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- Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
3: ...nners, however, may well be those of the [[France|French]] playwright [[Moli�re]], who satirized the...
5: ...Rivals'', [[1775]]; ''The School for Scandal'', [[1777]]) revived the form. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calenda...
4: ..., [[July 14]], [[1789]], an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the ...
6: ...urope embraced enlightenment ideals, but with the French revolution, they were on the side of the coun...
8: ...became a major power worldwide with the defeat of France in the Americas in the 1760s and the conquest...
21: ...]]-[[1715]]: [[Camisard|Camisard Rebellion]] in [[France]]. - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
10: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]]
13: * [[1742]]: [[Franklin stove]]: [[Benjamin Franklin]]
15: * [[1752]]: [[Lightning rod]]: [[Benjamin Franklin]]
20: * [[1769]]: [[Water Frame]]: [[Richard Arkwright]]
22: * [[1777]]: [[carding|Card teeth making machine]]: [[Olive... - Taboo (2528 bytes)
1: ...age|English]] was recorded by [[James Cook]] in [[1777]].
11: ...in his collections of essays ''Totem and Taboo'', Freud postulates a link between forbidden behaviours... - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12500 bytes)
1: ... was admired by later composers and his works are frequently played today.
11: ...birth. Mozart received intensive musical training from his father, including instruction in both the [...
19: ...in performance, then wrote it out in its entirety from memory, only returning a second time to correct...
21: In September of 1777, accompanied only by his mother, Mozart began a t...
23: ...e was so taken by the sound created by [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s [[glass harmonica]] that he composed se... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
40: ...#1094;а). <!-- translator paraphrasing here from de: -->
56: ...ikov]] Palace on the Neva Embankment, constructed from designs by Domenico Trezini in 1710–1716....
62: ...d by [[Count Orlov]] and built in 1768–1785 from various sorts of [[marble]] to a Neoclassical d...
72: ...reat]] and other [[tsar|Russian emperor]]s. Apart from these four principal cathedrals, which operate ...
82: ...nd early 20th-century temples are all constructed from [[Russian Revival]] or [[Byzantine architecture... - Articles of Confederation (19574 bytes)
9: ...d the sovereignty of each state while providing a framework for collective action in matters of mutual...
17: ...to levy taxes, relying on voluntary contributions from states. This financial weakness severely hamper...
18: ...ments to the Articles required unanimous approval from all thirteen states, making the process arduous...
28: ...on, supplanting the Articles and establishing the framework for the federal system of government in pl...
32: .... The experiences under the Articles informed the framers' decisions, emphasizing the importance of ba...
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