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  1. Steel (28384 bytes)
    3: '''Steel''' is a [[metal]] [[alloy]] whose major component is [[iron]], ...
    5: ... (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
    8: ... Both temperatures could be reached with ancient methods that have been in use for at least 6000 years...
    10: ...pg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in steel production.]]
    11: ...cementite-ferrite mixture. Cementite is a stochiometric phase with the chemical formula of Fe<sub>3</s...
  2. 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: ...children. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, h...
    12: ...], and [[King of Bohemia|Queen of Bohemia]]: 1737-1740
  3. Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
    3: ...to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
    7: ...0, with the Russian resident, [[Bestuzhev-Ryumin|Peter Bestuzhev]], as her adviser. She never remarrie...
    10: On the death of [[Peter II of Russia| Peter II]], Emperor of [[Russia]], the Russian [[Supr...
    19: ...rival, the anti-German cabinet minister [[Artemy Petrovich Volynsky]], was executed several months bef...
    24: ...harles VI]], ([[Holy Roman Emperor]] from 1711 to 1740), and committed Russia during the [[War of the Po...
  4. Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
    1: ...zabeth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (17...
    3: ... remain the chief monuments of her reign in [[St Petersburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best love...
    7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine I of Russia|Martha ...
    11: It was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the...
    13: ...ree from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites without reserve.
  5. Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
    3: ...ral philosopher]]. Not only were there major theoretical and experimental developments, but even more ...
    15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though larg...
    22: *The Earth as a magnet
    24: *Kepler's laws of planetary motion (Kepler)
    25: ...ons of Jupiter, lunar mountains, phases of Venus, etc. (Galileo)
  6. Sheng (instrument) (1217 bytes)
    5: ... and brought the first shengs back to Europe in [[1740]] and [[1777]] respectively, although some believ...
  7. Iraq (19222 bytes)
    1: ...asion has been disputed by the United Nations Secretary General and politicians in both the USA and th...
    10: ...lign="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Iraq|In Detail]]) || align="center" width="140px" | ([[Coat o...
    25: ... by area|Ranked 57th]] <br> 437,072 [[square kilometer|km&sup2;]]<br> 1.1%
    40: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.iq]]
    59: ...a Prime Minister and, on his recommendation, cabinet ministers.)
  8. Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
    3: Between the fall of the [[Taliban]] after the [[U.S. ...
    5: ...1604;&#1578; &#1575;&#1587;&#1604;&#1575;&#1605;&#1740; &#1575;&#1601;&#1594;&#1575;&#1606;&#1587;&#1578...
    13: ...enter" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Afghanistan|In Detail]])
    28: ...s by area|Ranked 40th]] <br>647,500 [[square kilometre|km&sup2;]] <br>0%
    48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.af]]
  9. Vermont (39851 bytes)
    36: ...amplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, ...
    38: ...ted by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provin...
    48: ...rest in meadow, uplands, lakes, ponds and swampy wetlands.
    50: ...areas of the state. Annual [[snow]]fall averages between 60 to 100 inches depending on elevation, givi...
    57: ...95 feet. The state's average elevation is 1,000 feet.]]
  10. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    5: ==Alphabetical list==
    26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
    32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) &mdash; nonreflective [[glass]]
    36: ...]], (1711-1787) &mdash; [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
    40: ...Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] &mdash; [[rocket]] technology
  11. Politics (7193 bytes)
    2: '''Politics''' is the process and method of making decisions for groups. Although it is...
    6: ...[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
    11: ...ay to illustrate the rationale for creating [[societies]] (polities).
    14: ...writing. All of which require densely populated settlements - cities.
    23: ...ameral]] legislative system, which divided power between the [[patrician]] [[aristocracy]] and [[plebi...
  12. Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
    13: *[[1729]]: [[Province of Carolina]] proprietors sell out to Crown
    18: *[[1735]] - [[John Peter Zenger]] trial on freedom of the press issues.
    21: === [[1740s]] ===
    22: *[[1740]] - [[King George's War]] ([[War of the Austrian ...
  13. Colonial America (32872 bytes)
    2: ...[[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and th...
    13: ...f Great Britain|Britain]], [[France]], and the [[Netherlands]]. The lands that now make up the [[Unit...
    16: ...h Monarchs|Queen]] [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]]. At this time, however, there was no official ...
    25: ...alled [[Virginia]] (named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"). It lay on an island in t...
    27: ... colonists had little incentive to protect their settlement or work towards its long-term growth.
  14. Sundial (16148 bytes)
    24: ...t for [[daylight saving time]], a face needs two sets of numerals or a correction table, and must be a...
    41: In common speech, sometimes ''style'' refers to the entire gnomon.
    49: ...e face. The gnomon should be sturdy, preferably metal, because gnomons are usually thin, and can brea...
    67: ...t keeps time all year, and its face is never completely shaded in the daytime (as vertical sundials ar...
    72: ...t|Wall sundial on East-facing wall, Prague, about 1740]]
  15. List of popes (77758 bytes)
    1: ...thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
    4: ...have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes...
    6: ...taly]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus...
    21: ...wspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint Peter</small>
    22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small>
  16. Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
    2: ...px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
    4: ...ish an authoritative system of [[ethics]], [[aesthetics]], and [[knowledge]]. The intellectual leaders...
    6: ...n the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theo...
    14: ...Baruch Spinoza|Baruch (Benedictus de) Spinoza]]'s Ethics, which expounded a pantheistic view of the un...
    16: ... a coherent system of verifiable predictions and set the tone for much of what would follow in the cen...
  17. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    18: *[[John Bacon]] (1740 - 1799)
    22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
    62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
    87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
    93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
  18. Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
    3: ...'''Joseph-Michel Montgolfier''' ([[August 26]], [[1740]] &#150; [[June 26]], [[1810]]) and '''Jacques-É...
    11: ...mber 19 sent up the fourth living beings in a basket attached to the ham: a sheep named Montauciel (me...
    15: ...etres above [[Paris]] for a distance of nine kilometres.
    18: ...ere produced in enamel and gilt-bronze replicas set with a dial in the balloon.
    22: ...960s]], when [[Raven Industries]] improved the safety of the classic Montgolfier design by using ripst...
  19. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
    5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
    10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
  20. Celsius (3635 bytes)
    18: ...ns (1743), and the botanist [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1740); also independently invented the same measuremen...
    20: ... to be 1/273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point of water and [[absolute zero...
    22: ... Ekstr?, the manufacturer of most of the [[thermometer]]s used by Celsius.
    24: ... particularly by weather forecasters on European networks such as the [[BBC]], [[ITV]], and [[Radio Te...

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