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- Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
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8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ... values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase...
14: ... values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force. - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...is perhaps best known as the sister of [[Felix Mendelssohn]], but her own achievements are being incre...
3: ...ailing attitudes of the time against women, attitudes apparently shared by her father and brother, who...
5: ... Subsequently, her works were often played alongside her brother's at the family home in [[Berlin]] in...
7: ...pporter of her brother's compositions. Her public debut at the piano came in 1838, when she played Fel...
9: ...mmonly thought to have been developed by Felix Mendelssohn, though many scholars nowadays believe it w... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: '''Johannes Kepler''' ([[December 27]], [[1571]] – [[November 15]], [[1...
4: ...nt to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei]].
6: ...r of Johannes Kepler, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonices mundi''' ("The Harmony of the wor...
9: ...is said to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brillian...
11: ...acizing probably led him to turn to the world of ideas, as well as an abiding religious conviction, fo... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...ntal starting point of modern [[astronomy]] and modern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientifi...
7: ...cus_00125w.jpg||thumb|250px|Copernicus Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
8: ...raised him and his three other siblings after the death of Copernicus' father. His brother Andrew beca...
10: ... him, as his books (stolen by Swedes during [[The Deluge]], and now in [[Uppsala]]'s library) show. Af...
12: ... together with Domenico Novara, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''. - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
1: ...Image:erasmus.jpg|thumbnail|Erasmus. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
2: '''Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus''' (also '''Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam''') ([[October 27]], pro...
6: ... he was cared for by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then give...
8: ...in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in the stirring days of King...
10: ... but, as it proved, sufficient, rewards of independent literary activity. From [[1506]] to [[1509]] he... - Roman architecture (3399 bytes)
1: ...pproach is productive, and sometimes it hinders understanding by causing us to judge Roman buildings b...
3: ...der|Corinthian]] and the scrolls of the [[Ionic order|Ionic]].
5: ...nspired the [[colonnade]] screen, a row of purely decorative columns in front of a load-bearing wall. ...
7: ...in [[geometry|geometric]] and [[image|pictorial]] designs.
9: ...ete the Roman contribution most relevant to the modern world, the Empire's style of architecture, thou... - 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 ... - Thomas Aquinas (12692 bytes)
3: ...s University]] in [[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]], [[New Brunswick]], the [[University of S...
7: ...stery]] at [[Monte Cassino]], and the family intended Thomas to follow his uncle into that position; t...
9: ...an order]], which along with the [[Franciscan]] order represented a revolutionary challenge to the wel...
11: ...most important influence in his development; it made him a comprehensive scholar and won him permanent...
14: ...fore the latter part of 1261), he took up his residence in Rome. In 1269-71 he was again active in Par... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
5: .... Some of his most famous works include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], ...
7: ...e distant relatives, while his sons [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[J...
13: ...te library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had come to learn them.
17: ...; Bach was equally at home talking with organ builders and with performers.
19: ...essive accomplishment in his day, especially considering that he was the first in his family to finish... - Opera (25153 bytes)
7: ... the visual spectacle on the stage, which is considered an important part of the performance. Finally,...
9: ...arely reaching vocal maturity until the third decade, and sometimes not until middle age. Male singer...
11: Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: [[recitative]], the dialogue and plo...
13: ...s such film scores can in some sense even be considered both the heirs and the competitors of [[grand ...
20: ...ical [[Greek tragedy|Greek drama]], part of the wider revival of antiquity characteristic of the [[Ren...
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