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- Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: [[Image:Annaioannovnarussia1693-2.jpg|thumb|H.I.M. Anna Ivanovna, Empress and Aut...
3: ...5;овна) ([[February 7]],[[1693]] - [[October 28]],[[1740]]) reigned as Duchess o...
7: ...t was reputed by her enemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] for many years.
19: ...s sufficiently prudent not to meddle with foreign affairs or with the army, and these departments were...
24: ... of the Polish Succession]] ([[1733]]-[[1735]]). Afterwards, they made [[Augustus III]] the king of [... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
15: ...is, the Grand Dauphin|Dauphin Louis]] — but afterwards approved, as a coalition with the Dutch b...
17: ...r even mistreated her. William long maintained an affair with [[Elizabeth Villiers]], one of Mary's la...
20: ...egotiations with Mary's husband as early as 1687. After James took the suicidal step of forcing Anglic...
24: ...lliam, however, demanded that he remain King even after his wife's death. Although some individuals pr...
35: ...cal matters. She did, however, participate in the affairs of the [[Church of England | Church]]; she f... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...od at Ferry Farm in [[Stafford County, Virginia|Stafford County]], near [[Fredericksburg, Virginia|Fre...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...ead.) The "[[Battle of Jumonville Glen|Jumonville affair]]" became an international incident, and help...
51: ... Arnold]] won the [[Battle of Saratoga]] in 1777. After Monmouth, the British concentrated their offen...
58: ...like [[Julius Caesar]] before him or [[Napoleon]] after him—he probably would have been able to ... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
125: ...but is said to be around 10 to 12. The plan will, after being publicly unveiled, need to undergo parli...
137: ...ovenia the third most forested country in Europe, after [[Finland]] and [[Sweden]]. Remnants of primev...
146: ... growth|grew]] impressively in [[2004]], by 4.6%, after relatively slow growth in 2003 (2.5%). Overall...
166: ... [[baron]] [[Janez Vajkard Valvasor]] ([[1641]]-[[1693]]).
186: ...e [[Karst]] and [[White Carniola]] are well known after the mystical [[olm|proteus]]. Only one third o... - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
1: [[Image:SalemWitchcraftTrial.jpg|right|thumb|400px|1876 illustration of ...
2: ...number of convictions and executions for [[witchcraft]] in [[1692]] in [[Massachusetts]], the result o...
9: ..., Mercy Short, and Mary Warren, to name those who afflicted them. At last the girls began to blurt out...
13: These women were charged with witchcraft on [[March 1]] and put in prison. Other accusati...
15: ...innocent. Only those who pleaded guilty to witchcraft and supplied other names to the court were spare... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]])
502: *[[Olaf Gulbransson]] ([[1873]]-[[1958]])
609: *[[Willem Kalf]] ([[1619]]-[[1693]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...[list of scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[invento...
52: ...rell]], (1910-1999;) (1886-1972) — [[Hovercraft]]
112: *[[John Harrison]], (1693-1776) — marine chronometer
158: ...an-American Inventor of the [[gas mask]], and [[traffic signal]].
168: ...is]] — passenger elevator and concommitant safety device - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
21: [[image:newton.jpg|thumb|left|Engraving after [[Enoch Seeman]]'s 1726 portrait of Newton]]
23: ...theory that would later become [[calculus]]. Soon after Newton had obtained his degree in [[1665]], th...
61: ...ormed an intense relationship that lasted until [[1693]]. The end of this friendship led Newton to a [[n...
71: ...e of St. John'' ([[1733]]) — were published after his death. He also devoted a great deal of tim...
73: ...recorded comments were to complain about a cold draft in the chamber and request that the window be cl... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
6: ...an]]. Although he was a capable student, Locke chafed under the undergraduate curriculum of the time....
8: ...]], he met [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], who had come to Oxford seeking treatmen...
10: ...looking for a career and in [[1667]] moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House in London, ostensib...
12: ...en life-threatening itself) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke wi...
14: ...is of what would later become Essay. Two extant Drafts still survive from this period. - Dodo (9332 bytes)
35: ...rkers, gives a new estimated extinction date of [[1693]], with a 95% [[confidence interval]] of [[1688]]...
37: ...ive of [[pigeon]] species that are to be found in Africa and especially South Asia.
49: ...do did the seeds become active and start to grow. After a while, it was discovered that the same effec... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
6: * Pleistocene [[Megafauna]]
29: ===[[Africa]]===
38: * [[Dodo]] (1693) - Sicily (18450 bytes)
66: ...ities with ties to [[Carthage]], which was on the African mainland not far from the southwest corner o...
68: ...ervention of the [[Roman Republic]] into Sicilian affairs, and led to the [[First Punic War]] between ...
80: ... damaging earthquake in the east of the island ([[1693]]). Periods of rule by the crown of [[Savoy]] ([[...
84: ...sed crime networks commonly known as the [[Mafia|mafia]] extended their influence in the late 19th cen...
86: ...2]], however, when the assassination of two anti-mafia magistrates, [[Giovanni Falcone]] and [[Paolo B... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
92: *[[James Bradley]] ([[England]], [[1693]] – [[1762]])
203: *[[Al-Farghani|Farghani]] ([[Persia]], d. after [[861]])
243: *[[Bengt Gustafsson]], ([[Sweden]])
298: ...ert Thorburn Ayton Innes]] ([[Scotland]], [[South Africa]], [[1861]] – [[1933]])
302: *[[Cyril V. Jackson]] ([[South Africa]]) - Dodos (9122 bytes)
35: ...rkers, gives a new estimated extinction date of [[1693]], with a 95% [[confidence interval]] of [[1688]]...
37: ...ive of [[pigeon]] species that are to be found in Africa and especially South Asia.
50: ...do did the seeds become active and start to grow. After a while, it was discovered that the same effec...
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