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- Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
50: ...he Germans. He made five unsuccessful escape attempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retali...
56: ...smissed de Gaulle's theories with the notable exception of [[Paul Reynaud]] who would later play a maj...
69: ...ons of Frenchmen were refugees on the road), excerpts of the speech appeared in French newspapers the ...
82: ...he President of the provisional government from September [[1944]] but resigned on [[January 20]], [[1...
87: ... active politics, though the RPF lingered until September [[1955]]. - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
13: ...her privileges; however, because noble titles exempted the holder from future taxes, the purchasers of...
15: ...ly indebted, so deeply as to be effectively bankrupt. Extravagant expenditures by [[Louis XIV]] on lux...
19: ...blic estate; and it can have no public estate except in what it derives from a just and proportioned i...
22: ... and unequal collection of many of France's consumption taxes. Further royal and [[seigneurial system|...
26: ...the clergy from having to pay taxes (with the exception of a modest [[quit rent]]). The tax burden was... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
25: ...s tactlessness), Brienne went on the attack, attempting to disband the parlements entirely and collect...
31: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[August 8]], [[1788]] &ndash...
33: ... of the opposition that the government would attempt to gerrymander an assembly to its liking. In ord...
35: ...nd that the Third Estate itself was the nation, kept these resentments alive.
40: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[June 17]], [[1789]] –... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
2: ...pporters and opponents of the revolution. It attempts to give identifying facts and ultimate fates. ''...
9: ...in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'etat|coup]]'' attempt
14: * [[Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte|Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte]] - General, later king of [...
70: *[[Jean-Baptiste Jourdan]] - French general, victor at [[Battl...
74: *[[Jean-Baptiste Kléber]] - Revolutionary general, assassinat... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
6: ... on belief and piety. Some of its proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence...
12: ...ers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think of them conjoined as one long period...
14: ... and [[René Descartes]], was based on extreme skepticism, and inquiry into the nature of "knowledge."...
16: ...tise On Wisdom ". . . identified the central concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its theoretical...
20: ...cts, such as Kepler's planetary motion, and the "opticks" which had explained lenses, and began to cre... - Oceanography (3841 bytes)
13: ... a major new research institution is the [[Southampton Oceanography Centre]]. - Formula One (29650 bytes)
22: ...e in [[1954]] through [[1957]], his streak interrupted by two-time champion [[Alberto Ascari]] of [[Sc...
45: ...pionships since [[1984]]; their streak was interrupted only by [[Michael Schumacher]]'s two titles wit...
51: ...ttp://www.formula1.com/ formula1.com]) in an attempt to give it a corporate identity. Ecclestone exper...
53: ... race (The US Grand Prix, which was ran under exceptional circumstances which lead to the withdrawal ...
59: ...e start of the race. Teams have to thus plan the optimum fuel load having both the qualifying and the ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist
209: *[[Ahmed H. Zewail]] (born 1946), [[Egyptian]], [[1999]] Nobel Prize Winner for his work on... - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
16: ...omewhere at the bottom of the [[Arctic Ocean]] (depth ~4 km) near the [[North_Pole#Geographic_North_Po... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
1: This is a partial list of [[sculptor (artist)|sculptor]]s.
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
55: *[[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]] (1827 - 1875)
116: *[[John Gibson (sculptor)|John Gibson]] (1790 - 1866)
121: *[[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]] (1938 - ) - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
5: ...bject matter (e.g. existentialism, pragmatism, skepticism, et al.). [[Eastern philosophy]] is traditi...
9: ...critical questions about the nature of these concepts--questions typically outside the scope of scienc...
14: ...s? Do some things exist independently of our perception? What is the nature of space and time? What is...
27: ...nfusing. Often these questions are about the assumptions behind a belief, or about methods by which pe...
53: ...s. The purpose is to lay bare any underlying conceptual confusion. This approach dominates Anglo-Ameri... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
11: The subsequent test on September 19 sent up the fourth living beings in a bas...
16: ... Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781 with his "ornithopter", a flapping device, probably preceded this eve... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
9: ... Josiah Franklin, was born at [[Ecton]], [[Northamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]...
17: ...7]]), Sarah ([[July 9]], [[1699]]), Ebenezer ([[September 20]], [[1701]]), Thomas ([[December 7]], [[1...
23: ...o to [[London]] where, finding Keith's promises empty, he again worked as a compositor in a printer's ...
27: ...and Franklin felt that this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenment]] partly contributed to the Americ...
44: ... storms travel'', eventually leading to the ''synoptic charts'' of ''dynamic meteorology'', replacing ... - Photography (18493 bytes)
7: ...ng, this produces an image whose contents are acceptably sharp, bright and composed to achieve the obj...
17: ... the lens will allow greater control over the [[depth of field]].
20: ...e interest of scientists and artists from its inception. Scientists have used its capacity to make acc...
36: ...tented this process, which greatly limited its adoption. He spent the rest of his life in lawsuits def...
61: ...e colored emulsions. Most modern color films, except Kodachrome, are based on technology developed for... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
18: *[[1921]] - The [[Second Republic of Poland]] adopts the [[March Constitution]]. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
16: ...ash; [[Aleister Crowley]] invokes [[Horus]] in Egypt and declares the start of the New Aeon known as t...
17: ... party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
29: ...rincess Royal|Princess Anne]] and her husband [[Captain Mark Phillips]] in [[The Mall (London)|The Mal...
39: ...ck Panther]] once known as [[H. Rap Brown]], is captured after a gun battle that leaves a [[Georgia (U... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
233: *[[Eratosthenes]] (Ptolemaic Egypt, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C.]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]]) - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
9: ...ulty, and for the breadth of the topics they attempt to cover. Hegel introduced a system for understan...
21: ...y. This view is in direct opposition to the conceptions of individual rights and [[existentialism]] w...
65: ...lar philosopher, and this ''Companion'' is no exception.)
68: *Michael Forster ''Hegel and Skepticism''. Harvard University Press, 1989. ISBN 067...
74: ... Hegalian philosopher. It debunks popular misconceptions about Hegel's thought.). - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}}
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