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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
25: ..., Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...ttle of L?(1632)|Battle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the...
4: <caption><font size="+1">'''Kristina'''</font></caption>
5: ...ait by S颡stien Bourdon stor.jpg|center|185px|Christina of Sweden, depicted by S颡stien Bourdon]]
6: ...r valign=top><td>'''Reign'''<td>[[November 6]], [[1632]]-[[June 5]], [[1654]]
10: ...om is the prop of the realm''") <!-- Official English version from www.royalcourt.se --> - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
4: ...cknamed "Ninon" by her father at an early age. In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, a...
6: ...married and independent. Influenced by [[Epicureanism]] in general and [[Michel de Montaigne|Montaigne...
8: ...and her own drawing room became a centre for the discussion and consumption of the literary arts. In h...
10: ...tina]], former queen of [[Sweden]]. Impressed, Christina wrote to [[Cardinal Mazarin]] on Ninon's beha...
12: ...and "We should take care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gather... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]] |
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
33: ISOCode = US-MD |
36: ...e in the [[American Revolution]]. ''See: [[Annapolis Convention]].''
38: ==History== - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...i in a 1630 painting, is the largest church in Christendom and often used by the Pope.]]
2: ...hop of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his [[tomb]] is below the baldochino and [[altar]]. [[Pope]]s ha...
4: ... namesake when he led the Roman church, but which is no longer used. These are the sources of the con...
6: ==History==
8: ...eviously been a cemetery for pagans as well as Christians. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
8: ...[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
12: ...840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
13: ...([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubist]] artist - Cell (biology) (28190 bytes)
2: ...cellular, consisting of a single cell. Other organisms, such as [[human]]s, are [[multicellular]], (hu...
3: ...preexisting cells; all vital functions of an organism occur within cells and that cells contain the [[...
9: ...lls grow in large clumps but each individual cell is about 10 [[micrometre]]s across.]]
11: Each cell is at least somewhat self-contained and self-maintai...
14: *Reproduction by [[cell division]]. - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ..., his conflict with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example of the conflict of...
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[Vincenzo Galilei]]...
7: ... time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
10: ...ligion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
12: ...ished French [[History of science and technology|historian of science]] [[Alexandre Koyr靝. The exper... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]] also refers to him a...
4: ...lenstein]]. Early in his career, Kepler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coin...
6: ...nz]] in honor of Johannes Kepler, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonices mundi''' ("The Harm...
9: ...o have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant.
11: ...nd, compared to the other pupils, an outsider. This ostracizing probably led him to turn to the world... - Microscope (8708 bytes)
1: ...scopic''' means minute or very small, not easily visible with the unaided eye. In other words, requiri...
3: ...ented—is the '''optical microscope'''. This is an [[optics|optical]] [[measuring instrument|inst...
8: ...ingle, convex lens to magnify objects for viewing is still found in the [[magnifying glass]], the [[ha...
11: ...al aberration]]. In modern microscopes the mirror is replaced by a lamp unit providing stable, control...
34: ... of 100×. The actual power of magnification is the product of the powers of the ocular (usually ... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...des [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbe...
6: ...ere, he obtained admission to the college of [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. The dean of the college at the...
8: ...sed with Locke and pressed him to become part of his retinue.
10: ...he household physician. In London, Locke resumed his medical studies, under the tutelage of [[Thomas S...
12: ...vived and prospered, crediting Locke with saving his life. - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: ...for events in the 20th century and beyond, see [[History of California (20th century)]].}}
3: ...ean colonization means that most of the known '''history of California''' begins with European explora...
5: ... of interest primarily populated by [[missionary|missionaries]] and fur trappers, to a land of opportu...
9: ==Prehistory==
11: ...y inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about 13,000 years ago. - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
1: {{histphil}}
3: ...entury]] in [[Europe | European philosophy]], and is often thought of
4: ... science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of both [[Church]] and [[State]]...
8: ...ernment]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]]. - March 22 (9294 bytes)
1: '''March 22''' is the [[81 (number)|81]]st day of the year in the [...
5: * [[238]] - [[Gordian I]] and his son [[Gordian II]] are proclaimed [[Roman emperor...
7: ...]]: [[Algonquian]] Indians kill 347 [[England|English]] settlers around [[Jamestown, Virginia]], a thi...
9: ... from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious dissent.
10: *[[1765]] - The [[British Parliament]] passes the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp A... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ian]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by...
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
22: ...Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni]] (Uzbekistan, [[973]] - [[1048]])
40: *[[Aristotle]] (Greece, [[384 BC|384 B.C.]] - [[322 BC|32...
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...rs important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn...
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}} - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...ey have had the most lasting importance to World History.
7: ... France on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called ''Des sauvages'' (The Savages).
9: ...yal]] (which had been located with Champlain's assistance), where Champlain lived until 1607 while he ...
13: ...hich he embarked on periodically for the rest of his life.
15: The first winter was difficult for the colonists. Of the twenty-five people who stayed for the w... - Cell (29541 bytes)
2: ...cellular, consisting of a single cell. Other organisms, such as [[human]]s, are [[multicellular]], (hu...
3: ...preexisting cells; all vital functions of an organism occur within cells and that cells contain the [[...
9: ...lls grow in large clumps but each individual cell is about 10 [[micrometre]]s across.]]
11: Each cell is at least somewhat self-contained and self-maintai...
14: *Reproduction by [[cell division]]. - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
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20: {{Elementbox_oxistates | 3<br />([[amphoteric]] oxide) }}
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27: {{Elementbox_magnetic | [[paramagnetism|paramagnetic]] }}
28: {{Elementbox_eresist_ohmmat20 | 26.50 n}} - Anton van Leeuwenhoek (4111 bytes)
3: ...rds the establishment of [[cell biology]]. Using his handcrafted microscope he was the first to observ...
5: His name at birth was ''Thonis Philipszoon''. His letters were signed ''Antoni van Leeuwenhoek''. H...
7: ...as great as his for over one hundred years after his death.
9: ...one small drop of water...''" - Stated after his discovery of the microscopic world over three centuri...
11: ...r for the financial affairs of Vermeer's widow. This has led some people to believe that the two must ...
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