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- Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day....
4: ...ugustine_of_Hippo|Augustine]]. In his natural philosophy, he differs from the [[Scholasticism|Schools]...
6: ...by the possibility of [[machine intelligence]], blossomed into, e.g., the [[Turing test]] and [[John S...
8: His most famous statement is ''[[Cogito ergo sum]]'' (''I...
11: ...ar old, his mother died of [[Tuberculosis|tuberculosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society ... - 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) - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ...'', or '''Indigenous Peoples of America''') are those peoples [[indigenous people|indigenous]] to the ...
5: ...s not native to the American continent, such as those from arctic [[Russia]]n [[Siberia]].
11: ...ndigenous peoples that are native to territorial possesions of American countries but are not specific...
19: ...[Migration (human)|migrated]] from [[Siberia]] across the [[Bering Strait]], between 17,000–11,0...
21: ....org/book/chapter53/luzia/luzia.htm]. Thus other possibilities, not necessarily exclusive, have been s... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...luğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
45: ...so been interpreted as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its d...
47: ...capital. Following [[World War I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies...
53: ... Empire]] in the [[13th century]]. In [[1299]], [[Osman I]] declared independence of the ''Ottoman Pri... - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
22: ...tates]] and [[Southeastern United States]] until most were forcefully moved to the [[Ozark]] Plateau. ...
31: ...ee) by native speakers, since these sounds most closely resemble "Cherokee" in the native language. A ...
33: ...l translation "these are all the human people"). Most native American tribes have a name for themselve...
51: | 1650
85: .... These early dissidents would eventually move across the Mississippi River to areas that would later ... - Cusco (5603 bytes)
1: ...,''' an anglicized variant, and '''Qusqu''' with post-1987 Quechua orthography.
19: |Carlos Valencia
40: ...tingent of Cusco citizens wanted to retain the exposed walls. Eventually they won out and now tourists...
44: ...ed Cusco. The Priory was completely destroyed in 1650 as well. - Tungsten (13647 bytes)
103: ...olspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffc0c0" | '''Most stable isotopes'''
163: ...and alloys are widely used in many applications (most notably in [[light bulb]] filaments and in space...
166: ...ngsten metal forms a protective [[oxide]] when exposed to air but can be oxidized at high temperature....
175: *Composites are used as a substitute for [[lead]] in [[bu...
177: ...this element's thermal expansion is similar to borosilicate [[glass]], it is used for making glass-to-... - Potato (22889 bytes)
11: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''S. tuberosum''''' }}
13: ...color = lightgreen | binomial_name = Solanum tuberosum| author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] }}
16: ...[[starch]]y [[tuber]]. Potatoes form the world's most important non-[[cereal]] crop, and grow world-wi...
28: ...ting. For all these reasons potatoes became, by [[1650]], the staple food of Ireland, and they began to ...
30: ...had dug up all the ground where they grew, and almost sifted it, could not extirpate them.' <sup>[http... - Tobacco (28162 bytes)
14: ...the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] word "tabaco", whose roots are unclear; it is thought to derive from ...
16: ...roducts is actually released into the smoke, and most clinically significant cases of [[Nicotine Poiso...
18: ...nacted [[smoking ban]]s in an effort to minimize possible damage to [[public health]] due to [[tobacco...
24: ...among many [[indigenous people]]s, particularly those of [[South America]].
26: ...he creation of the [[United States]], tobacco, almost entirely on its own, fueled the colonization in ... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
36: ...(c. 2094 - c. 2047 BCE). Eventually the Elamites rose in rebellion and overthrew the 3rd Ur dynasty, a...
43: ...with the rise to power of the Anzanite dynasty, whose homeland probably lay in the mountains northeast...
51: ...ressive followed this founder of a new dynasty, whose home was probably [[Susa]]; and in this period E...
68: ...their ancient and recent kings I devastated, I exposed to the sun, and I carried away their bones towa...
72: ...decline of the Assyrians were the [[Persians]], whose presence around [[Lake Urmia]], i.e. to the nort... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
14: | wife=[[Eleanor Roosevelt]]
18: ...he head of the forces of reform. His family and close friends called him Frank. To the public he was u...
20: ...arly what is seen as his naļ¶„ attitude toward [[Joseph Stalin]], are criticized by some historians. F...
22: In his lifetime Roosevelt was a polarizing figure: he was a hero to li... - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
3: ...hus carpet-[[weaving]] is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished manifestations of [[Persian]] ([[I...
12: ... in Ala?edin Mosque in [[Konya]] and Ashrafoghlu Mosque in Beyshehir, [[Turkey]]. These pieces attract...
14: ...history of evolution and experience in this art. Most experts believe that the Pazyryk carpet is a lat...
20: Although carpet production has mostly become mechanized today, the traditional hand ...
25: ...jpg|right|thumb|260px|A rug depicting the famous mosque of Isfahan.]] - September 23 (7397 bytes)
7: ... first major battle of the English [[Wars of the Roses]], fought at Blore Heath, in [[Staffordshire]],...
11: ...s a spy by [[United States|America]]n soldiers exposing [[Benedict Arnold]]'s treason
15: ...rench astronomer [[Urbain Le Verrier|Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier]] and British astronomer [[John Cou...
31: *[[1999]] - [[NASA]] announces that it lost contact with the [[Mars Climate Orbiter]].
40: *[[1650]] - [[Jeremy Collier]], [[England|English]] bisho... - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
7: ...e and movable. Classical medical texts, such as those by [[Galen]], were widely used on the basis of a...
15: ...ribed the [[heart]] valves and determined the purpose of the [[urinary bladder | bladder]] and [[kidne...
17: ...-Saxon]] translations of classical works like [[Dioscorides]] ''Herbal'' survive from the 10th Century...
21: ...adition until [[Roger Frugardi]] of [[Parma]] composed his treatise on ''Surgery'' around about [[1180...
66: ...hite spotted leaves of Lungwort (used for tuberculosis) bear a similarity to the lungs of a diseased p... - Leyden jar (3953 bytes)
7: ...ectrode]] and a plate, each of which stores an opposite charge. These two elements are conductive and ...
14: Around 1650, [[Otto von Guericke]] built a crude [[friction]]...
16: ...l motion of charges, even in vacuum, where he supposed that it corresponded to motion of [[dipole]] ch...
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