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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
4: ...of Spain|Philip III]], king of Spain, and [[Margaret of Austria]].
10: In [[1661]], on the death of Mazarin, Anne retired to a convent where she later died.
12: ... in [[Alexandre Dumas]]' novel, ''[[The Three Musketeers]]''. - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: '''Mary II''' ([[30 April]] [[1662]]–[[28 December]] [[1694]]) reigned as Quee...
15: At the age of fifteen, Princess Mary became betrothed to the Protestant [[Stadtholder]] and [[Pri...
17: ...r. William long maintained an affair with [[Elizabeth Villiers]], one of Mary's ladies-in-waiting.
20: ... that the boy was "suppositions," having been secretly brought in as a substitute for the Queen's stil...
22: ...secretly requested William III—then in the Netherlands with Mary—to come to England with a... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...asion has been disputed by the United Nations Secretary General and politicians in both the USA and th...
10: ...lign="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Iraq|In Detail]]) || align="center" width="140px" | ([[Coat o...
25: ... by area|Ranked 57th]] <br> 437,072 [[square kilometer|km²]]<br> 1.1%
40: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.iq]]
59: ...a Prime Minister and, on his recommendation, cabinet ministers.) - 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]]) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
9: ...xtend their control over the whole of China. To pretend that everything changed all at once all over C...
11: For more details on the dynasties listed here and their empero... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ... called the '''Southern Ming''') survived until [[1662]]. The dynasty followed the [[Yuan Dynasty]] and ...
6: ... in China. Other causes include collusion with Tibetan lamas in depriving Chinese of their lands, pape...
8: ...ring this period, He joined a Buddhist secret society known as the White Lotus. Later, as a strong-wi...
14: ...army, once again, had to pass the traditional competitive examinations in the [[Chinese classic texts|...
16: ...r and so removed the only insurance against incompetent emperors. Hongwu was succeeded by his grandso... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
36: ...]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
40: ...Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ... 1665 he gained appointment as Professor of [[Geometry]] at [[Gresham College]].
6: ...Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]] (which became known as 'Bedl...
14: Historians sometimes credit Hooke with inventing the [[microscope ...
16: ...nting the first practical [[universal joint]], sometimes called the Hooke joint, although the Italian ...
20: ... discovery, and threatened to leave the Royal Society. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]]...
8: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]]
9: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Popham Colony]] in [[Maine]]
13: *[[1609]]-The [[United Provinces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to the [[Hudson Valley]] ar...
22: ...und [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massachusetts]]; [[Mayflower Compact]] signed - 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... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...innaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[Mauriti...
20: ...at the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked [[Beak|bill]] with red...
24: ...ntemporary reports speak of the birds "greedy" appetite. Thus, in captivity with its ready availabilit...
27: ...[[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ... Dutch records concur. The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] settlers called it the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bir... - 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]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...homas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[Nati...
12: ...cted by the scholastic learning". He did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommended...
14: ... was exposed to European scientific and critical methods during the tour in contrast to the [[scholast...
16: ...r debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he consid...
20: ...ng treatise, how Men were moved to enter into society, and argued how this must be regulated if Men we... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
6: ...c geometry]], that bridge between algebra and geometry crucial to the invention of the [[calculus]] an...
11: ...ulosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Prytanee|Collège Royal Henr...
13: ...assau]], leader of the United Provinces of the [[Netherlands]]. His intention was to see the world and...
14: ...e profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking... - 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}} - Faience (4113 bytes)
11: ...arthenwares being imported from Italy were the [[Netherlands|Dutch]]. [[Delftware]] is a kind of faie...
13: ...ere opened at [[Hanau]] (1661) and Heusenstamm (1662), soon moved to nearby [[Frankfurt-am-Main]].
19: ...the [[Body (ceramic)|body]], the character and palette of the [[glaze]], and the style of decoration, ...
21: ...al manufactories continued to supply regional markets with coarse and simple wares.
24: ...aience, and the large porcelain manufactories marketed revived faience, such as the "Majolica ware" of... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
15: ...innaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[Mauriti...
20: ...at the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked [[Beak|bill]] with red...
24: ...ntemporary reports speak of the birds "greedy" appetite. Thus, in captivity with its ready availabilit...
27: ...[[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ... Dutch records concur. The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] settlers called it the ''Walgvogel'' ("disgusting bir... - Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
1: ...ke during the [[Restoration]], or an old person pretending to be young. The plot of the comedy, often ...
3: ...�cole des femmes'' (''The School for Wives'', [[1662]]) and ''Le Misanthrope'' (''The Misanthrope'', [...
7: ...oward]] (''[[Hay Fever]]'', [[1925]]) and [[Somerset Maugham]], as well as various [[British sitcom]]s... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...bert Abbot, the [[Bishop of Salisbury]]. He is sometimes mistakenly described as the son of the [[Arch...
5: ...[[1657]]. Between [[1657]] and [[1658]], and in [[1662]], Abbot appears to vanish from record, and his a...
7: ... the works of his time by their terseness and variety. In addition to those mentioned above he wrote ...
9: ...oddly of all with one of the ejected ministers of 1662.
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