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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    140: ...p it to [[Albany, New York|Albany]], discovered [[Hudson Bay]]
    141: *[[Alexander von Humboldt]], (1769-1859), German naturalist, explored...
    142: *[[Hamilton Hume]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
    161: ...René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle]], (1643-1687), French explorer of the Mississippi basin
    192: *[[Hugh McNeil]], Lewis and Clark Party member
  2. Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
    3: | [[Image:queen_anne_england.JPG|right|thumb|150px|'''Anne''' <br><small>Queen of Great Brit...
    12: ... The Duchess of Marlborough's husband was [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], who led the Eng...
    15: ...nfluential advisors. Jennings later married John Churchill (the future Duke of Marlborough), who would...
    22: ...at the royal palaces were forbidden to salute her husband.
    26: ...sis. William and Mary did not have any children; thus, Princess Anne, [[heir apparent]] to the Throne,...
  3. Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
    2: | [[Image:mary_ii_england.JPG|thumb|right|175px|'''Mary II''' <br><small>Queen of E...
    8: ...eign. She did, however, govern the realm when her husband was abroad fighting wars.
    17: ...She became popular with the Dutch people, but her husband neglected or even mistreated her. William lo...
    20: ...religious liberty to dissenters&mdash;from their churches in May [[1688]], James's unpopularity soared...
    22: ...e powerful than him. Mary, however, convinced her husband that she cared not for political power. Will...
  4. Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
    1: ...osophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not u...
    40: ...the earth would rotate beneath it while it fell, thus causing the stone to land some space away from t...
    42: ... to create a model of the solar system that was a huge improvement over Copernicus' original system. G...
    46: ...d mathematical theories of light as either waves (Huygens) or particles (Newton). Similar developments...
    50: ...t the world of the very small within reach of the human observer, although it would take an additional...
  5. Comet (30542 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Hale-Bopp-large.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a white dust...
    9: ... The streams of dust and gas this releases form a huge but extremely tenuous atmosphere around the com...
    11: ... known that their appearance have been noticed by humans for millennia. One very famous old recording...
    13: [[image:Cometorbit.png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Not...
    20: [[Image:Comet Kohoutek orbit p391.jpg|thumb|376px|right|Orbits of [[Comet Kohoutek]] and [[...
  6. History of science (41710 bytes)
    2: ...ir pre-cursors back in [[time]], all the way into human [[prehistory]].
    11: ... ([[science studies]]) has been to emphasize the "human component" to scientific knowledge, and to de-...
    15: ...fic community and those in the social sciences or humanities (for example, the "[[Science wars]]").
    19: [[Image:Aristotle.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[Aristotle]] (sculpture)]]
    31: Some basic facts about internal human anatomy were known in some places, and [[alche...
  7. Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Hooke 2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
    4: ...ke won a place at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], [[University of Oxford | Oxford]]. There he...
    11: [[Image:Hooke 3.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A ant - one of Hooke's drawings for...
    12: ...vented the [[balance spring]] before [[Christiaan Huygens]]. Devices known as escapements regulate the...
    22: ... published his ''[[Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]], including a proof of an inverse square law, he...
  8. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    2: ...Principia Mathematica]]'' (published [[5 July]] [[1687]]<sup id="fn_1_back">[[#fn_1|1]]</sup>), where he...
    14: ...ears of age, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmot...
    17: ...[[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
    21: [[image:newton.jpg|thumb|left|Engraving after [[Enoch Seeman]]'s 1726 po...
    31: ...|nontrinitarian]] views and the orthodoxy of the church.
  9. Parthenon (12682 bytes)
    1: [[image:ac.parthenon5.jpg|thumb|300px|The Parthenon seen from the hill of the P...
    8: [[Image:ac.parthenon2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The western face of the Parthenon r...
    17: [[image:ac.parthenon4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Only a few sculptures remain on the...
    29: ...[[Our Lady]]. The conversion of the temple to a church involved removing the internal columns and som...
    31: [[Image:Partheon_4.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of the Parthenon, Image prov...
  10. Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
    1: [[Image:B franklin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by...
    9: ... Abiah Folger, was born in [[Nantucket]], [[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folge...
    13: ... ([[August 23]], [[1685]]), Ann ([[January 5]], [[1687]]), Joseph ([[February 5]], [[1688]]), and Joseph...
