wordnet_colleague_109935990


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# testing instances: 3339
# true positives: 3149
# false positives: 275
# false negatives: 190
precision: 0.9196845794392523
recall: 0.9430967355495657
F1: 0.9312435309773768
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Sir William McAlpine... Southern Railway". This was re-erected at the private Fawley Hill Museum of, whose company built Waterloo International. Waterloo International close ...
Josiah Wedgwood... n of a British horticultural society was suggested by John Wedgwood (son of) in 1800. His aims were fairly modest: he wanted to hold regular meetings ...
A. J. P. TaylorIn 1969, along with Hugh Trevor-Roper and, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Winston Churchill's fou ...
Clive James... llander wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence.wrote a poem titled "A Line and a Theme from Noam Chomsky" in his book, . ...
Lewis Carroll... such as "I Love Louie", where Desi lived with Louis Armstrong. He also read's poem "Jabberwocky" in a heavy Cuban accent (he pronounced it "Habberwoc ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from(a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ...
Richard Owen... fragment of bone to his uncle, John Rule, a Sydney surgeon, who sent it towho at that time was working at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College ...
Albert Einstein... time or lived in Halesite include comedian/singer Fanny Brice and scientist
Thomas Hardy... nd a slug of rum added under the counter, plays a major role in the plot of's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. It is also mentioned in Lewis Carroll' ...
Bjarne Stroustrup... 8 for the discovery. In 1983, the C++ programming language was developed byas an extension to the original C programming language also developed at B ...
Magdi Yacoub... Harpenden, Herts in January 1979, which led to a heart bypass operation byin June 1979. After the heart attack, Morecambe asked Yacoub what would ha ...
Ned Sublette... heard in the ragtime compositions of Scott Joplin, Tom Turpin, and others.echoes the widely held view that the habanera rhythm "found its way into r ...
Ronald J. Brachman... has been no small amount of inconsistency in the usage of the "is-a" link:wrote a paper titled "What IS-A is and isn't", wherein 29 different semant ...
Robert Penn Warren... e procedure and, at times, changed it. The 1946 novel All the King's Men bydescribed a lobotomy, saying it "would have made a Comanche brave look lik ...
Henry Cavendish... lfuric acid. In 1776 Lavoisier showed that it contained oxygen, and in 1785determined its precise composition and showed that it could be synthesized ...
Roger Sessions... ztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, Earl Robinson, Ned Rorem, William Schuman,, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill
Katherine Anne PorterFrom 1892 to 1901 Kyle was home to the Pulitzer Prize winning author,. Many of her most famous short stories such as Noon Wine are set in locat ...
Winston Churchill... he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He meton several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls and once was ...
Paul Tillich... has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel Kant, Hastings Rashdall and. It remains the most popular view of atonement among liberal Christians. ...
John Tukey... e American Statistical Association, including notable statisticians such as, condemned the sampling procedure. Tukey was perhaps the most vocal criti ...
Juan de la Ciervawas a Spanish engineer and aeronautical enthusiast. In 1921, he participat ...
Sam Gilliam... nsen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra,, Mario Merz, Peter Reginato were some of the younger artists who emerged ...
Hugh Trevor-RoperIn 1969, along withand A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Wins ...
Sir Peter Ustinov... s and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney,, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet
Daniel C. Tsui... rst Störmer and former Bell Laboratories researchers Robert B. Laughlin and; they consequently won a Nobel Prize in 1998 for the discovery. In 1983, ...
Leda Cosmides... f Charles Darwin that were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and. Central to evolutionary theory is that all biological organisms under ch ...
Richard Serra... is, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier,, Sam Gilliam, Mario Merz, Peter Reginato were some of the younger artists ...
Lewis Carroll... g nonsense words; a famous such example is "The gostak distims the doshes".'s Jabberwocky is also famous for using this technique, although in this c ...
Earl Mountbatten of Burma... ectors' Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Presenting the awards was; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman (writers of Round ...
Charles DickensLittle Dorrit is a serial novel bypublished originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the ...
Charles Darwin... tionary view of nationalism has its origins in the evolutionary theories ofthat were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides. ...
Harold Lamb... world for me." In a time before comics existed, he "read all of Burroughs,, Talbot Mundy," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years ...
Arthur Compton... ated a two-stage model for free will include William James, Henri Poincaré,, Henry Margenau, and Daniel Dennett
Charlotte Auerbach... a spontaneous variant arising in a colony of mice maintained by geneticist. Histopathological studies in the 1960s revealed that the cerebellum of r ...
Charles Dickens... ry, but the word was considered vulgar. (Note the exclamation by Estella in's novel Great Expectations: "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!") Howe ...
Kiri Te KanawaProminent New Zealand musicians performing at home and abroad include Dame, Sir Donald McIntyre, Simon O'Neill, Jonathan Lemalu, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, ...
Bertrand RussellThe philosopherused the sentence "Quadruplicity drinks procrastination" to make a similar ...
Henry Margenau... model for free will include William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton,, and Daniel Dennett
George Philip... he constructed a large family home: Spade House. He had two sons with Jane:(known as "Gip") in 1901 (d.1985) and Frank Richard in 1903. The marriage ...
Cecil Taylor... iverse as Pat Metheny, John Zorn, Lee Konitz, David Sylvian, Cyro Baptista,, Keiji Haino, tap dancer Will Gaines, Drum 'n' Bass DJ Ninj, Susie Ibarra ...
Winston Churchill... Roper and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir's four volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Milton FriedmanWhiledescribed The General Theory as "a great book", he argues that its implici ...
Elizabeth II... remain Commonwealth realms and share the same monarch. The present monarch,, succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952. Like her recent predecessors, ...
Daniel Dennett... include William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton, Henry Margenau, and
Hastings Rashdall... ce the Reformation it has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel Kant,and Paul Tillich. It remains the most popular view of atonement among libe ...
Joseph Locke... ed men were starting to make their marks, such as his son Robert, his pupiland finally Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His conservative views on the capabil ...
John Hollander... ersially nonsensical, and Chomsky's example remains by far the most famous.wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence
Tim Berners-LeeThe Semantic Web as described byis one example of the many attempts over many decades to define standards ...
LagrangeThe theorem was proved byand generalized by Hans Heinrich Bürmann, both in the late 18th century. T ...
Alex North... works, including pieces by composer György Ligeti rather than the score by, although Kubrick had also hired Frank Cordell to do a score. While North ...
Lewis Carroll's... commonly. "Brunch" is an example of a portmanteau word (breakfast + lunch)."snark" (snake + shark) is also a portmanteau. Neologisms also can be crea ...
William Butler Yeats... along with President Clinton at the public memorial service. He paraphrasedby saying of his nephew: "We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, t ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel... ); the great industrialist and architect of the nearby Atmospheric railway,; Prog-rock band Wishbone Ash, supermodel Lily Cole, comedian Jim Davidson ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... all number of barons to pay homage to Eustace as their future king; but the, Theobald of Bec, and the other bishops declined to perform the coronatio ...
Marx's... entialist Jean-Paul Sartre—this meant the recovery of the humanist roots ofthought, and the opening of a dialogue between Marxists and moderate socia ...
Guglielmo MarconiRadio Central was one of the many original operating and touring sites of's radio shack, which now is displayed at Rocky Point's Frank J. Carasiti ...
Joseph Locke... tar" driven by his brother Robert and "Rocket" driven by assistant engineer. The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parl ...
Taylor Branch... s. Though Kennedy may have intended this to remain a more nominal position,in Pillar of Fire contends that Johnson served to push the Kennedy adminis ...
Robert Whitman... da Childs, Steve Paxton and others collaborated with artists Robert Morris,, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like Billy Klüver. These p ...
George Macartney#Lady Jane Stuart (c. 1748 – 28 February 1828), who married, later the 1st Earl Macartney, on 1 February 1768
Goethe... presentation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle.defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his ideal of a ...
Antoine Lavoisier... lopment of modern chemistry. Chemistry as we know it today, was invented bywith his law of Conservation of mass in 1783. The discoveries of the chemi ...
John Cage... Paxton and others collaborated with artists Robert Morris, Robert Whitman,, Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like Billy Klüver. These performances ...
Lord Warkworth#Lady Anne Stuart (born c. 1745), who married, later the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, on 2 July 1764
Neil MacGregor... it charges no admission fee. Since 2002 the director of the museum has been
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for
Joseph Whitworth... on of men to build on his work, such as Richard Roberts, Joseph Clement and
Sydney Brenner... n proteins in Belgium on 8 April 1953 went unreported by the British press., Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were s ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... into the castle without meeting resistance and looted the Jewel House. The, Simon Sudbury, took refuge in St John's Chapel, hoping the mob would res ...
Matthew Arnold... nnection of Georgian culture with that of Shahnama: Furthermore he remarks:used a famous episode from the epic as the basis of his poem Sohrab and Ru ...
Nikola Tesla... tor by Frank J. Sprague and accelerated after the AC motor was developed by(Westinghouse) and others. Electrification of factories was fastest betwee ...
Piero Sraffa... han any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, including Isaiah Berlin and. Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewish friends, most ...
Yvonne Rainer... ed at the Judson Memorial Church, New York, and the Judson dancers, notably, Trisha Brown, Elaine Summers, Sally Gross, Simonne Forti, Deborah Hay, L ...
Winston Churchill... base rights in Bermuda from the United Kingdom, but British Prime Ministerwas initially unwilling to accede to the American request without getting ...
Margaret Thatcher... 1974–92, and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government offrom June 1983 to October 1989. He was made a life peer in 1992
Sir Rowland Hill... ho can be said to have changed the face of the postal service forever it is, with his reforms of the postal system based on the concept of penny post ...
Trisha Brown... n Memorial Church, New York, and the Judson dancers, notably Yvonne Rainer,, Elaine Summers, Sally Gross, Simonne Forti, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, ...
Ludwig WittgensteinThe philosopheris often interpreted as arguing that language is not up to the task of des ...
William Schuman... ri Nicolau, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, Earl Robinson, Ned Rorem,, Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill
Samuel Pepys... the cult of the Martyr King; however, no other eyewitness source, including, records this. Henry's account was written during the Restoration, some 1 ...
Norbert Wiener... still be regarded as rather crude and hazardous in many respects." In 1948, the author of Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Anima ...
Karl Marx... c sociology, political sociology, and the sociology of religion. Along withand Émile Durkheim, he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of mode ...
David Starkey... been carried out by other parties. Many modern historians though, including, and Michael Hicks, or writers such as Alison Weir, do regard Richard him ...
Earl Mountbatten of Burma... le all over the country. On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinatedin County Sligo. On the same day the IRA killed 18 British soldiers at War ...
John Lindley... each of its four gardens. The library is based upon the book collection of
Edmundo O'Gorman... exico. Other Mexicans of Irish descent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman,, Anthony Quinn, Alejo Bay (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conduc ...
John Burnside... literature, the critically acclaimed author, Iain Banks; poet and novelist,; Robert Gilfillan and Robert Henryson who wrote about life in the royal b ...
King George V... of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of. In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, t ...
David Stannard... es and European colonizers came into widespread conflict, resulting in whathas called a genocide of the indigenous populations. Early European immigr ...
Sidgwick... ntral error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and. Since then, the term has become common in English-language ethical theor ...
Milton FriedmanIn 1947, Popper founded with Friedrich Hayek,, Ludwig von Mises and others the Mont Pelerin Society to defend classical ...
Marcus George SingerWalter Terence Stace, in The Concept of Morals (1937), wrote:observed that there are two importantly different ways of looking at the g ...
J. L. MackieIn a 1955 article published in the philosophy journal Mind,attempted to resolve the paradox by distinguishing between first-order omn ...
Leslie OrgelSydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin,, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in April 1953 to see ...
Robert Whitman... ys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms, andamong others were notable creators of Happenings
Nikola Tesla... h neighboring village Shoreham, was also the home to inventor and scientist's early research facilities
V.H. Galbraith... ut a forgery. A prominent claim was made in 1964 by the respected historianin his essay "Who Wrote Asser's Life of Alfred?" Galbraith argued that the ...
Leo Steinberg... sical objects, including stuffed animals, birds and commercial photography.uses the term postmodernism in 1969 to describe Rauschenberg's "flatbed" p ...
Winston ChurchillHardy holds the distinction of playing bothand Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ...
Isaiah Berlin... itically, rather than any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, includingand Piero Sraffa. Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewi ...
Michael Almereyda... referred to as Hamlet 2000) is a 2000 American film written and directed by, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of ...
Daniel Dennett... been developed into numerous versions by thinkers as diverse as David Marr,, Jerry Fodor, and David Lewis. Functionalism helped lay the foundations f ...
see of Canterbury... is mother, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, that Walter should be chosen for the, as well as to the monks of the cathedral chapter, and soon after Walter' ...
Ernest RutherfordIn 1911,gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's m ...
Michael FaradayIn 1820, the British scientistliquefied ammonia and other gases by using high pressures and low temperat ...
Dorothy HodgkinSydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz,, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in Apr ...
James Clerk Maxwell... ry 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded's electromagnetic theory of light, which was first demonstrated by David ...
Lord Young of Dartington... rs, Mike Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imre Varadi, Rod Stewart, Victoria Wood,, Toby Young, and Alex Zane
François Quesnay... communalism and egalitarianism. This influenced European intellectuals like, an avid Confucianist and advocate of China's agrarian policies, forming ...
Dave HickeyThomas McEvilly, agreeing with, says that U.S postmodernism in the visual arts began with the first exhi ...
Wilhelm Ostwald... ction of nitric acid is via the Ostwald process, named after German chemist. In this process, anhydrous ammonia is oxidized to nitric oxide, in the p ...
Sir Hermann Bondi... Charlton area of Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The report ofinto the North Sea flood of 1953 affecting parts of the Thames Estuary and ...
Richard Anthony Salisbury... Kensington Palace), Charles Francis Greville (a Lord of the Admiralty) and, who was to become the Secretary of the new society
Steven Chu... transition. In 1985, laser cooling was used to slow and manipulate atoms byand team. In 1985, the AMPL modeling language was developed by Robert Four ...
Hogarth... current arts and letters. His Tragedy of Tragedies of Tom Thumb (for whichdesigned the frontispiece) was, for example, quite successful as a printed ...
Richard Owen... forms diverged from this shared unity in a branching pattern. The anatomistused this to support his idealist concept of species as showing the unroll ...
Samuel Noah Kramer... g the annual Akitu (New Year) ceremony, at the spring Equinox. According toin The Sacred Marriage Rite, in late Sumerian history (end of the third mi ...
4th Earl of Cork... quired by the Cavendish family in 1753 when the daughter and heiress of the, Lady Charlotte Boyle (1731-1754) married William Cavendish, 4th Duke of ...
Bill Clinton... tone of the Clinton campaign and what he saw as racially tinged remarks by. Kennedy gave an endorsement to Obama on January 28, 2008, despite appeal ...
C. S. LewisFantasy fiction is particularly rich in references to flat worlds. In' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the fictional world of Narnia is "round l ...
Charles Francis Greville... Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace),(a Lord of the Admiralty) and Richard Anthony Salisbury, who was to become ...
Elizabeth IIQueenapproved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, ...
Walter Pater... oets, a group whose writings derived, in many ways, from the prose works of, Hopkins's academic coach for his Greats exams, and later his lifelong fr ...
Benjamin FranklinIn 1758,and John Hadley, professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, conducted ...
George AnsonAdmirals. and Admiral Jonathon Band, current First Sea Lord are both notable in Po ...
Earl Robinson... arsen, Peter Mennin, Dimitri Nicolau, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham,, Ned Rorem, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael ...
Albert Einstein... nics. He strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr's instrumentalism and supported's realist approach to scientific theories about the universe. Popper's fa ...
Charles Dickensmakes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mu ...
Yoichiro Nambu... omposed of three up quarks with parallel spins. In 1965, Moo-Young Han withand Oscar W. Greenberg independently resolved the problem by proposing tha ...
John D. Rockefeller... tered the oil business by starting a refinery. In 1867, his older brother ()'s partnership of Rockefeller & Andrews absorbed this refinery. In 1870, ...
George Grant Elmslie... Harold C. Bradley House, designed collaboratively by Louis H. Sullivan andin 1908–1910 now serves as the Sigma Phi Fraternity in the University Heig ...
Karl Marx's... rk of Althusser and his students in an intensive philosophical rereading ofCapital. The book reflects on the philosophical status of Marxist theory a ...
C. S. LewisAt least one line in thebook The Last Battle implies that Lewis learned of Narnia's events - and t ...
Niels Bohr... Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. He strongly disagreed with's instrumentalism and supported Albert Einstein's realist approach to sci ...
Robert Goulet... reen Actors Guild (SAG); Valerie Harper, Loni Anderson, Hector Elizondo and
Edward, the Prince of Wales... ceremony of the Hall was on 29 March 1871. A welcoming speech was given by; Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak although she did comment that i ...
Paul Krugman... been even more divisive. Although many economists, such as George Akerlof,, Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian stimulus, over 30 ...
Michael Hicks... other parties. Many modern historians though, including David Starkey, and, or writers such as Alison Weir, do regard Richard himself as the most li ...
Noam Chomsky... tts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and political commentatorpraised the film because of the way people were portrayed doing the real w ...
Noam Chomsky"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed byin his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is gramm ...
Raymond Gosling... f DNA X-ray diffraction data collected by Rosalind Franklin and her student. The controversy arose from the fact that some of these data were shown t ...
John Whitgift... 9 November 1586 he was detained by the gaoler and brought before Archbishop. He insisted on the illegality of this arrest, refused either to take the ...
Ralph ErskineNotable Newcastle housing developments include's the Byker Wall designed in the 1960s and now Grade II* listed. It is on ...
William FarishFirst formalized by Professor(1759–1837), the concept of an isometric had existed in a rough empirical ...
Alfred Tarski... pondence. Then came the semantic theory of truth formulated by the logicianand published in 1933. Popper writes of learning in 1935 of the consequenc ...
Roddy DoyleIrish writerwrote a short story by the same title about an Irish girl who brings home ...
Max V. Mathews... Appleton also was influenced by the work of the "father" of computer music,and by French composers Francois Bayle, Beatriz Ferreyra and Michel Redolf ...
A. J. RowledgeUnder, the design of the newly-renamed Lion was completed in 1917, and the firs ...
JK GalbraithPower may be held throughsummarises the types of power as being "Condign" (based on force), "Compen ...
Frank Knight... s and social philosophers, Weber's work did have a significant influence on, one of the founders of the neoclassical Chicago school of economics, who ...
Charles DarwinIn On the Origin of Species (1859),proposed evolution through natural selection, a theory central to modern b ...
John Locke... grarian philosophy of Physiocracy. The Physiocrats, along with the ideas ofand the Romantic Era, formed the basis of modern European and American agr ...
George Bernard Shaw... influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and. In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination for "strong characters" ...
J. R. R. TolkienIn's work The Lord of the Rings, will o' the wisps are present in the Dead M ...
Winston Churchill's... rt television miniseries Frankenstein: The True Story. She also appeared aslover Pamela Plowden in Young Winston, produced by her father-in-law Richa ...
Anthony BluntThe most famous 20th-century scholar of Poussin was the Englishman, Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, who in 1979 was disgraced by revelations ...
Thomas Andrew KnightBanks proposed his close friendfor membership. The proposal was accepted, despite Knight's ongoing feud w ...
Ted Kennedy... ot to do so would amount to a tax increase. Working with Democratic Senator, McCain was a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, which ...
Marx'sAlthusser's contention is thatthought has been fundamentally misunderstood and underestimated. He fierce ...
Oliver Heaviside... tric axis. Coaxial cable was invented by English engineer and mathematician, who patented the design in 1880
Alan MulallyBut, Ford's new CEO named in late 2006, wanted to revive the Taurus, saying i ...
George Bernard Shaw... eciated at the time. Along with those of other writers of the time, such as, his plays addressed the class system and social issues, two of the best ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... Canterbury, and as Saint Edmund of Abingdon) (1175–1240) was a 13th centuryin England. Today he is primarily remembered for his connection to St Edmu ...
Adam Smith... eaning of such terms. There is a linguistic division of labor, analogous to's economic division of labor, according to which such terms have their re ...
Sherry Turkle... ts and sociologists are able to use MMORPGs as tools for academic research., a clinical psychologist, has conducted interviews with computer users in ...
C. S. Lewis... né Descartes, argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem.argues that when talking about omnipotence, referencing "a rock so heavy t ...
Michael Riffaterre... m include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva,, and Umberto Eco
William CullenThe first known method of artificial refrigeration was demonstrated byat the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1756. Cullen used a pump to cr ...
Lewis Mumford... Penn Station—called "an act of irresponsible public vandalism" by historian—led directly to the enactment in 1965 of a local law establishing the New ...
R. John Ellis... with DNA during the assembly of nucleosomes. The term was later extended byin 1987 to describe proteins that mediated the post-translational assembly ...
John Cage... 931-78), a Lithuanian-born American artist. Fluxus traces its beginnings to's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Soc ...
George Akerlof... an economics has been even more divisive. Although many economists, such as, Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian sti ...
John Beazley... tradition of this type has been discerned in 5th century BC Greek pottery—identified a scene of Apollo, Delian palm in hand, revenging Orion for the ...
Joseph Locke... e, rather than the West Coast Main Line taking the direct route favoured byover Shap between Lancaster and Carlisle, Stephenson was in favour of a lo ...
J. R. R. TolkienIn's fictional Middle-earth, the Dagor Bragollach (Sindarin for Battle of Su ...
Bertrand Russellnamed Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, comment ...
Douglas LePan, an official from the Canadian High Commission, wrote
Kenneth Rexroth... t Allen Ginsberg when the latter sought Snyder out on the recommendation of. Then, through Ginsberg, Snyder and Kerouac came to know each other. This ...
T.J. Gottesdiener... ction is 'Almaty Financial District and Esentai Park'. This was designed by, who designed 7 World Trade Center in New York City, Time Warner Center i ...
Alison Knowles... e publisher of the Something Else Press, a Concrete poet, married to artistand an admirer of Marcel Duchamp. Ihab Hassan includes, "Intermedia, the f ...
Kenneth MeesThe Kodak Research Laboratories were founded in 1912 withas the first director. Principal components of the Kodak Research Laborato ...
Paul KrugmanIn 1991,, as a highly regarded international trade theorist, put out a call for ec ...
David GrossThe discovery of asymptotic freedom in the strong interactions by, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek allowed physicists to make precise pred ...
Gauss... s with roots in the 19th century and just prior. Important names are Euler,, Riemann, Cauchy, Weierstrass, and many more in the 20th century. Complex ...
Hogarth... the sometimes affectionate and sometimes savage caricatures of Rowland and
John CagePrecursors to conceptual art include the work of Duchamp,'s 4' 33" which is four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence and Ra ...
Major-General Henry Y.D. ScottThe hall was designed by civil engineers Captain Francis Fowke andof the Royal Engineers and built by Lucas Brothers. The designers were hea ...
Joseph Burr Tyrrell... expedition of the Geological Survey of Canada, led by the famous geologist. Due to a lack of specialised equipment the almost complete skull could o ...
Steven Lukes... enabling nature of power. A comprehensive account of power can be found inPower: A Radical View where he discusses the three dimensions of power. Th ...
Robert Edmond Grant... the Edinburgh and London schools of higher anatomy around 1830, notably by, but was opposed by Karl Ernst von Baer's embryology of divergence in whi ...
Joseph Banks... cessor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens), Sir(President of the Royal Society), James Dickson (a nurseryman), William Fo ...
Andrew Wiles... and z such that x^n+y^n=z^n . Before this was proven for all n>2 in 1995 by, it had been proven for many values of n. These proofs inspired further r ...
August Derlethlater made alterations to the biography of Alhazred, such as redating his ...
Richard Serra... period 1966 - 1976 and was applied to the work of Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier,and new work by former minimalists Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, Sol LeW ...
Prince Frederick, the Prince of Wales... bellion of 1745, Bute moved to Westminster, London, and two years later metthere, soon becoming a close associate of the Prince. Upon the Prince's de ...
Ted Kennedy... ts candidate in the race for U.S. Senate in 2000, which was won by Democrat. Howell received 11.9% of the vote (a total of 308,860 votes). Howell had ...
David Starkey... and devotion have earned her many admirers among historians. These include, feminist activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Carol ...
Margaret Atwood... on, who narrates the story of a cabin dwelling family he secretly observes.'s novel The Blind Assassin also uses this technique. The novel's exposito ...
Frank Wilczek... totic freedom in the strong interactions by David Gross, David Politzer andallowed physicists to make precise predictions of the results of many high ...
Donald JuddMinimalists like, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Agnes Martin, John McCracken and others continue ...
Gary Becker... the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like Robert Barro and, say that the empirical evidence for beneficial effects from Keynesian st ...
Andrew Davies... TV series co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, Little Dorrit, written by, and featuring Claire Foy, Freema Agyeman, Bill Paterson, Andy Serkis, Ma ...
Richard Attenborough'sIn 1969, Seymour appeared uncredited in her first film,Oh! What a Lovely War. In 1970, Seymour appeared in her first major film r ...
Donald Judd... l Foster, in his essay The Crux of Minimalism, examines the extent to whichand Robert Morris both acknowledge and exceed Greenbergian modernism in th ...
Alan Watts... student at the American Academy of Asian Studies, where Saburō Hasegawa and, among others, were teaching. Hasegawa introduced Snyder to the treatment ...
Richard Feynman... interactions could probably not be fully described by quantum field theory.argued that high energy experiments showed quarks are real particles: he c ...
Lester B. Pearson... Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector;, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and Kim Campb ...
John James Audubon... ere commissioned for books. Among the most famous of these bird artists was, whose paintings of North American birds were a great commercial success ...
Robert Barro... Lucas, questioned the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, likeand Gary Becker, say that the empirical evidence for beneficial effects fr ...
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode... uest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings byin 1800 did much to raise the Museum's reputation; but Montagu House becam ...
Isambard Kingdom BrunelIn Britain the Great Western Railway, designed by, pioneered broad gauge from 1838 with a gauge of , and retained this gaug ...
Darwin's... e well known as a region of distinct fauna, famous as the place of birth ofTheory of Evolution, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Salman Rushdie... into seclusion, and are rarely heard from or seen in public, such as writer. A related form of protection is the use of body doubles a person built s ...
John D. Rockefeller... June 24, 1922), American financier, was a co-founder with his older brotherof the prominent United States Rockefeller family. He was the son of Willi ...
James Cook... rom the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captainand the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of p ...
Rudyard Kipling... ed to marry his fiancée until he cries "The earth is flat as a pancake". In's The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat, the protagonists spread the ...
King Edward VIIIIn 1920, the Prince of Wales (the future) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, he recommended the place in ...
Bill Clinton... he funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter,and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President George ...
George V... British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Rich ...
Joseph Stiglitz... many economists, such as George Akerlof, Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and, support Keynesian stimulus, over 300 economists signed a petition statin ...
Benjamin West... that he had contributed a new theme of "classical severity" to French art., an American painter of the 18th century who worked in Britain, based his ...
Richard Dawkins"Viruses of the Mind" (1993) is an article byusing memetics and analogies with biological and computer viruses, and wit ...
Albert Einstein... ns when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? He points out thatdemonstrated the equivalence of mass-energy. That is, according to relativ ...
Benjamin Franklin... o owned their own land and voted for their local and provincial government., in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the ...
George IV... e of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King. The film is also notable because it is the last film in which Michael Wi ...
Walter Burkert... y much overshadowed by the divine figures defined through poetry and cult,"remarked of Greek nature deities. They were normally considered to be very ...
Charles Oman... ve often been overstated, with many Twentieth Century writers repeating Sir's idea that the battle represented a turning point in military history, w ...
Cardinal Pole... ent to Mass, confessed, and in no particular official capacity went to meeton his return to England in December 1554, again accompanying him to Calai ...
Thomas Telford... pment of the network, therefore, had to be left to other engineers, such as
Bertrand Russell... s traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such asand members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Mor ...
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is based on three principles: natural selection, he ...
David Cameron... wever, on Friday 28 October 2011, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,, announced at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth that ...
Benjamin Franklin... police suspicion that they were English spies, they visited Paris, meeting, General Lafayette, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and joined the French ...
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the Queen... ided to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister. Fearing that Whitlam would go toand have him removed, Kerr did not give Whitlam any hint of what was comin ...
Frank P. RamseySraffa joined the so-called "cafeteria group", together withand Ludwig Wittgenstein, a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's t ...
Michael Longley... bring Heaney into contact with other Belfast poets such as Derek Mahon and. In August 1965 he married Marie Devlin, a school teacher and native of A ...
Karl Pearson... obability distribution of a continuous variable and was first introduced by. A histogram consists of tabular frequencies, shown as adjacent rectangle ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein... a joined the so-called "cafeteria group", together with Frank P. Ramsey and, a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's theory of probability an ...
Jerry Donohue... the imino and enol forms that Crick and Watson had assumed. They consultedwho confirmed the most likely structures of the nucleotide bases. The base ...
Sir William Tite... xeter and Yeovil. The station building was designed by the LSWR's architectin mock gothic style. In 1903, the branch line from Axminster to Lyme Regi ...
Philip Guston... nnovations of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko,, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt and others op ...
Alison KnowlesOthers, including Hannah Higgins, daughter of fluxus artistsand Dick Higgins, assert that although Maciunas was a key participant, the ...
Raoul Hafner... he British military "Rotachute" gyro glider designed by expatriate Austrian. This led him to adapt the design for his own purposes and eventually mar ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... to learning that he is said to have been summoned by his uncle Athelm, the, to enter his service. He was later appointed to the court of King Athels ...
Henry Cowell... udied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark and. Gershwin began his career as a song plugger. Soon after, he began to com ...
Edward Gibbon... the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia. Most historians, including, date the defeat at Manzikert as the beginning of the end of the Eastern ...
Isaac Milner... is future career. He travelled with his mother and sister in the company of, the brilliant younger brother of his former headmaster, who had been Fel ...
Julia Robinson... s) has a solution among the integers. Putnam, working with Martin Davis and, demonstrated that Matiyasevich's theorem was sufficient to prove that no ...
Raymond Pearl... the earliest aging theories was the Rate of Living Hypothesis described byin 1928(based on earlier work by Max Rubner), which states that fast basal ...
John Locke... er professions. Philosophically, European agrarianism reflects the ideas of, who declared in his Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) that thos ...
Edmund WallerBuckinghamshire later became home to some notable literary characters.was brought up in Beaconsfield and served as Member of Parliament for both ...
George II... nglish merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king,) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to t ...
John Zorn... acy, Johnny Dyani, Leo Smith, Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser,, Buckethead and many others. Company Week, an annual week long free impro ...
George Antheil... 'Inhumaine (The Inhuman One). In 1924, in collaboration with Dudley Murphy,, and Man Ray, Léger produced and directed the iconic and Futurism-influen ...
Walter ScottIn the early 19th century,wrote of Wallace in , and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wal ...
Bill Clinton... ng his opponent's term. Dole was defeated, as pundits had long expected, byin the 1996 election. Clinton won in a 379-159 Electoral College landslide ...
Stafford Cripps... the sub-continent, the British government sent a delegation to India under, in what came to be known as the Cripps' Mission. The purpose of the miss ...
Rowan Williams... f the Christian right, he is still a favorite of many Christian viewers. Dr, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is a confessed Simpsons fan, and likes Fla ...
The Prince of Wales... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by. Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ...
Margaret Thatcher... dy of Superman. Bell also claims to be the first cartoonist to have spotted's mad left eye, as well as the fact that Tony Blair shares this unusual f ...
Karl Pearson... f a histogram); and gramma 'drawing, record, writing'. It is also said that, who introduced the term in 1895, derived the name from "historical diagr ...
King George V... ucted, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened byand Queen Mary in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints ...
Sir William PetreIt was rumoured in December 1554 that Cecil would succeedas Secretary of State, an office which, with his chancellorship of the Gar ...
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham... was officially named the county seat. Although Chatham County is named for, Pittsboro is named for his son, William Pitt the Younger
Bertrand Russell... porates a now-familiar idea, the notion of a 'convergent infinite series.'"offered a "solution" to the paradoxes based on modern physics, but Brown c ...
Charles II... seventeenth century Guildhall, built shortly after the restoration of King, is supported by columns, to provide an open ground floor for the butter ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... t, he is still a favorite of many Christian viewers. Dr Rowan Williams, the, is a confessed Simpsons fan, and likes Flanders. Ned's "unbearable pious ...
Isambard Brunel... te Company (with a distinguished list of aristocratic patrons, and Marc andas, respectively, a trustee and consulting engineer), gave an enormous imp ...
Harold Wilson... governments, both Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The proje ...
Arthur C. Clarke... n the past and of those more complex Cosmoses He will create in the future.'s 1953 short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" treats non-scientific ...
Julian Budden... ut no one else has performed the same tricks nearly as well". Opera scholarremarks on Puccini's "inept handling of the political element", but still ...
François Quesnay... were partially influenced by Chinese agrarianism; leading physiocrats likewere avid Confucianists that advocated China's agrarian policies
Goethe... ble review of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Ion was withdrawn at the request of. It was mainly as a schoolmaster in Weimar that he wrote his papers on th ...
Peter Barlow... ter, and said he had experimented successfully with such a system. In 1824,said that such a system only worked to a distance of about , and so was im ...
Bill ClintonThe incumbent,, had no serious primary opposition. Dole promised a 15% across-the-board ...
Richard Hofstadter... ership of their farms. Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay thathas traced the sentimental attachment to the rural way of life, which he d ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel... o the poor condition of the facilities, the British Government commissionedto design a prefabricated hospital, which could be built in England and sh ...
Steve Lacy... cludes John Zorn, Henry Kaiser, Eugene Chadbourne, Tim Berne, Bill Frisell,, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and Ray Anderson in this genre, which con ...
George VIn 1911, the house underwent a large extension for the visit of Kingand Queen Mary. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the off ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... bot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England a ...
Edward Grey... Persia to German trade and technology. The ministers Alexander Izvolsky andagreed to resolve their long-standing conflicts in Asia in order to make a ...
David A. Smith... earch on what became the Etoys system. More recently he started, along with, David P. Reed, Andreas Raab, Rick McGeer, Julian Lombardi, and Mark McCa ...
Francis Glisson... e 16th century there were few vitalistic scientists left. One exception was(1597–1677) an English anatomist and an Italian doctor Marcello Malpighi ( ...
James LovelockIn 1984,and Michael Allaby published The Greening of Mars. Lovelock's book was one ...
Peter Deutsch... Berkeley. In 1965, several Project GENIE members, specifically Lampson and, developed the Berkeley Timesharing System for Scientific Data Systems' S ...
Ian Kershaw... th century and were not allowed to return until the 1860s, scholars such asand Brigitte Hamann dismiss as baseless the Frankenberger hypothesis, whic ...
King George V... s of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later, with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a ...
Charles OmanAmmianus notes the important role of the Gothic cavalry., believing that the cavalry were the majority of the Gothic force, interp ...
Elizabeth II... entity from the Crown Estate and currently provides income for the monarch,. The Sovereign is styled as Duke of Lancaster, regardless of gender, alth ...
Marcello Malpighi... was Francis Glisson (1597–1677) an English anatomist and an Italian doctor(1628–1694)
Philip Pullman... Weeks Later. The docklands also appear in The Ruby in the Smoke, a novel by
Joseph Greenberg... y Maurice Delafosse (1914). However, it did not come into general use until(1963) formally proposed its adoption. In doing so, Greenberg sought to em ...
Gunther Schuller... 42), Eduard Tubin's Concerto (1948), Lars-Erik Larsson's Concertino (1957),'s Concerto (1962), and Hans Werner Henze's Concerto (1966)
Simon BlackburnAccording to, although the Golden Rule "can be found in some form in almost every ethi ...
Michael Palin... nes, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Thencame out as an over the top announcer who eventually states that he only e ...
Richard Overy... by the brutal treatment of the German civilians and tried to protect them.cites an approximate total 7. 5 million evacuated, migrated, or expelled G ...
Thomas Sydenham... is disputed and the origination of the fifth sign has also been ascribed toand Virchow
Locke... ential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and", including the idea of a three-branched government
Joseph Greenberg... ded Hausa (a Chadic language) in his comparative Hamito-Semitic vocabulary.(1950) strongly confirmed Cohen's rejection of "Hamitic", added (and sub-c ...
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov... hey are most likely to have had to have developed through language contact.and Vladimir Toporov believed in the unity of Balto-Slavic, but not in the ...
Alfred Marshall... turns to scale and perfect competition, underlining some doubtful points of's theory of the firm. This was amended for British readers and published ...
Harold Macmillan... 1957, a second summit conference was held; this time British Prime Ministerarrived earlier than President Eisenhower, to make it clear that they were ...
Robert Haynes... Cs) are added to the atmosphere. Motivated by Lovelock's book, biophysicistworked behind the scenes to promote terraforming, and contributed the word ...
William Pengelly... coexistence theory. The cave was extensively explored from 1865 to 1880 by, who found evidence to support McEnery's hypothesis. The caves have attra ...
Erasmus Darwin... e seriously ill and returned to his home at Turnhurst, Staffordshire, whereattended him and discovered that he was suffering from diabetes
Paul DaviesThe physicistalso supports the view that if a planetary catastrophe threatens the survi ...
Godfrey Hounsfield... d "Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART)" which was later adapted by Siras the image reconstruction mechanism in his famous invention, the first c ...
Alan Hovhaness... Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger,, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby Larsen, Peter Mennin, Dimitri Nicolau, Krzyszto ...
Alexander Nowell... As a boy, Harrison attended St Paul's School and the Westminster School of. Raised in Protestant circles, Harrison entered Christ Church, Oxford and ...
William Hogarth... e Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (in an about the UK Independence Party);'s The Gate of Calais about the ban on UK meat exports following outbreak ...
John Cecil Masterman... he Germans had ready access to through the neutral nations. In addition, as, chairman of the Twenty Committee, commented, "If, for example, St Paul's ...
Barry Cunliffe... became Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton succeeding. During his time at Southampton he directed excavations at Quanterness in ...
Henry Cavendish... reference to its chemical inactivity) was suspected to be present in air byin 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William R ...
Erwin Chargaff... equal to cytosine and the amount of adenine is equal to thymine. A visit byto England in 1952 reinforced the salience of this important fact for Wats ...
Ronald N. Bracewell... echanism in his famous invention, the first commercial CT scanner. In 1956,used a method similar to Radon Transform to reconstruct a map of solar rad ...
John Cage... noise attacks. (The sounds he produced have been compared to those made by's prepared piano.) Typically, he played a conventional instrument, in sta ...
Charles II... ng it unlikely that the skeletons belonged to the princes. On the orders ofthe remains were reburied in Westminster Abbey. In 1933, the grave was ope ...
Robert BoyleIn 2004 TheScience Room was opened nearby in the dedicated to his life and works wher ...
William Ramsay... Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sirin Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carb ...
Virgil Thomson... critics would argue, is used to make the exploration of oil look beautiful.composed the music for the film
Josiah Wedgwood... ans, pins, wire, and other goods. Housing was provided for workers on site.and Matthew Boulton (whose Soho Manufactory was completed in 1766) were ot ...
George Martin Lees... n 1926 under the direction of a geologist of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company,, but no oil was found. The oil issue raised its head again in 1933 after ...
Bill Clinton... e White House since a 1996 meeting between Premier David Saul and President
Milton Friedman... sm articulated by economists working in the Neoclassical tradition, such as. Neoliberalism emphasizes the Ricardian concept of comparative advantage ...
Margaret ThatcherFinchley was from 1959 to 1992 the Parliamentary constituency of, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Finchley is now covered by the ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... e new government was supported by the Queen Mother, Eadgifu of Kent, by the, Oda, and by the East Anglian nobles, at whose head was the powerful eald ...
Ian GrahamFrom 1970 onwards,made numerous visits to Yaxchilan and recorded the inscriptions there. The ...
William Tite... ver the Thames) when its main line was extended from Nine Elms. Designed by, it was raised above marshy ground on a series of arches. The unfulfilled ...
John Wilkes... n lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there andwas MP for Aylesbury. Later authors include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at ...
Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 byhas several characters seeing a play called 'The Courier's Tragedy' by the ...
Henry Cowell... ed with classical composer Rubin Goldmark and avant-garde composer-theorist
Latimer... before Mary's death in 1558 after hearing the words of Cranmer, Ridley, and, three Protestant martyrs burned at the stake in Oxford
Peter Medawar... tually influential friendships with art historian Ernst Gombrich, biologist, and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles
Ken WallisWing Commanderhas held most of the autogyro world records during his autogyro flying car ...
Paul Dirac... charge, opposite to the +1 electric charge of the proton, was predicted byin his 1933 Nobel Prize lecture. Dirac received the Nobel Prize for his pr ...
Sir Arthur Wellesley... sence the French situation in Spain deteriorated, and then became dire whenarrived to take charge of British-Portuguese forces
J. R. R. TolkienIn the fictional world of's Middle-earth, Dorthonion ("Land of Pines"), later Taur-nu-Fuin, was a h ...
Bertrand Russell... time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common", wrote. One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met ...
Nelson Goodman... is true if it would be accepted by anyone under ideal epistemic conditions.had formulated a similar notion in Fact, Fiction and Forecast in 1956. In ...
Maximilian I of Bavaria... came a member of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. Consequently, Kingintroduced far reaching economic, religious and administrative reforms. Wh ...
Rudyard Kipling... hinly disguised version of the borough), Charles Kingsley, Edmund Gosse and. Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with Dudley Moore); the ...
Peter TaitAfter Hamilton's death, his studentcontinued promoting quaternions. At this time, quaternions were a mandator ...
Winston ChurchillOn the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt,and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ...
Ernst Gombrich... opper also had long and mutually influential friendships with art historian, biologist Peter Medawar, and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles
Mary Jane West-Eberhard... logical and other phenotypic novelties. The case for this was argued for byin her 2003 book Developmental plasticity and evolution
John Zorn... collaborators from highly varied fields: players as diverse as Pat Metheny,, Lee Konitz, David Sylvian, Cyro Baptista, Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, tap ...
Robert Lowell... rton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs ...
George Bernard ShawMany people have criticized the golden rule;once said that "the golden rule is that there are no golden rules". Shaw ...
Walter Scott... ques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at the Théâtre-Italien in Pa ...
Steve Reich... y wide range of dynamics. In some respects, this is similar to the music of, Philip Glass, and Brian Eno, pioneers of minimalism. Typically, post-roc ...
Stanisław August Poniatowski... d on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734–1783),, Alexander Vasilchikov, and others. She became friends with Princess Ekat ...
Charles Parsons... Armstrong's artillery, Be-Ro flour, Joseph Swan's electric light bulbs, and' invention of the steam turbine, which led to the revolution of marine pr ...
Charles Thomas Bolton... trong candidate for a black hole, Cygnus X-1, was discovered in this way by, Louise Webster and Paul Murdin in 1972. Some doubt, however, remained du ...
Robert Boyle... , tapestry hangings, embroidered silks and velvet. It was here in 1627 thatThe Father of Modern Chemistry, the fourteenth of the Earl's fifteen child ...
Robert W. Taylor... ACM. In 2004, he won the Charles Stark Draper Prize along with Alan C. Kay,, and Charles P. Thacker for their work on Alto. In 2006 he was inducted a ...
Stephen Leacock... London School of Economics. His tutors at the LSE included Hugh Dalton and. Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generosity of an uncle, Au ...
Bill Clinton... y Show with Jon Stewart. Dole was, for a short time, a commentator oppositeon CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's Brooke Shields ...
Thomas Lockey... s Bodley's Librarian; their levels of diligence have varied over the years.(1660–1665) was regarded as not fit for the post, John Hudson (1701–1719) ...
Karl Popper... o you. Their tastes may not be the same" (Maxims for Revolutionists; 1903).wrote: "The golden rule is a good standard which is further improved by do ...
Tim Berners-LeeIn 1980, physicist, who was a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system ...
Bill Clinton... mbitions left, Kennedy formed a good relationship with Democratic Presidentupon the latter taking office in 1993, despite his having initially backed ...
Ian McEwanExamples of de Clerambault's syndrome (erotomania) in fiction include's novel Enduring Love, which was later turned into a film also called End ...
Kenneth G. Wilson... fined states of a gauge theory. It was introduced by the Nobel prize winnerand is treated in a separate article
Henry Salt... large sculptures to be acquired by the Museum. Thereafter, the UK appointedas consul in Egypt who amassed a huge collection of antiquities. Most of t ...
Zachary Macaulay... ed around the Common. They included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton and, father of the historian Thomas Macaulay, as well as William Smith, M.P., ...
Joseph Fontenrose... t Oenopion taught the Chians how to make wine before anybody else knew how.wrote Orion : the Myth of the Hunter and the Huntress (1981) to show Orion ...
Josiah Wedgwood... n of Staffordshire to the Trent and to the Mersey. The first sod was cut byin 1766 and Brindley carried it away in a barrow. From Runcorn, the canal ...
Ivan Sutherland... eering, earning a Master's degree and a Ph.D. degree. There, he worked with, who had done pioneering graphics programs including Sketchpad. This grea ...
Daniel Burnham... Chicago Park District, is the only lakefront structure to be built based on's 1909 Plan of Chicago. The island was to be populated by trees and grass ...
Jean-Pierre Changeux... s) depended on specific genetic mutations. In 1961, however, Jacques Monod,and François Jacob discovered within the bacterium Escherichia coli a gene ...
King George VTolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to, where Corinthian-Casuals F.C. (two semi-pro football teams that have sin ...
Lukas Foss... an, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio,, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby La ...
Thomas Wolfe... econd half of the 15th century to the present (the last author discussed is)
David Wheeler... his Turing Award Lecture in 1993, Lampson himself attributes this saying to
Dimitri Nanopoulos... anolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis and
Winston Churchill... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs areand Diana, Princess of Wales
Gilbert RyleFor(1949), a category (in particular a "category mistake") is an important se ...
Benjamin Franklin... ritish colonies in North America in 1765, where it was first grown for hay.wrote a letter in 1770 mentioning sending soybeans home from England. Soyb ...
John Harbison... ade of the 21st century, new concerti include Kalevi Aho's Concerto (2005),'s Concerto for Bass Viol (2006), and André Previn's Double Concerto for v ...
Bill Clinton... exports in at the same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Bothand George W. Bush asserted that free trade would gradually open China to ...
Harold Wilson... Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath,'s second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by Ma ...
Edward Hall Alderson... entary scrutiny of the original bill, especially under cross-examination by. The Bill was rejected. A revised bill with a new alignment was submitted ...
Robert Lowell... 1996. Heaney's personal papers are held by the National Library of Ireland.called him "the most important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, in ...
Hilda Ellis Davidson, writing on Snorri's unique description of Hel in his Prose Edda, states ...
Bertrand Russell... given time, just because it is not in motion in any instant of that time."offered what is known as the "at-at theory of motion". It agrees that ther ...
Thomas Telford... ty of some turnpike trust. New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf,and John Macadam. The major turnpikes radiated from London and were the me ...
Roland Beamont... ore, and the exhaust plume was visible from a long distance. Wing Commanderhad the 20 mm cannon on his Tempest adjusted to converge at ahead. This wa ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... 's role in the Church of England is titular; the most senior clergyman, the, is the spiritual leader of the Church and of the worldwide Anglican Comm ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein... a direct realist view of this relation. For a time, under the influence of, he adopted a pluralist view of philosophy itself and came to view most p ...
Noam Chomsky... list theories of language acquisition dovetail with linguistic work done byand others. These have led to a wider variety of teaching methods ranging ...
Tom Cole... l level, Lawton lies in Oklahoma 4th Congressional district, represented by. In the State Senate, the county is represented by District 31 (Don Barri ...
John WilkinsIn 1648cites Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to Constantinople 1554-1562, as rec ...
Joseph Bell... in, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on, who in his use of "" prefigured Poirot's reliance on his "little grey ce ...
Edward James ReedThe naval architectwrote: "the turret-ship 'Wivern', belonging to the Royal Navy, has a low f ...
David Lodge... ting a precedent for later generations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury,, Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associated with The ...
Walter Darby Bannard... , Jannis Kounellis, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Alan Saret,, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, ...
Alfred Tarski... ave learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps." Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutations to Hayek. For his part ...
Richard PowersUniversity of Illinois English Professor and National Book Award winnerset his novel Galatea 2.2 at the multidisciplinary Beckman Institute for A ...
MaxwellThe most dramatic prediction of's theory of electromagnetism, published in 1865, was the existence of ele ...
Sydney Kentridge... igh Court of Justice found the Privy Council's decision to be unlawful. Sir, QC described the treatment of the Chagossians as "outrageous, unlawful a ...
John Argyris... Negroponte, Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos,, Panagiotis Kondylis and Dimitri Nanopoulos
Norman Dello Joio... lburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies,, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevs ...
Margaret Thatcher... lson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by's then defence minister Francis Pym. The reasons for revelation were both ...
Seymour PapertIn 1968, he metand learned of the Logo programming language, a dialect of Lisp optimized ...
James Bryce... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius,, Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ...
Patricia Churchland... of MR have been proposed by Jaegwon Kim, David Lewis, Robert Richardson and
Dennis Gabor... thought, starting with Haar's work in the early 20th century. Later work byyielded Gabor atoms (1946), which are constructed similarly to wavelets, a ...
John Julius Norwich... ad a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's deat ...
Adam SmithIn 1776,published the paper An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of ...
Samuel Pepys... e and gracious houses and villas around Clapham Common and in the Old Town.spent the last two years of his life in Clapham, living with his friend, p ...
Ken Wallis... 8M was designed to use surplus McCulloch engines used on flying unmanned s.developed a miniature autogyro craft, the Wallis autogyro, in England in t ...
Vladimir Nabokov... "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita by
Larry Zox... d Tuttle, Alan Saret, Walter Darby Bannard, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen,, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Sam Gilliam, ...
Gian Carlo Menotti... n Françaix's Concerto (1975), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk (1980),'s Concerto (1983), Christopher Rouse's Concerto (1985), and Henry Brant's ...
Stella Gibbons... urzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately,, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, ...
Maurice Wilkins... of King's College London, given to them by Gosling and Franklin's colleague), Watson and Crick together developed a model for a helical structure of ...
John Scott Haldane... ilar ideas, as well as the physicists Walter M. Elsasser and Eugene Wigner.adopted an anti-mechanist approach to biology and an idealist philosophy e ...
Carlos Chávez... 995 Revelation. Cantatas were also composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman,, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy ...
Adam SmithIn the 18th century,declared that China had been one of the most prosperous nations in the wor ...
James Cook... by execution dock was run by Samuel Batts. His daughter, Elizabeth, marriedin 1762 at Barking, after the Royal Navy captain had stayed at the Inn. Th ...
Leonard Kleinrock... sed in modern packet switching networks was performed in the early 1960s by
Archbishop of CanterburyThe Church of England's three senior bishops—the, the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London are made Privy Counsello ...
Henry Glassie... er version of the tale, "Willy the Whisp", is related in Irish Folktales by. The first modern novel in the Irish language, Séadna by Peadar Ua Laogha ...
Peter Dickinson... r consideration. The first author to be awarded a second Carnegie Medal wasin 1981
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos... ars he worked alongside Handel - in 1717/18 both men were employed there by. (For more see Baker and Baker, ref. below
Adam Smith... survive outside of the system containing all of the specialized components.described economic specialization in his classic work, The Wealth of Natio ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... he first land grant including Yeading was made by Offa in 790 to Æthelhard,: "in the place called on linga Haese [Hayes] and Geddinges [Yeading] arou ...
Philip Pullman... nning book of all time. The poll was launched on 20 April, and the winner -'s Northern Lights - was announced on 21 June at the British Library
Eric Bentley... el is about life and death." Another view was advanced by critic and writer, who disliked the ending, stating, "the last scene of Carousel is an impe ...
Milton Friedman... along with other three left-wing intellectuals, in with the known economist, who was in Iceland to give a lecture on the "tyranny of the status quo" ...
John Scott HaldaneBy the 1930s vitalism had fallen out of favour by most biologists. In 1931stated
Douglas Bader... was born into a wealthy family in the area. The British World War II flierwas born in St. John's Wood
Raymond Gosling... y of Cambridge, England. Using "Photo 51" (the X-ray diffraction results ofand Rosalind Franklin of King's College London, given to them by Gosling a ...
