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1: ...es plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
6: ... [[Greek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vi...
8: ...wers may swing from the clefts of the volutes, or from their "eyes". After a little early experimentat...
12: ...the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominent.
14: ...ary" approach, it must be in traditions passed on from [[Hellenistic]] architects, such as [[Hermogene... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...ale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
7: ...d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
14: ...ari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
14: ...al]] native to [[the Americas]]. Its name derives from the [[Algonquian]] word ''aroughcoune'', "he wh...
18: ...ood before eating it (the term for the animal in French is ''raton laveur'', or "washing rat"; the Ge...
35: ...tablished itself in a small area of north-central France and in a considerable area of central Germany... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
9: ... these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by h...
11: ...tention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but the pride of the [[Bou...
13: ...d her fathers sensual temperament and, being free from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites...
19: ... seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La Chetardie, who was plotting to...
23: ...the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few personal friends, including her physician, Armand Lestocq, he... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...e was initiated as a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] in Fredericksburg on [[4 February]] [[1752]]. On Lawren...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...nternational incident, and helped to ignite the [[French and Indian War]], which eventually became the...
33: ...ition]], which successfully drove the French away from [[Fort Duquesne]].
37: ...en. In that year, he was chosen as a [[delegate]] from Virginia to the First [[Continental Congress]] ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...neration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in...
24: ...1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing ...
35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis...
37: ... "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of ...
39: ...a committee with [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Robert R. Livingston]] and [[Roger She... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[April 28]], [[1758]]
18: '''James Monroe''' ([[April 28]], [[1758]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[...
22: ... the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law in [[Fredericksburg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monro...
24: ...-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with [[Robert R. Livingston]] a...
30: ... State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept Monroe from adding an outstanding Westerner. Both of these ... - Wolverine (3928 bytes)
13: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
17: ...ave been known (and been filmed) to capture kills from other predators, such as [[polar bear]]s or a [... - Hippopotamus (6778 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ...962;" ("river horse") is a large, plant-eating [[Africa]]n [[mammal]], one of only two living and thre...
17: ...hippo often marks his territory along a riverbank from which to draw in a harem of females while defen...
19: ...hern Africa]] ([[Botswana]], [[Republic of South Africa]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Zambia]]). A separate popul...
22: ... not because they are more aggressive than other African mammals but rather because they are highly te... - Giraffe (8140 bytes)
12: ...uthor=[[Linnaeus (taxonomy) | Linnaeus]] | date=[[1758]]}}
16: Native to [[Africa]], the giraffe is related to [[deer]] and [[ca...
26: ...ground, running down to the hooves. Range: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique.
28: * West African or Nigerian Giraffe (''G.c. peralta'') &mdash...
30: ...ubian and Rothschild's, and Angolan and Southern African giraffes, respectively, into single subspecie... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...British possession after France's defeat in the [[French and Indian War]]. For many years, rightful co...
44: ...north to south, is 159 miles. Its greatest width, from east to west, is 89 miles (the narrowest width ...
52: ...particular variant of the tree; it rather results from a number of soil and climate conditions unique ...
58: ...ing the era Native Americans migrated year-round. From [[1000 BCE]] to [[1600|1600 CE]] was the Woodla...
60: ..., [[1609]], [[French colonization of the Americas|French explorer]] [[Samuel de Champlain]] claimed th... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ... of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted in France's loss of all its possessions in North Americ...
5: ...the Conquest), since it is the war in which [[New France]] was conquered by the British and became par...
9: ...rench and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian allies, following the confl...
13: ...[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's capital.
15: ...of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking populations in [[Acadia]] to Louisia... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ... later drawn into the [[conflict]], while a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was ...
3: ...[Native Americans]]/[[First Nations]]) sided with France although some did fight alongside the British...
8: ...strian Succession]]. During that conflict, King [[Frederick II of Prussia]] had gained the rich provin...
10: ...e)|Hanoverian]] possession as being threatened by France. Great Britain's alliance with Prussia was a ...
14: ...ire|Great Britain]] and [[French colonial empires|France]]. - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Human (48024 bytes)
14: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
24: Humans have an erect body carriage that frees the upper limbs for manipulating objects, a hi...
30: ... [[state]]s down to [[Family|families]], and also from the [[community]] to the [[self]]. Seeking to [...
54: ...species of [[chimpanzee]]s should be reclassified from ''[[Pan troglodytes]]'' and ''[[Pan paniscus]]'...
56: ...had]] and seems to indicate an earlier divergence from the ape lineage. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1700]] to [[1759]]'''.
18: *[[1735]] - [[John Peter Zenger]] trial on freedom of the press issues.
26: *[[1752]] - [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s kite experiment
27: *[[1758]] - [[Treaty of Easton]] - Dodo (9332 bytes)
12: ...| author=[[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ...itius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
20: Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had b...
24: ...easons, the dodo probably fattened itself on ripe fruits at the end of the wet season to live through ...
27: ...sness, made it easy prey. The name ''dodo'' comes from the archaic [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{bibleverse||Matthew|16:18-...
91: | <small>[[Aquileia]], Friuli, Italy</small>
119: | <small>[[North Africa|Northern Africa]]</small>
165: ===From 250===
255: | <small>Africa</small>
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