    15: ..., on [[November 25]] [[1689]] in the [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Rev. Samuel Willard.
    20: [[Image:B_franklin_6.jpg|thumb|300px|]]
  11. March 19 (9902 bytes)
    7: *[[1687]] - Explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]], sea...
    18: ...[[1944]] - World War II: [[Nazi]] forces occupy [[Hungary]].
    30: ...ed and five injured during a test of the [[Space Shuttle Columbia]].
    37: *2004 - [[Taiwan]]ese president [[Chen Shui-ban]] is shot just before the country's presiden...
    89: *[[1263]] - [[Hugh of St Cher]], French cardinal
  12. March 22 (9294 bytes)
    8: *[[1630]] - [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] outlaws the possession of cards...
    9: ...]] - [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious dissent.
    17: ...d War II]]: [[Germany]] takes [[Memel]] from [[Lithuania]].
    23: *[[1960]] - [[Arthur Leonard Schawlow]] & [[Charles Townes]] receive ...
    96: *[[1687]] - [[Jean Baptiste Lully]], French [[composer]] ...
  13. Astronomer (4344 bytes)
    17: |[[Hipparchus]] and [[Ptolemy]]
    20: |[[Aristarchus]]
    36: ...Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ([[1687]]), containing the "[[Newton's laws of motion]]",...
    47: |[[Edwin Hubble]]
    48: ... ([[Hubble's Law]]) [[Hubble Space Telescope|The Hubble Orbiting Space Telescope]] was named in his h...
  14. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    32: *[[Andronicus of Cyrrhus]]
    39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] &ndash; circa [[2...
    46: *[[Arthur Auwers]] ([[Germany]], [[1838]] &ndash; [[1915]]...
    115: *[[C鳡r-Fran篩s Cassini de Thury]] ([[France]], [[1714]] &ndash; [[1784]])
    138: *[[Arthur Edwin Covington]] ([[Canada]], [[1914]] &ndash; ...
  15. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    31: *[[Rodolphus Agricola]], (1443-1485){{fn|R}}
    59: *[[Louis Althusser]], (1918-1990){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    70: *[[Anaxarchus]], (fl. 340 BC){{fn|R}}
    81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
    144: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (1915-1975)
  16. Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
    45: ... [[Europe]]. It was established by a tribe of [[Oghuz Turks]] in western [[Anatolia]] and ruled by the...
    51: [[Image:mehmedii.jpg|thumb|150px|left|thumb|[[Mehmed II|Mehmed II (the Conqueror)]]]]
    53: ...etched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[Hungary]] in the northwest, and from [[Egypt]] in th...
    55: ... Aceh, the Ottomans built a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protes...
    57: ...huanian Commonwealth]], [[Russia]] and [[Austria-Hungary]]. There was a long succession of sultans wh...
  17. Ur (11926 bytes)
    5: [[Image:UR 17 01 2004.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Ur seen across the Royal tombs, with...
    26: ...ook of Jubilees]]'' states that Ur was founded in 1687 ''Anno Mundi'' (year of the world) by 'Ur son of ...
    37: ... E-gi-par (residence of the high priestess) and E-hur-sag (a temple building). Outside the temple area...
    47: [[Image:UR 17 01 2004 003.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Great Ziggurat]]
    52: ...th little shops, selling everything from [[Saddam Hussein]] money bills to genuine rugs. There is only...
  18. Silicon (13233 bytes)
    12: {{Elementbox_meltingpoint | k=1687 | c=1414 | f=2577 }}
    45: [[Image:Chemistry_flask.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided ...
    50: ...on is a very useful element that is vital to many human industries. [[Silicon dioxide]] in the form of...
    63: ...oisier]] in [[1787]], and was later mistaken by [[Humphry Davy]] in [[1800]] for a compound. In [[1811...
  19. Physics (25628 bytes)
    2: ..."natural", and &#966;&#973;&#963;&#953;&#962; (''phusis''), "nature") is the [[science]] of [[Nature]]...
    90: [[Image:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg|thumb|left|[[Isaac Newton]]]]
    91: ...ilosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]] in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]] (dates disputed).
    94: ...ng this time by [[Galileo Galilei]], [[Christiaan Huygens]], [[Johannes Kepler]], and [[Blaise Pascal]...
    96: ...ics]], in particular the Law of [[Inertia]]. In [[1687]], [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] published the ''[[Phil...

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