Duke of Wellington... e Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the
Albert Einstein... the individual's capacity to judge his or her fatherland's foreign policy.stated that "Nationalism is an infantile disease... It is the measles of m ...
Antoine LavoisierAround 1770,, the "Father of Nutrition and Chemistry" discovered the details of metabo ...
Jerome Bruner... ized for educational use. This led him to learn of the work of Jean Piaget,, Lev Vygotsky, and of Constructionist learning. These further influenced ...
Morris Kline... ber in space, music number in time, and astronomy number in space and time.classifies the four elements of the quadrivium as pure (arithmetic), stati ...
Henry CowellBy the middle decades of the 20th century, however, composers like, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen and George Crumb, re-introduced im ...
Jan Smuts... interpretation alone. Another scientist who held a similar view to this waswho took a holistic approach to science and offered a compromise between m ...
Lyon Playfair... there in 1843. A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant toat the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close f ...
Philip RothThe Human Stain (2000) is a novel by. It is set in late 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is ...
Adrienne Clarkson... n extreme, crisis situations. Near the end of her time as governor general,stated: "My constitutional role has lain in what are called 'reserve power ...
Morton Feldman... e middle decades of the 20th century, however, composers like Henry Cowell,, Karlheinz Stockhausen and George Crumb, re-introduced improvisation to c ...
Sir Arthur Evans... ndon and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of Augustus Wollaston Franks.doubled the amount of money that went with the studentship, paying out of ...
Stanley Crouch... a close second). In his Newsweek article "The Problem With Jazz Criticism"considers Miles Davis' playing of fusion as a turning point that led to sm ...
Roy FeddenThe Pegasus was designed by Siras the follow-on to the Bristol Aeroplane Company's very successful Bristo ...
James Lind... ist Leonardo da Vinci compared metabolism to a burning candle. In 1747, Dr., a physician in the British navy, performed the first scientific nutritio ...
John Searle... nt. However, there have been other criticisms. The Chinese room argument by(1980) is a direct attack on the claim that thought can be represented as ...
Rogers Brubaker... e idea of the Jewish diaspora, he recognised the expanding use of the term.(2005) also notes that use of the term diaspora has been widening. He sugg ...
Bill Clinton... censed, McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing the governor to, which Bush said was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican ...
William McDougall... vers worked with two of his graduate medical students, Charles S. Myers andwho assisted him at this period in a series of experiments on vision and w ...
Peter Maxwell Davies... lso composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna,, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhane ...
Charles Bigelow... om this time at RIT went on to become influential type designers, includingand Kris Holmes, who together created the Lucida type family. Other promin ...
Alfred Fowler... ent, and devoted himself to the study of spectroscopy (following his mentor), especially its applications in astronomy. He was elected a Fellow of th ...
Thomas Hardy's... till had a large audience; volumes of verse published in that time includedThe Dynasts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson ...
Gabriel Harvey... ops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both Thomas Nashe and, two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a complete ban on a ...
Bertrand Russell... heir historical link with past wars, especially in Germany. Famous pacifistcriticizes nationalism for diminishing the individual's capacity to judge ...
Niels BohrA number of physicists began to advocate vitalism.was one of the first to suggest that special laws not found in inanimate m ...
Edmund Waller... enerall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), and's poem, Battle of the Summer Islands (1645)
Churchill... ght through 1940 and again in 1941, drew peak audiences of 16 million; onlywas more popular with listeners. But his talks were cancelled. It was thou ...
Adam Smith... ecognized as an intangible quality of persons in economics back to at least. He distinguished it (as "enterprise") from labour which can be coerced a ...
Charles Darwin... to think and behave independently. The Emperor accepted new ideas, such as's theory of evolution, of which he remarked that "the laws that he [Darwi ...
Buffon... frequent visits to the home of a relation where he could borrow volumes of's massive Histoire Naturelle. All of these he read and re-read, retaining ...
Jean GottmannThis concept of a "megalopolis" was first proposed by the French geographerin his book Megalopolis, a study of the northeastern United States. One pr ...
Taylor Branch... onounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 p.m. According to biographer, King's autopsy revealed that though only 39 years old, he had the heart ...
Philip Larkin... St. John's College, Oxford, where he read English. It was there that he met, with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. While at ...
Johann Heinrich Friedrich LinkThe genus was first described in the scientific literature byin his 1809 work Observationes in ordines plantarum naturales. Link includ ...
Niklaus Wirth... op-down design was promoted in the 1970s by IBM researcher Harlan Mills and. Mills developed structured programming concepts for practical use and te ...
Richard OwenSirand Alfred Newton both wanted to be the first to describe the post-cranial ...
Quintin HoggAnnouncing his support for right of return legislation in Britain, MPstated that, "All the great nations of the earth have what the Jews call a ...
Charles Dickens... bling dens and brothels, and was known as a dangerous place to go. In 1842,visited the area and was appalled at the horrendous living conditions he h ...
Erwin Schrödinger... gous to the laws of physics except for their being restricted to organisms.supported similar ideas, as well as the physicists Walter M. Elsasser and ...
Sir John Forbes MD FRS... ts. He built up a good practise as a speech therapist and was patronised by, who sent him pupils for twenty four years. Hunt's most famous case came ...
Winston Churchill... y the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelievingand Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leade ...
Benjamin Franklin... e are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life. Some, such as, believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as Thomas Paine w ...
J. R. R. TolkienTreebeard (Sindarin: Fangorn) is a fictional character from's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is ...
Michael Palin... former in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones,and Jonathan Lynn
Michael Dummett... his other positions. The problems with this position have been described by, Jerry Fodor, Ernest Lepore, and others. In the first place, they suggest ...
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of ButeIn the ensuing century Cardiff was at peace. In 1766,married into the Herbert family and was later created Baron Cardiff, and i ...
John Henry Newman... ed to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts,. Newman received him into the Church on 21 October 1866. On 5 May 1868 Ho ...
Alfred NewtonSir Richard Owen andboth wanted to be the first to describe the post-cranial anatomy of the do ...
Melvyn Bragg... fessor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California, hosted by
Matthew Arnold... reline buildings with the naked eye, and the lights of land at night, as in's poem "Dover Beach"
Margaret Thatcher... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week thatwas forced out of office
Karl Marx... taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of
Sir Michael Foster... special senses displayed by the candidates; it was in reaction to this that, who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed R ...
George MacDonald Fraser... to take on the role of Harry Flashman in a film adaptation of the books by
Benjamin Franklin... ast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton,and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. ...
Lawrence Summers... sicist Lisa Randall, appointed to a task force at Harvard by then-presidentafter his controversial discussion of why women may be underrepresented in ...
John Zorn... mprovisation group Nuova Consonanza. Anthony Braxton has written opera, andhas written acclaimed orchestral pieces
Evan Davis... which she seemed critical of some of his decisions. Regular Today presentercommented that "She shouldn't be guest editing; she should be permanently ...
Mark Yudof... guished themselves in legal academia and practice are university presidents(President of the University of California system), John Frederick Zeller ...
William Butler Yeats... ve plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre (1902),' Deirdre (1907), J.M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), John Coulter ...
J. W. Dunne's... plays are more varied in tone than the novels, several being influenced bytheory of time, which plays a part in the plots of Dangerous Corner (1932) ...
Ken Wallis... Wick in Scotland, a total of breaking the old record held by Wing Commander
Benjamin FranklinIn American history important spokesmen included, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and John ...
Paul BoyerIn the 1960s through the 1970s,developed the binding change, or flip-flop, mechanism, which postulated th ...
Paul Preston... in right-wing politics, especially the Francoist regime, British historiansand Brian Crozier state that the Opus Dei members who were Franco's minist ...
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of ButeIn 1793,was born. He would spend his life building the Cardiff docks and would lat ...
Zachary Leader... g with works of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer,, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the tw ...
Sir Rowland Hill... n the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840, as a part of postal reforms promoted by. With its introduction, the postage fee was now to be paid by the sender ...
James Plaskitt... the 2010 general election the constituency was represented in parliament by(Labour). It had previously been a Conservative safe seat, including as it ...
Sue TownsendIn the book Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by, Adrian names the swan that terrorises him outside his apartment Gielgud ...
Oliver Letwin... lished a transcript of a double interview with Lawson and Tory Policy Chief, in which Lawson described Letwin's views on global warming as "pie in th ...
Lord CurzonFollowing the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out byto weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged a boycott, regarded a ...
David Shepherd... of the trust joining existing high profile personalities, Joanna Lumley and
Errol Morris... a perspective and point of views. Some films such as The Thin Blue Line byincorporated stylized re-enactments, and Michael Moore's Roger & Me placed ...
Winston Churchill... h parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks,and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Sha ...
Benjamin Franklin... census. The city is the county seat of Heard County. The town is named for
Thomas Bodley... on). It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more, when(a former fellow of Merton College) wrote to the Vice Chancellor of the Un ...
Paul D. Boyer... University of Washington. The University also graduated Nobel Prize winner, as well as Philo Farnsworth (inventor of the electronic television) and ...
Isaac Newton... sits that pressure is due not to static repulsion between molecules, as was's conjecture, but due to collisions between molecules moving at different ...
Samuel Pepys... hich an exact date is known, however, occurred on 7 January 1605, at Court.saw a Henry V in 1664—but it was written by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrer ...
Arthur WellesleyAfter Light's demise, Lieutenant-Colonelarrived in Penang to co-ordinate the defences of the island. In 1800, Lieu ...
Kenneth E. Iverson... in A Programming Language, a book describing a notation invented in 1957 bywhile at Harvard University. Iverson had developed a mathematical notation ...
Charles Dickens... in in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by. He created the role in the original West End production, and reprised it ...
Steven Chu... Hispanic to serve as Energy Secretary was Clinton's second, Federico Peña.became the first Asian American to hold the position on January 20, 2009, ...
Karl Marx... initially Romanticism and Historicism, and eventually both the Communism of, and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the French Revolution, i ...
David Gale... nly used for the graph; in this form the game was independently invented by, and has been known as Gale, Bridg-It, and Bird Cage
Martin Amis... econd half of the twentieth century." He was the father of English novelist
Joseph Stiglitz... l organizations and academics, notably including its former Chief Economist, who is equally critical of the International Monetary Fund, the US Treas ...
Julius von HaastHaast's Eagle was first classified byin the 1870s, who named it Harpagornis moorei after George Henry Moore, th ...
John E. Walker... synthase generated by rotation of the gamma subunit. The research group of, then at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, crystalliz ...
John WhitgiftIn 1599, the Archbishop of Canterburyand the Bishop of London George Abbot, whose offices had the function of l ...
David G. Kendall... n Telephone Exchange, published the first paper on queueing theory in 1909.introduced an A/B/C queueing notation in 1953. Important work on queueing ...
William Sherard... alauma", the genus name Magnolia, after Pierre Magnol. The English botanist, who studied botany in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a pupil o ...
Angus Deaton... the income of each person (or percentile). Princeton development economist(1997, 139) simplified the Gini calculation to one easy formula
Alfred Russel Wallace... her vitalistic theories. The work of Reinke was an influence for Carl Jung.believed qualitative novelties could arise through the process of evolutio ...
Kenneth E. Iverson... ost computer platforms. It is based on a mathematical notation developed byand associates that features special attributes for the design and specifi ...
William Hogarthpainted his satirical 'March of the Guards to Finchley' in 1750. It is a d ...
Stephen Jay Gould... penheimer claimed, "An interesting hypothesis put forward by paleontologistmany years ago was that the package of the Mongoloid anatomical changes co ...
William Astbury... he first crude X-ray diffraction images of DNA were collected in the 1930s,had talked about stacks of nucleotides spaced at 3.4 angström (0.34 nanome ...
James WattHuman knowledge and mastery over nature advances whenbuilds a successful prototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expediti ...
Albert Einstein... y from collisions between the particle and gas molecules. As pointed out byin 1905, this experimental evidence for kinetic theory is generally seen a ...
Simon Blackburn... nto others' ... is a concept that essentially no religion misses entirely."also states that the Golden Rule can be "found in some form in almost ever ...
Archbishop of CanterburyIn 1599, theJohn Whitgift and the Bishop of London George Abbot, whose offices had the ...
Crispin WrightThe brain in a vat argument has also been subject to criticism.argues that Putnam's formulation of the brain-in-a-vat scenario is too nar ...
David G. Kendall... r describing the characteristics of a queueing model was first suggested byin 1953. Kendall's notation introduced an A/B/C queueing notation that can ...
Charles P. Thacker... he Charles Stark Draper Prize along with Alan C. Kay, Robert W. Taylor, andfor their work on Alto. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Compute ...
Mark Catesby... or the taxonomic part of Johann Jacob Dillenius's Hortus Elthamensis and of's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. These were ...
Sandra Cisneros... Sinclair and John Steinbeck. Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya,, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, De ...
William Lawrence Bragg... tempt to do so. They asked for, and received, permission to do so from bothand Wilkins. In order to construct their model of DNA, Watson and Crick ma ...
Harlan MillsTop-down design was promoted in the 1970s by IBM researcherand Niklaus Wirth. Mills developed structured programming concepts for pra ...
John D. Rockefeller... mid 1920s, he was the third highest income tax payer in the US behind onlyand Henry Ford. During this period, while he served as Secretary of the U. ...
Edward Frankland... new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close friend of. From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und an ...
Vincent Massey... d military affairs in the 1920s. Its first ambassador to the United States,, was named in 1927. Canada became an active member of the British Commonw ...
John N. GrayAccording to, Popper held that "a theory is scientific only in so far as it is falsifi ...
J. B. S. HaldaneThe geneticistwondered why the dominant mutation that causes Huntington's disease remain ...
Anthony Braxton... collection of like-minded improvisors, which at various times has included, Tristan Honsinger, Misha Mengelberg, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Steve Bere ...
Roy Fedden... itish nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial aero engine. Designed byof the Bristol Aeroplane Company it was used to power both civil and milit ...
Augustus Wollaston Franks... relatively circumscribed but, in 1851, with the appointment to the staff ofto curate the collections, the Museum began for the first time to collect ...
Isaac Newton... , who was joining it, "I don't know any scientist who looks as much as likeas you do". May replied that "that could be my after dinner comment, thank ...
David Gale... it can be used to prove the two-dimensional Brouwer fixed point theorem, asshowed in 1979, and the determinacy of higher-dimensional variants proves ...
James Cook... ototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expedition continues as Captainclaims the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic ...
William Burges... ian period by John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, and the architect. Original Roman work can, however, still be distinguished in the wall fac ...
Nicolas Collins... ndustrial noise artists from the late 20th and early 21st centuries include, William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, Psyclones, The Haters, Boyd ...
Johann Jacob Dillenius... genus name Magnolia. He was at least responsible for the taxonomic part of's Hortus Elthamensis and of Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, F ...
Pedro II... Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor, so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark. In 1845 some ...
Adrienne Clarkson... umbents publicly outshine the actual head of state; former governor generalalluded to what she saw as "an unspoken rivalry" that had developed betwee ...
Newton... niana, and the introduced Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera suffruticosa.used "indigo" to describe one of the two new primary colors he added to th ...
J. R. R. TolkienBree is a fictional village in's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is thoug ...
Butler LampsonQED is a line-oriented computer text editor that was developed byand L. Peter Deutsch for the Berkeley Timesharing System running on the SD ...
Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke... ed by William Kent; and the Doric Column of Victory in the park designed by, and finished by Roger Morris. The latter rose to a height of , complete ...
Duke of York and Albany... nglish conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English, the future King James II. Stuyvesant and his council negotiated with the ...
Kim Dae-jungIn response to the summit between Kim Jong-il andin 2000, North and South Korea agreed in August 2000 to reconnect the sect ...
André-Marie AmpèreThrough popular etymology, it has been falsely claimed thatused the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began cal ...
Lewis Carroll... ated dodo fossils, the newly vindicated bird was featured as a character in's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With the popularity of the book, the ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein... 's philosophy using historicism and updated Hegelian historiographic ideas.was accused of brandishing a poker at Popper during a meeting of the Cambr ...
Prince Juan CarlosIn 1974, Mardas held an expensive party for the then Spanish heir,, which secured Mardas a contract. After the assassination of Admiral Carr ...
Stephen Jay Gouldobjected to the ranking of races as more or less neotenous. But Gould argu ...
Steve Lacy... stan Honsinger, Misha Mengelberg, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Steve Beresford,, Johnny Dyani, Leo Smith, Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser, J ...
Judi Dench... winners include Ian McKellen, Kenneth Branagh, Glen Joseph, Kevin Kline and
William McDougall... reaction was to decline, but he soon agreed on learning that C.S Myers and, two of his best former students, would participate. The other members we ...
Bill Clinton... ief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners ...
J. R. R. TolkienA palantír (pl. palantíri) is a magical artifact from's fantasy legendarium. A palantír (sometimes translated as "Seeing Stone" ...
Isaac Newton... morals but no longer authoritative (or meant to be) on matters of science.'s (1642–1727) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained ...
Peter Medawar... ious mutations that are believed to allow—even cause—age-related mortality.formalised this observation in his mutation accumulation theory of aging. ...
Jared Diamonddescribes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced s ...
Rudyard KiplingIn literature, "The Maltese Cat" is the title of a short story by. The story is about a polo match set in British colonial , told from the ...
Peter Shaffer's... ikov) to play the role of Mozart in director Milos Forman's film version ofplay Amadeus. In 1985, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Acto ...
Professor James Ward... m with the degree of M.A. honoris causa and, in 1904 with the assistance of, Rivers made a further mark on the world of psychological sciences, found ...
Carl LinnaeusThe species was first officially described by Swedish botanistin 1758. In the two centuries since then, numerous subspecies have been id ...
Barbara McClintock... genetic loci called nucleolar organizing regions (NORs), first described by. Because of this non-random organization, the nucleolus is defined as a " ...
Neville Chamberlain... . Smith became active in student politics, mostly protesting Prime Minister's seemingly soft attitude toward Nazism. While at Oxford, he was the firs ...
L. Peter Deutsch... line-oriented computer text editor that was developed by Butler Lampson andfor the Berkeley Timesharing System running on the SDS 940. It was impleme ...
Jim Yong Kim... ebruary 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physicianon July 1, 2009
Linus Pauling... ucture was driven in part by the knowledge that they were competing against. Given Pauling's recent success in discovering the Alpha helix, they fear ...
John Hicks... sticky prices or wages. Post Keynesians typically reject the IS/LM model of, which was very influential in neo-Keynesian economics
James Bradley... n of the axis of the Earth was discovered in 1728 by the British astronomer, but this nutation was not explained in detail until 20 years later
Joseph Stiglitz... asury Department, and US and other developed country trade negotiators. See, The Roaring Nineties, Globalization and Its Discontents, and Making Glob ...
Thomas HornsbyThe astronomerobserved the transit of Venus from the tower of the five orders in 1769
Sir John Masterman... ames used in the novel; the Masterton sisters having their names taken from, an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during ...
George C. WilliamsAnother evolutionary theory of aging was proposed byand involves antagonistic pleiotropy. A single gene may affect multiple tr ...
Robert Stephenson... ned by the architect John Dobson, and was constructed in collaboration with. The first services were operated by the North Eastern Railway company. T ...
Donald KnuthCWEB is a computer programming system created byand Silvio Levy as a follow up to Knuth's WEB literate programming system, ...
Carl Gustav Hempel... ems to be a valid scientific hypothesis. These examples were pointed out by. Hempel came to acknowledge that Logical Positivism's verificationism was ...
Albert EinsteinIn the opening scene, Maggie spells EMCSQU with her blocks, a reference to's mass-energy equivalence equation. A picture of Einstein also appears on ...
Stanisław August Poniatowski... the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king, was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest ...
Bill Clinton... er is also the only secretary to be dismissed from the post. Hazel O'Leary,'s first Secretary of Energy, was first female and African-American holder ...
George Bernard Shaw... , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's,was quoted as saying: "This is what God would have built if he had had the ...
Fred Brooks... Chapter 6 called "A programming language" for the book he was writing with, Automatic Data Processing, which would later be published in 1963
Max BornFar from claiming to make "the contradiction disappear" whichthought could be achieved with a statistical approach, de Broglie extended ...
Isaac Newton... e enjoyed collecting books: for example, he collected and protected many of's papers. It is in part on the basis of these papers that Keynes wrote of ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... rk Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine) are fictional characters in's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to Sauron's ...
John Allan Broun... t left Dumfries to go on and found the University of Sydney Medical School.'s contribution to science were his discoveries around magnetism and meteo ...
Max Planck... appeared to be the physicist who most sought that dimension of action which, at the beginning of the 20th century, had shown to be the only universal ...
Edward Jenner... when a smallpox epidemic begins in New England. Smallpox was then cured by
Maurice Wilkins... were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 with
Bill Clinton... Luxembourg; Hormel eventually received a recess appointment from President, bypassing a Senate vote. Frist also helped block the 1996 nomination of ...
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien... ristopher Tolkien was born in Leeds, England, the third and youngest son of. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then at the Oratory S ...
Georges-Louis Le Sage... hich were neglected by their contemporaries) were Mikhail Lomonosov (1747),(ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1816) and John James Waterston ...
Kazuhiko Nishijima... Heisenberg; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by Murray Gell-Mann and. To gain greater insight, the hadrons were sorted into groups having simi ...
John Dryden... iers Plowman. (E.g., John Leland, William Prynne, possibly John Milton, and.) Given the diffusion of different Piers/Ploughman texts, it is usually n ...
Duke of Wellington... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the. The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ...
Walter de Merton... y of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes fo ...
Gunther Schuller... mpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, and drummer Max Roach. Composerwrote: ... In 1943 I heard the great Earl Hines band which had Bird in it ...
Zweig... ilar purposes. Notable contributions to wavelet theory can be attributed to’s discovery of the continuous wavelet transform in 1975 (originally calle ...
Richard Keynes... ) was a distinguished surgeon, scholar and bibliophile. His nephews include(1919–2010) a physiologist; and Quentin Keynes (1921–2003), an adventurer ...
Noam Chomsky... settling in Philadelphia. Putnam attended Central High School; there he met, who was a year behind him. The two have been friends—and often intellect ...
Arthur C. Clarke... Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" by British science fiction writer, published in Wireless World magazine. The orbit, which Clarke first desc ...
John Tyndall... renamed antibiotics by Selman Waksman, an American microbiologist, in 1942.first described antagonistic activities by fungi against bacteria in Engla ...
Winston Churchill... ran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the "Sword of Stalingrad" from, he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from it ...
Emily Dolvin... er of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from Roswell and Bulloch Hall was her home., the aunt of Jimmy Carter (the 39th U.S. President), lived in Roswell the ...
Erwin Schrödinger... from physics into biology that he was influenced by both Linus Pauling and. It was clear in theory that covalent bonds in biological molecules could ...
Robert Conquest... ther displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the Sovietologist, the science fiction anthology series Spectrum I–V, which drew heavily up ...
Timothy Barnes... Diocletian as Caesar is taken by the writer Stephen Williams and historianto mean that the two men were longterm allies, that their respective roles ...
Max Roach... Thelonious Monk, trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, and drummer. Composer Gunther Schuller wrote: ... In 1943 I heard the great Earl Hine ...
Stephen Jay Gould... y theorists propose that neoteny has been a key feature in human evolution.believed that the "evolutionary story" of humans is one where we have been ...
Melvin Calvin... determine that the oxygen liberated in photosynthesis came from the water.and Andrew Benson, along with James Bassham, elucidated the path of carbon ...
Adam Smith... r natural price of a commodity. The labour theory of value, as presented by, however, did not require the quantification of all past labour, nor did ...
John Locke... f the individual but neither of them believed in the divine right of kings., on the other hand, who gave us Two Treatises of Government and who did n ...
Jacques Cassini... . Longitude within individual signs was still being used as late as 1740 byin his Tables astronomiques
Duke of Wellington... n the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Other Lives, playing the
Harold Pinter... of Samuel Beckett's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaboratorand directed by American playwright David Mamet; Gielgud died mere weeks a ...
Benjamin Franklinattended a revival meeting in Philadelphia and was greatly impressed with ...
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David Starkey... nd proto-feminist, Agnes Strickland. This assumption has been challenged byin his book Six Wives in which he points out that such a situation would h ...
Charles Darwin... discover exactly which molecule was the genetic molecule. In Crick’s view,’s theory of evolution by natural selection, Gregor Mendel’s genetics and ...
Charles Darwin... g to similar projects. His efforts were recognized both at home and abroad.said of him: "The Emperor does so much for science, that every scientific ...
Daubechies... he CWT (1982), Jan-Olov Strömberg's early work on discrete wavelets (1983),' orthogonal wavelets with compact support (1988), Mallat's multiresolutio ...
Murray Gell-Mann... ne Wigner and Werner Heisenberg; then, in 1953, according to strangeness byand Kazuhiko Nishijima. To gain greater insight, the hadrons were sorted i ...
Stanisław August Poniatowski... ovember 25 of that year that the last Polish king and Lithuanian grand dukeabdicated. In the Russian Empire, the city continued to serve its role as ...
John CageThe origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composerin his experimental music of the 1950s. Cage explored notions of indetermi ...
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool... s. William Robertson and Edward Spence are other Victoria Cross recipients., UK Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, was quartered in Dumfries in 1796 d ...
Elizabeth II... l family remained Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage ofand Prince Philip, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to ...
Edward FranklandWithhe found that nitriles can be hydrolyzed to the corresponding acids
David Cameron... as an ethnic Indian population of over 1.6 million. In 2010, Prime Ministerdescribed Indian – British relations as the "New Special Relationship"
Benjamin Franklin... ican government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14),postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) ...
Frederick, Prince of Wales... l stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden,who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjami ...
Pedro IIOn 6 September 1850 the emperor,, sanctioned a law authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave th ...
John R. Horner... currently still working on growing a tail, and changing the wings to claws.used evolutionary developmental biology on a chick embryo because he knew ...
Piers Paul ReadCriticisms against Opus Dei have prompted Catholics likeand Vittorio Messori to call Opus Dei a sign of contradiction, in referenc ...
John Terraine... d Mountbatten, produced by Associated-Rediffusion and scripted by historian. The list of episodes were
Darwin's... al History Museum narrating commentary to some of the exhibits that supporttheory of natural selection
John Wesley... clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergymanand Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley (the Younger), and father of musician ...
Linus Pauling... Crick’s transition from physics into biology that he was influenced by bothand Erwin Schrödinger. It was clear in theory that covalent bonds in biolo ...
George Zweig... ghtfold way, invented in 1961 by Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'eman. Gell-Mann and, correcting an earlier approach of Shoichi Sakata, went on to propose in ...
Federico Capasso... Dağdeviren and his team. In 1994, the quantum cascade laser was invented by, Alfred Cho, Jerome Faist and their collaborators and was later greatly i ...
Harold Pinter... his wife. When his wife then calls demanding to know why he is late for theplay, he tries to call Vicky, but is unable to reach her. Vicky sees Steve ...
Margaret Thatcher... nister James Callaghan made his government's papers on Trident available to's new incoming Conservative Party government, which took the decision to ...
Margaret ThatcherPrime Minister,, 1979–1990, was Conservative MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992, although ...
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne... th parliamentary power. In 1834, William dismissed the Whig Prime Minister,, and appointed a Tory, Sir Robert Peel. In the ensuing elections, however ...
Karl Marx... l new challenges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte toto Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and/or political ideologie ...
President Clinton... Employment, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from thenfor inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide. In April 2002, K ...
Norman Birnbaum... amily". At the time of Kennedy's death, sociologist and Nation board memberwrote that Kennedy had come to be viewed as the "voice" and "conscience" o ...
James Clerk MaxwellIn 1859, after reading a paper by Clausius,formulated the Maxwell distribution of molecular velocities, which gave th ...
George Rochberg... , Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber,and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge... The relationship between an albatross and a sailor is the central theme of's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which led to the use of the term as a ...
John R. Horner... e key evo-devo topics of evolutionary innovation and morphological novelty.began his Project "How to Build a Dinosaur" in 2009 in conjunction with hi ...
William Edward Parry... am Bay was named after the famed British Arctic explorer and navigator, Sir, as were two other nearby features, Parry Inlet and Edward Point. The bay ...
Winston Churchill... nrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Ministerand President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The m ...
Robert J. FlahertyThe film's story was written byand F.W. Murnau; with the exception of the opening scene, the film was dir ...
Bill ClintonOne of former President's great-grandfathers is buried here
NewtonFollowing the classical dynamics ofand Euler, the motion of a material body is produced by the action of exte ...
Bill Clinton... million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President’s climate change initiative
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTwo Will-o-the-wisps appear in's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795). They are desc ...
Albert EinsteinIn the early 20th century, Frederick Frost Blackman along withinvestigated the effects of light intensity (irradiance) and temperature o ...
Kathleen Kenyon... on methods he used, for example the grid system (later developed further byand known as the Wheeler-Kenyon method), were significant advances in arch ...
Alexander Fleming... , others pursued similar lines of inquiry but it was not until in 1928 thatobserved antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium. ...
Richard Attenborough... Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, M ...
Benjamin Bell... in Dumfries as was John Craig, mathematician, and polymath James Crichton.after being born in Dumfries went on to become considered the first Scotti ...
Robert Sternberg... ut themselves and the world. In his triangular theory of love, psychologisttheorizes that love is a mix of three components: some (1) passion, or phy ...
Peter Shor... s later greatly improved by the innovations of Claire Gmachl. Also in 1994,devised his quantum factorization algorithm. In 1996, SCALPEL electron lit ...
Benjamin Franklin... tigate mesmerism; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by, included Bailly and Lavoisier. The commissioners learned about Mesmeric ...
Leslie Orgel... istof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, the late, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter the la ...
Carl Linnaeus... in his 1620 Prodromus. Brassica napobrassica was first validly published byin his 1753 work Species Plantarum as a variety of B. oleracea: B. olerace ...
George Bernard Shaw... Common rendered Übermensch as "Superman"; Common was anticipated in this by, who had done the same in his 1903 stage play Man and Superman. Walter Ka ...
Maurice Wilkes... arts of the matrix to implement different instructions. The design inspiredto develop the concept of microprogramming
King George IV... es, although he became embroiled in unsuccessful mediation attempts between, and his estranged wife Caroline of Brunswick, who had sought her rights ...
Stanislaus II of Poland... cember 1757 – 8 March 1758), fathered by Catherine's lover, the future King#Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to Friedrich Maximil ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge... g of Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil:'s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner describes the Will o' the wisp
Archbishop of Canterbury... annoyance with the interference of their Visitor (patron) William Laud, the. Due to this, the college was moved to London at the start of the Civil W ...
C. S. Lewis... theorized that many of Treebeard's mannerisms are based on Tolkien's friend, a loud, bombastic man known for his powerful stride and overwhelming pre ...
Augustus Pitt Rivers... was influenced greatly by the work of the archaeologist Lieutenant General(1827–1900). The two constant themes in his attempts to improve archaeolog ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... Tolkien (born 21 November 1924) is the third and youngest son of the author(1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posth ...
A. O. HumeInspired by a suggestion made by, a retired British civil servant, seventy-three Indian delegates met in B ...
Benjamin Franklin... ant figures in American politics who participated in the Enlightenment wereand Thomas Jefferson
Prince Albert... s later extended artificially. The event became Royal in 1851. In that yearbecame the patron of the regatta
John Diefenbaker... ing re-appointed as premier (Mackenzie King twice); Alexander Mackenzie and, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their death ...
Walter de MertonMerton College was founded in 1264 by, Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Rochester. It has a claim to be the oldest ...
J. R. R. TolkienHuston is also famous to a generation of fans of's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/B ...
Isambard Kingdom BrunelWhile other notable people include SirFamous Engineer of the Industrial Revolution, was born in Portsmouth., Sir ...
Charles Dickens... nce been extended to refer to any drunken revelry. In A Tale of Two Cities,uses the words: "the law was certainly not behind any other learned profes ...
Charles Dickens... in England and Wales since the Reformation lived in Finchley. The novelistwrote Martin Chuzzlewit whilst staying at Cobley Farm near Bow Lane, North ...
Alberto Ginastera... 959), the Cantata Misericordium, op. 69 (1963), and Phaedra, op. 93 (1975).also composed three works in this form: the Cantata para América Mágica, o ...
Harold Pinter... y Television. Playing themselves, they were in Toronto during their tour of's No Man's Land. According to Dave Thomas, in his book, , their sketch wa ...
Joseph Bell... me considered the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson waswho Arthur Conan Doyle has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based ...
James Hopwood Jeans... and as founded on exercises using the method of inversion, such as found intextbook Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
Stephen Jay Gould... r the modern evolutionary synthesis was established (roughly 1936 to 1947).called this approach to explaining evolution as terminal addition; as if e ...
Frederick, Prince of Wales... derable that Sarah hoped to marry her granddaughter, Lady Diana Spencer, to, for which she would pay a massive dowry of £100,000. However, Robert Wal ...
Marx... ased by selling it), then profit was impossible. David Ricardo (seconded by) responded to this paradox by arguing that Smith had confused labour with ...
Don Mitchell... tical models on the mechanics of the inner and middle ear, MacArthur Fellow, Professor of Geography, who has developed studies in cultural geography, ...
Tomaso Poggio... Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran,, the late Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his y ...
James Clark Ross... ded financial support to the Enderby Brothers' expedition. In 1841, Captain, who sighted the islands on his own expedition to Antarctica, gave it the ...
Margaret ThatcherOn the election of's government, Lawson was appointed to the position of Financial Secretary ...
John WesleyIn terms of theology, Whitefield, unlike, was a supporter of Calvinism. The two differed on eternal election, fina ...
Anthony Braxton... io Morricone was a member of the free improvisation group Nuova Consonanza.has written opera, and John Zorn has written acclaimed orchestral pieces
Sir Henry Savile... y south of the hall. The quad was the culmination of the work undertaken byat the beginning of the 17th century. The foundation stone was laid shortl ...
Charles Dickens... ened in 1853 after Beacon Hill headland was dynamited to make space for it.was said to have made readings there. In the 1900s a ballroom and a new se ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... in MMORPGs. 2007 saw the release of The Lord of the Rings Online, based on's Middle-earth. Other licensed MMORPGs include The Matrix Online, based o ...
James DewarHydrogen was liquefied for the first time byin 1898 by using regenerative cooling and his invention, the vacuum flask. ...
Philip Larkin... ped in a pattern which was the inverse of that followed by his close friend. Before becoming known as a poet, Larkin had published two novels; Amis, ...
Ebenezer Cunningham... formal maps for relating solutions of Maxwell’s equations was identified by(1908) and Harry Bateman (1910). Their training at Cambridge University ha ...
Oscar Peterson... wn, Perlman has also played jazz, including an album made with jazz pianist, and klezmer. Perlman has been a soloist for a number of movie scores, no ...
Karl Marx... uages resulting in many people being unable to communicate with each other.wrote about the creation of nations as requiring a bourgeois revolution an ...
David Van Tieghem... s sound can be recognised in "The Promise", "El Diablo" and "Lady Ice") and, a percussionist from New York
Isaac Newton... enly that human beings themselves could be understood as complex machines ., influenced by Descartes, but also, like Bacon, a proponent of experiment ...
David Cronenberg... ctors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick,, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has ...
Edmund Wilson... oversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels:alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, ...
Harry Bateman... ons of Maxwell’s equations was identified by Ebenezer Cunningham (1908) and(1910). Their training at Cambridge University had given them facility wit ...
Cotton Mather... us other terms coined in print, but not in use, such as: "Connecticotian" –in 1702. "Connecticutensian" – Samuel Peters in 1781. "Nutmegger" is somet ...
Linus Pauling... stable helical conformation of amino acid chains in proteins (the α helix).was the first to identify the 3.6 amino acids per helix turn ratio of the ...
Samuel Pepys... ts typically associated with it contributed to this generic classification.owned a copy of Piers Plowman. A Crowley edition owned in 1613 by an educa ...
Winston Churchill... es, increased anti-aircraft batteries were installed at crucial points, andordered the construction of a series of causeways to block the eastern app ...
Walter Pater... in 1864. During this time he studied with the prestigious writer and critic, who tutored him in 1866 and who remained a friend till September 1879 wh ...
Benjamin FranklinThe colonies were independent of each other before 1774 as efforts led byto form a colonial union through the Albany Congress of 1765 had not made ...
Zaha Hadid... omplex in nearby Weil am Rhein, composed of buildings by architects such as(fire station), Frank Gehry (design museum), Alvaro Siza Vieira (factory b ...
Michael Holroyd... iration behind the character of St. John Hirst in her novel The Voyage Out.describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewi ...
Jan IngenhouszIn 1778,, court physician to the Austrian Empress, repeated Priestley's experiment ...
John D. Rockefeller... town later became a favorite residence for many rich New Yorkers, including, who first moved to Tarrytown in 1893. Kykuit, Rockefeller's elaborate ma ...
Bernard WilliamsAccording to, Moore's use of the phrase 'naturalistic fallacy' to describe this partic ...
Rudyard Kipling... her Hitchens author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth,, poet and author of the Jungle Book, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnig ...
Lewis Carroll... hed patients, most notably The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (better known as) who had been a regular visitor to Ore House
Torsten Hägerstrand... etition ; François Perroux's (1950) Economic Spaces: Theory and Application;'s (1953) Innovationsförloppet ur Korologisk Synpunkt; Edgar S. Dunn's (1 ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... as solicitors or barristers but satisfy the Master of the Faculties of thethat they possess an adequate understanding of the law. Both the latter tw ...
James RossThe Ross Sea was discovered byin 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea is Ross Island with the Mt. Erebus vo ...
Richard Bentley... ion), where Arbuthnot probably wrote the "Virgilius restauratus" satirizing
William Penn... imrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery who lived at Mentmore. Also worthy of note arewho believed he was descended from the Penn family of Penn and so is burie ...
Harold Macmillan... e 1960s, under the 1962 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings betweenand John F. Kennedy, the United States would supply Britain with Polaris m ...
Bill Clinton... e Roadless Initiative passed on 5 January 2001, during the last days of theAdministration, and the initiative prevented the construction of new roads ...
Elizabeth Jane HowardIn 1963, Hilary discovered Amis's love affair with novelist. Hilary and Amis separated in August; he went to live with Howard. He div ...
Murray Gell-MannThe word quark was coined by American physicist(b. 1929) in its present sense. It originally comes from the phrase "Three ...
Margaret Thatcher... e of conservative neoliberal politicians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S.,in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, the Western welfare state was at ...
Charles Mingus... ngwriting, conducting (e.g., David Currie) or acting as a bandleader (e.g.,). In some regions there may not be enough work in music to make a living, ...
Augustus Wollaston Franks... tly by the University of London and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of. Sir Arthur Evans doubled the amount of money that went with the students ...
Joseph Priestley... ant's biomass comes from the inputs of photosynthesis, not the soil itself., a chemist and minister, discovered that, when he isolated a volume of ai ...
John Neville Keynes... April 1946 at the age of 62. Both of Keynes's parents outlived him: father(1852–1949) by three years, and mother Florence Ada Keynes (1861–1958) by ...
Isaac Newton... greatest scientific minds of the day to work on the problem, including Sir, and put up prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device or me ...
Anthony Braxton... umber of free musicians are well known, including saxophonists Evan Parker,and Peter Brötzmann, trombonist George Lewis, guitarist Derek Bailey, and ...
Bill Clinton... George W. Bush carried Texas County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004.was the last Democratic presidential nominee to carry Texas County in 1992 ...
Benjamin Franklin... the first official U.S. stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depictingand George Washington. A few other countries issued stamps in the late 184 ...
Henry CowellThe idea of the event began in's philosophy of music. Cowell, a teacher to John Cage and later to Dick H ...
C. Wright Mills... itings were produced by such sociological luminaries as Talcott Parsons and. Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a functionalist, teleolo ...
Noam Chomsky... ate 1950s and early 1960s following the "cognitive revolution" initiated by's 1959 critique of behaviorism and empiricism more generally. The origins ...
Robert Axelrod... ender and receiver of that help, this tendency has been noted in studies bythat are summarized in his book The Evolution of Cooperation (1984). The s ...
Dorothy Whitelock... albraith's arguments were refuted to the satisfaction of most historians byin Genuine Asser, in 1967
Alan Turing... traced back as early as Descartes in the 17th century, and proceeding up toin the 1940s and '50s. The cognitive approach was brought to prominence by ...
Michael Faraday... pard Monge liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide in 1784.liquefied ammonia to cause cooling, Oliver Evans designed the first closed ...
Harold Wilson... sile submarines, later reduced to four by the incoming Labour government of, with 16 missiles to be carried on each ship. The Polaris Sales Agreement ...
Ken Vandermark... of the spectrum, including trumpeters Rob Mazurek and Cuong Vu, saxophonist, guitarist Nels Cline, bassist Todd Sickafoose, keyboardist Craig Taborn, ...
A. S. Eddington... which Dingle considered overly speculative and not based on empirical data.was another target of Dingle's critique, and the ensuing debate eventually ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge... an legend, and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by, and a speculative explanation of the writing of Kubla Khan, and what the ...
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery... om Great Hampden and is revered in Aylesbury to this day and Prime Ministerwho lived at Mentmore. Also worthy of note are William Penn who believed h ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... ime to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller and, and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio de Janeiro during his stops in ...
Bill Clinton... s. While George W. Bush carried Madison County both times in 2000 and 2004,also carried the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like many rural count ...
Lord Grenville... Wilberforce and Charles Fox led the campaign in the House of Commons, whileadvocated the cause in the House of Lords
Albert Einstein... etical constructs, rather than real objects. An important turning point was's (1905) and Marian Smoluchowski's (1906
Martin KamenSamuel Ruben andused radioactive isotopes to determine that the oxygen liberated in photos ...
Jürgen Habermas... social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, György Lukács and. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Josep ...
Rudyard KiplingVisited by Somerset Maugham,, Noël Coward and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always ...
Albert Einstein... Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this p ...
Albert, Prince Consort... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... ame Nuada probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, whichsuggested was related to a Germanic root meaning "acquire, have the use of ...
Charles II... enure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), Charles I and
Noam Chomsky... ch broader layers of the population, and were championed by figures such as. The 2003 invasion of Iraq led to a significant anti-war movement in whic ...
Sir Frank WhittleCoventry has been the home to several pioneers in science and engineering., the inventor of the jet engine, was from the city, as was the inventor J ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... Court of Faculties. The Court of Faculties is attached to the office of the
Hugh Trevor-Roper... n Bernadotte and Kersten came to public attention through British historian. In 1953, Trevor-Roper published an article based on an interview and doc ...
William Cullen... – The first documented public demonstration of artificial refrigeration by, Gaspard Monge liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide in ...
Elizabeth IIVisited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Noël Coward and Queenamong many others, Penang has always been a popular tourist destination, b ...
King Charles IIDuring the reign of, Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ...
Robert Wyatt... n, a version of the song was a minor UK hit for former Soft Machine drummer
Anthony Barber... ibes an earlier period of rapid expansion under the tenure as chancellor ofin the Conservative government of Sir Edward Heath (1970 to 1974). Critics ...
Donald Broadbent... in the 1940s and '50s. The cognitive approach was brought to prominence by's book Perception and Communication in 1958. Since that time, the dominan ...
Kara Walker... ment, grew up in Stockton and attended Tokay High School. Silhouette artistwas raised in Stockton, as was Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman W ...
Charles Dickens... hail from Portsmouth or who have lived in the city include: famous authors– famous for such works as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwic ...
Winston Churchill... der the direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Prime Ministertasked the Royal Navy with helping locate and retrieve the wreckage so tha ...
Persi DiaconisBorn in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career (likea generation later) was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the Univers ...
Daniel Burnham... vernor General Luke E. Wright, Burnham Park in honor of Baguio city planner, Governor Pack Road, and Session Road
Peter Ustinov... h, was later turned into a play, an opera by Benjamin Britten and a film by
Martin SeligmanPsychologistprovides the acronym PERMA to summarize Positive Psychology's correlationa ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... useums and Galleries Act 1992. Prior to the 1963 Act, it was chaired by the, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons. The board w ...
James Cook... Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenanton his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 t ...
Boris Aronson... staging. The set, designed in the style of Marc Chagall's paintings, was by. A colorful logo for the production, also inspired by Chagall's work, was ...
The Duke of Kent... ose friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni’. It was fromthat the Duke took over in this position, which involves him representing ...
Joseph Priestley... of his attempt to investigate the law of electrical repulsions as stated byin England
George Davis Snell... Owen Chamberlain (Physics, 1959), K. Barry Sharpless (Chemistry, 2001), and(Physiology or Medicine, 1980). Educators include the current chancellor o ...
Bill Clinton... er Liberal Cabinet headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such asand Barack Obama), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanis ...
Walter Scott... e of poems had widespread influence on such writers as Goethe and the young, but there was controversy from the outset about Macpherson's claims to h ...
William Penn... as early as 1763-1769), Derr had purchased several tracts of land from thefamily and other neighboring land owners; the largest of which was known a ...
Dickens... here he had been publicized and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since, he returned to England where Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed ...
Ray Lankester... nimal testing. The legislation was promoted by Charles Darwin, who wrote toin March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree tha ...
Jonathan Evans... diff is represented by Jenny Willott (Liberal Democrat) in Cardiff Central,(Conservative) in Cardiff North, Alun Michael (Labour) in Cardiff South an ...
Victor S. Miller... ptic curves in cryptography was suggested independently by Neal Koblitz andin 1985
Samuel Pepys... g mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and. However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time student and was al ...
Harold Wilson... d of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Ministerand without an agreement on the succeeding governance. Their enemies, the ...
Niels Bohr... ed the strange properties of the photoelectric effect. The Danish physicistused this same constant in 1913 to explain the stability of Rutherford’s a ...
Daniel Burnham... e residence of the American governor-general. The famous American architect, one of the earliest successful modern city planners, laid a meticulous p ...
Neal Koblitz... . The use of elliptic curves in cryptography was suggested independently byand Victor S. Miller in 1985
John Ashbery... Progress of Stories (1935) would later be highly esteemed by, among others,and Harry Mathews. Between 1936 and 1939 Riding and Graves lived in Englan ...
Thomas Pynchon... ntly subterranean): for example, postmodern authors such as Don DeLillo andseem to have been influenced by Gaddis (indeed, upon publication of V., Py ...
Andrew Waugh... her restricted work to the last three months of the year. In November 1847,, the British made several observations from Sawajpore station located in ...
William PennUpper Dublin dates back to 1684, when Edward Tanner was granted land byin the Province of Pennsylvania and named it "Upper and Lower Dublin." Low ...
Kendrick Frazier... he name The Zetetic and retitled after a few months under the editorship of, former editor of Science News. Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope calls Sk ...
John Julius Norwich... simplest terms, the loss of the Eastern Roman Empire's Anatolian heartland.says in his trilogy on the Byzantine Empire that the defeat was "its death ...
Charles Darwin... fically aimed at regulating animal testing. The legislation was promoted by, who wrote to Ray Lankester in March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on v ...
John CageStockhausen, along with, is one of the few avant-garde composers to have succeeded in penetrating ...
Richard Attenborough... inting artist John Walker. The prize was awarded by celebrity presenter Sir
Richard Hakluyt... retaliation, the village was sacked and burned. English writer and courtier's contemporary reports of the first voyage to Virginia, compiled from acc ...
Charles II... was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored, who granted the most liberal political terms
Duke of RichmondDuring February 1844, theinitiated the Central Agricultural Protection Society (CAPS, commonly know ...
Andrew Waugh... ial English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by, the British . Waugh named the mountain after his predecessor in the post ...
Charles IIThe principal advisor to, the Earl of Clarendon remarked on the matter, "and from those contestati ...
Charles François de Cisternay du FayBy the mid—18th century the French chemisthad discovered two types of static electricity, and that like charges repe ...
John Carey... positive view of his work became widely accepted. The noted English criticwas a major influence on his rehabilitation. He praises him in his 1992 bo ...
Frank Drake... ns, an idea that he had first developed informally with American astronomerin 1975. In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by ...
Daniel DennettIn his book "Kinds of Minds", philosopherwrote, "Dualism...and Vitalism (the view that living things contain some s ...
Manfred R. Schroeder... in the excitating sound build up in notably different sound waves. In 1964,published "A new method of Measuring Reverberation Time" in the Journal of ...
Isaac Newton... olars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe,, and Samuel Pepys. However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time ...
George V... rincipally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or asput it in the first-ever , the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the ...
John D. Barrow... of universal gravitation. While Kant's argument is historically important,says that it "...gets the punch-line back to front: it is the three-dimens ...
Walter Burkert... the name is the Mycenaean Greek a-re, written in Linear B syllabic script.notes that "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of ...
Noam ChomskyAcademicargues that Drug laws are currently, and have historically, been used by t ...
Alan Ayckbourn... music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of two plays by, and two different styles of musical in On connaît la chanson (Same Old S ...
Charles II... stic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs fromto George I. A comic opera covers a later period in 18th century history, ...
Sir Karl Popper... be able to see that I fully accept the recent philosophical achievements ofwith his concept of three worlds. I was a dualist, now I am a trialist! Ca ...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala... wo consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and
Bill Clinton... eorge W. Bush carried Ripley County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004,won the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like most of the rural countie ...
Brian Friel... at the time on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Anne Friel, playwright's wife. He read the works of Henning Mankell, Donna Leon and Robert Harri ...
Norbert Wiener... scientist combining physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch,, John von Neumann, Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was ...
Adam Smithand David Hume were the founding fathers of anti-mercantilist thought. A n ...
Samuel Wilberforce... Barbara (b. 1799), Elizabeth (b. 1801), Robert Isaac Wilberforce (b. 1802),(b. 1805) and Henry William Wilberforce (b. 1807). Wilberforce was an indu ...
Joseph Larmor... approach was suggested by Hendrik Lorentz along with George FitzGerald and. Both Larmor (1897) and Lorentz (1899, 1904) derived the Lorentz transfor ...
Karl MarxHighgate Cemetery is the burial place of, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph ...
George IV... he final three joint rulers (1760–1837), there was only one short visit, byin 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroy Adolphus represented the monarch in Han ...
John Winthrop the Younger... territory. By the 1640s, he began to grant land to the Pequot War veterans., the son of the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was among those ...
Lewis Carroll... ing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of"
Isaac Newton... e same time was put on the board trying to publish the Historia coelestius.and Edmund Halley wanted it published immediately, to support their work o ...
Winston Churchill... ich derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in ...
Nikolaus Pevsner... of the buildings are listed, including the Cheltenham Synagogue, judged byto be one of the architecturally "best" non-Anglican ecclesiastical buildi ...
Andrew Sarris... ough it is implied that nuclear warfare has destroyed humanity, film criticnotes that the episode's necessarily unrealistic format may have been what ...
William Thomson... athematical tripos training in mathematical analysis; the Glasgow physicistand his circle of associates established a new mathematical physics relati ...
Ronald Knox... s the end of his life, he converted to Roman Catholicism. He had hoped that, a Roman Catholic priest and writer whom he admired, would instruct him i ...
Rudyard Kipling... during this period. In 1907, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to
Max Born... an a “classical” mechanics, formulated in matrix-form by Werner Heisenberg,, and Pascual Jordan in 1925, were based on the probabilistic relationship ...
George FitzGeraldA more theoretical approach was suggested by Hendrik Lorentz along withand Joseph Larmor. Both Larmor (1897) and Lorentz (1899, 1904) derived the ...
Robert Isaac Wilberforce... than ten years: William (b. 1798), Barbara (b. 1799), Elizabeth (b. 1801),(b. 1802), Samuel Wilberforce (b. 1805) and Henry William Wilberforce (b. ...
William Hyde WollastonBy the 1810smade improvements to the galvanic cell
Duke of Wellington... ng scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new Prime Minister, the, devised a new sliding scale for the Importation of Corn Act 1828 whereby ...
Otto Luening... concrète approach that Davis and producer Teo Macero (who had studied withat Columbia University's Computer Music Center) had begun to explore in th ...
John James Audubon... squirrels," probably in reference to the sound they make. In the mid-1800s,and his sons included a lithograph of the chipmunk in their Viviparous Qua ...
Ludovic Kennedy... k returned to the BBC as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling for an appearance within A Life in Pieces. The 12 interviews saw Sir Arthur recount his life bas ...
