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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 - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...emy XII Auletes]], and her mother was probably Auletes's sister, [[Cleopatra V of Egypt|Cleopatra V Tr...
9: ... BC]]. She was at the time the oldest child of Auletes, since two older sisters had died. She also had...
11: ... Egyptian capital and imposed himself as arbiter between the rival claims of Ptolemy and Cleopatra. (I...
15: ...aesar was assassinated. Before or just after she returned to Egypt, Ptolemy XIV died mysteriously. Cle...
17: ...following Caesar's death, summoned Cleopatra to meet him in [[Tarsus in Cilicia|Tarsus]] to answer que... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...ir, the Roman Catholic James II could attempt to return to the Throne. It was for this reason that the...
15: ...tuart|Henrietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], ...
17: In about [[1672]], Anne's father's conversion to Roman Catholicis...
19: ...d as joint monarchs. The [[Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne and h...
24: ...iam's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from ... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
7: *[[U Thant]], UN Secretary General
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
19: *[[Joze Udovic|Udovic, Joze]], (1912-1986), poet
33: *[[Sabine Ulibarr�libarr�Sabine]], American poet
51: *[[John Underhill|Underhill, John]], (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America - 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. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...by arguing that [[orbit]]s (such as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could...
6: ...osed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentu...
14: ...as born in [[Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth]], a hamlet in the county of [[Lincolnshire]].Newton was prem...
19: ...f this love, but Newton had no other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc....
25: ...erms, [[Voltaire]] wrote in his ''Essay on Epic Poetry'' (1727), "Sir Isaac Newton walking in his... - 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... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...and bulk composition. Although all planets' [[planetary orbit|orbits]] are [[ellipse|elliptical]], Ven...
3: ...nd night (the other being the [[Moon]]). It is sometimes referred to as the "[[Morning Star]]" or the ...
7: ...'Venusian'' is commonly used for Venus, but it is etymologically incorrect. The true adjective coming...
9: ...Japan]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
14: .../h). Winds in the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat. - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...tion of John Morris and Jackman when the Spanish settlements at Vildemos, [[Trujillo]] and [[Granada, ...
6: ...ignorance about this, whilst Morgan and his crew returned to their base at [[Port Royal]], Jamaica, to...
8: ...'s guns altogether and escaped in safety. On his return to Jamaica he was again reproved, but not puni...
10: ...ging the coasts of Cuba and the mainland, Morgan determined on an expedition to Panama. He recaptured ...
12: ...gain, and in [[1674]] Morgan was knighted before returning to Jamaica the following year to take up th... - 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... - 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}} - History of psychology (8127 bytes)
7: ...esses, and its contents, though usually in a theoretical (non-empirical) fashion.
11: ...Soul") in terms of brain function, as part of his 1672 anatomical treatise "De Anima Brutorum" ("Two Dis...
16: ...of Wundt and James did not involve [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] or religious explanations of human tho...
20: ...ng of the mind was largely based on interpretive methods and [[introspection]] (a technique also champ...
22: ..."The behaviourist... recognizes no dividing line between man and brute". - Opera (25153 bytes)
3: ...isting of a [[drama|dramatic]] stage performance set to [[music]].
5: ...ting]]. However, the words of the opera, or [[libretto]], are [[singing|sung]] rather than spoken. The...
7: Opera draws from many other art forms. Whether the words or the music are paramount has been ...
9: ...es, such as lyric soprano, [[coloratura]], ''soubrette'', spinto, and dramatic soprano, which associat...
11: ... During the period when composers ofen used both methods of recitative accompaniment in the same opera...
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