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1. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
   9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
   10: *[[Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford|Acheson, Archibald]] (1776-1849), 2nd Earl of Gosford
   11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
   12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
   13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957)
2. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
   4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech archite...
   9: ...itical writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
   13: ...Aikenhead, Thomas]], (died 1697), hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
   14: ...thur Aikin|Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
   17: ...ey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
3. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
   2: ...lizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
   7: ...d Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
   9: ... second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thail...
   11: ...], and is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
   14: ..."Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
4. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
   7: ...d her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. She reigned during a period of great religious turmoi...
   9: ...uding [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
   11: ...during Elizabeth's reign. Elizabeth also reduced the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] fro...
   13: ... [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
   16: ...ter [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 154...
5. Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
   1: ...|Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra]]
   3: ...fe did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
   5: ...r and was buried in the [[Winchester_Cathedral|cathedral]].
   7: ...f young, unmarried, upper-class English women in the early [[1800s]].
   9: ... with [[Sir Walter Scott]] in particular praising her work:
6. Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
   3: ...June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
   5: ...ng in a 'men's profession'. Several years later, she managed to get some lecture notes from several co...
   7: ...onsidered her a talented mathematician and became her mentor.
   9: ...n wrote to him admitting she was female, to which he responded:
   12: ...d my life with so many joys, are not chimerical, the predilection with which you have honored it.''
7. Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
   2: ... time her husband died in a [[gale]] in [[1807]], he had united a pirate coalition numbering 400 [[shi...
   4: ... and married him, cementing the family's hold on the fleet.
   6: ...is ears was cut off and he was shown off through the squadron as an example.
   8: ...ied at the age of 60 in [[1844]], running a [[brothel]] and gambling house in [[Guangzhou]].
8. President of the United States (42878 bytes)
   1: ...sdent.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
   3: ...deral government]] and [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States armed forces|armed forces]].
   5: ...dent was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today...
   7: ...]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] o...
   9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]].
9. John Adams (18716 bytes)
   6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1801]]
   18: ...[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]).
   22: ...], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
   24: ...ions of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
   26: ...ional]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]].
10. Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
    5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1801]]
    14: ...tha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
    18: ...[slavery|slaveowner]], [[author]] and founder of the [[University of Virginia]].
    20: ...residency include the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]].
    23: ...e founding his own vision of higher education at the [[University of Virginia]].
11. James Madison (15187 bytes)
    18: ...n as the father or mother of something|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]]''.
    21: ...day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Tennessee]]) to the [[Continental Congress]].
    23: ...resented in the new Congress, Madison was one of the strongest advocates of state representation depen...
    25: ...adison's arguments were powerfully influenced by the political thought of [[Charles de Secondat, Baron...
    27: ...e thirty of the eighty-five essays that comprise the Federalist Papers. His most famous passage comes ...
12. Alexandria (28378 bytes)
    1: ...as 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city of [[Canopus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It h...
    3: ...ended, and it fell into a long decline, which by the late [[Ottoman]] period had seen it reduced to li...
    5: ...ia egypt 4.jpg|thumb|right|Alexandria's state-of-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar...
    11: The history of Alexandria covers four periods:
    13: ...ounding of the city and ends with the arrival of the Romans (blue).
13. Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
    1: ...e [[Constitution of Ireland|Irish constitution]] the state's official name is simply '''Ireland''' (Ir...
    8: common_name = the Republic of Ireland |
    13: national_anthem = ''[[Amhrᮠna bhFiann]]'' |
    21: leader_names = [[Mary McAleese]]<br>[[Bertie Ahern]] |
    39: established_events = &nbsp;- Declared<br>&nbsp;- Recognised ...
14. Portugal (61755 bytes)
    1: ...ira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands]]).
    5: ...] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal declined.
    7: ...he subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
    15: ...stablished in southern Portugal for a long time. The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settle...
    17: ...achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period, a process of [[...
15. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    5: ...ve_name = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
    6: common_name = the United Kingdom |
    11: national_anthem = [[God Save the Queen]]³ |
    12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom|None]]; [[English language|English...
    17: ...[British monarchy|Queen]]<br>[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] |
16. Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
    3: ...actical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
    7: ... of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
    19: ... 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
    22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
    30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
17. 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
    52: ...nderwood|Underwood, Frederick D.]], president of the [[Erie Railroad]] [[1901]]&ndash;[[1927]]
    62: *[[Michelangelo Unterberger|Unterberger, Michelangelo]], (1695-1753), painter
18. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    12: *[[Alexander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
    21: ...nese lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines
    25: ...9995;, 1883-1936), famous [[T'ai Chi Ch'uan]] teacher
    34: *[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
    39: *[[Kerri Yascheshyn|Yascheshyn, Kerri]], ([[1985]] - [[2003]]), [[cancer]] p...
19. Asteroid (24334 bytes)
    1: ...oid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. Features as small as 35 m across ca...
    4: ...not to be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1937), the egyptologist --->.
    6: ...osition of the object or its general location in the solar system, and some argue that not every minor...
    8: ...teoroids generally break up high in Earth's atmosphere.
    10: ...cts which have ended up in solar orbits, such as the [[Mariner IV]] probe.
20. History of science (41710 bytes)
    2: ...na]] and their pre-cursors back in [[time]], all the way into human [[prehistory]].
    4: ...natural philosophy]] clearly within the scope of the history of science.
    6: ...ce, each of these fields is heavily used by the others as an external [[tool]].
    8: ==Theories and sociology of the history of science==
    9: {{seemain|Theories and sociology of the history of science}}

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