Charles II... tability (some would say amorality) over half a century, from the reigns ofto George I. Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Prot ...
Harold WilsonIn 1964, the new British government underannounced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ...
Zachary Macaulay... Trade began meeting again, strengthened with prominent new members such as, Henry Brougham and James Stephen. In June 1804, Wilberforce's bill to ab ...
Peter Ustinovplayed Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978) ...
Hugh Latimer... lerk or registrar of the court of requests which the Protector, possibly at's instigation, illegally set up in Somerset House to hear poor men's comp ...
Samuel Pepys... ner of the Mayflower, and was also a base for that ship. The famous diaristwas the Member of Parliament for Harwich. Christopher Newport, captain of ...
Joseph GlanvillThe Drummer of Tedworth is a report of supernatural activity byin the West Country of England, in his Saducismus Triumphatus. The book's ...
Prince George of DenmarkIn 1702, he was at Epsom when, husband of Queen Anne fell ill. According to tradition, Arbuthnot treate ...
Andrew Huxley... hysiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize withand Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Julie Taymor... ued Broadway version of Icarus," loosely modeled after Spider-Man director,
James Clerk Maxwell... Electricity and Magnetism, an 1873 treatise on electromagnetism written by, eleven general equations of the electromagnetic field are listed and the ...
Douglas Hofstadter... del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) is a 1979 book by, described by his publishing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds an ...
Chinua AchebeThings Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerianpublished in 1958. The novel depicts influences of British colonialism and ...
Éamon de Valera... ns. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Aire, or literally First Minister)was the highest official in the Republic at this time but was notionally o ...
Murray BarrA Barr body (named after discoverer) is the inactive X chromosome in a female somatic cell, rendered inactive ...
Lewis Mumford... , published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies. The criticfound a copy of the poem in the New York Public Library in 1925 "with its ...
Alessandro VoltaGalvani's scientific colleagues generally accepted his views, butrejected the idea of an "animal electric fluid," replying that the frog's ...
William Butler Yeats... Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems. Future Nobel Prize winnerwas devoting much of his energy to the Abbey Theatre and writing for the s ...
Michael FaradayHighgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx,, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Chri ...
John Playfair... tatements of his geological ideas (though not his thoughts on evolution) byin 1802 and then Charles Lyell in the 1830s popularised the concept of an ...
J. R. R. TolkienThe Black Speech is a fictional language created by
Gene Amdahl... l's law, also known as Amdahl's argument, is named after computer architect, and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall syste ...
George Grosz... schools, and Art reflected the new ideas of the time, with artists such asbeing fined for defaming the military and for blasphemy
Allen Tate... e Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the Fugitives through, and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. Her first marriag ...
André-Marie Ampère... aking advance, although he left further work on electromagnetism to others.quickly repeated Oestred's experiment, and formulated them mathematically
Albert EinsteinThe concept of fields was introduced by, among others, Faraday.wrote
Bill Clinton... osted the Sharm El-Sheikh "Summit of the Peacemakers" attended by Presidentand other world leaders
Nicholas Serota... lly and internationally, as well as who are rising stars. Tate Director Sirhas been the Chair of the jury since his tenure at the Tate (with the exce ...
Charles Lyell... as (though not his thoughts on evolution) by John Playfair in 1802 and thenin the 1830s popularised the concept of an infinitely repeating cycle, tho ...
Adam Smith... therlands remained supreme in this field. Due to its popularity at the time's Wealth of Nations was banned due to its criticism of government control ...
Robert BoyleFurther work was conducted by Otto von Guericke,, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin co ...
Shelagh DelaneyThe works for which she is now best remembered are probably's A Taste of Honey (1958), which gained great critical acclaim, and the s ...
Norbert WienerHe knew well and was in conversation with John von Neumann,, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawre ...
Thomas Hardy... of Henry Vaughan. The deaths of three of his closest friends, Edmund Gosse,and Frankie Schuster (the publisher), within a short space of time, came a ...
Home Riggs Popham... y forces tried to invade the area of the Rio de la Plata, at the command ofand William Carr Beresford, and John Whitelocke. The invasions were repell ...
Richard Feynman... hen later confirmed experimentally by Heinrich Hertz in 1887. The physicistpredicted that, "The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignif ...
Max Müller... 5/1875-76, written on birch bark in bold Sharada, was only in part used byfor his edition of the Rigveda with Sayana's commentary
Robert Wyatt... Costello interpreted the character of Chief of Police, with Barbara Bonney,, Sting and Amanda Roocroft, and the album reached No. 2 in the Billboard ...
Robert Penn Warren... ion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist, who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and ...
Robert Peel... They arise from the attempted assassination of the British Prime Minister,, in 1843 by Daniel M'Naghten. In fact, M'Naghten fired a pistol at the ba ...
Charles Darwin... ks had widespread influence, not least on the up and coming young geologistwho read them with enthusiasm during his voyage on the Beagle, and has bee ...
James Gibbs... rt of the complex, it was designed around 1715 by either Lord Burlington or, who also designed the ‘Pagan Temple’ in the gardens. James Gibbs was sac ...
Charles II... ore the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished.restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, c ...
Robert Lowell... ; his verse is renowned for elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for whatdescribed as a 'diamond-edge', and the 'glory of its hard, electric rage'. ...
Humphry DavySir's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of ele ...
William Whewell... ibed as Lyell's first disciple. In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s,coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas ...
Alan Bullock... cal police, ignored the order. Researchers, including William L. Shirer and, are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible for starting th ...
Hans Krebs... arly 20th century. One of the most prolific of these modern biochemists waswho made huge contributions to the study of metabolism. He discovered the ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... Becket acquired a position in the household of Theobald of Bec, by now the
Ernest Rutherford... perty of matter, and isolated the radioactive elements radium and polonium.and Frederick Soddy identified two of Becquerel’s forms of radiation with ...
Louis R. Gottschalk... lished her poems in The Fugitive magazine. Her first marriage, to historian(1899–1975), ended in divorce in 1925, at the end of which year she went t ...
David Foster Wallace... as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, David Markson, and, who have all stated their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recog ...
Oliver HeavisideThe origin of the loading coil can be found in the work ofon the theory of transmission lines. Heaviside (1881) represented the line ...
Benjamin FranklinThe American scientist, who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia, invented bifocals. Serious ...
King Charles II... ry of New Providence begins in 1664 when James, Duke of York and brother to, purchased the land from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This acquisit ...
John Flamsteed... ley wanted it published immediately, to support their work on orbits, while, the Royal Astronomer whose observations they were, wanted to keep the da ...
William Diller Matthew... valid Albertosaurus material were reassigned to a different genus: in 1922renamed A. sarcophagus into Deinodon sarcophagus and in 1939 German paleon ...
Abraham Rees... ng technology. Encyclopaedias such as Harris's Lexicon Technicum (1704) and's Cyclopaedia (1802–1819) contain much of value. Cyclopaedia contains an ...
Manmohan Singh... nistration of the affairs of the executive. The incumbent prime minister is, in office since 22 May 2004
Taylor Branch... ller, Damon Strange, who worked for a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Historiancalled the conviction of Damon Strange a "breakthrough verdict" on p. 391 ...
Scott FahlmanZawinski's early career included stints with's Lisp research group at Carnegie Mellon University, Expert Technologies, ...
Edward VII... es from 1403. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor in 1910 by"in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East A ...
Ernest Augustus... herited by males. As a consequence, Hanover passed to William IV's brother,, and remained a kingdom until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia during ...
Bill Clinton... has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Paul Muldoon... d to build their large existing archive from Irish writers including Yeats,, Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley and other members of the The Belfast Grou ...
Charles Darwin... ular conditions and was evidence of benevolent design in nature. Studies of's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natu ...
James RandiAccording to, controlled tests by several other researchers, eliminating several sourc ...
William BeveridgeIn the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer, who had identified five "Giant Evils" afflicting the working class of th ...
Hilda Ellis Davidson... that "half-goddesses" stand higher than "half-gods" in Germanic mythology.(1948) states that Hel "as a goddess" in surviving sources seems to belong ...
Margaret Thatcher... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party underin 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ...
Nicholas Serota... ring, a prize judge (Lynn Barber) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir(about the purchase of a trustee's work)
William Pennpresented the tract of land around present day Upper Moreland Township to ...
Adam Smith... to the remainder of society in this sense may be deemed to be "antisocial".wrote that a society "may subsist among different men, as among different ...
Nikola TeslaIn 1891,established his Houston Street laboratory. Much of Tesla's research was lo ...
Daniel Burnham... ark to become the center of government and a design commission was given toto create a master plan for the city patterned after Washington D.C.. Thes ...
Ludwig WittgensteinVon Foerster was influenced by the Vienna Circle and. He worked in the field of cybernetics and is known as the inventor of se ...
Bill Gates... oele" is located in the mountains of Lānai and was designed by Greg Norman.was married on the 12th hole tee-box at The Challenge at Manele
Bill Dally... he CSX700 (2008) has 192. Stream Processors is headed by computer architect. Their Storm-1 processor (2007) contains 80 SIMD cores controlled by a MI ...
Peter Norvig... rnegie Mellon University, Expert Technologies, Inc. and Robert Wilensky and's group at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, he was hired by Richard P. Gabri ...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala... r, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for
Alessandro Volta... ctricity was the medium by which nerve cells passed signals to the muscles.'s battery, or voltaic pile, of 1800, made from alternating layers of zinc ...
Richard Attenborough... ngs used the same actors in a lot of their films, including Ian Carmichael,, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and Miles Mall ...
Geri AllenWithWith Arcana With Chet Baker With George Cables With Ron Carter With Stanle ...
Benjamin Franklin... Union. The county was organized in 1818 and is named after Founding Father
James Cook... . The island name was first written in English, in 1778 by British explorerand his crew members. They wrote it as "Owhyhee" or "Owhyee". Explorers Mo ...
Bill Clinton... ier Field. Numerous dignitaries attended, including United States President, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánch ...
Francis Crick... y "holding positions" on the pathway to mechanistic understanding. In 1967,, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, stated "And so to those of yo ...
Oliver Heaviside#Equation (54) is an equation thatreferred to as 'Faraday's law'. This equation caters for the time varying ...
Robert Stephenson... he Tyne Bridge of 1928 which was built by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough, and's High Level Bridge of 1849, the first road/rail bridge in the world
Albert Einstein... cal new physical theories also began to emerge in this same period. In 1905, then a Bern patent clerk, argued that the speed of light was a constant ...
Leon Fleisher... oles was on October 11, 2008, in an all-Beethoven program featuring pianistperforming the Emperor Concerto
Benjamin Franklin... Guericke, Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century,conducted extensive research in electricity, selling his possessions to fu ...
Michael FaradayIn 1832,'s experiments led him to state his two laws of electrochemistry. In 1836, ...
King George VI... x years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage byas the Viscount Bennett of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgar ...
John Cage... starting with 18th century concert hall music. Hegarty contends that it is's composition 4'33", in which an audience sits through four and a half mi ...
William Charles Wells... t in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and byand Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publ ...
Richard P. Gabriel... y and Peter Norvig's group at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, he was hired by's Lucid Inc. where he was eventually put to work on Lucid's Energize C++ ...
Leszek KołakowskiAlthough's works were officially banned in Poland, underground copies of them infl ...
Harold Pinter... ipt to Karel Reisz's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by, is a film-within-a-film adaptation of John Fowles's book. In addition to ...
Richard Attenborough... st marriage to Michael Attenborough, the son of British film actor/director, lasted from 1971 to 1973. Her second marriage to Geoffrey Planer lasted ...
John Herschel... le toy figures of John Stuart Mill, poet Felicia Hemans, and astronomer Sir. Youthful inventiveness finds a way, however
Merce CunninghamSigur Rós collaborated with Radiohead in October 2003 to compose music for's dance piece Split Sides; Sigur Rós’s three tracks were named Ba Ba Ti K ...
Max PerutzThe first protein structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, byand Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-reso ...
Michael Longley... ng archive from Irish writers including Yeats, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson,and other members of the The Belfast Group
Gregory Bateson... Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask,, Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others. He influenced ge ...
George Antheil... ncluded the phonographic playback of a nightingale recording. Also in 1924,created a work titled Ballet Mécanique with instrumentation that included ...
Alan Dershowitz... at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side.", an Israel advocate and a law professor at Harvard University, said that ...
Max Planck... antities (“quanta”), according to a constant that the theoretical physicisthad posited in 1900 to arrive at an accurate theory for the distribution o ...
Oliver HeavisideThe need for loading coils was discovered byin studying the disappointing slow speed of the Transatlantic telegraph ca ...
James Clerk Maxwell... a dynamics analysis of the centrifugal governor, conducted by the physicistin 1868 entitled On Governors. This described and analyzed the phenomenon ...
George II... amed after the George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, as suggested by King, who approved the royal patent on March 26, 1759. Montague was incorporat ...
Thomas Henry Huxley... ion of "Why does opium cause sleep?" with "Because of its soporific power."compared vitalism to stating that water is the way it is because of its "a ...
Jared Diamond... n of wheat began to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent after about 8000 BC.traces the spread of cultivated emmer wheat starting in the Fertile Cresce ...
Hideki Yukawa... he laws governing the uncertainties inherent in the quantum world. Notably,proposed that the positive charges of the nucleus were kept together court ...
Locke'sSubscribing toempiricist viewpoint involving the tabula rasa, Herbart believed that the ...
Mario Vargas Llosa... ique Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos,, Moisés Naím, Tomas Eloy Martine
Rudyard Kipling... an executive with the Soo Line Railroad because of his great admiration for. The ZIP code is 49780
Leon Golub... ing consequences of a contemporary bombing of a small, ancient Basque town.'s Interrogation III (1981), depicts a female nude, hooded detainee strapp ...
Michael FaradayAndré-Marie Ampère in 1819-1820;invented the electric motor in 1821, and Georg Ohm mathematically analyse ...
Charles IIAfter the Restoration, Kingand his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to ...
Thomas Spring-Rice... icability". He submitted a copy of this to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,, on 4 January 1837. This first edition was marked "private and confidenti ...
Adam Smith... antilist writers presenting an overarching scheme for the ideal economy, aswould later do for classical economics. Rather, each mercantilist writer t ...
Winston Churchill... ied Europe. The Allied leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States,of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, had agreed in general ...
Ambrose Philips... d him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of, who had been praised by a short-lived contemporary publication The Guard ...
King Edward VII... he set up the National Council to campaign against the visit to Ireland ofhis consort Alexandra of Denmark
Paulson... e are called parameters by some authors (e.g., Prawitz, "Natural Deduction";, "Designing a theorem prover"). Parameters locally defined within the pr ...
Allan Bloom... into moral and political decay. Robert Bork's Slouching Toward Gommorah and's The Closing of the American Mind are famous expressions of this point o ...
Robert Hanbury Brown... the second to be discovered. The diameter of Sirius A was first measured byand Richard Q. Twiss in 1959 at Jodrell Bank using their stellar intensity ...
Bryan R. Wilson... ons merely based on negative experiences of some members. Sociologists likewrite about some former members of any religious group who may have psycho ...
Edward Gibbon... appeared: The Rise of the Russian Empire, a historical study modelled upon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
King Edward VIIgranted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Ro ...
Kenneth E. Iverson... P. Sharp Associates' Sharp APL product. Unlike most other APL interpreters,had some influence in the way nested arrays were implemented in Sharp APL ...
André-Marie Ampère... ity of electric and magnetic phenomena, is due to Hans Christian Ørsted andin 1819-1820; Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in 1821, and Geo ...
Richard Price... of Chances which was read to the Royal Society in 1763 after Bayes's death.shepherded the work through this presentation and its publication in the P ...
Wesley J. SmithAuthor and anthropocentrism defenderhas written that human exceptionalism is what gives rise to human duties t ...
Tim Hunt... cis Crick Graduate Lectures. The first two lectures were by John Gurdon and
Albert EinsteinWhile spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mat ...
Charles II of England... ox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of. In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with Henry Fox, a politician who was eight ...
Sir Rowland HillThe Englishmanstarted to take an interest in postal reform in 1835. In 1836, a Member of ...
Paul Volcker... former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair; Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehea ...
Newton’s... forces that Herbart attempted to explain by means of mathematical formulas.influence can be seen in Herbart’s beliefs about how forces mechanically i ...
Paul Tillich... on theologians and religious thinkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth,, Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie
James IIAfter the Restoration, King Charles II and his successorvisited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By this t ...
Iris Murdoch... kespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of writerin Iris in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman); for Mr ...
John Gurdon... s hosts The Francis Crick Graduate Lectures. The first two lectures were byand Tim Hunt
The QueenHer Majestyvisited on
Ralph Hartley... oretical work in data transmission and information theory by Harry Nyquist,, Claude Shannon and others during the early 20th century, was done with t ...
William CullenNeurosis was coined by the Scottish doctorin 1769 to refer to "disorders of sense and motion" caused by a "general a ...
Chomskyinitially hoped to overcome the limitations of context-free grammars by ad ...
Marquess of Clydesdale... ouston Everest Flight of 1933, which saw a formation of aircraft led by thefly over the summit in an effort to deploy the British Union Flag at the t ...
Colin Leakey... archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of RichmondThe Lennox sisters were daughters of, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of Charles II of England. ...
Humphry Davy... of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sirand independently by George Stephenson. However, the lamps proved a false ...
David Cronenberg... This Time?" Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith in's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone. That same year, Walken ...
William Penn... ship was one of the original manors reserved for his family in the 1680s by, the founder of Pennsylvania
Bernard Katz... erform some of the experiments which proved chemical synaptic transmission.and Eccles worked together on some of the experiments which elucidated the ...
John D. Rockefeller... ard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by the well-known industrialist, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, ...
Keith Joseph... ex. The councils involved were initially unable to decide upon a name, withsuggesting "Uxbridge" in October 1963, later revised to Hillingdon
James RandiIn 2005,offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US$1 million prize to d ...
Blake Morrison... accused Heaney of being "an apologist and a mythologizer" of the violence,suggests the poet "has written poems directly about the Troubles as well a ...
Edward VIII... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surroundingand his relationship with Wallis Simpson
Tolkien... Eddings did not realize it until several years later. Upon seeing a copy of's The Lord of the Rings, in a bookshop, he allegedly muttered, "Is this o ...
Duke of Wellington... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the. The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ...
Pierre Trudeau... re winning a by-election a few weeks later. Similarly, John Turner replacedas leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequently was appointed prim ...
Ansel Adams... and other luminaries to be inspired by Taos and each other. Among them were, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, author D. H. Lawrence and his wife, ...
John D. Rockefeller... orations until it was broken up by the United States Supreme Court in 1911.was a founder, chairman and major shareholder. As it grew exponentially an ...
John Whitgift... he had no love for ecclesiastical jurisdiction. He warmly remonstrated with, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, over his persecuting Articles of ...
Robert Napier... dros II for its safe return to Empress Zewditu. The crown had been taken byduring the
Winston Churchill... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings byand Roosevelt
John Denham... lustrating the use of heroic couplets is this passage from Cooper's Hill by, part of his description of the Thames
Prince... shops such as Boots the Chemists, which was opened in November 1981 by theand Princess of Wales. It has entrances located opposite Chesterfield Mark ...
Oliver Heaviside... experimental result of Weber and Kohlrausch. But it wasn't until 1884 that, concurrently with similar work by Willard Gibbs and Heinrich Hertz, grou ...
Nikola Tesla... see the greatest progress in electrical engineering. Through such people as, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Je ...
Woody HoltonHistorian, for example, argued that even though the boundary was pushed west in sub ...
David Livingstone... le River. Speke continued and found the actual source, Lake Victoria. Laterpassed by the lake. He noted the name "Liemba" for its southern part, a wo ...
William HugginsIn 1868, Sirius became the first star to have its velocity measured. Sirexamined the spectrum of this star and observed a noticeable red shift. He ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... tical jurisdiction. He warmly remonstrated with John Whitgift, the Anglican, over his persecuting Articles of 1583. The finest encomium was passed on ...
Queen Elizabeth II'sHe is the only president serving duringreign to have never met her
Alexander DalrympleThe Royal Society suggested command be given to Scottish geographer, whose acceptance was conditional on a brevet commission as a captain in ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... ion of Wilberforce and Bishop Porteus, King George III was requested by theto issue in 1787 the Proclamation for the Discouragement of Vice, as a rem ...
Murray Gell-Mann... by scattering and decay provided a key to new fundamental quantum theories.and Yuval Ne'eman brought some order to these new particles by classifying ...
Arthur Wellesley... onnected passenger, Lady Barbara Wellesley, the fictional younger sister of(later to become the Duke of Wellington) become dangerously attracted to e ...
Richard Price... findings on probability theory were passed in manuscript form to his friendafter his death
Leibniz... ngoing, and viciously personal disputes between the followers of Newton andconcerning priority over the analytical techniques of infinitesimal calcul ...
Guglielmo MarconiThe original inventors of radio, such as Nikola Tesla and, expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless communication tasks where ...
Lord SalisburyCurzon became Assistant Private Secretary toin 1885, and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-w ...
Winston Churchill... g the war her photograph was a sign of resistance against the Germans. Like, Queen Wilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over Radio Oranj ...
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery... lpted in Carrara, Italy in 1882, and was unveiled by future Prime Minister,on 6 April 1882. Today, it features on the 2007 series of £5 notes issued ...
Don ByronClarinetisthas recorded and performed Scott's music, as have the Kronos Quartet, Ster ...
Martin LowryIn 1923, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted andpublished essentially the same theory about how acids and bases behave, us ...
Leibniz's... l external objects existing in the world as reals, which can be compared toconcept of monads
Harry PartchJohn Cage,, Edgard Varèse, and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, created entire ...
Sir Jeremy GreenstockBritish diplomat and former British ambassador to the UNstated in early 2009 that the Hamas charter was "drawn up by a Hamas-linke ...
Arne Tiselius... me theory about how acids and bases behave, using an electrochemical basis.developed the first sophisticated electrophoretic apparatus in 1937 and so ...
André Kertész... e city through this medium, in which he was tutored by his fellow Hungarian. He later wrote that he used photography "in order to capture the beauty ...
John Couch Adams... the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were made byin England. Le Verrier announced his final predicted position for Uranus's ...
Richard Rorty... be avoided and replaced with a return to some type of faith and revelation., Kierkegaard, and Wittgenstein challenge the sense of questioning whether ...
William Butler Yeats... ilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth –– Andrew Youn
Terry Eagleton... poet seeking religious and aesthetic unity". Heaney is described by criticas "an enlightened cosmopolitan liberal", refusing to be drawn. Eagleton s ...
John Venn... erard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter,the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP ...
Isaac Newton... lished anonymously in 1736), in which he defended the logical foundation of's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of George Berkeley, author ...
Joseph Louis Lagrange... bert in the article Dimension in Encyclopedie. Another early venture was byin his Theory of Analytic Functions (1797, 1813). He said, "One may view m ...
James Clerk Maxwell... in 1827. Electricity and magnetism (and light) were definitively linked by, in particular in his "On Physical Lines of Force" in 1861 and 1862
Princess Elizabeth... Navy at the age of 18 in 1939. From July 1939, he began corresponding with, the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King George VI. During Wo ...
Marquess of ButeThe town grew rapidly from the 1830s onwards, when thebuilt a dock which eventually linked to the Taff Vale Railway. Cardiff bec ...
John Dryden... e. The heroic couplet is often identified with the English Baroque works ofand Alexander Pope. Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the work ...
Peter Heather... the Roman province of Raetia in the winter of 401/402. From this, historianconcludes that at this time the Vandals were located in the region around ...
Carol Ann DuffyIn September 2009, the school had a visit from the Poet Laureatewho gave a speech to pupils from the school and others from the whole of A ...
Sir Christopher Wren... taining only Henry VIII's Great Hall. The country's most eminent architect,, was called upon to draw the plans, while the master of works was to be W ...
Richard EllmannWilde's life was still waiting for independent, true scholarship whenbegan researching his 1987 biography Oscar Wilde, for which he posthumousl ...
Nikola TeslaThe original inventors of radio, such asand Guglielmo Marconi, expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless comm ...
Stephen StiglerIn his later years he took a deep interest in probability.feels that he became interested in the subject while reviewing a work writ ...
George FinchThe British returned for a 1922 expedition.("The other George") climbed using oxygen for the first time. He ascended ...
James Clerk MaxwellAnother important antecedent to spacetime was the work ofas he used partial differential equations to develop electrodynamics with ...
John Cage(Sometimes referred to as "found" instruments or as custom percussion), Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse, and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, c ...
James II... 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with, and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on ...
Philip Roth... n 2008, Cruz appeared in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on thestory The Dying Animal, as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo. Ray Be ...
Carl WoeseIn 1987,established this grouping, calling it informally the "purple bacteria and ...
T. E. Lawrence... tral Africa, Aurel Stein in Central Asia, D.G. Hogarth, Leonard Woolley andexcavated at Carchemish. In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing ...
Fritz HaberIn 1898,showed that definite reduction products can result from electrolytic proce ...
Kofi Annan... and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of Goldman Sachs; and, former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Michael Faraday... out his 1861 paper, derived theoretically using a molecular vortex model of's "lines of force" and in conjunction with the experimental result of Web ...
Gil EvansWithWith Tommy Flanagan With Hal Galper With Stan Getz With Dexter Gordon With ...
Edmond Halley... when naval officers had refused to take orders from civilian commander Dr.. The impasse was broken when the Admiralty proposed James Cook, a naval o ...
Edward Gibbon... nce. For his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–89),, aiming to unite the two extremes of Constantinian scholarship, offered a ...
Edward Hodges Baily... of 1832, stands beside Monument Metro Station and was designed and built byand Benjamin Green. Hodges, who also built the Nelson's Column, designed a ...
Hulse... of the binary pulsar PSR 1913+16, for which the Nobel Prize was awarded toand Taylor in 1993
Newton... e major centers for the performance and reporting of experimental work, andwas himself an influential experimenter, particularly in the field of opti ...
Joseph Banks... nd were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist, Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles ...
Robert Hardy... Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Michael Gambon, 1987), Make and Break (with, 1987), Can You Hear Me Thinking? (co-starring with her husband, Michael ...
Anthony Thwaite... Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson –– Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – Oscar Wilde – Jo ...
Richard Schickel... g Ryan beguiles in three different roles." Fifteen years later, Time criticlisted it as one of his "Guilty Pleasures"; while acknowledging "there are ...
Bill Clinton... East by reducing "people's tension". In a letter to presidential candidate, Hagelin accepted Clinton's offer to debate "any serious candidate" and i ...
Chinua Achebe... guage means knowing how to intersperse speech with a good dose of proverbs.(in Things Fall Apart) describes proverbs as "the palm oil with which word ...
Erwin Schrödinger... tionship between discrete “states” and denied the possibility of causality.established an equivalent theory based on waves in 1926; but Heisenberg’s ...
Bill Clinton... na Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by
George V... Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to Kingof the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological Garden (Jardin Zoologique) of ...
Jacques d'AmboiseOther ballets include Prologue choreographed byfor the New York City Ballet in 1967 as a prequel to Shakespeare's play, O ...
Archbishop of CanterburyJohn Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was an(1691–1694)
Bill Clinton... rétien was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he andwere known to be golfing partners. Their governments had many small trade ...
Isaac NewtonIn the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned byin the "General Scholium" that concludes his Principia. Making a compariso ...
Oliver Heaviside... ctrical engineering. Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris,, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Sw ...
Charles Scott Sherrington... class honours) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study underat Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Ph ...
Eudora Welty... rialized by leading Mississippi and national authors, both black and white:, James Baldwin, Margaret Walker and Anne Moody. In 1969, Medgar Evers Col ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... to have him made Bishop of Worcester (and subsequently Bishop of London and). Dunstan remained Edgar's advisor throughout his reign
Robert Peel... of Adam Smith and the classical economists. The repeal of the Corn Laws bysymbolised the emergence of free trade as an alternative system. Mercantil ...
Edmond HalleyIn 1718,discovered the proper motion of the hitherto presumed "fixed" stars after ...
Joseph Black’s... also produced new concepts, such as the University of Glasgow experimenternotion of latent heat and Philadelphia intellectual Benjamin Franklin’s ch ...
James Cook... bruary 25, 1779, when Captain Charles Clerke sighted the island from aboard's HMS Resolution. Clerke had taken command of the ship after Cook was kil ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... Queen Mother. Baptised in the Palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960, by then, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (h ...
William Butler Yeats... his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like D. H. Lawrence,, and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. William Carlos Williams was ...
François Langelier... ission under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court. Amongst its recommendations for permanently recording the celebrations f ...
Cecil TaylorJazz musicians such as Miles Davis (Bergstein 1992),, Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006) ...
Emilio Segrè... by notable minds like Edoardo Amaldi, Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti and. For the theoretical studies only, Ettore Majorana also took part in what ...
John Arbuthnot... sy. The attacks by Alexander Pope (he was assigned a niche in The Dunciad),and others demonstrated their inability to appreciate his work, as they co ...
Martin Litchfield West... ace between two opposite army camps where champion combat would take place.has pointed out that a story very similar to that of David and Goliath app ...
Charles MingusJazz musicians such as Miles Davis (Bergstein 1992), Cecil Taylor,, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006), and Anthony Br ...
Lord Liverpool... ent of peace during 1814, corn prices decreased, and the Tory government ofpassed the 1815 Corn Law. This resulted in serious rioting in London
Stephen LeacockIn Canada, satire has become an important part of the comedy scene.was one of the best known early Canadian satirists, and in the early 20th ...
Revilo P. Oliver... hile others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as the philologistand the Korean-American Mike Kim)
Andrew DasburgParisian born(1887–1979) was one of the earliest friends of Luhan to come and stay in T ...
Bill Clinton... ber 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-Presidentthat, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts ...
Daniel Solander... e Royal Society representatives: naturalist Joseph Banks, Banks' assistantsand Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles Green, and artists Sydney Parkinson ...
Lewis Carroll... d often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde,, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. W ...
Alexander Fleming... tibiotics. Penicillin, a drug produced by P. chrysogenum, was discovered byin 1929, and found to inhibit the growth of Gram positive bacteria (see be ...
Bill Clinton... nee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat. Dole is currently special counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of law ...
Benoît MandelbrotIt was discovered bythat changes in prices do not follow a Gaussian distribution, but are rath ...
Vladimir Nabokov... allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries. An example of this is's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poe ...
Frank Macfarlane BurnetThe pathogen of Q fever was discovered in 1937, whenand Mavis Freeman isolated the bacterium from one of Derrick’s patients. I ...
George MacDonald FraserSir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by(1925–2008), but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schoolda ...
Bill Clinton... pelessly liberal ("a card-carrying member of the ACLU"). In 1996, Presidentseized upon opponent Bob Dole's promise to take America back to a simpler ...
Prince Charles... Howells made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit".wrote to him: "It's good to hear your refreshing common sense about the dr ...
DaubentonIn 1799 he succeededas professor of natural history in the Collège de France. In 1802 he becam ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... ebruary 1960), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and. At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the ...
Bill Clinton... year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former Presidentinto the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at ...
Baddeley... short-term memory is distinct from these more hypothetical concepts. Within's influential 1986 model of working memory there are two short-term stora ...
Johann Christoph Pepusch... Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became hou ...
Satyendra Nath Bose... assert that “God does not play dice with the universe”. Also in the 1920s,'s work on photons and quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose- ...
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIn 1817 the poet, aesthetic philosopher and criticcame to live in the Highgate home of Dr James Gillman in order to rehabili ...
George V... he London premiere of Der Schwanendreher when he heard news of the death of. He quickly wrote this piece for solo viola and string orchestra in tribu ...
Earle Birney... elling Place (1961) was published after Lowry's death. The scholar and poetedited Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (1962). He also collaborated with L ...
Cavalier-Smith... rmed in the early 1990s by genetic studies, most notably by Gajadhar et al., introduced the formal name Alveolata in 1991, although at the time he ac ...
Thomas Young... don, where John Dalton argued for an atomistic interpretation of chemistry,argued for the interpretation of light as a wave, and Michael Faraday esta ...
Günter Grass... ) and even after World War II (as the 'Static' poet). He was referred to in's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, Bertolt Brecht ...
James Cook... rth-western Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga and the Fijian islands.explored the Pacific islands and the east coast of Australia in the 18th c ...
Maxwell... hen N = 3 or 1 are both problems avoided. In 1922, Hermann Weyl showed that's theory of electromagnetism works only when N = 3 and T = 1, writing tha ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... as of London, and later Thomas à Becket; circa 1118 – 29 December 1170) wasfrom 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr ...
Richard Feynman... adequately resolved until after World War II ended, when Julian Schwinger,, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga independently posited the technique of renormaliz ...
Robert Stephenson... of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer,, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor ...
James II... ow Revolution House, was the site of a meeting between conspirators againstin 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, ...
Ruth Padel... in 2006 which left him "babyish" and "on the brink". Poet and Forward judgedescribed the work as "a collection of painful, honest, and delicately wei ...
Anthony Braxton... arles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006), and(Radano 1993, 110) cite Stockhausen as an influence
Robert Stephenson... ology. It was based on experience gained from earlier designs by George and, including the Killingworth locomotive Blücher (1814); Locomotion No 1 (1 ...
Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland is a 1933 film version of the famous Alice novels of. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring an all-star cast. ...
William BlighIn 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty againstled to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on Pi ...
Colm Tóibín... and delicately weighted poems...a wonderful and humane achievement". Writerdescribed Human Chain as "his best single volume for many years, and one t ...
Michael Palin... peril of being closed. It starred Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and. The dedication displays photos and the lifespan dates of Peter Cook and ...
Bill Clinton... counties, its voters often favor Republican and conservative issues. Whiledid manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, Georg ...
Marian McPartlandA CD recording of a collaboration withon her show Piano Jazz was released in 2005. It featured Costello singing ...
James Cook... given to the mountain in 1851 by Captain John Lort Stokes to honour Captainwho first surveyed and circumnavigated the islands of New Zealand in 1770. ...
Noam ChomskyThe formalism of context-free grammars was developed in the mid-1950s by, and also their classification as a special type of formal grammar (which ...
Karl Marx... attach to their own actions. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science
Brian AldissA contemporary ofand James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox E ...
Richard Porson... holars such as R Dawes, J Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup, T Tyrwhitt,, Peter Paul Dobree, Thomas Kidd and James Henry Monk. Although the Dutch ...
Noam Chomsky... severe criticism of B.F. Skinner's work in 1971 by the cognitive scientist
Jürgen Habermas... phy of convergence proposed by the Frankfurt School (e.g. Theodor W. Adorno)
J. Presper Eckert... rties to invalidate electronic computing patents issued to John Mauchly and, which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Rand. In the 1973 decis ...
Bill Clinton... ter the final episode of his season aired), he was lauded by then-President. Zamora’s friend and roommate during the show, Judd Winick, went on to be ...
Lord Acton... ecursor of state crimes in the 20th Century. Others, including Macaulay and, have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the admiration for su ...
Shiffrin... is referred to as the "modal model" and has been most famously detailed by. The exact mechanisms by which this transfer takes place, whether all or ...
Charles Tilstone Beke... raphical results and his political intrigues. He was especially attacked by, who impugned his veracity, especially with reference to the journey to K ...
John Mauchly... ght by various parties to invalidate electronic computing patents issued toand J. Presper Eckert, which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Ra ...
Macaulay... Borgia the precursor of state crimes in the 20th Century. Others, includingand Lord Acton, have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the adm ...
Richard Bowdler Sharpe... us name for grebes and European ones, following Nicholas Aylward Vigors and, for divers. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature trie ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... early thirteenth centuries in the positions of Chief Justiciar of England,, and Lord Chancellor. As chancellor, Walter began the keeping of the Char ...
Don ZagierIn 1975, number theoristcommented that primes bot
Bertrand Russell... declined to return to duty; instead, encouraged by pacifist friends such asand Lady Ottoline Morrell, he sent a letter to his commanding officer, tit ...
Edward VIII... married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of. Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a ...
Linacre... d it, before considering Lily. Ward and Waller ranked Lily "with Grocyn andas one of the most erudite students of Greek that England possessed". Lily ...
Charles II of England... e Edward Morgan was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration ofin 1660. Henry Morgan married his uncle's daughter Mary, a cousin. Morgan ...
Ada Louise Huxtable... crowds visited the new museum, and critics generally voiced their approval.wrote in The New York Times that Pei's building was "a palatial statement ...
Joseph Locke... ar driven by his brother Robert Sr. and Rocket driven by assistant engineer. The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parl ...
Oscar Zariski... University, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard while under the direction of. He won the Fields Medal in 1970
Patricia Churchland... ned with consciousness. He even collaborated with neurophilosophers such as. In 1983, as a result of their studies of computer models of neural netwo ...
Karl Popper... ing to the autonomous education philosophy emerged from the epistemology ofin The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality, which ...
Horace Lamb... l have an answer for the first." A similar witticism has been attributed to(who had published a noted text book on Hydrodynamics)—his choice being qu ...
Goethe... ic Language. His cycle of poems had widespread influence on such writers asand the young Walter Scott, but there was controversy from the outset abou ...
Karl Marx... itutions led by a spontaneous uprising of the working class as predicted by. On 25 January 1918, at the Petrograd Soviet, Lenin declared "Long live t ...
Grocyn... who refused it, before considering Lily. Ward and Waller ranked Lily "withand Linacre as one of the most erudite students of Greek that England poss ...
King James II... now Lakeville Road. In 1691 Dongan fled to New England and then Ireland, asand his Catholic forces failed to regain power in England and Ireland
Charles Theodore... is residence to nearby Mannheim. The court remained there until the Electorbecame Elector of Bavaria in 1777 and established his court in Munich. In ...
Max Müller... it was in the center of attention of western scholarship from the times ofand Rudolf Roth onwards. The Rigveda records an early stage of Vedic relig ...
Grady BoochCem Kaner andhave publicly stated that the document could be improved. Many claim that ...
William HarveyWilliam Osler records that Hunter gave Jenner's advice, very famous in medical circles (and characteristic of the Age o ...
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore... in which Frederick the town was named for, but the likeliest candidates are(one of the proprietors of Maryland )
William Osler... pprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon John Hunter and others at .records that Hunter gave Jenner William Harvey's advice, very famous in me ...
Vincent Persichetti... for any low-voiced instrument, such as double bass, contrabassoon, or tuba.wrote solo works—which he called "Parables"—for many instruments. He wrote ...
Judi Dench... in 1994 that was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. The cast included, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, and Simon Russell Beale
Winston Churchill... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of, George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ...
David Boggs... n May 22, 1973. In 1975, Xerox filed a patent application listing Metcalfe,, Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson as inventors. In 1976, after the system ...
King James VII... ith his father. These brothers included Robert, who fled after fighting forin 1689 and became a banker in Rouen and half-brother George, who fled to ...
Dietrich Küchemann... ritish design was for a thin-winged delta shape (which owed much to work by, then at the ) for a transatlantic-ranged aircraft for about 100 people, ...
Giuseppe PiazziIn 1801, the astronomerdiscovered an object which he initially believed to be a comet. Shortly th ...
Butler Lampson... filed a patent application listing Metcalfe, David Boggs, Chuck Thacker andas inventors. In 1976, after the system was deployed at PARC, Metcalfe and ...
Terry Winograd... ntersected with hard science in the works in natural language processing by(1973) and the establishment of the first cognitive sciences department in ...
Joseph Black... d from the Latin word calor, meaning heat. Scottish physician and scientist, who was the first to recognize the distinction between heat and temperat ...
Robert Caro... the people whose names appeared on the ballots being dead on election day.argued in his 1989 book that Johnson had stolen the election in Jim Wells ...
Johann Reinhold Forster... a suppressed name unfit for further use and establishing Gavia, created byin 1788, as the valid genus name for the loons. However, the situation was ...
Chinua AchebeIn a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer, author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in hi ...
Eudora Welty's... dom Singers paid tribute to Evers in the haunting "Ballad of Medgar Evers."short story "Where Is the Voice Coming From," in which the speaker is the ...
Peter Simon Pallas... ted to the Pallas asteroid, being instead named after the German naturalist. The chemical element palladium, on the other hand, was named after the a ...
Gideon Mantell... il collectors such as Mary Anning, William Conybeare, William Buckland, and, who found and described the first ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dinosau ...
James Watt... acid by the lead chamber process invented by the Englishman John Roebuck ('s first partner) in 1746. He was able to greatly increase the scale of th ...
Samuel Pepys... d by the halfpenny later the same year. The figure of Britannia was said byto have been modelled on Frances Teresa Stuart, the future Duchess of Rich ...
Bligh... d Aitutaki around AD 900. The first known European contact was with Captainand the crew of the HMS Bounty when they discovered Aitutaki on April 11, ...
the Queen... her ministers in cabinet, is appointed by the governor general on behalf of. However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maint ...
John Cage... xtended to Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as, Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a g ...
William B. Sandys... the publications of Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822),'s Selection of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (1833), and Thomas K. ...
Stephen GrayFurther work was conducted by Otto von Guericke, Robert Boyle,and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin conducted extensi ...
Rudyard Kipling... the book was based upon the poem "A Tree Song" from Puck of Pook's Hill by, which she had enjoyed as a child. The chant in question stated that
Gottfried Leibniz... al occurrence. However, other Protestant writers, such as David Blondel and, rejected the story
Davies Gilbert... Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of's Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822), William B. Sandys's Selection of ...
John Roebuck... on of sulphuric acid by the lead chamber process invented by the Englishman(James Watt's first partner) in 1746. He was able to greatly increase the ...
Benjamin DisraeliIn a letter to Queen Victoria, Prime Ministerproposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Casp ...
Jean-Antoine NolletIn 1746 the French scientist and abbé, gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in ...
Lavoisier... ve quantity. The idea that heat was a conservative quantity was invented by, and is called the 'caloric theory'; by the middle of the nineteenth cent ...
Rudyard Kipling... s, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even, went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca
James B. Sumner... ny plants and animals. In 1937 catalase from beef liver was crystallised byand the molecular weight was worked out in 1938
Carl Linnaeus... name used in the first modern scientific description of a Gavia species (by) in 1758. Unfortunately, confusion about whether Linnaeus' "wastebin genu ...
Rowan WilliamsThe current archbishop is the Most Reverend. He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Aug ...
Lewis Carroll... ted by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. I ...
Sir Charles Parsons... lileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik,, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Gr ...
G. M. TrevelyanAccording to the historian, they were two of the best magistrates in eighteenth-century London, and ...
Aaron Copland... t was nominated for four Oscars. The musical score was by American composer. Running in theaters in 1939, it disappeared for many years at a time unt ...
Frederick York Powell... 03 and became Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in succession toin 1904. Firth's historical work was almost entirely confined to English h ...
Frederick William IV... hein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia,gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Smith Hempstone... were no longer tolerated. Moi came under pressure, notably by US ambassador, to restore a multi-party system, which he did by 1991
Archbishop of Canterbury... mony for British monarchs, in which they are anointed with holy oils by the, thereby ordaining them to monarchy, perpetuates the ancient Roman Cathol ...
Charles II... so referred to as the Cromwellian Interregnum, was declared. Charles's son,, who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up th ...
Margaret Thatcher... al backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Ministerand possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer. Somewhere between $3 mil ...
Leon Kirchner... Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as John Cage,and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a greater remove, w ...
Shirley Williams... n which the stranger replied "I'm so sorry. For a moment I thought you were"
Lord Kelvin... n, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential too ...
Guglielmo Marconi... h the now-famous activities launched by inventors Alexander Graham Bell and
Oliver Heaviside... laced by vector analysis, which had been developed by Josiah Willard Gibbs,, and Hermann von Helmholtz. Vector analysis described the same phenomena ...
William Ewart Gladstone... conclusion". It was introduced into the Parliament of the United Kingdom byto overcome the obstruction of the Irish nationalist party and was made pe ...
Éamon de Valera... rs, Lynch became speech writer and research assistant for the party leader,
Henry ChadwickThe modern assessment of Priscillian is summed up in Cambridge professor's Priscillian of Avila: The Occult and the Charismatic in the Early Churc ...
Jock Colville... Lord Chamberlain said estimates of £100 million were "grossly overstated"., who was her former private secretary and a director of her bank, Coutts, ...
Benjamin Franklin's... y. This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed byone-fluid theory later in the century
Fred Hoyle... me to be called the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. In 1948,set out his opposing steady state theory in which the universe continually ...
John WoodwardHe first wrote satire in 1697, when he answered Dr.'s An essay towards a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies, ...
Mike Davis... of India were affected and millions died, and Curzon has been criticised by, an American Marxist, for allegedly having done little to fight the famin ...
Nicholas Aylward Vigors... ornithologists using the genus name for grebes and European ones, followingand Richard Bowdler Sharpe, for divers. The International Commission on Zo ...
Geoffrey de Havilland... cism of jet engines as too fuel-hungry and unreliable, committee member Sir, head of the de Havilland company, used personal influence and his compan ...
Johann von GoetheThe castle is surrounded by a park, where the famous poetonce walked. The Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular railway runs from Kornmak ...
Pevsner... uding most of the black-and-white buildings, is Victorian, a result of whattermed the "black-and-white revival"
James Clerk Maxwell... d, and did not follow the metric pattern of a base unit and prefixed units.and Elihu Thomson (through the British Association for the Advancement of ...
Alessandro VoltaIn 1800invented the Voltaic Pile, allowing for a continuous current of electricit ...
Geoffrey de Havilland... known as Joan Fontaine (born 22 October 1917). Her paternal cousin was Sir(1882–1965), an aircraft designer, notably of the De Havilland Mosquito, a ...
Günter GrassGerman authoris one of a number of intellectuals and commentators who have also called ...
Peter Simon Pallas... on in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists Leonhard Euler andfrom Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to the Russian capital
Pepys... Temple, ed. by TP Courtenay; C North's Examen, 26; Dalrymple's Mem. (1790);'s Diary (17 Feb. 1663); Cal. of Clarendon St. Pap. iii. 295; Carte's Lif ...
Godfrey HounsfieldThe first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sirin Hayes, United Kingdom, at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-ray ...
William Crookes... the elements it was not until the late 1800s that the element was isolated.observed the phosphorescent spectra of the rare elements and observed spec ...
Mr. Fox... Ploweman unto Christe was "first set forth by Tindal, since, exemplified by." Since the language of this text is similar to that of Piers Plowman, Fu ...
Richard Feynman... rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time. Nobel Laureatedescribed turbulence as "the most important unsolved problem of classical ...
Archbishop of CanterburyThe chief minister of Henry VIII, theThomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Roman Catholic papacy's imperium i ...
William Petty... mounts of trade data and used it extensively in their research and writing., a strong mercantilist, is generally credited with being the first to use ...
Roger Penrose... Big Bang singularity exist in the universe. The hypothesis was conceived byin 1969. Cosmic censorship hypotheses should be distinguished from chronol ...
Hannah Arendt... ere inspired by the concept of direct democracy are: Cornelius Castoriadis,, and Pierre Clastres
Baron von Zach... t from sight for several months, but was recovered later in the year by theand Heinrich W. M. Olbers after a preliminary orbit was computed by Friedr ...
G. N. Amdahl... . P. Luhn wrote an internal IBM memorandum that used hashing with chaining., E. M. Boehme, N. Rochester, and Arthur Samuel implemented a program usin ...
Paul Mellon... l Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., declared the need for a new building., a primary benefactor of the gallery and a member of its building committ ...
Alan Lomax... chers included , founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who he ...
Paul R. EhrlichNaturalistwrote that the Passenger Pigeon's extinction "illustrates a very important ...
Bill Clinton... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy andhave also used The World Almanac as a resource
Sydney Brenner... ure was established in 2003 following an endowment by his former colleague,, joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The lec ...
Arthur ConollyThe term "The Great Game" is usually attributed to(1807–1842), an intelligence officer of the British East India Company's S ...
Thomas Henry Huxley... ton, now part of Imperial College London) in London, studying biology under. As an alumnus, he later helped to set up the Royal College of Science As ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss... derive electric and magnetic metric units, following the recommendation ofin 1832
John Winthrop... House at Harvard University is named in honor of him and of his descendant, who briefly served as President of Harvard
King George VI... e B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by. The office and its functions are instead governed by constitutional conv ...
Charles DarwinLocal attractions include Down House (the home of), Chislehurst Caves, Holwood House (the home of William Pitt the Younger) ...
Friedrich Gauss... on Zach and Heinrich W. M. Olbers after a preliminary orbit was computed by. This object came to be named Ceres, and was the first asteroid to be dis ...
Robert Adam... of Luton and had Luton Hoo designed and built by the neoclassical architect. Work commenced in 1767. The original plan had been for a grand and magni ...
Roger PenroseThe hypothesis was first formulated byin 1969, and it is not stated in a completely formal way. In a sense it is ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein... tter's death in 1937. Norman Malcolm famously credits Sraffa with providingwith the conceptual break that founded the Philosophical Investigations, b ...
Charles Lyell... ol of geological thought lost ground to uniformitarianism, as championed byand others, which claimed that the geological features of the earth were b ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge... Ball was possibly the British leader most loved by the Maltese population.became an assistant to Ball in 1804 and later described his administration ...
Kevin Warwick... riment with RFID implants was conducted by British professor of cybernetics, who implanted a chip in his arm in 1998. In 2004 Conrad Chase offered im ...
Bill ClintonA similar study of Asian Americans in 1998 resulted in Presidentpresenting 21 new Medals of Honor in 2000, including 20 to Japanese Americ ...
John Daniell... y's experiments led him to state his two laws of electrochemistry. In 1836,invented a primary cell in which hydrogen was eliminated in the generation ...
Abdus Salam... f the electromagnetic and weak interactions in the standard model is due to, Steven Weinberg and, subsequently, Sheldon Glashow. After the discovery, ...
Julian Huxley... , E.M.Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev. Trevor Huddleston, Sir, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir C ...
Rudyard Kipling... avalry. It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelistin his novel Kim (1901)
Benjamin Disraeli... Good Companions (1933), the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936),in The Prime Minister (1940), Cassius in Julius Caesar (1953) (BAFTA Award ...
Newton... n Uranus's observed orbit and the one predicted from the laws of gravity of. At the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were m ...
Albert Einstein... attempts of the Banovina of Croatia to have them extradited were fruitless.and Heinrich Mann sent a letter to the International League for Human Righ ...
Charles DarwinThis was the first stop the HMS Beagle made on its journey on whichwould make his amazing discoveries
Joseph Louis Lagrange... 8, 1794, the president of the commission which developed the metric system,, proposed in a report to the commission the names déci-jour and centi-jou ...
Peter AckroydLittle Dorrit formed the backdrop to's debut novel, The Great Fire of London (1982)
John James Audubon... popular, commercial hunting started on a prodigious scale. The bird painterdescribed the preparations for slaughter at a known pigeon-roosting site
Godfrey Hounsfield... and of the transverse axial scanning method – this last due to the work ofand South African-born Allan McLeod Cormack – gradually supplanted it as t ...
Avi Shlaim... mission, without the consent of their commander, as described by historian
Bill Clinton... confidence in action", to which incumbent president and Democratic nomineeresponded, "We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build ...
William Buckland... sh geologists and fossil collectors such as Mary Anning, William Conybeare,, and Gideon Mantell, who found and described the first ichthyosaurs, ples ...
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute#(30 June 1744 – 16 November 1814
Stephen Jay Gould... e. Biodiversity became a cause of major concern as habitat destruction, and's theory of punctuated equilibrium revolutionized evolutionary thought
André-Marie AmpèreIn 1821,suggested that telegraphy could be done by a system of galvanometers, with ...
D.S.FalconerThe "reeler" mouse was described for the first time in 1951 byin Edinburgh University as a spontaneous variant arising in a colony of mi ...
Cotton Mather... ntless numbers," Gabriel Sagard-Theodat wrote of "infinite multitudes," anddescribed a flight as being about a mile in width and taking several hours ...
Maynard Smith... opt T instead of S. This fact represents the point of departure of the ESS.and Price specify two conditions for a strategy S to be an ESS. Eithe
Sir John Lubbock... ithos, "stone", literally meaning "New Stone Age." The term was invented byin 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system
John EcclesPopper andspeculated on the problem of free will for many years generally agreeing o ...
Charles Dickens... ationally well known fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio,, Hippocrates, and Jesus. Each of the letters tend to be droll and witty, ...
