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  1. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
    15: ...ank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
    57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot
  2. Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
    42: ...] [[Roger Williams (theologian)|Roger Williams]], after being banished from the [[Massachusetts Bay Co...
    56: [[King Philip's War]] occurred during 1675-1676. King Philip ([[Metacomet]]) was the chief ...
    58: ...es Constitution]] ([[May 29]], [[1790]]) doing so after being threatened of having its exports taxed a...
    62: ...oblem, but none passed. In 1842 [[Thomas Dorr]] drafted a liberal [[constitution]] which was passed by...
    65: ...eed|John "Jack" Reed]] (Democrat) and [[Lincoln Chafee]] (Republican). Its two U.S. Congressmen are [[...
  3. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    8: ...e of the [[Circus of Nero]] in the first century. After [[Constantine I of the Roman Empire|Emperor Co...
    10: ...tart adding to the old church. This was abandoned after a short while. In the late [[15th century]] [[...
    12: ...ed Michelangelo to design the rest of the church. After Michelangelo's death his student [[Giacomo del...
    17: ...rthern one by [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini|Bernini]] ([[1675]]).
    89: ...located immediately to the right of the entrance. After an incident in [[1972]] when an individual dam...
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
    394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
    487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]])
    502: *[[Olaf Gulbransson]] ([[1873]]-[[1958]])
    768: *[[Rafal Malczewski]] ([[1892]]-[[1965]])
  5. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    3: ...[list of scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[invento...
    52: ...rell]], (1910-1999;) (1886-1972) — [[Hovercraft]]
    100: ...ronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]], (1638-1675) — [[reflecting telescope]]
    158: ...an-American Inventor of the [[gas mask]], and [[traffic signal]].
    168: ...is]] — passenger elevator and concommitant safety device
  6. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    21: [[image:newton.jpg|thumb|left|Engraving after [[Enoch Seeman]]'s 1726 portrait of Newton]]
    23: ...theory that would later become [[calculus]]. Soon after Newton had obtained his degree in [[1665]], th...
    52: In his ''Hypothesis of Light'' of [[1675]], Newton posited the existence of the [[luminife...
    71: ...e of St. John'' ([[1733]]) — were published after his death. He also devoted a great deal of tim...
    73: ...recorded comments were to complain about a cold draft in the chamber and request that the window be cl...
  7. John Locke (14749 bytes)
    6: ...an]]. Although he was a capable student, Locke chafed under the undergraduate curriculum of the time....
    8: ...]], he met [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], who had come to Oxford seeking treatmen...
    10: ...looking for a career and in [[1667]] moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House in London, ostensib...
    12: ...en life-threatening itself) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke wi...
    14: ...is of what would later become Essay. Two extant Drafts still survive from this period.
  8. Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
    137: ...mainly out of ice and space debris. It was named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[Saturn (go...
    149: ...004]], the ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft found that the radio rotation period of Saturn h...
    161: In [[1675]] [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] determined that S...
    165: ...ion of this theory is that the moon disintegrated after being struck by a large [[comet]] or [[asteroi...
    170: ...s from the ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft taken in [[March]] and [[October]] [[2004]], and...
  9. Electricity (13894 bytes)
    10: ...European pioneers were [[Robert Boyle]], who in [[1675]] stated that electric attraction and repulsion c...
    16: ...amental units of electrical measurement are named after them.
    31: ...n]], [[refrigeration]], [[air conditioning]], [[traffic signal]]s, [[electric guitar]]s and other [[el...
    40: It is often important, particularly for safety reasons, that one side of a circuit be electri...
  10. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
    150: *[[Pafnuty Chebyshev|Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev]], ([[Russia]], [[May 16]],...
    269: ...Bernard Fr鮩cle de Bessy]] (France, [[1605]] - [[1675]])
    299: ...matician)|James Gregory]] (Scotland, [[1638]] ? [[1675]])
    411: *[[Laurent Lafforgue]] (France, [[1966]] - )
  11. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    203: *[[Al-Farghani|Farghani]] ([[Persia]], d. after [[861]])
    243: *[[Bengt Gustafsson]], ([[Sweden]])
    298: ...ert Thorburn Ayton Innes]] ([[Scotland]], [[South Africa]], [[1861]] – [[1933]])
    302: *[[Cyril V. Jackson]] ([[South Africa]])
    333: *[[Robert Kraft]]
  12. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    16: ... did not extend his efforts into philosophy until after [[1629]]. His employer Cavendish, then the Ear...
    20: ...f the peculiar phenomena of sensation, knowledge, affections and passions whereby Man came into relati...
    58: ...m|Arminian]], had met and debated with Hobbes and afterwards wrote down his views and sent them privat...
    74: After a time Hobbes began a third period of controve...
    82: ...ngland. Other writings were not made public until after his death including ''Behemoth: the History of...
  13. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    28: *[[Sediq Afghan]]
    29: *[[Jamal al-Din al-Afghani]], (1839-1897){{fn|R}}
    172: *[[Paul Benacerraf]]
    324: *[[Rafe Champion]]
    361: *[[Samuel Clarke]], (1675-1729){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
  14. Sikhism (31029 bytes)
    4: ...west [[India]] (in what is present day Pakistan). After four epic journeys (north to [[Tibet]], south ...
    16: ... Guru Nanak said, does not mean entering paradise after a last judgment, but a union and absorption in...
    18: ...raddling modern-day [[India]] and [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[Kashmir]] was ruled by them. The...
    28: ...became Guru in [[1665]] and led the Sikhs until [[1675]], when he sacrificed his life to save the [[Kash...
    30: ... Singh's sons, Gobind Singh sent Aurangzeb the [[Zafarnama]] (''Notification of Victory'').
  15. Timpani (31735 bytes)
    1: [[Image:USAFE Band timpanist.jpg|right|<nowiki></nowiki>]]
    20: ...] bowls produce darker tones. Another factor that affects the timbre of the drum is the quality of the...
    41: ...drums may also be called ''Ringer''-style timpani after [[G&uuml;nther Ringer]], who revived the origi...
    64: ...ey have two components: a shaft and a head. The shaft is typically made from [[wood]] &ndash; usually ...
    66: ...he size of the head, the materials used for the shaft, core, and wrap, and the method used to wrap the...
  16. Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
    44: The [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] was named after the indigenous population, the [[Massachusett]...
    47: ...ounded [[Connecticut]]. [[King Philip's War]] ([[1675]]-[[1676]]), the bloodiest [[Indian Wars|Indian w...
    60: In Boston on [[March 5]], [[1770]], an [[African-American]] named [[Crispus Attucks]], from [...
    65: ...itutional Convention drew up a [[Constitution]] drafted in the main by [[John Adams]], and the people ...
    67: ...dness of the Great Legislator of the Universe, in affording us, in the course of His Providence, an op...
  17. Fin Whales (8533 bytes)
    17: ...lso the second largest animal ever to have lived, after the [[Blue Whale]]. It has a world wide distri...
    20: ...s. It was first described by Frederick Martens in 1675 and then again by Paul Dudley in 1725. These desc...
    33: ...f the way along the back. The fin is visible soon after the blow when the whale surfaces. It has a 5m ...
    47: ...n the early days of [[whaling]], Fin Whales were safe from the hunters. Their rapid speed enabled them...
  18. Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
    1: ... the comedy, often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal, is generally less impo...
    5: ...[William Wycherley]] (''[[The Country Wife]]'', [[1675]]) and [[William Congreve (playwright)|William Co...

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