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- List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...sted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]])...
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
22: *[[Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni]] (Uzbekistan, [[973]] - [[1048]])
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[19...
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
20: *[[Robert Grant Aitken|Robert Aitken]], ([[United States|USA]], [[1864]] &nda...
37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] – [[1992]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...t in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
11: *[[John Abercrombie]], (1780-1844)
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Tennis (24557 bytes)
1: ... use a stringed [[racquet]] to strike a hollow rubber [[Tennis ball|ball]] covered in felt over a net ...
20: ... how healthy the grass is and how recently it has been mowed. Of the major [[Grand Slam]] tournaments,...
26: ... players, is the ''receiver''. Service alternates between the two halves of the court.
28: ...ay stand anywhere on his side of the net, usually behind the diagonally opposite service box. When th...
32: ... the player or team hitting the ball exactly once before it has bounced twice or hit any fixtures. It ... - Troy (22846 bytes)
1: ...ene of the [[Trojan War]], part of which is described in [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'', an epic poem in [[...
5: ...ity of Celeia (now [[Celje]] in [[Slovenia]]) has been referred to by some writers as ''Troia secunda'...
7: ...lier ''Wilion'' with a [[digamma]]) is thought to be the Greek rendition of that name.
10: The story of the Trojans first began in myth and legend. According to [[Greek mytho...
12: ...e of [[Sicily]]. The Maxyans are a west Libyan tribe who said that they are descended from the men of ... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
2: ... Sea|Aegean]]. It was formerly called "Mycenaean" because its existence was first brought to popular n...
6: ...as never been in doubt, since its remains came to be studied seriously.
7: ...but with more remains uncovered this was shown to be untrue. The Aegean civilization developed three d...
21: ... the chambers are grouped around a central court, being linked one with the other in a labyrinthine co...
23: Second, the main chamber is of what is known as the [[megaron]] type, i.e... - Vice President of the United States (33884 bytes)
5: ...idential line of succession]], the Vice President becomes the new [[President of the United States|Pre...
9: ...f the Vice President and his family has been [[Number One Observatory Circle]], on the grounds of the ...
14: ...s the President; that is, the Vice President must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, at l...
16: ...epresentatives and other government officers, has been used since 1884:
18: ...st all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I t... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...ana Trench]]—lies some 10,911 m (35,797 ft) below sea level.
5: ...ains about 25,000 islands (more than the total number in the rest of the world's oceans combined), the...
7: ...lie many seas, the largest of which are the [[Celebes Sea]], [[Coral Sea]], [[East China Sea]], [[Sea ...
18: ...vely small land area drains into the Pacific, and because of the ocean's immense size, most sediments ...
26: ... of the temperate latitudes salinity is also low, because little evaporation of seawater takes place i... - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
5: | date1=[[September 14]], [[1901]]
9: | date of birth=[[October 27]], [[1858]]
18: '''Theodore Roosevelt''' ([[October 27]], [[1858]]–[[January 6]], [[1919]]) wa...
25: ...artha Bulloch was a homemaker and former Southern belle who was raised in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georg...
27: ... [[common cold|colds]], and other ailments. It is believed he attended [[Friends Seminary]], a private... - Thomas A. Hendricks (3507 bytes)
2: ...dricks''' ([[September 7]], [[1819]]–[[November 25]], [[1885]]) was a [[United States House of R...
4: ... state House of Representatives in [[1848]], a member of the state constitutional convention, and elec...
6: ...d Governor of Indiana in [[1872]], serving from [[1873]] until [[1877]].
8: ...ill Cemetery. With his death, the Vice Presidency became vacant until the election of [[Levi Morton]] ...
11: ...[Conrad Baker]]|after=[[James D. Williams]]|years=1873-1877}} - Giant Squids (7570 bytes)
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24: ...e in [[Glover's Harbour, Newfoundland]] on [[November 2]], [[1878]].
27: ...never been seen alive, post-larval juveniles have been discovered in surface waters off [[New Zealand]...
29: ...ached to the base of each of its eight arms could be a vital clue in the solution of this enigma. - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
1: ...e of the United States. The items enumerated here begin with the establishment of the states in 1776, ...
