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Aloe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloe
1,650
Aloe. "Aloe" (or), also written "Aloë", is a genus containing over 500 species of flowering succulent plants. The most widely known species is "Aloe vera", or "true aloe", so called because, though probably extinct in the wild, it is cultivated as the standard source of so-called "aloe vera" for assorted pharmaceutical...
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Alyattes_of_Lydia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyattes_of_Lydia
1,652
Alyattes of Lydia. Alyattes, king of Lydia (619–560 BC), considered to be the founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of Sadyattes, of the house of the Mermnadae. Life. For several years he continued the war against Miletus begun by his father, but was obliged to turn his attention towards the Medes and Babylonians. ...
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Age_of_consent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent
1,653
Age of consent. The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts, and is thus the minimum age of a person with whom another person is legally permitted to engage in sexual activity. The distinguishing aspect of the age of consent laws is that the person bel...
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Alypius_of_Antioch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alypius_of_Antioch
1,654
Alypius of Antioch. Alypius of Antioch was a geographer and a vicarius of Roman Britain, probably in the late 350s AD. He replaced Flavius Martinus after that vicarius' suicide. His rule is recorded is Ammianus XXIII 1, 3. Life. He came from Antioch and served under Constantius II and was probably appointed to ensure t...
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Amalasuntha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalasuntha
1,655
Amalasuntha. Amalasuntha (also known as Amalasuentha, Amalaswintha, Amalasuintha, Amalswinthe or Amalasontha) (c. 495 – 30 April 534/535) was a queen of the Ostrogoths from 526 to 534. She was the youngest daughter of Theoderic the Great, and firmly believed in the upholding of Roman virtues and values. She is most wel...
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Amalric_of_Bena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalric_of_Bena
1,656
Amalric of Bena. Amalric of Bena (;; died 1204–1207 AD) was a French theologian and sect leader, after whom the Amalricians are named. Biography. Amalric was born in the latter part of the 12th century at Bennes, a village between Ollé and Chauffours in the diocese of Chartres. Amalric taught philosophy and theology at...
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Afonso_I_of_Portugal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_I_of_Portugal
1,657
Afonso I of Portugal. Afonso I (25 July 1109, Coimbra, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra), more commonly known as D. Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed "the Conqueror" (), "the Founder" () or "the Great" () by the Portuguese, and "El-Bortukali" [in Arabic البرتغال] ("the Portuguese") and "Ibn-Arrik" [in Arabic ...
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Afonso_II_of_Portugal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_II_of_Portugal
1,658
Afonso II of Portugal. Afonso II (; English: "Alphonzo"), or "Affonso" (Archaic Portuguese), "Alfonso" or "Alphonso" (Portuguese-Galician) or "Alphonsus" (Latin version), nicknamed "the Fat" (Portuguese "o Gordo"), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city. He was...
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Afonso_III_of_Portugal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_III_of_Portugal
1,659
Afonso III of Portugal. Afonso III (; rare English alternatives: "Alphonzo" or "Alphonse"), or "Affonso" (Archaic Portuguese), "Alfonso" or "Alphonso" (Portuguese-Galician) or "Alphonsus" (Latin), the "Bolognian" (Port. "o Bolonhês"), King of Portugal (5 May 1210 – 16 February 1279) was the first to use the title "King...
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Afonso_IV_of_Portugal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_IV_of_Portugal
1,660
Afonso IV of Portugal. Afonso IV (; 8 February 1291 – 28 May 1357), called the Brave (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1325 until his death. He was the only legitimate son of King Denis of Portugal by his wife Elizabeth of Aragon. Early life. Afonso, born in Lisbon, was the rightful heir to the Portuguese ...
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Afonso_V_of_Portugal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_V_of_Portugal
1,661
Afonso V of Portugal. Afonso V () KG (15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves. His sobriquet refers to his conquests in Northern Africa. Early life. Afonso was born in Sintra, the eldest son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife, Eleanor of Aragon. Afonso V was o...
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Afonso_VI_of_Portugal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_VI_of_Portugal
1,662
Afonso VI of Portugal. Afonso VI (; English: "Alphonzo" or "Alphonse", Old Portuguese: "Affonso"; 21 August 1643 – 12 September 1683), known as "the Victorious" (), was the second King of Portugal and the Algarves of the House of Braganza from 1656 until his death. He was initially under the regency of his mother, Luis...
