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- List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
66: *[[Anton Wilhelm Amo]], (1703-c. 1759){{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...er 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was ...
8: ...n. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] backgro...
10: ...ither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger brother was very fond, marri...
12: ...edil;ois' mother, instructed him in ''les belles lettres'' and deism, and the child showed a faculty f...
14: ...opped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Martha Washington (3111 bytes)
3: ...illed her duties as the official state hostess nonetheless.
5: Martha and George Washington had no children together, but they raised Martha's two children. They a...
8: ... matter of the ownership of Arlington National Cemetery was brought before the [[United States Supreme... - Mari, Syria (5848 bytes)
2: ...urished from [[2900 BC|2900 BCE]] until [[1759 BC|1759 BCE]], when it was sacked by [[Hammurabi]]. [[Ab...
8: ...s of 2005. Although archaelogists have tried to determine how many layers the site descends, it hasn'...
16: ...a, and these materials had to go through Mari to get to Sumer.
24: ... according to Andre Parrot, "brought about a complete revision of the historical dating of the ancient...
28: ...his is known from the numerous state archives tablets that recount Hammurabi turning on his old ally [... - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ...their own seasons. Even tiny rural communities sometimes awe audiences with extravagant productions.
4: ...ncountered when there might be some doubt as to whether someone is discussing cinema or the stage.
11: ...most popular plays from London, including ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[The Recruiting Officer]]'', and ''Richar...
13: ...[[Massachusetts]] in 1750, in [[Pennsylvania]] in 1759, and in [[Rhode Island]] in 1761, and it was bann...
19: ...oductions were much more rudimentary then, and sometimes plays would be staged in [[barn]]s or [[dinin... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...s [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between the death of [[Louis XIV of France]] and the ...
6: ...n prominence. Philosophers were dreaming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of ea...
8: ...18th century, it would radically change human society and the geology of the surface of the earth.
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in the [[Battle of Poltava]]]]
22: ...aint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]. [[Russia]]n [[Capital (political)|... - Bureaucracy (8428 bytes)
15: ...an emergent class of scribes used[when?] clay tablets to administer the harvest and to allocate its sp...
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19: ... reforms, competitive examinations took place to determine which candidates qualified to hold given po...
23: ...l-known for his study of bureaucratization of society; many aspects of modern [[public administration]...
25: ...]] [[Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay]] (1712-1759).
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