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	History of geology--Humboldt
		Humboldt was a German aristocrat, natural scientist, explorer, geographer, geologist, archeologist, and liberal; he was the last great universal man. Birth to a rich family assured him of financial freedom to pursue his ambition of exploration and discovery during most of his long life.
		Humboldt was a German natural scientist, archeologist, explorer and geographer, who undertook two major expeditions to the New World (1799-1804) and to Asia (1829).
		In 1799 with Aimé Bonpland (botantist) whom he had met in France, Humboldt arranged to meet with the Spanish King and Queen in Madrid.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/histgeol/humboldt/humboldt.htm

	alex
		Alexander the Great has been portrayed as a chivalrous prince, a philosopher king, a great general and conqueror, an explorer, a scientist, and a confident rhetorician, among others.
		Alexander the Great was born in 356 BCE to King Philip of Macedonia and his wife Olympias.
		Alexander was obsessed with action, not just the outcome of the action, even though it was almost always in his favor.
	www.southwestern.edu /ACS/latin/team8/alex.htm (657 words)

	Alexander Neckam
		Alexander Neckam (September 8 1157 - 1217), was an English scientist and teacher.
		He was born at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, on the same night as King Richard I.
		Catholic Encyclopedia entry for Alexander of Neckham (newadvent.org)
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/alexander_neckam (535 words)

	Pretenders
		After the death of David XII, last king of East Georgia (Kartli and Kakheti), by edict of emperor Alexander I of Russia, seniority among Georgian princes was given to the family of Bagration-Mukhranskiy, the branch of the Bagratid dynasty descended from princes of Mukhrani.
		The Yorkist King Michael is the 14th Earl of Loudoun, and is a scientist at a rice research institute in New South Wales, Australia.
		The Kingdom of Acre (Jerusalem) was assumed by the Kings of Cyprus, who retained the title even after the loss of Acre in 1291.
	kaery.ellone-loire.net /obsidian/pretends.html (535 words)

	Alexander Neckam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Neckam (September 8, 1157 - 1217), was an English scientist and teacher.
		He was born at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, on the same night as King Richard I.
		Catholic Encyclopedia entry for Alexander of Neckham (newadvent.org)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Neckam (535 words)

	Middelaldercentret
		A 13th century illustration shows Alexander dressed as a medieval king inside a giant glass vessel, shaped like a contemperary costrel (a water/wine flask) with the interior lit by suspended tallow lamps.
		In the Romanesque era, the works of classical Greek and Roman engineers and scientists were at a renewed popularity, both English-men mention the histories of Alexander the Great and his supposed submarine descent to the bottom of the sea in a glass bathyshere.
		Roger Bacon (1214 -94) a celebrated scientist whose work with optics was truly advanced for the age, was convinced that all sorts of contrivances had been used in classical antiquity including "machines for walking in the sea and rivers, even to the bottom, without danger to life or limb."
	www.middelaldercentret.dk /divingsuit.htm (535 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (A)
		Alexander Humboldt was a German scientist and explorer.
		Alexander I was King of Scotland from 1107 to 1124.
		He accompanied Alexander von Humboldt on his expedition to the New World, during which he collected over 6000 plants, previously unknown and on his return to France in 1804 he was made director of the gardens at Navarre and Malmaison.
	www.davidpye.com /probert/C1.HTM (535 words)

	History of the Thomson Family
		Alexander "Greek" Thomson was a 19th century architect of note who is becoming more recognised at the end of the 20th.
		Robert William Thomson invented the pneumatic tyre in December 1845 and scientist and inventor William Thomson, though born in Belfast, became associated with Glasgow University and became Lord Kelvin
		Consequently, after the Restoration of King Charles II the MacThomas fortunes declined and the clan drifted apart - some clansmen moving to the Lowlands and changing their name to Thomson or Thomas.
	www.rampantscotland.com /clans/blclanthomson.htm (535 words)

