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  1. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    4: ...i Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-...
    5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
    7: ...|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
    8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
    14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
  2. Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
    10: LargestCity = [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]...
    30: HighestElev = 247 |
    32: LowestElev = 0 |
    37: ...act that every point in the state is within 30 miles of [[sea water]].
    42: ...land]], and once from the [[Native American]] tribes which lived on the land.
  3. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    1: ...by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 painting, is the largest church in Christendom and often used by the Pope...
    2: ...int Peter]], one of the twelve [[apostle]]s of [[Jesus]] and first [[Bishop of Antioch]] and later fir...
    4: ... but which is no longer used. These are the sources of the confusion.
    7: ... Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernini.]]
    12: ...derno]] became the chief architect later on, and designed the entrance.
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
    14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
    17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
    33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
    42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]])
  5. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
    14: ...of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
    18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Ana...
    22: ...U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
    28: ...liner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[gramophone]]
  6. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    2: ...work for [[classical mechanics]]. Newton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm...
    4: ...r's laws of planetary motion]]. He would expand these laws by arguing that [[orbit]]s (such as those o...
    6: ...nomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular mom...
    17: ...l|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
    19: ...ge of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss Storey married someo...
  7. John Locke (14749 bytes)
    3: ...s perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
    6: ...ilosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical material taught at the Uni...
    8: ... infection. Cooper was impressed with Locke and pressed him to become part of his retinue.
    10: ...t that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
    12: ...life-threatening itself) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke with ...
  8. Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
    4: ...]<br> <small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
    58: ! align="left" | [[Oblateness]]
    62: | [[1 E16 m2|4.27&times;10<sup>10</sup>]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</su...
    65: | 7.46&times;10<sup>14</sup> [[cubic kilometre|km<sup>3</sup>]...
    68: | 5.6846&times;10<sup>26</sup> [[kilogram|kg]]<br>(95.162 Earths...
  9. Electricity (13894 bytes)
    1: ...ity]]" and "quantity of charge." There are two types of electricity or charge: we call one kind of ele...
    3: ...C". The symbol ''Q'' is used in equations to represent the [[quantity of electricity]] or charge. Fo...
    6: ...who found that rubbing [[fur]] on various substances, such as [[amber]], would cause a particular [[at...
    8: ...d to be [[battery (electricity)|electrical batteries]].
    10: ...apacitor]] for electrical energy in large quantities, was invented at [[Leiden University]] by [[Piete...
  10. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
    18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
    23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil)
    31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
    36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 B...
  11. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] &ndash; [[1987]])
    9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] &ndash; [[1983]])
    12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] &ndash; [[1973]])
    13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] &ndash; [[1951]])
    15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] &ndash; [[1956]])
  12. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    2: ...age:Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([...
    4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] &ndash; [[December 4]],...
    6: ...escartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
    10: ...John Wilkinson]] and he had some influence on Hobbes.
    12: At university Hobbes appears to have followed his own curriculum; he w...
  13. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
    26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
    27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
    44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
    51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
  14. Sikhism (31029 bytes)
    2: ...]] (such as the [[caste system]] and [[purdah]], respectively). Sikhism was influenced by reform movem...
    4: ...s no Muslim." [[Guru Gobind Singh]] reinforced these words by saying "Regard the whole human race as ...
    6: ...d Ones), who in turn baptised the Guru at his request.
    8: ...n in [[Gurmukhi]] script but contains many languages including [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Sanskri...
    10: ...st in many ways, many places and known by many names, is eternally One, the Sovereign and omnipotent G...
  15. Timpani (31735 bytes)
    3: ...[[17th century]]. Today, they are used in many types of [[musical ensemble]]s including [[Concert band...
    5: ...] word ''tympanum'', from which the Italian word descends. A [[musician]] who plays the timpani is kno...
    9: | description = The [[scherzo]] from [[Ludwig van Beeth...
    18: ...pening of a bowl typically made of copper or, in less expensive models, [[fiberglass]]. The drumhead i...
    20: ...le [[Parabola|parabolic]] bowls produce darker tones. Another factor that affects the timbre of the dr...
  16. Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
    10: LargestCity = [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] |
    30: HighestElev = 1,063 |
    32: LowestElev = 0 |
    36: ...ded that the people of the Commonwealth would be designated as Bay Staters.
    38: The [[United States Postal Service]] abbreviation for Massachusetts i...
  17. Fin Whales (8533 bytes)
    12: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''B. physalus'''''}}
    17: ... the second largest whale and also the second largest animal ever to have lived, after the [[Blue Whal...
    20: ...y in the nineteenth century. The specific name comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''physa'', mean...
    22: ...species are quite common - for every 1000 Fin Whales there is a hybrid Blue-Fin Whale.
    24: ... drifting and some sources recognise two sub-species ''B. p. physalus'' (Northern Fin Whale) and ''B. ...
  18. Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
    1: ... love affair or some other scandal, is generally less important than its witty and often bawdy dialogu...
    3: ... as ''L'�cole des femmes'' (''The School for Wives'', [[1662]]) and ''Le Misanthrope'' (''The Misant...
    5: ...[William Wycherley]] (''[[The Country Wife]]'', [[1675]]) and [[William Congreve (playwright)|William Co...
    7: ... such as [[The Young Ones (TV series)|The Young Ones]] and [[Seinfeld]] have brought the comedy of man...

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