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- Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...hancellor of Germany|chancellor]]) of [[Germany]] from [[1933]] to his death. He was leader of the [[N...
15: He led Germany from the depths of post-[[World War I]] defeat to be...
20: ...z]] in the province of [[Upper Austria]], not far from the [[German Empire|German]] border in what was...
24: ...s was impossible since the Jews had been expelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allow...
25: ... Hitler's profession his family moved frequently, from [[Braunau]] to [[Passau]], [[Lambach]], [[Leond... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
24: ...lty, docked his pay for the voyage, and dismissed from the [[Royal Navy]].
44: * His reports on [[breadfruit]] led to [[William Bligh]]'s ill-fated voyage ...
45: * He is cited over a thousand times in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]].
61: ...675 A Voyage to New Holland], by William Dampier, from [[Project Gutenberg]].
63: ...w.nndb.com/people/943/000096655/ William Dampier] from the [http://www.nndb.com/ Notable Names Databas... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ...t a time, were generally reluctant to go very far from home, and would often come and go as they saw f...
15: ...f these ever set foot in America. The war was far from Britain's greatest concern at the time. [[Loyal...
19: ...cisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing army at the time is estimated to h...
23: ...lack slaves used the war as a chance to escape to freedom.
31: ...regiment]]s of British regulars (about 4,000 men) from his headquarters in Boston, but the countryside... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: [[Image:B franklin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
2: ...d a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster...
4: Franklin's [[invention]]s include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[li...
9: ...]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]] the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and farmer, and Jane White. H...
11: ...dren, all of whom being half-siblings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[16... - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
2: ...e [[London Science Museum]]. In [[1991]], working from Babbage's original plans, a [[Difference Engine...
8: ... might have done." The second was an Oxford tutor from whom Charles learned enough of the Classics to ...
10: ...Herschel]], [[George Peacock]], and several other friends formed the [[Analytical Society]].
23: *Francis Moore Babbage (born [[1 June]] [[1821]])
29: ...Wilhelm Schickard]], [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]]. He first discussed the principles o... - Battle of the Wilderness (11082 bytes)
1: ...lderness in the [[American Civil War]]. For the [[French and Indian War]] battle, see [[Battle of the ...
26: ... Maj. Gen. [[George G. Meade]], but taking orders from Grant, crossed the [[Rapidan River]] at three s...
34: ...j. Gen. [[Winfield Scott Hancock]] and a division from the [[VI Corps (ACW)|VI Corps]]. He held his gr...
36: ...ion reinforcements on Ewell's front prevented Lee from sending Second Corps men to aid Hill. By late m...
38: ...nths. (Ironically, Longstreet was the victim of [[friendly fire]], just as fellow general [[Stonewall ... - Information (13474 bytes)
6: ...formation to animals. The colored light reflected from a flower is too weak to do much photosynthetic ...
12: ...at information is something that can be extracted from an environment, e.g., through observation or me...
16: ...e information produced when one message is chosen from the set" is the base two [[logarithm]] of <math...
30: ...representation, one can predict a broader pattern from a limited number of observations (inference) or...
32: ...re, a quantity of information is totally distinct from its medium. - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ...ern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to conquer the ...
12: ...o Hernández de Córdoba (discoverer of Yucatán)|Francisco Hernández de Córdoba]] in [[1517]] and [...
15: ...georgiasouthern.edu/international/pages/SECOLAS/CAFryer.htm]
18: ...), and a dialect of Nahautl spoken only to and in front of the Mexica/Aztec emperor.
20: ...ty magistrates he had appointed, all conveniently friends of his. - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
3: ... a name for non-Germanic peoples, ''*[[walha]]'', from which the local names [[Wales|Welsh]], [[Valais...
5: ...peoples of [[Italy]], the various tribes remained free, led by their own hereditary or chosen leaders.
10: ...s called the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] and had spread from southern Scandinavia into northern Germany. The...
12: Linguists, working backwards from historically-known [[Germanic languages]], sugg...
16: ...bogs]]. Their technology for gaining [[iron ore]] from local sources may have helped them expand into ... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
5: *[[1556]] - In [[Oxford]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] [[Thomas Cranmer]...
8: ...t between [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[France|French]] forces near the ruins of [[Nicopolis]] in [...
9: ...onic code|Code Napol鯮]] was adopted as [[France|French]] [[civil law]].
