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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...Maria Theresa), ruler of the [[Habsburg Empire]] from [[1740]]-[[1780]]. Also see [[Maria Theresa of S...
3: ...MariaTheresa.JPG|frame|H.I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduc...
4: ... women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
6: ...erit his united lands on his death. While many European monarchs agreed to the Pragmatic Sanction whe...
8: ...ir apparent to the king of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. She h... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...e:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: ...ngres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Ag...
5: Diderot also contributed to [[literature]], notably with...
7: ...743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the writer Mad...
10: - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
16: *[[Yamagata Hiro]] (born 1964), author
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
23: *[[Yan Chia-kan]] (1905-1993), ROC politician
27: ...nkovic|Yankovic, "Weird Al"]] (born 1959), US [[parody]] musician
31: ...ssociation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] an...
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
46: *[[Alessandro Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
52: *[[Altichiero]] ([[1320]]-[[1395]])
54: *[[Rodolfo Amoedo]] ([[1857]]-[[1941]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
13: ...rge Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
19: *[[Robert Baden Powell]]- scouting movement
29: ...r]], (1813-1898), [[England]] — [[Bessemer process]]
36: ...63;]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
40: ..., [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
2: ...ducting plates (usually made of metal) stacked or rolled to form a compact device, but '''every''' mul...
7: ...e, the ''total'' charge in the device is always zero.
9: [[Image:Dielectric.png|frame|The electrons in the molecules shift toward the positively ch...
13: ...fference]] or ''voltage'' (''V'') which appears across the plates:
16: ...acitors are usually expressed in microfarads (µF), nanofarads (nF) or picofarads (pF). - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...cussed under [[electrical phenomenon]] and [[electromagnetism]].
6: ...r]]", which came from an old [[root (linguistics)|root]] ''ēlek-'' = "shine".
8: ... is believed by some to have been used for [[electroplating]]. There is no firm documentary evidence t...
10: ...University]] by [[Pieter van Musschenbroek]] in [[1745]]. [[William Watson (scientist)|William Watson]]...
11: ...art provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
3: ...acques-Étienne Montgolfier''' ([[January 6]], [[1745]] – [[August 2]], [[1799]]), [[inventor|inve...
5: ...t only got them more burnt, so they were scarred from the fire for the rest of their life.
13: An ascent in a fixed balloon took place around [[October 15]] (12 or 14 according to Montgolf...
15: ...t free flight by humans was made by [[Pilâtre de Rozier]] and the [[marquis d'Arlandes]], who flew al...
16: ... 1781 with his "ornithopter", a flapping device, probably preceded this event, but it never became a g... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
6: ...[[Tiberius]]' will and proclaims [[Caligula]] emperor.
7: *[[1229]] - [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]] declares himself [[King of Jerusalem]] during ...
9: ...nios of Ethiopia|Sissinios]] formally crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]]
10: *[[1673]] - [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton]] sells his part of [[New ...
16: ...t-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham radio]] operator. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[...
18: *[[Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs]] ([[Germany]], [[1912]] – [[1954]])
20: *[[Robert Grant Aitken|Robert Aitken]], ([[United States|USA]], [[1864]] &n...
23: *[[V. Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]]) - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...nown as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[Ad...
7: This article begins with the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification ...
9: ==The Germans and the Romans==
12: ...tive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]] - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
1: '''Samuel Hearne''' ([[1745]] – November [[1792]]), [[England|English]]...
3: ...ns of the [[Hudson Bay]] coasts with a view to improving the cod fishery, and in [[1769]]-[[1772]] he ...
5: ...uide on his arctic overland journey, massacred a group of unsuspecting [[Inuit]]; this would be known ...
7: ...ch under [[Jean-Fran�ois de La P�rouse|La P�rouse]] in 1782. He returned to England in [[1787]] ... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
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20: ...od|Period]], [[periodic table block|Block]] || [[group 10 element|10 ]], [[period 6 element|6]], [[d-b...
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36: |[[Electron configuration]] || <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[xenon|Xe]... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: '''François-Marie Arouet''' ([[November 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30...
8: ...etimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relation...
12: ...the basis of his considerable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...oor family, but his father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ...they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...nown as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[Ad...
7: This article begins with the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification ...
9: ==The Germans and the Romans==
12: ...tive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]] - History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
2: ...istinction of [[chemistry]] from [[alchemy]] by [[Robert Boyle]] in his work ''The Skeptical Chymist''...
3: ....jpg|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
5: [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
8: ...ore had an organic [[compound]] been synthesized from inorganic material. This opened a new research f...
12: ...gation of [[Einstein]]'s atomic explanation of [[Brownian motion]] in the first decade of the [[20th c... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...h a preceding [[Proto-Elamite]] period beginning around [[3200 BC]].
5: Its culture played a crucial role in the [[Achaemenid]] [[Persian Empire]] that s...
8: ...change ''ha'' to ''e'' indicates this word was borrowed prehistorically). Additionally, the Haltamti w...
10: ...|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which means "Elam."
13: ...nguage|Sumerian]], and [[Iranian languages|Indo-European]] languages. Some scholars believe the langua... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calendar...
4: ...Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250px|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[177...
6: ...in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenment ideals, but with the Fre...
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spanish Successi...
14: ...thumb|upright|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], English general.]] - Leyden jar (3953 bytes)
7: ... metal ball. Typical designs consist of an [[electrode]] and a plate, each of which stores an opposite...
14: ..., independently made the same discovery. Musschenbroek made the storage jar known to the scientific wo...
16: ...e's law remains valid (a changing electric field produces a magnetic field). The displacement current ...
24: ...ugh surface area to discharge it. The conductors provide this surface area.
26: ...ltages present when the conductors are separated from the dielectric "spraying" charge onto the dielec...
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