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- List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
24: *[[Wolfert Acker|Acker, Wolfert]] (1667-1753)
25: ...n|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
8: Returning to Paris, she became a popular figure in the [[salon]]s, and her own drawing room b...
14: ...was a friend of Jean-Baptiste [[Racine]], another first-class French playwright. Later she would beco...
16: Ninon de l'Enclos is a relatively obscure figure in the English-speaking world, but is much be... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...Jesus]] and first [[Bishop of Antioch]] and later first [[Bishop of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his ...
8: ...ine I of the Roman Empire|Emperor Constantine]] officially recognized Christianity he started construc...
12: ...dent [[Giacomo della Porta]] continued with the unfinished portions of the church. [[Carlo Maderno]] b...
17: ...zza San Pietro'')]], built between [[1656]] and [[1667]], in the center of which is a 25.5 meter tall ob...
20: ...46. At the time of his death (1564), the dome was finished as far as the drum, the base on which domes... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: '''Meteorology''' is the scientific [[science|study]] of the [[Earth's atmosphere|at...
12: ...for measuring [[wind speed]] was constructed in [[1667]] by [[Robert Hooke]], while [[Horace de Saussure...
14: ...r conditions on a daily basis, and was one of the first Americans to forecast the weather on a daily b...
16: ...ation of the Earth affects airflow was partial at first. Late in the 19th century the full extent of t...
18: ...eather observations were still hindered by the difficulty of establishing certain weather characterist... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
34: *[[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]] ([[1667]]-[[1719]])
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...le]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour...
6: ...rvation of [[momentum]] and [[angular momentum]]. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and v...
14: ...her also said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three mo...
25: ...;Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon see...
27: ...Numeri Terminorum Infinitas'' (''On Analysis by Infinite Series''), and later in ''De methodis serieru... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ... philosophy of mind also had a great deal of significant influence well into the [[The Age of Enlighte...
10: Locke had been looking for a career and in [[1667]] moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House i...
18: ...ion 1707|Act of Union]] of [[1707]], though the office of King of England and King of Scotland had bee...
22: ...cke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political affiliation expressed themselves in his published writ...
24: Locke's first major published work was ''[[A Letter Concerni... - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
3: ...e tall buildings, but it tends to be applied specifically to residential buildings.
9: ...]]-[[1885]] and was destroyed in [[1931]] for the Field's building. Another contender for the title i...
15: ...rld's tallest..." depends greatly on matters of definition.
19: ...nclude free-standing buildings that are not classified as high rises, such as the [[CN Tower]], [[TV m...
40: |6||[[Two International Finance Centre]]||[[Hong Kong]]||415 m||1,362&n... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...lennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in the population of native i...
5: ...agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppie...
13: When the first [[European colonization of the Americas|Europe...
21: ...nied expeditions in [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ...
167: ! width="18%" | Pontificate - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...edical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improvements to the [[glass harmonica]], and...
9: ...antucket]], [[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, a...
13: ...[1688]]), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth).
15: Josiah's first wife Anne died in Boston on [[July 9]], [[1689... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
74: *[[Johann Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1667]] - [[1748]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]])
446: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]]) - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...scartes was one of the key thinkers of the Scientific Revolution in the Western World. He is also kno...
4: ...he [[Scholasticism|Schools]] on two major points: first, he rejects the analysis of corporeal substanc...
6: ...sophy, and Descartes and Leibniz contributed significantly to science as well. As the inventor of the ...
14: ...upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method o...
28: In [[1667]], the [[Roman Catholic Church]] placed his works... - Antigua and Barbuda (8199 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
58: ...tions]] in [[1981]], and [[Vere Bird]] became the first [[prime minister]].
63: ...use of Representatives]] (17 members), held every five years. The other chamber of the [[parliament]],...
95: ... however, and pressed the government into a tight fiscal corner. The dual-island nation's [[agricultur...
102: ...and [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]]. While the official language is [[English language|English]], mos...
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