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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...ale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
7: ...d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
14: ...ari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: ...les Cardinal Mazarin|Cardinal Mazarin]] served as France's [[Religious minister|chief minister]].
6: ...r four-year-old son was crowned King Louis XIV of France. Anne assumed the regency but entrusted the g...
12: Queen Anne's memoirs were published in 1662 by [[Fran篩s de la Rochefoucauld]]. Many view her as a b... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...9]] until her death, and as Queen of [[Scotland]] from [[11 April]] 1689 until her death. Mary, a [[Pr...
15: ...ash; he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the [[Louis, the Grand Dauphin|Dauphi...
20: ...o a son—[[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Francis Edward]]—in June [[1688]], for the son...
24: ...en. The only precedent for a joint monarchy dated from the sixteenth century: when Queen [[Mary I of E...
26: ...ffered the Crown not to James's eldest son, James Francis Edward (who would have been the heir-apparen... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...eader [[Saddam Hussein]] and his [[Ba'ath Party]] from power. Although, the legality of the invasion ...
29: ... '''[[Independence]]''' || [[1 October]] [[1919]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]]
30: [[3 October]] [[1932]] from the [[United Kingdom|British]]
44: ...>''(Citizens have [[Freedom of religion|religious freedom]])'' || [[Islam]]
49: ...ion of Iraq]] removed Saddam Hussein's Government from power, replacing it with an interim American-ba... - 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]]) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
9: ...ing dynasty pretender was not disposed of until [[1662]]. The change of ruling houses was a messy and pr... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ... called the '''Southern Ming''') survived until [[1662]]. The dynasty followed the [[Yuan Dynasty]] and ...
5: [[Image:Hung-wu.jpg|framed|left|Hongwu Emperor]]
8: ...one of the only two dynastic founders who emerged from the [[peasant]] class, the other being [[Han Ga...
12: ...ded estate]]s were confiscated by the government, fragmented, and rented out; and private slavery was ...
16: ...on of Hongwu, who ruled as the Emperor [[Yongle]] from [[1403]] to [[1424]] and was responsible for mo... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
53: *[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau|Jacques Cousteau]], [[France]] — [[Aqua-Lung|aqualung]]
56: ...illiam Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas...
88: *[[William Friese-Greene]], (1855-1921) — [[cinematograph... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...n]] with extension in an [[elastic]] spring. In [[1662]], Hooke gained appointment as Curator of Experim...
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... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 to 1699'''.
11: *[[1608]]-[[France|French]] establish colony at [[Quebec]]
18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
22: *[[1620]]-[[Pilgrims]] arrive from [[Plymouth]], England, on the ''[[Mayflower (sh...
30: ...r Williams (theologian)|Roger Williams]] banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony - 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... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
15: ...itius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
20: Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had b...
24: ...easons, the dodo probably fattened itself on ripe fruits at the end of the wet season to live through ...
27: ...sness, made it easy prey. The name ''dodo'' comes from the archaic [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ...
29: ...en found in the old [[midden]]s of the Dutch fort Frederik Hendrik. - 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. ... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes wa...
4: ...mena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ..., later advocated by [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], and opposed by the [[empiricist]] s...
11: ...in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Indre-et-Loire]], [[France]]. When he was 1 year old, his mother died of...
14: ... whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Ri... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Faience (4113 bytes)
4: The name is simply the French name for [[Faenza]], in the [[Romagna]] near ...
6: ...ined tin-glazed earthenwares shipped to [[Italy]] from the [[kingdom of Aragon]] in Spain at the close...
11: ...he blue-and-white [[porcelain]] that was imported from [[China]] in the early [[16th century|sixteenth...
13: ... and Heusenstamm (1662), soon moved to nearby [[Frankfurt-am-Main]].
15: ...rance, centres of faience manufacturing developed from the early [[18th century|eighteenth century]] l... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
15: ...itius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
20: Nevertheless, from artists' renditions we know that the dodo had b...
24: ...easons, the dodo probably fattened itself on ripe fruits at the end of the wet season to live through ...
27: ...sness, made it easy prey. The name ''dodo'' comes from the archaic [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ...
29: ...en found in the old [[midden]]s of the Dutch fort Frederik Hendrik. - Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
3: ...�cole des femmes'' (''The School for Wives'', [[1662]]) and ''Le Misanthrope'' (''The Misanthrope'', [... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...be incorrect. The misunderstanding probably stems from a passage in Robert Abbot's work ''A Hand of Fe...
5: ...[1658]], and in [[1662]], Abbot appears to vanish from record, and his activities are unknown.
9: ...oddly of all with one of the ejected ministers of 1662.
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