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Alphonso_I_of_Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonso_I_of_Spain
1,663
Alphonso I of Spain. There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain (1874–1885).
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Alfonso_II_of_Asturias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_II_of_Asturias
1,664
Alfonso II of Asturias. Alfonso II of Asturias (circa 760 – 842 A.D.), nicknamed the Chaste, was the king of Asturias during two different periods: first in the year 783 and later from 791 until his death in 842. Upon his death, Nepociano, a family member of undetermined relation, attempted to usurp the crown in place ...
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Amara_Sinha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara_Sinha
1,669
Amara Sinha. Amara Sinha (or Amara Simha) (c. CE 375) was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known. He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya," and according to the evidence of Xuanzang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya (Chandrag...
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Alfonso_XII_of_Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XII_of_Spain
1,676
Alfonso XII of Spain. Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo; 28 November 1857 – 25 November 1885) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a "coup d'état" restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic. Having been forced into e...
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Alfonso_XIII_of_Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII_of_Spain
1,677
Alfonso XIII of Spain. Alfonso XIII (;; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931. Alfonso was monarch from birth, as his father Alfonso XII had died the previous year. Until his 16th birthday in 1902, his mother, Maria Christina of Austria, served as his regent, in a period which saw Spain...
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Alfonso_the_Battler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_the_Battler
1,679
Alfonso the Battler. Alfonso I (1073/1074 – 7 September 1134), called the Battler or the Warrior (), was the king of Aragon and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I. With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile, León and Ga...
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Amaryllis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaryllis
1,680
Amaryllis. "Amaryllis" () is the only genus in the subtribe Amaryllidinae (tribe Amaryllideae). It is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species. The better known of the two, "Amaryllis belladonna", is a native of the Western Cape region of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest area between the Olifant...
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Alfonso_III_of_Aragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_III_of_Aragon
1,683
Alfonso III of Aragon. Alfonso III (4 November 1265, in Valencia – 18 June 1291), called the Liberal ("el Liberal") or the Free (also "the Frank," from "el Franc"), was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona (as Alfons II) from 1285. He conquered the Kingdom of Majorca between his succession and 1287. He was a son o...
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Alfonso_IV_of_Aragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_IV_of_Aragon
1,684
Alfonso IV of Aragon. Alfonso IV, called the Kind (also "the Gentle" or "the Nice",) (2 November 1299 – 24 January 1336) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was born in Naples, the second son of James II and Blanche of Anjou. His reign saw the incorporation of the C...
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Amasis_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasis_II
1,685
Amasis II. Amasis II () or Ahmose II was a pharaoh (reigned 570 BCE – 526 BCE) of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt, the successor of Apries at Sais. He was the last great ruler of Egypt before the Persian conquest. Life. Most of our information about him is derived from Herodotus (2.161ff) and can only be imperfectly ...
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Alfonso_V_of_Aragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_V_of_Aragon
1,686
Alfonso V of Aragon. Alfonso the Magnanimous KG (also Alphonso;; 1396 – 27 June 1458) was the King of Aragon (as Alfonso V), Valencia (as Alfonso III), Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica (as Alfonso II), Sicily (as Alfonso I) and Count of Barcelona (as Alfonso IV) from 1416, and King of Naples (as Alfonso I) from 1442 until...
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Amathus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amathus
1,687
Amathus. Amathus () was one of the most ancient royal cities of Cyprus, on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about 24 miles west of Larnaca and 6 miles east of Limassol. Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-pr...
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Alphons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphons
1,688
Alphons. Alphons (Latinized "Alphonsus, Adelphonsus, Adefonsus") is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739-757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the Hispanic and Portugu...
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Amati
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amati
1,690
Amati. Amati is the last name of a family of Italian violin makers, who lived at Cremona from about 1538 to 1740. Their importance is considered equal to those of the Bergonzi, Guarneri and Stradivari families. Today, violins created by Nicolò Amati are evaluated at around $600,000. Andrea Amati. Andrea Amati (ca. 1505...
