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47: *[http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.c... - Venice (22017 bytes)
24: ... He removed the gates of the [[Venetian Ghetto|Ghetto]] and ended the restrictions on when and where J...
29: ...ng skills were encouraged through races and [[regatta]]s.
35: ...anding army was organized, consisting of ''[[condottieri]]'' on contract. In its alliance with [[Flore...
44: ... still in common use by Venetians are the ''traghetti'', foot passenger [[ferry|ferries]] crossing the...
94: ..., Venetians protected themselves from land-based attacks by diverting all the major rivers flowing int... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
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34: *[[Karl Bitter]] (1867 - 1915)
44: *[[Rembrandt Bugatti]] (1884 - 1916)
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]]
98: *[[Giovan Battista Foggini]] - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
1: ...|right|250px|Benedict Arnold. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
3: ...nderoga]]. Some five years later, in 1780, he plotted with the British to take control of the fort at...
9: ...They appointed him a [[colonel]] in the Massachusetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirely of...
10: ...Allen and his [[Green Mountain Boys]]. In a dawn attack on [[May 10]], [[1775]], Ticonderoga was taken...
12: ...ed the letter announcing the victory to Massachusetts, doing his best to diminish Arnold's participati... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: ...right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
9: ...ah Folger, was born in [[Nantucket]], [[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a...
13: ...for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several more ch...
21: ...in was born on Milk Street in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tal...
23: ...te'' to which he contributed many essays. The Gazette gave Franklin a forum for agitating for a variet... - 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]]) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
9: ...e area. The order came to distinguish itself in battles with the [[Islam|Muslims]], its soldiers weari...
23: ...s conducted by the Knights. Fort Saint Elmo, Valletta, Malta, May 8, 2005.]]
27: ...amed in memory of its valiant grand master La Valette who had sustained this siege.
29: ...e, however, had little political impact, for the Ottomans quickly rebuilt their fleet.
31: ... the victory at Lepanto the Knights continued to attack pirates, and their base became a centre for [[... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
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46: |[[State of matter]] || solid ([[paramagnetic]])
70: |[[Thermal conductivity]] || 71.6 [[watt per metre-kelvin|W/(m?K)]]
160: ...0px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
166: ...nctive properties include resistance to chemical attack, excellent high-temperature characteristics, a... - Timeline of chemical element discovery (10490 bytes)
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32: *[[1741]] - [[Platinum]] discovered by [[Charles Wood (sc...
41: **[[Manganese]] by [[Johan Gottlieb Gahn]]
50: ...rium]] discovered by [[Johan Gadolin]]. After [[Ytterby]] (a town in [[Sweden]]).
59: **[[Columbium]] discovered by [[Charles Hatchett]], later renamed [[Niobium]] - 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... - 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 ...
16: In the year [[1741]] Euler became director of the mathematical class...
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... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
18: ...7|Act of Union]] passed merging the [[Scotland|Scottish]] and the [[England|English]] Parliaments, thu...
33: * [[1741]]: [[Russia]]ns begin settling the [[Aleutian Islands]].
35: * [[1750]]: peak of the [[Little Ice Age]]
38: * [[1757]]: [[Battle of Plassey]] signals the beginning of [[British...
43: ...]]: [[Konbaung Dynasty|Burmese]] conquer the [[Ayutthaya kingdom]]. - 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]]... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
44: ==Landmarks and tourist attractions==
50: ... The white nights are closely linked to another attraction — the nine drawbridges spanning the ...
58: ...he [[Media:anichkov_palace.jpg|Anichkov palace]] (1741–1750, many times rebuilt, now a palace for ...
74: ...i]], but never completed. It is followed by the [http://img.photosight.ru/2004/04/22/468550.jpg Naval ...
108: ... its kind in the world and so nicely set that no attachment to the base is needed. A striking monument... - Articles of Confederation (19574 bytes)
3: ==The Articles of Confederation: America's First Attempt at Governance==
9: ... providing a framework for collective action in matters of mutual interest, such as defense against ex...
39: ...n on [[November 17]] [[1777]], accompanied by a letter from Congress urging that the document
51: ...ist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them..."''
52: ...nd tried in the state in which the crime was committed.
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