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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...es II of England|James II]], had been forcibly deposed in [[1688]]; her sister and brother-in-law then...
12: ...e [[Whig]]s. Her closest friend, and perhaps her most influential advisor, was [[Sarah Churchill, Duch...
15: ...rlborough), who would later become one of Anne's most important generals.
26: ...shed, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne. To preclude a...
31: ...eirs died. (This was not an unrealistic worry: most of family was killed by [[smallpox]] shortly bef... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...her own right, did not wield actual power during most of her reign. She did, however, govern the realm...
15: ...e William II of Nassau]]. At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with a Dutch ruler — he pref...
20: ...oman Catholic. Some charged that the boy was "suppositions," having been secretly brought in as a subs...
22: ...liam was reluctant; he was jealous of his wife's position as the heiress to the English Crown, and fea...
24: ...r his wife's death. Although some individuals proposed to make her the sole ruler, Mary, remaining loy... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
2: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:Haw2_242_rose.jpg|250px]] | caption = Magnolia [[flower]]}}
12: ...called [[gymnosperm]]s; here the ovule is not enclosed at pollination.
16: ... as dicotyledonous flowering plants, the term Angiosperm was used antithetically by botanical writers,...
18: ... the whole of the flowering plants other than Gymnosperms, and as including therefore the classes of D...
22: ... in the other subdivision of seed-plants, the Gymnosperms. - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
6: The bassoon was developed from its precursor, most often referred to as the [[dulcian]], a wooden i...
8: ...rcell]]'s call for a "bassoon" in ''Dioclesian'' (1690) referring to the wooden double reed, the word be...
10: ...cturing techniques and acoustical knowledge made possible great improvements in the playability of the...
18: ...ated by doubling the tube back on itself and by closing the distance between the widely-spaced holes w...
20: ...|listen}}); as its use makes the bottom B-flat impossible to play and affects the intonation of the lo... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
17: PostalAbbreviation = AZ |
53: Reptile = [[Rattlesnake|Arizona Ridgenose Rattlesnake]] |
57: Flower = [[Saguaro]] Blossom |
61: Fossil = [[Petrified wood]] |
87: ...rizona" and its attachment to the region. Three possible derivations are: - Vermont (39851 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = VT |
38: ...t was claimed by [[France]] but became a British possession after France's defeat in the [[French and ...
46: ...lain Valley]]. In the south of the valley is [[Bomoseen Lake]].
50: ...on, giving Vermont some of New England's best [[cross-country skiing]] areas.
52: In the autumn, Vermont's hills experience an explosion of red, orange and gold foliage caused by the ... - Texas (39610 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = TX |
36: ...]] in [[1845]]. It has the [[U.S. Postal Service|postal abbreviation]] '''TX'''.
42: * [[List of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
55: ...nd [[Arkansas]] on the east. To the southwest, across the [[Rio Grande]], Texas borders the [[Mexico|M...
117: ...e [[Rio Grande]] to establish [[San Francisco de los Tejas]] Mission in East Texas, effectively blazin... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...sopher]], and [[alchemist]] who wrote the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' (publis...
4: ...also notable for his arguments that light was composed of [[particle]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]...
6: ...describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entiret...
19: ...versity]] at the age of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss St...
23: ...obtained his degree in [[1665]], the University closed down as a precaution against the [[Great Plague... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
6: ...rriculum of the time. He found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesti...
8: ... his time at Oxford, working with such noted virtuosi as [[Robert Boyle]], [[Thomas Willis]], [[Robert...
10: ...ydenham had a major impact on Locke's natural philosophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply...
12: ...f) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke with saving his life. - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
108: ...f" colspan="2" | [[celestial body's atmosphere|Atmospheric]] characteristics
110: ! align="left" | [[Atmospheric pressure]]
131: | [[Phosphine]]
145: ...iter from a [[brown dwarf]], although the latter possesses rather specific spectral lines, but in any ...
154: ! Stationary, retrorad || Opposition|| Stationary, prograd|| Conjunction to sun - Uranus (15207 bytes)
119: ...ff" colspan="2"| [[celestial body's atmosphere|Atmospheric]] characteristics
121: !align="left"| [[Atmospheric pressure]]
145: ...nus B.png|10px|Astronomical symbol for Uranus]] (mostly astronomical).
148: ===Composition===
149: ...r is due to the absorption of [[red]] light by atmospheric [[methane]]. - Palermo (10618 bytes)
6: ...harbour. Palermo is widely considered to be the most conquered city in the world, as the following hi...
10: ...throughout the Muslim world. It was a period of prosperity and tolerance, as [[Christianity|Christians...
12: ...e resulting blend of Norman and [[Arab]] culture fostered a unique hybrid style of [[architecture]] as...
18: ...ury Palermo expanded outside the old city walls, mostly to the north along the new boulevard, the Via ...
21: Palermo survived almost the entire [[Fascism|fascist]] period unscathed,... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
8: ...he term ''steamer'' is occasionally used, out of nostalgia, for [[diesel]] motor driven vessels, prefi...
15: ...e. One of the first to propose the idea (around [[1690]]) was the physicist [[Denis Papin]] who was deve...
19: ... new [[paddle steamer]], the [[PS Pyroscaphe|''Pyroscaphe'']], successfully steamed up the [[river Sa&...
23: ...Forth and Clyde canal were thwarted by fears of erosion of the banks, development was taken up both in...
30: ... to the present day, most destroyed by boiler explosions or fires. One of the few surviving Mississip... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...]s, improvements to the [[glass harmonica]], and possibly [[bifocals]].
9: Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin, was born at [[Ecton]], [[Northampton...
11: In around [[1677]], Josiah married a one Anne Child at Ecton; and over th...
13: ...), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth). - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - Faience (4113 bytes)
6: ... from the [[kingdom of Aragon]] in Spain at the close of the [[Middle Ages]]. This type of Spanish pot...
8: ... faience" are the subject of the on-line article posted at [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...
15: ...ce-de-quimper.com/histquim_en.html], which today possesses an interesting museum devoted to faience, a...
21: ...tury, fired so hot the unglazed body vitrifies, closed the last of the traditional makers' ''ateliers'... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...d defence of [[pilgrim|pilgrims]]. Following the loss of Christian territory in the [[Holy Land]], the...
5: ...t]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery...
7: ...n Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order ...
9: ...s, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other est...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
36: ...(c. 2094 - c. 2047 BCE). Eventually the Elamites rose in rebellion and overthrew the 3rd Ur dynasty, a...
43: ...with the rise to power of the Anzanite dynasty, whose homeland probably lay in the mountains northeast...
51: ...ressive followed this founder of a new dynasty, whose home was probably [[Susa]]; and in this period E...
68: ...their ancient and recent kings I devastated, I exposed to the sun, and I carried away their bones towa...
72: ...decline of the Assyrians were the [[Persians]], whose presence around [[Lake Urmia]], i.e. to the nort...
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