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- Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
8: ...ere not accepted as members of the University, simply as 'students of Girton and Newnham Colleges', t...
12: ...o similar research). Unfortunately, Randall had implied that Franklin alone would be working on DNA, a...
18: ... should have been working together. It has been implied by Wilkins himself that this situation may wel...
33: ...75. ''Rosalind Franklin and DNA''. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...], helped to found the organization that became [[Planned Parenthood]]. Hepburn's father was a staunc...
7: ...nging Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
12: ...ed. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong ...
17: Hepburn cut her acting teeth in plays staged at Bryn Mawr and later in revues staged...
19: ... almost incomprehensible. She was fired from the play, but continued to work in small stock company r... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
13: | place of death=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]]
20: Many people consider Jefferson to be among the most brillian...
30: ...84]], Jefferson avoided the common practice of simply digging downwards until something turned up. In...
32: ...Europe. However, it seems likely that he would be pleased with the quantity and quality of wine now be... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
44: Among [[Native American]] people living in what now is Virginia were the [[Powhat...
46: ...long the coast of [[North America]], eventually applying to the whole coast from [[South Carolina]] to...
59: ...uld vote in the colony. Each county chose two people or burgesses to represent it, while the [[Colleg...
98: ...nia]]'), a part of the [[Delmarva Peninsula]], completely separate (an [[exclave]]) from the rest of t...
105: * Appalachian Plateau - West of the Appalachian Mountains - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
2: ...anoia]] which led to the deaths of at least 25 people and the imprisonment of scores more. [[Witch tri...
6: ... accusations spread quickly, and within only a couple of months involved the neighboring communities o...
13: ...nd many others were ill; there were perhaps 80 people in jail awaiting trial.
15: ...rrest more accused witches, and at least three people of some wealth. Six of the nineteen were men; mo...
17: ...ng a plea. Though his refusal to plead is often explained as a way of preventing his possessions from ... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
7: The general trend in Medieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration....
9: ... is weak, and rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natural decl...
11: ...s lines in a repeatable fashion. The use of multiple texts and instrumental accompaniment has develop...
17: ...out 1240), the treatise which defined and most completely elucidated the [[rhythmic modes]], a notatio...
19: ...t definitely identifiable scholar to accept and explain the mensural system was Johannes de Muris ([[J... - Human (48024 bytes)
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27: ...]] and [[observation]] have led to a variety of explanations for [[consciousness]] and the the relatio...
30: ...e inherently [[society|social]]. Humans create complex [[sociology|social structures]] composed of man... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...n called the ''[[Baconian method]]''. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world throu...
21: ...im to devote himself to a life of learning. His application failed, and for the next two years he work...
25: ...e (he objected to the time span) offended many people; he was accused of seeking popularity, and was f...
29: ... a gift of a fine of ?1200 on one of Essex's accomplices.
35: ... to sit in parliament -- and to the various royal plans which Bacon had supported. His obvious influen... - April (9790 bytes)
24: ::Modernized for ''The Norton Anthology of English Literature''
178: *National Give-A-Sample Week
247: During planting season (@ Apr/May) - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: ...73]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circle]].
14: * [[1893]] - American [[sugar]] planters led by the [[Committee of Safety (Hawaii)|C...
20: ...oviet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Warsaw...
22: * 1945 - [[Sweden|Swedish]] diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]] disappears in [[Hungary]...
36: ...r second full-length album, [[Kerplunk (album)|Kerplunk]]. - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
7: ...y that of [[number]]s. The realization that two apples and two oranges do have something in common, na...
8: ...tic]] (e.g. [[addition]], [[subtraction]], [[multiplication]] and [[division (mathematics)|division]])...
10: ...em|writing numbers]]. Perhaps [[prehistoric]] peoples first expressed [[quantity]] by drawing lines i...
12: Historically, the major disciplines within mathematics arose out of the need to d...
14: ==Inspiration, aesthetics and pure and applied mathematics== - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
10: ...by [[Jacob Obrecht]] in [[1505]], who died of the plague that year, and by [[Antoine Brumel]] in [[150...
14: ...]], writing in the [[1580s]], was still using examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; a...
26: ...]], ''Music in the Renaissance''. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0393095304 - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...] period in the arts, and receives contemporary application in the unity of science movement which inc...
6: ...od, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] i...
8: ...sm | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]], [[government]] a...
12: ...purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think o...
14: ...r instability. Instead, (according to those that split the two periods), the Age of Reason sought to e... - Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
29: ... the original version of the Constitution were supplemented by the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War...
60: ...overnment are reserved to the states or to the people.
127: ...e dominant role that [[Congressional committees]] play in its proceedings. Committees have assumed the...
135: ...knowledgeably with all fields of interest. The complexity of national life today calls for special kno...
155: ...tor]]s has little to do with central [[party discipline]]. Each of the [[Political parties of the Unit... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
42: ...ne]] (a [[Miwok]] Indian word meaning "western people") living in the coastal area between [[Point Sur...
44: European discovery and exploration of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] began in...
56: ...od. All of the county not in the city limits was split off to form [[San Mateo County, California|San ...
60: ...h century San Francisco was "Emperor" [[Joshua A. Norton]].
62: ...terred corpses contributed to the transmission of plague, and possibly also motivated by the opportuni... - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
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15: | place of death=[[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]]...
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48: Editors- Please do not remove the period "." after Truman's m... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
6: place_of_birth = [[Braunau am Inn]], [[Austria-Hunga...
9: place_of_death = [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]
13: ...he systematic extermination of over 11 million people, including 6 million [[Jew]]s, in a [[genocide]]...
20: ...on more strictly than was usual for that time and place.
22: ...ng a Hitler, but a Schicklgruber. This was also exploited in Allied propaganda during the Second World... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
8: ...s Marquette]] and [[Louis Jolliet]] begin their exploration of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi riv...
10: ...ston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] places [[artillery]] overlooking the city.
32: ...Minister, [[Robin Cook]], resigns over government plans for [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war with Iraq]].
39: ...[1804]] - [[Jim Bridger]], American trapper and explorer (d. [[1881]])
49: *[[1894]] - [[Paul Green]], novelist, playwright (d. [[1981]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]])
537: *[[Simon P. Norton]] - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...inventing the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
4: ... to [[Teleology|ends]]—divine or natural—in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insi...
14: ...eling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering var...
18: ...ege of La Rochelle]] by Cardinal [[Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu|Richelieu]] in [[1627]]....
20: ... the [[Catholic Church]], and Descartes abandoned plans to publish ''[[The World (Descartes)|Treatise ...
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