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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
41: ...son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ..." means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ...rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
9: ...e. Following the deaths of her brothers she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ...
10: [[Image:The-cleopatra2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by...
11: ... XIII was killed and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIV as new co-ruler. - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...usin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
10: ...e used to ensure that Scotland would co-operate. The [[Act of Union 1707]] (which united England and S...
12: ...gh]], who led the English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
15: ...advisors. Jennings later married John Churchill (the future Duke of Marlborough), who would later beco...
17: ...ce to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious a... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
4: *[[U Aung San]], Commander in Chief of the [[Burma Independence Army]]
23: *[[Morihei Ueshiba|Ueshiba, Morihei]], (1883-1969), Japanese founder of [[aikido]]
43: *[[Ulrich of Strassburg]], scholastic philosopher
51: *[[John Underhill|Underhill, John]], (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America
52: ...nderwood|Underwood, Frederick D.]], president of the [[Erie Railroad]] [[1901]]–[[1927]] - 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... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...th discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
4: ...d by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in the [[13th century]].
6: ...he speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of [[star]]s.
12: :''The following is a brief biography of Newton's early ...
14: ...sband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmother. - 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. - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...s]] are [[ellipse|elliptical]], Venus's orbit is the closest to [[circle|circular]], with an [[eccentr...
3: ... is by far the brightest [[star]]-like object in the sky.
5: ...on]]. Its symbol is a stylized representation of the goddess Venus's hand mirror: a circle with a smal...
7: ...[[Cytherean]]'', which comes from [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives include ''Venerean'' and ...
9: ...er to the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]]. - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
2: ...[[privateer]] of Welsh birth, who made a name in the [[Caribbean]] as a leader of [[buccaneer]]s and r...
4: ...terwards, Morgan was chosen by the buccaneers as their admiral.
6: ...out this, whilst Morgan and his crew returned to their base at [[Port Royal]], Jamaica, to celebrate.
8: ...rn to Jamaica he was again reproved, but not punished by Modyford.
10: ... fame of this brilliant exploit was tarnished by the habitual cruelty of Morgan's crews. - 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... - 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}} - History of psychology (8127 bytes)
1: ...us other fields, ranging from [[physiology]] and the [[neuroscience]]s to [[sociology]] and [[anthropo...
5: ...s meant to turn away disease-causing demons and other superstition, it also evidences ''a long traditi...
7: ...processes, and its contents, though usually in a theoretical (non-empirical) fashion.
9: ...her]] [[Rudolph Goclenius]] was the first to use the term ''psychology'' in [[16th century|1590]].
11: ...treatise "De Anima Brutorum" ("Two Discourses on the Souls of Brutes"). - Opera (25153 bytes)
2: [[Image:GarnierOperaParis.jpg|frame|The foyer of [[Charles Garnier (architect)|Charles Ga...
5: ...ll instrumental ensemble to a full symphonic [[orchestra]].
7: ... stage, which is considered an important part of the performance. Finally, [[dance|dancing]] is often ...
9: ...re and quality and its range, or ''tessitura''. The German [[Fach]] system is an especially organized...
11: ...referred to as "secco" (dry) recitative, while orchestral-accompanied recitative was called "accompagn...
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