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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
46: ...ngeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...n Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
58: *[[John Adams (Pitcairn)|Adams, John]], Patriarch Of Pitcairn
65: ...el Adams|Adams, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
67: ...1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
3: [[Image:ac.cleopatra.jpg|thumb|Cleopatra]]
4: ...eopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ...ers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
9: ... Since the Ptolomaic throne was transmited in [[matrilinear]] fashion, the Kings had to marry their si...
10: [[Image:The-cleopatra2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ... as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland would co-op...
15: ...ulthood. Anne suffered from an eye infection; for treatment, she was sent to [[France]]. She lived wit...
17: ...ccessor, suggested to Princess Anne that he would try to make her his heir if she converted to Catholi...
22: ..., the Marlboroughs' home. Princess Anne was then stripped of her guard of honour, and the guards at th...
24: ...s government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from maki... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
36: *[[Tracey Ullman|Ullman, Tracey]] (born 1959), British-born comedian
38: ...lmann|Ullmann, Liv]], (born 1938), Swedish-born actress
43: *[[Ulrich of Strassburg]], scholastic philosopher
51: *[[John Underhill|Underhill, John]], (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America
58: ...on|Union, Gabrielle]] (born 1973) United States actress - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...1665 he gained appointment as Professor of [[Geometry]] at [[Gresham College]].
8: ...ke displays a man's head that some have argued portrays Hooke. Both these claims remain in dispute, ho...
14: ...r outstripped the capabilities of any previous instruments.
16: ...'s other significant achievements include the construction of the first [[Gregorian telescope|Gregoria...
20: ...mutual dislike for each other. They fell out in [[1672]] when Hooke criticized Newton's presentation sho... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[astronomer]], [[philosopher]], and [[alchemist]] who w...
4: ...lity]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour]]s observed when [[white]] [[...
21: ...b|left|Engraving after [[Enoch Seeman]]'s 1726 portrait of Newton]]
23: ...rantham Grammar School]]. In [[1661]] he joined [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where his uncle Willia...
25: ...ry was invented by him in his later life, to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
1: ...mb|A 19th century illustration of the Salem Witch Trials]]
17: *[[1612]]-[[Tobacco]] cultivation introduced to [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] by [[J...
28: *[[1630]]-[[Winthrop Fleet]] travels to [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]
45: *[[1655]]-English take control of [[New Sweden]]
55: *[[1672]]-[[Blue Laws]] enacted in Connecticut - John Locke (14749 bytes)
2: [[Image:Locke-John-portrait-photo-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Im...
3: ...George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
8: ... of Shaftesbury]], who had come to Oxford seeking treatment for a liver infection. Cooper was impresse...
12: ...he advice of several physicians and was likely instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to undergo an op...
16: ...e fled to the [[Netherlands]] in [[1683]], under strong suspicion of involvement in the [[Rye House Pl... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...e|circular]], with an [[eccentricity (orbit)|eccentricity]] of less than 1%.
7: ...n with [[sexually transmitted disease]]s. Some astronomers use ''[[Cytherean]]'', which comes from [[...
14: ...e circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat.
16: ...ntity of CO<sub>2</sub> in the atmosphere is what traps the heat by the greenhouse mechanism.
18: ...curing any surface details from the [[Optical spectrum|human eye]]. The temperature at the tops of the... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...ckman when the Spanish settlements at Vildemos, [[Trujillo]] and [[Granada, Nicaragua | Granada]] were...
6: ... shields]] in taking the third, most difficult fortress. The governor of Panama, astonished at this da...
8: ...vacuating the place, and finally by an ingenious stratagem faking a landward attack on the fort, which...
10: ...r in Jamaica, to levy war on the Spaniards and destroy their ships and stores, the booty gained in the...
12: ...Morgan was arrested and conducted to England in [[1672]]. His fortunes turned again, and in [[1674]] Mor... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ... a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
12: ...ave followed his own curriculum; he was "little attracted by the scholastic learning". He did not comp...
14: ...s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English language|Eng...
20: ... with Man. Finally he considered, in his crowning treatise, how Men were moved to enter into society, ...
22: ...nts of Law''. This means his initial political doctrine was not shaped by the [[English Civil War]]. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}...
191: *[[Bhartrhari]], (5th century){{fn|R}} - History of psychology (8127 bytes)
5: ...nd other superstition, it also evidences ''a long tradition of empirical practice and observation.''
11: ...of brain function, as part of his 1672 anatomical treatise "De Anima Brutorum" ("Two Discourses on the...
20: ...y]]. While Freud's work remains scientifically controversial - with many modern-day psychologists and ...
22: ...ctive experimental branch of natural science", "introspection forms no essential part of its methods.....
26: ...ing, as people could produce sentences unique in structure and meaning that couldn't possibly be gener... - Opera (25153 bytes)
5: ...instrumental ensemble to a full symphonic [[orchestra]].
9: ...ertenor]]. Female singers are classified, as [[contralto]], [[mezzo-soprano]] and [[soprano]]. Each o...
11: ...mpanied recitative was called "accompagnato" or "stromentato."
13: ...ion in 19th century melodrama survives in today's tradition of [[film scores]], and spectacular films ...
20: ...'' was an attempt to revive the classical [[Greek tragedy|Greek drama]], part of the wider revival of ...
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