Ted Kennedy... is John Kerry, who became the senior Senator following the death of Senatoron August 24, 2009. The junior Senator is Scott Brown, who won the special ...
Thomas TelfordThe road was re-paved in the early 19th century bywho brought it back into use as a turnpike road for use by mail coaches br ...
James WattA fundamental change in working principles was brought about by. In close collaboration with Matthew Boulton, he had succeeded by 1778 in ...
Michael Palin... yika featured in the documentary series Pole to Pole. The BBC documentarianstayed on board the MV Liemba and traveled across the lake
Joseph Black... ncept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized byin 1762. The term 'latent heat of expansion' is also used. The latent heat ...
Lewis Carroll... n a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined the words monomyth and quark.has been called "the king of neologistic poems" because of his poem, "Jabb ...
Michael Longley... was born. A second son, Christopher, was born in 1968. That same year, with, Heaney took part in a reading tour called Room to Rhyme, which led to mu ...
Huygens... ad to be justifiable in terms of direct physical action, a position held byand the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, who, while following in the ...
George V... o under the British Raj (1857–1920). British had captured Delhi by 1803 andannounced in 1911 that the capital of British controlled parts of India wo ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss... either of these writers treated the four-parameter rotations as an algebra.had also discovered quaternions in 1819, but this work was only published ...
William Grove... alloying the amalgamated zinc with mercury would produce a better voltage.produced the first fuel cell in 1839. In 1846, Wilhelm Weber developed the ...
Isabel Bayrakdarian... rina Allegrova, Garou, Alla Pugacheva, Shadmehr, Ian Gillan, Hasmik Papian,, Siavash Ghomayshi, Space, Bambir, Grigory Leps, George Benson, and many ...
Queen ElizabethIn 1939, King George VI andtoured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and ...
Prince Henry... ries from all over the world. Among those in attendance were George V's son, Marshal Franchet d'Esperey of France, and the Prince of Udine representi ...
Duke of Wellington... Marquess of Anglesey, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the's brother Henry Wellesley and later - in one of the period's more celebra ...
William PennThe status continued unofficially until the area was included in's charter for Pennsylvania, on August 24, 1682. During this later period ...
A. C. Grayling... nor do I see why I should. I'm a historian." Similarly, British philosopherhas described British area bombardment as an "immoral act" and "moral crim ...
Paul Tillich... dissertation on "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking ofand Henry Nelson Wieman". A 1980s inquiry concluded portions of his disser ...
Oscar Peterson... erforming in festivals and concerts with such musicians as Louis Armstrong,, Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Cal Tjader, and Thelonious Monk. She ...
Osvaldo Golijov... Bûcher, Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion, René Clemencic Kabbala, andLa Pasión según San Marcos. Oratorios by popular musicians include Paul Mc ...
Henry Cowell... Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson,, Alfred Schnittke, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzys ...
Prince Rupert of the Rhine... ooning military leaders for political purposes. A pamphlet directed againstis a typical example. During the 19th century, irreverence towards authori ...
Bill Clinton... gnised experts, including Benjamin Barber (formerly an adviser to President), Jan Gustav Strandenaes (United Nations adviser on environmental issues) ...
John Aubrey... lton was nearly sixty when he published Paradise Lost in 1667. [The writer](1626-97) tell us that the poem was begun in about 1658 and finished in ab ...
Stephen Hawking... hysics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit, and the laser.developed his theories of black holes and the boundary-condition of the un ...
Ampère... eld exerts a force on a current. The phenomenon was further investigated by, who discovered that two parallel current-carrying wires exerted a force ...
John Smeaton... e joint patent expired, of which 14 were abroad. In the 1770s, the engineerbuilt some very large examples and introduced a number of improvements. A ...
Lord Melbourne... . The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was William IV, who dismissedin 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 removed the monarch's authori ...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.... Johnson was offered the vice-presidential nomination. Some sources (such as's) state that Kennedy offered the position to Johnson as a courtesy and d ...
Benjamin Barber... ation issues from a number of internationally recognised experts, including(formerly an adviser to President Bill Clinton), Jan Gustav Strandenaes (U ...
Carl Friedrich Gaussnamed after
George Martin... lbum, Only Visiting This Planet, the first album in a projected trilogy, in's London AIR Studios. Only Visiting This Planet, which was "Initially coo ...
Charles Hatchett... ng Uranus, which he discovered, and other planets), and the burial place ofwho discovered niobium
Walter Kauzmann... bonding, an idea first put forth by William Astbury in 1933. Later work byon denaturation, based partly on previous studies by Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang, ...
Margaret Thatcher... as found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, Tony Blair and
G. H. Hardy... ng the topic. In particular, number theorists such as British mathematicianprided themselves on doing work that had absolutely no military significan ...
Edward VIISince the reign ofa clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ...
Meredith Monk... minimalist works of Philip Glass, a Baltimore native based out of New York,and others
Milton Friedman... ughart. The book also received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck,, and Thomas Sowell
Bill Clinton... udents were given the results of student and national polls indicating thatwas in the lead. Others were not exposed to the results of the polls. Seve ...
John Maynard SmithEvolutionarily stable strategies were defined and introduced byand George R. Price in a 1973 Nature paper. Such was the time taken in pee ...
Donald KnuthIn 1983, Zapf had completed the typeface AMS Euler withand David Siegel of Stanford University for the American Mathematical Soci ...
Winston Churchill... respect of front-line commanders. He interacted adeptly with allies such as, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle. He had s ...
William Trevor... Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite Alastair Sim in's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances in Flint, The Tea ...
Maurice Wilkins... klin. Crick and Watson felt that they had benefited from collaborating with. They offered him a co-authorship on the article that first described the ...
Linus PaulingIn the book The Nature of the Chemical Bond,credits T. S. Moore and T. F. Winmill with the first mention of the hydrog ...
Steve FossettMore recently, in 2001,passed over just south of Aitutaki in the balloon Solo Spirit during his r ...
Walter Burley... Eleatics and sceptics are treated under the Italic. From the statements of(a 14th-century monk) in his De vita et moribus philosophorum the text of ...
George MartinCompiled by producerand the (then) three surviving members of the band, 1 includes the 27 Beat ...
William Herschel... old. It was the marriage place (May 7, 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir(in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicti ...
William Astbury... secondary structures based on hydrogen bonding, an idea first put forth byin 1933. Later work by Walter Kauzmann on denaturation, based partly on pr ...
Joseph Locke... railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistantwho went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom ...
James Clerk Maxwell... tromagnetic waves can travel over some distance. This had been predicted byand Michael Faraday. With his apparatus configuration, the electric and ma ...
Kirk Varnedoe... s of art were a part of modernist experimentation as well, as documented inand Adam Gopnik's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Ar ...
Bill Clinton... sted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan,and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras a ...
Harold Pinter... nto the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song "A Day in the Life".read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." Acco ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss... tromagnetic telegraph was created by Baron Schilling in Russia, and in 1833and Wilhelm Weber invented their own code to communicate over a distance o ...
Fynes MorysonIn's "Itinerary" (1617) is a similar allusion to the habit of carrying umbre ...
King Juan Carlos IOn 4 February 2011, Vargas Llosa was raised into the Spanish nobility bywith the hereditary title of Marqués de Vargas Llosa (English: Marquis of ...
Edward RuschaBridget Riley,, an
Hannah Arendt... nalism, Chauvinism", in The Review of Politics 7.4, (October 1945), p. 457,, the political theorist, describes the concept
Margaret Drabble... arrilow (Etruscan Publications, 1966). Also, Arnold Bennett: A Biography by(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1974)
Max Perutz... hese data were shown to them, without her knowledge, by Maurice Wilkins and. Her experimental results provided estimates of the water content of DNA ...
Robert Caro... life by an exceptional lust for power and control. As Johnson's biographerobserves, "Johnson's ambition was uncommon—in the degree to which it was u ...
Nikola Tesla... l, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. The world was changing rapidly, ...
Marc Isambard Brunel... o produce concrete. Portland cement was used by the famous English engineerseveral years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel
Hailsham... ial act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons; in 1963 Lords Home andwere only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation permitting the ...
John Vane... throps jararaca, a South American pit viper, in 1965. Ferreira then went to's laboratory as a postdoctoral with his already-isolated BPF. The convers ...
Frederick SangerThe first protein to be sequenced was insulin, by, in 1949. Sanger correctly determined the amino acid sequence of insulin, ...
Robert Adam... istic patron. Among his beneficiaries were Samuel Johnson, Tobias Smollett,, William Robertson and John Hill. He also gave considerably to the Scotti ...
Edgar F. CoddTuple calculus is a calculus that was introduced byas part of the relational model, in order to provide a declarative databas ...
George Nares... oratories for natural history and chemistry. The expedition, led by Captain, sailed from Portsmouth, England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval office ...
Paul Samuelson... cantilism have sometimes led critics to call them neo-mercantilism. Indeed,, writing within a Keynesian framework, defended mercantilism, writing: "W ...
William Julius WilsonRustin's analysis was supported by the later research by. Wilson documented an increase in inequality within the Black community, ...
John Sayles... had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, andlaunch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining ...
Andrew Wiles... ts Murray Gell-Mann in 2002, Steven Weinberg in 2005, and the mathematicianin 2003) take a walk from Dunsink Observatory to the Royal Canal bridge wh ...
Kirk Varnedoe... with all uses of the term postmodern there are critics of its application., for instance, stated that there is no such thing as postmodernism, and t ...
Charles Dickens... press Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain,and Christopher Marlowe
George V... he idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King, responding to a wave of public support. At the same time, there was a si ...
James CookCaptain, in one of his voyages, sees some of the natives of the South Pacific Isl ...
Richard Claverhouse Jebb... ipus the King, even if they don't always agree on the reasons. For example,claimed that "The Oedipus Tyranus is in one sense the masterpiece of Attic ...
Wilhelm Ostwald... the behaviour of dilute solutions and gases. In 1887, he and German chemistfounded an influential scientific magazine named Zeitschrift für physikali ...
Einstein's... inguishes these spaces from the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry andgeneral theory of relativity, and is named for the Greek mathematician Euc ...
Elizabeth IIOn 17 May 2011,became the first British monarch to visit the Áras on the occasion of her ...
Leslie Orgel... rned with the origins of the genetic code. In 1966, Crick took the place ofat a meeting where Orgel was to talk about the origin of life. Crick specu ...
James CookThe name Anchor Point comes from a legend that whendiscovered the area, he lost an anchor. Settlers came beginning in the ear ...
famous physicist... y career. He changed his surname from Einstein (to avoid confusion with the) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and ...
Charles II of EnglandThe Royal Declaration of Indulgence was's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Ro ...
John Evelyn... ge parasol of the Chinese Government officials, borne by native attendants., in his Diary for June 22, 1664, mentions a collection of rarities shown ...
George V... of Commons, but in private admitted that he was prejudiced against Curzon., who shared this prejudice, was grateful for the advice and authorised St ...
Bill Clinton... mocrat to win a majority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, althoughand Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively
Michael Faraday... ern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel,, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Th ...
James II... on and take Anglican communion. When Charles II's openly Catholic successorattempted to issue a similar Declaration of Indulgence, an order for gener ...
R. M. Hare... legedly exercised an important influence on the work of Plato. According to, this influence consists of three points: (1) The platonic Republic might ...
King George II... n South Carolina. In 1730, Camden became part of a township plan ordered by. Kershaw County’s official web site states, “Originally laid out in 1732 ...
James Cook... as reputed to be Commodore John Byron in 1765, the immediate predecessor of's more famous explorations of the Pacific between 1769-1779. With the gro ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... involving the Church, which culminated in the murder of Thomas Becket, the. The problem for the King was that the Church acted like an imperium in i ...
James Randi... of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman,, and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resources for the Scientific Eva ...
Rupert Brooke... this time his younger brother Hamo was killed in the Gallipoli Campaign. (, whom Siegfried had briefly met, died on the way there.) Hamo's death hit ...
John Locke... ote a manual for the education of young children, drawing from the ideas of, and founded (1764) the famous Smolny Institute, which admitted young gir ...
James B. Sumner... s as enzymes in living organisms was not fully appreciated until 1926, whenshowed that the enzyme urease was in fact a protein
Daniel Dennett... ubjectively aware of by way of introspection. Rey suggests that people likeare wrong to view "beliefs" as only being useful instruments by which Folk ...
W. D. HamiltonThe concept was derived from R. H. MacArthur and's work on sex ratios, derived from Fisher's principle, especially Hamilto ...
Nelly FurtadoAt the 2007 ceremony, hostmade Juno history by being the first nominee with multiple nominations to ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the most influential mathematicians of the early 19th century, de ...
Sir Charles Parsons... extracted from wind or flowing water. The modern steam turbine invented byin 1884 today generates about 80 percent of the electric power in the worl ...
Walter William Skeat... rface of the water. Robinson replied, "A schooner let her be." According to, the term schooner comes from scoon, while the sch spelling comes from th ...
Bruce CockburnA Humanitarian Award was inaugurated in 2006.was the first artist to be given this honour
Albert Einstein... rtz helped establish the photoelectric effect (which was later explained by) when he noticed that a charged object loses its charge more readily when ...
Alexander von HumboldtOn August 15, 1801, the Prussian scientistreached Fontibón where Mutis, and began his expedition to New Granada, Qui ...
Benjamin Disraeli... traditionally heard in silence. Whitlam responded to McEwen by stating thathad been heckled in his maiden speech, and had responded, "The time will c ...
Bill ClintonPresidentperformed the song on saxophone during his appearance on The Arsenio Hall ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel... tant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and. These men were following in his footsteps. Stephenson was also farsighte ...
Wheatstone... ed the electrical telegraph, demonstrated commercially in 1837 by Cooke and, was one of its earliest applications. With the construction of first int ...
Brenda Maddox... blish two additional papers from King's College along with the helix paper.suggested that because of the importance of her experimental results in Wa ...
William Butler Yeats... ta. Asked how it felt having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like bei ...
Michael Faraday... avel over some distance. This had been predicted by James Clerk Maxwell and. With his apparatus configuration, the electric and magnetic fields would ...
Charles Darwin... y was also the beginning of modern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur,, Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and in ...
Walter Pater... about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, Cardinal Newman and
Prince Charles... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born:in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950
Charles Darwin... g and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied byduring the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contribu ...
Jeremy Taylor... choly Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectiv ...
Mo Mowlam... ters played the late MP and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland,in a drama for Channel 4, broadcast in early 2010. She had misgivings abou ...
Linus Pauling... se A become a major target for biochemical study for the following decades.is credited with the successful prediction of regular protein secondary st ...
Charles Dickens... rature contains many references to him, for example in A Christmas Carol by, and in this folk rhyme
Max Hastings... f the city provoked unease in intellectual circles in Britain. According to, by February 1945, attacks upon German cities had become largely irreleva ...
Joshua Reynolds... le:Sir Joshua Reynolds 008.jpg|Colonel John Hayes St. Leger (detail) by SirFile:Thomas Rowlandson (12).jpg|Rowlandson often satirised the military Fi ...
William Oughtred... ff an interest in sundials. In the summer of 1663, he read Wingate's Canon,'s Canon, and Thomas Stirrup's Art of Dialling. At about the same time, he ...
Bill Gates... t's INS to the Bettman Archive. Bettman was later sold to Microsoft founder's separate Corbis Corporation, which continues to control the images of U ...
Alexander von Humboldt... poor to develop the telegraph on their own, but they received funding from. Carl August Steinheil in Munich was able to build a telegraph network wi ...
George Bernard Shaw... having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats,and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill a ...
Bill Clinton... ecipients be upgraded to the Medal of Honor. On January 13, 1997, Presidentpresented the medal to seven African American World War II veterans. With ...
W. W. SkeatAll modern discussion of the text revolves around the classifications of. Skeat argued that there are as many as ten forms of the poem, but only t ...
W. T. Tutte... recorded as being studied by R. L. Brooks, C. A. B. Smith, A. H. Stone andat Cambridge University
Frank Spedding... tion from Bayan Obo, China, with an even "richer" europium content of 0.2%., celebrated for his development of the ion-exchange technology that revol ...
Bertrand Russell... dicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean")., in his A History of Western Philosophy, contended that the influence of ...
Princess Anne... rence House. Their first two children were born: Prince Charles in 1948 andin 1950
James Gibbs... ll) in 1716, the 'Pagan Temple' (designed by the Catholic Baroque architect) and the Rustic House (designed by Lord Burlington)
Lord Camden... the colony. Kershaw suggested that the town be renamed Camden, in honor of, the champion of colonial rights
Reginald Pole... ed only in the order of cardinal deacons. For example, in the 16th century,was a cardinal for 18 years before he was ordained a priest. In 1917 it wa ...
Charles Darwin... from speculating about the gradual transmutation of species, right up untilpublished On the Origin of Species more than two decades after Cuvier's de ...
Averil Cameron... iastical history—a genre that was founded by Eusebius of Caesarea. However,has argued convincingly that Procopius' works reflect the tensions between ...
Charles Dickens... Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as Albert Camus,, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary short story about a r ...
Robert Harkness... the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries. Geologistwas schooled in Dumfries and subsequently resided in the town. Sir Frank W ...
Steven LukesIn Power: A radical view (1974)outlines two dimensions through which power had been theorised in the earl ...
Thomas Pynchon... Dick's 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Dick 1993, 101) and in's 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49. The Pynchon novel features "The Scope" ...
Charles Wheatstone... l electrical telegraph was co-developed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and. Cooke and Wheatstone patented it in May 1837 as an alarm system, and it ...
Fred DonnerIn his book The Early Islamic Conquests (1981),argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominen ...
Sydney BrennerCrick addressed the Origin of Protein Synthesis in a paper with, Aaron Klug, and George Pieczenik. In this paper, based on Pieczenik's wo ...
John Penn... n a very small scale, Crimean War gunboat engines designed and assembled byof Greenwich are recorded as the first instance of the application of mass ...
Goethe... during Sturm und Drang, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther byor in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats. In t ...
Adam Smith... t. A number of scholars found important flaws with mercantilism long beforedeveloped an ideology that could fully replace it. Critics like Hume, Dudl ...
Albert Einstein... Transformation or even the FitzGerald - Lorentz - Einstein Transformation.dismissed the notion of the aether as an unnecessary one, and he concluded ...
William Crookes... ers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and. Their work predominantly involved carrying out focused experimental test ...
Bill Clinton... ntly screened it in the White House, as did many other American presidents.cited High Noon as his favorite film and screened it a record 17 times at ...
Charles DarwinWilliam Charles Wells, predecessor toon the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries. Geolo ...
Aaron Klug... k addressed the Origin of Protein Synthesis in a paper with Sydney Brenner,, and George Pieczenik. In this paper, based on Pieczenik's work, they spe ...
Joseph Rotblat... ard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and
Miranda Seymour... edition published as Under the Influence, 1979), and also was the basis for's novel The Summer of '39 (1998). In 1939 Riding and Graves parted, and i ...
Harold Pinter... cal acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and's The Caretaker at the National Theatre; and Pinter's The Homecoming and ...
King Charles IIBy 1681, then-acting governor Morgan had fallen out of favour with, who was intent on weakening the semi-autonomous Jamaican Council, and wa ...
Peter Ustinov... originally intended to be performed by a cast including Spike Milligan and, but Godley and Creme eventually settled on Cook once they realised he co ...
Carl Benjamin Boyer... e finite.". He also provided a wrong explanation of the rainbow phenomenon.described Avicenna's ("Ibn Sīnā") theory on the rainbow as follows
S.R. Gardiner... Civil War and the Commonwealth; and although he is somewhat overshadowed by, who wrote about the same period, his books were highly regarded
John Locke... ideology that could fully replace it. Critics like Hume, Dudley North, andundermined much of mercantilism, and it steadily lost favor during the 18t ...
Charles Dickens... y), and this work sometimes led Wells to be touted as a worthy successor to. Wells also wrote abundantly about the "New Woman" and the Suffragettes ( ...
Paul GreenPulitzer Prize-winning playwrightwrote The Lost Colony in 1937 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the ...
George V... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and fromboth as Prince of Wales and as king
Alfred Russel Wallace... in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included Michael Faraday,, Rufus Osgood Mason and William Crookes. Their work predominantly involve ...
Éamon de Valera... iffith's concept of an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy and the new members, under, who wanted to achieve a republic. Matters almost led to a split at the p ...
Brian Friel... ish. Following the success of the Field Day Theatre Company's production of's Translations, Heaney joined the company's expanded Board of Directors i ...
Juan Carlos I of Spain... s each year. The Marivent Palace was offered by the city to the then Prince. The royals have since spent their summer holidays in Palma
Charles Dickens... Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall (1996), "Josiah Bounderby" in' Hard Times (1998) and a part in the 2001 BBC Radio 4 version of The Thir ...
Winston Churchill... made about aerial bombardment of major cities with gas in Mesopotamia, with, then-Secretary of State at the British War Office, arguing in favor of i ...
Daniel Burnham... of the city is built on uneven, hilly terrain of the northern section. Whenplotted the plans for the city, he made the City Hall as a reference point ...
Richard F. LyonOthers, invented byand sold by Xerox, used a 16-pixel visible-light image sensor with integra ...
Glenn T. Seaborg... discovery of americium in 1944, the periodic table had been restructured byto its present layout, containing the actinide row below the lanthanide on ...
Richard Dawkins... ossils, was subtropical, and supported an environment lush with vegetation.suggests that Antarctica, "provided a clement and ratite-friendly land bri ...
Thomas Henry Tizard... sons of Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour). Also among the officers waswho had already carried out important hydrographic observations on previou ...
Carl LinnaeusThe genus name Glycine was originally introduced by(1737) in his first edition of Genera Plantarum. The word glycine is deriv ...
George AntheilLamarr also co-invented – with composer – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hop ...
Michael Faraday... cientists started in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and William Crookes. Their wor ...
Stanley Elkin... avid Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A Smuggler's Bible) and(The Magic Kingdom)
Edward VIIIn the 1880s, Prince Edward (later) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ...
Hodding CarterIn 1932founded the now-defunct Hammond Daily Courier, which he left in 1939 to mo ...
Harold Pinter... ision film Langrishe, Go Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay byfrom the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played ...
Michael Graves... uilding, as they tended to celebrate postmodern architects from the US like
George Bernard Shaw... ws was born in Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the same street as playwright. He was educated at the local school, Synge Street CBS. (His first name c ...
Josiah Wedgwood... otto "Am I not a Man and a Brother?" designed by the renowned pottery-maker. The committee also sought to influence slave-trading nations such as Fra ...
Simon Schama... "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", but according to historianthis is incorrect: he accepts the account of the contemporary biographer E ...
Henry More... rm "Gnosticism" does not appear in ancient sources, and was first coined byin a commentary on the seven letters of the Book of Revelation, where More ...
John Hutton Balfour... Campbell, and Andrew Francis Balfour (one of the sons of Scottish botanist). Also among the officers was Thomas Henry Tizard who had already carried ...
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham... of Georgia, Chatham County was created February 5, 1777, and is named after
Skeat... g.) There is little actual evidence for this proposal, and much against it.believed that the A-text was incomplete and based his editions on a B-text ...
Minoru Yamasaki... lometre (2,300 acre) park built around Wascana Lake and designed in 1961 by— the Seattle-born architect best known as the designer of the original Wo ...
Bertrand Russell... h the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as its Chairman,as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary. The other mem ...
Philip Pullman... rry Potter series), and later had a leading role in the BBC's adaptation of's novel The Ruby in the Smoke. In the summer of 2006, she published her f ...
Lawrence of Arabia... sly begun to support Sharif Hussein bin Ali, Emir of the Hejaz by secondingin 1915. The Saudi Ikhwan began conflict with Emir Feisal also in 1917 jus ...
Queen Elizabeth II... hy of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. The present monarch,, has reigned since 6 February 1952. She and her immediate family undertak ...
Charles Dickens... character Little Dorrit (Amy) was inspired by Mary Ann Cooper (née Mitton):sometimes visited her and her family; they lived in The Cedars, a house on ...
Murray Gell-Mann... ooth has organized a pilgrimage, where scientists (including the physicistsin 2002, Steven Weinberg in 2005, and the mathematician Andrew Wiles in 20 ...
Juan de la Cierva... rotor disc in order to generate rotation. Invented by the Spanish engineerto create an aircraft that could safely fly at slow speeds, the autogyro w ...
Brian Josephson... asha Demkina. In a self-published commentary, Nobel Prize-winning physicistcriticized the test and evaluation methods and argued that the results sho ...
Albert Einstein... tific exploration of the ultimate fate of the universe became possible with's 1916 theory of general relativity. General relativity can be employed t ...
Erich Segal... early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned storytelling, especially with's Love Story. The seventies also saw the decline of previously well-respe ...
Harold Macmillan... n, Robert Graves, David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Ministerwas wounded in the hip, leaving him with a lifelong shuffle to his walk. H ...
Herman Boerhaave... the 1773 discoverer of urea, he was not the first to do so. Dutch scientisthad discovered this chemical as early as 1727. Rouelle is known as "le cad ...
Charles Wuorinen... ie Kobalt (1989–90), "...a music for double bass solo and grand orchestra."added several important works to the repertoire, Spinoff trio for double b ...
Sir William Hamilton... no difficulty in giving his Sovereignty to England; and I have lately, with, got a Note that Malta should never be given to any Power without the con ...
James Cook... d Discovery, primarily HMS Discovery, one of the ships commanded by Captainduring his third and final major voyage from 1776 to 1779
Charles DickensNovelists such asoften used passages of satiric writing in their treatment of social issues ...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson... used mostly to glorify or sanctify war. The Charge of the Light Brigade by, with its galloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of ...
Robert Menzies... red. In 1954, the ALP seemed likely to return to power. The Prime Minister,, adroitly used the defection of a Soviet official to his advantage, and h ...
James Lovelock... them or books that describe them (SimAnt: E.O. Wilson’s The Ants, SimEarth:’s Gaia Theory, SimCity: Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics and World Dynamics ...
Robert Boyle... ion of an equation of state. In 1662, the noted Irish physicist and chemistperformed a series of experiments employing a J-shaped glass tube, which w ...
Martin Kemp... Barbican's exhibition Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now curated by, Marina Wallace and Joanne Bernstein. alongside other pieces by Bacon, Kl ...
Linus Pauling... has a net negative sum. The initial theory of hydrogen bonding proposed bysuggested that the hydrogen bonds had a partial covalent nature. This rema ...
Gene Amdahl... ipal design engineer was then-UCLA-faculty-member Lowell Amdahl, brother of. The AN/UYK-1 was built by the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (later TRW) fo ...
Alan Ayckbourn... (1981), and Michael Gambon in a stage production at Scarborough directed byin 1990. Gambon had been in Olivier's earlier production. In an interview ...
Michael Foot... ive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies,, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and Joseph Rotblat
Saul Bellow... eventies also saw the decline of previously well-respected writers, such asand Peter De Vries, who both released poorly received novels at the start ...
Bill Clinton... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of, remarking, "There is no crisis in health care.
Stuart KauffmanDartmouth alumni in academia includeand Jeffrey Weeks, both recipients of MacArthur Fellowships (commonly call ...
Éamon de Valera... h rule in Ireland and increased support for the republican government under. The events of Bloody Sunday have survived in public memory. The Gaelic A ...
George Bernard Shaw... ayers, a theater group for young people that performs uncut Shakespeare andplays
John Locke... ations of a right to revolution against tyranny in the English language are's Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government ...
John Cage... the band. Cale, who was influenced greatly by his work with La Monte Young,and the early Fluxus movement, encouraged the use of alternative ways of p ...
Henry Nottidge Moseley... ic work was conducted by Wyville Thomson, John Murray, John Young Buchanan,, and Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm. The official expedition artist was John J ...
John WilkesThe journalistpublished a newspaper called The North Briton, in which both Bute and the ...
Rudyard Kipling... alloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, thoughhad written a scathing reply, The Last of the Light Brigade, criticising t ...
William Charles Wells... appointment at the Crichton hospital his son, was educated at the Academy., predecessor to Charles Darwin on the theory of natural selection was ano ...
Don Coppersmith... 3727 ) due to Vassilevska Williams. The original algorithm was presented byand Shmuel Winograd in 1990, has an asymptotic complexity of O(n 2.376 ). ...
Alan Turing... hers. Most influential among these was the definition of Turing machines byin 1936, which turned out to be a very robust and flexible notion of compu ...
Sir Richard AttenboroughMountbatten was portrayed by Peter Harlowe in's 1982 epic Gandhi
Richard Dawkins... plication of the law of the State". In April 2010, Christopher Hitchens andwanted to prosecute the Pope for crimes against humanity due to what they ...
Charles Hard Townes... century science, including Stephen Hawking and many nobel laureates such as
Winston Churchill... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister, a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ...
Adrienne ClarksonOn December 12, 2003, he was appointed by then Governor Generalas the twenty-first Prime Minister of Canada. When sworn in as Prime Minis ...
Paul Tillich... of at the time, resulting in alienation from fellow writers such as Camus., an important existentialist theologian following Kierkegaard and Karl Ba ...
John WesleyThe Methodist Church, founded by, upholds Article VII in the Articles of Religion in the Book of Disciplin ...
Drew McDermottSteve Hanks andargued, on the basis of their Yale shooting example, that this solution to ...
Peter Hogg... cumstances, at the expense of the government powers. Constitutional scholarhas approved of the generous approach in some cases, although for others h ...
John Locke... ad scrawled, "Maybe now, there will be liberty!" and a hand-copied quote byasserting that a man has a right to kill someone who takes away his libert ...
A. E. Housman... ert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins –– Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jenn ...
Michael Clanchy... thor of the Tractatus, and the historian Ralph Turner agrees. The historiansays of Walter "The proliferation of documents was a European and a contin ...
Raymond Reiter... default, sometimes called the commonsense law of inertia, was expressed byin default logic
Marina WarnerThe jury included musician Neil Tennant, author, curator Fumio Nanjo and British Council officer Ann Gallagher, chaired b ...
Stephen Hawking... rship roster of the most respected names in 20th century science, includingand many nobel laureates such as Charles Hard Townes
Enrico Clementi... table shows atomic radii computed from theoretical models, as published byand others in 1967. The values are in picometres (pm)
Elaine Pagels... d by modern scholarship, but in the later case considered quite possible by(1979), who called for Buddhist scholars to try to find parallels
Juan Carlos I of Spain... uchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of, Albert II of Belgium, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Co ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss'Germain's interest in number theory was renewed when she readmonumental work Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. After three years of working ...
George IIIn 1737,began paying some London and Middlesex watchmen with tax moneys, beginning ...
King Edward VII... ctoria died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as. For most of the rest of that year, George and May were styled TRH The Du ...
Steve Reich... of the later 20th-century composers, such as John Cage, John Corigliano and, used modernist and minimalist techniques. Reich discovered a technique k ...
John Myhill... roblems solvable by Turing machines with specific bounded resources include's definition of linear bounded automata (Myhill 1960), Raymond Smullyan's ...
Darwin... fish precursors would have lived in shallow water for a long period, and by, who predicted a gradual migration of the eye, mirroring the metamorphosi ...
Sir Isaac Newton... even teaching herself Latin and Greek so she could read works like those ofand Leonhard Euler. She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézo ...
George Bernard Shaw'sPretty Woman bears striking resemblances to Pygmalion myths: particularlyplay of the same name, which also formed the basis for the Broadway musica ...
Bill GatesDiscussions proceeded rapidly, involving, then CEO of Microsoft, personally. Gates called Perlman at his home on E ...
Richard Ellmannsays that The Importance of Being Earnest touched on many themes Wilde had ...
Robert J. FlahertyMan of Aran (1934) is a fictional documentary (ethnofiction) byabout life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portra ...
Arthur C. ClarkeIn his 1962 book Profiles of the Future,predicted that the construction of what H. G. Wells called the World Brain ...
Richard Serra... uss argued that by 1968 artists such as Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, andhad "entered a situation the logical conditions of which can no longer be ...
George CanningIn 1827, after a rapid decline in health, Tory Prime Ministerdied in the same room where Charles James Fox had died in 1806
R Dawes... ts, by which the 18th century was distinguished, including scholars such as, J Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup, T Tyrwhitt, Richard Porson, Pete ...
Lewis Carroll... io series of six episodes (called "Fits" after the names of the sections of's nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark") was broadcast in 1978 on BBC ...
Harold Bloom... rthering his control over the characters . A. C. Bradley, and more recently, have been major advocates of this interpretation. Other critics, most no ...
John CageMany of the later 20th-century composers, such as, John Corigliano and Steve Reich, used modernist and minimalist technique ...
Christopher Tolkien... ed them in 1998 to New Line Cinema. The heirs of Tolkien, including his son, filed suit against New Line Cinema in February 2008 seeking payment of p ...
A. N. WilsonThe friendship of Winifred and Hitler is treated fancifully in's novel, Winnie and Wolf (2007)
George II... e United Kingdom, although the title was not then in use. The next monarch,, witnessed the final end of the Jacobite threat in 1746, when the Catholi ...
Steve Lacy... found a foothold in Europein part because musicians such as Ayler, Taylor,and Eric Dolphy spent extended periods in Europe. A distinctive European c ...
Patrick J. Hayes... pecifying which conditions are not affected by an action. John McCarthy anddefined this problem in their 1969 article, Some Philosophical Problems fr ...
Hilary Mantel... ical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris. The novelistportrays More as a religious and masochistic fanatic in her 2009 novel Wol ...
Nikola Tesla... al or real—including scientists such as Thomas Edison, Charles Steinmetz or—were popularly conceived of as having wizard-like powers
King James II... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of. During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ...
Bill Clinton... n a majority in the county before 2008 was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, althoughwon pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat ...
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of, was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused Geor ...
David Armitage... Emerich de Vattel, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and Samuel Pufendorf. Historianhas argued that the Declaration is a document of international law. Accord ...
Thomas Keneally... ected by Fred Schepisi was an award winning historical drama from a book byabout the tragic story of an Aboriginal Bushranger
Queen Elizabeth II... l is 1 mile or long and has a diameter of with a roadbed . It was opened byon 19 October 1967, but commenced operational use only in 1968, on complet ...
Albert... George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward,, Mary, Henry, George, and John
Stuart Thomas Butler... stratospheric ozone. This was rectified in 1963 by the Australian physicistand his student K.A. Small who showed that stratospheric ozone absorbs an ...
Egon Wellesz... Other pupils of this generation included Heinrich Jalowetz, Erwin Stein and, and somewhat later Eduard Steuermann, Hanns Eisler, Rudolf Kolisch, Paul ...
Bill Clinton... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President. Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ...
Stephen Cook... speed-up theorem. The field really began to flourish when the US researcherand, working independently, Leonid Levin in the USSR, proved that there ex ...
Anders CelsiusIn the 18th century,performed his research there and built the first observatory proper in 174 ...
Robert Kowalski... was created around 1972 by Alain Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel, based on's procedural interpretation of Horn clauses. It was motivated in part by ...
Lester B. Pearson... ary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations,, at the party's leadership convention in 1958
Rowan Williams... appeared at the "The Gathering", organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury,, at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and journalism, amo ...
Nikolaus Pevsner... sidered that the north and south transepts were also 12th century but Prof.proposed a later date of about 1275, noting their triplets of Early Englis ...
Jean-Yves Tadié... brother and someone very much like himself..." — Marcel Proust: A Life, by, 1996. Racine's influence can also be seen in A.S. Byatt's tetralogy ( Th ...
Twyla TharpIn 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer, scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album, The Catherine Wheel f ...
Aaron Copland... f international attention. Following Gershwin, the first major composer wasfrom Brooklyn, who used elements of American folk music, though it remaine ...
Stephen Jay Gould... extinction of the dinosaurs under which to accumulate relevant differences.describes many of the same examples as parallel evolution starting from th ...
Robert Kowalski... as popular in North America in the late 1960s and early 1970s. According to, the first Prolog system was developed in 1972 by Alain Colmerauer and Ph ...
Cindy Sherman... Byrne and Lutz divorced in 2004. Byrne began a relationship with the artistin 2007
Albert Einstein... described a ray of light as the "quickest of all the messengers". In 1905,proposed the existence of a light-particle in answer to the question: "wha ...
T Tyrwhitt... including scholars such as R Dawes, J Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup,, Richard Porson, Peter Paul Dobree, Thomas Kidd and James Henry Monk. Alt ...
George Bernard Shaw... "refuses to play the game" of other dramatists of the period, for instance, who used their characters to draw audiences to grander ideals
Milton FriedmanDavid Friedman is the son of economists Rose and. His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and m ...
Arnold Rampersad... ibrary of America, together with an introduction, a chronology and notes by, a well-regarded scholar of African-American literary works. This edition ...
Richard Attenborough... take on World War I, which was released in a cinematic version directed byin 1969
Charles William King... Buddhism was first proposed by the Victorian gem collector and numismatist(1864). Mansel (1875,) considered the principal sources of Gnosticism to b ...
Richard Stallman... y Ram Samudrala in early 1994. It was based on the idea of Free Software byand coincided with nascent open art and open information movements. Up to ...
Niels Bohr... e summer of 1913, this value was naturally obtained by the Danish physicistas a consequence of his atom model, and also published independently by Pr ...
King George V... viour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and pris ...
Stephen Hawking... tion of particles, regardless of whether or not free will exists. Physicistdescribes such ideas in his 2010 book The Grand Design. According to Hawki ...
Rudyard Kipling... d current affairs from a left wing perspective. It's named after the famouspoem. Suiting both Bell's anarchic artistic style and the paper's politica ...
Rafe de CrespignySima Guang is best remembered for his Zizhi Tongjian masterwork, anddescribes him as "perhaps the greatest of all Chinese historians"
Charles Dickens... ced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852),(1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), ...
Edgar Meyer... with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys beginning in 1944. The classical bassisthas frequently branched out into , old-time, jazz, and other genres
J. R. R. Tolkien... influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that includedand C. S. Lewis) and Richard Tarnas
Walter ScottIn contrast Lord Byron andachieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ...
Terry Winograd... e World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge His supervisorencouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... 4 September 2009, Hislop appeared at the "The Gathering", organised by the, Rowan Williams, at Canterbury Cathedral to discuss religion, society and ...
Peter AckroydOther biographers, such as, have offered a more sympathetic picture of More as both a sophisticated ...
Peter Carey... German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the s ...
Richard Adams... ith his warhorse Skylark, is featured prominently in the novel Traveller by
Erwin Schrödinger... ly compatibilistic (deterministic) free will is possible based on the data., a nobel laureate in physics and one of the founders of quantum mechanics ...
Ronald FisherAlong with Leonard Tippett and, he pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory. The Gumbel ...
Daniel Dennettuses the case of the Three Mile Island accident as an example of the diffi ...
Rudyard Kipling... r death at their gloves' end as they piece and repiece the living wires" in's 1907 poem Sons of Martha. Electrically powered vehicles of every sort f ...
Richard Dawkins... e striking example of similar placental and marsupial forms is described byin The Blind Watchmaker as a case of convergent evolution, because mammals ...
Prince Philip... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ...
Gary SnyderAmong the Beats,and Allen Ginsberg in particular were influenced by the Imagist emphasis o ...
Simon Blackburn... itions, such as those on murder, mass atrocities, and slavery. For example,states that "apologists for Hinduism defend or explain away its involvemen ...
Ernest Rutherford... aper, with some unknown radiation that could not be turned off like X-rays.continued these experiments and discovered two different kinds of radiatio ...
Stephen Hawking... ongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin,as the voice of Deep Thought, Patrick Moore as the voice of the Guide, Rog ...
Adrienne Clarkson... ere also buoyed by the Sponsorship Scandal. Martin advised Governor Generalto call an election for June 28, 2004
Albert Einstein... othic minster (Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster) and as the birthplace of
Benjamin Franklin... uture US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826);(1706–1790); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muska ...
Cormac McCarthy... amed for Alexander W. Terrell, a Texas state senator. It is the setting for's novel No Country for Old Men, and the Academy Award winning film adapta ...
Maximilian Joseph... s annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia. In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken,, the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zwei ...
Richard Feynman... s Plenty of Room at the Bottom is the title of a lecture given by physicistat an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. F ...
Gershom Scholem... of Jewish spirituality. The birth of academic scholarship of Kabbalah under, and the search for deeper Jewish spirituality, in the 20th Century, redi ...
Roy Chadwick... lane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaster bomber, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna ...
Anthony Kenny... oment is common in science and frequently resolved with later advancements.argues against utilitarianism using the "standard argument" against free w ...
Richard Bentley... ok to bell-ringing at Great St Mary's as exercise. He was a bitter enemy of, who he declared knew nothing of Greek except from indexes
John Zorn... n-Jewish emigre composer Yaacov Bilansky Levanon in Palestine in the 1920s.'s Masada Chamber Ensemble recorded an album called Bar Kokhba, showing a ...
Jonathan Lethem... Bennington College, where he met and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt,, Francis Lombard and Joseph McLaughlin, none of whom were aware of his li ...
King George II... of her £500 income as Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Sarah was also rude to–making it clear that he was "too much of a German"–which further alienate ...
Charles Dickens... late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon andwas serializing Oliver Twist. The majority of the book takes place sevente ...
A. J. P. Taylor... her prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson,, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Rus ...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... es who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like Friedrich Schiller anddismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "courtly drama" too restricted by ...
Bill Clinton... re allowed to consolidate. The legislation was signed into law by President
James VIICharles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass forfor a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ...
John Cockcroft... in Manchester. Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir, aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaste ...
Lewis Fry Richardson... famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann,and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson
Charles DickensThe number of visitors increased, including Queen Victoria and. Work was undertaken during the 19th century to protect the stonework fro ...
John Sparrow... d humorous poems published posthumously under the title Unkind to Unicorns.found statements in a letter written late in Housman's life which describe ...
Henry Sidgwick... lves lead to certain outcomes. One classic philosopher to take this view is, in his main work
Rudyard Kipling... th Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley –– Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – ...
Francis NicholsonIn September 1710, 3,600 British and colonial forces led byfinally captured Port Royal after a siege of one week. This ended official ...
Robert Menzies... sion under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the World War II under
Sir Robert Peel... Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and appointed a Tory,. In the ensuing elections, however, Peel lost. The King had no choice but ...
Winston Churchill... I, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides.claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues a ...
Hanna Neumann... Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell,, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson
Margaret Thatcher... in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), put down on March 22, 1979, by
Pierre TrudeauGuests came from all walks of life, including politicians likeand Indira Gandhi, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Ho ...
Antoine LavoisierBerthollet, along withand others, devised a chemical nomenclature, or a system of names, which s ...
Richard Smalley... of the University of Sussex), James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and, from Rice University, discovered C 60 , and shortly thereafter came to d ...
William Ewart Gladstone... 32); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740–1817); Prime Ministers(1809–1898) and Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745); Queen Caroline of Brandenb ...
Alan Turing... ombinator is the Turing fixed-point combinator (named after its discoverer,)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel... ucted, but the weight of water in the raised tanks caused them to collapse.was consulted and came up with the plans for two mighty water towers, one ...
Winston Churchill... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Ministermade similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans
Grant Gilmore... nd fiercely litigated sections of the UCC is Section 2-207, which Professorcalled "arguably the greatest statutory mess of all time." It governs a "b ...
George VOn 6 May 1910, Edward VII died. The Prince of Wales ascended the throne as, and Mary became queen consort. When her husband asked her to drop one of ...
Manmohan Singh... initiated by the previous Congress Government under P. V. Narasimha Rao and, pushed through major privatizations of big government corporations, the ...
Alistair Cooke... towering figure among the informative programmes was Letter from America by, which was broadcast for over 50 years. For many years, a daily reading f ...
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G. H. Hardy... statement of this is found in an essay written by the British mathematicianin defense of pure mathematics
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Samuel PepysAt the start of the Restoration era, on 11 October 1660,saw the play at the Cockpit Theatre. Nicholas Burt played the lead, with C ...
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Shmuel Winograd... evska Williams. The original algorithm was presented by Don Coppersmith andin 1990, has an asymptotic complexity of O(n 2.376 ). This algorithm, and ...
Hirohito... 4, this time over the attempt by Namba Daisuke to assassinate Prince Regenton 27 December 1923 (the Toranomon Incident)
Karl MarxIn the most influential of all socialist theories,and Friedrich Engels believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage o ...
Henry Lipson... , Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist
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J. K. Rowling... for fans. A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of, where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits ...
Thomas HookerThe first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English.led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and fou ...
Winston Churchill... ish subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples are Lord Nelson and)—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in Britain. The funeral t ...
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James George Frazer... t in early records such as the Egyptian pyramid texts and the Indian Vedas.asserted that magical observations are the result of an internal dysfuncti ...
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Joseph Louis Lagrange... rvations." Germain obtained the lecture notes and began sending her work to, a faculty member. She used the name M. LeBlanc, “fearing,” as she later ...
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Walter ScottThe castle's cultural prominence increased after Sirwrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ...
Louis Antoine de Bougainville... thought was a southern continent. Europeans did not return until 1768, whenrediscovered the islands. In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New ...
Michael Almereyda... artin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker. Wenders, whose career had been distinguished by his mastery of the road ...
Charles Mingus... iels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, were central to the history of jazz. Notably,was a highly regarded composer as well as a bassist noted for his technica ...
George Martin... d an international reputation as a tourist getaway, and the record producerestablished an important recording studio there, Associated Independent Re ...
Charles Richard FaireyDuring the First World War the EMI factories produced aircraft.was seconded there for a short time, before setting up his own company, Fa ...
John Arbuthnot... e Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay,, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbro ...
Rupert BrookeLeading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae,, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones. A similar movement occurred in literatu ...
David Mumford... his work is now "mainstream-for-Princeton"; but this assimilation (through, Pierre Deligne and others) hardly includes all of the content
David Armitage... time and was consulted during the drafting process. According to historian, the United States Declaration of Independence did prove to be internatio ...
Rudyard Kipling... ould walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni." A fan of's The Jungle Book as a child, Calvino felt that his early interest in sto ...
Barbara Yorke... archiepiscopate, within a year of him succeeding his father. The historianargues that there were two co-rulers of Kent after Æthelberht's death, Ead ...
Gavin de Beer... biology ('evo-devo') played little part in the synthesis, but an account of's work by Stephen J. Gould suggests he may be an exception
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Edward VII... ice hockey to Europe, beating a court team (which included both the futureand George V) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had ...
Winston Churchill... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," andstated, "I find Hornblower admirable.
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Walter Pater... lvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors,and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... , hosted 126,000 visitors annually. Famous visitors to the springs included, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Wagner, and Johannes Brahms. In those years t ...
George Steiner... ewpoint has been supported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks,, and James Fenton
Elizabeth II... at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen. The honour had been first proposed in 1931. Knighthood was suggested aga ...
Sir Lawrence Bragg... y. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was under the general direction of, who won the Nobel Prize in 1915 at the age of 25. Bragg was influential ...
Martin Hinds... was the hallmark of the good Muslim. The modern scholars Patricia Crone and, in their book God's Caliph, outline the evidence for an early, expansive ...
Joshua Reynolds... d Raphael and Michelangelo and the formal training regime introduced by Sir. Their approach was to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, an ...
George Canning... the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the moderate Tory governments ofand Lord Goderich. Upon the death of his father in 1828 and his becoming V ...
Kleene... nistic notion of truth often leads to misinterpretations about its meaning.formally defined intuitionistic truth from a realist position, yet Brouwer ...
George Martin... tles tried a variety of instruments, including drums and an organ, and thatlater persuaded them to allow McCartney to play his Epiphone Texan steel-s ...
Lewis Spratlan... h, law and society expert Austin Sarat, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, professor emeritus of the music faculty. (See List of Amherst College pe ...
Charles Boyle... ject of academic controversy. The Christ Church College editor of Phalaris,, resented Bentley's paper. He had already quarreled with Bentley in tryin ...
Hermann Bondi... es surfaces of simultaneity by considering light pulses, in accordance with's idea of the k-calculus. A second approach calculates a straightforward ...
Albert, Prince Consort... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and. His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ...
David BohmSome quantum physicists have supported Sheldrake's hypothesis. The latesuggested that Sheldrake's hypothesis was in keeping with his own ideas on ...
Craig Raine... king Jews undesirable." Eliot never re-published this book nor the lecture., in his books In Defence of T.S. Eliot (2001) and T. S. Eliot (2006), has ...
Rudyard KiplingIn 1894published The Jungle Book, a collection of stories about a boy who lives i ...
Margaret Thatcher... on of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a youngwas a member) discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cre ...
Clinton Thomas DentIn 1885,, president of the Alpine Club, suggested that climbing Mount Everest was ...
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William Burges... The current castle is an elaborately decorated Victorian folly designed byfor the Marquess and built in the 1870s, as an occasional retreat. However ...
Patricia Crone... dicting the Quran, was the hallmark of the good Muslim. The modern scholarsand Martin Hinds, in their book God's Caliph, outline the evidence for an ...
Richard Hare... in order to decide what to do, and must think as an act utilitarian would.supported this theory with his concept of the Archangel, which holds that ...
Charles DickensEbenezer Scrooge is the principal character in's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge i ...
Queen Elizabeth II... s is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and a Commonwealth realm withas head of state (represented by a Governor-General)
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Herbert L. Anderson... which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall; the members of the team were, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Fr ...
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was successful in convincing most biologists t ...
Lord Dawson of PennGeorge V died on 20 January 1936, after his physician,, gave him an injection of morphine and cocaine which may have hastened hi ...
George Martin... also had the chance to perform Beatles songs at the Hollywood Bowl with Sir. He frequently conducts songwriting workshops in California, where he now ...
Richard Ellmann... insisting that a playbill from the first performance be reproduced inside.argues that the proofs show a man "very much in command of himself and of ...
Lord Sumner... erning reparations. Their place was taken by the Heavenly Twins – the judgeand the banker Lord Cunliffe whose nickname derived from the "astronomical ...
Saul Bellow... ists and musicians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate, Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laure ...
William Penn... here are some vague assertions that Arthur Penn, brother of the more famous, also formed part of the Quaker community of the British Virgin Islands f ...
George V... Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founde ...
Richard Walker... e college statutes required the sentence to be exercised by the vice-master, who was a friend of Bentley and refused to act. Although the feud contin ...
James Fenton... ported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks, George Steiner, and
John Malcolm... a the parasol is repeatedly found in the carved work of Persepolis, and Sirhas an article on the subject in his 1815 "History of Persia." In some scu ...
Amartya SenIn another article explicitly referring to Huntington,(1999) writes that "diversity is a feature of most cultures in the world. ...
Prince Albert... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husbandas well as on herself
John Wilkins... r year he was alao elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1675 he edited's Principles of Natural Religion, completing what was left unfinished of ...
Patrick Bateson... g Sheldrake's prediction. In an independent analysis of the data, biologistagreed with Rose that the results ran counter to the prediction of morphic ...
Herbert L. Anderson... finding Fermi in his office, Bohr went down to the cyclotron area and found. Bohr grabbed him by the shoulder and said: “Young man, let me explain to ...
John Dryden... en blamed them for its destruction. For example, English Enlightenment poetwrote, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, / Did all the matchl ...
Margaret Thatcher... red a Soviet mural of Lenin and images of Reagan and then-UK Prime Minister. The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's Paul Morley, dispassionately repor ...
Sue TownsendIn's , Adrian writes a book entitled Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland, in w ...
Bill Clinton... cember 1996. Bishop Belo capitalised upon this honour through meetings withof the United States and Nelson Mandela of South Africa. In 1995, he also ...
Wiles... this theorem. Shimura dryly commented that his first reaction on hearing of's proof of the semistable case of the theorem was 'I told you so'
Jürgen Habermas... tution are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer,, Karl-Otto Apel and Hannah Arendt. The campus is situated in two urban ar ...
Robert May... s. The map was popularized in a seminal 1976 paper by the English biologist, in part as a discrete-time demographic model analogous to the logistic e ...
José Ramos-Horta... f peace and reconciliation were internationally recognised when, along with, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1996. Bishop Belo capit ...
William Thomson... considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin,, Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid governor)
Philip Pearlstein... rs continue to be utilized by artists such as Joseph Raffael, Andrew Wyeth,, Eric Fischl, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer and Francesco Clemente. Mode ...
George Bernard Shaw... spects of his self-imposed restrictions somewhat as the work progressed. Assardonically (and slightly unfairly) noted of the last opera Götterdämmeru ...
