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- List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: ...[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech architect
9: ...-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
19: ...1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
25: *[[John Aislabie|Aislabie, John]], (1670-1742), director of the [[South Sea Bubble|South S... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...Parliament, various coercive tactics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) wer...
15: ...hesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[1670]]. In about [[1673]], Anne made the acquaintance ...
19: ...Catholics was not well-received by the English people. Public alarm increased when James's second wife...
24: ...lliam's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained fro...
26: ...otally extinguished, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
36: ...tes in the nation, with an estimated 8,829,383 people in 2004. Georgia is also known as the '''Peach ...
48: ...(explorer)|Hernando de Soto]] in [[1540]], had completely disappeared by [[1560]].
50: ...er control of Georgia began in earnest in about [[1670]], when the British, moving south from their [[Ca...
52: ...moted the idea that the area be used to settle people in a [[debtors' prison]]. On [[February 12]], [[...
76: ...is not yet incorporated, although a referendum is planned for the summer of [[2005]]. Georgia does no... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
42: ...ecame a royal colony in 1712. North Carolina was split off in 1729. The state declared its independenc...
54: ...comprised of the Civil Court, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of General Sessions, which is t...
63: ...rolina's population was estimated at 4,147,152 people.
95: ...and Charleston. An unusual feature of the coastal plain is a large number of [[Carolina bays]], the or...
97: Just west of the coastal plain is the '''Sand Hills''' region, which is thoug... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ... of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
4: ...f the Papal residence, most Papal ceremonies take place at St. Peter's. The basilica also holds a rel...
12: ...worked on the "Fabbrica di San Pietro" (as the complex of building operations were officially called)....
14: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/Lanciani/...
19: ...ft|200px|The dome designed by Michelangelo was completed by Giacomo della Porta in 1590.]] - Macau (16856 bytes)
26: |Handover from [[Portugal]] to the [[People's Republic of China]]
40: ...ransferred [[sovereignty]] over Macau to the [[People's Republic of China]] in [[1999]], and it is now...
44: ...ere, the most popular game is [[Pai Gow]], a game played with [[Chinese dominoes]]. Gamblers from [[Ho...
47: ...]: maa3 gaau1) is thought to be derived from "'Templo de A-Mᦱuot; (媽閣廟 Cantones...
57: ...ed by the Portuguese in [[1557]]. Beginning in [[1670]], Portugal leased the territory although there w... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ... the [[Gregorian calendar]]) was an [[English (people)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[a...
4: ...athematical substantiation for [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion]]. He would expand these laws by ar...
6: ...binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular m...
17: According to [[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and ...
23: ...y closed down as a precaution against the [[Great Plague]]. For the next two years Newton worked at ho... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
12: *[[1609]]-[[Henry Hudson]], hired by the Dutch, explores the present-day [[Hudson River]]
22: ... ''[[Mayflower (ship)|Mayflower]]''. They found [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massachusetts]]; ...
52: === [[1670s]] ===
54: *[[1670]]-Charles Town ([[Charleston, South Carolina|Char...
65: ...]]-[[Glorious Revolution]] deposes James II and replaces him with [[William and Mary]]; Dominion of Ne... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
6: ==Motives for exploration and colonization==
9: ... [[Renaissance]], a development that encouraged exploration and colonization in many ways. A revival ...
11: ...power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe began to ...
13: ...ed States]] presented themselves as an attractive place for these new powers to establish colonies. T...
16: ...lation]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respective parts. - Clock (10086 bytes)
9: ...clock is often shown in a corner of [[computer display]]s or [[mobile phone]]s.
11: The main purpose of a clock is not always to ''display'' the time.
14: ...ese be for alarms, event initiation or just to display the time of day.
35: ==Displays==
43: ...lars to believe that these tower clocks did not employ hands or dials, but ?told? the time with audibl... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
17: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{biblevers...
171: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
357: | '''[[Pope Simplicius]]'''<br><small>Saint Simplicius</small>
358: | Papa '''Simplicius''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small> - Lute (15915 bytes)
1: ...anguage|Arabic]] ''al‘ud'', "the wood". The player of a lute is called a ''lutenist'', and a mak...
5: ...humb|8-course tenor Renaissance lute. This is a replica of a historical instrument]]
7: ..."We spend half our time tuning and the other half playing out of tune.")
9: ...round the neck. They fray with use, and must be replaced frequently. A few additional partial frets of...
13: ...separately. The tuning of a lute is a somewhat complicated issue, and is described in a separate secti... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
6: ...e place on the payment of a large ransom. These exploits had considerably exceeded the terms of Morgan...
8: ...a heavy ransom as the price of his evacuating the place, and finally by an ingenious stratagem faking ...
10: ...eded 100,000 pounds. The fame of this brilliant exploit was tarnished by the habitual cruelty of Morga...
12: The politics of the time were complex, however, and despite having previously receive... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
378: *[[Comenius|John Comenius]], (1592-1670){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}}
907: *[[Johannes Kepler]], (1571-1630){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Navigation (15650 bytes)
18: ...lty, only they could trade for aid or evacuate people. The guild secrets might have been lost, had no...
20: ...ch Polynesian navigation methods. They built a replica of an ancient double-hulled canoe called the [...
37: ...of position based on the measurement of stars and planets with the [[sextant]] allowed ships to naviga...
39: Later developments included the placing of [[lighthouse]]s and [[buoy]]s close to sh...
41: ...onal maritime navigation with a compass uses multiple redundant sources of position information to loc... - Fluorine (8588 bytes)
37: ... Even in dark, cool conditions, fluorine reacts explosively with [[hydrogen]]. In a jet of fluorine ga...
40: Other forms are fluoro-[[complex (chemistry)|complex]]es (such as [FeF<sub>4</sub>]<sup>-</sup>) or ...
44: == Applications ==
45: ...orine is used in the production of low friction [[plastic]]s such as [[Teflon]], and in [[halon]]s su...
48: * Monatomic fluorine is used for [[plasma ashing]] in [[semiconductor]] manufacturing. - Coriander (6994 bytes)
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17: ...and [[Southeast Asia]]n cuisine. All parts of the plant are edible, but the fresh leaves and the dried...
20: ...Greek language|Greek]] ''corys'', a "[[bedbug]]", plus ''-ander'', "resembling", and refers to the sup...
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