16: ... [[Prime Minister of France|Prime Minister]] of [[France]]
18: *[[1952]] - [[Alan Freed]] presents the [[Moondog Coronation Ball]], th... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...s was a good pupil and around 1603 he was sent to Oxford and entered at Magdalen Hall (see [[Hertford Coll...
14: ...[[scholastic philosophy]] which he had learned in Oxford. His scholarly efforts at the time were aimed at ...
16: ...ps in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...tion was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in another treatise,... - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
1: ... [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]], and by the [[French Revolution]]. Many consider Hegel's thought ...
5: ...lling]]. The three watched the unfolding of the [[French Revolution]] and collaborated in a [[critique...
7: ...tics, and the history of philosophy were compiled from the lecture notes of his students and published...
9: ...al [[government]] and the revolutionary ideals of freedom and equality.
11: ...is formal existence-for-self, personality, formal freedom, such as belongs to Spirit only."'' - 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... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ...in the [[first century]] AD. Christianity brought from Judaism its [[scriptures]] (the [[Old Testament...
10: ... on different interpretations of various passages from the Old Testament (or [[Tanakh]]).
26: ...hurch]] is said to extend in an unbroken timeline from this period. This section will examine those f...
45: *[[Justin Martyr]], convert from Greek philosophy
67: ...hurch and Roman Emperor Constantine, we can infer from [[Athanasius]]' arguments against Arius some id... - Islam (36809 bytes)
6: ...ion." [[Etymology|Etymologically]], it is derived from the same root as, for example, ''Salām'' m...
26: ...to act or live a certain life. God has given the free will to do and make decisions.)
29: ...he Final Day; and in Fate, that Good and Evil are from God, and Resurrection after death be Truth.
38: ...or you! Allah is only One God . Far is it removed from His transcendent majesty that he should have a ...
40: ...ibutes in the sense that Muslims repeat them most frequently during their ritual prayers (called [[sal... - Quran (41479 bytes)
6: ...umbers, but by an Arabic name derived in some way from the sura. (See [[sura|List of sura names]].) Th...
14: ...1; Arabic. There are few other examples of Arabic from that time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspen...
24: ...e, exhortation, and legal prescription. The suras frequently combine all these modes, not always in wa...
46: ...-final consonants. Some suras also include a [[refrain]] repeated every few verses, for instance [[ar...
52: ...ndness. And it is not lawful for you that ye take from women aught of that which ye have given them; e... - Egyptian mythology (14567 bytes)
21: ...thought to be pets of Egyptian families, but more frequently or more likely they were the representati...
30: ...s. In fact, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun's removals from the Wall of Kings are likely related to the rad...
32: ...istic. A recent alternative explanation resulting from interpreting particular items of knowledge conc...
38: ...les are still standing today. Others are in ruins from wear and tear, while others have been lost enti...
48: ...of Kom Ombo]] – Controlled the trade routes from Nubia to the Nile Valley. - Egyptian soul (5527 bytes)
23: ...s then a part of the Akh-Akh, the panoply of Akhs from other people, gods and [[animal]]s. In this sys...
33: ...d. Vol. 1 of 3 vols. Oxford, New York, and Cairo: Oxford University Press and The American University in C...
34: ... and Its Manifestation ''(b3w)''". In ''Gleanings from Deir el-Medîna'', edited by Robert Johann...
35: *Friedman, Florence Margaret Dunn. 1981. ''On the Mea...
36: ...d. Vol. 1 of 3 vols. Oxford, New York, and Cairo: Oxford University Press and The American University in C... - Tiger (11674 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:LA1_082A.jpg|noframe|250px|Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)...
15: ...eir [[penis]]es, believed to be [[aphrodisiac]]s. From the destruction of its habitat, to the poaching...
23: The ground of the coat may be any color from yellow to orange-red, with white areas on the c...
25: ... is [[camouflage]], serving to hide these animals from their prey (few large animals have color vision...
29: ...gers overpower their prey from any angle, usually from ambush, and bite the neck, often breaking the p... - Sliding puzzle (2847 bytes)
3: ...he board. This property separates sliding puzzles from [[rearrangement puzzle]]s. Hence finding moves,...
8: ...erized, and is available to play for free on-line from many web pages. It is a descendant of the [[jig...
15: ...ece Puzzles'' (by [[Edward Hordern]], [[1986]], [[Oxford University Press]], ISBN 0-19-853204-0)) is said ...
30: ...34 Hardest possible simple sliding block puzzle?] from ''[[The Economist]]''
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