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- Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...called one another by pet names, Sarah being "Mrs Freeman" and Anne "Mrs Morley". In [[1677]], Sarah ...
4: ...), the relationship between the queen and her old friend deteriorated greatly. In [[1711]], both Sara...
6: ...ederick, Prince of Wales]]. The Duchess remained friendly with the prince and his family, however, ev... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
7: ...ncor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differ...
21: *Inertia and inertial frames of reference
31: ...s by means of light emitted from bodies, not rays from the eye. Giving this important work its full va...
36: ... and what changes in society and thought resulted from it. Other accounts of what constitutes the revo...
40: ...l, thus causing the stone to land some space away from the tower's bottom. This effect is not observed... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
17: *[[Albert Uderzo|Uderzo, Albert]], (born 1927), French cartoonist of ''[[Asterix]]'' fame
25: *[[Fritz von Uhde|Uhde, Fritz von]], (1848-1911), German painter
52: *[[Frederick D. Underwood|Underwood, Frederick D.]], president of the [[Erie Railroad]] [...
88: *[[Thomas Urquhart|Urquhart, Thomas]] (1611-c. 1660)
110: ...[Maurice Utrillo|Utrillo, Maurice]], (1883-1955), French painter - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...e]], and gained employment as his assistant. In [[1660]], he discovered [[Hooke's law]] of [[solid mecha...
12: ... balance spring also regulates the flow of energy from the mainspring of a timepiece. It coils and unc...
27: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/ric.martin/vectis/hookeweb/robe...
29: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/iw.history/hooke/face.htm The F... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
6: ...rn in [[Wrington]], [[Somerset]], about ten miles from [[Bristol]], [[England]], in [[1632]]. His fat...
14: ...ter become Essay. Two extant Drafts still survive from this period.
16: ...x]], where he had lived in the household of [[Sir Francis Masham]] since [[1691]].
24: ...ing theological viewpoints. He recoiled, however, from what he saw as the divisive character of some n...
27: ... the bulk of the writing took place in the period from 1679-1682. It was therefore much more of a comm... - Nairobi (2690 bytes)
2: ...ulation of around 3 million. Nairobi's name comes from the [[Maasai]] ''Enkarenairobi'', meaning "cool...
4: ...ive language while Kiswahili remains the [[lingua franca]].
6: ...apital of the [[British East Africa|British East African Protectorate]] in [[1907]] and the capital of...
10: ...ed Kingdom|British]] passenger and [[mail]] route from [[Southampton]] to [[Cape Town]]. This route wa...
18: ==Pictures of Africa== - Banknote (6576 bytes)
7: ...ly 20th century was "payable in silver on demand" from the Treasury. If a note is payable in demand fo...
11: ...tal. With the gradual removal of precious metals from the monetary system, banknotes are now simply c...
18: ...cious metals. The development of money then comes from the role of agricultural capital and precious m...
24: ...'', a predecessor of the [[Bank of Sweden]], in [[1660]], although the bank ran out of coins to redeem i...
26: ...lution]], the [[Assignat]]s produced during the [[French Revolution]], the paper currency produced by ... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: [[Image:Shakespeare.jpg|frame|right|William Shakespeare ([[National Portrait...
8: ...tp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakespeare quotations from Shakespearean plays], the [[List of titles of w...
31: ...re.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Shakespeare's signature, from his will]]
33: ...company took its name, like others of the period, from its aristocratic sponsor, the [[Lord Chamberlai...
35: ...aker for his landlord's daughter. Legal documents from 1612, when the case was brought to trial, show ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
15: *[[Antoine Baum]], (1728-1804), French chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
31: ...Skłodowska-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
13: ...,911 [[metre|m]] (35,797 feet) <!--- Using figure from Mariana Trench article --->below sea level [htt...
15: * The point farthest from the Earth's centre is the summit of [[Mount Chi...
16: ...]] (the bottom of the Mariana Trench is 6366.4 km from the centre of the Earth).<!--- Other contenders...
19: ... at a straight-line distance of 2648 km (1645 mi) from the nearest coastline.
20: ...0,000 km? (8,657,000 sq mi) of ocean (equidistant from [[Pitcairn Island]] in the north, [[Marie Byrd ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Electricity (13894 bytes)
6: ...eek]] ''ēlektron'' = "[[amber]]", which came from an old [[root (linguistics)|root]] ''ēlek-...
10: ...tric'' and ''electricity''. He was followed in [[1660]] by [[Otto von Guericke]], who is regarded as ha...
12: ...[[Ebenezer Kinnersley]] of [[Philadelphia]] (less frequently) who created the convention of positive a...
16: Franklin's observations aided later scientists such ...
29: ...sometimes gain a measure of economic independence from the electrical utilities. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...t by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil ...
16: ...ps in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...tion was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in another treatise,...
22: ...country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. ... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
7: ...ndous government support and also ongoing support from the private sector. Available methods of commun...
9: ...their peers, though a number of scholarly critics from both inside and outside the scientific communit...
13: ...as created as an institution of the government of France [[1666]], meeting in the King's library. The ...
15: ...ost-Cold War era, a decline in government funding from many countries has been met with an increase of...
22: ... painting]]s depicted events, with no commentary. From 40,000 BC to 15,000 BC.
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