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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...ngle [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Kingdom]], Anne became the first Sovereign of [[Great Britain]]. She c...
10: ...n the absence of a [[Protestant]] heir, the Roman Catholic James II could attempt to return to the Thr...
17: ...o [[Anglicanism]]; James II continued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attem...
19: ...pted to flee, and that the Throne was therefore vacant. The Crown was offered to, and accepted by, Wil...
24: ...ed from making her his Regent during his military campaigns in Europe. - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...in, [[William III of England|William III]], who became the sole ruler upon her death. Popular historie...
13: ... again in [[1673]], taking as his second wife the Catholic [[Mary of Modena]], also known as Mary Beat...
15: ..., as a coalition with the Dutch became more politically favourable. Pressured by Parliament, the Duke ...
17: ...nancies ended in miscarriage or stillbirth. She became popular with the Dutch people, but her husband ...
20: ...on would, unlike Mary and Anne, be raised a Roman Catholic. Some charged that the boy was "supposition... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
3: ... tender]]. With [[coin]]s, banknotes make up the cash forms of all modern [[money]]. With the excepti...
5: ...ade of, such as [[silver]] or [[gold]]. However, carrying around a lot of precious metal was cumberso...
7: ..."convertibility". For example a US silver certificate from the early 20th century was "payable in sil...
9: ...ch are backed by the labor of the people of [[Ithaca, NY]].
11: ...ey. As banknotes became more widely used, they became more accepted as equivalent to precious metal. ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...he unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...] and [[ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theories of the age. However, prominent Enligh...
8: ...osophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]], [[government]] and sciences such as [...
14: ...iverse where God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton throug...
16: ...his ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]].'' - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
4: ...s or property on board a ship or aircraft. Piracy can also be committed against a ship, aircraft, pers...
10: ...sold as [[slave]]s.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/trade.html Phoenician Ec...
12: ...nsom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death.
14: ...are managed to suppress the threat. (See [[Pompey#Campaign against the pirates]]).
16: ...antly raiding the [[Adriatic Sea]], the Illyrians caused many conflicts with the [[Roman Republic]]. I... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...ts to the [[glass harmonica]], and possibly [[bifocals]].
17: ...vember 22]], [[1692]]), Mary ([[September 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[Ju...
21: ...t son. His schooling ended at ten and at 12 he became an [[apprenticeship|apprentice]] to his brother...
23: ...Franklin a forum for agitating for a variety of local reforms. His intelligence combined with a great... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
39: ...tarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
55: *[[John Bahcall]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1934]] – )
100: ...mael Bullialdus]] ([[France]], [[1605]] – [[1694]])
109: *[[William Wallace Campbell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1862]] – ...
110: *[[Annie Jump Cannon]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1863]] – [[... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
103: *[[Antoine Arnauld]], (1612-1694){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
16: <td>[[Chemical series]] </td><td>[...
20: <td>[[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] </td><td>8.9 [[kilogram per cubic...
28: <td>[[Atomic radius]] (calc.) </td><td>[[1 E-10 m|13...
42: ...span="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0">'''Physical properties'''</th></tr>
55: ...] </td><td>175 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 1768 K</td></tr> - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...ançois-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by ...
8: ...hout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ... been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger brother ...
12: ... there till [[1711]]. Though he deprecated the education he had received, it formed the basis of his c...
14: ...r stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: ... works, noted for their intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty, have provided insp...
7: ...pp Emanuel Bach]] and [[Johann Christian Bach]] became important musicians and composers in their own ...
11: ...e expected to be apprentices to their fathers, we can assume J. S. Bach began copying music and playin...
13: ...r, [[Johann Pachelbel]]) from his brother's music cabinet and began to copy it by the moonlight. This ...
17: ... complex machine in any European town. This practical experience with the innards of the instrument wo... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...s credited with being one of the first to apply [[calculus]] to [[physics]].
5: ...deduced many consequences of the newly invented [[calculus]]. He was completely [[blindness|blind]] f...
10: ...ther, had attended [[Jakob Bernoulli]]'s mathematical lectures and respected his family. When Daniel ...
12: ...explained with analytical science"—that is, calculus). In [[1735]] he lost much of his vision i...
14: ...arina Gsell, the daughter of the director of the academy of arts. They had thirteen children, of whom... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...e science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systematics|biological systematics]].
9: ...ner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life known at the time.
11: ... of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Rob...
13: ...ral theology. The approach he took to the classification of plants in his [[Historia Plantarum]] was a...
17: ...or his introduction of a method of modern classification; he created systematic zoology and botany in ... - Rice (13724 bytes)
2: ...-fields-Indonesia-(Java).jpg|250px|Rice field]] | caption = Rice fields on [[Java (island)|Java]]}}
23: ...for [[irrigation]]. However it can be grown practically anywhere, even on [[grade (geography)|steep]] ...
24: ...are native to South Asia and certain parts of Africa, centuries of trade and exportation has made it a...
27: ...ding on terraced hillsides) with the help of chemical weed controls.
29: ...rice'' is grown. This can develop elongated stems capable of coping with water depths exceeding 2 mete...
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