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- Steel (28384 bytes)
11: ... As carbon-rich austenite cools, the mixture attempts to revert to the ferrite phase, resulting in an ...
26: ...he first signs of iron use come from [[Ancient Egypt]] and [[Sumer]], where around [[4000 BC]] small i...
32: ...lack of [[nickel]]) appear in [[Anatolia]], [[Egypt]] and [[Mesopotamia]] (see [[Iron#History|Iron: H...
34: ... [[sword]] bearing the name of [[pharaoh]] [[Merneptah]] as well as a [[battle axe]] with an iron blad...
36: ...e remained in widespread use there until after Egypt's conquest by [[Assyria]] in [[663 BC]]. - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...Theresa), ruler of the [[Habsburg Empire]] from [[1740]]-[[1780]]. Also see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], ...
4: ..., and Queen of [[Hungary]] and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husba...
6: ...Sanction when it was issued, on Charles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...ent of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: ...], and [[King of Bohemia|Queen of Bohemia]]: 1737-1740 - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
19: Having a distrust of Russian nobles, Anna kept them from powerful positions, instead giving thos...
24: ...up all recently captured territories with the exception of [[Azov (city)|Azov]]. This war marks the be...
28: ...[[Ivan VI]], should succeed her. This was an attempt to secure the line of her father, [[Ivan V]], and...
34: ...=[[January 29]], [[1730]]–[[October 28]], [[1740]]}} - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...ountry into the [[War of Austrian succession]] ([[1740]] - [[1748]]) and the [[Seven Years War]] (1756-6...
25: ...most often, a wise suspense of judgment under exceptionally difficult circumstances; and to this may b...
31: ...Russia's proper system. Hence the reiterated attempts of [[Frederick the Great]] and [[Louis XV]] to g...
39: ...began with a fainting-fit at [[Tsarskoe Selo]] (September 19, 1757), nor the fall of Bestuzhev (Februa...
49: ...on the defensive with consummate skill, and the capture of the Prussian fortress of [[Kolberg]] on Chr... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
7: ...n. To some extent this arises from different conceptions of what the revolution was; some of the ranco...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This ...
33: ...ed during the fourteen centuries between them and Ptolemy. But for Kepler and Galileo a claim this bol...
40: ... millennia, the [[geocentric model]] had been accepted by all but a few astronomers. The idea that the...
42: ... the end of the 17th century it was generally accepted by astronomers. - Sheng (instrument) (1217 bytes)
5: ... and brought the first shengs back to Europe in [[1740]] and [[1777]] respectively, although some believ... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
49: ...surgency|volatile]] while the new government attempts to re-establish [[national security|security]] i...
64: ...o major tasks ahead of them. The first is to attempt to reign in the insurgency which has blighted the...
70: ...- ''muhafadhah'', Kurdish: پاریزگه ''Pⲩzgah''). Particularly...
106: ...tion of the program has revealed significant corruption, with highly placed U.N. officials being bribe...
108: ... economy has to a great extent shut down and attempts are underway to revive it from the damages of th... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
5: ...1604;ت اسلامی افغانست...
72: ... seized power in 1996. The Taliban were able to capture 90% of the country, aside from [[Northern Alli...
74: ...on in support of the opposition following the [[September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks]] forced the grou...
88: ...d in December 2003 when a new constitution was adopted creating a presidential form of government with...
235: *[http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/afghanis.pdf 2002 UN ma... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
50: ...bed the "[[Northeast Kingdom]]") is known for exceptionally cold winters, often averaging more than te...
64: ...settlers from [[Albany, New York|Albany]] under Captain Jacobus de Warm established the De Warm Stocka...
66: ...ey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst|Jeffrey Amherst]] captured the fort. The French were driven out of the a...
72: ... of [[George II of Great Britain|George II]] in [[1740]]. In [[1741]], George II ruled that Massachusett...
78: ...ah West during a violent thunderstorm, and was adopted by the delegates after four days of debate. Thi... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
156: *[[Montgolfier]] brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), [[France]] — hot-air...
211: ...provided an influential formalisation of the concept of [[algorithm]] and computation: the [[Turing ma...
242: ...–1995) was the inventor of the Bell [[helicopter]] - Politics (7193 bytes)
30: ...ion of power in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles.
51: *[[Political corruption]]
78: [[fa:سیاست]]
98: - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
21: === [[1740s]] ===
22: *[[1740]] - [[King George's War]] ([[War of the Austrian ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...an to colonize [[North America]]. The first attempts, notably the [[Colony of Roanoke]], resulted in ...
11: ...alth and power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe ...
16: ...At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a colonial em...
37: ...ng - not the sort of audience that is usually receptive to the call of religion. It did not attract m...
56: ...t America would be a "redeemer nation" (see [[exceptionalism]]). Though they fled from religious repre... - Sundial (16148 bytes)
14: Sundials are known from ancient Egypt, and were developed further by other cultures, in...
24: ...f the sundial will not work because sundials (except at the north and south pole) do not have equal ho...
26: ...time]], because the Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical and its axis is tilted relative to the plane ...
67: ...assic garden sundial uses the same principle, except the lines of the disk are projected, using [[trig...
72: ...t|Wall sundial on East-facing wall, Prague, about 1740]] - List of popes (77758 bytes)
36: ...tionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
143: | <small>[[21 July]] [[230]] to [[28 September]] [[235]]</small>
179: ...artyr, through extreme hardship; feast day [[16 September]]</small>
279: | <small>[[17 May]] [[352]] to [[24 September]] [[366]]</small>
321: ...28 December|28]]/[[29 December]] [[418]] to [[4 September]] [[422]]</small> - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
6: ... on belief and piety. Some of its proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence...
12: ...ers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think of them conjoined as one long period...
14: ... and [[René Descartes]], was based on extreme skepticism, and inquiry into the nature of "knowledge."...
16: ...tise On Wisdom ". . . identified the central concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its theoretical...
20: ...cts, such as Kepler's planetary motion, and the "opticks" which had explained lenses, and began to cre... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
1: This is a partial list of [[sculptor (artist)|sculptor]]s.
18: *[[John Bacon]] (1740 - 1799)
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
55: *[[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]] (1827 - 1875)
116: *[[John Gibson (sculptor)|John Gibson]] (1790 - 1866) - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
3: ...'''Joseph-Michel Montgolfier''' ([[August 26]], [[1740]] – [[June 26]], [[1810]]) and '''Jacques-É...
11: The subsequent test on September 19 sent up the fourth living beings in a bas...
16: ... Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781 with his "ornithopter", a flapping device, probably preceded this eve... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
889: *[[Kaibara]], (1630-1740){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1247: *[[Thomas Percival]], (1740-1804){{fn|C}} - Celsius (3635 bytes)
18: ...ns (1743), and the botanist [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1740); also independently invented the same measuremen...
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