	Papers of Edwin John Ellis
		Edwin John Ellis was born in 1848, the son of Dr Alexander John Ellis, a Scottish linguist and natural scientist.
		He also published several volumes of poetry, including Fate in Arcadia (1892) and Seen in Three Days (1893); the novel The Man of Seven Offers (1895); and the verse drama Sancan the Bard (1895), which served as partial inspiration for Yeats' The King's Threshold (1904).
		There are forty manuscript items in both Ellis' and Yeats' hands relating to their edition of the works of William Blake, along with Xerox copies of further Yeats manuscript material on Blake.
	www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/ellis.html (535 words)

	Pretenders
		After the death of David XII, last king of East Georgia (Kartli and Kakheti), by edict of emperor Alexander I of Russia, seniority among Georgian princes was given to the family of Bagration-Mukhranskiy, the branch of the Bagratid dynasty descended from princes of Mukhrani.
		The Yorkist King Michael is the 14th Earl of Loudoun, and is a scientist at a rice research institute in New South Wales, Australia.
		As an aside, Louis XIX may perhaps hold a record as having one of the worlds shortest reigns - he was King of France in a very technical sense in the approximately 10 to 15 minute interval between his fathers signature on the Instrumeent of Abdication (1830) and his own signature on the same document.
	kaery.ellone-loire.net /obsidian/pretends.html (535 words)

	YugoUK.co.uk - Curio corner - Zanimljivosti
		In 1944, in London, King Petar II married Princess Aleksandra of Greece, the daughter of HM King Alexander of the Hellenes.
		His godparents were King George VI and the then Princess Elizabeth, now HM The Queen Elizabeth II.
		Serb scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla lecture to the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) in London -
	www.yugouk.co.uk /zanimljivosti.php (535 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Halley's Quest (2005)
		King William III of Or- ange and Queen Mary II comfortably shared the power of the Crown.
		The clan of wits would later be joined by Alexander Pope, the mostly home- schooled London poet and satirist who came to epitomize English neoclassicism.
		As po- litical pamphleteer Edward Stephens described it in a pamphlet cir- culated that year, William had freed England from the "abomination of popery," but "debauchery and impiety remained." William and Mary took his commentary seriously enough to officially respond to it in writing in 1690.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309095948/html/18.html (6284 words)

	SIGHTINGS
		King was a British scientist, who had been a scientific adviser to the British Government, and who was then at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (
		Alexander King, who had not previously known Peccei, received a copy of the speech.
		Peccei and King were not confident that either the market or technology could function as a way of solving environmental problems.
	www.rense.com /politics4/clubofrome.htm (503 words)

	History
		Famous visitors include Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa who were appointed by the King of Spain to host the Geodesic Mission in 1736, the awesome scientific enterprise organized and led by Charles-Marie de la Condamine, Alexander von Humboldt German scientist, renown naturalist and explorer and the illustrious English mountain climber Edward Whymper.
		Charles-Marie de la Condamine scientist of the Paris Academy of Science, headed the group of distiguished scientists, members of the Geodesic Mission in 1736 to these remote lands to measure the meridians close to the equator and to investigate other scientific fields.
		ntonio de Ulloa, Spanish scientist and member of this expedition, made a singular drawing of the architectural Inca complex in San Agustin de Callo and with fellow scientist, Jorge Juan, wrote a descriptive document of what they observed at the ruins.
	www.incahacienda.com /pages/history.html (503 words)

	Aristotle (384-322 BC)
		After Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians in 345 BC, Aristotle went to Pella, the Macedonian capital, where he became the tutor of the king's young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great.
		Upon the death of Alexander in 323 BC, strong anti-Macedonian feeling developed in Athens, and Aristotle retired to a family estate in Euboea.
		Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato and Socrates the distinction of being the most famous of ancient philosophers.
	www.connect.net /ron/aristotle.html (503 words)

