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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
87: *[[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
6: Today she is probably the most famous of all of ancient Egypt's rulers, and is ...
9: ...s, [[Ptolemy XIII of Egypt|Ptolemy XIII]], who opposed the Roman domination, and [[Ptolemy XIV of Egyp...
11: ...achery that he seized the Egyptian capital and imposed himself as arbiter between the rival claims of ...
17: ...re named [[Cleopatra Selene]] and [[Alexander Helios]].
19: ...lers of [[Egypt]] and [[Cyprus]]; [[Alexander Helios]] was crowned ruler of [[Armenia]], [[Medes|Media... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...es II of England|James II]], had been forcibly deposed in [[1688]]; her sister and brother-in-law then...
12: ...e [[Whig]]s. Her closest friend, and perhaps her most influential advisor, was [[Sarah Churchill, Duch...
15: ...rlborough), who would later become one of Anne's most important generals.
17: In about [[1672]], Anne's father's conversion to Roman Catholicis...
26: ...shed, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne. To preclude a... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
20: ...matsu|Uematsu, Nobuo]], (born 1959), Japanese composer
22: ...a, Kisshomaru]], (1921-1999), 2nd [[Aikido Doshu|doshu]] of [[aikido]]
24: ...iba, Moriteru]], (born 1951), 3rd [[Aikido Doshu|doshu]] of [[aikido]]
43: *[[Ulrich of Strassburg]], scholastic philosopher
46: *[[Yoshijiro Umezu|Umezu, Yoshijiro]], Japanese general - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: ...]'', which contained a number of [[microscope|microscopic]] and [[telescope|telescopic]] observations,...
6: ...h Observatory]] and the infamous [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]] (which became known as 'Bedlam').
14: ...und microscopes in [[1590]]. However, Hooke's microscopes achieved 30x magnification, which far outstr...
16: ...talian mathematician [[Girolamo Cardano]] had proposed the idea about a century earlier and may or may...
20: ...mutual dislike for each other. They fell out in [[1672]] when Hooke criticized Newton's presentation sho... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...sopher]], and [[alchemist]] who wrote the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' (publis...
4: ...also notable for his arguments that light was composed of [[particle]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]...
6: ...describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entiret...
19: ...versity]] at the age of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss St...
23: ...obtained his degree in [[1665]], the University closed down as a precaution against the [[Great Plague... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
55: *[[1672]]-[[Blue Laws]] enacted in Connecticut
65: *[[1688]]-[[Glorious Revolution]] deposes James II and replaces him with [[William and Ma... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with [[Thomas Hobbes]].
6: ...rriculum of the time. He found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesti...
8: ... his time at Oxford, working with such noted virtuosi as [[Robert Boyle]], [[Thomas Willis]], [[Robert...
10: ...ydenham had a major impact on Locke's natural philosophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply...
12: ...f) to remove the cyst. Shaftesbury survived and prospered, crediting Locke with saving his life. - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...re [[ellipse|elliptical]], Venus's orbit is the closest to [[circle|circular]], with an [[eccentricity...
3: Because Venus is closer to the Sun than the Earth, it always appears in...
5: ...dess Venus's hand mirror: a circle with a small cross underneath ([[Unicode]]: ♀).
12: ===Atmosphere===
14: ...otates at a mere 6.5 km/h). Winds in the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...d by the Spanish shortly afterwards, Morgan was chosen by the buccaneers as their admiral.
6: ...glish a free hand to attack the Spanish whenever possible. In [[London]] the Admiralty publicly claime...
8: Modyford almost immediately entrusted Morgan with another expedi...
10: ...5]], [[1670]], and on the [[December 27]] gained possession of the castle of Chagres, killing 300 of t...
12: ...ing to Jamaica the following year to take up the post of Lieutenant Governor. He remained in Jamaica u... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ... [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviath...
6: ... also wrote numerous other books on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of hu...
14: ...ring the tour in contrast to the [[scholastic philosophy]] which he had learned in Oxford. His scholar...
16: ...enne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...l back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite the separate phenomena of Body, Man an... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - History of psychology (8127 bytes)
1: ...fields, ranging from [[physiology]] and the [[neuroscience]]s to [[sociology]] and [[anthropology]].
7: From its inception, a great deal of work in [[philosophy]], especially in the field of [[epistemology]...
9: The [[German people|German]] [[scholastic]] [[philosopher]] [[Rudolph Goclenius]] was the first to use...
11: ...Soul") in terms of brain function, as part of his 1672 anatomical treatise "De Anima Brutorum" ("Two Dis...
13: ...y]], psychology was regarded as a branch of [[philosophy]]. - Opera (25153 bytes)
5: ...pical elements of [[theatre]] such as scenery, [[costume]]s, and [[acting]]. However, the words of the...
9: ...hich associate the singer's voice with the roles most suitable to the vocal timbre and quality and its...
11: ...d 'cello or bassoon). During the period when composers ofen used both methods of recitative accompani...
13: ...t's Dream]]''; this work is almost certainly the most frequently performed of the genre in a context s...
20: ...ts of Greek dramas had been originally sung, and possibly even the entire text of all roles; opera was...
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