Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...um|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince of Leininge...
16: ...queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the R...
20: ... royal, princely, and ducal families, his family did not use theirs. Victoria asked her staff to dete...
27: ...it was growing unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonie...
33: ...ight|A likeness of Queen Victoria appears on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stam... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...pithet was coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man ...
33: ... in Moscow crowd.jpg|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (es...
38: ... Minister. While she was the Foreign Minister, David Ben-Gurion was the [[Prime Minister]]. He asked ...
44: ...came prime minister, Israel was brimming with confidence, having humiliated the Arabs in the [[1967]] ...
59: ...nt of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."&... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
31: ... increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occur...
38: She did well at school, going on to a girls' [[grammar sc...
41: ...950]] she was the youngest woman Conservative candidate but fought in the [[safe seat|safe]] Labour se...
43: ...of Commons|House of Commons]]. Unusually, her [[maiden speech]] was made in support of her [[Private M...
47: ... and she voted in favour of the principle of [[David Steel]]'s Bill to legalise [[abortion]]. However ... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
9: ... IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language th...
16: ... led to her promotion to Commodore by special Presidential appointment. By [[1985]] she became a [[re...
18: ...capacity was as a goodwill ambassador, lecturing widely on the early days of computers, her career, an...
20: She was laid to rest with full military honors in [[Arlington ...
22: ...s a small memorial park in front of her former residence and is now owned by Arlington County, Virgini... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
7: ...ring anthropologist--one who wrote clearly and vividly enough for the general public to read and learn...
14: ... women) as they pass through adolescence as "unavoidable periods of adjustment." Boas felt that a stu...
16: ...present a different picture?" She found that it did. (See pp. 6-7, American Museum of Natural History...
28: ...r pointed out that Samoan culture had changed considerably in the decades following Mead's original re...
37: ...gist who studied with Mead in the 60s and 70s provides this information:-- - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ... [[film]], [[television]] and [[theatre|stage]], widely recognized for her sharp wit, [[New England]] ...
5: ...but we grew quite to enjoy that," Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who she credit...
7: ...e athletic, and encouraged [[swimming]], [[horse|riding]], [[golf]] and [[tennis]]. Hepburn, eager to...
8: ...pand information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
12: ...they were married, the couple separated. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashio... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...t her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gif...
8: ... Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously considered adopting her, which they could not have done ...
12: ...self, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-human drive. She was very intelligen...
18: ...lled Marilyn Miller and Monroe was her mother's maiden name which Marilyn suggested herself. The year ...
20: ...nroe threw herself into her modelling work and rapidly began to build contacts around [[Hollywood]] an... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
8: In the European [[Middle Ages]], [[musica]] was part of the mathematica...
10: ...ns. From this concept later resulted the romantic idea of a music of the spheres.
12: ...e certain beneficiary effects. Rather than being ridiculed as unscientific, Medieval thought should be...
17: ...r music in Tiv, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Birom, Hausa, Idoma, Eggon or Jarawa. Many other languages have te...
21: ...sicness"; Koran chanting and [[Adhan]] is not considered music, but classical improvised song, classic... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
2: ...ians]], the others being [[Sophocles]] and [[Euripides]].
19: ...irst two parts of the Oresteia end unhappily. Besides the literary merit of his work, Aeschylus' grea...
22: *''[[The Suppliants]]'' ([[490 BC]]?) (''Hiketides'')
28: **''[[The Eumenides]]''
30: ...ed to Aeschylus in antiquity, it is generally considered by modern scholars to be the work of an unkno... - Politics (7193 bytes)
9: ...ation of human associations. Hobbes described an ideal [[state of nature]] wherein every person had e...
23: ...e of a [[bicameral]] legislative system, which divided power between the [[patrician]] [[aristocracy]]...
34: [[Max Weber]] identified three sources of legitimacy for authority...
40: ... of the personal charm or the strength of an individual personality (see [[cult of personality]] for t...
46: {{Wikiquote}} - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...w military action, fighting at the [[Battle of Potidaea]], the [[Battle of Delium]] and the [[Battle o...
7: ...explicitly states that he teaches for a living, paid by his students, and that he thinks this is the m...
11: ...phy for much longer than this and include [[Parmenides]], [[Anaxagoras]], [[Prodicus]], the priestess ...
