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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
37: ...w Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...ttle of L?(1632)|Battle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the...
4: <caption><font size="+1">'''Kristina'''</font></caption>
6: ...r valign=top><td>'''Reign'''<td>[[November 6]], [[1632]]-[[June 5]], [[1654]]
18: ...><td>'''Place of Burial'''<td>[[St. Peter's Basilica]], [[Rome]]
22: ...s being useful when not riding pillion). This has caused her to later become an icon of the transgende... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
4: ...cknamed "Ninon" by her father at an early age. In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, a...
6: ...ular, she devoted her life to pleasure, both physical and mental.
8: ...ure in the [[salon]]s, and her own drawing room became a centre for the discussion and consumption of ...
10: ...en of [[Sweden]]. Impressed, Christina wrote to [[Cardinal Mazarin]] on Ninon's behalf and arranged fo...
12: ... love than to command armies" and "We should take care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of ple... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]] ...
36: ... that revolted against British rule in the [[American Revolution]]. ''See: [[Annapolis Convention]].''
41: ...Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore]], on [[June 20]], [[1632]]. The new colony was named in honour of [[Henri...
43: ...s of tens of thousands of British convicts, which carried on until independence. The [[Maryland Tolera...
45: ... Mason]] and [[Jeremiah Dixon]], to survey what became known as the [[Mason-Dixon line]] which would f... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...mage:VAT74_0643_W.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a...
2: ...n buried there, too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]]...
4: ...edra]] Petri'', the episcopal throne of the basilica's namesake when he led the Roman church, but whic...
7: ...convened in the Basilica of Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernini.]]
8: ... started construction in [[324]] of a great basilica in this exact spot, which had previously been a c... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]]) - Cell (biology) (28190 bytes)
2: ...t of all [[life|living]] [[organism]]s, sometimes called the "building blocks of life." Some organisms...
5: ... room. The name was chosen by [[Robert Hooke]] because of the likeness he saw between [[cork (materia...
11: ... Each cell stores its own set of instructions for carrying out each of these activities.
15: ... depends upon its ability to extract and use chemical energy stored in organic molecules. This energy ...
16: ... workhorses of cells, such as [[enzyme]]s. A typical [[mammal|mammalian]] cell contains up to 10,000 ... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...le]]. In addition, his conflict with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example ...
4: ==Early career==
10: ...sophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
14: ...howed the reality of the experiments and even indicated the particular results that led to the time-sq...
18: ...ses. He published his initial telescopic astronomical [[observation]]s in March [[1610]] in a short tr... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...ory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientif...
4: ...ler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei...
9: ...fortunes were in decline. His father earned a precarious living as a [[mercenary]], and abandoned the...
11: ...ied, and was plagued by a belief that he was physically repulsive, thoroughly unlikable and, compared ...
13: ... of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being "called outdoors" to see it and that the moon "appear... - Microscope (8708 bytes)
1: ...igating small objects using such an instrument is called [[microscopy]], and the term '''microscopic''...
3: ...ce an enlarged image of an object placed in the focal plane of the lens(es).
7: ==Simple optical microscope==
8: ...s a microscope that uses only one lens for magnification. [[Anton van Leeuwenhoek|Van Leeuwenhoek]]'s ...
10: ==Compound optical microscope== - John Locke (14749 bytes)
2: [[Image:Locke-John-portrait-photo-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Image provided by [htt...
3: ...enment]] period. Locke has been placed in a group called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [...
6: ...Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical material taught at the University.
8: ...ee in [[1658]]. Although Locke never became a medical doctor, he earned a bachelor of medicine in [[16...
10: ...m had a major impact on Locke's natural philosophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply in Lo... - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: ... in the 20th century and beyond, see [[History of California (20th century)]].}}
3: ...zation means that most of the known '''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
7: ...California Poppy|California golden poppies]] ''circa'' [[1910]].]]
10: [[Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
11: ...Arlington Springs Woman]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...he unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...] and [[ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theories of the age. However, prominent Enligh...
8: ...osophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]], [[government]] and sciences such as [...
14: ...iverse where God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton throug...
16: ...his ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]].'' - March 22 (9294 bytes)
1: ...number)|81]]st day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (82nd in [[Leap year]]s). There are 284 ...
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
8: ...sachusetts Bay Colony]] outlaws the possession of cards, [[dice]], and gaming tables.
10: ...st direct tax levied from [[England]] on the American colonies.
12: *[[1871]] - In [[North Carolina]], [[William Woods Holden]] becomes the fir... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...elow in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ... Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
37: *[[Cahit Arf]] (Turkey, [[1910]] - [[1997]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]]...
106: *[[Jonathan Borwein]] (Scotland/Canada, [[1951]]-) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}} - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...pend several months or years exploring North America and then he would have to head back to France to ...
7: ...[[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called ''Des sauvages'' (The Savages).
9: ...he [[Habitation at Port-Royal]] (which had been located with Champlain's assistance), where Champlain ...
13: ... one of his passions, which he embarked on periodically for the rest of his life.
19: ...ain attempted to form better relations with the local Indians. He made alliances with the [[Huron]] an... - Cell (29541 bytes)
2: ...t of all [[life|living]] [[organism]]s, sometimes called the "building blocks of life." Some organisms...
5: ... room. The name was chosen by [[Robert Hooke]] because of the likeness he saw between [[cork (materia...
11: ... Each cell stores its own set of instructions for carrying out each of these activities.
15: ... depends upon its ability to extract and use chemical energy stored in organic molecules. This energy ...
16: ... workhorses of cells, such as [[enzyme]]s. A typical [[mammal|mammalian]] cell contains up to 10,000 ... - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
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39: {{Elementbox_cas_number | 7429-90-5 }} - Anton van Leeuwenhoek (4111 bytes)
3: ...n|spermatozoa]] and [[blood]] flow in [[capillary|capillaries]] (small [[blood vessel]]s).
5: ...y known as ''van Leeuwenhoek'' from a young age because he was born in a house at the corner of ''Lion...
7: ...spent his nights studying everything he could and carefully noted his observations. Unfortunately, he ...
15: ...tist judged to have made the decade's most significant finding in microbiology. This is regarded by mi...
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