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- Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...ember 13]], [[1592]]) was an influential [[France|French]] [[Renaissance]] writer, generally consider...
6: ...Bordeaux]]. His mother, Antoniette de Lopez, came from a Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised...
8: ...g at the Bordeaux Parlement, he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de...
16: ...ce, respected both by the Catholic [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and the Protestant [[Henry o...
18: ...one]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, par... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
1: {{History of France }}
3: ..., Restored|restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France]].
5: ...ugh rarely these days) referred to as the [[Great French War]].
8: [[Image:Napoleon1.jpg|left|frame|Portrait of [[Napoléon Bonaparte]]]]
11: ... as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]]. - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...rk for the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution]]s, the Latin American independenc...
14: ...ne. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ...d by the ideas of [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]...
18: ...ies. If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw th...
20: ...figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]] with the axiomatic approach of Desca... - Mellotron (7426 bytes)
6: ...ilt and sold by California-based Harry Chamberlin from [[1948]] through the 1970s.
8: ...g" his idea, and that one of his own people (Bill Fransen) was the reason for this. He eventually foun...
14: ...were a [[roadie]]'s nightmare -- heavy, bulky and fragile. The tape banks were also notoriously prone ...
22: ...rough their prime, including solo work by [[Edgar Froese]].
26: ...ch time a note is played it is slightly different from the previous time it was played (a bit like a r... - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
1: The term '''philosophy''' derives from a combination of the [[Greek language|Greek]] w...
5: ...is tradition distinct and distinct field of study from Western philosophy. This article will discusse...
15: ...t to be beautiful? How do beautiful things differ from the everyday? What is [[Art]]?
19: [[Image:laozi3.jpg|frame|right|[[Lao Zi]] ]]
25: The word "philosophy" is derived from the ancient Greek (''Φιλο&#... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
5: ...at only got them more burnt, so they were scarred from the fire for the rest of their life.
11: ...erformed at [[Versailles]], before [[Louis XVI of France]], to gain his permission for a trial human f...
15: On [[November 21]], [[1783]], the first free flight by humans was made by [[Pilâtre de Rozi...
16: (A flight by Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781 with his "ornithopter", a...
22: ...ary 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. Balloons using heated air rather than lighte... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...non-state actors. Piracy should be distinguished from [[privateer]]ing, which was a legitimate form o...
12: ...1.8-2]) says this happened earlier, on his return from Nicomedes's court. Velleius Paterculus (''Roman...
20: ...'', and given the responsibility of eliminating [[Frankish]] and [[Saxons|Saxon]] pirates who had been...
27: ...se in 844. Vikings even attacked coasts of North Africa and Italy. They also plundered all the coasts ...
29: ... of the [[Balearic Islands]] in the 10th century. From 824 to 961 [[Arab]] pirates in [[Crete]] raided... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
9: *[[1638]] - [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious diss...
10: ...Act 1765|Stamp Act]], the first direct tax levied from [[England]] on the American colonies.
12: ... first governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be removed from office by [[impeachment]].
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a bill le...
17: ...] - [[World War II]]: [[Germany]] takes [[Memel]] from [[Lithuania]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
7: ...to the [[empire]] of the Mexicas as distinguished from the Mexicas alone. This article deals with the ...
9: ...e of the Mexicas, Azteca means "someone who comes from [[Aztlán]]", a place commonly believed to be l...
13: ...ating the moment when '''Aztecs''' found the omen from the god [[Huitzilopochtli]] signaling the locat...
14: ...h century, as a way to distance "modern" Mexicans from pre-conquest Mexicans. This usage has been the...
19: ...s derived from ''mexictli'', "navel of the moon", from Nahuatl ''metztli'' (moon) and ''xictli'' (nave... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...sense given in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (from the [[Latin]] ''littera'' meaning "an individua...
11: ...ime, or science fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature".
13: Frequently, the texts that make up literature crosse...
15: ... nature of [[romance (genre)|romance]] flourished from the [[Middle ages]] onwards, whereas the [[Age ...
23: ...meria|Sumerian]] ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' (dated from around [[4th millennium BC|3000 B.C.]]), parts ... - Bayeux Tapestry (13194 bytes)
2: ... is, a weaving), but is [[embroidery]], and dates from [[1077]]. It is currently to be found in a spe...
5: ... mythological figures, lions, dragons, and scenes from fables, and is 77 yards (roughly 70 meters) lon...
7: ... their wagons. As such, the tapestry was removed from the cathedral and used to cover an ammunition w...
9: ...Matilda of Flanders]], and her ladies. Indeed, in France it is occasionally known as "La Tapisserie de...
11: ...ere fired, etc. The main artist must have been a Frenchman, and a veteran at that. He probably had f... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...th America and then he would have to head back to France to regain funding. This article covers his tr...
7: ... the [[St. Lawrence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his ...
9: ...ries, Champlain joined another expedition to New France in the spring of [[1604]] led by [[Pierre Dug...
19: ...he men headed back, leaving Champlain with only 2 Frenchmen and 60 natives.
21: ...ois turned and fled. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred y... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
33: ...band]], [[bebop]], [[hard bop]], [[cool jazz]], [[free jazz]], [[jazz fusion]] and [[smooth jazz]].
37: ...h degree of technical skill and musical knowledge from the performers.
39: ...rm today is a widely varied one, using influences from all of the past styles, although the root of mo...
45: ... the early 1960s rhythm 'n' blues took influences from [[gospel music|gospel]] and [[rock and roll]] a...
49: ...[1950s]]. Its earliest form, rock and roll, arose from multiple genres in the late [[1940s]], most imp... - George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
25: ...00. He played baseball and rugby union during his freshman and senior years. He received a Bachelor of...
27: After graduating from Yale, Bush enlisted in the Texas [[Air National...
32: ...duty from 1972 to 1973, and that he was suspended from flying after he failed to take a required physi...
38: ...In taped recordings of a conversation with an old friend, author Doug Wead, Bush said: “I wouldn...
45: ...ver funds from his education trust fund and money from other investors. The [[1979 energy crisis]] hur... - Lepospondyli (3903 bytes)
10: {{Taxobox_authority | author = [[Karl Alfred von Zittel|Zittel]] | date = [[1888]]}}
25: ...istics of the vertebra, or whether they descended from a single [[common ancestor]].
29: Apart from the Nectridea, Lepospondyls are limited in dist...
34: ...8), ''Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution'', WH Freeman & Co. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calenda...
4: ..., [[July 14]], [[1789]], an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the ...
6: ...urope embraced enlightenment ideals, but with the French revolution, they were on the side of the coun...
8: ...became a major power worldwide with the defeat of France in the Americas in the 1760s and the conquest...
21: ...]]-[[1715]]: [[Camisard|Camisard Rebellion]] in [[France]].
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