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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 - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...om 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
7: ..., [[Bestuzhev-Ryumin|Peter Bestuzhev]], as her adviser. She never remarried after the death of her hus...
10: ... a minor inconvenience to her, and soon she established herself as an autocratic ruler, using her popu...
17: ...f her time at that city in the company of her foolish and ignorant maids. Finding delight in humiliati...
19: ...licies. His archrival, the anti-German cabinet minister [[Artemy Petrovich Volynsky]], was executed se... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...e [[state]]. She encouraged [[Lomonosov]]'s establishment of the [[University of Moscow]] and Shuvalov...
9: ... later day picked up some Italian, German and Swedish, and could converse in these languages with more...
11: ...rself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress.
13: ...ted the memory of Peter the Great, practically banished Peter's daughter from court. Elizabeth had inh...
15: ...ievich Razumovsky|Alexis Razumovski]], who, there is good reason to believe, subsequently became her h... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...igin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
11: ...0 KYA: [[Bow (weapon)|Bow]] and [[arrow]] in [[Tunisia]]
19: * 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - 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 - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
1: ...Thomas Edison.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Thomas Alva Edison]]
3: '''Thomas Alva Edison''' ([[February 11]], [[1847]] – [[October...
5: ... nine major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
7: ...es). They were friends until Edison died. The [[Edison and Ford Winter Estates]] are now open to the p...
10: ...ar Vienna, Ontario. Among them was Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr., a shingle maker, tailor, and tavern keepe... - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
1: ...orld's tallest skyscraper by roof height on high rise.]]
3: ... building]]s or [[hotel]]s. The term ''highrise'' is also used to describe tall buildings, but it tend...
9: ...s Sullivan]], which still stands in [[St. Louis, Missouri]].
11: ...ed by a skeletal frame. The walls then hang off this frame like curtains--hence the architectural term...
15: See [[world's tallest structures]] for a discussion of the tallest skyscrapers and other man-m... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...al leaders, this title in [[English language|English]] usage generally refers to the supreme head of ...
6: ... of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[...
9: == List of popes ==
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{bible... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
1: This is a partial list of [[sculptor (artist)|sculptor]]s.
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
25: *[[Antoine-Louis Barye]]
38: *[[Louise Bourgeois]] (1911 - )
55: *[[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]] (1827 - 1875) - March 20 (10075 bytes)
1: '''March 20''' is the 79th day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calen...
8: ...– The [[Dutch East India Company]] is established.
11: ...d a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
13: ...eecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' is published.
14: *[[1883]] – Signature of [[Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Prope... - 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 astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – cir...
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[169...
58: *[[Francis Baily]] ([[Britain]], [[1774]] – [[1844]]) - 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}} - Shinto (25829 bytes)
2: '''Shinto''' (神道 ''shintō'') is a native [[religion]] of [[Japan]] and was once i...
6: ==History==
7: ...ribes of Israel]] [http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/%7emagi9/isracame.htm].
9: ...groups, though different systems continued to coexist.
11: ...es were meant to impress the Chinese with the sophistication of the Japanese. The Japanese felt intimi... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
17: | [[Ottoman Turkish]]
20: | [[Istanbul|İstanbul]] ([[Constantinople]]/[[Asit...
31: | '''[[Rise of the Ottoman Empire|Establishment]]'''
34: | '''[[Fall of the Ottoman Empire|Dissolution]]'''
43: ...an=2 style="text-align: center;" | Part of the [[History of Turkey]] series - Navigation (15650 bytes)
7: ...ousands of miles of open ocean, to tiny inhabited islands, using only their own senses and knowledge, ...
10: ...tion of specific [[star]]s, and where they would rise and set on the [[horizon]] of the [[ocean]]
15: ...how clouds would cluster at the locations of some islands
18: ...hods, were kept as guild secrets. Generally each island maintained a guild of navigators who had very...
20: ...]], the [[Polynesian Voyaging Society]] was established in [[Hawaii]] to research Polynesian navigatio... - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
15: |rels=Christianity(Southern Baptist),Traditional Ah-ni-yv-wi-ya
16: |langs=[[English language|English]], [[Cherokee language|Cherokee]]
20: :''For other uses, see [[Cherokee (disambiguation)]].''
22: ...n contact in the [[16th century]], inhabited what is now the [[Eastern United States]] and [[Southeast...
25: ...kee organizations are located in [[Arkansas]], [[Missouri]], [[Tennessee]], and other locations in the... - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
1: <!-- Here is a table of data; skip past it to edit the text. -...
14: ...Name]], [[List of elements by symbol|Symbol]], [[List of elements by number|Number]]</td><td>cobalt, C...
43: ... </td><td>solid ([[magnetism|ferromagnetic]])</td></tr>
59: ... colspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0">'''Miscellaneous'''</th></tr>
77: ..." align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0">'''Most stable isotopes'''</th></tr> - Abraham Clark (2137 bytes)
5: ...art]], [[Francis Hopkinson]], [[Richard Stockton (1730-1781)|Richard Stockton]], and [[John Witherspoon]...
7: ...ip]] in [[Union County, New Jersey|Union County]] is named for him.
10: ... <small>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000418]</small> - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...lightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came fro...
10: ...t]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...considerable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...r, a [[Protestant]] girl from a poor family, but his father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lett...
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