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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: ...nk Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
12: Queen Anne's memoirs were published in 1662 by [[Fran篩s de la Rochefoucauld]]. Many view he... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...her own right, did not wield actual power during most of her reign. She did, however, govern the realm...
15: ...e William II of Nassau]]. At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with a Dutch ruler — he pref...
20: ...oman Catholic. Some charged that the boy was "suppositions," having been secretly brought in as a subs...
22: ...liam was reluctant; he was jealous of his wife's position as the heiress to the English Crown, and fea...
24: ...r his wife's death. Although some individuals proposed to make her the sole ruler, Mary, remaining loy... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
32: | '''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]''' (PPP)<br> - Total ([[2...
49: ...nging the political face of Iraq, which had been mostly dominated by its [[Sunni]] minority since its ...
64: ...en appointed the new [[Prime Minister of Iraq]]. Most power will be invested in him. The new Governmen...
70: ...uhafazat'', singular - ''muhafadhah'', Kurdish: پاریزگه ''Pⲩ...
97: ...as a small coastline with the [[Persian Gulf]]. Close to the coast and along the [[Shatt al-Arab]] the... - 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]]) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
5: In most cases the dates given in the table are the commo...
9: ... messy and prolonged affair, and the Qing took almost twenty years to extend their control over the wh... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...e historians argue that Early Ming China was the most advanced nation on Earth at the time.
6: ...zhang, the future [[Hongwu emperor]], became the most powerful of the various [[Han Chinese]] groups a...
8: ...easant revolutionaries to have ruled the world's most populous nation.
10: ...n, and given the realistic threat to China still posed by the Mongols, Hongwu reassessed the orthodox ...
14: ...ure and philosophy was revamped. Candidates for posts in the civil service or the officer corps of th... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787...
51: ...[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
54: ... Cros]], (1842-1888) — [[phonograph]]... almost - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...]'', which contained a number of [[microscope|microscopic]] and [[telescope|telescopic]] observations,...
6: ...h Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]] (which became known as 'Bedlam').
14: ...und microscopes in [[1590]]. However, Hooke's microscopes achieved 30x magnification, which far outstr...
16: ...talian mathematician [[Girolamo Cardano]] had proposed the idea about a century earlier and may or may... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
49: *[[1662]]-[[Half Way Covenant]] adopted
65: *[[1688]]-[[Glorious Revolution]] deposes James II and replaces him with [[William and Ma... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
6: ...rriculum of the time. He found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesti...
8: ... his time at Oxford, working with such noted virtuosi as [[Robert Boyle]], [[Thomas Willis]], [[Robert...
10: ...ydenham had a major impact on Locke's natural philosophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply...
12: ...f) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke with saving his life. - Dodo (9332 bytes)
20: ...ft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large birds, weighing about 23 kg (50 p...
29: ...ly ever eaten by the Portuguese, who found the dodos hard to eat and very messy. Dutch records concur....
33: ...ommonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]], reported by [[shipwreck|shipwrecked]] mariner ...
35: ...rts points out that because the sighting prior to 1662 was in [[1638]] (ie 24 years earlier), the dodo w...
37: ... its analysis has confirmed that the dodo was a close relative of [[pigeon]] species that are to be fo... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ... [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviath...
6: ... also wrote numerous other books on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of hu...
14: ...ring the tour in contrast to the [[scholastic philosophy]] which he had learned in Oxford. His scholar...
16: ...enne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...l back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite the separate phenomena of Body, Man an... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day....
4: ...ugustine_of_Hippo|Augustine]]. In his natural philosophy, he differs from the [[Scholasticism|Schools]...
6: ...by the possibility of [[machine intelligence]], blossomed into, e.g., the [[Turing test]] and [[John S...
8: His most famous statement is ''[[Cogito ergo sum]]'' (''I...
11: ...ar old, his mother died of [[Tuberculosis|tuberculosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society ... - 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) - Faience (4113 bytes)
6: ... from the [[kingdom of Aragon]] in Spain at the close of the [[Middle Ages]]. This type of Spanish pot...
8: ... faience" are the subject of the on-line article posted at [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...
13: ...ere opened at [[Hanau]] (1661) and Heusenstamm (1662), soon moved to nearby [[Frankfurt-am-Main]].
15: ...ce-de-quimper.com/histquim_en.html], which today possesses an interesting museum devoted to faience, a...
21: ...tury, fired so hot the unglazed body vitrifies, closed the last of the traditional makers' ''ateliers'... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
20: ...ft of curly [[feather]]s high on its rear end. Dodos were very large birds, weighing about 23 kg (50 p...
29: ...ly ever eaten by the Portuguese, who found the dodos hard to eat and very messy. Dutch records concur....
33: ...ommonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]], reported by [[shipwreck|shipwrecked]] mariner ...
35: ...rts points out that because the sighting prior to 1662 was in [[1638]] (ie 24 years earlier), the dodo w...
37: ... its analysis has confirmed that the dodo was a close relative of [[pigeon]] species that are to be fo... - Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
1: ...by [[stock characters]], such as the [[miles gloriosus]] in ancient times, the fop and the rake during...
3: ...�cole des femmes'' (''The School for Wives'', [[1662]]) and ''Le Misanthrope'' (''The Misanthrope'', [...
7: ...ue was carried on by the Anglo-Irish playwright [[Oscar Wilde]] in ''[[Lady Windermere's Fan]]'' ([[18... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: '''Robert Abbot''' ([[1588]]?-[[1662]]?) was an [[England|English]] [[theology|theolog...
5: ...[[1657]]. Between [[1657]] and [[1658]], and in [[1662]], Abbot appears to vanish from record, and his a...
7: ...by their terseness and variety. In addition to those mentioned above he wrote ''Triall of our Church-...
9: ...oddly of all with one of the ejected ministers of 1662.
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