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  1. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
    10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
    15: ...bandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
    30: ...rge Abbot|Abbot, George]], (1603-1648), English writer
    31: ... Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
  2. Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
    8: Nickname = The Ocean State, Little Rhody |
    9: Capital = [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence...
    10: LargestCity = [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] |
    21: DensityRank = 2<sup>nd</sup> |
    22: 2000Density = 387.35 |
  3. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    2: ...ntioch]] and later first [[Bishop of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his [[tomb]] is below the baldochin...
    4: ...iovanni in Laterano]]. However, due to the proximity of the Papal residence, most Papal ceremonies ta...
    8: ...eror Constantine]] officially recognized Christianity he started construction in [[324]] of a great ba...
    10: ... should be rebuilt. [[Pope Nicholas V]] asked architect [[Bernardo Rossellino]] to start adding to the...
    12: ...he church. [[Carlo Maderno]] became the chief architect later on, and designed the entrance.
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
    11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
    15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
    90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
    105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-)
  5. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
    22: ... - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
    28: ...Emile Berliner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] &mdash; [[gramophone]]
    31: *[[Bi Sheng]] &mdash; primitive movable [[printing]] types
    40: ...her von Braun]], (1912-1977), [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] &mdash; [[rocket]] technology
  6. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    2: ...classical mechanics]]. Newton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] ...
    4: ...ht]] passed through a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Baco...
    6: ... when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of ...
    14: ...on was two years of age, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in the care of ...
    19: ...ance cooled and Miss Storey married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love, but N...
  7. John Locke (14749 bytes)
    2: [[Image:Locke-John-portrait-photo-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Image...
    3: ...rkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
    6: ... than the classical material taught at the University.
    8: ...ment for a liver infection. Cooper was impressed with Locke and pressed him to become part of his reti...
    10: ...ng - an impact that resonated deeply in Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
  8. Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
    4: ...0px|The planet Saturn]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
    6: ! bgcolor="#c0ffff" colspan="2" | [[Orbit]]al characteristics ([[Epoch (astronomy)|Epoch]] ...
    9: ...[[kilometre|km]]<br>9.537 070 32 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
    11: ! align="left" | Orbital [[circumference]]
    14: ! align="left" | [[Eccentricity (orbit)|Eccentricity]]
  9. Electricity (13894 bytes)
    1: ...ite-charged objects attract one another. The magnitude of the force of attraction or repulsion is giv...
    3: ...ge. For example, "''Q'' = 0.5 C" means "the quantity of electric charge is 0.5 coulomb."
    6: ... to jump. This is the origin of the word "electricity", from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''&#275;lekt...
    8: ...l digs have been alleged to be [[battery (electricity)|electrical batteries]].
    10: ...ed in [[1747]] that a discharge of static electricity was equivalent to an [[electric current]].
  10. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    1: ...glish language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
    12: ...[[Ralph Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
    14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
    16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
    23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil)
  11. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] &ndash; [[1987]])
    9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] &ndash; [[1983]])
    10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] &ndash; [[1928]])
    11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] &ndash; [[1982]])
    12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] &ndash; [[1973]])
  12. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    2: ...portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
    4: ...lish (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[L...
    6: ...] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
    10: ...The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinson (scholar)|John Wilkinson]] a...
    12: ...f Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with that family.
  13. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
    43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
    112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
    163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
    239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}}
  14. Sikhism (31029 bytes)
    2: ...oly book. It departs from some of the social traditions and structure of [[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]] (...
    4: ... wanted to go beyond what was being practised by either religion and hence a well-known saying of [[Gu...
    6: ...in AD [[1699]] ; and thus gave a distinctive identity to the Sikhs. The five baptised Sikhs were named...
    8: ...s including [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Sanskrit]], [[Bhojpuri]] and [[Persian language|Persian]].
    10: ...the "True Name" because he wanted to avoid any limiting terms for God. He taught that the True Name, a...
  15. Timpani (31735 bytes)
    3: ...te pitch]] when struck. Timpani evolved from [[military]] drums to become a staple of the [[Classical ...
    5: ...m the [[Latin]] word ''tympanum'', from which the Italian word descends. A [[musician]] who plays the ...
    8: | title = Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, second movement (...
    20: ...rough surface with many small dents hammered into it.
    22: ...produce the C below the [[bass clef]], and speciality piccolo timpani can play up into the [[treble cl...
  16. Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
    9: Capital = [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] |
    10: LargestCity = [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] |
    11: Governor = [[Mitt Romney]] |
    21: DensityRank = 3<sup>rd</sup> |
    22: 2000Density = 312.68 |
  17. Fin Whales (8533 bytes)
    17: ...mal ever to have lived, after the [[Blue Whale]]. It has a world wide distribution, and in [[Europe]] ...
    20: ...omte de Lacepede|Comte de Lacepede]] reclassified it as ''Balaenoptera physalus'' early in the ninetee...
    22: ... years ago. Hybrids between the two species are quite common - for every 1000 Fin Whales there is a hy...
    24: Population groups have split into north-south groups. On account of their miga...
    29: ...ippers are white. The rest of the body is grey - with lighter patches on the head roughly demarced fro...
  18. Comedy of manners (2474 bytes)
    1: ...er scandal, is generally less important than its witty and often bawdy dialogue.
    3: ...yle, elaborate plots, and stock characters were imitated by the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] poets [[Plautus...
    5: ...0]]). In the late [[18th century]] [[Oliver Goldsmith]] (''She Stoops to Conquer'', [[1773]]) and [[Ri...
    7: ...Somerset Maugham]], as well as various [[British sitcom]]s. The ''[[Carry On film]]s'' are a direct de...

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