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- List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
9: *[[Denis Auguste Affre|Affre, Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[P...
15: ...gal|Afonso VI of Portugal]], (1643-1683), king in 1656
16: *[[Lucius Afranius (consul)|Lucius Afranius]], (fl. mid-1st century BCE), legatus of Pom...
17: *[[Lucius Afranius (poet)|Lucius Afranius]], (died 60 BCE), Roman [[poet]] - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
2: ...]] and [[1623]] - [[October 17]], [[1705]]) was a French [[author]], and patron of the arts.
4: ... an early age. In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, and when her mother died ten ye...
8: ... her accountant, a nine-year old named [[Voltaire|Fran篩s Marie Arouet]] so he could buy books.
10: ...56 at the behest of [[Anne of Austria]], Queen of France and regent for her son [[Louis XIV]]. Not lon...
14: ...r she would become a close friend with the devout Fran篩se d'Aubigne, better known as [[Madame de Mai... - Thyroid (5421 bytes)
3: ...e system|endocrine]] gland. It is situated on the front side of the neck at the level of C5 and T1 ver...
14: ...ne]] (more accurately iodide ions, I<sup>-</sup>) from the bloodstream and concentrate it for producti...
20: ...cil can prevent tadpoles from metamorphosing into frogs; conversely, administering thyroxine will trig...
22: ...this is done by analysis of a small drop of blood from the child (usually, the blood also is tested fo...
52: ...s also [[eponym]]ised in [[Wharton's duct]]) in [[1656]]. [[Thyroid hormone]] (or ''thyroxin'') was only... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
1: ...state in [[Europe]], which borders [[Germany]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Austria]] and [[Liechtenstein...
13: ... = [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Romansh]]|
30: currency = [[Swiss franc]]|currency_code=CHF|
46: ...e]] in [[1499]] amounted to de facto independence from the [[Holy Roman Empire]].
50: ...er violence at the [[battles of Villmergen]] in [[1656]] and [[1712]]. - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
17: ...Square (''Piazza San Pietro'')]], built between [[1656]] and [[1667]], in the center of which is a 25.5 ...
22: ...pear to be part of the drum, but which stand away from it like buttresses, to absorb the outward thrus...
26: ...right|300px|Light streams down into the sanctuary from the dome cupola.]]
31: ...y [[Antonio Averulino]] ([[1455]]), and preserved from the previous basilica.
33: ...ating the most recent openings:<!-- This is taken from an old source, is the inscription new since 200... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
8: ...ary]] (e.g. a dictionary containing the 2000 most frequently used words in the English language).
23: ...f the simplest meanings of the simplest concepts. From these, other concepts can be explained and defi...
31: ...agreement. But the softening of usage notations, from the previous edition, for two words, ''ain't'' ...
42: ...rovide the basis for all lexicographic decisions, from the selection of entry words, over the choice o...
47: ... words, whose usage was illustrated by quotations from early Roman authors. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - John Locke (14749 bytes)
6: ...rn in [[Wrington]], [[Somerset]], about ten miles from [[Bristol]], [[England]], in [[1632]]. His fat...
8: Locke earned a bachelor's degree in [[1656]] and a master's degree in [[1658]]. Although Loc...
14: ...ter become Essay. Two extant Drafts still survive from this period.
16: ...x]], where he had lived in the household of [[Sir Francis Masham]] since [[1691]].
24: ...ing theological viewpoints. He recoiled, however, from what he saw as the divisive character of some n... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
6: ...r = Salvatore Cuffaro <br/>(''[[House of Freedoms]]'') |
24: ...sala]], [[Corleone]], [[Castellammare del Golfo]] Francavilla di Sicilia, and [[Abacaenum]] (now [[Tri...
43: ...h trains are loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland. Officially, the Stretto di Messin...
47: ...ional and international flights (mainly European) from to [[Palermo International Airport]] and [[Cata...
52: ...o d'India]] (from Palermo), [[Vincenzo Bellini]] (from [[Catania]]), as well as the [[sculpture|sculpt... - Palermo (10618 bytes)
10: ...h century]], when [[Muslim]] forces from north [[Africa]] invaded, taking Palermo in [[831]] and all o...
14: ... century to 135,000 on the eve of the plague of [[1656]]. In the 15th and 16th centuries Palermo was ado...
25: ...as an important element in the Mafia's transition from a mostly rural phenomenon into a modern crimina...
27: ...t century, Palermo is still struggling to recover from the devastation of [[World War II]] and the dam...
44: ...cily had been that the (24 hour) day was measured from the moment of sun-rise, which of course meant t... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...t by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil ...
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,...
22: ...country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. ... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...u Granth Sahib]], the Sikh holy book. It departs from some of the social traditions and structure of ...
4: ...tain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyond wha...
10: ...arance that it is a blend of insights originating from two very different faiths. Sikhism's coherence ...
12: ...d matter as a veil, so that only spiritual minds, free of desire, can penetrate it by the grace of the...
18: Political pressure from surrounding Muslim nations forced the Sikhs to ... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
11: ...537–1619), [[Petrus Severinus]] (1580–1656), [[William Harvey]] (1578–1657), and [[Edw...
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
19: ...as [[binomial nomenclature]], and the name formed from the two parts is known as the [[scientific name...
23: ...p at a given layer is composed of a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the tw...
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