Sir John Randall... igration was made possible by the newly won influence of physicists such as, who had helped win the war with inventions such as radar. Crick had to a ...
Queen Elizabeth II... tan. He retained that title until his death on 6 February 1952, after whichbecame Queen of Pakistan. Pakistan became an Islamic and Parliamentary rep ...
The Duke of Edinburgh... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ...
Edward Llwyd... yer and his servant dying of cold in Beddgelert, noted by Welsh antiquarian. There is also the "Cave of the black crwth player" near Criccieth, which ...
Lewis Wolpert... who have sought to discuss his work, thoroughgoing metaphysical naturalistsand , reportedly refused to even examine his evidence—a fact cited as illu ...
Harold Macmillan... oncorde, with the French spelling, but was officially changed to Concord byin response to a perceived slight by Charles de Gaulle. In 1967, at the Fr ...
Thomas Burgess... Valckenaer and Johann Jakob Reiske. The Miscellanea, which was re-edited by(1781), Gottlieb Christoph Harless (1800) and Thomas Kidd (1817), for many ...
The Queen... of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son ofand The Duke of Edinburgh, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Que ...
Philip Larkin... el Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling –– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice ...
Anthony Kenny... ol. He held the post from 1965 to 1978, when he retired (he was replaced by). Among those of his students at Balliol who went on to develop our under ...
William Taubman... hysicist Arthur Zajonc, Pulitzer Prize-winning Nikita Khrushchev biographer, African art specialist Rowland Abiodun, Natural Law expert Hadley Arkes, ...
B. V. BowdenThe appointment of(later Lord Bowden) in 1953 marked the beginning of a phase of expansion. ...
Leibniz... rs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu., echoing the prevailing perception in Europe until the Industrial Revolut ...
Bill Clinton... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US Presidentby virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was al ...
Thomas Firmin... from charges of sympathy with Socinianism in his previous associations with, Stephen Nye and others
W. H. Auden... and places it alongside Flatland, Phantastes, and The Wind in the Willows., in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring calls The Hobbit ...
John Dryden... ut the flaws in human society in general and English society in particular.wrote an influential essay entitled "A Discourse Concerning the Original a ...
Paul BermanIn his Terror and Liberalism,proposes another criticism of the civilization clash hypothesis. According ...
Carl Gauss... tions (which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). He was a contemporary of, also a mathematician and physicist. The asteroid 1552 Bessel was named i ...
Robert BrowningFilippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial is the title of a poem byfrom his 1876 collection, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper. It ...
Bill Clinton... voters gave George H. W. Bush a victory here in 1992, the county voted forin 1996 and continued the trend by giving Al Gore an 11-percent victory in ...
Alan Ayckbourn... diptych of Smoking/No Smoking (1993): Resnais, having admired the plays offor many years, chose to adapt what appeared the most intractable of them, ...
David Bates... aboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey and Nevill Mott; he ...
Hannah Arendt... egel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel and. The campus is situated in two urban areas and several buildings. In nume ...
John HerschelIn his book Outlines of Astronomy, first published in 1849, the astronomerwrote
King George IICreated by Royal Charter of, "Reading" Township was formed July 15, 1730 from portions of Amwell Town ...
Charles DickensA Christmas Carol is a novella by English authorfirst published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of ...
John C. Lettsome... mber of famous historical figures came from that small community, including, William Thornton, Samuel Nottingham and Richard Humphreys. There are som ...
A. S. F. Gow... ur shoulders, and brains, not pudding, in your head." His younger colleaguequotes examples of these attacks, noting that they "were often savage in t ...
Marianne Moore... king him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist.also became associated with the group during this period. However, with Wo ...
James Bowdoin... ions made at high values with lower-valued paper. The merchants, among them, were opposed, because they were generally lenders who stood to lose by s ...
Peter Ustinov... herry Orchard (1954), The Potting Shed (1958), Five Finger Exercise (1959),'s comedy Half Way Up a Tree (1967), and Private Lives (1972). Gielgud won ...
Jill Paton Walsh... and which remained as fragments and notes at her death. It was completed byand published in 1998. The title is a quotation from John Milton's Paradis ...
J. B. S. Haldane... igures in the modern synthesis include R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky,, Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverik ...
Alan Cairns... ntended to be a source for national values and national unity. As Professornoted, "The initial federal government premise was on developing a pan-Can ...
Niels Bohr... retation of the work of Hahn and Strassmann crossed the Atlantic Ocean with, who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and Willis ...
Michael Freeden... alist society: sociality, social responsibility, cooperation, and planning.in his study Ideologies and Political Theory (1996) states that all social ...
Joseph Priestley... ciation of Ideas). A friend, associate, and one of his chief advocates, was(1733–1804), the discoverer of oxygen. Priestley was one of the foremost s ...
Robert Lucas... m Hayek's Austrian School. So successful were these criticisms that by 1980was saying economists would often take offence if described as Keynesians
Benjamin Baker... ced, and the project was subsequently taken over by Sir John Fowler and Sir. who designed a structure that was built by Glasgow based company Sir Wil ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... n was contracted to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in which's three-volume novel would be condensed into a single film. Bakshi arrang ...
Rafe de Crespigny... ave reached the court of Emperor Huan of Han (r. 146–168 CE) in 166 CE, yetasserts that this was most likely a group of Roman merchants. Other travel ...
Julie Bovasso... ood of New York City. Tony lives at home with his parents (Val Bisoglio and) and works at a dead-end job at a small hardware store by day. But on Sat ...
Charles Darwin... ly of artists is attested to by the fact that Francis Galton, the cousin ofused the Bonheurs as an example of "Hereditary Genius" in his 1869 essay o ...
Mo MowlamThe Labour politicianwas educated in Coventry; trade union organiser Tom Mann and National Soci ...
C. S. Lewis... gs, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and) and Richard Tarnas
Winston Churchill... s the maquis were receiving, to the extent that he begged five minutes with, the British Prime Minister. Churchill, reluctant at first, but fascinate ...
C. S. LewisA version of Bacchus also appears in' Prince Caspian, part of The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis depicts him as d ...
Michael Dummett... support to several schools of philosophy, most notably the Anti-realism of. Thus, contrary to the first impression its name might convey, and as rea ...
William Cohen... peacekeeping efforts on the continent. In 1998, the U.S. Defence Secretary,, said that Morocco and the U.S. have "mutual concerns over transnational ...
John Dryden... nd Hislop recounted the history of the post from the first official holder,, to the then recently announced first female, first Scot and first openly ...
Charles IIFuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to. In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with the business ...
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade... scribed as "the dullest problem imaginable") in the laboratory of physicistat University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II (in p ...
Charles Babbage... loped by Joseph Marie Jacquard (1804), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov,, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM. Another va ...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson... ham, and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister Christina Rosset ...
The Prince of Wales... of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: The Duke of Edinburgh,, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and The Duke of York
J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (1937-1949) shares elements with De ...
William ByrdIn 1728,headed an expedition sent to determine the true boundary between Virginia ...
Henry BriggsCommon logarithms are sometimes also called Briggsian logarithms after, a 17th-century British mathematician
Francis Galton... family was renowned as a family of artists is attested to by the fact that, the cousin of Charles Darwin used the Bonheurs as an example of "Heredit ...
Arthur C. ClarkeIn the fictional work "The Last Theorem" byand Frederik Pohl, Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subra ...
George Bernard Shaw... hey recognised the play's cleverness, humour and popularity with audiences., for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that come ...
Nikola TeslaIn 1891,invented the Tesla coil, an air-cored, dual-tuned resonant transformer for ...
Coleridge... ary." Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages.. "Wit," wroteafter reading the Church History, "was the stuff and substance of Fuller's ...
Bill Clinton... ed his former Senate colleague Bob Dole for president, while Gantt endorsed. Although Helms is generally credited with being the most successful Repu ...
Simon Conway Morris... re re-wound and played back, life would have taken a very different course.counters this argument, arguing that convergence is a dominant force in ev ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of(the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ...
Diana Trilling... Jewish community, even among New York intellectuals such as Irving Howe and
William Butler Yeats... erhaps the peak of this wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like, Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen
King Charles IIIn 1670granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ...
E. B. Ford... clude R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright,, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverikov, George Gaylord Simpson, ...
James Bowdoin... 1752 by the Kennebec Company to William Bowdoin of Boston, older brother of. Originally called West Bowdoinham Plantation, it was settled some years ...
Jonathan Lethem... nington College, which Ellis himself attended, where he met future novelistand befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and Jill Eisenstadt. In Tartt's ...
Sir John FranklinIn 1825,wrote that "The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport" wh ...
Lewis Carroll... den it; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would ...
Elizabeth II... l officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General ...
Newtonian... t series of lectures ("A Confutation of Atheism"), he endeavours to presentphysics in a popular form, and to frame them (especially in opposition to ...
Stephen HawkingIn 1991, John Preskill and Kip Thorne bet againstthat the hypothesis was false. Hawking conceded the bet in 1997, due to th ...
Adam Smith... . The headstone was for the vintner Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, a relative of, who had won the catering contract for the visit of George IV to Edinburg ...
John LockeThe outlines of Hartley's theory are as follows. Like, he asserted that, prior to sensation, the human mind is a blank slate. B ...
Langston Hughes... Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poetsand Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionis ...
Sir Arnold Hall... s. Chaired by Lord Cohen, the committee tasked an investigation team led by, Director of the RAE at Farnborough, to perform a more detailed investiga ...
Otto Robert Frisch... y, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew, correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission. Following ...
G. I. Taylor... of fiber diffraction analysis. In 1934, Polanyi, at about the same time asand Egon Orowan, realised that the plastic deformation of ductile material ...
Stephen Jay Gould... lution is the subject of a popular controversy. In his book Wonderful Life,argues that if the tape of life were re-wound and played back, life would ...
Robert Peel... urne's resignation led to the Bedchamber Crisis. Prospective prime ministerrequested that Victoria dismiss some of the wives and daughters of Whig MP ...
Richard MariusA number of modern historians and writers, such as, have evaluated More in his political capacity and have criticised him fo ...
John PreskillIn 1991,and Kip Thorne bet against Stephen Hawking that the hypothesis was false. ...
George Placzek... interpreted these results as being nuclear fission. Following an advice of, Frisch confirmed this experimentally on 13 January 1939
Gil Amelio... ed the Board of Directors of Ripcord Networks, Inc., joining Ellen Hancock,, Mike Connor, and Wheels of Zeus co-founder Alex Fielding, all Apple alum ...
Steven Strogatz... N 978-0385531689). The six degrees research is based on his 1998 paper within which the two presented a mathematical theory of the small world phenom ...
Alvah BessieLardner appeared before the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole ...
Michael Palin... the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a jokeincluded in the script, in which he describes the character removing his m ...
Ilan Stavans... rd, Beowulf translator Howell Chickering, Jewish and Latino studies scholar, novelist and legal scholar Lawrence Douglas, physicist Arthur Zajonc, Pu ...
Irving Howe... n uproar in the Jewish community, even among New York intellectuals such asand Diana Trilling
Kip ThorneIn 1991, John Preskill andbet against Stephen Hawking that the hypothesis was false. Hawking concede ...
Alvin Plantinga... g, greater than anything else that one can do for it, is to be truly free."'s "free will defense" is a contemporary expansion of this theme, adding h ...
Doris Lessing... ton, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon,, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis ...
Ralph Hartley... communications machines such as teletypes and stock ticker machines (1870).suggested the use of a logarithmic measure of information in 1928. Claude ...
Rudyard Kipling... and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard. It is heavily influenced by's The Jungle Book. , it had been on the New York Times Bestseller childre ...
Karl Popper... contend, the greatest harms are more consequential than the greatest goods.also referred to an epistemological argument: “It adds to clarity in the f ...
the King... alth. The defensive war fought by the forces of the Commonwealth ended when, convinced of the futility of resistance, capitulated by joining the Targ ...
Robert Peel... led him to dismiss Melbourne in November. He then gave the Tories under Siran opportunity to form a government. Peel's failure to win a House of Comm ...
Charles Dickens... Lloyds, as well as nineteenth-century philanthropists and reformers such asand Elizabeth Fry
Henry Briggs... the decadic logarithm, named after its base, and Briggsian logarithm, after, an English mathematician who pioneered its use. It is indicated by log 1 ...
Edgar F. Codd... sources). However, the term did not appear until 1993 when it was coined by, who has been described as "the father of the relational database". Codd' ...
Ruth Rendell... and met with mixed reviews from a variety of high-profile critics. Novelist, writing in the Sunday Times, declared it "...impossible to tell where Do ...
James VII and II... Abdication Act 1936. The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was, who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution
Herbert Simon... re their levels of expertise. The works of Adriaan de Groot, William Chase,, and Fernand Gobet have established that knowledge, more than the ability ...
Robert F. Coleman... I was gay, Psycho would be read as a different book." In an interview with, Ellis refers to his as an "indeterminate sexuality", and said "any other ...
Charles Dickens... umbrellas are sometimes called "gamps" after the character Mrs. Gamp in thenovel . Mrs. Gamp's character was well known for carrying an umbrella
J. Presper Eckert... Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventorsand John Mauchly, and the associated line of computers which continues to ...
William Huggins... the English chemist William Allen Miller and English amateur astronomer Sirused the wet collodion plate process to obtain the first ever photographic ...
John Garang... would get various portfolios and as a result of the death of vice president. The National Congress Party kept control of the key energy, defense, int ...
John Mauchly... ration, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and, and the associated line of computers which continues to this day in one ...
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen MotherThe Comet was a hit with passengers includingand Princess Margaret, who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 ...
Lewis CarrollIn 1865(1832–1898) published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in England. The tal ...
Isaac Newton... he tells us, was drawn from certain speculations as to nervous action whichhad published in his Principia. His psychological theory was suggested by ...
Julian Huxley... etics, cytology, systematics, botany, morphology, ecology and paleontology.invented the term, when he produced his book, (1942). Other major figures ...
the Duke of Edinburgh... were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that(the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances
Edward VII... s. The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King, who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscri ...
Goethe... a during Mozart's lifetime, and throughout German-speaking Europe. In 1787,wrote (concerning his own efforts as a librettist)
Joseph Addison... ny letters, owes much to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment likeand Jonathan Swift
Bill Clinton... ummit at Camp David of July 2000 took place between United States President, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Ya ...
Robert Lucas... tes economy recover from the late-2000s recession. Some economists, such as, questioned the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like Rob ...
Edward Gibbon... m paganism was in use in English before the 17th century. The OED instances's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776): "The divisions of Christia ...
Charles DickensOther tourist attractions include the birthplace of, the Blue Reef Aquarium (formerly the Sea Life Centre), Cumberland House ...
Prince Charles... a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and, called Jacob's Vow. The spirit of Fuller's preaching, characterized by c ...
Gil Amelio... chnology companies and developing them, with Apple alumni Ellen Hancock and
Humphry DavyClathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir
Noam Chomsky... al governments, and to the support they receive from their host population.states that Interview
August Derleth... al newspapers. His astronomical telescope is now housed in the rooms of theSociety
Peter Atkins... e University of East Anglia, which resulted in criticism from Lord Winston,, Richard Wiseman and the Royal Societ
Otto HahnIn December 1938, the German chemistsand Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting th ...
Harold Macmillan... ared in late 1961 to represent the recent victory of British prime minister's Conservative Party in parliamentary elections. The American actress, wh ...
Benjamin Franklin... actor," was among the first American colonialists to write literary satire.and others followed, using satire to shape an emerging nation's culture th ...
Richard SchickelHitchcock related this anecdote in a television interview for's documentary The Men Who Made the Movies and for Dick Cavett's interview ...
Derek Parfit... ity of a population based on the total utility of its members. According to, this type of utilitarianism falls victim to the Repugnant Conclusion, wh ...
Alan Lomax... usic. These researchers include the pioneering American folk song collector, whose work helped inspire the roots revival of the mid-20th century. The ...
Edwin Hewitt... at infinitesimals are precise, clear, and meaningful, building upon work byand Jerzy Łoś. According to Jerome Keisler, "Robinson solved a three hundr ...
Lewis Carroll... nd they wanted Hello Kitty to be different. Shimizu got the name Kitty from's Through the Looking-Glass, where in a scene early in the book Alice pla ...
Carol Ann Duffy... ntly announced first female, first Scot and first openly bisexual laureate,. His series on Victorian social reformers, Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Goo ...
Frederick William IV... my, not Austria. In refusing to agree to the offer of the imperial crown to, Maximilian had the support of his parliament. In withholding his assent ...
Charles Sutherland EltonIn 1927, a British ecologist, gave the first working definition of the niche conc ...
Elizabeth IIOn August 4, 2005, the government announced that Martin had advised Queento appoint Michaëlle Jean as governor general. The reception to the appoin ...
Bill Clinton... ide in Fayette County, GA. Their two children are now in college. Presidentappointed Lee Haney Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitnes ...
William Allen MillerIn 1863 the English chemistand English amateur astronomer Sir William Huggins used the wet collodion ...
Dimitri Kitsikis... rived from the "Intermediate Region" geopolitical model first formulated byand published in 1978. The Intermediate Region, which spans the Adriatic S ...
Robert Goulet... ction was Camelot. The production starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and.The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few numbers from the ...
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Pierre Trudeau... vernor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the ...
Samuel Pepys... tube while in blossom, the Cucumber will grow to a most surprising length.’wrote in his diary on September 22, 1663: “this day Sir W. Batten tells me ...
Salman Rushdie... he Six Billionth Citizen". The essay was written by British-Indian novelist, who found controversy in 1988 over one of his books gaining him a religi ...
Richard Marius... nt religious climate of the time, other equally eminent historians, such as, have been more critical, believing that such persecutions were a betraya ...
Michael FaradayQuantitative aspects of electrolysis were originally developed byin 1834. Faraday is also credited to have coined the terms electrolyte, el ...
Roger Penrose... created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The mathematicianindependently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as "i ...
Donald KnuthIn Introduction to MMIX,proposed that this unit be called a large kilobyte (abbreviated KKB). Othe ...
Steven Schwartz... he world by various sources. The current Vice-Chancellor of the university,, has outlined that one of the aims for Macquarie is to remain in the top ...
Michael FaradayThe concept of the electric field was introduced by. An electric field is created by a charged body in the space that surroun ...
William Butler Yeats... Aurum Solis, Ragon, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley,, and Arthur Machen. Many Hermetic, or Hermetically influenced, groups exi ...
John James Audubon... ted States during the 19th century; outstanding early practitioners include, as well as early Hudson River School painters such as William H. Bartlet ...
Paul Dirac... in physics before eventually winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Similarly,, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, began his academic career as a ...
John Maddox... d reviews. Then in September 1981, Nature published an editorial written by, the journal's senior editor, entitled "A book for burning?" In it, Maddo ...
John Aubrey... hn Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to, Fuller was "a boy of pregnant wit." At thirteen he was admitted to Queen ...
Richard Adams... asual manner. This down-to-earth style, also found in later fantasy such as' Watership Down and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, accepts readers into ...
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle... hat, at the time of the charter, Governor Benning Wentworth was indebted tofor his appointment as governor. According to Worcester, it was "very much ...
Edward Gibbon... merican author Frank G. Slaughter and published in 1965. It largely drew on's history of the Roman Empire as well as Eusebius of Caesarea's contempor ...
Alexander von HumboldtOne of the first synthetic peroxides, barium peroxide, was synthesized byin 1799 as a by-product of his attempts to decompose air. Nineteen years l ...
Grace Hopper... e Mark I were computing pioneers Richard Milton Bloch, Robert Campbell, and
CH Waddington's... gall's experiment with rats in a water maze and Mae-Wan Ho's replication ofexperiment with fruit flies, as well as several psychology experiments inv ...
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William Penn... er". In 1715, founder Sir Mathias Vincent and others failed to pay taxes to, who took them to court. In the end, in southern West Vincent Township we ...
Albert Einstein... he aging difference, not the acceleration per se. Explanations put forth byand Max Born invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a ...
Dickens... elding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott,, Flaubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century work ...
Ted Kennedy... randfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and, to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John Kennedy Jr.'s ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... 634, following the appointment of the strongly anti-Puritan William Laud as, the colony saw a large influx of immigrants
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Richard Ellmann... he library, returned the presentation copy to Wilde with a note of apology.argues that Wilde's poem "" was a sincere, though flamboyant, attempt to e ...
Simon Jenkins... many as one of the outstanding pieces of Christian architecture in England.' book, England's Thousand Best Churches, has St Botolph's ranked within t ...
Winston Churchill... Cyril Newall, then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests fromto weaken the home defence by sending precious squadrons to France. When t ...
Bill Clinton... county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan,, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Oba ...
Benjamin FranklinOn September 27, 1786, Mason wrote tothat he had returned to Philadelphia with his wife, seven sons, and one da ...
Zora Neale Hurston... k themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes,and Orson Welles
John Cage... sound of one drone could make music. Also in 1949, Pierre Boulez befriended, who was visiting Paris to do research on the music of . John Cage had be ...
Margaret Atwood... work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian authorand first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near fut ...
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson... la and Henry Nottidge Moseley described the mathematics of univalve shells.'s On Growth and Form gives extensive treatment to these spirals. He descr ...
Kim Dae-jung... Both were released from prison in December 1997, pardoned by then-president
Sir William Cubitt... ived a knighthood in recognition of his work. The project was engineered by
Joanna Lumley... ole of Steed, with two new partners, Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (). It aired on ITV in the UK in 1976-1977, CTV in Canada, CBS in the Unite ...
Nevil Maskelyne... 's Lunar Tables. He also contributed to the Nautical Almanac, working under, Astronomer Royal
Archbishop of Canterbury... c figures, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, whom Charles appointed. Many of Charles's subjects felt this brought the Church of England too c ...
Langston Hughes... rs exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson,, Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles
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Edmund Campion... was given Scota in marriage as a reward for his services. Writing in 1571,named the pharaoh Amenophis; Keating named him Cincris
Margaret Thatcher... Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, andbecoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. Bot ...
Thomas PynchonMason is one of the titular characters of's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon
Joseph Weber... ronomy to complement electromagnetic telescopes and neutrino observatories.pioneered the effort to detect gravitational waves in the 1960s through hi ...
Robert Menziesdefeated Hughes for the UAP leadership and became Prime Minister on 26 Apr ...
James IIThe early reign ofwas relatively successful; it was not expected that a Catholic king could ...
F. G. Donnan... College, London, under Professors Sir William Ramsay, W. C. McC. Lewis, and, taking his B.Sc. degree in 1913. He was particularly interested in worki ...
Steve Reich... experimental San Francisco Tape Music Center working with Morton Subotnick,, Pauline Oliveros, and Ramon Sender. His most influential teacher, howeve ...
William Hunter... John) had died of illness before John Hunter was born. An elder brother was, the anatomist. As a youth, John showed little talent, and helped his bro ...
Professor Steven Schwartz... he position of Vice-Chancellor for just under 20 years, and was replaced byat the beginning of 2006. Yerbury's departure was attended with much contr ...
Queen Elizabeth II... annel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She playedin Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with R ...
William Worthy... hose to not defend him. The ACLU later reversed their stance, and supportedand Rockwell Kent in their passport confiscation cases, which resulted in ...
Milton Friedman... of the United States' GNP and exports were only 5.0%. Monetarists, such as, who emphasize the central role of the money supply in causing the depres ...
William Ewart Gladstone... al to Peel were known as the Peelites and included the Earl of Aberdeen and. During 1859 the Peelites merged with the Whigs and the Radicals to form ...
Albert EinsteinIn his famous work on special relativity in 1905,predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, and ...
John Wallis... ntly developed by Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s.exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \tfrac{1}{\infty} in area calculatio ...
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Dorothy BakerIn 1938,borrowed the titles of her friend Otis Ferguson's two articles and publish ...
John Burnet... asyllus placed his birth in 470 BC, the later date is probably more likely.has argued that the date of 460 is "too early", since according to Diogene ...
Isaac NewtonIt was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz andstarting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \ ...
Archbishop of CanterburyIn 1716, in a letter to William Wake,, Bentley announced his plan to prepare a critical edition of the New Test ...
Duke of Wellington... n. Sparrows became a nuisance; Queen Victoria mentioned this problem to the, who offered the famous solution, "Sparrowhawks, Ma'am"
Stephen Cole Kleene... ome being intuitive". (Turing 1939, reprinted in Davis 2004, p. 210) Later,brought forth a more rational consideration of intuitionism in his Introdu ...
Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy... mance, Poetic Tradition. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780199215508*, The Delphic oracle, its responses and operations, with a catalogue of re ...
Grace Hopper... s in high demand during the war and the funds ($50,000 or more according to) could have been used to build additional computer equipment
Alexander von Humboldt... county derived its name from Humboldt Bay, which in turn is named the after, a famous German naturalist. The first recorded entry of Humboldt Bay by ...
Robert Resnick... he restated and elaborated on this result as printed below, (with physicist's comments following Einstein's)
Alan Turing... l offered opinions referred to as Platonist (see various sources re Gödel).considers
George V... wfoundland Regiment was given the name "The Royal Newfoundland Regiment" byon 28 November 1917. Because of the slaughter, the first day of the Battle ...
Michael Faraday... process now known as electrolysis. Their work was greatly expanded upon byin 1833. Current through a resistance causes localised heating, an effect ...
Edmund Blunden... also included comment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries:, Edgell Rickword and Henry Williamson
Isaac Barrow... ound for integral calculus. They drew on the work of such mathematicians asand René Descartes. Infinitesimal calculus consists of differential calcul ...
Nikolaus Pevsner... safety reasons. Hillsborough is the only football ground to be mentioned in's Buildings of England due to this stand. At the time of opening the stan ...
Rachel Carson... rmation of the environmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such asand Murray Bookchin had warned of. The moon landing that had occurred at t ...
Margaret Thatcher... 987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of
Desmond Tutu... statues of South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli,, F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled wi ...
Max Born... not the acceleration per se. Explanations put forth by Albert Einstein andinvoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a direct effec ...
Greenberg, Joseph... sound values of the sibilants will also use the conventional symbols, e.g., The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic. 1990. P.379. In: On languag ...
George II of Great Britain... can Forbes of Culloden, was Lord President of the Court of Session for King's government in London. Duncan Forbes and Alexander Ross the Pitcalnie ch ...
George Weigel... covery of the much larger — and ongoing — abuse scandal in public schools.", the Chair of Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in ...
Adrienne Clarkson... ember 9, 2004, the three signed a letter addressed to then-Governor General, stating
Harold Pinter... ngo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare), David Storey (Home), and(No Man's Land), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph R ...
Robert E. Lucas, Jr.... rld's population increased over sixfold. In the words of Nobel Prize winner, "For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of or ...
Richard Dawkins... th the title mimicking the controversial book by one of Sheldrake's critics, who wrote The God Delusion. [In an interview with Fortean Times, Sheldra ...
Mayrhofer... ek (hélos) ‘swamp’, the Rigvedic term refers mostly to stagnant waters, andconsiders unlikely a connection with the root * ‘run, flow’
William Penn... ers arrived in 1773-1774, having purchased the land from the descendants of; other pioneers soon bought land from the state government
Thomas Hill GreenOther philosophers who embraced panentheism have included(1839-1882), James Ward (1843-1925), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1856-19 ...
Gottfried LeibnizIt was independently developed byand Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinites ...
Raymond Carver... he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as Ernest Hemingway or. With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone description, Lawson created ...
Hugh Whitemore... uke of York's Theatre in 1978, but he made a successful comeback in 1988 in's play The Best of Friends as museum curator Sydney Cockerell
Charles Mingus... re's origins lie in seminal work by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans,, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. Generally, the term post-bop is taken ...
Samuel Alexander... 1882), James Ward (1843-1925), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1856-1931) and(1859-1938). Beginning in the 1940s, Hartshorne examined numerous concepti ...
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau... provincial election. Cartier was elected as a Conservative supporter of thegovernment. As a result, Cartier was both a member of the Parliament of Ca ...
Queen Elizabeth II... e Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role asin the British film A Question of Attribution
Zora Neale Hurston... e Hurston", published in Ms Magazine, helped revive interest in the work of, who inspired Walker's writing and subject matter. In 1973, Walker and fe ...
Bill Clinton... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US Presidentby virtue of being Opposition Leader, Manning was also granted a meeting w ...
Pierre Trudeau... of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of Joe Clark andor supply in the case of Arthur Meighen
James Mackintosh... n classics, philosophy and mathematics. He there formed the acquaintance of, who, though a year younger, was a year his senior as a student. While th ...
Herbert Aptheker... Frederick Sharp's decision to allow speaking invitations to Marxist speakerand civil liberties activist Frank Wilkinson; however, the two speakers ca ...
Lewis Carroll... usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later byin "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". These origins are related in the ...
James Prescott Joule... y in 1833. Current through a resistance causes localised heating, an effectstudied mathematically in 1840. One of the most important discoveries rela ...
Captain James Cook... er (Quakers have a tradition of "virtue names") and his father was a fan of. Morse's father was, by trade, a taxi driver and Morse likes to explain t ...
Bertrand Russell... ics to a logical formulation via set theory and its derailing by a youthful, the discoverer of Russell's paradox. Frege had planned a three volume de ...
George Bernard ShawWilde was the sole literary signatory of's petition for a pardon of the anarchists arrested (and later executed) a ...
Conrad Aiken... particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like Edmund Wilson,, and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being written in the E ...
James Clerk MaxwellOne could argue, based on the work of, that the transport definition precedes the more recent way the term is u ...
Karl Marx... thus maximise their profits, an opinion shared by the socialist Chartists.said: "The campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws had begun and the w ...
Benjamin Franklin... ve, and that by protons positive, a custom that originated with the work of. The amount of charge is usually given the symbol Q and expressed in coul ...
Buffon... 1801. The bulk of his work was in illustrating scientific books by Basedow,, Lavater, Pestalozzi and others. He also painted many portraits of Polish ...
Charles Barry... or, the home of garden designer William Robinson, and Cliveden, designed bywith a rose garden by Geoffrey Jellicoe
Charles II... he was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of invitingto Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government. ...
King Edward VII... ormed National Battlefields Commission, a group that, following the lead of, began to collect historical data relating to the plains and the battles ...
Queen Elizabeth... ull 552 but when launched, on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of, who was then Queen Consort and in 1952 became the Queen Mother. With a d ...
William Ramsay... e continued his studies at University College, London, under Professors Sir, W. C. McC. Lewis, and F. G. Donnan, taking his B.Sc. degree in 1913. He ...
Charles Mingus... nd "the really great chamber music groups of John Coltrane and Miles Davis,, Bill Evans, and Gil Evans" as influences on his work, demonstrating how ...
Charles II... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration ofin 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ...
Jan Smuts... ns was repealed and all Indian political prisoners were released by General
Daniel G. BobrowThe developer team – amongst them Daniel Murphy and– chose the name TENEX (TEN-EXtended) for the new system. It included a fu ...
Alan Plater... as featured in three British comedy drama television series, all written by: The Beiderbecke Affair (1984), The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987), and The Bei ...
Averil Cameron... own when Procopius himself died, and many historians (James Howard-Johnson,, Geoffrey Greatrex) date his death to 554, but in 562 there was an urban ...
Charles Sherrington... of the brain as a dynamic entity. Reflecting the new understanding, in 1942visualized the workings of the brain waking from sleep
Neville Chamberlain... make an official visit to discuss Germany's intentions for Czechoslovakia.was in favour of a meeting, and there was talk of a pact being signed betw ...
Prince Albert... nd led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of. Salvin was succeeded in the work by John Taylor. When a feature did not ...
Richard Ellmann... of estranging himself from his family. A precocious seventeen year old, by's account, he was "...so young and yet so knowing, was determined to sedu ...
Mitchell Feigenbaum... xamples of models for dynamical systems. Named after mathematical physicist, the two Feigenbaum constants appear in such iterative processes: they ar ...
George Woodcock... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. Forthis attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ...
James Clerk MaxwellFollowing is a derivation wildly different from the derivation described byand later described with fewer assumptions by Ludwig Boltzmann. Instead it ...
elder brother... s the Commonwealth realms; however, after the births of two children to his, and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth ...
Pierre Trudeau... aken by the events of Quebec's October Crisis, especially by Prime Minister's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier Rob ...
David Foster... e song "The Power of the Dream", composed by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and, with words by Linda Thompson was performed in the opening ceremony by Cé ...
Gene AmdahlAt IBM, a small team at Poughkeepsie including John Griffith andworked on the design proposal. Just after they finished and were about to ...
Manmohan Singh... parade in Surrey, saying it was a glorification of terrorism. In 2008, Dr., Prime Minister of India, expressed his concern that there might be a res ...
Pierre Raymond de Montmort... of , discovered in part by Jacob Bernoulli along with French mathematician, is in the problem of derangements, also known as the hat check problem. ...
Egon Orowan... tion analysis. In 1934, Polanyi, at about the same time as G. I. Taylor and, realised that the plastic deformation of ductile materials could be expl ...
ShawLikeand Brecht, Ionesco also contributed to the theatre with his theoretical w ...
George Martin... s claims, a delay may have been due to a disagreement between McCartney andregarding the song's arrangement, or the opinion of the other Beatles who ...
Archbishop of CanterburyIn 1958, theappointed Eliot to a commission that produced The Revised Psalter (1963). ...
James Clerk MaxwellThe distribution is named afterand Ludwig Boltzmann
Edward, Prince of Wales... of Belgium Albert I, the first European monarch to visit the United States., the future monarch of the United Kingdom, spent two days with Marshall a ...
Thomas Friedman... n Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnistsand Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter an ...
Bill Clinton... a diplomatic row with the United States administration after accusing, with, the US of not listening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejecte ...
Milton Friedman... conomies from the start of the decade, and partly because of critiques fromand other economists who were pessimistic about the ability of governments ...
C. S. Lewis... mmission that produced The Revised Psalter (1963). A harsh critic of Eliot,, was also a member of the commission, where their antagonism turned into ...
Samuel Horsley... the third edition. In a new edition of 1821 he omitted the attack on Bishop, and stated that his political opinions had undergone no substantial chan ...
Queen Elizabeth II... stian Edward; born 19 February 1960), is the second son, and third child ofand Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was sec ...
John LathamDescribed scientifically by English naturalistin 1790, the Black Swan was formerly placed into a monotypic genus, Chenop ...
David Bohm... 's ideas have resonated with the general public and some physicists such as. The idea that fields may influence cells has even received cautious supp ...
Edmund Wilson... liot's poetry, particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like, Conrad Aiken, and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being wr ...
John James Audubon... . The average weight of these pigeons was 340–400 grams (12–14 oz) and, per's account, length was 42 cm (16.5 in) in males and 38 cm (15 in) in femal ...
The Queen... ntended to be complete for the ship to enter service in the spring of 1940.herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938 and the ship ...
Robert Peel... 9, 1829, the Metropolitan Police Act was passed by Parliament, allowing Sir, the then home secretary, to found the London Metropolitan Police. This p ...
John CageRiley also citesand "the really great chamber music groups of John Coltrane and Miles Davi ...
Edward Jenner... he husband of Anne Hunter, a teacher, and friend of, and collaborator with,, the inventor of the smallpox vaccine
Rutherford's... i had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discoveringatomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If ...
Robert Adam... in Edinburgh and in 1782 he moved to London where (after meeting architectsand Sir William Chambers) he was involved in building additions to Somerse ...
Adam Smith... al mercantilism. In the English-speaking world its ideas were criticized bywith the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 and later David Rica ...
Ornette Coleman... llege. In LA's jazz milieu, he played alongside notable musicians including, Don Cherry and Billy Higgins
Philip Rubin... atory experiments was developed at Haskins Laboratories in the mid-1970s by, Tom Baer, and Paul Mermelstein. This synthesizer, known as ASY, was base ...
George Weigel... n The Courage To Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church,claims that it was the infidelity to orthodox Roman Catholic teaching, the ...
Winston Churchill... lew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with's British War Cabinet. En route he inspected Singapore's defences – findi ...
Sir Patrick Moore... fle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man on the Pole,as himself, and Christian Slater as Wonko the Sane. Finally, Adams himself ...
John Evelyn... fonts for their classical books; he had these made in Holland. He assistedin his Numismata. Bentley did not settle down to the steady execution of a ...
Harold Macmillan... diplomatic pressure to make them withdraw from Egypt. Controversy surrounds, who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Min ...
Carly Fiorina... became president of the post-merger Hewlett-Packard, under Chairman and CEO, to ease the integration of the two companies. However, Capellas was repo ...
John Cornwell... ople in the Vatican who were opposed to Luciani's policies. In the words of, "they treated him with condescension"; one senior cleric discussing Luci ...
Isaac Newton... o flow". As fluxion, this term was introduced into differential calculus by
J. R. R. Tolkien... s created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Enya has performed several songs relating to's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's "Lothlórien" (instrumental), an ...
Sir Peter Scott... erland and Mongolia) have joined the IWC. This shift was first initiated by, the then head of the World Wildlife Fund. Labelling the IWC a "butchers' ...
Merce Cunningham... n 1967, Stella designed the set and costumes for Scramble, a dance piece by. The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a retrospective of Stella ...
Melvin Calvin... istry at the University of Manchester. Two of his pupils, Eugene Wigner and, went on to win a Nobel Prize. The focus of his interests began to turn t ...
Paul Samuelson... unlikely to produce cotton cloth if the cotton had to be grown in England."coined a term Sraffa bonus to name the gains from trade of inputs
MaclaurinSeveral mathematicians, includingand d'Alembert, attempted to prove the soundness of using limits, but it w ...
Richard Stallman... rnel development was a controversial one. Some, notably GNU Project founder, expressed concern about proprietary tools being used on a flagship free ...
Cotton MatherIn 1718,contacted Yale and asked for his help. Mather represented a small institut ...
J. R. R. TolkienThe Gladden Fields (Sindarin Loeg Ningloron) is a location in's Middle-earth. In his works, the Gladden Fields are located where the Gl ...
Alfred Russel Wallace... ed the term neo-Darwinism to refer to the version of evolution advocated byand August Weismann with its heavy dependence on natural selection. Weisma ...
Richard Dawkins... brain size, and in particular the development of theory of mind abilities.in The God Delusion suggested that our morality is a result of our biologi ...
Robert Adam... 1572 Alnwick castle was uninhabited. In the second half of the 18th centurycarried out many alterations. The interiors were largely in a Strawberry H ...
Kim Dae-jung... ent. In the election, the two leading opposition figures, Kim Young-sam and(both of whom later became presidents), were unable to overcome their diff ...
Paul FarmerAccording to, the US administration dismantled the constitutional system, reinstituted ...
Steve Reich... (1964)and the Keyboard Studies. The first performance of In C was given by, Jon Gibson, Pauline Oliveros, and Morton Subotnick. Its form was an inno ...
Andrew LyneIn 1991, M. Bailes and S.L. Shemar claimed to have discovered a pulsar planet in ...
William Wotton... pistles of Phalaris, his major academic work, almost accidentally. In 1697,, about to bring out a second edition of his Ancient and Modern Learning, ...
Benjamin RobinsEnglish military engineer and mathematician(1707–1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine drag and did so ...
Christopher Ricks... eader." Julius's viewpoint has been supported by literary critics such as ,, George Steiner, and James Fenton
Elaine Pagels... olossians. Proponents of the view that Paul was actually a gnostic, such asof Princeton University, view the reference in Colossians as something tha ...
Moses I. Finley... William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian Sir; Arthur Rock, a cofounder of Intel; Donna Shalala, former United States S ...
Noam Chomsky... nguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity (as in 'is').", "[r]egarded as the father of modern linguistics"
John Crowe Ransom... enging poem like "The Waste Land." Of course, there were some critics, like, who wrote mostly negative criticisms of Eliot's work but who also had so ...
Fritz Haber... Admiral Horthy régime. In 1920 he returned to Karlsruhe, and was invited byto join the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Faserstoffchemie in Berlin. In 192 ...
Gil Evans... ic groups of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, and" as influences on his work, demonstrating how he pulled together strands ...
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizSince 2007 the historic Leibniz Letters, which can be viewed in theLibrary, are on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register
Edward Gibbon... r sources -- Theophanes, the Paschal Chronicle, and Paullus Diaconus—state.accepts this implication as fact, although none of the three sources expli ...
Thomas Hooker... to the governorship. These two men, along with Anne Hutchinson and pastorsand John Wheelwright, espoused religious or political views that were at o ...
Richard Stallman... rom Common Lisp. It supports imperative and functional programming methods.chose Lisp as the extension language for his rewrite of Emacs (the origina ...
Kip Thorne... eriment aiming to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 byand Ronald Drever of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint proj ...
John Crowe Ransom... acock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh –– Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sassoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – ...
Prince George, Prince of Wales... s that took place on them. Finally, on 24 July 1908, the King's eldest son,, dedicated the Quebec Battlefields Park at the Plains of Abraham, then pr ...
George Bernard ShawThe Ring has been the subject of myriad interpretations. For example,, in , argues for a view of The Ring as an essentially socialist critique ...
Jeremiah Dixon... ts to determine the distance from the earth to the sun. Mason was joined by, a surveyor and amateur astronomer from Cockfield in the County of Durham ...
Ronald Drever... to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 by Kip Thorne andof Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint project between scient ...
David Foster... hompson was performed in the opening ceremony by Céline Dion accompanied byon the piano, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Centennial Choir (Mor ...
Piero SraffaInspired by, a new strand of trade theory emerged and was named neo-Ricardian trade t ...
Benjamin Franklin... at is at Pasco, which is also the county's largest city. It was named after
Frederic Prokosch... oyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope –– Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sasso ...
Hirohito... ntentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whetherwas to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or ...
Max Müller... eph von Schelling (1775–1854) to depict early stages of monotheism, however(1823–1900), a German philologist and orientalist, brought the term into c ...
William CheseldenHunter studied underat Chelsea Hospital and Percival Pott at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. After ...
Algernon, 4th Duke of NorthumberlandHowever in the 19th centuryreplaced much of Adam's architecture. Instead he paid Anthony Salvin £250, ...
Karl Marx... a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including, Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour ...
George Martin... cquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which later became EMI.joined in 1950 as assistant label manager, taking over as manager in 1955. ...
Isaac Newton... f I have seen further it is [only] by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Dale FrailOn 21 April 1992, radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan andannounced the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12. Th ...
George Romanes... about whether natural selection alone was sufficient to explain speciation,coined the term neo-Darwinism to refer to the version of evolution advocat ...
MaxwellThe original derivation byassumed all three directions would behave in the same fashion, but a later ...
Osborne ReynoldsIn a classic set of experiments, the Englishman(1842–1912) of the University of Manchester demonstrated that the airflow ...
Bill Clinton... ty played a major part in the 50th D-Day anniversary with then US Presidentvisiting the cit
James II of England... 77, William married his cousin Mary Stuart, the daughter of the future king. In 1688, William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in- ...
Charles Darwin... owed the work on the structure and distribution of coral reefs conducted byin the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professor Edgewo ...
Thomas Lawrence... Antoine Houdon, Jean Marc Nattier, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Hubert Robert,, Jacques Louis David, Antoine Jean Gros and also Pierre Auguste Renoir
Arthur Robert Hinks... ustus Young. From 1903 to 1905, he worked at the Cambridge Observatory withas a research assistant of the Carnegie Institution and came under the str ...
Bernhard Neumann... phism) only countably many finitely generated recursively presented groups.has shown that there are uncountably many non-isomorphic two generator gro ...
Samuel Pepys... octor of Divinity at Cambridge. He resumed his lectures at the Savoy, whereheard him preach; but he preferred his conversation or his books to his se ...
Linus Pauling... francium would almost certainly be a liquid if enough were to be produced.estimated the electronegativity of francium at 0.7 on the Pauling scale, t ...
Stephen Jay GouldOthers, such as, reject the notion that genetic entities are subject to anything other th ...
Richard J. Evans... just as tragic as the Holocaust. Against Hillgruber, the British historianwrote that though the expulsions of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe was ...
Lewis Mumford... nthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as, Jean Baudrillard and Gary Snyder. Many advocates of Green anarchism and ...
Robert PeelWellington was gradually superseded as leader of the Tories by, whilst the party evolved into the Conservatives. When the Tories were re ...
Duke of Wellington... ical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the(played by Stephen Fry)
Samuel Barber... on Bredon'), Ian Venables (Songs of Eternity and Sorrow), and the American(e.g. 'With rue my heart is laden'). Gerald Finzi repeatedly began setting ...
Humphry DavySince the discovery of potassium by, it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal i ...
Niklaus Wirth... . The compiler itself was largely inspired by the "Tiny Pascal" compiler in's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", one of the most influential ...
Richard DawkinsIn The Selfish Gene, authorasserts the gene is the only true unit of selection. (Dawkins also attempt ...
Viscount Wellington... ttle of Fuentes de Oñoro ( 3–6 May 1811), the British-Portuguese Army underchecked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal André Mass ...
Charles II... store the monarchy. In 1660, the monarchy was restored when Charles I's sonwas declared king
John Foxe... the Haven. Not far away, in the opposite direction, was the boyhood home of, the author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Morgagni... animals). His very innovative work may be viewed as sitting between that ofwhose work Virchow studied, and that of Paul Ehrlich, who studied at the C ...
Isaac Newton... he advised proceeding by this method (building a case from the ground up)., a noted Baconian, used such principles in the Philosophy section of his ...
Manfred R. Schroeder... stic masking codec was first proposed in 1979, apparently independently, by, et al. from AT&T-Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and M. A. Krasner both in ...
Graham Higman... ly presented groups that cannot be finitely presented. However a theorem ofstates that a finitely generated group has a recursive presentation if and ...
George Darwin... ssistant of the Carnegie Institution and came under the strong influence of
Max BornIn 1924, Fermi spent a semester at the University of Göttingen with, and then stayed for a few months in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest. From Jan ...
Isobel Armstrong... ce centre. There, Jones and her two younger sisters Isobel (later Professor, the literary critic) and Ursula spent a childhood left chiefly to their ...
Robert Peel... ws in 1846, with Wellington and most of the former Cabinet still supporting, but most of the MPs led by Lord Derby supporting a protectionist stance. ...
John Flamsteed... This method of designating stars first appeared in a preliminary version of's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and ...
Wassily Leontief... H-O model, such as the Leontief paradox, were exposed in empirical tests bywho found that the United States tended to export labor-intensive goods de ...
the Prince of Wales... ey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were Queen Victoria,(later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and Princess Augusta, the ...
James Clerk Maxwell... axwell's equations are named after the Scottish physicist and mathematician, since in an early form they are all found in a four-part paper, "On Phys ...
Alvin Liberman... of speech in the form of a spectrogram back into sound. Using this device,and colleagues were able to discover acoustic cues for the perception of p ...
George MartinIn 1950, Preuss hired 24-year-oldas his assistant. When Preuss retired in 1955 Martin succeeded him as labe ...
John KayeBoole became a prominent local figure, an admirer of, the bishop. He took part in the local campaign for early closing. With E ...
Charles II... ewels of the United Kingdom. From the early 14th century until the reign of, a procession would be led from the Tower to Westminster Abbey on the cor ...
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Galen StrawsonThe contemporary philosopheragrees with Locke that the truth or falsity of determinism is irrelevant t ...
Winston Churchill... rliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir, and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). ...
Gabriel Harvey... is friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and, of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopagus', a humanist endeavour to classi ...
John Cage... luence of Henry Cowell in San Francisco in the late 1940s, Lou Harrison andbegan composing music for junk (waste) percussion ensembles, scouring junk ...
Charles Pelham Villiers... rs 1830–41 decided not to repeal the Corn Laws. However the Liberal Whig MPproposed motions for repeal in the House of Commons annually from 1837 to ...
C. S. Lewis... English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by bothand J. R. R. Tolkien before graduating in 1956. In the same year she marri ...
Lagrange... tional symbols. The formal algebraic manipulation of series investigated byand Laplace in the 1770s has been put in the form of operator equalities b ...
Sir Nikolaus PevsnerIn 1962,stated in his North-West Norfolk and Norwich volume of The Buildings of En ...
Thomas Hooker... large group in 1636. The settlers were Puritans from Massachusetts, led by. Hooker had been prominent in England and was a professor of theology at ...
Gerhard Weinberg... Cold War, this could had helped cause World War III. The American historianwrote that the explusions of the Sudeten Germans was justified as the Germ ...
Edmond Halley... on of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published byand Isaac Newton in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version o ...
Charles II... vention Parliament which restored Charles I's eldest son to the monarchy as. Following the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was exhumed and posthumously ...
John Lockedenied that the phrase "free will" made any sense (compare with theologica ...
John Maynard Smith... ent in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of W. D. Hamilton, George C. Williams,and others led to the development of a gene-centered view of evolution in ...
King Charles IIHe visited the City as a courtier toin 1671 and described it thus
C. Northcote Parkinson, more famous for his invention of Parkinson's Law, has written a 'biograp ...
John Neville Keynes... ridge, Cambridgeshire, England, to an upper-middle-class family. His fatherwas an economist and a lecturer in moral sciences at the University of Cam ...
W. D. Hamilton... refined after the initial establishment in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of, George C. Williams, John Maynard Smith and others led to the development ...
Rudyard Kipling... ver a local road is named after Haggard). He was visited here by his friend. In a letter to Haggard dated 20 July 1912, his daughter Lillias document ...
Isaac Newton... ed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley andin 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version of Flamsteed's cat ...
Ornette Coleman... clear, vocal bowed tone, while Charlie Haden, best known for his work with, defined the role of the bass in Free Jazz
Hilary Mantel... shed satirical novel, An Island in the Moon. He is a principal character in's 1998 novel, The Giant, O'Brien
James George Frazer... the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of Joseph Conrad and, which, at least for reasons of textual history, echo in The Waste Land. ...
J. J. C. SmartIn modern times,has described the problem of admitting indeterminism
Katherine Anne Porter... bert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and Sam Peckinpah's TV film of's novella Noon Wine (1966). In 1965, she was the first woman to preside o ...
Ernest SwintonBritish Majorsaw the potential of a track-laying tractor. He proposed that the Army sho ...
George C. Williams... e initial establishment in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of W. D. Hamilton,, John Maynard Smith and others led to the development of a gene-centered ...
Adam Smith... f free trade, was elected for the first time. Peel had studied the works of, David Hume and Ricardo and proclaimed during 1839: "I have read all that ...
Charles Theodore... arian line of the Wittelsbachs became extinct, and the succession passed to, the elector palatine. After a separation of four and a half centuries, t ...
Harold Macmillan... e of his life" in Dan Macmillan, older brother of the future Prime Minister. Despite his middle-class background, Keynes mixed easily with upper-clas ...
Richard Stallman... ge of software, having started in 1984, the author having collaborated with, pre-GNU
Stanley Bruce... Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down's Nationalist government in 1929), merged to form the UAP. Lyons was chos ...
Adam Smith... nomist Frederick Hayek, although the concept can be traced back to at least. Unlike Hayek however Polanyi argues that there are higher and lower form ...
Joseph StiglitzNobel Prize-winning economisthas also argued that the Act helped to create the crisis. An article in th ...
Tolkien... Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre-English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsan ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... ne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. S. Lewis andbefore graduating in 1956. In the same year she married John Burrow, a sch ...
Adam Smithdisplays trade taking place on the basis of countries exercising absolute ...
Isaac Newton... ied in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly impressed (ashad been) by the work of Horrocks
Christopher WrenThe study of spirals in nature have a long history,observed that many shells form a logarithmic spiral. Jan Swammerdam observ ...
Minoru Yamasaki... ur Khan and the World Trade Center towers in New York by American architect. The decade also brought experimentation in geometric design, pop-art, po ...
Margaret Thatcher... e continues to have many legions of loyal fans, including ex-Prime Minister. The Thick Of It is a similar BBC television series that has been called ...
Francis Galton... believed in the theory of eugenics. In 1904 he discussed a survey paper by, co-founder of eugenics, saying "I believe ... It is in the sterilisation ...
C. S. Lewis... at on other planets beings could exist in an unfallen state was explored byin his novel
Alfred Marshall... as found support in notable classical and neoclassical economists including, John Stuart Mill and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of se ...
Robert GouletFollowing a third special, Judy Garland and Her Guests Phil Silvers and, Garland's weekly series debuted September 29, 1963. The Judy Garland Sho ...
