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- United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ... Britain''', '''Britain''' or '''England''' (the most populous of the [[home nation]]s). The UK has f...
58: ...es|included Wales]] as a [[principality]]) with those of, first, [[Kingdom of Scotland]] and then [[Ki...
64: ...lands of the North Atlantic'' (IONA) has been proposed, but is little used outside diplomatic circles.
71: ...as changed in 1927 to recognise the departure of most of Ireland, with the name '' United Kingdom of G...
74: ... and the UK rebuilding itself into a modern and prosperous nation. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
5: ...t details of his birth are not certain. He was almost certainly illegitimate, the son of a [[Florence|...
11: ...' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ''Filocolo'' a prose version of an existing French romance, and ''La ...
13: ... time Boccaccio's father re-married, to Bice del Bostichi. His children by his first marriage had all ...
15: ...s father, as Minister of Supply in the city was closely associated with the government efforts. His fa...
19: ...350 Boccaccio, though less of a scholar, became closely involved with Italian humanism and also with t... - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
8: ...own to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage." Disdaining what...
10: ...; 6,263 ft). He wrote an account of the trip, composed considerably later as a letter to his friend [[...
12: ...n [[1361]]. Francesca married [[Francescuolo da Brossano]] (who was later named executor of Petrarch's...
17: ...ancestor of the [[Marquis de Sade]]. While it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous charact...
19: ... was his former despair. Later in his "Letter to Posterity," Petrarch wrote: "In my younger days I str... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
4: ...Its many uses include finding and predicting the positions of the stars and the sun; determining local...
8: ...[[ecliptic]] and several pointers indicating the positions of stars, is free to rotate. Some astrolab...
12: ...for converting the day of the month to the sun's position on the ecliptic, trigonometric scales, and a...
18: ...The first printed book on the astrolabe was ''Composition and Use of Astrolabe'' by [[Cristannus de Pr... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130)
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