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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
23: *[[Syboat Acker|Acker, Syboat]] (1698-1771)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - Comet (30542 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hale-Bopp-large.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a white dust tail and blue g...
3: ...composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and various [[m...
5: ...riginate via a different process, but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials...
9: ...bital trajectory. While the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 5...
11: ...rding of a comet is the appearance of Halley's Comet on the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], which records the [[N... - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
2: ...h Bradley Cox Oort. They had two daughters: Elizabeth and Sarah Kidd. The marriage brought to Kidd a c...
8: ...ght a few days later, Kidd threw an ironbound bucket at Moore which killed him.
10: ...nglish ship. Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners but they refused.
12: On April 1, 1698 Kidd reached [[Madagascar]]. Here Kidd found the ...
14: ...nd leaky. With the loyal remnant of his crew, he returned home in the captured ''Quedah Merchant''. - 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 astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - 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}} - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...stan]], and among the earliest civilizations altogether. Ancient Elam lay to the east of [[Sumer]] an...
7: ==Etymology==
13: ...l, as [[Indus script|Harappan pictographs]] have yet to be deciphered. Several stages of the language ...
17: ...Elamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
19: .... [[4000 BC]], and during its history fluctuated between subjection to Mesopotamian and Elamite power.... - Anne Bonny (5802 bytes)
5: ...idence, including the claims that she was born in 1698 in [[County Cork]], [[Ireland]]; that she was a d...
8: ...mach with a table knife, although it is unclear whether this is fact or purely legend. She married a s...
10: ...on in retaliation, but it is known that sometime between 1714 and 1718 she and James Bonny moved to [[...
12: ...ng, but later Anne and Rackham escaped to live together as pirates.
15: ...he continent's only newspaper, the ''Boston News-Letter''. - Steam engine (17867 bytes)
3: ...e, high proof alcohol, dry grass, hay, dry weeds, etc. The steam expands and pushes against a piston o...
9: ...eam engines were designed by [[Thomas Savery]] ([[1698]]), [[Thomas Newcomen]] ([[1712]]), and [[James W...
17: ...[James Watt]] who was a member of the [[Lunar Society]]. His discovery and its development increased t...
19: ...t important refinement at this point was the [[safety valve]], which releases excess pressure. Reliabl...
30: ...te of burning; the boiler must be constructed to get that extra heat to the water. An engine using thi...
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