Lewis WolpertSheldrake has entered into a scientific wager with fellow biologiston the importance of DNA in the developing organism. Wolpert bet Sheldrake ...
James Cook... English word "taboo" derives from this later meaning and dates from Captain's visit to Tonga in 1777
Margaret Atwood... talitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Handmaid's Tale byand Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Margaret Thatcher... oss-border co-operation were discussed with the new British Prime Minister,. These discussions led Síle de Valera, a backbench TD, to directly challe ...
Michael Faraday... herefore the capacitance. The unit of capacitance is the farad, named after, and given the symbol F: one farad is the capacitance that develops a pot ...
Bill Clinton... l basis by the regulators that had regulated those activities prior to GLB., as well as economists Brad DeLong and Tyler Cowen have all argued that t ...
Louis KahnIn 1974,'s last and arguably most famous building, the National Assembly Building ...
Jack Zipes... e initial reviews refer to the work as a fairy story. However, according towriting in "The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales", Bilbo is an atypical cha ...
John D. Rockefeller... about the business practices of the Standard Oil Company and its president,, which sparked legislative action in Congress concerning monopolies
John Desmond Bernal... acking of the State. Demands in Britain, amongst people such as the Marxist, for centrally planned scientific research, led Polanyi to argue that sci ...
Henry Margenau... ned this idea, including Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, Karl Popper,, Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and Martin Heisenberg
Alfred Marshall... Cambridge after receiving a scholarship for this also to study mathematics.begged Keynes to become an economist
Robert PeelDuring 1841 Sirbecame Conservative Prime Minister and Richard Cobden, a major proponent o ...
Richard Smalley... he family's namesake, buckminsterfullerene (C 60 ), was prepared in 1985 by, Robert Curl, James Heath, Sean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice Univers ...
George Everest... one name over all others. So, he decided that Peak XV should be named after, his predecessor as Surveyor General of India. He wrote
Walter Burkert... f Illuyankas has been seen as a prototype of the battle of Zeus and Typhon.and Calvert Watkins each note the close agreements. Watkins' How to Kill a ...
King James'... region to Prince Waldeck (William was himself busy in Ireland forestallingattempt to regain his throne). In other theatres Marshal de Lorge commande ...
Tom StoppardThe events of the play Arcadia, by, take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire
Isaac Newton... from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning.was a noted Baconian—his famous quote hypotheses non fingo (I don't frame ...
J. K. Rowling... ainstream literature, alongside Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991) and's Harry Potter series (1997–2007)
James II... n was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between William III, and, it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popular defender of ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge... dered the key figures of the Romantic movement includes William Wordsworth,, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake, foll ...
current Prince of Wales... y dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star ...
Henry Nottidge Moseley... matical characteristics of a wide range of shells from Helix to Spirula anddescribed the mathematics of univalve shells. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson's ...
Alan Kay... called Babelfish. In 1994, he moved to work at Apple Computer, reporting to, where he developed the Meta Content Framework (MCF) format. In 1997 he j ...
Karl Popper... ve since refined this idea, including Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton,, Henry Margenau, Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and Martin Heisenberg
Michael Ignatieff... ing Liberal leader Stéphane Dion was immediately forced out and replaced by, who quickly distanced the party from the coalition
Edgeworth David... Darwin in the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professorof the University of Sydney lead the expeditions in 1896 & 1897. Photograp ...
Edward Bromhead... s Institute, the Lincoln Mechanics' Institution, which was founded in 1833., who knew John Boole through the Institution, helped George Boole with ma ...
George Bernard Shaw... Aeschylus to be recovered from the underworld; In Sondheim and Shevelove's,faces William Shakespeare
Max Mathews... (vocoder) recreated the song "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from. Coincidentally, Arthur C. Clarke was visiting his friend and colleague J ...
Doris Lessing... omen until puberty, and gender has no bearing on social roles. In contrast,'s The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) suggests that m ...
Adam Smith... the late 18th century, especially in England, in light of the arguments ofand the classical economists. The repeal of the Corn Laws by Robert Peel s ...
John Cage... asis of noise. In remarking on Varese's contributions the American composerstated that Varese had "established the present nature of music" and that ...
Roger Scruton... ge of the award. The discussion was chaired by Tim Marlow and also included, Waldemar Januszczak, Richard Cork, David Sylvester and Norman Rosenthal. ...
Isaac Todhunter... es of the Royal Society and the British Museum; but it was left incomplete.printed the manuscripts in 1865, in a supplementary volume
Christopher Longuet-Higgins... he same year. The credit for explaining such biradicals is usually given toin 1950
Edward... urite of George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children:, Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and John
Narcissus Marsh... e Prizes, Keeper of the Records in Birmingham's Tower, and Vicar-General to, the primate. King found a friend in Anthony Upton, one of the judges, wh ...
Octavio PazA month after losing the election, at the invitation of, Vargas Llosa attended a conference in Mexico entitled, "The 20th Century ...
William Penn... le colonies. Later in the century, the new Pennsylvania colony was given toin settlement of a debt the king owed his father. Its government was set u ...
Joanna LumleyThe series also featured guest appearances by such noted personalities asas the Sydney Opera House Woman, Jackie Mason as the East River Creature, ...
King George II... architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole;; and his wife, Queen Caroline. The money she inherited from the Marlboro ...
Leibniz... e to deny all that Cardan affirms and to affirm all that Cardan denies. Yetand Sir William Hamilton recognize him as the best modern exponent of the ...
Margaret AtwoodThe Republic of Gilead is a fictional country that is the setting of thedystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale
Václav Havel... VPN) and the Civic Forum. On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared withon a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, He was greeted with uproarious ...
Joseph Banks... inking the Pacific and southern Indian Ocean. Governor Hunter thus wrote toin August 1797 that it seemed certain a strait existed
Goethe... condemned and executed by the Vehmgericht. Scott drew his inspiration from's play Goetz von Berlichingen which he had translated, incorrectly
Charles II of England... been made official by law. Virginia was given the title "Dominion" by Kingat the time of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown ...
John de Chastelain... ce for a prosecution. The decommissioning was confirmed by Canadian General, chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, ...
Dewar... icle on tropolone. Tropolone had been recognised as an aromatic molecule byin 1945
Michael Graves... of view of postmodern architects such as Philip Johnson, Charles Moore andwho advocated a return to pre-modern styles of architecture and the incorp ...
James Clerk Maxwell... electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic waves were analysed theoretically byin 1864. Maxwell developed a set of equations that could unambiguously des ...
J. K. RowlingIn 1990wrote The Harry Potter Series, in which 3 characters embark on new adventu ...
Richard Karp... at there exist practically relevant problems that are NP-complete. In 1972,took this idea a leap forward with his landmark paper, "Reducibility Among ...
Albert Einstein... The actor says that he based his character on Elia Kazan, Jacques Cousteau,, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant
Arthur C. Clarke... "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Coincidentally,was visiting his friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray ...
Prince George, Duke of YorkAlbert Victor's brother,, now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during t ...
George Martin... Fagandini's interval signals "Time Beat" was reworked with assistance from(in his pre-Beatles days) and commercially released as a single using the ...
Prince Albert... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband,
Henry SacheverellIn 1710 he became a supporter of the High Church party, on the side of; and was supposed to have had some part in setting up The Examiner. He wa ...
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew... in structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, by Max Perutz and, respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-resolution structures of protein ...
Moses I. Finley... ld out of ten was an actual beneficiary) – therefore, the idea, advanced by, that the whole scheme was at most a form of random charity, a mere imper ...
Harold Macmillan... the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister,. This was one of the first occasions satirical political mimicry had been ...
F. L. Lucas's... hology (VII.141) on Protesilaus by Antiphilus of Byzantium in turn inspiredpoem 'The Elms of Protesilaus' (1927)
James M. McPherson... the election of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 elections. Civil War historianwrote
James II... st. Richard Jennings came into contact with James, Duke of York (the future, brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiations for the recover ...
the Prince of Wales... ved, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of. The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to Queen Victoria's fo ...
R.A. Fisher... was appointed assistant statistician at Rothamsted Experimental Station by. In 1933 he became head of statistics when Fisher went to University Coll ...
Bill ClintonOn July 12, 1994, U.S. Presidentspoke at the Gate about peace in post–Cold War Europe
Thomas E. Kurtz... IC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors John G. Kemeny and
Philip Miller... he word vanilla entered the English language in the 1754, when the botanistwrote about the genus in his Gardener’s Dictionary. Vainilla is from the d ...
Alfred Marshall... so in 1909, Keynes accepted a lectureship in economics funded personally by. Keynes's earnings rose further as he began to take on pupils for private ...
James II... d with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specia ...
C. S. LewisIn 1950(1898–1963) published the first of installment of his Chronicles of Narnia ...
Joanna Lumley... d become a patron of the trust joining existing high profile personalities,and David Shepherd
Jacob Lawrence... oger Medearis; Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Ben Shahn;, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Rudolph F. Zallinger, George Tooker, Robert ...
Ed BullinsIn 1967, Eldridge Cleaver, along with Marvin X,and Ethna Wyatt, formed the Black House political/cultural center in San F ...
Goethe... he late 16th century Faust chapbooks. In the 1725 version which was read by, Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust i ...
Drew Gilpin Faust... evolved primarily around the maintenance or expansion of slavery. Historianobserved that "leaders of the secession movement across the South cited sl ...
Karl Marx... resent value as a valuation methodology dates at least to the 19th century.refers to NPV as fictitious capital, and the calculation as capitalising, ...
George V... , the Festival of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation ofand Queen Mary
James Van Allen... alone, while a cone would have properties that varied with its orientation.of the University of Iowa proposed a cylindrical satellite, which became E ...
Lukas Foss... e taught primarily at Yale University where he had such notable students as, Graham George, Norman Dello Joio, Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, ...
Edward M. Kennedy... ent John F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and, soon all held prominent positions in the federal government, and receive ...
Bill Clinton... artwork of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe". In 1993, when then-presidentwanted to appoint 'out' lesbian Roberta Achtenberg to assistant secretary ...
Edward Bernard... accompanied by his tutor. Bentley soon met Dr John Mill, Humphrey Hody, and. Here he studied the manuscripts of the Bodleian, Corpus Christi and othe ...
George Woodcock... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. Forthis attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ...
Michael FaradayThe phenomenon of electromagnetic induction was discovered independently byand Joseph Henry in 1831. However, Faraday was the first to publish the re ...
Henry Oldenburg... pantheist, that is, equating God with the material universe. In a letter toSpinoza states that: "as to the view of certain people that I identify god ...
Alfred North Whitehead... s: materialism (August Weismann), vitalism (Hans Driesch), and organicism (). Sheldrake describes his own hypothesis as fitting within the third trad ...
Richard Dawkins... e use of the "out" metaphor. This campaign is endorsed by prominent atheist, who states "there is a big closet population of atheists who need to 'co ...
Michael Faraday... ons is always valid but more restrictive than that originally formulated by.
Newton Arvin... uments and records for the day by day Melville Log (1951). In the same yearpublished the critical biography Herman Melville, which won the nonfiction ...
Charles II... into contact with James, Duke of York (the future James II, brother of King) in 1663, during negotiations for the recovery of an estate in Kent (Agne ...
Charles Theodore... ved with joy by the long-suppressed Liberals, and laid siege to Ingolstadt., who had done nothing to prevent wars or to resist the invasion, fled to ...
Robert PeelAlong with, Wellington became an increasingly influential member of the Tory party, ...
T. D. Barnes... c tradition developed which presented Constantine as a committed Christian.'s seminal Constantine and Eusebius (1981) represents the culmination of t ...
Maximilian IV... gain occupied the country, in preparation for renewing the war with France.Joseph (of Zweibrücken) the new elector succeeded to a difficult inheritan ...
Anthony Braxton'sMuch of the multi-instrumentalistmusic could be classified as free jazz. His Ghost Trance Music, which intr ...
Tennyson's... of two illustrations by Rossetti for Edward Moxon's illustrated edition ofPoems (1857
Walter PaterWilde did not meetuntil his third year, but had been enthralled by his Studies in the Histor ...
Prince George of Denmark... treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt. This book offended, the consort of Queen Anne; and the Danish Minister protested
George Szirtes... ire – Robert Louis Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne –– Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Fr ...
Sir Ernest Gowers... tably of all, Fowler's Modern English Usage and The Complete Plain Words by. Detailed guidance on many aspects of writing British English for publica ...
Alan Turing... king our tacit awareness. Contrary to the views of his colleague and friend, whose work at The University of Manchester prepared the way for the firs ...
Sydney Chapman... atmospheric dynamics, and co-authored the monograph Atmospheric Tides with
Martin ListerIn 1699 he published A Journey to London, after the method of Dr., who had published A Journey to Paris. And in 1700 he satirised the Royal ...
Patrick Dean... that when Wodehouse was recommended for a Companion of Honour in 1967, Sir, British ambassador in Washington, argued that it "would also give curren ...
William Henry John Slee... and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush, along with partner. Lawson's parents met at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee New S ...
John Foxe... cs during his time as Lord Chancellor. The popular anti-Catholic polemicist, who "placed Protestant sufferings against the background of... the Antic ...
Bill Clinton... homa City area to be released from their duties for their safety. Presidentlearned about the bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was meeting with Tur ...
Duke of Wellington... ies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of thecombined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It ...
Norman Dello Joio... University where he had such notable students as Lukas Foss, Graham George,, Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, Ruth Schonthal, and Oscar-winning ...
Daniel Dennett"Modern compatibilists", such as Harry Frankfurt and, argue that there are cases where a coerced agent's choices are still fre ...
Isaac Newton... fied data, he kept the incomplete records under seal at Greenwich. In 1712,, then President of the Royal Society, and Edmund Halley obtained the data ...
Bill Clinton... (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom United States Presidentadmitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the ...
Richard Adams... dio Decibel and began work on recordings that were inspired by another book;' Watership Down. Using the same session musicians but with a new produce ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhe ...
Steve Fossett... marama, and the prevailing conditions have attracted record seekers such as
John Bryan Ward-Perkins... ng was turning over the soil a meter deep, destroying all surface evidence., then Director of the British School at Rome, set into motion the South E ...
Newton... h included) orbited the Sun, but the optics (and the specific mathematics –'s Law of Gravitation for example) necessary to provide data that would co ...
William McDougall'sIn support of his hypothesis, Sheldrake cites replications ofexperiment with rats in a water maze and Mae-Wan Ho's replication of CH Wa ...
Sherburne F. CookOf the history of the indigenous population of California,(1896–1974) was the most painstakingly careful researcher. From decades of ...
John Cage... n Young visited Darmstadt in 1959, he encountered the music and writings of. There he also met Cage's collaborator, pianist David Tudor, who subseque ...
Thomas TookeDuring 1820 the Merchants' Petition, written by, was presented to the Commons demanding free trade and an end to protecti ...
James, Duke of York... timate children, and was due to be succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother,. A parliamentary effort to exclude James from the line of succession aros ...
William Stanley Jevons... ole's work was extended and refined by a number of writers, beginning with.. Augustus De Morgan had worked on the logic of relations, and Charles San ...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson... s Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes –– Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony ...
Peter Heylin... room. The Church History was angrily attacked from the high-church side by. At the Oxford Act of 1657, Robert South, who was Terrae filius, lampoone ...
Albert EinsteinThe maser is based on the principle of stimulated emission proposed byin 1917. When atoms have been induced into an excited energy state, they c ...
Arthur C. ClarkeThe spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in's novel uses aerobraking in the upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere to e ...
Bill Clinton... ributions toward world education, morality, and acts of charity". Presidentspoke these words at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony
Gottfried Leibniz... highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as Isaac Newton, and. Newton was even accused of introducing occult agencies into natural scie ...
Adam Smith... g other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), Karl Marx quotesand sums up
Winston Churchill... ommittee report titled German Strategy and Capacity to Resist, prepared for's eyes only, predicted that Germany might collapse as early as mid-April ...
Denis Healey... us. Sir Michael founded the institute together with the British Labour M.P.and journalist Alastair Buchan
Martin Litchfield WestThe scholarwrites that the Pythia shows many traits of shamanistic practices, likely ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss... tism, which also drew upon theoretical work by German theoreticians such asand Wilhelm Weber. The encapsulation of heat in particulate motion, and th ...
Daniel Dennett... Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosopher, Nobel Laureate Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998), regular featured columnist ...
Carl LinnaeusIn his 18th century work Systema Naturae,coined the specific name cucullatus, meaning hooded, but combined it with ...
Carl Woese... come a search for the universal tree or the universal ancestor, a phrase of. The tree that results has some unusual features, especially in its roots ...
Milton Friedman... have learned about business without a parade of teachers guiding me... fromto Donald Trump... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned ...
Bill Clinton... etanyahu opposed the idea of Palestinian statehood. In 1998, U.S. Presidentpersuaded the two leaders to meet. The resulting Wye River Memorandum deta ...
Neil TurokThe ekpyrotic model came out of work byand Paul Steinhardt and maintains that the universe did not start in a sin ...
Karl Marx... odity is something other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865),quotes Adam Smith and sums up
Michael Abercrombie... f the architect Patrick Abercrombie. One of his sons was the cell biologist. A grandson, Jeff Cooper, produced an admirable bibliography of his grand ...
Winston Churchill... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up byin his book Great Contemporaries (1937)
Walter Burkert... l for Hera, Dionysus is invited to come as a bull; "with bull-foot raging."relates, "Quite frequently [Dionysus] is portrayed with bull horns, and in ...
Alasdair Whittle... al bones – the remains of domesticated animals, cat and dog. Archaeologistsand Michael Wysocki note that this period of occupation may be "significan ...
George II... ow in England. Set in , the house was completed in 1729 during the reign ofand designed by Lord Burlington. William Kent (1685–1748), who took a lead ...
Raymond Williams... ncing that France had entered the race to industrialise. In his 1976 book ,states in the entry for "Industry": "The idea of a new social order based ...
Charles Lyell... es from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past", andmemorably rephrased in the 1830s as "the present is the key to the past". ...
George A. Miller... oratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor. Development began in 1985. Over the years, the project received funding ...
Nikola Tesla... aves began soon after, with the experiments conducted by physicists such as, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Guglielmo Marconi during the 1890s leading to ...
Lewis Carroll... ed the power of putting things in brackets." Another childhood favorite was's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which he called "a favourite forever. ...
Hans Mommsen... s a functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich such as Martin Broszat,and Ian Kershaw have been very hostile or lukewarm towards the totalitaria ...
Moses Montefiore... e of the straw bonnet trade. Moses Chaim Montefiore, the grandfather of Sir, also came to the country at much the same time for precisely the same re ...
Arthur C. Clarke... e named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman ...
W. H. AudenIn a 1955 letter to, Tolkien recollects that he began work on The Hobbit one day early in the ...
Lord Burlington... e house was completed in 1729 during the reign of George II and designed by. William Kent (1685–1748), who took a leading role in designing the garde ...
Ian Kershaw... interpretation of the Third Reich such as Martin Broszat, Hans Mommsen andhave been very hostile or lukewarm towards the totalitarianism concept, ar ...
Simon Hornblower... , but even if this assertion is correct, no such plan was ever implemented.asserts that Thebes' great legacy to fourth century and Hellenistic Greece ...
Mark Pattison... ary works. C.P. Snow was inspired for his novel The Masters by the story of, a fellow at Lincoln, whose enthusiastic hopes for Lincoln were frustrate ...
Winston Churchill... he gold standard and in 1925 they were able to convince the then Chancellorto re-establish it, which had a depressing effect on British industry. Key ...
Benjamin Franklin... amount of labor which has been expended in the improvement of commodities".in his 1729 essay entitled "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity ...
Isaac Newton... ly credited with being the first to develop the theory of atomism, althoughpreferred to credit the obscure Moschus the Phoenician (whom he believed t ...
Richard KirwanFollowing criticism, especially the arguments fromwho thought Hutton's ideas were atheistic and not logical, Hutton publishe ...
Chen Ning Yang... nteraction; it was assumed to be a universal law. However, in the mid-1950sand Tsung-Dao Lee suggested that the weak interaction might violate this l ...
James Stirling... nction's important functional properties, including the reflection formula., a contemporary of Euler, also attempted to find a continuous expression ...
Tom Stoppard... th, the meaning of human existence and the place of God in human existence.'s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist tragicomedy first s ...
John Kenneth Galbraith... ch events spiralled out of control in the run up to and after independence., the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governme ...
Isaac Newton... y was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as, and Gottfried Leibniz. Newton was even accused of introducing occult age ...
Stanisław PoniatowskiIn 1764 Catherine placed, her former lover, on the Polish throne. Although the idea of partitionin ...
C. S. Lewis... nished the story and then lent the manuscript to several friends, includingand a student of Tolkien's named Elaine Griffiths. In 1936, when Griffiths ...
Gordon Bell... ess radar cross section data for the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft.remembered that it was being used in some time later, but could not recall ...
Lewis CarrollAlice-in-Wonderland syndrome (AIWS, named after the novel written by), also known as Todd's syndrome, is a disorienting neurological condition ...
Elsie Widdowson... ter World War II took place according to nutritional principles drawn up byand others. In 1941, the first Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) were ...
Karl Marx... early labour values theories. Some writers (including Bertrand Russell and) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. In his Summa ...
Edmund Davy... yfuel welding, became well established. Acetylene was discovered in 1836 by, but its use was not practical in welding until about 1900, when a suitab ...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson... govia as a fittingly opulent Camelot. The symbolism of Camelot so impressedthat he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attem ...
Winston Churchill... temperatures and pressures. Two months later Cunard received a letter from, then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordering the ship to leave Clydeside a ...
William Warde Fowler... d to have been buried near the altar of Fons (ara Fontis) on the Janiculum.observed that between 259 and 241 BC, cults were founded for Juturna, Fons ...
Sir Harrison BirtwistleAmongst British composers,readily acknowledges the influence of Stockhausen's Zeitmaße (especially o ...
David Quammen... name for the bird, dodô, is taken from the internationally used word dodo.considered the idea that dodo was an approximation of the bird's own call, ...
Robert Sternberg... r Tufts faculty include former American Psychological Association president, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosoph ...
Bertrand Russell... 's theories, produced early labour values theories. Some writers (includingand Karl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. ...
John Locke... oncept or doctrine derived from liberal political theory. It traces back toin late 17th century England and to Montesquieu in 18th century France, th ...
Jagadish Chandra Bose... n after, with the experiments conducted by physicists such as Nikola Tesla,and Guglielmo Marconi during the 1890s leading to the invention of radio
Margaret Drabble... tween different countries and different artistic media or areas of thought.described it in literature as taking place "roughly between 1770 and 1848" ...
Joseph Needham... used by Chinese astronomers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historianquotes Zhang Heng (78-139 AD) as saying
Kofi Annan... treaty bodies. In his September 2002 report the former UN Secretary Generalon 'Strengthening the United Nations; an agenda for further change' sugges ...
Guglielmo Marconi... nts conducted by physicists such as Nikola Tesla, Jagadish Chandra Bose andduring the 1890s leading to the invention of radio
Samuel Alexander... rd (or Cambridge) to admit a Jewish Fellow, the Australian-born philosopher(appointed 1882)
P. D. James... s 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh s ...
Cecil Taylor... ee jazz movement coalesced around such important (and disparate) figures as, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane, as well as many lesser-known ...
George Bernard Shaw... w York and London based critics, including Henry Chorley, Herman Klein, and, castigated a succession of visiting Mediterranean tenors for resorting t ...
Charles II... e of quo warranto was the action taken against the Corporation of London byin 1683. The King's Bench adjudged the charter and franchises of the city ...
Prince George of Denmark... her out when Anne suffered bereavement. After the death of Anne's husband,in 1708, Sarah arrived uninvited at Kensington Palace to find Anne with th ...
Ornette Coleman... y increased. As guitarist Marc Ribot has remarked, free jazz musicians likeand Albert Ayler, "although they were freeing up certain strictures of beb ...
Crown Prince Naruhito... e kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years whenof Japan studied there (1983–85)
J. R. R. Tolkien... appointed Professor of English at the University of Leeds in preference to, with whom he shared, as author of The Epic (1914), a professional intere ...
David Cameron... has always been held by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, currently
Niko... five children of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen and Jeannette van Eek. His brotherwould also win a Nobel Prize (for physiology, during 1973) for his work in ...
Alfred Marshall... financial consultant. In 1924 Keynes wrote an obituary for his former tutorwhich Schumpeter called "the most brilliant life of a man of science I hav ...
King George II... ot wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to, for the nation, for the princely sum of £20,000
Ali Akbar Khan... e Young discovered Indian music in 1957 on the campus of the UCLA. He cites(sarod) and Chatur Lal (tabla) as particularly significant. The discovery ...
Bill Gates... ft CEO Steve Ballmer's chair-throwing incident from 2005. Microsoft founderis a popular target of jokes by Slashdotters, and all stories about Micros ...
Michael Faraday... dies could be magnetized; these discoveries were completed and explained by
John Locke... aced back to Treatise of Taxes, written in 1662 by Sir William Petty and to's notion, set out in the Second Treatise on Government (1689), that prope ...
Montesquieu... ng (as she frankly admitted) the philosophers of Western Europe, especiallyand Cesare Beccaria
Harrie Massey... e scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn,and Nevill Mott; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines an ...
Margaret Thatcher... built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: Lech Wałęsa,, Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Mikh ...
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon... cluded a review of alternative theories, such as those of Thomas Burnet and
Sid Watkins... Ratzenberger's fatal crash. Senna was met by FIA's Medical Chief Professor, who recalled that Senna was tearful, despite meeting Ratzenberger only o ...
Thomas Henry Huxley... in the 19th century by Ernst Haeckel, and by comparative anatomists such asand E. Ray Lankester. Enthusiasm waned: it was often difficult to find evi ...
Gibbon... 654. This code gave occasion to some well-known comments by Montesquieu and, and has been discussed by Savigny (Geschichte des romischen Rechts, ii. ...
Karl Marx... ture and Necessity of a Paper Currency" is sometimes credited (including by) with originating the concept in its modern form. However, the theory has ...
Johannes Hevelius... olemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and20
Ornette Coleman... sced around such important (and disparate) figures as Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra,, and John Coltrane, as well as many lesser-known figures such as Joe Mane ...
Lewis Carroll... plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... e years 1490 to 1492 as a page in the household service of John Morton, theand Lord Chancellor of England. Morton enthusiastically supported the "New ...
Churchill... if it reduced casualties elsewhere by greater amounts. It was thought thatwould reverse this decision later (he was then away at a conference); but ...
Dirac... 934, introduces the idea that the photon is equivalent to the fusion of twoneutrinos
Bill Clinton... had a major role in the Senate trial following the impeachment of President. After the House narrowly voted to impeach Clinton, Lott proceeded with t ...
Jeffrey WeeksDartmouth alumni in academia include Stuart Kauffman and, both recipients of MacArthur Fellowships (commonly called "genius grants ...
Iris Murdoch... on display ranging over books such as Colin Wilson’s The Outsider (panned),’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or William Empson’s Milton’s God ( ...
Arthur Young... er reputation in their writings. The leading economists of her day, such asand Jacques Necker, became foreign members of the Free Economic Society, e ...
Robert SternbergIn 2006, Dean of Arts and Sciencesadded experimental criteria to the application process for undergraduates ...
Niels BohrAfter spending 1928 and 1929 in England and Denmark, working briefly with, Hückel joined the faculty of the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart. In ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... Sindarin: ), originally named Minas Anor, is a fictional city and castle in's Middle-earth writings. It became the heavily fortified capital of Gondo ...
John Harbison... r world premieres of their works, including Igor Stravinsky, William Kraft,, Witold Lutosławski, Aaron Copland, Pierre Boulez, Steven Stucky, John Wi ...
J. J. Thomson... s own as a compressed electron (detected in 1897 by British experimentalist) would prove unstable. Meanwhile, other experimenters began to detect une ...
Michael Frayn... him off the big screen for several years. One, Noises Off..., based on theplay, has subsequently developed a strong cult following, while the other, ...
Andrew SarrisFilm criticconsiders it to be "Huston's best film", and the film that made Marilyn Mo ...
Leopold I of Belgium... Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain (Royal Palace, Brussels) commissioned byin 1826. The latter picture likely influenced J. M. W. Turner's major work ...
Cornelius Vermuyden... The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford, who employedas engineer. Contrary to popular belief, Vermuyden was not involved with t ...
John James Audubon... life illustration reached its peak in the 19th century with artists such as, and today many naturalist field guides are still illustrated with waterc ...
William Bligh... island with a European settlement at the time, Timor was the destination ofand seamen loyal to him following the infamous mutiny on the Bounty in 178 ...
Francis Crick... be found in the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. In his autobiography, ,wrote about his choice of the word dogma and some of the problems it cause ...
Walter Burkert... erfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.'observes that "Frenzied women from whose lips the god speaks" are recorded ...
Aaron Copland... ncluding Igor Stravinsky, William Kraft, John Harbison, Witold Lutosławski,, Pierre Boulez, Steven Stucky, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Adams ...
Benjamin Franklin... appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts,of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New ...
Thomas Linacre... St Mary’s. More received a classical education at Oxford and was a pupil ofand , becoming proficient in both Greek and Latin. He left Oxford in 1494 ...
Anthony Braxton... ructures are employed, some of them very detailed and complex; the music offurnishes many examples. It would perhaps be best to call this modern or a ...
William Ernest Johnson... the 1870s. Other significant figures were Platon Sergeevich Poretskii, and. The conception of a Boolean algebra structure on equivalent statements o ...
Isaiah BerlinAccording to, Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to bu ...
John Smeaton... covery of concrete (based on hydraulic lime mortar) by the British engineer, which had been lost for 1300 years
Vivian H. H. Green... tional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector. At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a p ...
Ornette ColemanFree jazz is most strongly associated with the 1950s innovations ofand Cecil Taylor and the later works of saxophonist John Coltrane. Other i ...
Hannah Arendt... published a letter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including, Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which describe ...
Lewis Carroll... ild and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien,, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Gui ...
Bill Clinton... the inspectors were not kicked out by Saddam Hussein, but were withdrawn by
Doug Marlette... ganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late, and David Payne
Wiener... discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann, Turing, Khinchin, Markov and, all mathematicians, made major contributions to science and probability ...
Edmund WilsonThe Hollow Men appeared in 1925. For the critic, it marked "The nadir of the phase of despair and desolation given such e ...
Nikolaus PevsnerAccording to, Lincoln College preserves "more of the character of a 15th century colle ...
King George VGuisborough has a King George's Field in memory of, and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King Georg ...
Bertrand Russell's... ologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against
Queen Margrethe IIHe was succeeded by his eldest daughter,. Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ...
Paul GinspargThe e-print archive arXiv.org (pronounced "archive") was created byin 1991 at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the purpose of distributing ...
James Smithson... of knowledge" from a bequest to the United States by the British scientist(c. 1765–1829), who never visited the new nation. In Smithson's will, he s ...
Judi Dench... called Sir Elton or Sir Elton John, but never Sir John. Similarly, actressDBE may be addressed as Dame Judi or Dame Judi Dench, but never Dame Dench
Cecil Taylor... most strongly associated with the 1950s innovations of Ornette Coleman andand the later works of saxophonist John Coltrane. Other important pioneers ...
Noam Chomsky... aration opposing the invasion of Iraq (along with prominent figures such asand Susan Sarandon); the declaration appeared in the magazine The Nation. ...
Tom StoppardHousman is the main character in the 1997play The Invention of Love. Many titles for novels and films have been dra ...
John PlayfairIn the Spring of 1788 he set off withto the Berwickshire coast and found more examples of this sequence in the ...
Gary Snyder... Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as Lewis Mumford, Jean Baudrillard and. Many advocates of Green anarchism and primitivism consider Fredy Perlman ...
Allen Tate... , the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, Eliot's failed marriage.perceived a shift in Eliot's method, writing that, "The mythologies disapp ...
Peter Ustinov... uarded by Satwant and Beant. She was to be interviewed by the British actor, who was filming a documentary for Irish television. According to informa ...
Maurice Wilkins... e of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson. He, Watson andwere jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for ...
Árpád Pusztai... lutinin. Potatoes have been genetically modified with the GNA gene. In 1998said in an interview on a World in Action programme that his group had obs ...
George Martin... ardas often said that the Abbey Road studio was "no good", much to producer's annoyance: "The trouble was that Alex was always coming to the studios ...
Lyon PlayfairFor example, in 1854(later 1st Baron Playfair, GCB, PC, FRS (1 May 1818 – 29 May 1898), a Brit ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel... connections resulted in rapid growth at the expense of nearby towns not on's railways. The more central Torquay railway station was opened on 2 Augu ...
Peter Sellars... of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and executive producer Kira Perov. The opera ...
Thomas Pynchon... Durham savant John Bird Emerson makes an appearance in Mason and Dixon byEmerson’s works include
Nikolaas Tinbergen... l prize winners: poet T. S. Eliot, physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologistand chemist Frederick Soddy. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library foun ...
John Locke... l influence on the words of the Declaration. The English political theorist, whom Jefferson called one of "the three greatest men that have ever live ...
Sidney Hook... umber of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein,, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a terrorist, rig ...
James DysonIn the early first decade of the 21st century, the British inventorlaunched the ContraRotator, a type of washing machine with two cylinders r ...
Charles Dickens... also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by
Graeme Koehne... g Julian Cochran, Gordon Hamilton, Liza Lim, Nigel Westlake, David Worrall,, Elena Kats-Chernin, Carl Vine, Brett Dean, Martin Wesley-Smith, Georges ...
Benjamin Franklin... hat help themselves", the oft-quoted maxim that also appeared previously in's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733–1758). In the 20th century, "Carnegie's re ...
Turing... and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann,, Khinchin, Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major contribution ...
J. R. R. TolkienAs a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis,, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, U ...
Bill Clinton... of those guilty of "Plastic Paddyism" (or, in his words, "Dermot-itis") are, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Shane MacGowan. Scottish-Australian songwriter Eri ...
Albert Einstein... ter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt,, Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a t ...
John RayThe first classification of birds was developed by Francis Willughby andin their 1676 volume Ornithologiae
Otto Hahn... w element should be named hahnium (Ha), in honor of the late German chemist. Consequently hahnium was the name that most American and Western Europea ...
Drew G. Faust... oston-area colleges and universities including Harvard University Presidentand UMass President Jack M. Wilson, and sports figures including Boston Ce ...
Alvin Hansen... to achieve widespread acceptance, with eminent American professors such asagreeing with the General Theory before the outbreak of World War II
Eric Hobsbawm... time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians.held that it 'broke out' in Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt un ...
Martha Graham... epted by the John Murray Anderson School of Theatre, and studied dance with
Sir Walter ScottThe legend was actually formalised byand was later instigated in a town festival called "The Cleikum Ceremonies ...
Bryan R. WilsonDr. Lonnie D. Kliever (1932–2004), Gordon Melton, and. An opposing camp less critical of apostate narratives as a group include ...
Francis WillughbyThe first classification of birds was developed byand John Ray in their 1676 volume Ornithologiae
Mark Pattison... ve volumes in 1533, 1534, 1539, 1546 and 1547; of these, a friendly critic,, is obliged to approve the judgment of Pierre Daniel Huet, who says, "par ...
Charles Lyell... evolutionary play is performed. Darwin studied evolution in the context of's geology, but our present understanding of Earth history includes some c ...
C. S. LewisAs a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, M ...
Nina Bawden... Wireless Theatre Company. She appeared in a production of Carrie's War, thenovel, at the in 2009
Niels Bohr... roposed the name nielsbohrium (Ns) in honor of the Danish nuclear physicist. The American team proposed that the new element should be named hahnium ...
King James IIPrincess Louisa Maria (1692–1712), the last daughter of(d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the Glorious Revolution, was gi ...
Max Planck... s included the wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work ofand Albert Einstein on light. The thesis examiners, unsure of the material ...
Charles II... handed over to England, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross untilsold it to the king of France in 1662
Charles Wheatstone... e details of his apparatus, which utilized the relaying mirrors employed byin 1835 for measuring the velocity of the electric discharge; but owing to ...
Julian Huxley... s Symbionticism and the origin of species; and there was a brief mention byin 1930; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking. Symbiosis as ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge... t the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, 'Novalis' andsee it as the beginning of a tradition of resistance to Enlightenment rati ...
Charles Darwin... local foraminifera (single-celled protists with shells), corresponded with, and had two gastropods (snails or slugs) named after him
Asrat Woldeyes... ory failure" following complications from a prostate operation. His doctor,, denied that complications had occurred and rejected the government versi ...
Andrew Huxley... electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by Alan Hodgkin,, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work of Be ...
GaussAn alternative notation which was originally introduced byand which was sometimes used is the Pi function, which in terms of the gam ...
Allan Gurganus... tration of residents who are nationally known authors, including Lee Smith,, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Dou ...
Lewis Carroll... mous examples of using gibberish in literature is the poem "Jabberwocky" by
LinnaeusThe Barn Swallow was described byin his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Hirundo rustica, characterised as H. rec ...
George Martin... from that day's work on the song; asked why a longer version wasn't issued,explained: "I think it gets boring.
Rudyard Kipling... bell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison,. Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fan of science fict ...
Pat Barker... life of W. H. R. Rivers and his encounter with Sassoon was fictionalised byin the Regeneration Trilogy, a series of three books including Regeneratio ...
John Zorn... ay, and the Lounge Lizards, who were the first group to call themselves "".began to make note of the emphasis on speed and dissonance that was becomi ...
Charles Mingus... later works of saxophonist John Coltrane. Other important pioneers included, Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Joe Maneri and Sun Ra. Although ...
Ornette Coleman... o free jazz. This began in 1986 with the album Spy vs. Spy, a collection oftunes done in the contemporary thrashcore style. The same year, Sonny Shar ...
Joshua LederbergThe role of symbiosis in cell evolution was revived partly by, and finally brought to light by Lynn Margulis in a series of papers and ...
Albert Einstein... wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of Max Planck andon light. The thesis examiners, unsure of the material, passed his thesis ...
James Clerk Maxwell... cs, which was elaborated upon by Ludwig Boltzmann and the British physicist, held that energy (including heat) was a measure of the speed of particle ...
Cleo Laine... logy, the Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel, the musical partnership of Dame& Sir John Dankworth, and the harmonica
Michael Holroyd... roup), it was not widely publicised until the late 1960s, in a biography by. He had an unusual relationship with the painter Dora Carrington. She lov ...
James E. TalmageIn 1930, a small volume edited by Apostletitled Latter-day Revelations was published, which was a highly edited sel ...
Hugh Edwin StricklandThis view was later supported byand Melville after a dissection of the preserved head and foot from a stuf ...
Adam SmithScottish economistaccepted the LTV for pre-capitalist societies but saw a flaw in its applic ...
Stanisław PoniatowskiSir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British ambassador to Russia, offereda place in the embassy, in return for gaining Catherine as an ally. Poniat ...
J. Arch Getty... Sheila Fitzpatrick, Jerry F. Hough, William McCagg, Robert W. Thurston, and. Though their individual interpretations differ, the revisionists have ar ...
Gunther Schuller... Casino in New Rochelle, New York. The Glen Island date according to authorattracted "a record breaking opening night crowd of 1800..." With the Glen ...
Alan Ryan... the relations between them. His 1984 book Reasons and Persons (described byin The Sunday Times as "something close to a work of genius") has been ver ...
Leibniz... tended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously with). He provided a comprehensive formulation of classical mechanics and inve ...
George Armitage Miller... et team includes the following members of the Cognitive Science Laboratory:, Christiane Fellbaum, Randee Tengi, Pamela Wakefield, Helen Langone and B ...
Margaret Thatcher... from "Oggie" to "Ozzie," in honour of Peter Osgood, the soccer player. Whencame to power in Britain in 1979 a variation of the chant ("Maggie Maggie ...
Murray Gell-Mann... obert Marshak and George Sudarshan and, somewhat later, Richard Feynman andproposed a V−A (vector minus axial vector or left-handed) Lagrangian for w ...
Philip Henry Gosse... Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by, in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be "functional", Go ...
W. H. Auden... erse (1978), which he edited, was a revision of the original volume done by. Amis took the anthology in a markedly new direction: Auden had interpret ...
Lee Kuan YewOn May 18, 2010, Bilbao was awarded by the government of Singapore with theWorld City Prize, at the World Cities Summit 2010. It is considered the Pr ...
Margaret Thatchercame to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system ...
Richard Feynman... s needed. In 1957, Robert Marshak and George Sudarshan and, somewhat later,and Murray Gell-Mann proposed a V−A (vector minus axial vector or left-han ...
Gil Evans... to explore modal harmony (a concept explored much later by Miles Davis and) from a jazz arranging perspective. Of note is the sheet of sound effect ...
Archbishop of CanterburyWaite was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he t ...
Bernard Katz... xley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work ofand others on the electrochemistry of the synapse. These studies complemen ...
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf... 1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter of(later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, Princess Margar ...
Bertrand Russell... ome of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett,and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), remained particula ...
Newton... physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music.extended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously w ...
Robert Stanley Weir... . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906.wrote in 1908 another English version, one that is not a literal translati ...
Alan LomaxIn 1936recorded the Soul Stirrers for the Library of Congress's American music pr ...
Sid Watkins... two minutes of crashing, Senna was extracted from his race car by Professorand his medical team. Initial treatment took place by the side of the car, ...
Michael Faradayformulated that electromotive force (EMF) produced around a closed path is ...
Cotton Mather... Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England (1654),'s Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), and Winthrop's Journal were efforts ...
Michael Faraday... mers, induction motors, electric motors, synchronous motors, and solenoids.is generally credited with the discovery of induction in 1831 though it ma ...
Fynes Moryson... o hurt others like millers whose livelihood relied on agricultural produce.reported on these problems in his 1617 work An Itinerary
Conrad AikenEliot wrote toon New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, wh ...
Robert Stephenson... accident. The bridge had been designed and built by famed-railway engineerfor the Chester and Holyhead Railway. A Royal Commission inquiry found tha ...
Margaret Thatcher... ins". By the time the later series were made the Conservative government ofwas in power, and fewer political observations were made against governmen ...
C. P. Snow... however, demands for change again grew. There was a concern (illustrated in’s Strangers and Brothers series of novels) that technical and scientific ...
Bill GatesOn March 6, 1988 Alan Cooper showedhis shell prototype that allowed widgets to be added dynamically. March 20 ...
Joanna Lumley... man and Diana Rigg later co-starred in Bond films. The New Avengers regularhad, prior to that series, appeared in the James Bond film On Her Majesty' ...
John Dalton... in places such as the newly established Royal Institution in London, whereargued for an atomistic interpretation of chemistry, Thomas Young argued f ...
Aaron Copland... land as Grounde) is repeated as the basis of a piece underneath variations.describes basso ostinato as "the easiest to recognize" of the variation fo ...
Henry Cavendish... cape was first put forward by geologist John Michell in a letter written toin 1783 of the Royal Society
John Malcolm... nce in the Persian Gulf, a policy originally proposed by British politician. Indeed the British government was engaged in making agreements with loca ...
Charles II... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England,. In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ...
Wilfred Trotter... he "strange new subject called psychoanalysis", he met and was impressed by, an outstanding brain surgeon who had also written the famous Instincts o ...
Pierre-Simon LaplaceIn 1796, mathematicianpromoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his book Exposi ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... the story is sometimes explained internally, as in The Lord of the Rings by, which depicts the Red Book of Westmarch (a story-internal version of the ...
Winston Churchill... e and the exclusive Bangalore Club, which counts among its previous membersand the Maharaja of Mysore. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC is based ...
George Martin... t now, it seems strangely similar to The Goon Show." Lennon also noted thathad made records with both Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers
Hannah Arendt... nd René Magritte’s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine,’s book (1958) and Masaki Kobayashi’s film trilogy (1959-1961). Ningen no ...
Vartan Gregorian... Company president and CEO Janet L. Robinson, Carnegie Corporation president, and Jim Rettig, president of the American Library Association
King George VI... he "King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia," others to the "King of Italy.", as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, add ...
Alan Dershowitz... presentatives of Fascist Italy, offering to cooperate against the British."wrote in his book The Case for Israel that unlike the Haganah, the policy ...
Albert EinsteinIn 1915,developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that grav ...
Richard Dawkins... have included Peter Maxwell Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin,, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen F ...
Sir John Lubbock... ion relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal politician and bankerintroduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871, which specified the days in the tab ...
David Bohm... bilistic models which dominate quantum mechanical theory; it was refined byin the 1950s
Robert J. FlahertyWith's Nanook of the North in 1922, documentary film embraced romanticism; Fla ...
W. Edwards DemingIn his managerial and statistical writings,placed great importance on the value of using operational definitions in a ...
Nikola TeslaThe Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented byin 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boun ...
Queen Elizabeth II... ven the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal. In particular,never held the title as her aunt, , was in possession of the title
Darwin230 years before's theory of evolution, the appearance of the dodo and the red rail led Pe ...
Arthur C. Clarke... rnment's lower house is selected by sortition. In Songs of Distant Earth by, the futuristic society on Thalassa is ruled by demarchy
Sydney Brenner... Jolla, near San Diego, California; guest speakers included James D. Watson,, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churc ...
Edward Gibbon... s, Trajan was considered a virtuous pagan, while the 18th century historianpopularized the notion of the Five Good Emperors, of which Trajan was the ...
Randolph QuirkFurthermore,and Gabriele Stein thought about a Nuclear English, which, however, has ne ...
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure... ormities had been noted by Nicolas Steno and by French geologists including, who interpreted them in terms of Neptunism as "primary formations". Hutt ...
Susan McClaryThrough the 1980s and 1990s, this trend continued as musicologists like, Marcia Citron and Ruth Solie began to consider the cultural reasons for ...
Clive James... n possible without this kind of self discipline. Nevertheless, according to, Amis reached a turning point when his drinking ceased to be social, and ...
Duke of Cumberland... uding the Queen's Staircase, (1733) and the Cumberland Suite (1737) for the. Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... 78, where he took a job with the British Council of Churches. In 1980, then, Dr Robert Runcie, appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury's Assistant for ...
Robert Conquest... , Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt,, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe tot ...
Cleo Laine... ter Maxwell Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins,, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Pr ...
Lewis Carroll... s referred to as the Cheshire Cat principle, after the fading to a smile of's Cheshire Cat. It is expected that a first-principles solution of the eq ...
Nelly Furtado... n its video. The music video title "...On the Radio (Remember the Days)" byreplaced by the original title "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)." Th ...
Maurice Wilkins... urned down Francis Crick from working at King's College.) Francis Crick andof King's College were personal friends, which influenced subsequent scien ...
James Prescott Joule... eory of Lazare and Sadi Carnot, and Émile Clapeyron; the experimentation ofon the interchangeability of mechanical, chemical, thermal, and electrical ...
Princess Anne... o have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon,, Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda ...
B. F. Skinner... y of operant conditioning with pigeons. Starting in the 1940s, initiated byat Harvard University, the keys were mounted vertically behind a small cir ...
King George VI... usiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizingas Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the ...
Grafton Elliot Smith... ct and Dream which was published a year after his death by his close friend
Rudyard Kipling... xample is the recurrent use of the vocative phrase, O (my) Best Beloved, byin his Just So Stories. This use of O may be considered a form of clitic, ...
George Fordyce... monstrating that the oxidation of food is the source of body heat. In 1790,recognized calcium as necessary for fowl survival. In the early 19th centu ...
David CrystalThere are also some who reject both linguistic imperialism and's theory of the neutrality of English. They argue that the phenomenon of ...
Philip J. Davis... st prominent mathematicians of all time. Its history, notably documented byin an article that won him the 1963 Chauvenet Prize, reflects many of the ...
Norman Naimark... uvinism and xenophobia that have often resulted from nationalist sentiment.relates the rise of nationalism to ethnic cleansing and genocide
Michael Faraday... emistry, Thomas Young argued for the interpretation of light as a wave, andestablished the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. Meanwhile, the an ...
Hannah Arendt... eonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal,, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan ...
Peter Sellars... Viola embarked on The Tristan Project. At the invitation of opera director, he created video sequences to be shown as a backdrop to the action on st ...
Charles II... during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, andratifying the pawning in the , explicitly exempting them from any "dissolu ...
Mark Thompson... founder Thomas Bodley, the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBCand Sir Andrew Wiles who proved Fermat's Last Theorem. , a famous Canadian ...
Pierre-Simon Laplace... ght to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and. The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize ...
Max Müller... asvati River with the Ghaggar-Hakra River was accepted by Christian Lassen,, Marc Aurel Stein, C.F. Oldham and Jane Macintosh, while some Vedic schol ...
Pierre-Simon Laplace... ntment of secretary to the Paris Observatory. He now became acquainted with, and through his influence was commissioned, with Jean-Baptiste Biot, to ...
Humphry Davy... nded to believe was a unified and organic Nature. The English scientist Sir, a prominent Romantic thinker, said that understanding nature required “a ...
Aaron Klug... cluded James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer,, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, th ...
H. Newell Martin... an, Gilman recruited internationally known luminaries such as the biologist; the physicist Henry A. Rowland (the first president of the American Phys ...
King James II & VII... ater Queen Mary II of England and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of, and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of King George I ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being no ...
Robert Adam... hat British and European Neoclassical architects added to their vocabulary., for example, based a bed and one of the ceilings at Osterley House on th ...
DisraeliThe British Prime Minister's Tory administration in London did not want a war with the Zulus. "The f ...
Lord Palmerston... Thomas Cochrane of the Royal Navy. It was considered by the Prime Minister,, but the British Ordnance Department rejected the proposal as "as bad a m ...
Andrew Wiles... , the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Sirwho proved Fermat's Last Theorem. , a famous Canadian neurosurgeon had als ...
Harold Wilson... the series makes many references to the policy of the Labour governments ofand James Callaghan, with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dea ...
William Ewart Gladstone... s partner of Sir John Gladstones (sic), father of four times Prime Minister. Gladstone junior was named after Ewart, his godfather
Albert Einstein... 998, and others have been produced for the birthdays of notable people like, historical events like the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary an ...
Thomas Bodley... d chemist Frederick Soddy. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library founder, the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Si ...
Arthur C. Clarke... 25 seconds into the flight there was an "[U]nscheduled yaw-lift maneuver":wrote several years later that Mariner 1 was "wrecked by the most expensiv ...
Charles Babbage... orge Everest) of Indian thought on Boole, as well as Augustus De Morgan and
Frederic BartlettNot only Sassoon, but his patients as a whole, loved him and his colleaguewrote of hi
George EverestIn 1855 he married Mary Everest (niece of), who later wrote several educational works on her husband's principles
Charles II... fused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration ofin 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two ...
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg... wn in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named after Prince. The population was 107 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH– ...
Jacob LawrenceDuring the twentieth century, the American artist,created his Vesalius Suite based on the anatomical drawings of Andreas Ves ...
Tom ClancyPrince Philip is a minor character in's novel Patriot Games
Karl Marx... began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to, industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own ...
Stephen Hawking... . A scientific theory can be thought of as a model of reality. According toin A Brief History of Time, "a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two ...
Carl Friedrich Gaussrewrote Euler's product a
Martin Amis#, a novelist, twice married: first in 1984 (divorced) to Antonia Phillips, ...
John Cage... n (often drawing equally on contemporary composers such as Anton Webern andfor inspiration)
Albert Einstein... apes. Some of the voices to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart,, and Oscar Wilde. Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of ...
Tom Cole... es are John Sullivan (R-OK-1), Dan Boren (D-OK-2), Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3),(R-OK-4), and James Lankford (R-OK-5)
Manmohan Singh... ssimilated in cosmopolitan areas. India presently has a Sikh Prime Minister
Anthony Braxton... of improvising musicians including Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill,, Jack DeJohnette, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Famadou D ...
Elizabeth Jane HowardKingsley Amis was married a second time, to the novelistfrom 1965 to 1983, with whom he had no children
J. R. R. TolkienAuthorwas a Merton Professor of English Language and Literatur
Adam Ulam... anz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro,, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Co ...
George Boole... acHale, in his George Boole: his life and work (1985, Boole Press) suggestsmay have been a model for Moriarty
Stephen Jay Gould... elieving that anything that could be given a name must refer to a thing andand others have criticized psychologists for doing just that. A committed ...
Winston Churchill... on was 12,790 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Callaway County.made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton at Westm ...