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Amazons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons
1,695
Amazons. In Greek mythology, the Amazons (, ', singular, ') were a race of woman warriors. Herodotus reported that they were related to the Scythians (an Iranian people) and placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia (modern territory of Ukraine). Other historiographers place them in Anatolia, or sometimes L...
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Ambergris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
1,697
Ambergris. Ambergris (or, "Ambre gris", "ambergrease" or "grey amber") is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour produced in the digestive system of sperm whales. The word amber is derived from the Arabic word 'anbar'(عنبر). Freshly produced ambergris has a marine, faecal odour. However, a...
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Ambiorix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiorix
1,698
Ambiorix. Ambiorix was, together with Cativolcus, prince of the Eburones, leader of a Belgic tribe of north-eastern Gaul (Gallia Belgica), where modern Belgium is located. In the 19th century Ambiorix became a Belgian national hero because of his resistance against Julius Caesar, as written in Caesar's "Commentarii de ...
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August_Wilhelm_Ambros
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilhelm_Ambros
1,700
August Wilhelm Ambros. August Wilhelm Ambros (17 November 1816 – 28 June 1876) was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent. Life. He was born at Mýto, Rokycany District, Bohemia. His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter (1773–1850), the musical archaeol...
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Amazon_River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
1,701
Amazon River. The Amazon River (or; Spanish and) in South America is the largest river by discharge of water in the world, and the second in length. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century as the Amazon’s most distant source, until a 2014 study found it to be the Co...
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Alfred_of_Beverley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_of_Beverley
1,702
Alfred of Beverley. Alredus, or Alfred of Beverley, (fl. 1143), English chronicler, was sacristan of the church of Beverley in the first half of the twelfth century. He wrote, apparently about the year 1143, a chronicle entitled "Annales sive Historia de gestis regum Britanniae", which begins with Brutus and carries th...
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Autpert_Ambrose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autpert_Ambrose
1,714
Autpert Ambrose. Autpert Ambrose (Ambroise) () (ca. 730 – 784) was a Frankish Benedictine monk. He became abbot of San Vincenzo al Volturno in South Italy in the time of Desiderius, king of the Lombards. Autpert's election as abbot caused internal dissent at St. Vicenzo, and both Pope Stephen III and Charlemagne interv...
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Abu_Bakr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr
1,715
Abu Bakr. Abū Bakr ‘Abdallāh bin Abī Quḥāfah aṣ-Ṣiddīq (; 573 CE – 23 August 634 CE) popularly known as Abu Bakr (), was a senior companion ("Sahabi") and—through his daughter Aisha—the father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Abu Bakr became the first openly declared Muslim outside Muhammad's family. Abu Bakr se...
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St._Ambrose_Traversari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Ambrose_Traversari
1,716
St. Ambrose Traversari. Ambrose Traversari, O.S.B. Cam., also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli (1386 – 20 October 1439), was an Italian monk and theologian, who was a prime supporter of the papal cause in the 15th century. He is honored as a saint by the Camaldolese Order. Biography. Traversari was born near Forlì, ...
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Ambrosians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosians
1,717
Ambrosians. Ambrosians are members of one of the religious brotherhoods which at various times since the 14th century have sprung up in and around Milan and also a 16th-century sect of Anabaptist Ambrosians. Orders. Only the oldest of the Catholic Ambrosians, the Fratres S. Ambrosii ad Nemus, had anything more than a v...
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Ambrosiaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosiaster
1,718
Ambrosiaster. __NOTOC__ Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's epistles, "brief in words but weighty in matter," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin text of the New Testament. The commentary itself was written during the papacy of Pope Damasus I, that is, between 366 and 384, ...
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Ambrosius_Aurelianus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosius_Aurelianus
1,719
Ambrosius Aurelianus. Ambrosius Aurelianus,; called Aurelius Ambrosius in the "Historia Regum Britanniae" and elsewhere, was a war leader of the Romano-British who won an important battle against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, according to Gildas. He also appeared independently in the legends of the Britons, begi...
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Ammon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammon
1,722
Ammon. Ammon (;) was a Semitic-speaking kingdom from the Bronze Age period occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in present-day Jordan. The chief city of the country was "Rabbah" or "Rabbath Ammon", site of the modern city of Amman, Jordan's capital. Milcom and Molech ...
