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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
86: *[[Filippo Addis|Addis, Filippo]], (1884-1974), writer - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
9: ...gs had to marry their sisters in order to be qualified to rule. Following the deaths of her brothers s...
21: There are a number of unverifiable but famous stories about Cleopatra, of which ...
29: ...nd culture, Cleopatra is reputed to have been the first member of her family in their 300-year reign i...
39: ...f the Picture describing the death of Cleopatra] (1672) - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...ngdom of Great Britain|Kingdom]], Anne became the first Sovereign of [[Great Britain]]. She continued ...
15: ...ames, Duke of York, (afterwards James II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Ed...
17: ...Catholicism. Princess Anne, however, declared her firm adherence to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continue...
22: ...te monarch), Mary II dismissed him from all his offices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed fro...
24: ...our by restoring Lord Marlborough to all of his offices. In return, Princess Anne publicly supported W... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
51: *[[John Underhill|Underhill, John]], (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]] - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ...ntury]], played an important role in the [[scientific revolution]].
6: ...ild London after the [[Great Fire of London|Great Fire]] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Roy...
12: ... uncoils with a natural periodicity, allowing for fine adjustment of the period of ticks. Modern sprin...
14: ...]. However, Hooke's microscopes achieved 30x magnification, which far outstripped the capabilities of ...
16: ...ar]]. He also receives credit with inventing the first practical [[universal joint]], sometimes calle... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...le]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour...
6: ...rvation of [[momentum]] and [[angular momentum]]. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and v...
14: ...her also said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three mo...
25: ...;Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon see...
27: ...Numeri Terminorum Infinitas'' (''On Analysis by Infinite Series''), and later in ''De methodis serieru... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
55: *[[1672]]-[[Blue Laws]] enacted in Connecticut - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ... philosophy of mind also had a great deal of significant influence well into the [[The Age of Enlighte...
16: ... when Shaftesbury became [[Lord Chancellor]] in [[1672]]. Following Shaftesbury's fall from favor in [[1...
18: ...ion 1707|Act of Union]] of [[1707]], though the office of King of England and King of Scotland had bee...
22: ...cke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political affiliation expressed themselves in his published writ...
24: Locke's first major published work was ''[[A Letter Concerni... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
9: ... the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
14: ...se atmosphere, the temperature does not vary significantly between the night and day sides of Venus de...
18: ...se clouds is approximately −45°C. The official mean surface temperature of Venus, as given b...
27: ...nundate its surface with fresh lava. Other recent findings suggest that Venus is still volcanically ac...
29: .... This may be due to its slow rotation being insufficient to drive an internal [[dynamo]] of liquid ir... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...[[New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and when Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish shortly...
6: ... in vain attempted to drive out the invaders, and finally Morgan consented to evacuate the place on th...
8: ...som as the price of his evacuating the place, and finally by an ingenious stratagem faking a landward ...
12: ...Morgan was arrested and conducted to England in [[1672]]. His fortunes turned again, and in [[1674]] Mor... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...des]]'s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English langua...
16: Although he associated with literary figures like [[Ben Jonson]] and thinkers such as [[...
20: ...passions whereby Man came into relation with Man. Finally he considered, in his crowning treatise, how...
24: ...e, and wrote a critique of the ''[[Meditations on First Philosophy]]'' of [[Descartes]], which was pri...
26: ...s opticus'') included in the collection of scientific tracts published by Mersenne as ''Cogitata physi... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
304: *[[Gershom Carmichael]], (c. 1672-1729){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - History of psychology (8127 bytes)
1: ...vely new discipline, and borders on various other fields, ranging from [[physiology]] and the [[neuros...
4: ==Prescientific psychology==
7: ...deal of work in [[philosophy]], especially in the field of [[epistemology]], dealt with the nature of ...
9: ...c]] [[philosopher]] [[Rudolph Goclenius]] was the first to use the term ''psychology'' in [[16th centu...
11: ...Soul") in terms of brain function, as part of his 1672 anatomical treatise "De Anima Brutorum" ("Two Dis... - Opera (25153 bytes)
7: ... considered an important part of the performance. Finally, [[dance|dancing]] is often part of an opera...
9: ...system is an especially organized system of classification.
13: ...dered the direct heirs of melodrama. Perhaps such film scores can in some sense even be considered bot...
20: ... Peri, ''[[Euridice]]'', dating from 1600, is the first opera score to have survived to the present da...
24: ...ermedi]], were usually staged to commemorate significant state events; weddings, military victories, a...
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