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  1. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
    22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
    73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
  2. Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
    17: WaterArea = 1,296 |
    18: PCWater = 32.4 |
    37: ...ry point in the state is within 30 miles of [[sea water]].
    42: ...lers. Historically, the land is unique because it was purchased twice, once from the [[British Monarch...
    44: In 1637 [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from [[Massachusetts]] for expressing h...
  3. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    2: ...ruction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
    7: ...ca of Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernini.]]
    10: ...sellino]] to start adding to the old church. This was abandoned after a short while. In the late [[15t...
    12: ...d the dome. After the death of Julius II building was halted until [[Pope Paul III]] asked Michelangel...
    17: ...rthern one by [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini|Bernini]] ([[1675]]).
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
    48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
    90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
    147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]])
    471: *[[John William Godward]] ([[1861]]-[[1922]])
  5. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    14: *[[Edward Asselbergs]],(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada...
    36: ...1-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
    37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-invento...
    48: *[[Wallace Carothers]], (1896-1937) — [[Nylon]]
    49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scientist
  6. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    2: ...red calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
    4: ...d when [[white]] [[light]] passed through a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the...
    14: ...d three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was two years of age, his mother went to live with h...
    19: ...Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love, but Newton had no other re...
    23: Newton was educated at [[Grantham Grammar School]]. In [[16...
  7. John Locke (14749 bytes)
    3: ...gust 29]] [[1632]]–[[October 28]] [[1704]]) was a [[17th century|17th-century]] [[philosopher]] ...
    6: ...e university and also a [[Puritan]]. Although he was a capable student, Locke chafed under the underg...
    8: ...d seeking treatment for a liver infection. Cooper was impressed with Locke and pressed him to become p...
    12: ... coordinated the advice of several physicians and was likely instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to...
    14: ... in the Epistle to the reader of the Essay, which was the genesis of what would later become Essay. Tw...
  8. Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
    71: | 0.6873 g/cm<sup>3</sup><br/> (less than [[water]])
    125: | [[Water]] vapor
    137: ...ings made mainly out of ice and space debris. It was named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[...
    140: ...ense and its core is considerably more dense than water.
    144: ...[[infrared]] imaging have shown that Saturn has a warm polar [[vortex]], and is the only planet in the...
  9. Electricity (13894 bytes)
    6: ...ting ''circa'' [[600 BCE]], a form of electricity was known to the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greeks]], ...
    8: ... electrical devices on [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] walls, such as the [[Dendera light]]. Other devices ...
    10: ...n [[1747]] that a discharge of static electricity was equivalent to an [[electric current]].
    12: ...ed (as it would have been dramatic but fatal). It was either Franklin (more frequently) or [[Ebenezer ...
    18: ...negatively charged [[cathode]]s. When a conductor was attached between these, the [[voltage|difference...
  10. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
    9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
    27: *[[Al-Khwarizmi|Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi]] (Persia, [[780]] - [[850]])
    113: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]] (English, c. [[1290]] - [[1349]])
    120: *[[Viggo Brun]] (Norway, [[1885]] - [[1978]])
  11. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876...
    17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] &ndash; [[1989]...
    51: *[[Walter Baade]] ([[Germany]], [[1893]] &ndash; [[1960...
    65: *[[Edward Emerson Barnard]] ([[United States|USA]], [[185...
    88: *[[Edward L. G. Bowell|Edward (Ted) L. G. Bowell]] ([[United States|USA]])
  12. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    4: ...l 5]], [[1588]] &ndash; [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political...
    6: ...f human nature as self-interested cooperation. He was a contemporary of [[René „escartes|Descartes]] a...
    10: ... [[Hertford College]]). The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinson (sch...
    12: ...did not complete his degree until [[1608]] but he was recommended by Wilkinson as tutor to William, th...
    14: ...nt could not survive war or provide stability and was thus undesirable.
  13. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    175: *[[Walter Benjamin]], (1892-1940){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    195: *[[Harry Binswanger]], (born 1944)
    238: *[[Thomas Bradwardine]], (c. 1290-1349){{fn|R}}
    239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}}
    276: *[[Walter Burley]], (c. 1275-c. 1345){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
  14. Sikhism (31029 bytes)
    2: ...e system]] and [[purdah]], respectively). Sikhism was influenced by reform movements in [[Hinduism]] (...
    4: ... focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyond what was being practised by either religion and hence a w...
    6: ...or and to lead the Sikh community. This procedure was continued, and the tenth and last Guru, Guru Gob...
    8: ...; The Sikh Nation. The first Sikh Holy Scripture was compiled and edited by the Fifth Guru, [[Guru Ar...
    10: ...ght that the True Name, although manifest in many ways, many places and known by many names, is eterna...
  15. Timpani (31735 bytes)
    14: [[Image:Timpani setup.jpg|thumb|center|500px|[[Walter Light]] [[Timpani#Pedal timpani|pedal]] and [...
    59: ...heads because they feel that skin heads produce a warmer, better quality [[timbre]].
    75: ... regularly only have a set of three timpani. This was the standard set until the second half of the [[...
    77: ...and [[Austria]]n players set them up the opposite way. Over time, that distinction has blurred: German...
    119: ...e first composers to call for a timpani glissando was [[Carl Nielsen]], who used two sets of timpani, ...
  16. Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
    17: WaterArea = 7,043 |
    18: PCWater = 25.7 |
    44: The [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] was named after the indigenous population, the [[Mas...
    47: ...[New England]] to recover from the effects of the war.
    52: ...hen sent back to [[England]] as prisoners. Andros was exonerated and went on to become Governor of [[V...
  17. Fin Whales (8533 bytes)
    17: ...dily seen in the [[Bay of Biscay]]. The Fin Whale was hunted more than any other whale during the twen...
    20: ...s. It was first described by Frederick Martens in 1675 and then again by Paul Dudley in 1725. These desc...
    29: ... [[Blue Whale]], the [[Sei Whale]], or, in warmer waters, [[Bryde's Whale]]. The Fin Whale has a large...
    31: ...s [[baleen]] to strain [[plankton]] out of the seawater. An adult has between 260 and 480 baleen plate...
    33: ... prominent dorsal fin about three-quarters of the way along the back. The fin is visible soon after th...
  18. Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
    3: The comedy of manners was preceded by the [[new comedy]] of the [[Ancient ...
    5: ...Congreve (playwright)|William Congreve]] (''[[The Way of the World]]'', [[1700]]). In the late [[18th ...
    7: ...d in the plays of the British dramatists [[Noel Coward]] (''[[Hay Fever]]'', [[1925]]) and [[Somerset ...

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