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Ammonius_Hermiae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonius_Hermiae
1,723
Ammonius Hermiae. Ammonius Hermiae (;; c. 440 – c. 520 AD) was a Greek philosopher, and the son of the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias and Aedesia. He was a pupil of Proclus in Athens, and taught at Alexandria for most of his life, writing commentaries on Plato, Aristotle, and other philosophers. Life. Ammonius' fath...
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Ammonius_Saccas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonius_Saccas
1,724
Ammonius Saccas. Ammonius Saccas (;; fl. 3rd century AD) was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism. He is mainly known as the teacher of Plotinus, whom he taught for eleven years from 232 to 243. He was undoubtedly the biggest influence on Plotinus in his d...
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Book_of_Amos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Amos
1,726
Book of Amos. The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II, (786–746 BC) making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written. Amos lived in the kingdom of Ju...
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Amphipolis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipolis
1,727
Amphipolis. Amphipolis (aka Amfípolis,;) is a municipality in the Serres regional unit of Greece. The seat of the municipality is Rodolivos and historical seat of the First. Amphipolis was a rich city (polis) in ancient Macedonia. It was famous for events such as the battle of the Spartans and Athenians in 424BC, and a...
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Amram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amram
1,728
Amram. In the Book of Exodus, Amram ( ;) is the husband of Jochebed and father of Aaron, Moses and Miriam. In the Bible. In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain; some Greek and L...
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Amyntas_I_of_Macedon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyntas_I_of_Macedon
1,729
Amyntas I of Macedon. Amyntas I (Greek: Ἀμύντας Aʹ; c. 540 – 498 BC) was a king of Macedon. He was a son of Alcetas I of Macedon. He married Eurydice and they had a son Alexander. Amyntas was a tributary vassal of Darius I, king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, since 512/511 BC. The history of Macedon may be said to b...
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Amyntas_III_of_Macedon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyntas_III_of_Macedon
1,730
Amyntas III of Macedon. Amyntas III (Greek: Ἀμύντας Γ΄; died 370 BC) was a Macedonian king of Macedon in 393 BC, and again from 392 to 370 BC. He was the son of Arrhidaeus and grandson of Amyntas, one of the sons of Alexander I. His most famous son is Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. He is historically conside...
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Anacharsis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacharsis
1,732
Anacharsis. Anacharsis (;) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken "barbarian". Reputedly a forerunner of the Cynics, none of his works has survived. Life. Anacharsis t...
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Anah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anah
1,734
Anah. Anah or Ana (, "ʾĀna"), formerly also known as Anna, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates river, approximately mid-way between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hit. Name. The town is called Ha-na-...
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Ananda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda
1,735
Ananda. Ānanda (,; Sinhala: "ආනන්ද මහ රහතන් වහන්සේ") was a first cousin of Gautama Buddha and one of his ten principal disciples. Amongst the Buddha's many disciples, Ānanda stood out for having the most retentive memory. Most of the sutras of the "Sutta Pitaka" are attributed to his recollection of the Buddha's teachi...
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Anaxagoras
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaxagoras
1,737
Anaxagoras. Anaxagoras (;, "Anaxagoras", "lord of the assembly"; c. 510 – c. 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first to bring philosophy to Athens. According to Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch, in later life he was charged with impiety and went into exile ...
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Anaxarchus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaxarchus
1,738
Anaxarchus. Anaxarchus (;; c. 380 – c. 320 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus. Together with Pyrrho, he accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia. The reports of his philosophical views suggest that he was a forerunner of the Greek skeptics. Life. Anaxarchus was born at Abdera in Thrace. He was the...
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Ancyra_(genus)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancyra_(genus)
1,740
Ancyra (genus). Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus "Ancyra" are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding "eyes" (a remarkable case of automimicry). Th...
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Anaximenes_of_Lampsacus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximenes_of_Lampsacus
1,746
Anaximenes of Lampsacus. Anaximenes of Lampsacus () (c. 380 – 320 BC) was a Greek rhetorician and historian. Rhetorical works. Anaximenes was a pupil of Zoilus and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer. As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Isocrates and his school. He is generally regarded as the author...
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Anastasius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasius
1,747
Anastasius. Anastasius or Anastasios () is derived from the Greek ἀνάστασις ("anastasis") meaning "resurrection". Its female form is "Anastasia" (). A diminutive form of "Anastasios" is "Tasos" ().
