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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
87: *[[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet
120: *[[Adrian of Nicomedia]], (died 303 or 304), Christian saint - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
9: ... XIV of Egypt|Ptolemy XIV]]. Since the Ptolomaic throne was transmited in [[matrilinear]] fashion, the...
11: ... was killed and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIV as new co-ruler.
13: ...oming his lover. Egypt remained independent, but three Roman legions were left to protect it. Cleopatr...
25: ...r]], [[Caesarion]] was executed by Octavian. The three children of Cleopatra with Antony were spared a...
37: *[http://www.geocities.com/christopherjbennett/ptolemies/genealogy.htm Genealogy... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...Catholic James II could attempt to return to the Throne. It was for this reason that the [[Parliament ...
17: ...ism on his deathbed), Anne's father ascended the Throne as James II. James, desirous of a Roman Cathol...
19: ...[Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne and her descendants were to be ...
26: ...dants, who descended from [[James I of England]] through [[Elizabeth of Bohemia]]. Several genealogica...
31: ...-year-old [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] on the throne.) England had also been angered by Louis XIV'... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
51: *[[John Underhill|Underhill, John]], (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...]], Hooke won a place at [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], [[University of Oxford | Oxford]]. T...
6: ...e also achieved fame as the chief assistant of [[Christopher Wren]], helping to rebuild London after t...
12: ...so have invented the [[balance spring]] before [[Christiaan Huygens]]. Devices known as escapements re...
14: ...new microscope designs to the instrument-maker [[Christopher Cock]], this attribution appears incorrec...
20: ...able to grasp his ground-breaking discovery, and threatened to leave the Royal Society. - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...lour]]s observed when [[white]] [[light]] passed through a prism was inherent in the white light and n...
14: ...even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was t...
29: ...ethod" were superior, and were generally adopted throughout the English-speaking world. (Curiously, in...
35: ...lica of Newton's 6 inch reflecting telescope of [[1672]] for the [[Royal Society]].]]
36: ... of refractive properties became available, did achromatic lenses for refractors become feasible.) In ... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
25: ...achusetts Bay Colony]] founded, led by [[John Winthrop]]
28: *[[1630]]-[[Winthrop Fleet]] travels to [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]
55: *[[1672]]-[[Blue Laws]] enacted in Connecticut - John Locke (14749 bytes)
6: ...there, he obtained admission to the college of [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. The dean of the college at t...
12: ...g Shaftesbury to undergo an operation (then life-threatening itself) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury s...
16: ... when Shaftesbury became [[Lord Chancellor]] in [[1672]]. Following Shaftesbury's fall from favor in [[1...
45: ...and, squatted on bits of farmland and fought all through the pre-Revolutionary period against the land...
47: ... years old" and suggested that all children over three, of families on relief, should attend 'working ... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
23: ...iods of Venus's rotation and of its orbit are synchronized in such a way that it always presents the s...
25: ...impact crater]] if they have less than a certain threshold [[kinetic energy]]. Because of this, no im...
31: ...st observed by [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] in [[1672]]. Sporadic sightings of Neith by astronomers con...
97: ... 4's battery ran out while still slowly floating through the massive atmosphere, and Venera 5 and 6 we...
105: ...iscovered that the clouds of Venus are formed in three distinct layers. On [[October 25]], [[Venera 10... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
6: ...in [[Cuba]], in order to discover details of the threatened attack on Jamaica. Collecting ten ships w...
8: ...dden booty. Returning to Maracaibo, Morgan found three Spanish ships waiting at the inlet to the [[Car...
12: ...Morgan was arrested and conducted to England in [[1672]]. His fortunes turned again, and in [[1674]] Mor... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
10: ...]], was forced to leave the town, abandoning his three children to the care of an older brother Franci...
30: ...ting was begun in 1646 by [[Samuel de Sorbiere]] through the [[Elzevir press]] at [[Amsterdam]] with a...
34: ...under pressure of human needs to its dissolution through civil strife proceeding from human passions. ...
42: ...s to be beyond a [[fear of violent death]]. When threatened with death, man in his natural state canno...
44: ...n). (A minor aside: Hobbes almost never uses the phrase "[[state of nature]]" in his works.) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
50: *[[Alexander of Aphrodisias]], (2nd century){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
145: *[[Christoph Gottfried Bardili]], (1761-1808)
218: *[[Niels Bohr]], (1885-1962){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
304: *[[Gershom Carmichael]], (c. 1672-1729){{fn|R}}
347: *[[Christine de Pizan]], (c. 1365-c. 1430){{fn|R}} - History of psychology (8127 bytes)
1: ...d the [[neuroscience]]s to [[sociology]] and [[anthropology]].
11: ...Soul") in terms of brain function, as part of his 1672 anatomical treatise "De Anima Brutorum" ("Two Dis...
26: ...aning that couldn't possibly be generated solely through experience of natural language, implying that... - Opera (25153 bytes)
11: ...y presented in a restlessly melodic arioso style throughout. All types of singing in opera are accompa...
22: ...ve melody, and the lower ones (usually these was three-part compositions, as opposed to the four-or-mo...
24: ...ent of of human emotion or experience, expressed through mythological allegory.
27: ...llet in opera of the French tradition, while the thriving English tradition of incidental music, as we...
45: ...cademy of Music and monopolized French opera from 1672; this is rendered ironic by the later struggle fo...
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