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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...usin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
10: ...e used to ensure that Scotland would co-operate. The [[Act of Union 1707]] (which united England and S...
12: ...gh]], who led the English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
15: ...advisors. Jennings later married John Churchill (the future Duke of Marlborough), who would later beco...
17: ...ce to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious a... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...er reign. She did, however, govern the realm when her husband was abroad fighting wars.
11: ...gh her parents bore eight children, only Mary and her younger sister [[Anne of Great Britain|Anne]] su...
13: ...ied again in [[1673]], taking as his second wife the Catholic [[Mary of Modena]], also known as Mary B...
15: ...ould improve his popularity amongst Protestants. The first cousins Mary and William married in London ...
17: ...ple, but her husband neglected or even mistreated her. William long maintained an affair with [[Elizab... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
12: ...[[seed plant]]s are called [[gymnosperm]]s; here the ovule is not enclosed at pollination.
16: ...ut with varying limitation, as a group-name for other dicotyledonous plants.
18: ...term is nowadays received and in which it is used here.
22: ...e found in the other subdivision of seed-plants, the Gymnosperms.
24: ...te Cretaceous, angiosperms appear to have become the predominant group of land plants, and many fossil... - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...arly the [[dulcian]], the bassoon is a part of orchestral, concert band, and chamber music literature....
6: ...th its bell flared slightly at the end. However, there were only six finger-holes and two keys.
8: ...an'' (1690) referring to the wooden double reed, the word began to be used to refer to this instrument...
10: ...ars date to the end of the 17th century, depicts the bassoon much as it appears in its current form, a...
14: ...r=red>(2)</font>, a crooked metal tube which attaches wing joint to reed <font color=red>(1)</font> ({... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
11: Nickname = The [[Grand Canyon]] State, The Copper State |
29: ...t observe [[Daylight saving time|DST]] except in the [[Navajo Nation]])</small> |
34: HighestElev = 3,851 |
46: Nickname = The Grand Canyon State |
70: Motto = ''Ditat Deus'' (God Enriches) | - Vermont (39851 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Green Mountain State |
30: HighestElev = 1,339 |
36: ...he [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Quebec]] to the north.
38: ...tal is [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]...
42: ...m?), making it the 43rd largest in land area and the 47th in water area. - Texas (39610 bytes)
30: HighestElev = [[Guadalupe Peak]], 2,667 |
36: ... member [[U.S. state|state]] in [[1845]]. It has the [[U.S. Postal Service|postal abbreviation]] '''TX...
38: ...rs mistakenly applied the word to the people and their location.
41: * [[state flower]] — the [[bluebonnet]] (''Lupinus texensis'')
43: ... on several historical flags of Texas, including the current Texas flag [http://www.50states.com/bio/n... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painte...
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
27: *[[Andreas Achenbach]] ([[1815]]-[[1910]]) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...th discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
4: ...d by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in the [[13th century]].
6: ...he speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of [[star]]s.
12: :''The following is a brief biography of Newton's early ...
14: ...sband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmother. - John Locke (14749 bytes)
1: {{otherpeople|John Locke}}
3: ... period. Locke has been placed in a group called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [[David H...
6: ...nteresting than the classical material taught at the University.
8: ...bert Hooke]] and [[Richard Lower]]. In [[1666]], he met [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesb...
10: ...pact that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
17: ! align="left" | [[Perihelion]]
20: ! align="left" | [[Aphelion]]
41: ...| [[Longitude of the ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
44: ...rgument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]]
83: | 12.6 km/s = 45,300 km/h <br>(at the equator) - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: ... edit the text of this article, scroll down past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacin...
4: ...="2" bgcolor="#000000"| [[Image:Uranus.jpg|250px|The planet Uranus]]<br>
10: | [[William Herschel]]
26: !align="left"| [[Perihelion]]
29: !align="left"| [[Aphelion]] - Palermo (10618 bytes)
3: ... [[Sicily]], [[Italy]] as well as the capital of the [[Province of Palermo]]
6: ...d to be the most conquered city in the world, as the following history will show.
8: ...split, Sicily and Palermo came under the rule of the Eastern [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] Empire.
10: ...00 [[mosque]]s. The city was renowned throughout the Muslim world. It was a period of prosperity and t...
12: ...hapel, the church San Giovanni degli Eremiti and the Zisa. [http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/76.html] - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
2: ...riginal [[paddlewheel]] from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. Right: detail of a steamer]]
3: ...Waverley|PS ''Waverley'']] leaving [[Dunoon]] on the [[Firth of Clyde]].]]
6: ...lakes and rivers, particularly [[riverboat]]s in the [[USA]]; '''steamship''' generally refers to stea...
8: ... [[Paddle steamer]]s have the prefix "'''PS'''". The term ''steamer'' is occasionally used, out of nos...
15: ...k exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...[[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improvements to the [[glass harmonica]], and possibly [[bifocals]].
9: ...[[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife [[Mary Morrill]].
11: ...f whom being half-siblings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samu...
13: ..., [[1688]]), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth). - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language...
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]]... - Faience (4113 bytes)
1: ...lish language|English]] for fine tin-glazed [[earthenware]] on a delicate pale buff body.
4: ...[majolica]], was produced for export as early as the [[15th century|fifteenth century]]. A [[kiln]] ca...
6: ...of Spanish pottery owed much to its [[Moorish]] inheritance.
8: ...ese "masterpieces of faience" are the subject of the on-line article posted at [http://www.findarticle...
11: ...[porcelain]] that was imported from [[China]] in the early [[16th century|sixteenth century]], but it ... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...ereign Military Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ...f [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...nded into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soon grew into a substantial force.
9: ...ar [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], subdivided i...
15: ...trol a number of neighboring islands, as well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
1: ...''For biblical characters named Elam, see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]].''
4: ... [[Susa]], in what is now southwestern [[Iran]]. The Elamite period is considered to last from ca. [[2...
5: ...and may thus be considered the starting point of the [[history of Iran]].
8: ...ring of Elam, eldest son of [[Shem]] (see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]]).
10: ...ame [[Khuzestan|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which means "El...
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