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- Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
5: {{House of Hanover}}
7: ...nasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) ([[24 May]] [[1819]] – [[22 January]]...
9: ...Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Wi...
12: ...rathearn, like many other sons of George III, did not marry during his youth. The eldest son, the [[Ge...
16: ...en's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the Rege... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
30: ... by joint forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued...
44: ...ar and captured large areas of territory. She saw no need to seek compromise with the [[Palestinians]]...
53: ... can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."—Golda Meir, [[March...
55: ...t things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."—Golda Meir, in a speech ...
57: ... the past but nothing like the one I'm faced with now in leading the country."—Golda Meir, when ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...figurehead of a political philosophy that became known as [[Thatcherism]], which involves reduced gove...
31: ...ccured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher a...
33: ...ical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was chall... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
7: ...al [[compiler]] work was done. The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A...
14: ...in the 1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
20: She was laid to rest with full military honors in [[Arlington National Cemetery]].
22: ...rial park in front of her former residence and is now owned by Arlington County, Virginia.
24: == Honors == - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...aret Mead''' ([[December 16]], [[1901]] – [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|Amer...
5: ... curator, eventually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught a...
7: ...nthropologist--one who wrote clearly and vividly enough for the general public to read and learn from ...
9: She died in [[New York]] on [[15 November]] [[1978]], aged 76.
13: ...tandards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected way... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...uins (TV movie)|Love Among the Ruins]]'', and was nominated for four other Emmys and two [[Tony Award]...
5: ...enereal disease]] in a time when such things were not discussed, and her mother campaigned for birth c...
7: ... films such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
12: ... change his name to S. Ogden Ludlow, so she would not have to adopt the "too ordinary" name of "Mrs. S...
21: ...came the talk of New York City, and began getting noticed by [[Hollywood]]. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...rway|Norwegian]] [[Martin Edward Mortensen]], was not her true biological father. The most likely cand...
8: ...riously considered adopting her, which they could not have done without Gladys's consent.
10: ...tal near [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]].
12: ...rwise she would have had to return the orphanage. Norma Jeane had come to think little of herself, yet...
16: No other actor has reached the spectacular heights o... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
6: ...usic as being something which is abstract and has nothing to do with language (but something which may...
8: ...drivium]] - [[arithmetic]]s, [[geometry]], [[astronomy]] and [[musica]]. The concept of musica was spl...
17: ...ersus improvised forms (''kantun''), European and nonMapuche music (''kantun winka''), ceremonial song...
19: ...n vocal music. Some languages in West Africa have no term for music but the speakers do have the conce...
21: ...s of "musicness"; Koran chanting and [[Adhan]] is not considered music, but classical improvised song,... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
9: ...s death, and makes no mention of his theatrical renown. He chose to commemorate his military achievem...
21: Aeschylus is known to have written over 70 plays, only six of whic...
26: **''[[Agamemnon (play)|Agamemnon]]''
30: ... BC|fourth-century]] playwright. Its language in no way resembles that of Aeschylus, and its hostilit...
32: In early [[1990]]s fragments of another Aeschylus play, which had been mentioned in a... - Politics (7193 bytes)
4: ... power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will on another.
9: ...'[[bellum omnium contra omnes]]''). Further, he noted that men would enter into a [[social contract]...
14: ...he institutionalization of social stratification, non-agricultural specialized crafts (including pries...
18: ...mmunity. Monarchies have existed in one form or another for the past 5000 years of human history.
23: ...[[Roman Republic]] is credited with significant innovation in types of government. It was an early exa... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...of Delium]] and the [[Battle of Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']]...
7: ...given his father's occupation as an artisan; in Xenophon's ''Symposium'', Socrates explicitly states t...
11: ...r as he ''knew'' he knew nothing and strived for knowledge. Historical accounts from varied sources, ...
13: ...ial thinker and philosopher of his time. Although no written accounts of his real life have been locat...
20: {{wikiquote}} - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
1: [[Image:Giordano_Bruno.jpg|thumb|Giordano Bruno]]
3: ... was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]], [[astronomer]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|he...