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Anaximenes_of_Miletus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximenes_of_Miletus
1,748
Anaximenes of Miletus. Anaximenes of Miletus (;; c. 585 – c. 528 BCE) was an Ancient Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher active in the latter half of the 6th century BC. One of the three Milesian philosophers, he is identified as a younger friend or student of Anaximander. Anaximenes, like others in his school of thought, p...
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Ancus_Marcius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancus_Marcius
1,749
Ancus Marcius. Ancus Marcius (c.677–617 BC; reigned 642–617 BC) was the legendary fourth king of Rome. He was the son of Marcius (whose father, also named Marcius, had been a close friend of Numa Pompilius) and Pompilia (daughter of Numa Pompilius). According to Festus, Marcius had the surname of "Ancus" from his "croo...
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Andaman_Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Islands
1,750
Andaman Islands. The Andaman Islands (अंडमान द्वीप) form an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal between India, to the west, and Myanmar, to the north and east. Most are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India, while a small number in the north of the archipelago, including the Coco Islands, belong...
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Alexander_Anderson_(mathematician)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Anderson_(mathematician)
1,751
Alexander Anderson (mathematician). Alexander Anderson (, Aberdeen –, Paris) was a Scottish mathematician. Life. He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617. It is unknown where he was educated, but it is likely that he initially studied writing and philosophy (...
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Andocides
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andocides
1,752
Andocides. Andocides (;, "Andokides"; c. 440 – c. 390 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC. Life. Andocides was the son of Leogoras, and...
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Andrea_Andreani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Andreani
1,754
Andrea Andreani. Andrea Andreani (1540–1623) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours. Born and generally active in Mantua about 1540 (Brulliot says 1560) and died at Rome in 1623. His engravings are scarce and valuable, and are ch...
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Andrew_II_of_Hungary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_II_of_Hungary
1,755
Andrew II of Hungary. Andrew II (,,; 117721 September 1235), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1205 and 1235. He ruled the Principality of Halych from 1188 until 1189/1190, and again between 1208/1209 and 1210. He was the younger son of Béla III of Hungary, who entrusted him wit...
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An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding
1,756
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature", published anonymously in London in 1739–40. Hume was disappointed...
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André_de_Longjumeau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_de_Longjumeau
1,758
André de Longjumeau. André de Longjumeau (also known as Andrew of Longjumeau in English) was a 13th-century Dominican missionary and diplomat and one of the most active Occidental diplomats in the East in the 13th century. He led two embassies to the Mongols: the first carried letters from Pope Innocent IV and the seco...
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Andriscus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriscus
1,759
Andriscus. Andriscus (, "Andrískos"), also often referenced as Pseudo-Philip, was the last King of Macedon ( 149–148 BC). A pretender who claimed to be the son of Perseus of Macedon. In actually, he was a fuller from Adramyttium in Aeolis in western Anatolia. His reign lasted just a year. Life. In 168 BC, the Romans in...
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Andronikos_III_Palaiologos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andronikos_III_Palaiologos
1,760
Andronikos III Palaiologos. Andronikos III Palaiologos (; 25 March 1297 – 15 June 1341), commonly Latinized as Andronicus III Palaeologus, was Byzantine emperor from 1328 to 1341. Born Andronikos Doukas Angelos Komnenos Palaiologos (), he was the son of Michael IX Palaiologos and Rita of Armenia. He was proclaimed co-e...
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Andronikos_II_Palaiologos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andronikos_II_Palaiologos
1,761
Andronikos II Palaiologos. Andronikos II Palaiologos (; 25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332), usually Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, was Byzantine emperor from 11 December 1282 to 23 or 24 May 1328. Born Andronikos Doukas Angelos Komnenos Palaiologos (), he was the eldest surviving son of Michael VIII Palaiologos...
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Andronikos_I_Komnenos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andronikos_I_Komnenos
1,762
Andronikos I Komnenos. Andronikos I Komnenos (;  – 12 September 1185), usually Latinized as Andronicus I Comnenus, was Byzantine Emperor from 1183 to 1185. He was the son of Isaac Komnenos and the grandson of the emperor Alexios I. Early years. Andronikos Komnenos was born around 1118. He was handsome and eloquent, act...
