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  1. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    1: {{List of people A}}
    5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
    16: *[[George Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
    28: *[[Archbishop George Abbot|Abbot, Archbishop George]], (1562-1633), Archbishop of Canterbury
    30: *[[George Abbot|Abbot, George]], (1603-1648), English writer
  2. Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 13<sup>th</sup> |
    37: ...of Rhode Island leads some out-of-staters to erroneously believe that the entire state is an island, w...
    42: In [[1636]] [[Roger Williams (theologian)|Roger Williams]], after being banished fro...
    44: ...[Massachusetts]] for expressing her beliefs that people could talk to God by themselves, not necessari...
    52: ... Before the [[Industrial Revolution]], when most people were employed as farmers, this was considered ...
  3. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    2: ...23,000 m&sup2; and has a capacity of over 60,000 people. One of the holiest sites of [[Christendom]],...
    17: ...rthern one by [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini|Bernini]] ([[1675]]).
    22: ...ter (almost as large as the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]]), rising to 120 metres above the floor. In the...
    93: ... the entrance are the monuments to [[Pope Leo XI|Leo XI]] and [[Pope Innocent XI|Innocent XI]] followe...
    97: ...he bronze used to make it was taken from the Pantheon. Underneath the baldachin is the traditional tom...
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian pai...
    69: *[[George Ault]] ([[1891]]-[[1948]])
    76: *[[Constantine Andreou]] ([[1917]]-)
    83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
    95: *[[George Barker (painter)|George Barker]] ([[1882]]-[[1965]])
  5. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    3: ...f scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[inventor]].
    13: *[[William George Armstrong]] &mdash; [[hydraulic crane]], Armst...
    20: *[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863) - (1944), [[Belgian]]&ndash;Am...
    33: *[[Theobald Boehm]], ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), [[Germany]] &md...
    49: *[[George Washington Carver]], (1860-1943), plant scient...
  6. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    2: ...e they both discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
    6: ...studied the speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of [[star]]s.
    19: ...es, the romance cooled and Miss Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this ...
    23: ...l theorem]] and began to develop a mathematical theory that would later become [[calculus]]. Soon afte...
    29: Newton and [[Leibniz]] developed the theory of calculus independently and used different no...
  7. John Locke (14749 bytes)
    1: {{otherpeople|John Locke}}
    3: ...piricists]], which includes [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contra...
    16: ...2]]. Following Shaftesbury's fall from favor in [[1675]], Locke spent some time traveling in southern [[...
    24: ... of England]]. By adopting a [[latitudinarian]] theological stance, Locke believed, the national churc...
    31: ...]''. Book II of the ''Essay'' sets out Locke's theory of ideas, including his distinction between pas...
  8. Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
    55: ! align="left" | [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter
    157: ...3]] they reappeared again, further confusing Galileo.
    159: ...uch more powerful than the ones available to Galileo in his time.
    161: In [[1675]] [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] determined that S...
    165: ...ula]]r material that Saturn formed out of. This theory is not widely accepted today, since Saturn's ri...
  9. Electricity (13894 bytes)
    8: ...her devices discovered in Egyptian and other archaeological digs have been alleged to be [[battery (el...
    10: ...European pioneers were [[Robert Boyle]], who in [[1675]] stated that electric attraction and repulsion c...
    12: ... promoted his investigations of electricity and theories through the famous, though extremely dangerou...
    16: ...rie Ampere|Andr魍arie Amp貥]], and [[Georg Ohm|Georg Simon Ohm]] whose work provided the basis for m...
    20: ...electric [[locomotive]]; [[Charles Steinmetz]], theoretician of alternating current.
  10. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    47: *[[George Atwood]] (Britain, [[1746]] - [[1807]])
    100: *[[George Boole]] (Britain, [[1815]] - [[1864]])
    129: *[[Georg Cantor|Georg Ferdinand Cantor]] (Germany, [[1845]] - [[1918]...
    189: *[[George Dantzig]] (USA, [[1914]] - )
    238: *[[Leonhard Euler]] (Switzerland, [[1707]] - [[1783]])
  11. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]]...
    11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] &ndash; [[1982]...
    19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] &ndash;...
    25: *[[George Alcock]] ([[Britain]], [[1913]] &ndash; [[2000...
    96: *[[Theodor Brorsen]] ([[Denmark]], [[1819]] &ndash; [[189...
  12. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    4: ...[[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political ph...
    34: ...bes to produce an English book to set forth his theory of civil government in relation to the politica...
    44: ... is the enforcement of contracts. The political theory of ''Leviathan'' varies little from that set ou...
    46: ...ains equality within the state, since the common people would be "washed out" in the glare of their so...
    50: ...written during the Civil War) as to whether his theory was acceptable. Tuck argues that it further mar...
  13. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-15...
    25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
    46: *[[Alcmaeon of Croton]], (5th century BC){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
  14. Sikhism (31029 bytes)
    4: ...as certain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyo...
    24: ...[[Emperor Akbar]] sat with the ordinary and poor people of [[Punjab]] to have Langar. Guru Amar Das a...
    28: ...became Guru in [[1665]] and led the Sikhs until [[1675]], when he sacrificed his life to save the [[Kash...
    30: In [[1675]], Aurangzeb publicly executed the ninth [[Sikh]]...
    60: ...665]]||[[1st April]] [[1621]]|| [[11 November]] [[1675]]|| 54 || [[Guru Hargobind]] || [[Mata Nanki]]
  15. Timpani (31735 bytes)
    73: ...ow middle C in ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'', and [[Leonard Bernstein]] requires the timpanist to execute...
    94: ...es the solo timpanist to play eight drums simultaneously. In the year [[2000]], [[United States|Americ...
    145: ...ound that is almost completely devoid of tone. [[George Gershwin]] uses this effect in ''[[An American...
    148: ...erformers to play with their hands or fingers. [[Leonard Bernstein]] calls for [[maracas]] on timpani ...
    165: ...o use timpani in the classical orchestra in his [[1675]] [[opera]] ''Th&eacute;s&eacute;e''. Other [[17t...
  16. Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 6<sup>th</sup> |
    36: ...18]], [[1990]], the Legislature decided that the people of the Commonwealth would be designated as Bay...
    47: ...ounded [[Connecticut]]. [[King Philip's War]] ([[1675]]-[[1676]]), the bloodiest [[Indian Wars|Indian w...
    65: ...] drafted in the main by [[John Adams]], and the people ratified it on [[June 15]], [[1780]]. At that...
    67: "We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful...
  17. Fin Whales (8533 bytes)
    20: ...s. It was first described by Frederick Martens in 1675 and then again by Paul Dudley in 1725. These desc...
    44: ...ration appears to be governed by the strength of geo-magnetic fields - Fin Whales preferring low and c...
  18. Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
    5: ...[William Wycherley]] (''[[The Country Wife]]'', [[1675]]) and [[William Congreve (playwright)|William Co...

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