William Burges... -Ansbach (1683–1737); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–92) his architect(1827–1881) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret
Richard Attenborough... works of fiction and documentary essay concerned with Elizabeth I's reign.depicted him in the film Elizabeth. He was a prominent supporting characte ...
David Cameron... The Princess Royal unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Ministerand the Mayor of London had given speeches
Sir Humphry Davy... that would burn without causing an explosion. At the same time, Cornishman, the eminent scientist was also looking at the problem. Despite his lack ...
John Michell... massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologistin a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society
Ramsay MacDonald... mining theme in honour of Fisher's occupation before entering public life., Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, unveiled a memorial to Fisher in ...
Thomas Gainsborough... nal art". Among the many significant watercolor artists of this period were, John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne, Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, ...
Zaha Hadid... to be redeveloped, following a 2007 master plan designed by Iraqi architect. This current peninsula will be transformed into an island and will featu ...
Nicolaes Witsen... ord was then introduced to the English-speaking world by the Dutch travelerin his 1692 book Noord en Oost Tataryen, which detailed his travels among ...
James Cook... r the French. On 11 June 1770, the HM Bark Endeavour, captained by explorer, ran on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage. Lightenin ...
Sam Shepard... bout Loretta Lynn, and for his narration and small supporting role oppositein 1983's The Right Stuff. He has appeared in small roles in a number of o ...
John Kendrew... with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz andat the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was und ...
Charles II... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her deathgave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ...
John Dryden... dramatic adaptation of the novel for radio was produced for BBC Radio 4 byin 2000. An operatic adaptation, The Handmaid's Tale, by Poul Ruders, prem ...
Colm Tóibín... assination of his family members and close friends, lynchings and bombings.wrote, "throughout his career there have been poems of simple evocation an ...
Asa Gray... a strong interest in flowers, which she learned to classify with a copy of's . She also collected butterflies and moths and later wrote, "I believe ...
Edward Mellanby... as Osborne also performed pioneering work on vitamins A and B. In 1919, Sirincorrectly identified rickets as a vitamin A deficiency because he could ...
Paul Samuelson... ate 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably John Hicks, Franco Modigliani, and) attempted to interpret and formalise Keynes's writings in terms of forma ...
Tom Friedman... imate of the cost of rebuilding. And with whom? As New York Times columnistpoints out, there's a retail store mentality that suggests to some — if "y ...
James Crichton-Browne... me the Balfour family home and, in 1840, the birthplace of the psychiatrist. Hutton was one of the most influential participants in the Scottish Enli ...
Edgar MeyerIn addition to being a noted classical player,is well known in bluegrass and newgrass circles. Todd Phillips is another ...
Farquhar Buzzard... attention to his care. During his illness in 1928, one of his doctors, Sir, was asked who had saved the King's life. He replied, "The Queen". In 193 ...
Ornette ColemanThe mid-1950s recordings offor Contemporary (Something Else! and Tomorrow Is the Question) and the fi ...
Rupert Brooke... for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that includedand Robert Frost. Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Pro ...
Sir Robert Menzies... on in Canberra to form the Liberal Party of Australia, delegates, including, met for a second conference in Albury at Mate's Department Store between ...
Sam Shepard... nds $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero Chuck Yeager () receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback ride with his w ...
Carl Friedrich GaussFollowing an indication of, Rocktaeschel (1922) proposed for lngamma an approximation for large Re(z ...
Matthew ArnoldRichard Aldington – Kenneth Allott –– Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire ...
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon... all hosted the Duke of York, later King George V, with the Duchess of York,(the Queen Mother) and a very young future Queen Elizabeth. Naseby Hall wa ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge... sh included the artist and poet William Blake and poets William Wordsworth,, John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The movement stressed t ...
John Polkinghorne... tion of black holes. In his book Questions of Truth, the particle physicisthas another difficulty with Smolin's thesis, in that one cannot impose the ...
John HicksIn the late 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably, Franco Modigliani, and Paul Samuelson) attempted to interpret and formal ...
Michael Palin#Comic Interlude including four members of Monty Python:, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, C ...
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAn early German influence came from, whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout E ...
Larry Page... such as with Google Image Search. Google Search was originally developed byand Sergey Brin in 1997. Google Search provides at least 22 special featur ...
Charles Dickens... uired to do much of the housework. She enjoyed reading, especially books byin her father's small den, and she took a strong interest in flowers, whic ...
August Derleth... brief (and only) mention it is not clear what Lovecraft meant Hastur to be.developed Hastur into a Great Old One in his controversial reworking of Lo ...
Walter A. ShewhartIn 1924, Bell Labs physicist Dr.proposed the control chart as a method to determine when a process was in ...
Geoffrey Ashe... trade) and Saxon artifacts. The use of the name Camelot and the support ofhelped ensure much publicity for the finds, but Alcock himself later grew ...
King George II... pointed star of the Order of the Garter which Lord Burlington received fromin 1730. This star also represents the Sun at the longest day of the year, ...
West, Martin Litchfield... ense of the Gaseous Vent Theory." Clinical Toxicology 40.2 (2000) 189–196.*, The Orphic Poems, 1983. ISBN 0-19-814854-2.*Stephen G. Miller, Ancient G ...
Joan Robinson... subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki,, Nicholas Kaldor and Paul Davidson. Keynes's biographer Lord Skidelsky wr ...
W. H. AudenRichard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley –– William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Lauren ...
Harold PinterThe 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale was based on a screenplay byand directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It starred Natasha Richardson as Offre ...
Robert Browning... s, politicians, literary lights (including Oscar Wilde, Algernon Swinburne,and Wilkie Collins), and artists (including John Millais). Many of her sto ...
Srinivasa Ramanujan... vogue, and was appointed to a chair partly on the strength of this result.wrote about generalisations of the binomial theorem, and earned a reputati ...
Nikola Tesla... 30 km, was installed at Cerchi, Italy. At an AIEE meeting on May 16, 1888,delivered a lecture entitled , describing the equipment which allowed effi ...
Karl Dietrich BracherThe German historian, whose work is primarily concerned with Nazi Germany, argues that the "to ...
Walter Scott... ssian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young. Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as the ...
Edmund Wilson... the period of his fame by Hugh Walpole, W. A. McNeill, and Carl van Doren.tried to rehabilitate his reputation with a long essay in The New Yorker
Perry MillerIn his The New England Mind,writes about the Encyclopaedia
Charles Samuel Myers... d his official post as Lecturer in Experimental Psychology in favour of Dr., and now held only a lectureship on the physiology of the special senses. ...
Max Perutz... Bridget Fell, with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joinedand John Kendrew at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at ...
Winston Churchill... as Adam Smith represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the warattempted to check the rise of Keynesian policy-making in the United Kingd ...
Margaret Atwood... 9), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) and's Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Michael Palin... r made great mention of comic legends' appearances, such as Spike Milligan,and Bernard Manning. Content-wise, it is very similar to the previous two ...
August Derleth... m House, a publishing company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents,and Donald Wandrei, takes its name from this city as a tribute
Sam Shepard... epard, Ed Harris as Glenn, Fred Ward as Grissom, Dennis Quaid as Cooper andas Yeager
Cecil Taylor... (Something Else! and Tomorrow Is the Question) and the first two albums by(Jazz Advance and Looking Ahead) mark the beginnings of free jazz, though ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss... f the academic papers are reversed, they describe real mathematical events.wrote a famous paper on the dynamics of an asteroid in his early 20s, whic ...
Steve Reich... ck Sabbath. Minimalism also emerged, led by composers such as Philip Glass,and Michael Nyman. This was a break from the intellectual serial music of ...
Henry Sidgwick... y" as our highest concern. Such an inclusion would pave the way for ethics.longed for the fusion of ethics and rationality and, while Parfit admits t ...
Charles Dickens... was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, andhad a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there ...
John Playfair... ment, and fell in with numerous first-class minds in the sciences including, philosopher David Hume and economist Adam Smith. Hutton held no position ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... illaise" as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by, and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwan ...
John Michell... too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century byand Pierre-Simon Laplace. The first modern solution of general relativity ...
Ansel Adams... - National Archives 79-AA-M01.jpg|Long's Peak from Road as photographed byin 1941
Joseph Black... s through the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was particularly friendly with, and the two of them together with Adam Smith founded the Oyster Club for ...
Joan Robinson... ideas and insights. However even in the early years Post Keynesians such assought to distance themselves from Keynes himself and much current Post Ke ...
Harold Wilson... anted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the le ...
Oscar I of Sweden... s Margaret of Connaught. They were related in several ways. In descent fromand Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In desce ...
Alexander von Humboldt... s were over. The first letter he received, while in the lazaretto, was from; and this was the origin of a connection which, in Arago's words, lasted ...
Éamon de Valera... aly"; however, as King of Ireland, on the advice of the Irish government of, he addressed his letters of credence to the "King of Italy and Emperor o ...
William Cumming RoseIn the 1930s,identified essential amino acids, necessary protein components which the b ...
Adam Smith... cholars point to Keynes as representing the ideals of modern liberalism, asrepresented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the war Winston Chur ...
Bramwell Tovey... ear contract, and in 2007 he was given a one-year extension. In March 2008,was named to the post for an initial two-year contract beginning Summer of ...
C. S. LewisFor his seventh birthday, Gaiman received's The Chronicles of Narnia series. He later recalled that "I admired his ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... , and to the sympathies of fellow appointed councillors Thomas Cranmer (the) and Lord Hertford, Catherine obtained effective control and was able to ...
F. H. Bradley... l dissertation for Harvard on Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of, but he failed to return for the viva voce exam
David Bohm... ect and real physical interpretation of matter-waves, following the work of. The de Broglie-Bohm theory is today the only interpretation giving real ...
King George V... ily. Despite the fact he was a first cousin of both Nicholas and Alexandra,refused to allow them to evacuate to the United Kingdom, as he was alarmed ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... es. In 1980, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, appointed him's Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs, on the recommendation of Tomk ...
Sir William Hamilton... an to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note;'s collection of Greek vases. During the few years after its foundation t ...
William Cohen... good terms. McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senatorsand Gary Hart attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, an ...
HRH The Princess Royal... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympianunveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ...
Peter Maxwell DaviesGuests have included, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Chri ...
Henry Aldrich... church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Churchdesigned a new church; it is thought, however, that on some of the later f ...
W. H. C. Frend... been criticized by biblical scholars and ecclesiastical historians such asand Robert E. Van Voorst. After reviewing criticisms from several authors, ...
Karl Dietrich Bracher... ond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest,, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe totalitarianism in slightl ...
Joseph Thomas Clover... eason and hanged at Tyburn in London in 1723. Nearby, a plaque commemorates(1825–82), the father of modern anaesthetics, who was born above a shop ov ...
David King... cast to reach a plateau of more than 9 billion during the 21st century. Sir, former chief scientific adviser to the UK government, told a parliamenta ...
John Kenneth Galbraith... ing on a scale sufficient to eliminate unemployment. According to economist(then a US government official charged with controlling inflation), in the ...
Adam Smith... the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher David Hume and economist. Hutton held no position in Edinburgh University and communicated his sci ...
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury... Salisbury, descended from his younger son Robert. One of the latter branch,(1830–1903), served three times as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria and ...
Zbigniew BrzezinskiThe political scientists Carl Friedrich andwere primarily responsible for expanding the usage of the term in universi ...
William Osler... become major figures in the emerging field of academic medicine, including, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and William Welch. During this period Hop ...
William WhewellEnglish philosopher and historian of sciencecoined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's ...
George IIQueen Anne's successor was George I; he and his sonwere the last monarchs to reside at Hampton Court. Under George I six room ...
Adam Smithof his hopes that's 'invisible hand' can help Britain out of the economic hole it is in: "I ...
Joseph Black... ngs of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two parts, the first by his friendon 7 March 1785, and the second by himself on 4 April 1785. Hutton subsequ ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... because I'd read it." One work that made a particular impression on him was's The Lord of the Rings from his school library, although it only had the ...
Juan Linz... Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich anddescribe totalitarianism in slightly different ways. They all agree, howev ...
Henry Salt... tta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. Gifts and purchases from, British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ram ...
Bernice Johnson Reagon... n, Meg Christian, and Margie Adam, African-American women activists such asand her group Sweet Honey in the Rock, and peace activist Holly Near. Wome ...
Elias Ashmole... reated the order of the Hatchet (orden de la Hacha) in 1149. As reported byin The Institution, Laws, and Ceremony of the Most Noble Order of the Gart ...
Linus Pauling... 25. Bragg was influential in the effort to beat a leading American chemist,, to the discovery of DNA's structure (after having been 'pipped-at-the-po ...
John Locke... ical social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and. The original position figures prominently in his book, A Theory of Justi ...
J. R. R. Tolkien's... play somewhat similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and a storyline reminiscent ofThe Lord of the Rings. Later, two other games were released in this series ...
Cecil Taylor... en strict rules of bebop could be loosened or abandoned at will. Similarly,, the most prominent free jazz pianist, began stretching the bop boundarie ...
George II... ge I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Underand his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the archit ...
Bertrand Russell... uch as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London. The philosophertook an interest in Vivienne while the newlyweds stayed in his flat. Some ...
Hannah ArendtIn The Origins of Totalitarianism,argued that Nazi and State communist regimes were new forms of government, ...
George Bernard Shaw... n 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared. Their adaptation of's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being pla ...
Robert Browning... tjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke –– Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Har ...
Ralph Hartley... in part on earlier work in the field by Bell researchers Harry Nyquist and, but it greatly extended these. Bell Labs also introduced a series of inc ...
James Bruce... , Granger (1731), Frederick Louis Norden (1737–38), Richard Pococke (1738),(1769), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1777), William Ge ...
Lester B. Pearson... as actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairsin the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Sue ...
Lacépède... defined by Linnaeus. It was later assigned as the type species of Dugong byand further classified within its own family by Gray and subfamily by
Frank Kermode... earning his bachelor's degree after three years, instead of the usual four.writes that the most important moment of Eliot's undergraduate career was ...
Paul Volcker... ree year contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve Board under, initiated in the last year of Carter's presidency, and long term easing ...
Kazuo Ishiguro... me; established by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates includeand Ian McEwan. The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre ...
John Locke... man motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity. Self following fromhas been seen as a product of episodic memory but research upon those with ...
John Evelyn... in his Tour of the whole Island of Great Britain (1724) wrote of the City:(1620–1706) Royalist, Traveller and Diarist wrote to Sir Thomas Browne
Margaret ThatcherIn 1989, U.S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Ministerdedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London. The s ...
Milton Friedman... cluded Austrian school economist Ludwig von Mises along with the then young. Initially the society had little impact on the wider world – Hayek was t ...
Adam Smith's... the development of the political and sociological analyses, culminating inThe Wealth of Nations. One of the main arguments for capitalism, presented ...
Martin Lister... gs (or Jenyns), a Member of Parliament, and Frances Thornhurst. Her uncle () was a prominent naturalist. Richard Jennings came into contact with Jame ...
James Clerk MaxwellIn 1873 Heaviside had encountered's newly published, and today famous, two-volume Treatise on Electricity a ...
Rupert Brooke... Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake – Edmund Blunden –– Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K ...
Walter Scott... ds, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir's novel Kenilworth in 1826. English Heritage has managed the castle since ...
James Watt... g the workings of an invention the patent system rewarded inventors such asby allowing them to monopolise the production of the first steam engines, ...
Harrison Birtwistle... to the BBC Proms Archive web-site, on 9 August 1976. The programme included's Meridian and Arnold Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony. In 1977 he bec ...
William CochranIn 1951, together withand Vladimir Vand, Crick assisted in the development of a mathematical the ...
King George V... e attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, Beatrix Potter,and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit that he gave his gu ...
Peter Gay... particular deist author as "a constructive deist" or "a critical deist". Asnotes
James CookJohn Ledyard led a team to attempt an ascent on the third voyage of Captainin January 1779. They struggled to go directly up from Kealakekua Bay, but ...
William Stanier... briefly held the office of Chief Mechanical Engineer pending the arrival ofbecame Vice President (Railway traffic, operating & commercial), with sepa ...
Majora Carter... Yunus, author and columnist, William Safire, environmental justice advocate, and environmental law attorney, Robert Kennedy Jr
Edmund Blunden... Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Laurence Binyon – William Blake –– Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thoma ...
Baron von MuellerGiles' friendraised a subscription so that a new expedition could be made. The services ...
Bill Clinton... nies included commencement speakers former Presidents George H. W. Bush and, who commended the students for their desire to return to Tulane and serv ...
Philip RothPortnoy's Complaint (1969) is the American novel that turned its authorinto a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit ...
George RussellThe modal theory stems from a work by, but again Miles Davis unveiled this shift to the rest of the jazz world ...
Albert EinsteinIn August 1939 Leó Szilárd prepared andsigned the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the pr ...
Brandon Carter... both rotating and electrically charged. Through the work of Werner Israel,, and David Robinson the no-hair theorem emerged, stating that a stationar ...
Vladimir Nabokov... on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of. The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the Oulipo; t ...
Alfred Cort HaddonThe turning point came in 1898 whenseduced "Rivers from the path of virtue... (for psychology then was a chas ...
Sir John Randall... included in a written progress report for the King's College laboratory offrom late 1952
Isaac Newton... adition established by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician. Where Descartes held that all motions should be explained with respect t ...
Lewis Mumford... e traditional, supply-oriented interpretation of the Industrial Revolution.has proposed that the Industrial Revolution had its origins in the Early M ...
Winston ChurchillMountbatten was a favourite of(although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ...
Ian McEwan... Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and. The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art ...
Richard Pococke... incia (1718 and 1720–21), Granger (1731), Frederick Louis Norden (1737–38),(1738), James Bruce (1769), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncour ...
Kevin WarwickCyborg scientistis also a Coventrian, as is Sir John Egan, industrialist and former Chief ...
Charles Darwin... was the basis of a lifelong friendship between Rivers and the genial son of
Richard StallmanSince October 2000, Fravia got in touch withat a LinuxDay event in Milan to which they were invited by a common friend ...
Sir Henry Bessemer... method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, wheninvented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in larg ...
Werner Israel... ck hole that is both rotating and electrically charged. Through the work of, Brandon Carter, and David Robinson the no-hair theorem emerged, stating ...
Ted Kennedy... its political opponents in the United States, including Senators Helms and, with the assistance of the CIA and National Security Council. Helms prop ...
E. H. Carr... stern World (published as a book in 1946), the pro-Soviet British historianclaimed that "The trend away from individualism and towards totalitarianis ...
Charles DarwinIn 1959, the centenary year of's publication of The Origin of Species, the Ecuadorian government declare ...
Abdus Salam... ies for International Year of Physics 2005. Pakistani theoretical physicistwon a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the electroweak interaction
Isaac Newton... wever, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir. In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life i ...
Ernest RutherfordRadiometric dating has been carried out since 1905 when it was invented byas a method by which one might determine the age of the Earth. In the cent ...
David Starkey... ibuted to the perception that he is "a cantankerous old sod". The historianhas described him as a kind of " H.R.H Victor Meldrew". For example, in Ma ...
Edward WestonRenowned photographermoved to Carmel in 1929 and shot the first of numerous nature photographs, ...
Edgar Meyer... uta-Aho (b. 1941), Italian composer Fernando Grillo, and US player-composer. For a longer list, see the List of contemporary classical double bass pl ...
John Wesley... iritual observance. Members of holiness movements, such as those started byand George Whitefield, often practice such regular fasts as part of their ...
Pierre-Simon Laplace... mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange,, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. At the end of the century, the members of the ...
Karl Popper... d and incurable" could ignore the trend towards totalitarianism, said Carr., in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and The Poverty of Historicis ...
Lester B. PearsonPrime Ministerin 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the country's national an ...
Richard Hamming... (and who subsequently shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956). In 1947,invented Hamming codes for error detection and correction. For patent reas ...
Charles Babbage... m regular communication among those in the field of science. In a review of's book Decline of Science in England in John Murray's Quarterly Review, h ...
Francis Cornford... ded history of the Greek language. In the book From Religion to Philosophy,suggests that the Orphics used the word "theory" to mean 'passionate sympa ...
Milton Friedman... article with the title inspired by a possibly tongue-in-cheek comment from, a comment later echoed by U.S. President Richard Nixon, that "We are all ...
Alfred Russel Wallace... the Linnean Society (which led Darwin to publish On the Origin of Species)says of the evolutionary principle
George FitzGerald... iction of what is now known as Cherenkov radiation, and inspired his friendto suggest what now is known as the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction
A.W. Franks... xcavations in Cyprus. In 1897 the death of the great collector and curator,, was followed by an immense bequest of 3,300 finger rings, 153 drinking v ...
Muhammad Yunus... President of the United States, Al Gore, Economist and Nobel Prize winner,, author and columnist, William Safire, environmental justice advocate Maj ...
Philip LarkinOther Coventrians in the arts include the highly acclaimed poet, actors Billie Whitelaw, Nigel Hawthorne, Brendan Price and Clive Owen, a ...
Gene Weingarten... ion of the phrase is "Marrying Irving", coined by Washington Post columnist. A recent cinema-specific version is "nuking the fridge", referring to th ...
Gil Evans... of the Cool. Cool jazz recordings by Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans,, Stan Getz and the Modern Jazz Quartet usually have a "lighter" sound whi ...
Nicholas SerotaUnlike recent years, Sirwas not the jury chairman; instead, the chairman was Christoph Grunenberg, ...
Gregory BatesonThe cybernetician and anthropologistwould observe in the 1970s that though seeing it only as an illustration, ...
Salimuzzaman SiddiquiIn medicine,was the first Pakistani scientist to bring the therapeutic constituents of ...
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth... chool and enable use of the Charity School's unspent trust funds. Named for— an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in ...
Pierre Trudeau... nada in 1982, the result of the efforts of the Government of Prime Minister
Brook TaylorBritish work, carried on by mathematicians such asand Colin Maclaurin, fell behind Continental developments as the century p ...
Ansel AdamsWeston had traveled extensively with legendary photographer, who moved to Carmel in 1962, several years after receiving his 3rd Guggg ...
Bob Frankston... mpt to computerize it on the newly introduced personal computers. Joined by, the two created the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, and released it on the ...
Albert Einstein... ce frame, and to understand the symmetries of the laws of electromagnetism.later re-derived the transformation from his postulates of special relativ ...
Colin MaclaurinBritish work, carried on by mathematicians such as Brook Taylor and, fell behind Continental developments as the century progressed. Meanwhil ...
Harold Bloom... luenced by Gnosticism in this period include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and, with Albert Camus and Allen Ginsberg being more moderately influenced. A ...
Matthew Tindal... of deism. Deism flourished in England between 1690 and 1740, at which time's Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730), also called "The Deist's Bi ...
Thomas Young... tin Fresnel, with whose history, as well as that of Etienne-Louis Malus and, this part of his life is closely interwoven
William StanierThe arrival of the new chief mechanical engineer,, who was brought in from the Great Western Railway by Josiah Stamp in 193 ...
Bill Clinton... d the Congressional don't ask, don't tell law, signed into law by Presidentin 1993, and in force until 2011, which forbade homosexuals serving in the ...
David Foster... ajor phase of the band's career took off in late 1981—with a new producer (), a new label (Warner Brothers), and the addition of keyboardist/guitaris ...
Daniel Burnham... es to the United States. Under American control, the new government invitedto plan a modern Manila. The Burnham Plan was a project that attempted to ...
Robert Browning... thousand word short novel for the magazine. The title was a misquotation of's Rabbi ben Ezra, the first few lines of which (starting "Grow old along ...
James Thornhill... r artists commissioned to decorate the rooms included Grinling Gibbons, Sirand Jacques Rousseau; furnishings were designed by Daniel Marot
Carl Bosch... rl Bosch Museum which shows life and work of chemist and Nobel Prize-winner. Then there is the Documentation and Culture Centre of German Sinti and R ...
Joseph LarmorMany physicists, including Woldemar Voigt, George FitzGerald,, Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing the physics behind these equations s ...
Frank WhittleIn 1930, having found no interest from the RAF for his idea,patented the design for a centrifugal gas turbine for jet propulsion. The ...
Jacob Lawrence... e used for the training of Coast Guardsmen, including the celebrated artistand actor Buddy Ebsen. It was also a popular place for R&R for soldiers fr ...
Tom ClancyThe Hunt for Red October is a 1984 novel by. The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain ...
Vladimir Nabokov... whereas the second is a direct transliteration of the actual Russian name.explains: "In Russian, a surname ending in a consonant acquires a final 'a ...
James Clerk Maxwell... rvomechanism, its analysis in a dynamic system is far from trivial. In 1868wrote a famous paper "On governors" that is widely considered a classic in ...
Howard Colvin... lf, which had belonged to Inigo Jones and his pupil John Webb. According to, "Burlington's mission was to reinstate in Augustan England the canons of ...
James II... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards toto uphold it
Christiaan Huygens... Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and Blaise Pascal in France;in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle in England
James Bradley... come an assistant at Lilienthal Observatory near Bremen. There he worked on's stellar observations to produce precise positions for some 3,222 stars
George FitzGeraldMany physicists, including Woldemar Voigt,, Joseph Larmor, Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing the physics behind th ...
Roland Beamont... t until the end of 1942, when its good qualities—seen from the start by S/Lof 609 Squadron—became apparent. It was extremely fast, tough and capable, ...
Harold F. Dodge... United States such statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart, W. Edwards Deming,, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead, E.G.D. Paterson ...
Robert Conquest... – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge –– W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donald Davie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la ...
Christopher WrenOgilby died in London in 1676 and was buried at St. Brides, one of Sir's new churches
Bill Clinton... ssante and Antonio Banderas in the film The Mambo Kings. In 1994, Presidentawarded Cruz the National Medal of Arts. In 2001, she recorded a new album ...
Karl Popper... nce Aronsen, Richard Pipes, Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur,, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, ...
Henry Head... National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. It was here that he andwere to meet and form a lasting friendship
W. Edwards Deming... e the world and the United States such statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart,, Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead ...
James Watt... ke) and governors which control motive power input. He considers devices by, Professor James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, William Thomson, Léon Foucault ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ...
Sir John Randall... ng's College London, whose Biophysics department was under the direction of. (Randall had turned down Francis Crick from working at King's College.) ...
Laplace... on of photography, the grant for the publication of the works of Fermat and, the acquisition of the museum of Cluny, the development of railways and ...
Karl Marx... him; influenced by Albert Brisbane he promoted Fourierism. His journal had(as well as Friedrich Engels) as European correspondent in the early 1850s ...
Robert Hooke... nne and Blaise Pascal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; andand Robert Boyle in England
Octavio Paz... s considered a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fue ...
D. A. Pennebaker... rt Drew), Harlan County, USA (directed by Barbara Kopple), Dont Look Back (), Lonely Boy (Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor) are all frequently deemed ci ...
Walter A. Shewhart... rance Department gave the world and the United States such statisticians as, W. Edwards Deming, Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. J ...
Vladimir Nabokov... ky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by W ...
Karl Marx... kbinder Eugène Varlin, an associate of Michael Bakunin and correspondent of, and by other radicals) for the creation of a "Committee of Public Safety ...
Willard LibbyIn 1934,found weak beta activity in pure neodymium, which was attributed to a half ...
Robert Jameson... wster undertook further editorial work by establishing, in conjunction with(1774–1854), the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, which took the place of ...
Fleeming Jenkin... e power input. He considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson,, William Thomson, Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid govern ...
Martha Nussbaum... percent of women experience Types I and II, and 15 percent Type III, thoughwrites that Type III nevertheless accounts for 80–90 percent of all such p ...
Robert FitzRoyThe voyage of the Beagle brought the survey ship HMS Beagle, under captain, to the Galápagos on 15 September 1835 to survey approaches to harbours. ...
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharIn 1931,calculated, using special relativity, that a non-rotating body of electron ...
John Dryden... 's reputation as a translator was to suffer from the attacks made on him byin his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad. Whatev ...
Richard B. Haldane... would later contribute to his death. He spent two months in the infirmary., the Liberal MP and reformer, visited him and had him transferred in Nove ...
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth... ished a trust to help Wheelock. The head of the trust was a Methodist named
Harold Bloom... ted in the religious philosophy of Hegel; one might compare literary critic's recent attempts to identify Gnostic elements in contemporary American r ...
see of CanterburyLaurence succeeded Augustine to thein about 604, and ruled until his death on 2 February 619. To secure the s ...
Louis H. Sullivan... Shorewood Hills.) The Harold C. Bradley House, designed collaboratively byand George Grant Elmslie in 1908–1910 now serves as the Sigma Phi Fraterni ...
Conrad Aiken... d Advocate published some of his poems, and he became lifelong friends with, the American novelist
George Canning... being the place of death of Charles James Fox in 1806. Tory Prime Ministeralso died there, in 1827
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Thomas Hooker... nd Laud's policies, and some left as a result, such as the Puritan minister, who set sail for America along with other religious dissidents in the Gr ...
George Paget Thomson... ey. Bell researcher Clinton Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics withfor the discovery of electron diffraction, which helped lay the foundation ...
Bill Clinton... inister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and President of the United States, Russia formally joined the group in 1997, resulting in the Group of Eigh ...
Paul Russell... imself was uncomfortable with the terms deist and atheist, and Hume scholarhas argued that the best and safest term for Hume's views is irreligion
Charles Darwin... captain and others on board, including his companion, the young naturalist, made observations on the geology and biology on Chatham, Charles, Albema ...
Charles Darwin... ure and the sciences. He won the respect and admiration of scholars such as, Victor Hugo and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, ...
Maurice Bowra... omb of Orion most likely at the foot of Mount Cerycius (now Mount Tanagra).argues that Orion was a national hero of the Boeotians, much as Castor and ...
John KebleIrenaeus' works were first translated into English byand published in 1872 as part of the Library of the Fathers series
Gottfried Leibniz... rect physical action, a position held by Huygens and the German philosopher, who, while following in the Cartesian tradition, developed his own philo ...
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of BurlingtonChiswick House was inherited by, 4th Earl of Cork and Baron Clifford (1694–1753) on the death of his fath ...
Popper falsifiableSmolin has noted that the string theory landscape is notif other universes are not observable. This is the subject of the Smolin-S ...
James Wattdesigned his first governor in 1788 following a suggestion from his busine ...
Elizabeth II... ied the following year, at the beginning of the reign of her granddaughter,. Briefly, there were three queens in the country: Mary; her daughter-in-l ...
Sir James Hall... took a boat trip from Dunglass Burn east along the coast with the geologistof Dunglass. They found the sequence in the cliff below St. Helens, then j ...
Stanley Kutler... Howard Hughes. Aided by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, the historian, who has written several books about Nixon and Watergate, sued for releas ...
John Graunt... cation of Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality by. Early applications of statistical thinking revolved around the needs of ...
Richard CumberlandThe utilitarian philosopher, Dr., was 14th Lord Bishop of Peterborough from 1691 until his death in 1718; ...
Langston Hughes... he Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay,, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors h ...
Ralph HartleyDuring the late 1920s, Harry Nyquist anddeveloped a handful of fundamental ideas related to the transmission of in ...
Bamber Gascoigne... ion was launched as University Challenge in 1962. The program, presented by, produced by Granada Television and broadcast across the ITV network, was ...
Walter Burkert... for certain months of every year. According to some modern writers such as, this corresponds with the dry Mediterranean summer, during which plant l ...
Isaac Newton... llection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and ...
Ralph Hartley... power or power spectral density. The law is named after Claude Shannon and
Robert Boyle... scal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke andin England
Max RoachSome musicians of the time combined performance with teaching.and Archie Shepp taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Aft ...
Bertrand Russell... aynard Keynes, Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory,, and G. E. Moore. Moore's philosophy, with its assumption that the summum ...
George Bernard Shaw... , particularly when he had the honour of spending a month in the company of; he later described how he spent "many hours every day talking – the grea ...
Lord Fulton... inistrators at under-secretary level and above had been privately educated.’s committee reported in 1968. He found that administrators were not profe ...
Unita Blackwell... t is the county seat of Issaquena County. One of its more famous natives is, Mississippi's first black female mayor, who was elected in 1977. She bec ...
Frederick Wiseman... llan King, and Pierre Perrault, and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock,and Albert and David Maysles
J. R. R. TolkienAulë is a fictional character from's legendarium, who is primarily discussed in The Silmarillion, but appear ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss... tudy of games of chance. The method of least squares was first described byaround 1794. The use of modern computers has expedited large-scale statist ...
Tom Clancy... n Clark (real name John Terrence Kelly) is a fictional character created bywho appears in many of Clancy's novels
Oliver Heaviside... invariant when transformed from the ether to a moving frame. Early in 1889,had shown from Maxwell's equations that the electric field surrounding a s ...
Dickens... ous young readers' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works ofand Shakespeare. By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fic ...
Louis Kahn... mongst them were Kisho Kurokawa, Junzo Sakakura, Alison and Peter Smithson,, Jean Prouvé, B. V. Doshi and Jacob Bakema. The conference ended with Tan ...
Charles Wheatstone... his name, was not as has often been asserted the invention of Brewster. Sirdiscovered its principle and applied it as early as 1838 to the constructi ...
Cardinal Newman... 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine,and Walter Pater
Max Perutz’s... right place, in the right frame of mind, at the right time (1949), to joinproject at Cambridge University, and he began to work on the X-ray crystal ...
Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich... ace transform, also known as the "Bromwich integral"). The UK mathematicianlater devised a rigorous mathematical justification for Heaviside's operat ...
Nikola TeslaBothand Hidetsugu Yagi attempted to devise systems for large scale wireless po ...
Archbishop of CanterburyLaurence (sometimes Lawrence or Laurentius; died ) was the secondfrom about 604 to 619. He was a member of the Gregorian mission sent from ...
Harold Bloom... or Death in the Andes) and the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. The literary critichas included his novel The War of the End of the World in his list of esse ...
Donald Lynden-BellOlin Eggen,, and Allan Sandage in 1962, proposed a theory that disk galaxies form thr ...
Gordon Bell... PDP-11 16-bit computer was designed in a crash program by Harold McFarland,, Roger Cady, and others. The project was able to leap forward in design w ...
MarxThe thinking ofand Freud provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a un ...
Charles Reed... ation, the committee consisted on twelve advisors under the chairmanship ofFSA (son of the Congregational philanthropist Dr Andrew Reed) who rose to ...
W. H. Auden... A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings). Their work involved poets such as, composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as J. B. Priestley. ...
Winston Churchill... first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister, to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Particip ...
Paul KrugmanEconomistargues the economic expansion during the Reagan administration was primari ...
Winston Churchill... night of 26/27 August 1944 and three nights later on the 29/30 August 1944.(The Second World War, Book XII) had erroneously believed it to be "a mode ...
King George IIColleges created byof Great Britain
Reinaldo ArenasBefore Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer, describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape ...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson... red by Mozart's tune. The line "The True North strong and free" is based on's description of Canada as "that true North, whereof we lately heard / A ...
Walter Burkert... y no part in recorded Greek literary texts, or historical records of cults.notes the presence of Tethys in the episode of Iliad XIV that the Ancients ...
Joseph Stiglitzand
Stanisław August Poniatowski... d political system. The royal election of 1764 resulted in the elevation of, a refined and worldly aristocrat connected to a major magnate faction, b ...
Jon Appleton... loped as the "Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer" by Dartmouth College Professor, in association with NED co-founders Cameron W. Jones and Sydney A. Alons ...
Ken Vandermark... ago, notable performers are Fred Anderson, Nicole Mitchell, Ernest Dawkins,, and Hamid Drake
Peggy Glanville-Hicks... adhered to more traditional idioms include Arthur Benjamin, George Dreyfus,and Robert Hughes. In recent times composers including Julian Cochran, Gor ...
Richard WrightNative Son (1940) is a novel by American author. The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African Ameri ...
Lawrence Durrell... avie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton –– Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy ...
Stephen Hawking... dern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science".says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible ...
John Polkinghorne... ch it has created the physical world. However many modern scholars (such as) hold that it is part of a deity's nature to be consistent and that it wo ...
George AntheilAvant garde composer, a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with ...
Gershom Scholemonce described Gnosticism as "the Greatest case of metaphysical anti-Semit ...
Wellington... dominion in parts of Catalonia lasted until 1814, when the British Generalsigned the armistice by which the French left Barcelona and the other stro ...
Aaron Copland... On the Waterfront (1954) and the result was reminiscent of earlier works byand Igor Stravinsky with its "jazz-based harmonies and exciting additive r ...
Abdus Salam... eraction, the theory of which was developed around 1968 by Sheldon Glashow,and Steven Weinberg. They were awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for ...
Jeremy Paxman... taken off the air in 1987. In 1994 the show was resurrected by the BBC withas the new quizmaster. It remains very popular in Britain. The show, and t ...
Paul KrugmanNobel laureatealso actively argued the case for vigorous Keynesian intervention in the e ...
Milton Friedman... th well several known participants including J.M. Keynes, Ragnar Frisch and. The debate is sometime referred to as the Tinbergen debate
George Akerlof... Keynesian government intervention to mitigate the financial crisis include, Brad Delong
J. R. R. TolkienIn the works of, the Vanyar are the fairest and most noble of the High Elves. They are th ...
Marc Isambard Brunel... leading to its importance in the development of the Industrial Revolution., the father of famed Portsmouth engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, establi ...
Benjamin JowettNightingale also much later had strong relations with, who may have wanted to marry her
C. P. Snow... both theoretically and experimentally. The well-known historian of physics,, says about him, "If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could w ...
Edgar F. Codd... propagated through the rest of the database via the defined relationships., the inventor of the relational model, introduced the concept of normaliz ...
Benjamin Franklin... s the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of George Washington,, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage ...
Cecil Taylor... jor stirrings came in the 1950s, with the early work of Ornette Coleman and. In the 1960s, performers included Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Ph ...
Roland Beamont... w role as a low-altitude interceptor. Through the support of pilots such asthe Typhoon also established itself in roles such as night-time intruder a ...
Bertrand Russell... ve-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopherthat proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago fro ...
ChomskyHerman and(1988) proposed a propaganda model hypothesizing systematic biases of U.S. ...
Charles Hard Townes... the laser was first described, in a technical paper by Arthur Schawlow and
Richard Wright... rded scholar of African-American literary works. This edition also contains's 1940 essay How 'Bigger' Was Born
Peter UstinovAt one point later in the series,was a guest on the one-shot "upside down" episode, during which the televi ...
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond... ldings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the "Egyptian Hall" ...
James Baldwin's... he book was criticized by some of Wright's fellow African-American writers.1948 essay Everybody's Protest Novel dismissed Native Son as protest ficti ...
Henry DeWolf Smyth... iked among people of all strata, from other Nobel Laureates to technicians., who was Chairman of the Princeton Physics department, had once invited F ...
Charles Mingus... f free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included(1922–1979), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard ...
Erik Christopher ZeemanIn a 1964 paper,showed that the causality preserving property, a condition that is weaker ...
Richard Holmes... Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons and, according to military historian, he also dipped a reluctant toe into politics. Shortly before the general ...
Lawrence KleinTinbergen's work on macroeconomic models was later continued by, contributing to another Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. For h ...
Walter Scott... macy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sircalled him, of great local fame—James Veitch of Inchbonny—a man who was pa ...
Alan Blinder... e resulting body of work largely composing New Keynesian economics. In 1992was writing about a "Keynesian Restoration" as work based on Keynes's idea ...
Sir Humphry DavyThe metal itself was first produced byin England in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuri ...
Joseph Needham... ertium, extensively analyzed by J. R. Partington, several scholars cited byconcluded that Bacon had most likely witnessed at least one demonstration ...
Richard Strachey... mon, London, the fifth son and the eleventh child of Lieutenant General Sir, an officer in the colonial British armed forces, and his second wife, th ...
Tim Berners-Lee... blem of distributed authoring on the World Wide Web with interested people.'s original vision of the Web was that of a medium for both reading and wr ...
Geri Allen... African-American musicians (Steve Coleman, Graham Haynes, Cassandra Wilson,, Greg Osby etc.) who emerged in New York with a new sound and specific id ...
Joseph Chamberlain... t rally celebrating the British Empire, the occasion being the centenary of's birth. In October 1942, the Hall suffered minor damage during World War ...
Robert BurtonIn England, the term deist first appeared in's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Sir Humphry Davy... en recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 bythrough the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide
Henry Barkly... 1872 when the local politician John Molteno - with the backing of Governor- instituted responsible government, making the Ministers directly respons ...
Pierre Trudeau... dered by many to be Turner's ideological successor, as Jean Chrétien was to
Lord Adrian... ch consensus, prompting the intervention of then University Vice-Chancellor. Lord Adrian first offered the professorship to a compromise candidate, , ...
Lockean"Reason" was the ultimate court of appeal for deists. Tindal presents adefinition of reason, self-evident truth and the light of nature
Karl MarxAnother Young Hegelian,, was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to ...
Ornette Coleman... e Haden (born 1937) is best known for his long association with saxophonistand for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimen ...
Roddy Doyle... writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Maeve Binchy, and. Ireland's biggest libraries and literary museums are found in Dublin, in ...
Adam Smith... parks and old-English farmyards; the smugglers really start smuggling (cf.'s approval of smuggling); and the "Samuel Johnson Dining Experience" turn ...
Marvin Kalb... in the ratings against ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. Roger Mudd and(as co-moderators) followed Monroe for a year, followed by Chris Wallace i ...
Charles Mingus... as deemed controversial when this approach was first developed. The bassistis also frequently associated with the avant-garde in jazz, although his c ...
Joseph Kruskal... eated by Max Mathews. New greedy algorithms developed by Robert C. Prim and, revolutionized computer network design. In 1958, the laser was first des ...
C. S. LewisIn recent times,has adopted a scholastic position in the course of his work The Problem of ...
Don Cupitt... arl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins,, challenged traditional theological positions and understandings of the B ...
Ornette ColemanThe first major stirrings came in the 1950s, with the early work ofand Cecil Taylor. In the 1960s, performers included Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, ...
Alexander von HumboldtThe city is named for German naturalist
Alistair Cooke... ular the pursuit of objectivity. Taking as an example some comments made byin 1935, where Cooke claimed to be without politics as a critic, Anderson ...
Archbishop of CanterburyWilliam Laud was appointedin 1633, and began a series of unpopular reforms such as attempting to ens ...
Richard Stallman... etween the 16th to 18 November 2005, founder of the free software movement,, protested the use of RFID security cards by covering his card with alumi ...
Charles Dickens... ll children regardless of their ability to pay, and was keenly supported by
John Diefenbaker... e factor in the Liberal government's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by, in the 1957 election. Because the Liberals were still mostly classically ...
Charles Darwin... the older English names, principally because those were the names used whenvisited
Reginald Heber... Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath –– Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson ...
Margaret Thatcher... ign 1969–1997. The IRA also attempted to assassinate British Prime Ministerby bombing the Conservative Party Conference in a Brighton hotel. Loyalist ...
Thomas Gray... Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves –– Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E ...
Milton Friedman... rade barriers than any administration since Hoover." By contrast, economisthas pointed to the number of pages added to the Federal Register each year ...
Max Mathews... one of the first computer programs to play electronic music, was created by. New greedy algorithms developed by Robert C. Prim and Joseph Kruskal, re ...
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich... f courtesan and socialite Martha Ray, his former lover, and the mistress of. The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, ...
Jack DunitzSydney Brenner,, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the fi ...
Cecil Taylor... bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray, a rhythm section honed withas leader. Coltrane championed many younger free jazz musicians, (notably ...
Griff Rhys Jones... eader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as Roald Dahl, Ken Follett,and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones. In particular, the city ...
Planck... nosphere was confirmed in 1923. The predictions by Heaviside, combined with's radiation theory, probably discouraged further attempts to detect radio ...
Jane Ira Bloom... iver Lake, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Thomas Buckner, Robert Dick, India Cooke,, Karlton Hester, Roman Stolyar, , and many others
Oscar Peterson... bassist Ray Brown (1926–2002), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie,, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet; hard ...
Albert Einstein... han Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, andon physics. Disdainful of Turin students, Calvino saw himself as enclosed ...
Tom ColeU.S. Representative, currently the only Native American serving in Congress, lives in Moore w ...
William Butler Yeats... having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and pl ...
Dorothea Lange's... e Vine Hill area from 1940 to 1972. Florence Owens Thompson, made famous byMigrant Mother photograph, died in Scotts Valley in 1983
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John Zorn... players include Charles Gayle, William Parker, Matana Roberts, Chad Taylor,, Assif Tsahar, Tom Abbs, Kenny Werner, and Chris Speed. In Chicago, notab ...
Charles II... recognition for help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s,gave George Carteret, bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the A ...
Robert Goulet... also an abridged (100 minute) 1967 network television version that starred, with choreography by Edward Villella
Charles DickensThe second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988. In a twist on' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the "kindest and loveliest" ma ...
David Starkey... in, and Italian and began learning Spanish when she was Queen. According to, Catherine was most likely better educated overall than Anne Boleyn. As a ...
Neville Chamberlain... o communicate with London. The FA's work showed that British Prime Ministerwas determined to go to war if Germany invaded Poland in 1939. This direct ...
Michael Palin... radio and played with the very nature of the medium." This is reiterated byand John Cleese in their contributions to Ventham's (2002) book. Cleese re ...
Archbishop of Canterbury... hapel Royal of Kensington Palace on 27 July 1867 by Charles Thomas Longley,, and her three godparents were Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales (later ...
George Bernard Shaw... prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats,and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Osca ...
George Martin... their own, the various Beatles supplied a total of "30 or so" tape loops to, who selected 16 for use on the song. Each loop was about six seconds lon ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... a tiny town it was regarded as one of its capitals. In the summer of 1772,was at the Reichskammergericht as a trainee. His novel The Sorrows of Youn ...
Alfred North Whitehead... daism). The need for a modified view of omnipotence was also articulated byin the early 20th century and expanded upon by the aforementioned philosop ...
Winston Churchill... ndmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed the British Prime Minister, who himself later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declar ...
Philip Hardwick... close to Tower Bridge in central London, where he worked with the architect, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal (today known as the Gloucester an ...
Arthur Compton... eaction was achieved, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists,, to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. Th ...
Max Planck... Eugenio Montale, Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by, Werner Heisenberg, and Albert Einstein on physics. Disdainful of Turin s ...
Maxwell's... de did much to develop and advocate vector methods and the vector calculus.formulation of electromagnetism consisted of 20 equations in 20 variables. ...
William Hogarth... pprentices being given the day off for them. One such event was depicted byin his satirical print, The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn (1747)
Prince Charles... celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid.of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it "marvelou ...
James Cook... y, based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain's ship Endeavour in 1768
Charles II of England... stocrats. Eventually the bones were gathered up and placed in an urn, whichordered interred in Westminster Abbey in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Ch ...
Lord Macartney... Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County Wicklow. Irish Cape Governors included, Lord Caledon and Sir John Francis Cradock. Irish settlers were brought i ...
Eero Saarinen... el's World Fair and Yale University's hockey stadium, which was designed by(both structures completed in 1958). The roof of the Philips pavilion was ...
William Hosking... iding lines" and a unique nondenominational chapel (see the architecture of)
King George V... ed in the town – and it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915and Queen Mary visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched a ...
Norman Davies... a was the largest resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe. For example,wrote "Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the AK, which could fairly claim to be t ...
Zora Neale Hurston... g the first blacks in the U. S. Signal Corps. Among its faculty members was; a historic marker is placed at the house where she lived while teaching ...
The Prince of Wales... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events.and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs
Walter Scott... rslie, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sirand Jane Porter and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart
John Wesley... he early 13th century, but little remains from that period. John Bunyan andboth preached in the church. In 1865–1868 the tower and spire were complet ...
Charles II of England... Fundamental Orders, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by Kingthrough the Connecticut Charter of 1662
Clinton... Chen Li-an and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. Presidentto invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battl ...
David Starkey... er since the release of Antonia Fraser The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and's 2004 book on the six wives, Catherine's first husband has been identifi ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel... l Revolution. Marc Isambard Brunel, the father of famed Portsmouth engineer, established in 1802 the world's first mass production line at the Portsm ...
J. R. R. Tolkien... his characters, for example the song "Namarie" in The Lord of the Rings by, which Tolkien attributes to the character Galadriel
Charles DarwinIn 1848, Broca founded a society of free-thinkers, sympathetic to's theories. Broca was rather inspired with the whole idea of evolution. H ...
Karl Marxfound it aggravating that the Communards "lost precious moments" organisin ...
Ted Kennedy... trict, and is currently represented by Bill Keating. Following the death of, the state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate is John ...
Kofi Annan... States Secretary of State Colin Powell and United Nations Secretary-Generalas top world leaders
Benjamin FranklinContrary to popular legend, there is no evidence thatever supported the Wild Turkey, rather than the Bald Eagle, as a symbol of ...
Roger Penrose... no singularities appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixtiesand Stephen Hawking used global techniques to prove that singularities are ...
Harold Wilson... ung parliaments. The first followed the February 1974 general election whenwas appointed Prime Minister after Edward Heath resigned the post followin ...
J. L. Lagrange... for examination at Toulouse, he astounded his examiner by his knowledge of
Sam ShepardIn the 2011 movie Blackthorn,plays an elderly Butch Cassidy who has survived the Sundance Kid and elude ...
Brian AldissMost of Wyndham's novels have a contemporary 1950s English setting., another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some ...
Bill Clinton... ty came to also support environmentalism. For example, Democratic Presidentdid not send the Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. Senate for ratification, as he ...
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton... ffluent young English women. Nightingale was courted by politician and poet, but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her a ...
Noam Chomsky... twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including Jean-Paul Sartre and
King George II... of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British. However, under the British Act of Settlement, Prince Willem-Alexander fo ...
Viscount Melbourne... otorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron and wife of Prime Minister. The film was written and directed by Robert Bolt and starred his wife, S ...
Albert Einstein... add increased dimensionality, such as intentionality (used for x), people () and colloquial terminology more relevant to Internet search (i.e., blogg ...
Stephen Hawking... appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties Roger Penrose andused global techniques to prove that singularities are generic
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery... en travelling on the Continent, through his freemasonry, through his cousin, through Bishop Atterbury, through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of Yo ...
Bertrand Russell... had a solid empirical basis for our modern concepts of atoms and molecules.states that they just hit on a lucky hypothesis, only recently confirmed b ...
J. B. J. Delambre... ste Biot, to complete the meridian arc measurements which had been begun by, and interrupted since the death of P. F. A. Méchain in 1804). Arago and ...
Humphry Davy... , but instead must be prepared from its compounds; it was first isolated byin 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide. Sodium is the sixth most ...
Antonia Fraser... Baron Burgh in 1529, at the age of seventeen. However since the release ofThe Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six ...
Alick IsaacsMeanwhile, the British virologistand the Swiss researcher Jean Lindenmann, at the National Institute for Me ...

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Queen Elizabeth II of Canada... of principles that embody those rights. The Charter was signed into law byon April 17, 1982 (along with the rest of the Act)
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Robert Wallace... take an interest in postal reform in 1835. In 1836, a Member of Parliament,, provided Hill with numerous books and documents, which Hill described as ...
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John Slater... village of Slatersville was largely built by Samuel Slater and his brotherbeginning in 1803. It is a well preserved original New England mill villag ...
Christian I... g in 1471, he triumphed against Swedish and Danish forces in the support of. This victory elevated Sture to the position of a national savior. The sc ...
William Pitt... greement led to the creation of the Third Coalition. British Prime Ministerspent 1804 and 1805 in a flurry of diplomatic activity geared towards form ...
Vyacheslav IvanovThe Russian poet and philosopherelaborated the theory of Dionysianism, which traces the roots of literary ...
Linnaean... features of both animals and plants, early taxonomists, working within thetwo-kingdom system of biological classification, found them difficult to c ...
Robert OwenWest European social critics, including, Charles Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Louis Blanc, Charles Hall and S ...
Cotton Mather... Eat World, The Click Five, The Dandy Warhols, Sloan, The Apples in Stereo,, and Fastball. The influence of power pop is also apparent in contemporar ...
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Duke of Devonshire... n was in Kensington, from 1818–1822. In 1821 the society leased part of the's estate at Chiswick to set up an experimental garden; in 1823 it employe ...
Adrian Wilson... her, Koren Robinson and Dewayne Washington. Notable current players includeof the Arizona Cardinals, Jerricho Cotchery of the New York Jets, No. 1 pi ...