	MSN Encarta - Aristotle
		After Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians in 345 bc, Aristotle moved to Pella, the Macedonian capital, where he became tutor to the king’s young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great.
		Aristotle (384-322 bc), Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato and Socrates the distinction of being the most famous of the ancient philosophers.
		Born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court, Aristotle moved at the age of 17 to Athens to study at Plato’s Academy.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557129/Aristotle.html (1568 words)

	MSN Encarta - Aristotle
		After Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians in 345 bc, Aristotle went to Pella, the Macedonian capital, where he became the tutor of the king's young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great.
		Aristotle (384-322 bc), Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato and Socrates the distinction of being the most famous of ancient philosophers.
		Aristotle was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557129/Aristotle.html (1568 words)

	MSN Encarta - Aristotle
		After Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians in 345 bc, Aristotle moved to Pella, the Macedonian capital, where he became tutor to the king’s young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great.
		Aristotle (384-322 bc), Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato and Socrates the distinction of being the most famous of the ancient philosophers.
		Born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court, Aristotle moved at the age of 17 to Athens to study at Plato’s Academy.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557129/Aristotle.html (1568 words)

	Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE)
		Then [344 BCE], one or two years later, Aristotle was summoned to his native Stageira by King Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor of Alexander the Great, who was then 13.
		Aristotle (Greek Aristotelçs) (384 BCE — March 7, 322 BCE) was a Greek scientist and philosopher.
		Part of a series known as the Power of Women, found in literature as well as other visual arts, this image recounts the late medieval legend that Aristotle tried to teach his protege Alexander about the dangers of love, only to fall prey to this humiliation himself.
	www.jahsonic.com /Aristotle.html (1568 words)

	MSN Encarta - Aristotle
		After Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians in 345 bc, Aristotle moved to Pella, the Macedonian capital, where he became tutor to the king’s young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great.
		Aristotle (384-322 bc), Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato and Socrates the distinction of being the most famous of the ancient philosophers.
		Born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court, Aristotle moved at the age of 17 to Athens to study at Plato’s Academy.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557129/Aristotle.html (1568 words)

	MSN Encarta - Aristotle
		After Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians in 345 bc, Aristotle moved to Pella, the Macedonian capital, where he became tutor to the king’s young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great.
		Aristotle (384-322 bc), Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato and Socrates the distinction of being the most famous of the ancient philosophers.
		Born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court, Aristotle moved at the age of 17 to Athens to study at Plato’s Academy.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557129/Aristotle.html (1568 words)

	México - Presidencia de la República Foros
		The Club of Rome was founded in April 1968 by Aurelio Peccei, an Italian scholar and industrialist, and Alexander King, a Scottish scientist.
		Every member of this club shall attend all the meetings whether regular or special; and when on duty or in attendance at the meetings, shall obey the officers in command, and shall at all times perform such duties as shall be required of him by the officers in command.
		The Phoenix Club conspiracy in County Kerry was betrayed by an informer and was crushed by the government.
	foros.presidencia.gob.mx /read.php?f=5&i=5223&t=5223 (14299 words)

	nicholas hammond
		Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus), 1401?-1464, German humanist, scientist, statesman, and philosopher, from 1448 cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Nicholas (Nikolai Nikolayevich)nyĬkelī´ nyĬkelī´evĬch, 1856-1929, Russian grand duke and army officer; first cousin of Czar Alexander III and grandson of Czar Nicholas I. He served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
		Nicholas I, 1841-1921, prince (1860-1910) and king (1910-18) of Montenegro, successor of his uncle, Danilo II.
	www.sport-life.biz /nicholas-hammond.html (14299 words)