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Andronicus_of_Cyrrhus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andronicus_of_Cyrrhus
1,763
Andronicus of Cyrrhus. Andronicus of Cyrrhus or Andronicus Cyrrhestes (, "Andrónikos Kyrrhēstou"), son of Hermias, was a Macedonian astronomer who flourished about 100 BC. __NOTOC__ Life. He built a "horologion" at Athens, the so-called Tower of the Winds, a considerable portion of which still exists. It is octagonal, ...
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Andronicus_of_Rhodes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andronicus_of_Rhodes
1,764
Andronicus of Rhodes. Andronicus of Rhodes (, "Andrónikos ho Rhódios";;  BC) was a Greek philosopher from Rhodes who was also the scholarch (head) of the Peripatetic school. He is most famous for publishing a new edition of the works of Aristotle that forms the basis of the texts that survive today. Life. Little is kno...
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Ammianus_Marcellinus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammianus_Marcellinus
1,767
Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus (325  330 – after 391) was a fourth-century Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity (preceding Procopius). His work, the "Res Gestae", chronicled in Latin the history of Rome from the accession of the emperor Nerv...
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Apollo_13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13
1,770
Apollo 13. Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling th...
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Apollo_7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7
1,773
Apollo 7. Apollo 7 was a 1968 human spaceflight mission carried out by the United States of America. It was the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. It was also the first U.S. spaceflight to carry astronauts since the flight of Gemini XII in November 1966. The AS-204 mission, a...
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Apollo_9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_9
1,774
Apollo 9. Apollo 9 was the third manned mission in the United States Apollo space program and the first flight of the Service Module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM). Its three-person crew, consisting of Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart, spent ten days...
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Arthritis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis
1,776
Arthritis. Arthritis (from Greek "arthro-", joint + "-itis", inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a form of joint disorder that involves inflammation in one or more joints. There are over 100 different forms of arthritis. The most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis (degenerative joint disease), a result of tra...
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Acetylene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylene
1,778
Acetylene. Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is the chemical compound with the formula C2H2. It is a hydrocarbon and the simplest alkyne. This colorless gas is widely used as a fuel and a chemical building block. It is unstable in its pure form and thus is usually handled as a solution. Pure acetylene is odorless, bu...
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Athenian_democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
1,784
Athenian democracy. Athenian democracy developed around the fifth century B.C. in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica and is the first known democracy in the world. Other Greek cities set up democracies, most following the Athenian mod...
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Arabic_numerals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
1,786
Arabic numerals. Arabic numerals, also called Hindu-Arabic or Indo-Arabic numerals, are the ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, based on the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today. In this system, a sequence of digits such as "975" is read...
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Apuleius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apuleius
1,789
Apuleius. Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – c. 170 AD) was a Latin-language prose writer. He was a Numidian who lived under the Roman Empire and was from Madauros (now M'Daourouch, Algeria). He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt and was an initiate in seve...
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Alexander_Selkirk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk
1,790
Alexander Selkirk. Alexander Selkirk (167613 December 1721), also known as Alexander Selcraig, was a Scottish sailor who spent more than four years as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean, or South Sea. Selkirk was an unruly youth, and joined buccaneering exped...
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Anti-ballistic_missile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ballistic_missile
1,791
Anti-ballistic missile. An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a surface-to-air missile designed to counter ballistic missiles (see missile defense). Ballistic missiles are used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory. The term "anti-ballistic missile" is a generic...
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Acre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre
1,797
Acre. The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is defined as the area of 1 chain by 1 furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to of a square mile, 43,560 square feet, approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare. The acre is commonly used in Antigua and Barbuda Aus...
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Adenosine_triphosphate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate
1,800
Adenosine triphosphate. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleoside triphosphate used in cells as a coenzyme often called the "molecular unit of currency" of intracellular energy transfer. ATP transports chemical energy within cells for metabolism. It is one of the end products of photophosphorylation, aerobic respira...
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Ægir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir
1,802
Ægir. In Norse mythology, Ægir (Old Norse "sea") is a sea jötunn associated with the ocean. He is also known for hosting elaborate parties for the gods. Ægir's servants are Fimafeng (killed by Loki) and Eldir. Description. The "Nafnaþulur" attached to the "Prose Edda" list Ægir as a giant. Richard Cleasby and Guðbrand...