Wesleyan... d, the separation was necessitated by rumors that Seymour had abandoned theposition that entire sanctification was a second work of grace after conve ...
Hans Meyer... e the mountain to her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm II is not true). When in 1889reached the highest summit on the crater ridge of Kibo, he named it "Kaise ...
John Toland... what they saw as nonsense. Here are two typical examples. The first is from's Christianity Not Mysterious
John Leland... than England. He gathered his facts from books, letters, maps, the notes of, and conversations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends ...
Paul Ehrlich... as sitting between that of Morgagni whose work Virchow studied, and that of, who studied at the Charité while Virchow was developing microscopic path ...
Granville... ing able to sell anything to any buyer, no matter how unwilling. His nephew(David Jason), is his put-upon errand boy, whose attempts at a love-life o ...
Robert StuartAmerican Fur Company partnerled a small group of men back east to report to Astor. The group planned t ...
Duke of Somerset... f her husband, including one from her old enemy, Charles Seymour, the sixth. Ultimately, she decided against remarriage, preferring to keep her indep ...
Zhuang... pulation); the Li (Hlai) (14.7% of the population); the Miao (0.7%) and the(0.6%). The Li are the largest indigenous group on the island in terms of ...
Chrétien... press their suspicions of this alliance in detail, accusing the Trudeau andgovernments of funding litigious groups. For example, these governments us ...
Steve Reeves... uented the local movie theaters to see bodybuilding idols such as Reg Park,and Johnny Weissmuller on the big screen. "I was inspired by individuals l ...
Spearman... the parametric statistics described in the previous paragraph. For example,is a non-parametric test as it is computed from the order of the data rega ...
Joseph WrightFile:Joseph Wright 004.jpg|, 1774, Cave at evening, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massach ...
James GregoryAt the end of the Civil War a Confederate Army Sergeant (), apparently wounded in battle, walks down a road aided by a wooden crutc ...
Richard Cumberland... eterborough, and himself later a bishop of the Church of Ireland. Their sondeveloped as a prolific dramatist, while earning his living as a civil ser ...
Sir William Hamilton... vement in logic was prompted by a current debate on quantification, betweenwho supported the theory of "quantification of the predicate", and Boole's ...
Lord Hunt... officers. This much had already been confirmed by former cabinet secretary, who concluded in a secret inquiry conducted in 1996 that "there is absol ...
Duke of Somerset... e was not seen as a cause of inflation (and therefore enclosures) until thewas Protector of Edward VI. Until then enclosures were seen as the cause o ...
John Leech... pensive, hand-coloured etchings and four black and white wood engravings byaccompanied the text
steam engine... laboration with Matthew Boulton, he had succeeded by 1778 in perfecting his, which incorporated a series of radical improvements, notably the closing ...
Queen's... Meighen into civilian life were: Robert Borden, who served as Chancellor ofand McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector; Leste ...
Bob Boyer... ial government site, at Albert Street near 23rd Avenue. Donald M. Kendrick,and Joe Fafard, now with significant international reputations, have been ...
Thatcherism... from the party. As of the late 2000s, the party has also been influenced by, particularly with Siv Jensen becoming party leader
Frederick TaylorThe modern history of workflows can be traced toand H. Gantt. Rudolf Laban and Warren Lamb contributed to this in England. ...
Robert Moses... tan along the East River, designed by controversial New York master planner
David Sharp... , this is considered difficult and dangerous (as illustrated by the case of). Many climbers hire "full service" guide companies, which provide a wide ...
Miss You... in response to the September 11 attacks, to sing "Salt of the Earth" and ""
Arnold Toynbee... e whole of civil society". Credit for popularising the term may be given to, whose lectures given in 1881 gave a detailed account of it
Duchess of York... reer, as well as relentless, often critical, media attention focused on the, led to fractures in the marriage. On 19 March 1992 the couple announced ...
Richard Grainger... castle is the Grainger Town area. Established on classical streets built by, a builder and developer, between 1835 and 1842, some of Newcastle upon T ...
James Lowther# Lady Mary Stuart (c. 1741 – 5 April 1824), who married, later the 1st Earl of Lonsdale, on 7 September 1761
Tom Wolfe... history in works such as The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice.has occasionally dealt with his southern heritage in bestsellers like I Am ...
John SimonThese first two records were produced by, who was practically a group member: he aided in arrangements, and played ...
John Leland... n's Tale or another ploughman text and thought it was Piers Plowman. (E.g.,, William Prynne, possibly John Milton, and John Dryden.) Given the diffus ...
Alexander Hamilton... dustrialization combines aspects of Infant Industry protection, promoted byand Friedrich List, and which defined the trade policy of the United State ...
Lord CranborneThe line "History teaches; never trust a Cecil!" was quoted with regard to, a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed fr ...
Joseph Hooker... n arrived to inform General George Meade that he would be replacing Generalafter the latter's disaster at Chancellorsville in May. The Army of the Po ...
George Campbellwas another AT&T engineer working for them in their Boston facility. Campb ...
George GrayThe show's current on-air staff is led by host Drew Carey, announcerand a cast of four models. Bob Barker hosted the series from the time of i ...
William Murdoch... er system in modern times, which was designed and installed by the engineer. Leamington became a popular spa resort attracting the wealthy and famous ...
William Wollaston... riety of beliefs about the soul. Some, such as Lord Herbert of Cherbury and, held that souls exist, survive death, and in the afterlife are rewarded ...
David Norman... Norman and his nephew Mark Norman became leading bankers. His great-nephewhas also led a successful City career and is a noted benefactor of the art ...
Dixit... the 2010 award were released on 31 May 2010. The five games nominated were:was announced as the winner on June 28, 2010
Earl of Strafford... n of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria at the trial of theearlier that year; referring to John Pym, she asked who the roundheaded ma ...
EdwardianThe Gorleston Pavilion (Gorleston) is an originalbuilding with a seating capacity of 300, situated on the Norfolk coast. Th ...
Richard Boyle... ing his imprisonment for High Treason in 1602 to another famous adventurer,, later 1st Earl of Cork
David DorfmanKatie's cousin, Aidan (), is visibly affected by the death. After Katie's funeral, Ruth Embry (Li ...
Earl of Winchilsea... who was elected despite not being legally allowed to sit in Parliament. Theaccused the Duke of, "an insidious design for the infringement of our libe ...
William McDougall... fearful when the Canadian government appointed the notoriously anti-Frenchas the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories on September 28, 1 ...
Terry Farrell... re stars made guest appearances, including Jennifer Aniston, Michael Beach,, Diedrich Bader, Robert Duncan McNeill, Jason Priestley, Joseph Gordon-Le ...
James AtkinsonThere have been a number of English translations, almost all abridged.of the East India Company's medical service was the first to undertake a t ...
Robert Cecil... the palace much and so gave it to Elizabeth's (and his own) chief minister, First Earl of Salisbury, in exchange for Theobalds which was the Cecils' ...
John Forbes... of Denmark also lived at the Palace until the Union of the Crowns in 1603., a general in the French and Indian War who liberated Fort Duquesne and e ...
Paul Ehrlich... herapy as a science and development of antibacterials began in Germany within the late 1880s. Ehrlich noted that certain dyes would color human, anim ...
HookeIn 2002, residents ofin Dorset reported a case of the signal being so strong that they were abl ...
Doering... sed of C=C bonds would show aromatic properties was first stated clearly byin a 1951 article on tropolone. Tropolone had been recognised as an aromat ...
William Murdoch... 's monopoly may have prevented other inventors, such as Richard Trevithick,or Jonathan Hornblower, from introducing improved steam engines, thereby r ...
Norman Solomon... ost critiques combine elements of both strains. Journalist and media criticreflects in Columbus Day: A Clash of Myth and History that many people cho ...
Robert Owen... e system based on some form of social ownership. Utopian socialists such as(1771–1858) tried to found self-sustaining communes by secession from a ca ...
Duke of Buckingham... n the UK today. The arms were first borne at the Battle of Agincourt by the
Peter Martyr... ters were widespread subjects in the Caribbean. The Italian-born chroniclertold of them in a letter to the pope in 1513, though he didn't believe the ...
David Stevenson... Stevenson had at least one strong connection with the Bass, as his cousin,, designed the lighthouse there. Amongst his earliest memories were holida ...
Duke of Richmond... t and was then appointed to serve as Chief Secretary for Ireland, under the. At the same time, he was made a privy counsellor
Earl of Chatham... ial bequests to rising Whig ministers such as William Pitt, later the first, and Philip Stanhope, the fourth Earl of Chesterfield. Although she left ...
Richard Bentley... half-timbered building called "The Mere", built in 1887 by the grandson of, is now the head office of the National Foundation for Educational Resear ...
Richard WrightThe winner of the £25,000 Prize was
Simon Davies... is career in the youth academy at Peterborough United; in the same team was, with whom Etherington made a joint transfer to Tottenham Hotspur. Former ...
King James IIIn 1323 the Catalan, under Peter, son of, disembarked near Iglesias, in Southern Sardinia. The Pisane intervened b ...
John Kline... ington is located in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by, a Republican, scoring 2.8% progressive on a range of issues and 88% cons ...
Shirley Jackson... or an Emmy Award.) She wrote the teleplay and directed a 1982 production of's story Come Along with Me, for which husband Newman provided the voice o ...
Hans Meyer... during his first attempt to climb Kilimanjaro, the German geology professorreached the base of Kibo, but was forced to turn back, not having the equi ...
Brian Jackson... een cited as an influence on many rappers. His collaborations with musician(Pieces of a Man, Winter in America) have been cited as major influences o ...
James Fenton... With Scullin temporarily absent in London, Lyons and acting Prime Ministerclashed with the Labor Cabinet and Caucus over economic policy, and grappl ...
Crown Prince... oops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's King Haakon,, and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue the Elverum Aut ...
Colin Wilson... and literary and social opinions were on display ranging over books such as’s The Outsider (panned), Iris Murdoch’s debut novel Under the Net (praise ...
William Murdoch... innovation elsewhere, the large scale introduction of this was the work of, an employee of Boulton and Watt, the Birmingham steam engine pioneers. T ...
Shirley JacksonSome notable writers whose works were used in the collection include(Strangers in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), R ...
Edward Montagu... ter of constitutional monarchy, as did many other roundhead leaders such as
Paul HarveyReaganomics (; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to) refers to the economic policies promoted by the U.S. President Ronald Re ...
Nancy Cartwright... aracter and bully from the animated TV series The Simpsons. He is voiced by. Nelson was introduced in Season 1's "Bart the General" as a bully but la ...
Chris Smith... pple". He collaborated with other composers including Albert Von Tilzer and
Charles PriceIn 1989, U.S. Ambassadorand British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dedicated a bronze statue of ...
George Hammond... on 8, O'Neill is chosen as the Commanding Officer of Stargate Command after's promotion to the Department of Homeworld Security. At the start of seas ...
William Rose... rginia. The film was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and written by. The movie's Oscar-nominated score was composed by Frank DeVol
Edwardian... ty centre, dates from this period. The local architect of the Victorian andperiods who has continued to command most critical respect was George Skip ...
Frederick Taylor... and hamper movement of reinforcements from other fronts". British historianmentions a further memo sent to the Chiefs of Staff Committee by Sir Dougl ...
Mendelssohn... red tastes running "toward Glinka, Schumann and Beethoven's late quartets".was not thought of highly, Mozart and Haydn "were considered out of date a ...
Paul Ehrlich... lion birds" and earned $60,000, the equivalent of $1 million dollars today.says a "single hunter" sent three million birds to eastern cities
John Horne... t was rumoured that the couple were having an affair, and indeed soon after(an associate of the Prince of Wales) published a scandalous pamphlet allu ...
Nicholson... er could be decomposed by the current from a voltaic pile was discovered byand Carlisle in 1800, a process now known as electrolysis. Their work was ...
Robert Moses... tional CWA budget for work relief. LaGuardia then collaborated closely with, with support from the governor, Democrat Herbert Lehman, to upgrade the ...
Harold KushnerThe most popular works espousing this point are from(in Judaism). The need for a modified view of omnipotence was also articul ...
David Sharp... that his climbing party, and many others, had passed a distressed climber,, on 15 May, sheltering under a rock overhang below the summit, without at ...
Lord Camden... f secretary of war in the new Irish government but the new lord-lieutenant,, was only able to offer him the post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. ...
John Rich... ork, The Beggar's Opera, a Ballad opera produced on the January 29, 1728 by, in which Sir Robert Walpole was caricatured. This famous piece, which wa ...
Richard Grainger... centre referred to as Tyneside Classical largely developed in the 1830s byand John Dobson, and recently extensively restored. Broadcaster and writer ...
William PulteneyIn 1787, through his wealthy patron, he became Surveyor of Public Works in Shropshire. Civil engineering was ...
Lord GreyWhen the Whigs came to power underin November 1830 he became Home Secretary in the new government. During th ...
Tom WolfeNovelistcoined the term Me decade in his article "The "Me" Decade and the Third Gr ...
Edward, Prince of Wales... Queen Elizabeth I. She also developed a good relationship with Henry's son, later King Edward VI. When she became Queen, her uncle Lord Parr of Hort ...
Bill Morrison... ing "Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Music?" was drawn and signed by, the illustrator of the Simpsons comic books, to raise funds for Norman's ...
Queen Elizabeth... ." The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court ofto develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish s ...
Baden-Powell... form is a specific characteristic of the Scouting movement, in the words ofat the 1937 World Jamboree, "it covers the differences of country and race ...
David Reynolds... oxburgh and Maggie Kirkpatrick, actor/writer Noel Hodda, V8 Supercar driver, and Australian rules footballer Brett Kirk. The actor Matt Holmes most n ...
Louis Wright... as led by defensive backs Billy Thompson (who recorded 5 interceptions) and(who had 3 interceptions)
Charles II... Britain. In 1793 her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Dukemarried Frederick William III of Hohenzollern and in 1797 became queen con ...
Mabon... the prototype of Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legend. She was the mother of, who bears her name as "Mabon ap Modron" ("Mabon, Son of Modron") and who ...
Christian I... ied suddenly at Helsingborg in 1448. On 28 October 1449, Dorothea remarried. King Christopher was buried in Roskilde Cathedral. In 1654 his Wittelsba ...
Richard Burton... return plane journey had a chance encounter with actor and fellow passenger, who had purchased all the seats around him for solitude. Burton agreed t ...
Maximilian IWhatever lustre the international position won bymight add to the ducal house, on Bavaria itself its effect during the next ...
James WilkinsonIn 1786purchased the tract of land on the north side of the Kentucky River, which ...
John Stuart... granted in 1770 and incorporated in 1795. Originally named Stuart after Sir, it was incorporated as Stewartstown after the Revolutionary War, followi ...
John LelandIn 1542reported the locals around Cadbury Castle in Somerset considered it to be ...
Harry Ward... mmunists who wanted to distance the ACLU from communism; opposing them were, Corliss Lamont and Elizabeth Flynn who rejected any political test for A ...
Shirley Jackson... "The Express", bestselling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald,, and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Ca ...
Charles Calvert... ulation was 146,551. Its county seat is La Plata. This county was named for(1637–1715), third Baron Baltimore
John Maclean... Scotland, Connolly's thinking was hugely influential for socialists such as, who would similarly combine his leftist thinking with nationalist ideas ...
Lanham... census. For the 2010 census, the area was delineated as two separate CDPs,and Seabrook
Duke of Devonshire... am Cavendish died in 1764, leaving the property to his son William, the 5th
Rowland Hill... French centre, while other columns were commanded by Sir Thomas Graham andand looped around the French right and left (this battle became the subjec ...
QingIn 1858 and 1860 thegovernment were forced to give up all land beyond the Amur and Ussuri Rive ...
Lord Melbourne... gs. In 1834 James Frampton, a local landowner, wrote to the Prime Minister,, to complain about the union, invoking an obscure law from 1797 prohibiti ...
Lord Simon... D were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood,, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations that had pr ...
Charles Clarke... y Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister
Robert MosesIn 1924began condemning Benson land to establish state parks on either end of Mon ...
William Livingston... ncle of Robert Livingston the Younger, grandfather of Philip Livingston and
Charles Pratt... "in trust" to nine Trustees: John and William Rockefeller, Oliver H. Payne,, Henry Flagler, John D. Archbold, William G. Warden, Jabez Bostwick, and ...
Edward Barry... permanent exhibition: Crystal Palace High Level (an impressive building by), from which a subway under the Parade led directly to the entrance, and ...
Dr. Jerry McNerney... ongressional district (CA-11), currently represented by Pleasanton Democrat
Duchess of York... bsequently became king. Before her husband's accession she was successively, Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales. As his queen consort from 191 ...
Marxists... rch 28) to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists andhad taken place, and it is hailed by both groups as the first assumption o ...
the KingIn April 1772, a paper signed "near Dorchester," was addressed to(the newspapers taking notice of His Majesty's desire to see the price of ...
The Duke of York... urgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and
BoyleLyons was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1923, but soon moved toin County Roscommon where his father was a bank official. Educated locally ...
Charles Clarke... em with no Commons representative in East Anglia; the former Home Secretarybeing a high level casualty in the 2010 election
John Dickinson... Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independence.made one last effort to delay the decision, arguing that Congress should n ...
Argentine... ches in the Third World. The visit of Jorge Rafael Videla, president of thejunta, to the Vatican caused considerable controversy, especially when the ...
Duke of Cumberland... ich was camping in a field not one hundred yards distant. A rumour that thewas approaching, made Bonnie Prince Charlie decide to leave with his army, ...
Robert William Keate... recht strip; in 1869 the services of the lieutenant-governor of Natal, then, were accepted by both parties as arbitrator, but the attempt then made t ...
Selig... 918. Kleine's new combine, V-L-S-E, was an amalgam of the Vitagraph, Lubin,, and Essanay companies. Only the Vitagraph brand name continued into the ...
George Frederick... ned as Albert Frederick became increasingly feeble-minded, leading Margraveof Brandenburg-Ansbach to become Regent of Prussia in 1577
Tom Wolfe... mination had, in fact, been made long before the movie was filmed, and even's book only states that this possibility was considered, not that it was ...
Stella... 3), Caddyshack (1980), Caddyshack II (1984), Where the Boys Are '84 (1984),(1990), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Sex Drive (2008)
Benedict... Jerusalem, around AD 400 and left details of his experiences in his letters;founded the Benedictine Order in the 6th century on the model of Saint Pa ...
Pickering#York,, Whitby, New Malton, Sherburn, Scarboroug
Richard, Duke of Gloucester... VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy, accompanied by his younger brother. The rulers of Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy ...
King Edward's... he Bruce counselled using these operational methods to hold off the Englishforces when the English invaded Scotland, according to an anonymous 14th-c ...
Martin Goodman... g Fantasy, Creator Stan Lee devised the series title after Marvel publisherturned down the initial name, "The Mutants", stating that readers would no ...
John Leland... ). His contribution to Holinshed's work drew heavily on the earlier work of
Nancy Cartwright... roening named Nelson after the wrestling hold of the same name. Cast membervoices the character, which first appeared in the fifth episode of the fir ...
billDuring his time in the Union parliament, Cartier introduced ain 1852 for the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. In ...
Michael McKean... llar Celebrity Invitational, winning $250,000 for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.won the tournament, while Cheech Marin came in third
Charles Theodore... ndreas Nicolaus Vetter, and two of Pachelbel's sons, Wilhelm Hieronymus and. The latter became one of the first European composers to take up residen ...
Prince Henry... or - described as the King's "familiar councillor" - and tutor to the young
Colin Wilson... , dividing many existentialists such as de Beauvoir, who sided with Sartre., an English writer, published his study The Outsider in 1956, initially t ...
Earl of Strafford... o Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. The town was named after the
George SimpsonSirthen instructed Alexander Ross to organize and lead a party of Red River C ...
Edward Chapman... arely competent and in a junior position to a straight man, often played by(as Mr Grimsdale) or Jerry Desmonde. They benefited from Wisdom's capacity ...
Charles Greville... Premier but he did not want to let his friends and party down. According to, Melbourne said to his secretary, Tom Young: "I think it's a damned bore. ...
William Pitt... e. He made many friends, including the more studious future Prime Minister,. Despite his lifestyle and lack of interest in studying, he managed to pa ...
Robert Stuart... time, his reports of the Yellowstone area were considered to be fictional.and a party of five men returning from Astoria discovered South Pass in 18 ...
Mommsen... that Catiline had supported the party of Sulla, which Sallust had opposed.)'s suggestion—that Sallust particularly wished to clear his patron (Caesar ...
Fagin... in a variety of genres, but is perhaps best known for his starring role asin Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by C ...
Gottschalk... Eucharistic theology. Ratramnus was also known for his defense of the monk, whose theology of double predestination was the center of much controver ...
Philip Webb... ld become Bexleyheath became subject to an Enclosure Act. In 1859 architectdesigned Red House for the artist, reforming designer and socialist Willia ...
Thomas Moran... in 1866. Major late-19th-century American exponents of the medium included, Thomas Eakins, John LaFarge, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and, pr ...
Edward MorganHis unclewas Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration of Charles II of ...
David Parry... lfo (1956); and the 1998 release on the Chandos Opera in English label withconducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Cynthia Haymon and as Mimì and R ...
Daniel Hall... s only one aspect of Dream of the Endless. After his death, the human childis transfigured into a new aspect of Dream, physically resembling Morpheus ...
The Prince... er of capitalism and of the nation-state. Drawing on Niccolò Machiavelli in, and trying to understand why there had been no Communist revolution in W ...
Albert Coates... ad close ties include Sir John Barbirolli, Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski,, Fritz Reiner, and Erich Leinsdorf; more recently, others have included K ...
Rowland Hill... ellington withdrew his army and, joined with the smaller corps commanded by, began to retreat to Portugal. Marshal Soult declined to attack
Earl of Lonsdale... y Stuart (c. 1741 – 5 April 1824), who married James Lowther, later the 1st, on 7 September 1761
Brian Hodgson... began to attract some significant young talent including Delia Derbyshire,and John Baker, who was in fact a jazz pianist with an interest in reverse ...
Richard Henderson... niel Boone had formed an association with North Carolina promoter and judgewith a goal to purchase and settle a vast tract of Cherokee lands in prese ...
Jane ShoreEdward had numerous mistresses. The best known was Elizabeth Shore, called
Thatcherism... "Pills and Soap", an attack on the changes in British society brought on by, released to coincide with the run-up to the 1983 UK general election. Pu ...
Richard BurtonHe was a close friend of actor, whom he met at Oxford University
Robert Stopford... tch and French in Java, Indonesia. The war was swiftly conducted by Admiral, General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, and Colonel Rollo Gillespie, who l ...
Ragnhild... ncess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters,and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, Crown Princess Märtha and the R ...
Philip NormanIn the words of British dramatist and novelist, "the only point concerning Mick Jagger's influence over 'young people' t ...
George I... five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls
consort... ly son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his firstEudoxia Lopukhina, and Princess Charlotte
Chris Wallace... and Marvin Kalb (as co-moderators) followed Monroe for a year, followed byin 1987 and 1988, and Garrick Utley from 1989 through December 1, 1991
George Dickie... munity develops for itself a medium for self-expression and interpretation.has offered an institutional theory of art that defines a work of art as a ...
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Henry Moseley... ermediate properties between them. This prediction was supported in 1914 bywho, having discovered that atomic number was an experimentally measurable ...
Edward SolomonThe Vicar of Bray is an 1882 comic opera by Sydney Grundy and. The opera is based on the character described in the 18th century song, ...
George Gray... cer with more experience in improvisational comedy, veteran television hostwas confirmed as the show's permanent announcer on the April 18, 2011 epis ...
Earl of Strafford... h legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, theand Charles I. However, Parliament and James came to blows when the issue ...
Linda SmithIn 1998 she won reelection against Representative, 58 percent to 42 percent
Joseph Lamb... ee most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and
T. Graham Brown- Country Music Singe
the Queen... the Privy Council at Whitehall on 18 March 1588, as a result of petition to. On these occasions he maintained the principle of separatism, denouncing ...
George Jessel... Sisters" for many years, performed in Chicago at the Oriental Theater with. He encouraged the group to choose a more appealing name after "Gumm" was ...
Paul Ehrlich... idered one of the founders of microbiology, inspiring such major figures asand Gerhard Domagk
Charles Grey... s by a large margin. Sensing a breakthrough that had been long anticipated,moved for a second reading in the Commons on 23 February 1807. As tributes ...
BowerThis is in accordance withwho states that Wallace was " a tall man with the body of a giant ... wit ...
consort... ent of laws that de-emphasized the influence of the old Roman nobility. Hiswas Empress Euphemia
Hugh Lloyd... 1960s, he became well known to television audiences for his role alongsidein Hugh and I. Scott later appeared with Lloyd as gnomes in the 1969 sitco ...
Prince HenryPrussia (through the agency of), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ...
Richard Southwell... itimate head of the church. This testimony was extremely dubious: witnessesand Mr. Palmer both denied having heard the details of the reported conver ...
Tom WolfeThe Right Stuff is a 1983 American film adapted from's 1979 book The Right Stuff about the test pilots who were involved in hi ...
Marie... discovered that certain kinds of matter emit radiation on their own accord.and Pierre Curie coined the term “radioactivity” to describe this property ...
Michael Asher... itutions of art (principally museums and galleries) are made in the work of, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren and Hans Haacke
Sir Edward... public law. On 24 August 1736, he married Mary Wortley Montagu (daughter ofand Lady Mary Wortley Montagu), bringing the large Wortley estates to his ...
William Spence... esigned in 1907, Fisher succeeded him as Labour leader, although Hughes andalso stood for the position. Fisher was considered to have a better unders ...
Robert KnoxVeddas are also mentioned in's history of his captivity by the King of Kandy in the 17th century. Knox ...
David StevensonThe island is home to a 20 metre lighthouse, built in 1902 by, who demolished the 13th century keep, or governor's house, and some othe ...
James StirlingPerth streets were often sandy bogs which caused Governorin 1837 to report to the Secretary of State for Colonies
Quandt... cess of negotiations between the parties is an essential component of this.considers, “It was a brilliant performance, one of his most impressive.” O ...
AmeliusHowever, by the 3rd century Neoplatonists, such as Plotinus, Porphyry andare all attacking the Sethians. It looks as if Sethianism began as a pre-C ...
John ButterfieldIn 1861, who since 1858 had been using the Butterfield Overland Mail, also switch ...
Edward Stillingfleet... appointed to be the headmaster of Spalding Grammar School before he was 21., dean of St Paul's, hired Bentley as tutor to his son, which enabled the ...
Simon Jones... . This will include some members of the original radio and TV casts such as, Geoff McGivern, Susan Sheridan, Mark Wing-Davey and Stephen Moore with V ...
Charles Eastlake... me the busy center of Academy life. Among those who joined the academy were, Richard Westmacott (the younger), William Bewick and Thomas Uwins. Perha ...
Harold KushnerRabbis, William E. Kaufman, Milton Steinberg believe that God is not omnipotent, ...
Churchill... Virginia. Additionally, many students have won Truman, Goldwater, Mitchell,, Fulbright, Marshall, Udall, and Mellon scholarships
Darwin... e. He was criticised for this travel, especially after Cyclone Tracy struck; he interrupted an extensive tour of Europe for 48 hours (deemed too brie ...
Robert Owen... cal socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including Karl Marx,and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour vouchers or l ...
James II... cution of several of his enemies. He was assassinated by a group of nobles.continued his father's policies by subduing influential noblemen but he wa ...
Chief Rabbi... ef prebendary (Klausprimator). This position he held until he was called asto Altona, where he officiated from 1836 until his death. In this position ...
4th Duke... t creation of the Dukedom of Norfolk had become extinct on the death of thein 1476, and the second creation had been invalidated by the illegitimisat ...
William Windham... 3 March 1787; other guests included Charles Middleton, Sir Joshua Reynolds,, MP, James Boswell and Isaac Hawkins Browne, MP. By the end of the evenin ...
Chardin... mature works have an opaque and powdery texture which is often compared to
Kerensky... , until they were moved to Tobolsk in Siberia in August 1917, a step by thegovernment designed to remove them from the capital and possible harm. Fro ...
George I... ar later replaced by Prince Wilhelm (William) of Denmark, who took the nameand brought with him the Ionian Islands as a coronation gift from Britain. ...
Bishop of Peterborough... ich covers the remainder of Cambridgeshire and western Norfolk. The currenthas been appointed Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely, with pastoral c ...
MarxistsAt the end of the 19th century,and other socialists (such as Rosa Luxemburg) produced political analysis ...
Robert Owen... ups against times of economic hardship. Enlightened industrialists, such asalso supported these organisations to improve the conditions of the workin ...
Lord Chancellor... the positions of Chief Justiciar of England, Archbishop of Canterbury, and. As chancellor, Walter began the keeping of the Charter Roll, a record of ...
David Manning... d glowing comments from a film reviewer who did not exist. The fake critic,, was created by a Columbia employee who worked in the advertising departm ...
John Abbott(1821–1893) was Prime Minister of Canada, 1891–1892
James Watt... b, “I never in my wildest dreams imagined such a nihilistic slab of stone.”, Secretary of the Interior under President Ronald Reagan, initially refus ...
Henry Moseley... implies that it must be placed before the reactive alkali metal potassium.later solved this problem by showing that the periodic table is actually a ...
Norman Newell... as that of teen idol Adam Faith: Faith was assigned to the label in 1959 by, an EMI A&R man "without portfolio". Treading a path similar to other Bri ...

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George Martin... iously. Therefore, at 10:00 am on Monday, 11 February 1963, The Beatles andstarted recording what was essentially their live act in 1963, and finishe ...
Gainsborough... eman painted by the master-portraitists of the European courts for example,, Goya and Reynolds, there are the sometimes affectionate and sometimes sa ...
Fritiof Fryxell... luding Mount Moran in 1922 and a successful summit of Mount Owen in 1930 byand others after numerous previous attempts had failed. Both Middle and So ...
King James... r in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon: "having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with ...
Oman... ar as the 9th century, for example in the glossary of Cormac úa Cuilennáin.derives it from Scuit; a man cut off, suggesting that a Scuit was not a Ga ...
White... quent history of the concept can be followed in the works of Darlington and
the heir to the British throne... t India Company, and renamed the island Prince of Wales Island in honour ofbut the name never caught on. In Malaysian history, the occasion marked th ...
Duke of Wellington... l part of the castle's defences, so in 1830 the Constable of the Tower, the, ordered a large-scale clearance of several feet of silt. However this di ...
Thatcher... the system has been through phases of evolutionary change. The Conservativeadministrations attempted to bring competition into the NHS by developing ...
Bartlett... t the time the Cambridge University Senate were wary of his appointment. Aswrites: "how many times have I heard Rivers, spectacles waving in the air, ...
Marc... nt Asphalte Company (with a distinguished list of aristocratic patrons, andand Isambard Brunel as, respectively, a trustee and consulting engineer), ...
John Hunter... on . In 1770 Jenner became apprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeonand others at
Taylor... nary pulsar PSR 1913+16, for which the Nobel Prize was awarded to Hulse andin 1993
George Edwards... ch statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart, W. Edwards Deming, Harold F. Dodge,, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead, E.G.D. Paterson, and Mary N. To ...
Prince of Wales... est man in England" and, according to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, thesaid that he would go anywhere to hear Wilberforce sing. Wilberforce used ...
Edwin Meese... e a nominee to fill Rehnquist's seat as associate justice. Attorney General, who advised Reagan on the choice, only seriously considered Bork and Sca ...
John Wilkins... y Basil and Chrysostom. The result of this reading, and of the influence of, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was seen in the general tone of hi ...
Pierre-Simon Laplace’s... and challenged traditional ideas about how the physical world worked. Whilework on celestial mechanics solidified a deterministically mechanistic vie ...
Patrick Moore... laner as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as the voice of Deep Thought,as the voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Bu ...
Carlisle... composed by the current from a voltaic pile was discovered by Nicholson andin 1800, a process now known as electrolysis. Their work was greatly expan ...
John... sikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie. In 1929, Magda gave birth to their son, who in later life settled in Canada, and was awarded a Nobel Prize in ch ...
Clinton... stated that it favors fixing the remaining "deficits of democracy" that theand Bush administrations publicly recognized through Presidential Task For ...
Gray... ecies of Dugong by Lacépède and further classified within its own family byand subfamily by
William Smith... father (Florence's maternal grandfather) was the abolitionist and Unitarian. (For family trees, see .
Prince George... nt at Abigail’s secret wedding to Samuel Masham, groom of the bedchamber to, in 1707, without Sarah’s knowledge
Leopold I... , Ferdinand was a grandnephew of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and of, first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of Ferdina ...
David Williamsand Paul McIlroy introduced a mathematical model for the OK Corral gunfigh ...
Albert, the Prince Consort... cess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and
Alex Ross... upporting and complementing Salonen's artistic vision. One example cited by
Charles Taylor, in his 2007 book on Secular Age showed the historical role of deism, lea ...
Canterbury... and settled various matters of dispute between the Archbishops of York and. He also reversed the decision of his predecessor Pope Adrian I, in regar ...
John Arbuthnot... isitor with Pope, and received unvarying kindness from William Congreve and. In 1727 he wrote for six year old Prince William, later the Duke of Cumb ...
Young... lopædia Britannica: "His scientific glory is different in kind from that ofand Fresnel; but the discoverer of the law of polarization of biaxial crys ...
Princess Royal... e of this is the adjective "naff" to denote bad or shoddy, even used by the(as a verb) in a clash with the press some years later. They were able to ...
Friedrich OstwaldIn 1894,concluded important studies of the conductivity and electrolytic dissociat ...
RobertIn 1803 their sonwas born, and in 1804 they moved to West Moor, near Killingworth while Geo ...
Young... origins of animal movement and perception. Vision interested the physicistsand Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music. Newton extended ...
Judi Dench... de a film in 2002; it stars Colin Firth (Jack), Rupert Everett (Algy), Dame(Lady Bracknell), Reese Witherspoon (Cecily), Frances O'Connor (Gwendolen) ...
James II... she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father,, was deposed during the Glorious Revolution; and she promoted her interes ...
Douglas HofstadterIn's Gödel, Escher, Bach, there is a narrative between Achilles and the Tort ...
Prince William... from William Congreve and John Arbuthnot. In 1727 he wrote for six year old, later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he na ...
Sir John Beddington... en criticised by several climatologists. The UK's Chief Scientific Adviser,, privately told Lawson that he had "incorrect" and "misleading" claims in ...
Prince of Wales... spite being the talk of London society, only his followers and possibly theknow the Pimpernel's true identity. Like many others, Marguerite is entran ...
Tennyson... ews man as part of the biosphere, and nature as "red in tooth and claw" (asput it)
Gordon Sinclair... dian senator), Toby Robins (who later became a movie actress) and columnist. Columnist Allan Fotheringham joined the panel after Sinclair's death. A ...
Paul Dirac’s... of the universe, quantum theories continued to be produced, beginning withformulation of a relativistic quantum theory in 1928. However, attempts to ...
F.W. Farrar... for this, beginning with Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) by Thomas Hughes and's Eric, or, Little by Little, although the framework had been explored as ...
Robert AdamsMotive utilitarianism, first developed by(Journal of Philosophy, 1976), can be viewed either as a hybrid between ac ...
Stamford Raffles... temporarily possessed Dutch territories during the Napoleonic Wars, In 1819established Singapore as a key trading post for Britain in their rivalry w ...
Yeats... dancing, and films. The Abbey was founded in 1904 by a group that includedwith the aim of promoting indigenous literary talent. It went on to provid ...
Harvey... ch as the development of ideas about the circulation of blood from Galen to. The flowering of genetics and molecular biology in the 20th century is r ...
William Pulteney... ously ill. His friends did not fail him at this juncture. He had patrons in, afterwards Earl of Bath, in the third Earl of Burlington, who constantly ...
new king... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the, and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ...
Conway's look-and-say sequenc
Lewis Carroll... is a narrative between Achilles and the Tortoise (characters borrowed from, who in turn borrowed them from Zeno), and within this story they find a ...
AnnePhilip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles,, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendan ...
Roy Harris... hávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss,, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby Larsen, Peter ...
Arthur C. ClarkeImperial Earth is a novel written by, and published in time for the U.S. bicentennial in 1976 by Ballantine Bo ...
Gray... has the nature of a reply and balances the effect of the strophe. Thus, in's ode called "The Progress of Poesy" (excerpt below), the strophe, which ...
Richardson... orementioned notion of the energy cascade (an idea originally introduced by) and the concept of self-similarity. As a result, the Kolmogorov microsca ...
John WinthropIn 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governorand Lt. Governor Thomas Dudley were granted land along the Concord River i ...
Robert Peel... rth after Tamworth, Staffordshire, represented at the time in parliament by. The town prospered, and was reached by the railway in 1878
MarxKing had readwhile at Morehouse, but while he rejected "traditional capitalism," he als ...
SkinnerIn 1957,published Verbal Behavior, a theoretical extension of the work he had pion ...
George Miller... the notion of a semantic network. One of the first cognitive psychologists,is well known for dedicating his career to the development of WordNet, a s ...
John Hunter... th century by the physician Marie François Xavier Bichat, and the physicianwho recognized a "living principle" in addition to mechanics
Sir John Sinclair... nd as early as 1669 and was described in France in 1700. It was asserted byin his Husbandry of Scotland to have been introduced to Scotland around 17 ...
Reynolds... ter-portraitists of the European courts for example, Gainsborough, Goya and, there are the sometimes affectionate and sometimes savage caricatures of ...
Smith... was more influential than the magna opera of other famous economists, like's The Wealth of Nations
Michael Wood... and 650 BC, the one from Mykonos being known as the Mykonos Vase. Historian, however, dates the Mykonos Vase to the 8th century BC, some 500 years af ...
John Rennie... acilitate the movement of chalk from quarry to market. In 1810 the engineerproposed a canal linking the River Medway to Portsmouth which was to have ...
Robert... paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own ...
Earl of Aberdeen... rvatives who were loyal to Peel were known as the Peelites and included theand William Ewart Gladstone. During 1859 the Peelites merged with the Whig ...
king... n London, where daily life is affected by the illness and then death of the. The couple are personally happy, having resolved many of the problems in ...
Queen Elizabeth... and pets. A Lakeland resident who mourned the passing of the swans wrote to. The royal family allowed the capture of two of the royal swans, and the ...
Kelvin... constitutive properties. The classical rule, recognized by Clausius and by, is that the pressure exerted by the calorimetric material is fully and r ...
JohnWinthrop's son,, was one of the founders of the Connecticut Colony, and Winthrop himself ...
Addison... an equality of genius and elegance between Ogilby and Milton, or Bunyan and, would be thought to defend no less an extravagance, than if he had maint ...
William... ical classes on his own. It has recently been alleged that Hunter's brother, and his brother's former tutor William Smellie, were responsible for the ...
Buckingham... the Cabal Ministry, obtain the supreme influence which he had expected; forfirst shared, and soon surpassed him, in the royal favour. With Buckingham ...
Richard Burton... he first known Westerners to find the lake were the Great British explorersand John Speke, in 1858. They located it while searching for the source of ...
Philip... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince
Dr. Jane Lubchenco... tmosphere at the Department of Commerce, and the agency's Administrator, is, nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the United States S ...
John Richardson... 812 to 1827, was quartered in Dumfries in 1796 during his military service., naturalist, explorer and naval surgeon was born in Dumfries as was John ...
Charles Taylor... er, but Popper used the situation to make a joke at Wittgenstein's expense.accuses Popper of exploiting his worldwide fame as an epistemologist to di ...
Benjamin Franklin’s... rimenter Joseph Black’s notion of latent heat and Philadelphia intellectualcharacterization of electrical fluid as flowing between places of excess a ...
Wong Yan LungThe current Secretary for Justice is the HonourableSC
Robert Peel... inst repeal was 303, by 1845 this had decreased to 132. The first year thatvoted in favour was 1846, though he had spoken in favour of repeal during ...
James WardIn 1904, with Professorand some others, Rivers founded the British Journal of Psychology of which ...
Locke... the emotions, which he analyses with considerable skill, may be explained.'s phrase "association of ideas" is employed throughout, "idea" being take ...
Robert Harris... ht Brian Friel's wife. He read the works of Henning Mankell, Donna Leon andwhile in hospital, and was visited at the time by Bill Clinton
Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom)... Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, theand his uncle Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
ThatcherThe Docklands' status as a symbol of's Britain has also made it a target for terrorists. After a failed attemp ...
Richardson... e, in large bodies of water like oceans this coefficient can be found using's four-third power law and is governed by the random walk principle. In r ...
Robert BurtonThe most extended treatment of melancholia comes from, whose The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) treats the subject from both a li ...
Peter Guthrie Tait’s... nted a fundamental principle of physics, which was expounded in Thomson andinfluential work Treatise on Natural Philosophy. However, other interpreta ...
ChainSince the first pioneering efforts of Florey andin 1939, the importance of antibiotics, including antibacterials, to medic ...
StrzeleckiIn 1841, McMillan andmade journeys of exploration through the region which would later be named ...
Paul WilliamsThe landmark-designed Beverly Hills property that MCA once occupied is now the headqua ...
Frazer... study of magic for many theorists in sociology and anthropology, including, Mauss, S. J. Tambiah, Malinowski and Isabelle Sarginson. From the intell ...
CharlesPhilip has four children with Elizabeth:, Anne, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, des ...
Paul... of the Guinness Brewing Co. They had two children, Ailsa, born in 1901, and, born in 1907. Their marriage ended in a bitter divorce in 1912, which wa ...
Mario Davidovsky... and double bass; Mohammed Fairouz's Litany for double bass and wind quartet;'s Festino for guitar, viola, cello, and double bass; and Iannis Xenakis' ...
Paul GreenIt was adapted for the stage by Wright and, with some conflict between the authors affecting the project. The initia ...
Darwin... looked passage from his famous 1858 paper to the Linnean Society (which ledto publish On the Origin of Species) Alfred Russel Wallace says of the evo ...
John Sutherland... t important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, including the academic, have echoed the sentiment that he is "the greatest poet of our age"
John Hudson... the years. Thomas Lockey (1660–1665) was regarded as not fit for the post,(1701–1719) has been described as "negligent if not incapable", and John P ...
Cameron... ction in 2010 of both parties saying they would "stand up for Cornwall. Butand Clegg have devised this Bill which will breach the territorial integri ...
Leibniz... refers to a physical process. These 'very small' quantities are used in theapproach to the infinitesimal calculus. The Newton approach uses instead ' ...
Locke... the Hume-Kantian sphere of thought, the beginnings of which he discerns in's perplexity about the idea of substance. The validity of even the forms ...
Thatchers... faith in such icons was to give up personal responsibility to "the Reagans,, and other 'Watchmen' of the world who supposed to 'rescue' us and perhap ...
her father's... Alice herself soon fell ill with diphtheria, and died on the anniversary ofdeath, 14 December 1878, when Alix was only six years-old. Alix, Victoria, ...
Charles... the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince, and Prince Philip
Prince AlbertThe 2009 film The Young Victoria includes an episode in whichis told that I puritani is the favorite opera of Queen Victoria (which ind ...
John Winthrop... Point in what is present-day Hartford, which they called "House of Hope" ., then of Massachusetts, received permission to create a new colony at Old ...
Dixon... ical lines is the mid-point of the Transpeninsular Line, fixed by Mason andbetween 1763 and 1767. The mid-point is located about northwest of Salisbu ...
present Queen... The last such meetings were held on 6 February and 8 February 1952. As thewas abroad when the last Demise of the Crown took place, the Accession Cou ...
John WesleyIn the 18th century Lincoln became the cradle of Methodism when, a fellow there from 1726, held religious meetings with his brother Charl ...
Trudeau... nto a panic. This led in a large part to the articulation of Prime Minister's "Third Option" policy of diversifying Canada's trade and downgrading th ...
King'sand three at the hotel itself. The intention was to fire them on thebirthday, but the Haganah learned about the plan and warned the British th ...
Martin... t the University of Wales Swansea (1949–1961). Two other children followed:in August 1949 and Sally in January 1954. Days after Sally's birth, Amis's ...
The Rt Revd the Hon Sir Paul Reeves... or title but he may not be called Sir and his wife may not be called Lady.did receive the accolade and is correctly called Sir but it is not clear h ...
Robert... ol overseeing the building of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. His sonhad recently returned from a stint working in South America and resumed as ...
John Craig... hardson, naturalist, explorer and naval surgeon was born in Dumfries as was, mathematician, and polymath James Crichton. Benjamin Bell after being bo ...
grandfather... leagh all titles previously held by both his maternal great-grandfather and. Prince Andrew had known Miss Ferguson since childhood, and they had met ...
Paul Douglas... s in the U.S. asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by, Irving Fisher, James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Sea ...
FontenelleNaudé is a precursor of Pierre Bayle and
Peter Ustinov... ins of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, andbut a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon a ...
King... ine II of Russia, who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower. Theaccordingly spent his reign torn between his desire to implement reforms n ...
Buckingham... earl, and on 15 June obtained the Garter; the same month he proceeded withon a mission, first to William at The Hague, and afterwards to Louis at Ut ...
Whittington... class Trilobitoidea in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. In 1971,did a thorough redescription of the animal and, on the basis of its legs, ...
Henry... iked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary,, George, and John
Sainsbury... Burlington Gardens were given a new gallery in the North Wing funded by thefamily - with the donation valued at £25 million
George Martin... No Place To Run in January, 1980. Produced by the former Beatles producer,No Place To Run failed to match up to the success of its predecessors, tho ...
Walter Raleigh... of Liverpool. There Strachey befriended his Professor of Modern Literature,, who, besides being his favourite lecturer, also became the most influent ...
William Smith... n and Zachary Macaulay, father of the historian Thomas Macaulay, as well as, M.P., the Dissenter and Unitarian. They were very prominent in campaigns ...
Charles... led royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary to James on's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasant and agr ...
William Hamilton... ion towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir(1730–1803), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Gree ...
Pierre Trudeau... r have to approve constitutional amendments. Subsequently, Attorney Generalappointed law professor Barry Strayer to research a potential bill of righ ...
K.A. Müller... erature singlet d-wave superconductivity was discovered by J.G. Bednorz andin 1986, who discovered that the lanthanum-based cuprate perovskite materi ...
maternal great-grandfather... l of Inverness, and Baron Killyleagh all titles previously held by both hisand grandfather. Prince Andrew had known Miss Ferguson since childhood, an ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel... ake their marks, such as his son Robert, his pupil Joseph Locke and finally. His conservative views on the capabilities of locomotives meant that he ...
the Duke of Devonshire... iggism; and he criticised White Kennet's adulatory sermon at the funeral of
John McCarthy... thout explicitly specifying which conditions are not affected by an action.and Patrick J. Hayes defined this problem in their 1969 article, Some Phil ...
Macaulay... iary to London, where he lived in constant companionship with the historianand the poet Hallam. With the election of Zachary Taylor his post was not ...
John Gunn... many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon,, Harrie Massey and Nevill Mott; he worked on the design of magnetic and a ...
John Ward... ary, view on this topic is given by the famous British-Australian physicist. In 1990 the university absorbed the Institute of Early Childhood Studies ...
Thomas ArmstrongMusicians include Sir, organist, conductor and former principal of the Royal Academy of Music; ...
Elizabeth... Queen and Earl Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters,and Margaret, who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and ...
ChurchillsThewere invited to this wedding and sent a book as a wedding present. Wheeler ...
Charles Wood... aring in plays by Edward Albee (Tiny Alice), Alan Bennett (Forty Years On),(Veterans), Edward Bond (Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespear ...
Vincent MasseyIn 1952, he advised Queen Elizabeth II to appointas the first Canadian-born Governor-General. Each of the aforementioned ac ...
HarrisThere were publications describing technology. Encyclopaedias such as's Lexicon Technicum (1704) and Abraham Rees's Cyclopaedia (1802–1819) con ...
John LubbockIn his highly influential Pre-historic Times,described burnt bones indicating the practice of child sacrifice in pagan ...
AmpèreAnother model is themodel, where all magnetization is due to the effect of microscopic, or ato ...
James Ward... phers who embraced panentheism have included Thomas Hill Green (1839-1882),(1843-1925), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1856-1931) and Samuel Alexander ...
William Chambers... 1782 he moved to London where (after meeting architects Robert Adam and Sir) he was involved in building additions to Somerset House there. Two years ...
William Anderson's... of interest in Chinoiserie and Japonism as witnessed in the 1890s vogue forJapanese prints donated to the British Museum, performances of Noh plays i ...
ColeridgeDryads are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in, and in Thackeray's work The Virginians. Keats addresses the nightingale ...
John... as a part of the 'Holy Club' at Oxford University with the Wesley brothers,and Charles. An illness, as well as Henry Scougal's The Life of God in the ...
Oscar Peterson... rimental group; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations o ...
Shapiro... 1599—the Globe would have been the "wooden O" mentioned in the Prologue—butargues that the Chamberlain's Men were still at The Curtain when the work ...
Duke of Wellington... g Mr Lamb (a role first offered to Timothy Dalton), Laurence Olivier as the, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King George IV. Th ...
Prince of Wales... as the nearest stop to Althorp, it was the final stop on the journey by theand his two sons during the funeral of the Princess of Wales, and was seen ...
The Duke of Gloucester... en Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were:(his maternal granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once ...
Hartley... e base-2-logarithm of the number of distinct messages M that could be sent,constructed a measure of the gross bitrate R as
William Hamilton... e letter-press to the 1797 German edition of Tischbein's reproductions from's second collection of Greek vases, and thus introduced the study of Gree ...
Mario Davidovsky... al Bass (1997). Two significant recent works written for solo bass include,'s Synchronisms No.11 for double bass and electronic sounds and Elliott Ca ...
James... d the exiled royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary toon Charles's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasa ...
John McCarthyPaul Graham suggests's original Lisp to have been built wholly on a small set of "axioms", and ...
William Pitt... in annuities, she made financial bequests to rising Whig ministers such as, later the first Earl of Chatham, and Philip Stanhope, the fourth Earl of ...
John Macquarrie... nkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and
Kleene... (another of Putnam's students) and Gustav Hensel, how the Davis–Mostowski–hyperarithmetical hierarchy of arithmetical degrees can be naturally exten ...
BentleyHe is best known as the author of a Life of(1830) and as the editor (with CJ Blomfield) of Porson's Adversaria (1812)
Prince... ryday I Write the Book", aided by a music video featuring lookalikes of theand Princess of Wales undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home. The s ...
EPA... ad near Keble College is a further accommodation complex, consisting of theCentre (constructed in the early 21st century, containing apartment-style ...
Tolkien... e for telling multipart stories. "Because we grew up on comic books and thetrilogy, one of the things we're interested in is bringing serial fiction ...
Colebrooke... of the text, Rosen was working from manuscripts brought back from India by
her husband... s permanent mourning and lengthy period of seclusion following the death ofin 1861
George Lewis... g saxophonists Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton and Peter Brötzmann, trombonist, guitarist Derek Bailey, and the improvising groups The Art Ensemble of C ...
Mark Thompson... amme in December 2009, James conducted an interview of BBC Director-General, in which she seemed critical of some of his decisions. Regular Today pre ...
John Arbuthnot... decent without being amusing and a failure. He had assistance from Pope and, but they allowed it to be assumed that Gay was the sole author
Devonshire... nst James II in 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and, commemorated by the ducal crowns around the supporters' necks. The two b ...
Newton... ntities are used in the Leibniz approach to the infinitesimal calculus. Theapproach uses instead 'fluxions' such as \dot V(t) = \left.\frac{dV}{dt}\r ...
FloreySince the first pioneering efforts ofand Chain in 1939, the importance of antibiotics, including antibacterials ...
Harelstatecharts are gaining widespread usage since a variant has become part o ...
Pat BarkerThe novel Regeneration, by, is a fictionalised account of this period in Sassoon's life, and was mad ...
Alex Ross... ilharmonic has become an extremely progressive and well-regarded orchestra.of The New Yorker said this
David... e in 1730 to Alice Rowley, who died the next year giving birth to their son(1731–1813). His second marriage was in 1735 to Elizabeth (1713–78), the d ...
RG Casey... net was created;– initially composed of Menzies and five senior ministers (, GA Street, Senator McLeay, HS Gullet and World War I Prime Minister Bill ...