	FW: [Robotgroup] RE: Cosmonaut Yury Usachev April 5th
		>King-Seabrook Chapel >Cosmonaut Yury Usachev and scientist Alexander Martynov will discuss their >work aboard the Space Station, the future of the New International Station, >technologies developed by cosmonauts during their flights on board orbital >stations, and technologies that will help realize the Manned Mission to >Mars.
		Usachev, well known in Russia and across the United States, has made >two flights onboard Mir station (in 1994 and 1996) and two flights onboard >the New International Station (in 2000 and 2001).
		Enterprises of Korolev, >the cradle of Russian cosmonautics and an advanced science and technology >city, cooperate closely with the National Aerospace Agency (NASA), the >United States, and European Space Agency (ESA) to realize mutual space >programs.
	lists.puremagic.com /pipermail/robotgroup/2005-April/001415.html (259 words)

	Kashmir Overseas Association
		Acharya Chanakya being a great socio-political scientist at the university of Takshashila, became very upset with the invasion of Alexander, but did not loose his heart.
		We need to celebrate the 2350th birth anniversary of Acharya Chanakya-the great son of Bharata, with a vision of political integration to see Bharata as a federation with a central rule, after installing Chandragupta Maurya as the King of Bharata.
		Being the Adhishthhata/Dean and Acharya/Professor of the faculty of Politacal and Economic Thought of the Brihaspati and Shukra Niti at the Takshashila, he was himself talented in the hisory,criminology, law and legal institutions along with the theory and applied economics.
	www.kashmirgroup.com /kpi/kpi_one.jsp?sino=567 (2117 words)

	The `No-Soul' Gang Behind Reverend Moon's Gnostic Sex Cult
		Their early sessions featured such notables as Manhattan Project physicist Eugene Wigner, the lifelong ally of that truly mad scientist Leo Szilard (the model for Dr. Strangelove, in Stanley Kubrick's film of that name), and environmental fascists Alexander King and Aurelio Peccei, founders of the no-growth Club of Rome.
		Before looking back to the history of these projects, let us first briefly dispense with the person of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
		This was the mad phase of the Moonie assault on America, the reason behind that all-too-familiar empty smile and vacant stare, worn by Moon's clean-cut, young street-corner zombies.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2002/2949moonification.html (2117 words)

	Christine Halas on the James A. Van Allen Papers
		In 1935, Van Allen graduated summa cum laude from IWC and immediately began graduate study at The University of Iowa, where he received his M.S. in 1936 and Ph.D. in 1939, the latter under the guidance of Professor Alexander Ellett.
		Van Allen received the award from the King of Sweden at a ceremony held in Stockholm September 27, 1989.
		Van Allen returned to the Applied Physics Laboratory, where he organized a small cadre of scientists to conduct high altitude (or upper atmosphere) experiments using captured German V 2 rockets.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/halas.htm (2069 words)

	Bright Sparcs People Browse List - K
		Kingsmill, Henry Charles (- 1909), Meteorologist and Surveyor
		Kloot, Harry - see Kloot, Nigel Henry (1918 - 2000), Scientist
		King, James (1800 - 1857), Merchant and Vigneron
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/bs_brk_people.htm (551 words)

	Club of Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Club of Rome was founded in April 1968 by Aurelio Peccei, an Italian scholar and industrialist, and Alexander King, a Scottish scientist.
		The Club of Rome raised considerable public attention with its report The Limits to Growth, which has sold 30 million copies in more than 30 translations making it the best selling environment book in world history.
		The Club of Rome is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political issues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Club_of_Rome (429 words)

	Moonification of the Sciences
		Their early sessions featured such notables as Manhattan Project physicist Eugene Wigner, the lifelong ally of that truly mad scientist Leo Szilard (the model for Dr. Strangelove, in Stanley Kubrick’s film of that name), and environmental fascists Alexander King and Aurelio Peccei, founders of the no-growth Club of Rome.
		Before looking back to the history of these projects, let us first briefly dispense with the person of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
		In 1972, the Moonies were given the Unity of Sciences franchise, sponsoring the first of their still-ongoing International Conferences of the Unity of Sciences.
	www.21stcenturysciencetech.com /articles/wint02-03/Moonification.html (2341 words)

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