13: ...ccounts of his real life have been located, he is idolized by his disciples and thinkers that reflect ...
20: {{wikiquote}} - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...o the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against church doctrine.
11: ...s of [[Copernicus]] and by the newly rediscovered ideas of [[Plato]]. Other influences included [[Thom...
13: In [[1576]] he left Naples to avoid the attention of the [[Inquisition]]. He left [[R...
21: ...002), makes a case that Bruno is the previously unidentified 'Henry Fagot' whose reports to Francis Wa...
35: ...tism]], adherence to the doctrine that [[Jesus]] did not actually have a physical body and that his ph... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: ...am the ''Spuds'' around this time, but that name didn't stick.
18: ...te as their primary color. After a summer of individually arranged contests among the various teams, t...
20: ...Leary's barn on DeKoven Street on the near south side of the city. The [[Great Chicago Fire]] destroy...
22: ...this was going on, behind the scenes the club President, [[William Hulbert]], was leading the formatio...
24: ... season is a dubious proposition, but it does provide some perspective to note that a similar winning ... - Computer (32773 bytes)
14: ...dern ''digital'' computers possible, was formally identified and explored by [[Claude E. Shannon]].
16: ...solve all mathematical problems. [[Alan Turing]] identified which problems could and could not be sol...
20: ...often have difficulty understanding the important idea that the computer is only a machine, and cannot...
24: ...who performed the arts and this usage is still valid (although it is becoming quite rare in the [[Unit...
29: ...arch organizations could afford them and were considered so exotic that only a handful would ever be r... - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
8: ...sell]]. It has been argued from the works of [[David Hume]], especially ''Dialogues Concerning Natural...
14: ...f about ''a priori'' difficulties. Give me such evidence as would justify me in believing in anything ...
22: ...have to these doctrines? Give me a scintilla of evidence, and I am ready to jump at them."
30: ...it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intelle...
36: ...e evidence", he had been in no rush to force this idea on anyone and in fact "I never gave up Christia... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
4: ...Republic. The dramatic [[assassin]]ation on the [[Ides of March]] was the catalyst for a second set of...
15: ...tor in relenting on Caesar’s proscription said, "He whose life you so much desire will one day b...
17: Despite Sulla's pardon, Caesar did not remain in Rome and left for military service ...
21: ...ight)|talents]], he laughed at them, saying they did not know whom they had captured. Instead, he ord...
23: In [[69 BC]], Caesar became a widower after Cornelia's death trying to deliver a st... - Nero (23127 bytes)
4: ...ed. His death was reportedly the result of [[suicide]] assisted by his [[scribe]] [[Epaphroditos]].
16: ...C)|Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus]] and [[Aemilia Lepida]] through their son [[Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbu...
23: ... had lived to become 76 and 79 respectively. Providing that [[Caligula]] lived long enough to match t...
29: ... early. However, after the death of his wife, Lepidus apparently lost his chances, though not his amb...
32: ... remains uncertain whether he was connected to Lepidus' conspiracy. Agrippina and Livilla were soon e... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
17: {{multi-video start}}
18: {{multi-video item|filename=Charles Lindbergh flight to Bruss...
19: {{multi-video end}}
21: ==Marriage, children, kidnapping==
22: ...indbergh]] in 1929. He taught her how to fly and did much of the exploring and charting of air-routes ... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
13: ...people, including 6 million [[Jew]]s, in a [[genocide]] now known as [[the Holocaust]].
15: ... the war, [[Hitler's death|Hitler died]] by [[suicide]] in a [[Berlin]] [[F?unker|bunker]]. His intend...
24: ...pecially for the proponent of a [[racism|racist]] ideology. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler, the ...
27: ..., [[1903]], at age 65, Adolf Hitler's schoolwork did not improve. At the age of 16, Hitler left school...
31: ...s paintings to merchants and tourists (there is evidence he produced over 2000 paintings and drawings ... - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
5: ...at everything in mathematics is already known is widespread among persons not learned in that field. ...
13: ...alled [[axiom]]s, and then proceed to prove other ideas ([[theorem]]s) that follow from the assumption...
21: ...) to transcend the context of the human mind; the idea that "2+2=4 is a true statement" is assumed to ...
27: ...ess, there has been the occasional unwealthy, unpaid [[List of amateur mathematicians|amateur mathemat...
34: {{wikiquote}}
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).