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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ... United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
9: ...last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Sa...
12: ...ria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Princ...
14: ...r was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]]. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...[[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She i...
6: ... left for the United States in [[1903]], and the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
10: ... time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: When she was 14, her mother suggested that she give up school for work and to marry ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
12: |'''PM Succesor:'''
27: ... of [[privatisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed th...
29: ... "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...r in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was assigned to work with [[Howard Aike...
7: ...[[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Mauchly|Mauchly]] Compu...
9: ...lish rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at the end of [[19... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...h; [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthr...
5: ...tor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concentrated her studies on problems of child rearing, personality, and cu...
7: ... ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ([[1928]]), based on research she conducted as a graduate student, but her...
13: ... are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards i...
14: ...as felt that a study of the problems faced by adolescents in another culture would be illuminating. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ... Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
5: ...heir parents' encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, includin...
7: ...zed for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in films such as '...
10: ...adway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...nds. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...]] of the [[20th century]]. Her sizzling screen presence, stunning good looks and mysterious [[death]]...
6: ... seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gifford]], a [[salesman]] for the studio where Marilyn's mother, Glady...
8: ...nia|Hawthorne]], southwest of [[Downtown Los Angeles]], where she lived until she was seven. The Bolen...
12: ...ligent and more unhappy than her screen image suggested.
16: ... mysterious death - she still generates huge interest in her life and brilliant career. - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...[[sheet music]]) to any organized sound(s). The question of what the art form called music actually co...
4: ...an any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses.
8: In the European [[Middle Ages]], [[musica]] was part of the mathematical [[quad...
10: ...resulted the romantic idea of a music of the spheres.
12: ...—some of which are very much in vogue in [[Western society]] today. - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
1: '''Aeschylus''' ([[525 BC|525]]—[[456 BC]]; [[Gree...
2: ...ns]], the others being [[Sophocles]] and [[Euripides]].
5: ...tten after this, making ''The Persians'' his earliest surviving play.
7: ...y mistook his bald head for the egg of a [[flightless bird]]).
9: ...e was written by himself before his death, and makes no mention of his theatrical renown. He chose to... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: '''Politics''' is the process and method of making decisions for groups. Altho...
4: ...]''' is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. th...
9:
11: ...e the rationale for creating [[societies]] (polities).
14: ...which require densely populated settlements - cities. - Socrates (7975 bytes)
1: [[image:socrates.png|thumb|250px|right|Socrates]]
2: '''Socrates''' ([[June 4]], c.[[470 BC|470]] – [[May 7]...
5: ...d his extraordinary hardiness, walking without shoes and a coat in winter.
7: ...that he once spent all of his time on scientific research, but gave up on it when he came to see that ...
9: ...ng to Dr Will Beldam he was the first person to question everything and everyone, and apparently it of... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...stronomer]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the...
7: ...near [[Naples]]. In [[1572]] he was ordained a priest.
9: ...t time were thought to date uniformly to the earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed...
10: ...stration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical elemen...
11: ...r influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Ni... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
4: :'''Founded:''' [[1870]], as an independent professional club. Joined the National Association in [...
5: ...mnants'', in [[1901]], after a number of players deserted the team for the [[American League]]. The n...
8: ...A red "C" circumscribed by a blue circle. Sometimes a smaller "ubs" will follow the large "C", or the...
9: :'''Wild Card titles won''' (1): [[1998]]
10: :'''Division titles won''' (3): [[1984]], [[1989]], [[2003]] - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...gram|programming]]) a computer can be made to represent some aspect of a problem or part of a system. ...
4: The discipline which studies the theory, design, and application of computers is called '''[[...
6: ==General principles==
8: ...any different technologies, nearly all popular types of computers have electronic components.
12: ...nto the [[binary]] base-two [[numeral system]] (ones and zeros). Next, all operations on that informa... - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
1: ...doctrine of [[gnosis]] and [[Gnosticism]]—these are religious concepts that are not generally re...
3: ...o such knowledge. Agnosticism in both cases involves [[philosophical scepticism|scepticism]] toward re...
8: ... the works of [[David Hume]], especially ''Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'', that he was an agn...
12: ...e some time before that date. In a letter to Charles Kingsley (September 23, 1860) he discussed his vi...
14: ... wonderful as the conservation of force or the indestructibility of matter".. - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
1: ...caesar.jpg|thumbnail|150px|right|Bust of Julius Caesar]]
2: ...rance]], an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible to this day.
4: ... under Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son, [[Caesar Augustus]].
6: ...ten [[Literary works of Julius Caesar|''Commentaries'' (''Commentarii'')]], and many details of his li...
9: ...ere he apparently learned to speak several languages, including [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and [[Gaul|... - Nero (23127 bytes)
4: ... Nero was deposed. His death was reportedly the result of [[suicide]] assisted by his [[scribe]] [[Ep...
6: ==Sources on Nero==
8: ...re is an involvement of movements or selfish motives.
18: ...ia]], adoptive grandson to her second husband [[Caesar Augustus]], nephew and adoptive son of [[Tiberi...
23: ...avian and Tiberius had lived to become 76 and 79 respectively. Providing that [[Caligula]] lived long... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
1: [[Image:Charles_Lindbergh.jpg|thumb|Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis.]]
2: ...ust 26]], [[1974]]) was a pioneering [[United States]] [[aviator]] famous for piloting the first solo ...
6: ...on the line [[St. Louis]] in the 1920s.<!--What does this mean? Please clarify.-->
11: ...ned by Donald Hall and custom built by Ryan Airlines of [[San Diego, California]]. He needed 33.5 hour...
13: ...ited States]]. On [[March 21]], [[1929]] he was presented the [[Medal of Honor]] for his historic tran... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
13: ... The [[Racial policy of Nazi Germany|racial policies]] that Hitler directed culminated in the systemat...
15: ...'s most powerful nations. Nevertheless, the [[Allies]] ultimately defeated Germany. In the final days ...
20: ...f]]'', his [[autobiography]], Adolf Hitler describes his father as an "irascible tyrant"; however, the...
22: ...il Schicklgruber" were airdropped over German cities. He was legally born a Hitler, however, and was i...
24: ...ish the probability Hitler had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Historians such as [[Werner Maser]] and [[Ia... - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
1: ...ematician''' is a person whose area of study and research is [[mathematics]].
3: ==Roles==
5: ...lication of new discoveries in mathematics continues at an immense rate in hundreds of [[scientific jo...
9: ..., there are also [[mental calculator]]s -- prodigies at performing such calculations -- some of whom h...
13: ...oduct that gets published; it is not work in progress.
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