4: ... items are the U.S. wars most often considered to be ''major conflicts'' by historians and the general...
12: **[[Bear Flag Revolt]] (1846)
21: *[[Boxer Rebellion]] (1900)
28: **[[Polar Bear Expedition]] ([[Russian Civil War]]) (1918&ndas... - Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (9097 bytes)
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10: ...idae'''}}<br/>{{Taxobox authority | author = [[Gilbert Thomas Burnett|Burnett]] | date = 1829}}
17: ...thority | author = [[Richard Owen|Owen]] | date = 1873}}
20: ...sage, treating fences as a minor inconvenience to be gone through or under. Wombats are [[herbivore]]s... - History of chemistry (8174 bytes)
2: ...tinction of [[chemistry]] from [[alchemy]] by [[Robert Boyle]] in his work ''The Skeptical Chymist'' (...
8: ...[1828]]. Never before had an organic [[compound]] been synthesized from inorganic material. This opene...
12: ...Boltzmann]] made great advances in explaining the behavior of [[gas]]es, this dispute was not finally ...
14: ... a branch of [[physics]], but was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in chemistry, not physics, for his work.
20: ... decades, the list of known chemical elements had been [[Timeline of chemical element discovery|steadi... - Racquets (sport) (3401 bytes)
5: ...rve after winning a rally. Matches are typically best of 5 games.
7: ...t spare racquets, shirts, and shoes in the gutter below the telltale on the front wall.
13: ...t artificial [[nuclear chain reaction]] on [[December 2]], [[1942]].
15: ...rts, and Canada one, in private clubs. There may be unused courts elsewhere in the former [[British E...
19: ...alifications, he plays the reigning champion in a best of 12 games format (6 games on each side of the... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
5: ...ew lands to the west (which seemed at the time to be [[East Asia]]), the whispers of glory and wealth ...
7: ...ricas|native villages]] for their captured chiefs became de Soto's hallmark during the [[History of Pa...
9: ...e [[Pacific Ocean]] (he called it the "South Sea" below Panama), and [[Ferdinand Magellan]], who first...
12: ...is first base of [[Tumbes (city)|Tumbez]] shortly before Pizarro departed for the interior of Peru, br...
14: ...lpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy. - September 23 (7397 bytes)
1: September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in [[leap...
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8: ...] - [[Siege of Vienna]] begins as [[Suleiman II]] begins his attack on the city.
11: ...by [[United States|America]]n soldiers exposing [[Benedict Arnold]]'s treason
27: *[[1981]] - [[Jack Henry Abbott]], best-selling author, is arrested for murder - Vincent van Gogh (11980 bytes)
2: ...during a period of only ten years before he succumbed to [[mental illness]] (possibly [[bipolar disord...
4: ... (philosophy)|abstraction]] was enormous, and can be seen in many other aspects of [[20th century|20th...
9: ...e drawn to it later in his life. His sister described him as serious and introspective.
11: ...ght into the life of the painter, and show him to be a talented writer with a keen mind. Theo would su...
13: ..., Goupil dismissed him for lack of motivation. He became a teaching assistant in [[Ramsgate]] in [[Ken... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
16: ... ([[Zero-ists]]' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide).
17: ... [[Commonwealth of Australia]]. [[Edmund Barton]] becomes first [[Prime Minister]].
18: * [[January 1]] - [[Nigeria]] becomes a [[United Kingdom|British]] protectorate
20: ...gusher, [[oil]] discovered at [[Spindletop]] in [[Beaumont, Texas]]
21: ...nited Kingdom | Prince George]], [[Duke of York]] becomes [[Duke of Cornwall]] and [[Duke of Rothesay ... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
33: ...:neva_spit.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[Neva]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
42: ...trative center of the [[Leningrad Oblast]] (while being a separate region) and the [[Northwestern Fede...
52: ...assicism]], was the first Russian patrimony inscribed in the [[UNESCO]] list of [[world heritage sites...
56: St. Petersburg has been known as the city of [[palace]]s. One of the ea...
58: ...so called the Fountain House), and the Beloselsky-Belozersky palace (1846–1848) on the Nevsky Pr...
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