7: ...o, a soldier. In [[1565]] he took the name Giordano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar...
9: ...t of [[pantheism|pantheistic]] [[hylozoism]], and not the [[Trinity]].
10: ...|200px|Woodcut illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four... - Chicago Cubs (25972 bytes)
5: :'''Formerly known as:''' ''White Stockings'', in the [[1870s]]. ...
18: ...ball's first openly professional team, led to a minor explosion of openly professional teams in [[1870...
24: ...pective to note that a similar winning percentage nowadays would yield 129 wins.
26: ...cade, and were replaced by other strong pitchers, notably [[John Clarkson]]. Much has been written abo...
35: ... victories in [[1906]] (in a 154-game season) has not been broken, though it was tied by the [[Seattle... - Computer (32773 bytes)
8: ...mputers have been built out of many different technologies, nearly all popular types of computers have...
10: ...' computers were once common in the 1960s but are now rarer.
14: ...rmally identified and explored by [[Claude E. Shannon]].
16: ...uring]] identified which problems could and could not be solved by computers, and in doing so founded ...
20: ...ally equivalent to ones and zeroes; there are no known ways to successfully emulate human comprehensio... - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
1: ...ious concepts that are not generally related to agnosticism.
3: ...ssible, they personally have no such knowledge. Agnosticism in both cases involves [[philosophical sce...
8: ...s Concerning Natural Religion'', that he was an agnostic, but this remains subject to debate.
12: ...he matter. Though Huxley began to use the term "agnostic" in 1869, his opinions had taken shape some t...
14: ... and I will believe that. Why should I not? It is not half so wonderful as the conservation of force o... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
2: ...tin]]: <small>IMP?C?IVLIVS?CAESAR?DIVVS</small>[[#Notes|¹]]) (b. [[July 13]], c.[[100 BC]] d. [[M...
6: Caesar's military campaigns are known in detail from his own written [[Literary works...
9: Caesar was born in [[Rome]] to a well-known [[patrician]] family (''[[gens]]'' [[Julius|Jul...
11: ...ch by the standards of the Roman nobility. Thus, no member of his family had achieved any outstanding...
13: ... to the Marius party through family connections. Not only was he Marius' nephew, he was also married ... - Nero (23127 bytes)
4: ...sh;[[9 June]] [[68]]), born '''Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus''', also called ([[50]]–[[54]] AD) ''...
8: ...he limits of the remote, ill-documented past, but not by the general public. There is a strong desire ...
14: ...Ahenobarbus (1st century AD) | Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus]] and [[Agrippina the younger]], sister and...
16: ...a Lepida]] through their son [[Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus]]. He was also great-grandson to [[Mark Ant...
18: ...dius Drusus|Drusus]] through his wife [[Antonia Minor]] (sister to Antonia Major) and brother to [[Cla... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...]] [[aviator]] famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1...
11: ... the crew of the [[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] later t...
13: ... 21]], [[1929]] he was presented the [[Medal of Honor]] for his historic trans-Atlantic flight.
15: ...ng range by decreasing fuel consumption. These innovations are the basis of modern intercontinental a...
18: ...escription= Lindbergh's flight to Belgium to be honored after his trans-Atlantic flight.|format=[[Theo... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...Socialist German Workers Party]] (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
13: ...luding 6 million [[Jew]]s, in a [[genocide]] now known as [[the Holocaust]].
20: ...of [[Linz]] in the province of [[Upper Austria]], not far from the [[German Empire|German]] border in ...
22: ...er, Adolf was accused by his political enemies of not rightfully being a Hitler, but a Schicklgruber. ...
24: ...pelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allowed to return until well after Maria Schickl... - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
5: ...tics is already known is widespread among persons not learned in that field. In fact, the publication...
9: ...ion - in fact some of the best mathematicians are notoriously bad at these tasks! On the other hand, ...
13: ...s the finished product that gets published; it is not work in progress.
17: ...ivated by monetary greed; the fruits of labor are not usually patentable and in many cases are of pure...
21: ...hout requiring a human mind to state the problem. Not all mathematicians would strictly agree with the...
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