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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
68: *[[Thomas Adams (politician)|Adams, Thomas]], (1730-1788), Virginia delegate to the Continental Congr... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
3: ...om 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
7: ...of Courland (now western [[Latvia]]) from 1711 to 1730, with the Russian resident, [[Bestuzhev-Ryumin|Pe...
10: ...litzine|Dmitry Galitzine]] made Anna Empress in [[1730]]. They had hoped that she would feel indebted to...
17: ...t move the capital back to [[Moscow]], she spent most of her time at that city in the company of her f...
19: ...ughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and [[Burkhardt Munnich]]. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ... also spent exorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[B...
7: ...ronskaya]], was born at [[Kolomenskoye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her pa...
11: ...slike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her mother (May...
15: ...Anne]], consoled herself with a handsome young [[Cossack]], [[Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky|Alexis R...
19: ...nant at the Russian court. It is a mistake to suppose, however, that La Chetardie took a leading part ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
65: * [[3rd century BC|200s BC]]: [[Crossbow]] in [[History of China|China]]
70: ...[[Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
118: * [[1609]]: [[Microscope]]: [[Galileo Galilei]]
134: * [[1730]]: [[Mariner's quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inve... - 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]]) - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
5: ...which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
7: .... [[Henry Ford]], the automobile magnate lived across the street at his winter retreat (The Mangoes). ...
10: ...a, settling on land the British government gave those who had been loyal to it. In 1811, three generat...
16: ...eading the book [["Parker's School of Natural Philosophy"]].
18: ...s the Port Huron [[''Times-Herald'']]. [[Partial loss of hearing|Partially deaf]] since adolescence, h... - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
3: ...re]]s (500 [[Foot (unit of length)|feet]]). Most skyscrapers serve as [[office building]]s or [[h...
7: ...forced concrete]], and [[water pump]]s have made possible the construction of extremely tall buildings...
11: ...s of skyscrapers also differ substantially from those of other buildings. Buildings up to about four s...
78: |21||[[US Bank Tower]]||[[Los Angeles]]||310 m||1,018 ft||73||1990 ||
188: ...Tower]]||1974||Present||1450 ft||442 m||1730 ft||527 m||110 || - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...upreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of...
27: | <small>''post''[[42]]/''ante''[[57]] to [[64]]/[[67]](?)</smal...
315: | '''[[Pope Zosimus]]'''<br><small>Saint Zosimus</small>
316: | Papa '''Zosimus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
405: | <small>[[Frosinone]], Southern Latium, Italy</small> - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
53: *[[Agostino Carlini]] (1718 - 1790)
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
66: *[[Rossella Cosentino]]
72: *[[Cameron Cross]] (1963- ) - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...sh; The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
35: ...ndash; [[Ferdinand Marcos]]'s widow, [[Imelda Marcos]], goes on trial for [[bribery]], [[embezzlement]...
38: *[[1996]] – In [[Los Angeles, California]], [[Erik Menendez]] and [[Ly...
65: *[[1915]] - [[Sviatoslav Richter]], Ukrainian pianist (d. [[1997]])
67: ...y (television)|Jack Barry]], American television host (d. [[1984]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
80: *[[ɴienne B麯ut]] (France, [[1730]]–[[1783]])
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[198...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
45: *[[Joseph Ashbrook]] ([[United States|USA]], [[April 4]]...
54: *[[Oskar Backlund]] ([[Sweden]], [[1846]] – [[191...
85: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Dalmatia]], [[1711]] &n... - 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) - Shinto (25829 bytes)
2: ...33;'' meaning [[Tao]] ("way" or "path" in a [[philosophical]] sense). Thus, Shinto means "the way of t...
4: After World War II, Shinto lost its status of [[state religion]]; some Shinto pr...
7: ...hat links the Japanese to the [[Lost Ten Tribes |lost tribes of Israel]] [http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/%7emag...
9: ...oday's [[Emperor of Japan|Imperial family]] to a position of power among the other groups, their ances...
11: ...long with other poetry anthologies like the [[Manyoshu]] and others, were all meant to impress others ... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...luğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
45: ...so been interpreted as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its d...
47: ...capital. Following [[World War I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies...
53: ... Empire]] in the [[13th century]]. In [[1299]], [[Osman I]] declared independence of the ''Ottoman Pri... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
7: ...Polynesian]] [[Navigator|navigators]] routinely crossed thousands of miles of open ocean, to tiny inha...
13: ...wildlife species (which congregate at particular positions)
18: ...cuate people. The guild secrets might have been lost, had not one of the last living navigators train...
20: ...e-hulled canoe called the [[Hokulea|Hokule'a]], whose crew, in [[1976]], successfully navigated the Pa...
34: * [[position fixing]] - determining current position by visual and electronic means - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
22: ...tates]] and [[Southeastern United States]] until most were forcefully moved to the [[Ozark]] Plateau. ...
31: ...ee) by native speakers, since these sounds most closely resemble "Cherokee" in the native language. A ...
33: ...l translation "these are all the human people"). Most native American tribes have a name for themselve...
84: ...fficial English envoy, Sir Alexander Cumming. In 1730, Chief Moytoy of Tellico was agreed to be the "Em...
85: .... These early dissidents would eventually move across the Mississippi River to areas that would later ... - Cobalt (13481 bytes)
77: ... colspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0">'''Most stable isotopes'''</th></tr>
110: ** [[Corrosion]]- and wear-resistant alloys.
127: ...n quantity, and very large amounts - by simply exposing natural cobalt to [[neutron]]s in a reactor fo...
136: ... varies depending on the source, but is between [[1730]] and [[1737]]. He was able to show that cobalt w...
142: ... also think the name may derive from Greek ''kobalos'', which means 'mine', and which may have common ... - Abraham Clark (2137 bytes)
5: ...art]], [[Francis Hopkinson]], [[Richard Stockton (1730-1781)|Richard Stockton]], and [[John Witherspoon]... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ... [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...g established in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his lif...
10: ...ather appears to have been strict, but neither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom...
14: ...he famous author [[Ninon de lEnclos|Ninon de Lenclos]]. When she died, tragically, in [[1705]], she le...
16: ...was suspected of having been concerned in the composition of two violent libels. Inveigled by a spy na...
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