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- List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
40: ...Konrad Ernst Ackermann|Ackermann, Konrad Ernst]] (1712-1771)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...f [[Russia]] from [[1725]] until her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his ...
7: ... except for Anna and [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta]].
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]])
10: *[[Empress]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
11: *Grand Duchess Nataliya Petrovna ([[1713]]-[[1715]]) - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
3: ''Confederatio Helvetica'' (CH), the [[Latin]] version of the official ...
31: ...me_zone = [[Central European Time|CET]] |utc_offset=+1 |
32: ... = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] |utc_offset_DST=+2 |
48: ...quired during the earlier wars, suffered a first setback in [[1515]] with the Swiss defeat in the [[Ba...
50: ...t the [[battles of Villmergen]] in [[1656]] and [[1712]]. - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
44: ...[South Carolina]] and [[Tennessee]] as well. In [[1712]], North Carolina became a separate colony. It re...
46: ...ille]] in the east to [[Bethania, North Carolina|Bethania]] (northwest of [[Winston-Salem, North Carol...
48: ...ate. Approximately 40,000 of those troops never returned home, dead of battlefield wounds, disease an...
50: ...h the creation of the [[Research Triangle Park]] between [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] and [[Dur...
58: ...]], a Democrat. Its two U.S. senators are [[Elizabeth Dole]] and [[Richard Burr]], both Republicans. - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
8: Nickname = Palmetto State |
42: ...declared its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government on March 15, 1776. On [[Feb...
44: ...mes Buchanan]] took little action, preferring to let the newly-elected President [[Abraham Lincoln]] d...
48: ... two bodies -- called the "General Assembly" -- meets in the South Carolina State House. The Judicial ...
87: ...Baptist]] (47% of the total state population), [[Methodist]] (16%), [[Presbyterian]] (4%). - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Uranus (15207 bytes)
4: ...color="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
18: | 2,870,972,220 [[kilometre|km]]<br>19.191 263 93 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
21: | 18.029 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>120.515 AU
61: !align="left"| [[Equator]]ial [[diameter]]
64: !align="left"| [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter - St. Valentine's Day (9989 bytes)
1: ...r know about their love, commonly by sending [[greeting card|Valentine's cards]], which are often anon...
4: ...nge of mass-produced [[greeting card]]s. The [[Greeting Card Association]] estimates that, world-wide,...
10: ...n the calendar of [[Ancient Athens]], the period between mid January and mid February was the month of...
12: ...oat skin above their heads, touching anyone they met. Young women especially would come forth voluntar...
19: The connection between St. Valentine and romantic love is not mentio... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ...umnavigate]] the world twice, and went on to complete a third circumnavigation.
4: ...a plantation manager on [[Jamaica]], but he soon returned to the sea,
7: ...en raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] before returning to the Caribbean.
9: ...he ''Cygnet'', and on [[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]...
11: ...in [[Sumatra]]. After further adventures Dampier returned to England in [[1691]] via the [[Cape of Goo... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[Unit...
4: ...include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improve...
9: ...[[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wif...
11: ...blings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[16...
13: ... for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several more c... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...stan]], and among the earliest civilizations altogether. Ancient Elam lay to the east of [[Sumer]] an...
7: ==Etymology==
13: ...l, as [[Indus script|Harappan pictographs]] have yet to be deciphered. Several stages of the language ...
17: ...Elamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
19: .... [[4000 BC]], and during its history fluctuated between subjection to Mesopotamian and Elamite power.... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...s [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between the death of [[Louis XIV of France]] and the ...
6: ...n prominence. Philosophers were dreaming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of ea...
8: ...18th century, it would radically change human society and the geology of the surface of the earth.
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in the [[Battle of Poltava]]]]
22: ...aint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]. [[Russia]]n [[Capital (political)|... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
8: | align="center" | [[Image:Petersburg coat of arms 1730 to 1856.gif|130px]] <br ...
19: | [[Area]]: || 606 [[Square kilometre|km�]]
33: ...va]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
36: ...2;́д, [[1924]]–[[1991]]) and '''Petrograd''' (Петро
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38: Founded by [[Tsar]] [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] in [[1703]] as a "window to Europe"... - Steam engine (17867 bytes)
3: ...e, high proof alcohol, dry grass, hay, dry weeds, etc. The steam expands and pushes against a piston o...
9: ...homas Savery]] ([[1698]]), [[Thomas Newcomen]] ([[1712]]), and [[James Watt]] ([[1769]]), each adding ne...
17: ...[James Watt]] who was a member of the [[Lunar Society]]. His discovery and its development increased t...
19: ...t important refinement at this point was the [[safety valve]], which releases excess pressure. Reliabl...
30: ...te of burning; the boiler must be constructed to get that extra heat to the water. An engine using thi... - Bureaucracy (8428 bytes)
15: ...an emergent class of scribes used[when?] clay tablets to administer the harvest and to allocate its sp...
17:
19: ... reforms, competitive examinations took place to determine which candidates qualified to hold given po...
23: ...l-known for his study of bureaucratization of society; many aspects of modern [[public administration]...
25: ...omist]] [[Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay]] (1712-1759).
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