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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...am of Orange]] to the British throne and was rewarded with an earldom.
4: ... and her husband fell out of royal favor. Anne's death in [[1714]] restored their fortunes, but the D...
6: ...Spencer|Lady Diana Spencer]] (1710-1735), to [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]]. The Duchess remained fri...
11: ..., the daughter of [[Sir Winston Churchill]] and a descendant of the original Sarah. - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...he scientific revolution was the publication of ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' by [[Nicolaus ...
3: ...nly were there major theoretical and experimental developments, but even more importantly, the way in ...
7: ...as; some of the rancor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these ...
9: ...tially as it is understood and practiced in the modern world; there is no concern here with "other nar...
15: ... (This and Galen's anatomy, though largely superseded by later work, are none the less important contr... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
4: ...g San]], Commander in Chief of the [[Burma Independence Army]]
17: *[[Albert Uderzo|Uderzo, Albert]], (born 1927), French cartoonist of '...
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
23: ...iba|Ueshiba, Morihei]], (1883-1969), Japanese founder of [[aikido]]
25: *[[Fritz von Uhde|Uhde, Fritz von]], (1848-1911), German painter - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hooke 2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
4: ...led because his observations of plant cells reminded him of [[monk]]s' cells. Also in 1665 he gained ...
6: ... of London|Great Fire]] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and th...
12: ...watches still use balance springs, and derivative designs of Hooke's [[anchor escapement]] remain in c...
14: .... While he did give much advice on new microscope designs to the instrument-maker [[Christopher Cock]]... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
2: ...-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...up called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is...
6: ...found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical mat...
8: ...ed a bachelor's degree in [[1656]] and a master's degree in [[1658]]. Although Locke never became a me...
10: ...n Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. - Nairobi (2690 bytes)
4: ...d occupies around 150 sq km. It is situated about 1660 m (5450 ft) above sea level. The main languages s...
6: ...] in [[1907]] and the capital of the newly independent Kenya in [[1963]].
8: ...ya2.jpg|left|thumb|Traffic in Nairobi. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
12: ...reserve, [[Nairobi National Park]], within its borders. Nairobi also has more species of [[bird]]s th...
14: ...as bombed in [[August]] [[1998]] by [[Osama bin Laden]]'s terrorist group [[Al-Qaida]]. See: [[1998 U.... - Banknote (6576 bytes)
3: ...oin]]s, banknotes make up the cash forms of all modern [[money]]. With the exception of non-circulatin...
5: ...intrinsic value]] of the material the money was made of, such as [[silver]] or [[gold]]. However, car...
7: ...emand" from the Treasury. If a note is payable in demand for a fixed unit, it is said to be fully conv...
11: ...he monetary system, banknotes are now simply considered as money.
18: ...tandardized form, usually in precious metals. The development of money then comes from the role of agr... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...ualled, due to his understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world ...
8: ...ence on the English-speaking world shows in the widespread use of [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakes...
12: ...t through the study of considerable historical evidence.
14: ...haps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [...
17: ...an [[alderman]]. Some evidence exists that both sides of the family had [[Roman Catholic]] sympathies.... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
6: *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877-1950), German chemist
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
37: *[[Henrik Carl Peter Dam]], (1895-1976), [[Denmark|Danish]] biochemist, winner of the [[1943]] ...
39: *[[Peter Debye]], (1884-1966) - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
4: ===Latitude and longitude===
6: ...north of [[Cape Morris Jesup]], [[Greenland]] (83°39'). Various shifting [[gravel bar]]s lie furt...
11: ===Altitude===
13: ...ttp://www.rain.org/ocean/ocean-studies-challenger-deep-mariana-trench.html].
14: * The lowest point on land is the shore of the [[Dead Sea]]: 417 [[metre|m]] below sea level. ''See [... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
37: *[[Antoine Bourdelle]] (1861 - 1929)
48: *[[Alexander Calder]] (1898 - 1976)
49: *[[Alexander Milne Calder]] (1845 - 1923)
50: *[[Alexander Stirling Calder]] (1870 - 1945)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822) - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...s law]]. Some electrical effects are discussed under [[electrical phenomenon]] and [[electromagnetism...
8: ...ian]] walls, such as the [[Dendera light]]. Other devices discovered in Egyptian and other archaeologi...
10: ...tist)|William Watson]], experimenting with the Leyden jar, discovered in [[1747]] that a discharge of ...
11: ...:Electricity clipart.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
12: ... frequently) or [[Ebenezer Kinnersley]] of [[Philadelphia]] (less frequently) who created the conventi... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
30: *[[Adolf Anderssen]] (Germany, [[1818]] - [[1879]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 ...
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[Nat...
4: ...Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (peopl...
6: ...artes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...abandoning his three children to the care of an older brother Francis. Hobbes was educated at Westport...
12: ... Hardwick (and later [[Duke of Devonshire|Earl of Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with ... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...alta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to...
5: ...de horses on the condition that they ride with wooden saddles and unornamented girths. Ironically, El ...
7: ... who made it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The ...
9: ...iwick]]s, which in turn were divided into [[commanderies]].
13: === Knights of Rhodes === - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ...uestion of large-scale patterns and trends in the development of [[science]], and asking questions abo...
7: ...lowness of communication. Still, there was a considerable amount of cross-fertilization between distan...
9: ...side the scientific community have, in recent decades, began to question the effect of commercial and ...
11: ...ssion. It was soon shut down by [[Pope Paul V]] under suspicion of [[sorcery]].
13: ...rlin]] [[1700]]. Early scientific societies provided valuable functions, including a community open t...
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