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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...gland|King James II]]) and befriended his younger daughter; Anne was a few years Sarah's junior. They...
6: ...] (1961-1997), Sarah sought to marry off her granddaughter [[Diana Spencer|Lady Diana Spencer]] (1710-...
8: ... Somerset|The Duchess of Somerset]] | years=1704–1710}}
11: ...daughter of [[Sir Winston Churchill]] and a descendant of the original Sarah. - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...ca]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These boundaries are not uncontroversial, with some claiming t...
7: ...es may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differences.
31: ...ar to fill fourteen centuries, and the other candidates are few:
36: ... extending to the early 17th century, are the raw data on which are built the theoretical studies of h...
40: ...ts for a means of creating a more accurate [[calendar]] for its activities. For almost two millennia,... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
12: *[[Uda, Emperor of Japan|Uda, emperor of Japan]], (867-931)
13: *[[Mark Udall|Udall, Mark E.]] (1950-)
14: *[[Mo Udall|Udall, Morris King "Mo"]] (1922-1998)
15: *[[Stewart Udall|Udall, Stewart Lee]] (1920-)
16: *[[Tom Udall|Udall, Thomas Stewart "Tom"]] (1948-) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
16: ... although the Italian mathematician [[Girolamo Cardano]] had proposed the idea about a century earlier... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...led the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perha...
22: ...ays express ideas that match those of the present day.
27: ...lly published in December 1689. Though the exact dates of the composition of the ''Two Treatises'' ar...
31: ....viii.10) such as "red" and "sweet." These ''secondary qualities'', Locke claims, are dependent on the...
41: ...rom the works of both Locke and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]]. - Nairobi (2690 bytes)
6: ...s being constructed between [[Mombasa]] and [[Uganda]]. It was totally rebuilt in the early [[1900s]] ...
14: ... by [[Osama bin Laden]]'s terrorist group [[Al-Qaida]]. See: [[1998 U.S. embassy bombings]]
16: ...th rising crime, earning a reputation for being a dangerous city and the nickname "nairobbery". In 200... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
3: ...s a '''bill''' in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]]) is a kind of [[currency]], issued as [[legal t...
5: ... a lot of precious metal was cumbersome and often dangerous. As an alternative, banknotes would be is...
9: Today, this is no longer true; the currency of all cou...
16: ... were issued with a promise to convert at a later date.
18: ...al codes enforced the payment for injury in a standardized form, usually in precious metals. The devel... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...]] [[April 26]], [[1564]] ([[Old Style|O.S.]]); – [[April 23]], [[1616]] (O.S.), [[May 3]], [[16...
6: ...between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Chronology of Shakespeare plays|chronolo...
8: ...any [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
12: ...espeare{{fn|1}}—actor, playwright and poet—was one individual whose life can be clearly ma...
14: ...be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [[Feast Day]] of [[Saint George]], [[patron saint]] of Engla... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
20: *[[Johannes Nicolaus Br?d]], (1879-1947), Danish chemist
36: *[[John Dalton]], (1766-1844), physicist
37: ...[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] [[Nobel ...
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
43: *[[Davorin Dolar]], (born 1921), chemist - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
6: ...r]]s lie further north, the most famous being [[Oodaaq]]. The term ''Ultima Thule'' was given by medie...
8: ...and, according to the path of the [[International Date Line]], is [[Attu Island]], [[Alaska]].
9: ...and, according to the path of the [[International Date Line]], is [[Caroline Island]], [[Kiribati]].
27: ... of the world. [[Surrealist]] artist [[Salvador Dali]] made a even more ambitious claim; that the tr...
32: ***[[Extreme points of Canada]] - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
19: *[[César Baldaccini]]
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]]
63: *[[Eduardo Chillida]] (1924-2002)
75: *[[Jules Dalou]] (1838 - 1902) - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: .... Electricity gives rise to one of the four [[fundamental force]]s of nature, and is a conserved prop...
8: ..., dated to about [[250 BCE]] and called the [[Baghdad Battery]], resembles an electrochemical cell and...
10: ...modern Latin word ''electricus'' from ''ηλεκτρον'' (''elek...
12: ...and theories through the famous, though extremely dangerous, [[experiment]] of flying a [[Kite flying|...
16: ...Ampere, and Ohm is honored by society, in that fundamental units of electrical measurement are named a... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]...
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]...
88: *[[Danilo Blanusa]], ([[Croatia]], [[1903]] - [[1987]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[Englis...
10: ...l (see [[Hertford College]]). The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinso...
20: ...n. Despite his interest in this phenomenon, he disdained experimental work as in [[physics]]. He went ...
30: ...rbiere]] through the [[Elzevir press]] at [[Amsterdam]] with a new preface and some new notes in reply...
36: ...uman Nature (book Hobbes)|Human Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policie]]'', and ''[[De corpore... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
3: == Foundation and early history ==
25: ...], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicily, who acted as the Kin...
29: ...d, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the day almost the entirety of their fleet was destroyed...
50: ...Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues until today, gaining increasing independence from its Roman ...
57: ...er, also known as the Knights of [[Malta]], and today operates as a largely charitable and ceremonial ... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ...hs or years for a hand-copied letter to arrive, today scientific communication can be practically inst...
9: Nowadays, almost all modern scientists participate in a ...
11: ...ment of the [[Scientific Revolution]] was the foundation of scientific societies: [[Academia Secretoru...
13: ... Society]] of [[London]], [[1660]] to the present day, brought together a diverse collection of scient...
15: ...II]], which produced such "wonder weapons" as [[radar]], [[rocketry]], and the [[atomic bomb]]. During...
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