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  1. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    3: *[[Sin Ai|Ai, Sin]], poet
    9: ...], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
    11: *[[Conrad Aiken|Aiken, Conrad]], (1889-1973), poet
    14: *[[Arthur Aikin|Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
    19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
  2. Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
    5: ...tat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been ...
    9: ... the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1774]].
    11: ...ine issued a charter that: allowed the gentry to petition the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles...
    13: ...y. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the modernization of agric...
    16: ...the [[Hermitage Museum]], [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].]]
  3. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
    5: ...He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon whi...
    7: ...om he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the ...
    10: ...ed a volume of bawdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years he repented of this wor...
    14: ...any subject that he approached, that in this theoretic essay he suggests the possibility of teaching t...
    16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the autho...
  4. Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
    3: ...lical]] studies. She became a very accomplished poet, with her first poem published when she was only ...
    5: ...ral]]'' published in [[Aldgate]], [[London]] in [[1773]]. It was published in London because publishers ...
    7: ...fferson]] was among the harshest critics of her poetry, writing "The heroes of [[the Dunciad]] are to ...
    9: ..., Phillis married a free black grocer named John Peters. She herself did domestic work as a servant. N...
    14: ... Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), also by Margaretta Matilda Odell
  5. Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
    2: ...h dynasty of Egypt|Fourteenth dynasty]], roughly between [[1986 BC]] and [[1633 BC]].
    5: .... Some authorities point to cultural differences between the Eleventh and [[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|T...
    10: ... Senuseret, campaigning against Lybian invaders, returned to Iljtawy with haste to prevent a takeover ...
    12: [[Senusret I]] ([[1917 BC]] - [[1872 BC]]) continued the pol...
    14: Senusret's successor [[Amenemhat II]] ([[1875 BC]] - [[184...
  6. John Hancock (8787 bytes)
    8: ...siness, making him the wealthiest man in Massachusetts at the time.
    10: Despite his wealth, Hancock remained, ethically and virtuously, the same. With his generos...
    13: ...epresentatives|representative]] to the [[Massachusetts General Court]], his colonial trade business na...
    17: ...joke that "[[Samuel Adams|Sam Adams]] writes the letters [to newspapers] and John Hancock pays the pos...
    19: ... its Committee of Safety. Under Hancock, Massachusetts raised bands of "[[Minutemen (militia)|minuteme...
  7. List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
    13: ...antong|Xuantong, Qian]], ([[1887]]-[[1939]]), phonetician
    27: ...nn Joachim Quantz|Quantz, Johann Joachim]], (1697-1773), composer
    29: ...rancis Quarles|Quarles, Francis]], (1592-1644), poet
    30: ...Quarrie|Quarrie, Don]], (born 1951), Jamaican athlete
    40: ...een|Queen, Ivy]], born (1972), "The Queen of Reggaeton"
  8. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
    31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
    37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
    48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress...
    54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet
  9. American Revolution (17069 bytes)
    4: .... Most current interpretations fall somewhere in between these two positions.
    7: ...riefly summarize the political, social, economic, etc. situations before the revolution, and the trend...
    16: ...ywhere. Increased publication and communications between like-minded people opened new areas to questi...
    28: ...cement became the practice. In [[1761]], Massachusetts lawyer [[James Otis]] argued that the writs vio...
    30: ...ction. Grenville's policies were bringing them together.
  10. Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
    21: *[[1773]] - [[British Parliament]] passes [[Tea Act]]
    22: *[[1773]] - [[Boston Tea Party]]
    28: ** [[Massachusetts Government Act]] ([[May 20]]),
    53: ....S. state)|Georgia]], [[Connecticut]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Maryland]], [[South Carolina]], [[New Hamp...
  11. January 17 (12233 bytes)
    6: ...harles I of England|King Charles I]] and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the [[Engli...
    8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first expl...
    9: ...sh forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]] in [[South Carol...
    14: ... Safety (Hawaii)|Citizen's Committee of Public Safety]] overthrow the government of Queen [[Liliuokala...
    20: ...iet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Warsaw]]...
  12. Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
    1: ...''' was a political protest by [[Boston, Massachusetts]] residents against the [[Kingdom of Great Brit...
    3: ...ing chests of tea overboard on [[December 18]], [[1773]]. Created/published: [[1784]]. Artist: [[Daniel ...
    7: ... to influence public policy in the Colonies. By [[1773]] the Company had large debts, huge stocks of tea...
    11: ...d only the tea. The whole event was remarkably quiet and peaceful.
    18: ...2.html "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor." 1773. Copy of lithograph by Sarony & Major, 1846. (PD)...
  13. List of chemists (10401 bytes)
    8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
    14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemis...
    16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
    37: *[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemi...
    39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966)
  14. James Cook (14770 bytes)
    8: ... ship. Cook rose in the ranks of the merchant fleet but declined the command of his own collier in 17...
    12: ...h brought him to the attention of the [[Royal Society]].
    18: In [[1766]], the Royal Society hired him to travel to the [[Pacific Ocean]] to ...
    20: ...ntury earlier, in [[1642]]). Cook mapped the complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistake...
    22: ...tain [[Arthur Phillip]] arrived with the First Fleet in [[1788]], he felt that Botany Bay was unsuitab...
  15. Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
    5: ...efferson selected [[Meriwether Lewis|Captain Meriwether Lewis]] to lead the expedition, afterwards kn...
    7: ...rd. Soon they passed Le Rochette, the last white settlement on the [[Missouri River]]. On [[August 20]...
    10: ...uring the trip, so the group decided to vote on whether to camp on the north or south side of the Colu...
    16: ...d States. Without these calm meetings, the white settlers from the East would have stormed the Indian ...
    19: ...ine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition]] for more detail''
  16. 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}}
    73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
  17. Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
    5: ...wear wooden crosses, half a metre long by half a metre wide, around their necks. Although Christians w...
    9: Together with the [[Knights Templar]], who were formed ...
    15: ...e their new home. His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309...
    17: ... Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
    19: ...h the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, ...
  18. Tea Act (1279 bytes)
    1: ...ships into the Boston Harbor. This act, and the retaliatory measures taken by the British government ...
    3: * [http://ahp.gatech.edu/tea_act_bp_1773.html The full text of the Tea Act]
  19. Oxygen (9039 bytes)
    2: {{Elementbox_series | [[nonmetal]]s }}
    26: {{Elementbox_magnetic | [[paramagnetism|paramagnetic]] }}
    37: ...initial appearance on Earth as a product of the metabolic action of early anaerobes ([[archaea]] and ...
    40: ...and the high-energy double-bonded molecule [[singlet oxygen]]. This native diradical quality of oxyge...
    44: ...color and both are highly [[Paramagnetism|paramagnetic]]. Liquid O<sub>2</sub> is usually obtained by ...
  20. Platinum (10600 bytes)
    18: |[[Chemical series]] || [[transition metal]]s
    22: ...s scale|Hardness]] || 21450 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m&sup3;]], 3.5
    30: |[[Atomic radius]] (calc.) || 135 (177) [[picometre|pm]]
    46: |[[State of matter]] || solid ([[paramagnetic]])
    52: |[[Molar volume]] || 9.09 [[cubic metre per mole|cm&sup3;/mol]]

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