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Millennium Milestones

The 100 Most Significant Events of the Last Thousand Years Reducing the millennium to a laundry list of highlights cannot pretend to be a definitive or accurate exercise. Note that only…

Books & Plays

Johannes Gutenberg's printing press revolutionized the production of books in the West. Entering the modern age, books supplanted many oral traditions as they became cheap to produce. Better access…

Hoyt Wilhelm

Hoyt WilhelmBorn: July 26, 1923Baseball RHP Knuckleballer who is 3rd all-time in games pitched (1,070) and 1st in games finished (651) and games won in relief (123); career ERA of 2.52 and…

Wilhelm II

Name at birth: Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor AlbertWilhelm II ruled Germany and Prussia from 1888 until he was forced into exile at the end of World War I, in 1918. He was the grandson of Wilhelm I, the…

Gilbert Gottfried

Stand-up comedian Gilbert Gottfried was easily recognized by his purposefully grating, New York voice, perhaps most famously used in the animated feature Aladdin (1992) as Iago the parrot. Gottfried…

calculator

(Encyclopedia) calculator or calculating machine, device for performing numerical computations; it may be mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic. The electronic computer is also a calculator…

Schnabel, Johann Gottfried

(Encyclopedia) Schnabel, Johann GottfriedSchnabel, Johann Gottfriedyōˈhän gôtˈfrēt [key]Schnabel, Johann Gottfried shnäˈbəl [key], b. 1692, d. after 1742, German author, whose pseudonym was Gisander…

Gottfried von Strassburg

(Encyclopedia) Gottfried von StrassburgGottfried von Strassburggôtˈfrēt fən shträsˈb&oobreve;rkh [key], fl. 13th cent., German poet, also called Godfrey of Strasbourg. He is thought to have been…

will, in philosophy and psychology

(Encyclopedia) will, in philosophy and psychology, term used to describe that which is alleged to stimulate the motivation of purposeful activity. It is characteristic of the will that it can be…

Clarke, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Clarke, Samuel, 1675–1729, English philosopher and divine. His chief interest was rational theology, and, although a critic of the deists, he was in sympathy with some of their ideas.…