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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: ... served as France's [[Religious minister|chief minister]].
6: ...ency but entrusted the government to the prime minister, [[Jules Mazarin]], who was believed to be her...
8: ... of the young King Louis to Anne's niece, the Spanish Hapsburg princess [[Maria Theresa of Spain|Marie...
12: ...view her as a brilliant and cunning woman and she is one of the central figures in [[Alexandre Dumas]]... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...ho became the sole ruler upon her death. Popular histories usually know the joint reign as that of "[[...
11: ...s bore eight children, only Mary and her younger sister [[Anne of Great Britain|Anne]] survived into a...
13: ... her father married again in [[1673]], taking as his second wife the Catholic [[Mary of Modena]], also...
15: ...marriage, falsely assuming that it would improve his popularity amongst Protestants. The first cousins...
17: ... Dutch people, but her husband neglected or even mistreated her. William long maintained an affair wit... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...d by BBC news, CNN, The New York Times, The Economist)
3: .../big><br>{{Audio|Ar-al Gumhuriyah al Iraqiya.ogg|listen}}
13: ...ahu Akbar]]<br>([[English language|English]]: God is Great)''</small>
23: | '''[[Prime Minister of Iraq|Prime Minister]]''' || [[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]]</small>
25: ...a]]'''<br> - Total <br> - % water || [[List of countries by area|Ranked 57th]] <br> 437,072 ... - 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 - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
1: Below is a table of the '''dynasties in Chinese history'''.
7: ...ition, China was divided for long periods of its history, with different regions being ruled over by d...
9: ...ing dynasty pretender was not disposed of until [[1662]]. The change of ruling houses was a messy and pr...
11: ...links in the table. Click on '''H''' for the '''history''' of the dynasty, and '''E''' for a table of...
259: ...are with [[List of British monarchs#Mnemonics|British monarchs mnemonics]].) - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
1: {{History of China}}
2: ... books were printed using [[movable type]]. Some historians argue that Early Ming China was the most a...
6: ... capital at [[Nanjing]] and adopting "Hongwu" as his reign title.
8: ...onventions, and not as a popular rebel. Despite his humble origins, he emerged as a national leader a...
10: ...amities of the Mongol invasion, and given the realistic threat to China still posed by the Mongols, Ho... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
1: This is a '''list of inventors'''.
3: ''See also:'' [[list of scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline o...
5: ==Alphabetical list==
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
23: ...Baird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]] - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ...[[1703]]), one of the greatest experimental scientists of the [[seventeenth century]], played an impor...
4: ...'[[cell (biology)|cell]]'' -- so called because his observations of plant cells reminded him of [[mon...
6: ...also achieved fame as the chief assistant of [[Christopher Wren]], helping to rebuild London after the...
8: ...gued portrays Hooke. Both these claims remain in dispute, however.
12: ... have invented the [[balance spring]] before [[Christiaan Huygens]]. Devices known as escapements regu... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 to 1699'''.
10: *[[1608]]-Popham Colony dissolved
11: *[[1608]]-[[France|French]] establish colony at [[Quebec]]
30: ...[[Roger Williams (theologian)|Roger Williams]] banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
32: *[[1636]]-[[Rhode Island Colony]] founded by Roger Williams - 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. - Dodo (9332 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[bird|Aves]]}}
9: ...authority | author = [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]] | date = 1760}}
15: ...d of the island of [[Mauritius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the gro...
20: ...e (9-inch) blackish hooked [[Beak|bill]] with reddish point, very small useless [[wing]]s, stout yello...
22: ...round-bound birds evolved to take advantage of an island [[ecology]] with no predators. - 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]] - ) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ...losophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviathan]]'' ([[1651]]...
10: ...ree children to the care of an older brother Francis. Hobbes was educated at Westport church from the ...
12: ...m Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire|William Cavendish]], Baron of Hardwick (and later [[Duke of Devons...
14: ...nslation of that work into [[English language|English]]. Hobbes believed that Thucydides' account of t...
16: ...was a regular debater in philosophic groups in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...e Scientific Revolution in the Western World. He is also known for inventing the Cartesian coordinate...
4: ...laining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creat...
6: ...ysis]]. Descartes's reflections on mind and mechanism began the strain of western thought that much la...
8: His most famous statement is ''[[Cogito ergo sum]]'' (''I think, therefore I a...
11: ... old, his mother died of [[Tuberculosis|tuberculosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society of... - 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}} - Faience (4113 bytes)
1: ...s the conventional name in [[English language|English]] for fine tin-glazed [[earthenware]] on a delic...
3: ==History of faience==
4: ... 1000[[Celsius|� C ]] was required to achieve this result (see [[pottery]]).
6: ...is type of Spanish pottery owed much to its [[Moorish]] inheritance.
8: ... [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n3_v154/ai_21146424]. - Dodos (9122 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[bird|Aves]]}}
9: ...authority | author = [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]] | date = 1760}}
15: ...d of the island of [[Mauritius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit and nested on the gro...
20: ...e (9-inch) blackish hooked [[Beak|bill]] with reddish point, very small useless [[wing]]s, stout yello...
22: ...round-bound birds evolved to take advantage of an island [[ecology]] with no predators. - Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
1: ...ith an illicit love affair or some other scandal, is generally less important than its witty and often...
3: ...Wives'', [[1662]]) and ''Le Misanthrope'' (''The Misanthrope'', [[1666]]).
5: ...irst comedy of manners, but the genre really flourished during the [[Restoration]] period. [[Restorati...
7: ...t descendent of the comedy of manners style. Television programs such as [[The Young Ones (TV series)|... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...nne and Antichrist'', in which he thanks the Archbishop for "worldly maintenance," "best earthly count...
4: Robert Abbot received his education at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge ...
5: ...1662]], Abbot appears to vanish from record, and his activities are unknown.
7: ...s Catechism for her Children'' (1646), and ''A Christian Family builded by God, or Directions for Gove...
9: ...oddly of all with one of the ejected ministers of 1662.
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