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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
18: ...die, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: ...nt]] for her son, [[Louis XIV of France]]. During her relatively brief reign, [[Jules Cardinal Mazarin...
4: She was born in [[Valladolid]], [[Spain]], as the daughter of [[Hapsburg]] parents, [[Philip III of...
6: ...nister, [[Jules Mazarin]], who was believed to be her lover.
8: ...e's niece, the Spanish Hapsburg princess [[Maria Theresa of Spain|Marie-Th鲨se of Austria]].
10: ...eath of Mazarin, Anne retired to a convent where she later died. - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...er reign. She did, however, govern the realm when her husband was abroad fighting wars.
11: ...gh her parents bore eight children, only Mary and her younger sister [[Anne of Great Britain|Anne]] su...
13: ...ied again in [[1673]], taking as his second wife the Catholic [[Mary of Modena]], also known as Mary B...
15: ...ould improve his popularity amongst Protestants. The first cousins Mary and William married in London ...
17: ...ple, but her husband neglected or even mistreated her. William long maintained an affair with [[Elizab... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...s reported by BBC news, CNN, The New York Times, The Economist)
29: ...Independence]]''' || [[1 October]] [[1919]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]]
30: [[3 October]] [[1932]] from the [[United Kingdom|British]]
32: ...t|GDP]]''' (PPP)<br> - Total ([[2003]])<br> - GDP/head</td><td>[[List of countries by GDP|Ranked 76th]...
38: ...im Touqan Music by: Walid George Gholmieh) Note: The [[Kurds]] use [[Ey Reqî¢] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painte...
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
27: *[[Andreas Achenbach]] ([[1815]]-[[1910]]) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
1: Below is a table of the '''dynasties in Chinese history'''.
5: ...are the commonly used conventional dates marking the generally agreed point at which power in [[China]...
7: ...ed over by different groups. At times like these there was no dynasty ruling a unified China.
9: ...everything changed all at once all over China in the year 1644 would make a nonsense of what actually ...
11: ...d '''E''' for a table of its '''emperors''' (or other rulers). - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...g China was the most advanced nation on Earth at the time.
6: ...nese]] groups and Zhu declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in [[1368]], establishing his capita...
8: ... two other peasant revolutionaries to have ruled the world's most populous nation.
10: ...Military" and reflects the increased prestige of the military.
12: ...vate slavery was forbidden. Consequently, after the death of [[Yongle Emperor of China|Yongle Emperor... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
14: ...n]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
24: ...hn Bardeen]], (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
29: *[[Henry Bessemer]], (1813-1898), [[England]] — [...
31: *[[Bi Sheng]] — primitive movable [[printing]] types - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ...venteenth century]], played an important role in the [[scientific revolution]].
4: ...ls reminded him of [[monk]]s' cells. Also in 1665 he gained appointment as Professor of [[Geometry]] a...
6: ...esigning the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]] (which became...
8: ... head that some have argued portrays Hooke. Both these claims remain in dispute, however.
12: ...ustment of the period of ticks. Modern spring watches still use balance springs, and derivative design... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
1: ...ftTrial.jpg|thumb|A 19th century illustration of the Salem Witch Trials]]
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns ev...
12: ...]-[[Henry Hudson]], hired by the Dutch, explores the present-day [[Hudson River]]
13: ... Provinces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to the [[Hudson Valley]] area
22: ...land, on the ''[[Mayflower (ship)|Mayflower]]''. They found [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massa... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
1: {{otherpeople|John Locke}}
3: ... period. Locke has been placed in a group called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [[David H...
6: ...nteresting than the classical material taught at the University.
8: ...bert Hooke]] and [[Richard Lower]]. In [[1666]], he met [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesb...
10: ...pact that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. - Dodo (9332 bytes)
1: ... | color=pink | name=Dodo}}<br />{{StatusExtinct|when=[[1681]]}}
15: ...ich is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
18: ... the Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Mu...
20: ...]]s, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large b...
22: ...to have ever supported flight and it is believed these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language...
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]]... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...nglish]] [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Leviathan (book)...
6: ...of [[René „escartes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...] [[John Wilkinson (scholar)|John Wilkinson]] and he had some influence on Hobbes.
12: ...as recommended by Wilkinson as tutor to William, the son of [[William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshir...
14: ...h]]. Hobbes believed that Thucydides' account of the [[Peloponnesian War]] showed that democratic gove... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...e Western World. He is also known for inventing the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometr...
4: ...atural phenomena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ... [[machine intelligence]], blossomed into, e.g., the [[Turing test]] and [[John Searle]]'s "[[Chinese ...
8: ...statement is ''[[Cogito ergo sum]]'' (''I think, therefore I am.'').
11: ... [[La Flèche]]. After graduation, he studied at the University of [[Poitiers]], earning a ''Baccalaur... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...opher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabeticall...
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}} - Faience (4113 bytes)
1: ...lish language|English]] for fine tin-glazed [[earthenware]] on a delicate pale buff body.
4: ...[majolica]], was produced for export as early as the [[15th century|fifteenth century]]. A [[kiln]] ca...
6: ...of Spanish pottery owed much to its [[Moorish]] inheritance.
8: ...ese "masterpieces of faience" are the subject of the on-line article posted at [http://www.findarticle...
11: ...[porcelain]] that was imported from [[China]] in the early [[16th century|sixteenth century]], but it ... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
1: ... | color=pink | name=Dodo}}<br />{{StatusExtinct|when=[[1681]]}}
15: ...ich is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
18: ... the Dodo extant today. The decaying remnants of the last stuffed Dodo, in [[Oxford]]'s [[Ashmolean Mu...
20: ...]]s, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large b...
22: ...to have ever supported flight and it is believed these ground-bound birds evolved to take advantage of... - Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
1: ...n concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal, is generally less important than its wi...
3: ...for Wives'', [[1662]]) and ''Le Misanthrope'' (''The Misanthrope'', [[1666]]).
5: ...]; ''The School for Scandal'', [[1777]]) revived the form.
7: ...Seinfeld]] have brought the comedy of manners to the modern era. - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...maintenance," "best earthly countenance", and "fatherly incouragements."
5: ...[[1657]]. Between [[1657]] and [[1658]], and in [[1662]], Abbot appears to vanish from record, and his a...
7: ...9), ''Milk for Babes, or a Mother's Catechism for her Children'' (1646), and ''A Christian Family buil...
9: ...oddly of all with one of the ejected ministers of 1662.
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