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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...h [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
5: ...his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ...Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Kin...
9: ...ing the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little ...
11: ...eves that Arthur is a half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a suppos... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...attle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the [[Thirty Years'...
3: <table border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style=...
5: ...ourdon stor.jpg|center|185px|Christina of Sweden, depicted by S颡stien Bourdon]]
12: ...td>'''Predecessor'''<td>[[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]]
13: ...lign=top><td>'''Successor'''<td>[[Charles X of Sweden]] - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ...ings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...more talent than her brothers, who worked along side her. She learned drawing, how to mix color and ho...
9: ...anna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the rea... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...erTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ... as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian ...
6: ...ady during his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in...
9: ...[Aristotle]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature a...
11: ...racles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Ac... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ... also provide [[pronunciation]] information, word derivations, histories, or [[etymology|etymologies]]...
4: ==Word order==
5: ...logous phonetic order. Words and characters in [[ideographic]] writing systems such as [[Chinese chara...
14: ...on|romanized]] and sorted in Roman alphabetical order.
20: ...[[stroke (Chinese character)|stroke]] count and order, readings (pronunciations), and a list of words ... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: ...osopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philosop...
8: ...dialogue ''[[Phaedrus (Plato)|Phaedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, thro...
10: ...can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[rationalism|rationalist]].
12: ...cs'', ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'', ''Politics'', ''De Anima (On the Soul)'' and ''[[Poetics]]''.
14: ...hology]], [[rhetoric]] and [[theology]]. He also dealt with [[education]], foreign customs, [[literat... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
15: ...] family, it inhabits all parts of the [[Kalahari Desert]] in southern [[Africa]].
19: ... some sort of singing ceremony they compared to yodeling.
22: ...y strong venom of the scorpions of the [[Kalahari Desert]].
24: ...n older member of the group who acts as the pup's tutor. Meerkats forage in a group with one sentry watch...
28: ...Meerkats are burrowing animals, living in large underground networks with multiple entrances which the... - Pope Silvester II (8276 bytes)
1: ...ch popes|list]]), reigning from [[999]] until his death in [[1003]].
7: ...I]]. The pope persuaded Otto to employ Gerbert as tutor for his young son, the future emperor [[Otto II]]...
11: After the death of Otto II in [[984]], Gerbert became involved...
13: ... but a further synod in [[995]] declared Arnulf's deposition invalid.
17: ...002]]. Gerbert returned to Rome soon after Otto's death, although the rebellious nobility remained in ... - Abacus (7218 bytes)
1: ...written [[Arabic numerals]] system and is still widely used by merchants and clerks in [[China]] and e...
7: ...1b.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Abacus Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
8: ...computation. The beads are usually rounded and made of a hard wood. The beads are counted by moving ...
10: ...ools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do [[multiplication]], [[division (math...
20: device is not beads on wires than the drawing used i... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
3: ...ost the opportunity of learning Greek, as he intended.
6: ...t to reward him for his poetry, which the prelate despised, but to make some just compensation for the...
8: ...were not well received, and even an interview was denied him. Ariosto then boldly said, that had his e...
10: ...d on his second mission he was nearly killed by order of the pope, who happened at the time to be much...
12: ...overeign and the people given over to his care; indeed, there is a story about a time when he was walk... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ... the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against church doctrine.
7: ...ook the name Giordano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint ...
10: ... illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical e...
11: ...covered ideas of [[Plato]]. Other influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]...
13: ...for the same reason and abandoned the Dominican order. He travelled to [[Geneva]] and briefly joined t... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
1: ...chel-eyquem-de-montaigne 1.jpg|thumb|right|Michel de Montaigne]]
2: ...essay]]. In his main work, the ''Essays'', unprecedented in its candidness and personal flavor, he tak...
6: ...nt to a small cottage with a peasant family and a tutor until he was six, and while he lived there he spo...
8: ...;tienne de la Boétie]] whose death in 1563 deeply influenced Montaigne.
10: ...er died and Montaigne inherited the Château de Montaigne, to which he moved back in 1570. - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
7: ... work. However, the teenaged Morgan hired his own tutor, and continued his studies while living in Cincin...
13: ...all sewn with equipment that Morgan himself had made.
17: ...hi Alpha Fraternity Inc.|Alpha Phi Alpha]], the oldest intercollegiate [[Greek alphabet|Greek-letter]]...
20: ... bravery went unnoticed because of his race. Fire Departments around the country wanted the smoke mask...
23: ...s the years went on, he became a prosperous and widely respected business man, and he was able to purc... - Nero (23127 bytes)
4: ...d. His death was reportedly the result of [[suicide]] assisted by his [[scribe]] [[Epaphroditos]].
8: ... but not by the general public. There is a strong desire for certainty, especially if there is an invo...
14: Born in [[Antium]] (modern day [[Anzio]]), he was the only son of [[Gnaeus...
16: His father was grandson to an elder [[Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (1st century BC)|G...
18: ... the namesake of her own mother [[Agrippina the elder]] who was granddaughter to Octavia's brother [[C... - Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
1: ...lberto Santos-Dumont]]<br>Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat.<BR>From the archives of the [[Smi...
2: ...was a [[Brazil | Brazilian]] aviation pioneer. He designed, built, and flew many [[balloon]]s as well ...
3: In addition, He made the first
5: That aircraft, designated
9: - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
2: ...roto-) [[computer scientist]] who originated the idea of a ''programmable'' [[computer]]. Parts of hi...
5: ...t [[Teignmouth]], and Charles' father became a warden of the nearby St. Michael?s Church.
8: ...that I might have done." The second was an Oxford tutor from whom Charles learned enough of the Classics ...
12: ...uate with honors. He instead received an honorary degree without examination in 1814.
16: ...ve of the marriage. The couple lived happily at 5 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London. They had ... - 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 ... - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
2: ...ory of his affair with his student, [[Heloise (student of Abelard)|Héloïse]] has become legendary.
7: ...; but whether this was in early youth, when he wandered from school to school for instruction and exer...
11: ...ster in argument, resulting in a long duel that ended in the downfall of the philosophic theory of [[R...
13: ...ialectic, he next turned to [[theology]] and attended the lectures of Anselm at [[Laon]]. His triumph ...
15: ...ery regular life, enlivened only by philosophical debate: now, at the height of his fame, he encounte... - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Theodore Roosevelt
4: | order=26th President
7: | preceded=[[William McKinley]]
8: | succeeded=[[William Howard Taft]]
11: | dead=dead - Axumite Kingdom (5328 bytes)
3: ...o Amlak]], who killed the last Zagwe king and founded the [[Solomonid dynasty]] traced his ancestry to...
6: ...n Northern Ethiopia). Other important cities included Adulis and Matara, in what is today Eritrea.
14: ...pices]]. It utilised its position to profit in trade between various African ([[Nubia]]), Arabian ([[Y...
20: ...vileged position in international and regional trade, but it still had relatively good relations with ...
23: The Kingdom of Aksum developed its own [[alphabet]] ([[Geez]] or Ge'ez).
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