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Antibiotics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotics
1,805
Antibiotics. Antibiotics, also called antibacterials, are a type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infection. They may either kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria. A limited number of antibiotics also possess antiprotozoal activity. Antibiotics are not effective against viruses s...
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Arnold_Schwarzenegger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger
1,806
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (;; born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, former professional bodybuilder and former politician. He served two terms as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011. Schwarzenegger...
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Actium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actium
1,810
Actium. Actium (Greek: Ἄκτιον) was the name of an ancient town on a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf). Actium is chiefly famous as the name given to the nearby naval Battle of Actium, in which Octavian won a decisive victory over Mark Antony on September 2, 31 B...
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Amway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway
1,812
Amway. Amway (short for The American Way) is an American company that uses a multi-level marketing model to sell a variety of products, primarily in the health, beauty, and home care markets. Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos. Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under ...
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Adam_Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
1,814
Adam Smith. Adam Smith (16 June 1723 NS (5 June 1723 OS) – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith is best known for two classic works: "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759), and "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the W...
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Antoine_Lavoisier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier
1,822
Antoine Lavoisier. Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution;; 26 August 17438 May 1794;) was a French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. He is widely considere...
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Hermann_Kolbe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Kolbe
1,825
Hermann Kolbe. Hermann Kolbe ("Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe", 27 September 1818 – 25 November 1884), was a seminal contributor in the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a Professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe coined the term synthesis and contributed to the philosophical demise of vitalism through synthesis of...
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Amitabh_Bachchan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan
1,828
Amitabh Bachchan. Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan (; born 11 October 1942) is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like "Zanjeer" and "Deewar", and was dubbed India's first "angry young man" for his on-screen roles in Bollywood. Referred to as the "Shahenshah of Bollywood", "Star of...
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Allomorph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allomorph
1,832
Allomorph. In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme, that is, when a unit of meaning varies in sound without changing meaning. The term "allomorph" explains the comprehension of phonological variations for specific morphemes. Allomorphy in English suffixes. English has several morphemes that vary in...
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Allophone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allophone
1,834
Allophone. In phonology, an allophone (; from the, "állos", "other" and φωνή, "phōnē", "voice, sound") is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds (or "phones") or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, Aspirated consonant (as in "pin") and (as in "spin") are allophones f...
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Affix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affix
1,835
Affix. An affix (in modern sense) is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word. Affixes may be derivational, like English "-ness" and "pre-", or inflectional, like English plural "-s" and past tense "-ed". They are bound morphemes by definition; prefixes and suffixes may be separable affixes. Affixa...
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Allegory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory
1,837
Allegory. As a literary device, an "allegory" in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. Allegory has been used widely throughout history in all forms of art, largely because it can readily illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners. W...
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Allotropy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropy
1,839
Allotropy. Allotropy or allotropism () is the property of some chemical elements to exist in two or more different forms, in the same physical state, known as "allotropes" of these elements. Allotropes are different structural modifications of an element; the atoms of the element are bonded together in a different mann...
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Agathocles_of_Syracuse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathocles_of_Syracuse
1,840
Agathocles of Syracuse. Agathocles (, "Agathoklḗs"; 361 – 289 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse (317–289 BC) and king of Sicily (304–289 BC). Biography. Agathocles was born at Thermae Himeraeae (modern name Termini Imerese) in Sicily. The son of a potter who had moved to Syracuse in about 343 BC, he learned his father...
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Economy_of_Alberta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Alberta
1,841
Economy of Alberta. Alberta's economy is the sum of all economic activity in Alberta, Canada's fourth largest province by population. Although Alberta has a presence in many industries such as agriculture, forestry, education, tourism, finance, and manufacturing, the politics and culture of the province have been close...
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Augustin-Louis_Cauchy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin-Louis_Cauchy
1,842
Augustin-Louis Cauchy. Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy FRS FRSE (; 21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician reputed as a pioneer of analysis. He was one of the first to state and prove theorems of calculus rigorously, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra of earlier authors. He almo...
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Archimedes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
1,844
Archimedes. Archimedes of Syracuse (;;  BC –  BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Generally considered the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of...
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