Peter the Great abolished the aristocratic Boyar class in this country
Alessandro, the first Duke of Florence, was an illegitimate member of this family
During the Napoleonic Wars, the royal family of Portugal fled to this colony
This German-born archaeologist made a fortune in the Crimean War, which allowed him to look for Troy
More than 1 million turned out for his funeral procession in the Philippines August 31, 1983
One can be used to step up or step down an alternating current
The inventors of this tiny device won the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics
It describes objects through which light can pass, but through which you can't see clearly
Some botanists believe this process in plants is equivalent to sweating in humans
Any device that turns one kind of energy into another; a microphone is an example of one