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  1. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
    6: *[[Bernard Accama|Accama, Bernard]] (1697-1756), Dutch painter
    9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
    24: *[[Wolfert Acker|Acker, Wolfert]] (1667-1753)
    33: ...ian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833)
  2. Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
    2: ...]? sometime between [[1615]] and [[1623]] - [[October 17]], [[1705]]) was a French [[author]], and pat...
    8: ...igure in the [[salon]]s, and her own drawing room became a centre for the discussion and consumption o...
    10: ...hristina wrote to [[Cardinal Mazarin]] on Ninon's behalf and arranged for her release.
    12: ...of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."
    14: ... Maintenon]], the lady-in-waiting who would later become the second wife of Louis XIV. Ninon eventuall...
  3. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    2: ...ied there, too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
    4: ... it is not a cathedral at all). That distinction belongs to the [[Basilica di San Giovanni in Lateran...
    7: ...r. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernini.]]
    8: ...basilica in this exact spot, which had previously been a cemetery for pagans as well as Christians.
    10: ...be rebuilt. [[Pope Nicholas V]] asked architect [[Bernardo Rossellino]] to start adding to the old chu...
  4. Meteorology (19082 bytes)
    10: ...ron'' refers to things "high in the sky", that is between [[Earth]] and the realm of the stars, while ...
    12: ...[[wind speed]] was constructed in [[1667]] by [[Robert Hooke]], while [[Horace de Saussure]] completed...
    14: ...pressure]] which lead to [[thermodynamics]] and [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s kite experiments with [[lightn...
    18: ...se were solved when [[Luke Howard]] and [[Francis Beaufort]] introduced their systems for classifying ...
    20: ...gy)|front]]s, that is, sharply defined boundaries between air masses.
  5. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
    24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey]] ([[1852]]-[[1911]])
    26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
    34: *[[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]] ([[1667]]-[[1719]])
    37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
  6. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    2: ...id="fn_1_back">[[#fn_1|1]]</sup>), where he described [[law of universal gravitation|universal gravita...
    4: ...ere not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could also be [[hyperbola|hyperbolic]] and [[parabola|parabolic...
    14: ...ide a quart mug. His father had died three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was two years of ...
    17: According to [[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
    19: ...mbridge University]] at the age of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled ...
  7. John Locke (14749 bytes)
    3: ...is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
    8: ...ooper was impressed with Locke and pressed him to become part of his retinue.
    10: Locke had been looking for a career and in [[1667]] moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House i...
    12: ... to the test, since Shaftesbury's liver infection became life-threatening. Locke coordinated the advic...
    14: ... Essay, which was the genesis of what would later become Essay. Two extant Drafts still survive from t...
  8. Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
    3: ... used to describe tall buildings, but it tends to be applied specifically to residential buildings.
    11: ... skeletal frames. Special consideration must also be given for wind loads.
    19: ...sults in such rankings as the [[Petronas Towers]] being ranked higher than the [[Sears Tower]] despite...
    20: ...e towers of the [[World Trade Center]] would have been in the top ten if they were still standing.
    21: ...n is the highest architectural detail and may not be highest point on building.)
  9. History of California (38344 bytes)
    1: ... through 1900; for events in the 20th century and beyond, see [[History of California (20th century)]]...
    3: ...hat most of the known '''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
    13: ..., used for arrowheads, axe heads, and knives. Tribes in the [[Sierra Nevada (US)|Sierra Nevada]] foot...
    19: .... The Spaniards conjectured that these places may be one and the same.
    21: ...y that of [[La Paz, Baja California Sur|La Paz]], before experiencing difficulties and returning. Cort...
  10. List of popes (77758 bytes)
    4: ...pending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes|Stephen II]].
    6: The pope also bears the spiritual titles ''[[Bishop]] of [[Rome]],...
    7: Since [[1929]], the pope's temporal title has been [[Sovereign]] in the State of the [[Vatican Cit...
    23: ...#1503; &#1497;&#1493;&#1504;&#1492;'''<br>(Shimon ben Yona)<br>Shimon Kipha<br><small>'''&Sigma;&#921;...
    24: | rowspan="2" | <small>Betsaida, [[Galilee|Galilea]]</small>
  11. Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
    1: [[Image:B franklin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by [http://classroo...
    2: ...w of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]...
    9: ...antucket]], [[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, a...
    11: ...iblings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[1...
    15: ...[[1689]]. He then remarried, to Abiah, on [[November 25]] [[1689]] in the [[Old South Church]] of Bos...
  12. 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]])
  13. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] &ndash; [[19...
    10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] &ndash; [[1928]])
    11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] &ndash; [[1982]])
    20: *[[Robert Grant Aitken|Robert Aitken]], ([[United States|USA]], [[1864]] &nda...
    37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] &ndash; [[1992]])
  14. Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
    1: ...losophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the prese...
    4: ... topic "as if no one had written on these matters before". Nevertheless, many elements of his philosop...
    6: ...]]. Descartes's reflections on mind and mechanism began the strain of western thought that much later,...
    11: ...s 1 year old, his mother died of [[Tuberculosis|tuberculosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[So...
    14: ... to seek no knowledge other than that which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the ...
  15. Antigua and Barbuda (8199 bytes)
    24: ...]''' || [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]], <small>''Queen''<br>''represented by ''</...
    35: | From the [[UK]]<br>[[November 1]], [[1981]]
    38: | [[1 November]] <small>([[Independence Day]])
    42: | '''[[Currency]]''' || [[East Caribbean dollar]] (EC$) = 100 [[cents]]
    54: ...n [[island nation]] located in the eastern [[Caribbean Sea]] on the boundary with the [[Atlantic Ocean...

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