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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...ria''' <br>Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...and]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
9: ...cial, economic, and technological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [...
12: ...s youth. The eldest son, the [[George IV of the United Kingdom|Prince of Wales]] (the future King Geor...
14: ...he eventually learned to speak [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], and ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [...
2: ...srael after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
6: ...da looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the United States in [[1903]], and the rest of the family ...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
14: ... She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...on|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...h the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[...
31: ...rgaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
33: ...'; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of the That... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...ssertation was on ''New Types of Irreducibility Criteria''. Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vass...
5: .... She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from t...
7: ...r versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]] compi...
9: ...ine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on ...
12: ...for a six-month period that turned into an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[19... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...1]] – [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthropology|cultu...
5: .... (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ...h she conducted as a graduate student, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrote ...
12: ...Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ...and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in t... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...ting career. In [[1999]], the [[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all t...
5: ...her unabashedly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sense of adventure and independence...
7: ...ould later be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfal...
8: ...ormation about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
10: ...year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] of the [[20...
6: ...''' in the charity ward of Los Angeles County Hospital. Her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, later ...
8: ...red adopting her, which they could not have done without Gladys's consent.
10: ...died; Gladys's father, Otis, died in a mental hospital near [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardin...
12: ...o think little of herself, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-human drive. Sh... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ... is as difficult as defining [[art]] or anything. It is a problem that has been tackled at various tim...
4: ...;χνη)) by way of the Latin ''musica''. It is ultimately derived from ''mousa'', the Greek w...
6: ...anguage (but something which may be combined with it in song) is relatively modern.
8: ...my]] and [[musica]]. The concept of musica was split into three major kinds: [[musica universalis]], [...
10: ...nd the earth) were perceived as a form of music, without necessarily implying that any [[sound]] would... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
5: ...C]]; it is possible that ''The Suppliants'' was written after this, making ''The Persians'' his earlie...
7: ...n his head (though some accounts differ, claiming it was a stone dropped by an [[eagle]] or [[vulture]...
9: ...e to commemorate his military achievements only. It read:
12: ...avery, and so will the longhaired Mede who learnt it well".
19: ...invention was only attributed to him by later tradition, however. - Politics (7193 bytes)
1: {{Politics}}
2: ...gh it is generally applied to [[government]]s, politics is also observed in all human group interactio...
4: ...cquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will on another.
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
8: ==A political animal== - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...also showed his extraordinary hardiness, walking without shoes and a coat in winter.
7: ...earch, but gave up on it when he came to see that it was ''philosophy'' that was truly important for s...
9: ... question everything and everyone, and apparently it offended the leaders of this time. He was found g...
13: ...at reflect on his accomplishments through their writing.
20: {{wikiquote}} - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...Nolano''' or '''Bruno the Nolan''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]], [[astronomer]], and [[occ...
9: ...sm|pantheistic]] [[hylozoism]], and not the [[Trinity]].
13: ...left Naples to avoid the attention of the [[Inquisition]]. He left [[Rome]] for the same reason and ab...
15: ...f mnemonics, but many of his contemporaries found it easier to attribute them to magical powers.
17: ... summarizing some of his cosmological positions, titled ''Il Candelaio'' ("The Torchbearer"). - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: ...ger [[Frank Selee]] arrived and rebuilt the club with young, inexperienced players. The ''[[Chicago T...
9: :'''Wild Card titles won''' (1): [[1998]]
10: :'''Division titles won''' (3): [[1984]], [[1989]], [[2003]]
17: ===White Stockings===
18: ...olors, and it happens that the Chicagos adopted white as their primary color. After a summer of indivi... - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...in this way is given appropriate input data, then it can automatically solve the problem or predict th...
10: ...s possible onto the physical phenomena being exploited. For example, electron flows might be used to ...
14: ...al ones). This basic idea, which made modern ''digital'' computers possible, was formally identified a...
18: ...through output devices like light bulbs, LEDs, monitors, and printers.
20: ...rbitrary patterns of light by the output device. It is the human brain which recognizes that those pa... - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
1: ...' (knowledge). Agnosticism is not to be confused with a view specifically opposing the doctrine of [[g...
3: ... possible to have ''absolute'' or ''certain'' spiritual knowledge; alternately they may claim that whi...
8: ...]], [[Charles Darwin]], and [[Bertrand Russell]]. It has been argued from the works of [[David Hume]],...
12: ...lton) and the "unknowable" ([[Herbert Spencer]]). It is important, therefore, to discover Huxley's own...
14: ...as the conservation of force or the indestructibility of matter".. - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...C Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of [[Britain]], and his conquest of [[Gaul|Gallia Comata]] ...
4: ...lic. Caesar's friend [[Marcus Brutus]] conspired with others to assasinate Caesar in hopes of saving t...
6: ...aigns are known in detail from his own written [[Literary works of Julius Caesar|''Commentaries'' (''C...
9: ...ns]]'' [[Julius|Julia]]), which supposedly traced its ancestry to [[Julus]], the son of the [[Troy|Tro...
11: ...st men in Rome at the time and while he gained political clout, the Caesar family gained the wealth. - Nero (23127 bytes)
4: ... [[suicide]] assisted by his [[scribe]] [[Epaphroditos]].
8: ... professional ancient historians, who know the limits of the remote, ill-documented past, but not by t...
14: ...Domitius Ahenobarbus (1st century AD) | Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus]] and [[Agrippina the younger]], s...
16: ... [[Aemilia Lepida]] through their son [[Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus]]. He was also great-grandson to [...
23: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was born on [[December 15]], [[37]... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
1: ...indbergh.jpg|thumb|Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis.]]
2: ...sh; [[August 26]], [[1974]]) was a pioneering [[United States]] [[aviator]] famous for piloting the fi...
6: ... training as a U.S. military aviator with the [[United States Army Air Corps]]. After finishing first ...
10: ...right|The Spirit of St. Louis on display at the Smithsonian.]]
11: ... done first by the crew of the [[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and B... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
2: subject_name = Adolf Hitler |
3: image_name = Adolf_Hitler.jpg |
11: '''Adolf Hitler''' ([[April 20]], [[1889]]–[[April 30]],...
13: ...al policy of Nazi Germany|racial policies]] that Hitler directed culminated in the systematic extermin...
15: .... In the final days of the war, [[Hitler's death|Hitler died]] by [[suicide]] in a [[Berlin]] [[F?unke... - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
13: ...ver, is the finished product that gets published; it is not work in progress.
17: ...by either the sheer pleasure of mathematical activity or by expectation of greater respect by fellow '...
21: ...lem. Not all mathematicians would strictly agree with the above; the [[philosophy of mathematics]] con...
23: ...tement achieves the lauded position of a theorem, it remains true forever. There still exists [[experi...
27: ...anį¯Šs Antoine, Marquis de l'H?al|Marquis de l'Hopital]] (1661-1704) was rich enough to hire [[Johann ...
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