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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
71: ...dams (footballer)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1966), athlete - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...ttle of L?(1632)|Battle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the...
6: ...r valign=top><td>'''Reign'''<td>[[November 6]], [[1632]]-[[June 5]], [[1654]]
18: ...tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Burial'''<td>[[St. Peter's Basilica]], [[Rome]]
22: ...f scientists examined her bones in an attempt to determine if she was [[intersexual]], but they were n...
34: ...rder to either practice openly her previously secret [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]], or to acce... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
2: ... ''Ninon de Lanclos'' ([[November 10]]? sometime between [[1615]] and [[1623]] - [[October 17]], [[170...
4: ...cknamed "Ninon" by her father at an early age. In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, a...
6: ...f the clear idea that drove her actions: she was determined to remain unmarried and independent. Influ...
8: ...nine-year old named [[Voltaire|Fran篩s Marie Arouet]] so he could buy books.
12: ...e absence of religion, notably in 1659's ''La coquette veng饧' ("The Flirt Avenged"). She was also no... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
41: ...]]. The new colony was named in honour of [[Henrietta Maria]], Queen Consort of Charles I.
43: ... as it was [[Christianity|Christian]]), and is sometimes seen as a precursor to the [[First Amendment]...
45: ...Mason-Dixon line]] which would form the boundary between their two colonies.
47: ... revolted against the proprietary government and set up a new government that outlawed both Catholicis...
55: ...ion]]. A [[constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]] was held during 1... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...43_W.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 paintin...
2: ...f the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
4: ...asilica also holds a relic of the ''[[Cathedra]] Petri'', the episcopal throne of the basilica's names...
7: ...atican Council convened in the Basilica of Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by...
8: ...n this exact spot, which had previously been a cemetery for pagans as well as Christians. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Cell (biology) (28190 bytes)
2: ...nal unit of all [[life|living]] [[organism]]s, sometimes called the "building blocks of life." Some or...
3: ...ccur within cells and that cells contain the [[genetics|hereditary information]] necessary for regulat...
5: ... [[Robert Hooke]] because of the likeness he saw between [[cork (material)|cork]] cells and small room...
9: ...umps but each individual cell is about 10 [[micrometre]]s across.]]
11: ...eproduce as necessary. Each cell stores its own set of instructions for carrying out each of these ac... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ..., particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
7: ...Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[161...
10: ...hysics, between the tension and the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejec...
12: ...eriments reported in ''[[Two New Sciences]]'' to determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, ...
14: ...plicated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was c... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...sometimes referred to as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]...
13: ...is entire life. At age six, he observed the [[Comet]] of [[1577]], writing that he "...was taken by [...
25: ..., [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion: distance cubed over time squared. He i...
33: ...of Planetary Motion|Kepler's laws]], in which planets move in ellipses, not circles. Using that knowle...
35: ...rs]], [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]], [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]]; and the five classical elements. - Microscope (8708 bytes)
20: #objective turret, or nosepiece
34: ...ls (see ''[[Microscopy#Contrast methods|contrast methods]]).'' Typically, on a standard compound optic...
36: To study the thin structure of [[metal]]s (see [[metallography]]) and [[mineral]]s, another type of mi...
39: ...ose. It uses two eyepieces (or sometimes two complete microscopes) to provide slightly different viewi...
56: ...in use but enabled van Leeuwenhoek to see highly detailed images, mainly because a single lens does no... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...]] [[philosopher]] concerned primarily with [[society]] and [[epistemology]]. An [[English (people)|En...
6: ... [[Westminster School]] in [[London]]. After completing his studies there, he obtained admission to th...
8: ...with Locke and pressed him to become part of his retinue.
10: ...nd in [[1667]] moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House in London, ostensibly as the household ph...
14: ...ftesbury's household, during [[1671]], that the meeting took place, described in the Epistle to the re... - History of California (38344 bytes)
13: ...ne]]'' and ''[[Tongva]]''. California holds a variety of unique [[ecosystem]]s and each tribe speciali...
19: ...ve of the [[Seven Cities of Cibola]] that had streets paved with gold and silver. About the same time,...
21: ...r|La Paz]], before experiencing difficulties and returning. Cortés accompanied expeditions in [[1534]...
40: ...] to the modern California-Oregon border before returning to Spain.
48: ...com.174}} or to keep the location of his port secret from them. - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
2: ...px|[[William Blake]]'s ''Newton'' as a divine geometer (1795)]]
4: ...ish an authoritative system of [[ethics]], [[aesthetics]], and [[knowledge]]. The intellectual leaders...
6: ...n the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] in addition to [[politics| political]] theo...
14: ...Baruch Spinoza|Baruch (Benedictus de) Spinoza]]'s Ethics, which expounded a pantheistic view of the un...
16: ... a coherent system of verifiable predictions and set the tone for much of what would follow in the cen... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
7: ...lgonquian]] Indians kill 347 [[England|English]] settlers around [[Jamestown, Virginia]], a third of t...
8: *[[1630]] - [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] outlaws the possession of cards, [...
9: ...- [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious dissent.
21: ...]] - Closed since [[1939]], the [[London gold market]] reopens.
27: ... twentieth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for the [[Netherlands]] singing "Ding-a-dong." - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
7: ...[map]] of the [[St. Lawrence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an accoun...
9: ...abandoned the following spring [[1605]] when the settlers moved across the [[Bay of Fundy]] to found t...
13: ...ldings (each two stories tall) and also moat 15 feet wide. This was to become the [[Quebec City, Quebe...
19: ...in their war against the [[Iroquois]]. Champlain set off with 9 French soldiers and 300 Indians in ord...
21: ... shot. The Iroquois turned and fled. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the ne... - Cell (29541 bytes)
2: ...nal unit of all [[life|living]] [[organism]]s, sometimes called the "building blocks of life." Some or...
3: ...ccur within cells and that cells contain the [[genetics|hereditary information]] necessary for regulat...
5: ... [[Robert Hooke]] because of the likeness he saw between [[cork (material)|cork]] cells and small room...
9: ...umps but each individual cell is about 10 [[micrometre]]s across.]]
11: ...eproduce as necessary. Each cell stores its own set of instructions for carrying out each of these ac... - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
2: {{Elementbox_series | [[poor metal]]s }}
17: {{Elementbox_vaporpressure_katpa | 1482 | 1632 | 1817 | 2054 | 2364 | 2790 | comment= }}
27: {{Elementbox_magnetic | [[paramagnetism|paramagnetic]] }}
41: ...up>5</sup>]][[year|y]] | dm=[[Positron emission|β<sup>+</sup>]] | de=1.17 | pn=26 | ps=[[magnesiu...
42: ...ntbox_isotopes_decay | mn=26 | sym=Al | na=[[synthetic radioisotope|syn]] | hl=[[1 E12 s|7.17×10... - Anton van Leeuwenhoek (4111 bytes)
3: ...esman and [[scientist]] from [[Delft]], in the [[Netherlands]]. He is best known for his contribution ...
5: ...is name at birth was ''Thonis Philipszoon''. His letters were signed ''Antoni van Leeuwenhoek''. He wa...
7: ...gures, including [[Queen Anne of England]] and [[Peter the Great]], from Russia. Nobody was able to vi...
9: :"''No more pleasant sight has met my eye than this of so many thousands of living c...
18: * [http://www.euronet.nl/users/warnar/leeuwenhoek.html Warnar Moll's we...
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