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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
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37: ...States]], while also the state with the longest official name. Rhode (pronounced "Road") Island is par...
46: ...the first governor and [[Philip Sherman]] was the first Secretary. In 1643 [[Samuel Gorton]] founded ...
50: On [[May 18]], [[1652]] Rhode Island passed the first law in [[North America]] making [[slavery]] il...
56: .... King Philip rebelled against the English. The first attacks were around Narrangansett Bay but spre... - 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: ...rthern one by [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini|Bernini]] ([[1675]]).
20: ...46. At the time of his death (1564), the dome was finished as far as the drum, the base on which domes... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
100: ...ronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]], (1638-1675) — [[reflecting telescope]]
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]]
139: *[[Irving Langmuir]], (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding - 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...
16: ...2]]. Following Shaftesbury's fall from favor in [[1675]], Locke spent some time traveling in southern [[...
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... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
48: | 49 confirmed<!--- S/2004 S 6 unconfirmed --->
140: ...anets less dense than water, with an average specific density of 0.69. This is only an average value, ...
142: ...tional compression), but this alone may not be sufficient to explain Saturn's heat production. An addi...
157: The rings were first observed by [[Galileo Galilei]] in [[1610]] wi...
161: In [[1675]] [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] determined that S... - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...d the other negative. Through experimentation, we find that like-charged objects repel and opposite-ch...
8: ...ave been used for [[electroplating]]. There is no firm documentary evidence to indicate what the objec...
10: ...sulator]]s; and [[C. F. Du Fay]], who first identified the two types of electricity that would later b...
22: ...lternating current]], which he used to build the first induction motor, invented in [[1882]]. In May ...
31: ...neers, Chemists, and Technicians'', by D. J. Shanefield, William Andrew Publishing (Norwich, NY), 2001... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]])
256: *[[Thomas Fincke]] (Denmark, [[1561]] - [[1656]]) - 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]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...des]]'s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English langua...
16: Although he associated with literary figures like [[Ben Jonson]] and thinkers such as [[...
20: ...passions whereby Man came into relation with Man. Finally he considered, in his crowning treatise, how...
24: ...e, and wrote a critique of the ''[[Meditations on First Philosophy]]'' of [[Descartes]], which was pri...
26: ...s opticus'') included in the collection of scientific tracts published by Mersenne as ''Cogitata physi... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
361: *[[Samuel Clarke]], (1675-1729){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...uru]] ideal, and [[bhajan]]s) as well as [[Sufi|Sufi Islam]].
6: ...s. The five baptised Sikhs were named Panj Pyare (Five Beloved Ones), who in turn baptised the Guru at...
8: ...ikh Holy Scripture was compiled and edited by the Fifth Guru, [[Guru Arjan]] in AD [[1604]].(Although ...
26: ... [[1604]] he installed the [[Adi Granth]] for the first time as the [[Holy Book]] of the Sikhs. In [[1...
28: ...]] and led the Sikhs until [[1675]], when he sacrificed his life to save the [[Kashmiri Hindu]]s who h... - Timpani (31735 bytes)
3: ...i mallet''. Unlike most drums, they produce a [[definite pitch]] when struck. Timpani evolved from [[m...
7: | filename = Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 - Molto vivace...
18: ...ly made of copper or, in less expensive models, [[fiberglass]]. The drumhead is connected to a hoop, w...
24: ...ividual drum typically has a range of a [[perfect fifth]] to an [[octave]].
37: ...ch to hold the pedal in place. The timpanist must first disengage the clutch before using the pedal to... - Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
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36: '''Massachusetts''' (officially, '''The Commonwealth of Massachusetts''') i...
47: ...ounded [[Connecticut]]. [[King Philip's War]] ([[1675]]-[[1676]]), the bloodiest [[Indian Wars|Indian w...
52: ..., the Boston colonials rebelled. Andros and his officials were held on [[Castle Island]] and then sent...
58: Massachusetts was the first colony to revolt against British rule, and thu... - Fin Whales (8533 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Fin Whale}}<br>{{StatusEndangered}}
2: ...xobox_image | image = [[image:Fin whale.jpg|250px|Fin Whale]] | caption =}}
15: ...Fin_Whale.PNG|250px|Fin Whale range]] | caption = Fin Whale range}}
17: ...e]] is readily seen in the [[Bay of Biscay]]. The Fin Whale was hunted more than any other whale durin...
20: ...salus'' early in the nineteenth century. The specific name comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''p... - Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
5: ...[William Wycherley]] (''[[The Country Wife]]'', [[1675]]) and [[William Congreve (playwright)|William Co...
7: ... as various [[British sitcom]]s. The ''[[Carry On film]]s'' are a direct descendent of the comedy of m...
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