Action Painting - timeline of artists (Art Cyclopedia)  Actium - battle in 31 BC   - use of catapults   - very brief account (Leaders and Battles)  Act of Parliament  Act of Settlement - in 1701  Act of Supremacy - in 1534   - in Ireland in 1536   - in 1559  Act of Uniformity - in 1662  Act of Union - see Union, Act of  Acton, Eliza - brief biography (Food Reference)  Acton, John   - brief biography (Age of the Sage)  Acton Burnell  Acts of the Apostles - in the New Testament  acupuncture - in ancient China  AD - Anno Domini  Adam - and Mecca   - on the Sistine ceiling   - in Muslim mythology (Encyclopedia Mythica)  Adam and Eve - and the Fall   - in Jewish creation story   - in the Brancacci Chapel  Adam and Haiwa (Eve) - in Muslim mythology (Encyclopedia Mythica)  Adam, Adolphe - brief biography (BalletMet)   - brief biography (Karadar)   - and Giselle (English National Ballet)  Adam, James - Shire Hall, Hertford  Adam, Robert - brief biography   - timeline (SCRAN)   - brief biography (Britain Express)   - and Neoclassicism   - the Adam style   - and Charlotte Square   - and Chippendale   - Apsley House   - and Audley End   - Bowood House   - Bury St Edmunds   - Culzean Castle   - Garrick's villa   - Haddo House   - Harewood House   - Hopetoun House   - Kedleston   - Kenwood House   - Lloyd's building   - Luton Hoo   - Nostell Priory   - Old College, Edinburgh   - Osterley Park   - 20 Portman Square   - Pulteney Bridge, Bath   - Register House  Adam, William - Hopetoun House   - Dun House, brief history (Gazetteer for Scotland)  Adam Bede - George Eliot  Adam family - and Robert Adam   - Inveraray  Adam & Page Warehouse - exterior  Adamites - brief account (Ex Libris)  Adams, Abigail - brief biography (Thomson Gale)  Adams, Anselm - brief biography (Spartacus) V V  Adams, Bodkin  Adams, Douglas - dedicated site (Douglas Adams)  Adams, Gerry - and Irish peace process   - brief biography (CAIN Web Service)  Adams, John - in Paris in 1783   - and the XYZ Affair   - president of the U.S.A.   - brief biography (White House)   - longer biography (Historical Text Archive)  Adams, John (composer) - brief biography (San Francisco Symphony)   - brief biography (New Albion)  Adams, John Couch - brief biography (University of St Andrews)  Adams, John Quincy - National Republican party   - brief biography (White House)  Adams, Richard - Watership Down   - brief biography (Penguin)  Adams, Thomas - brief biography (Inventors)  Adams, Tony - career in 6 parts (Sporting Heroes)  Adamson, Joy - brief biography (Who2)  Adamson, Robert   - see also David Octavius Hill  Adcock, Fleur - brief biography (Emory University)  Addams, Charles - brief biography (Lambiek)  Addams, Jane - brief biography (Thomson Gale)   - brief biography (PBS)  addiction - to alcohol   - to opium   - to tobacco  Addington, Henry - replaces Pitt   - brief biography (Web of English History)   - brief biography (Royal Berkshire History)  Addinsell, Richard - Warsaw Concerto  Addis Ababa - founded in 1886   - peace treaty in 1896   - falls to Italians in 1936   - return of Haile Selassie in 1941   - and the OAU  Addis Ababa Agreement - in 1972  Addison, Joseph - and the Tatler   - and the Spectator   - brief biography   - brief biography (Literary Heritage)  Addison, Thomas - Guy's Hospital   - brief biography (Who Named It)  Addled Parliament - of 1614   - brief account  Adela - daughter of William the Conqueror  Adelaide - founded in 1836   - brief history of city (Lonely Planet)  Adelaide, St - brief biography (Women's History)  Adelphi  ADEMA - in Mali  Aden - seized by the British  Aden and Britain   - brief history (Port of Aden)  Adena culture - in Ohio valley  Adenauer, Konrad - brief biography(CNN)   - career (Age of the Sage)   - brief biography in French Seminaire de Sherbrooke)   - brief biography in German (Rasscass)  Adès, Thomas - career (EMI Classics)  Adler, Alfred - and Individual Psychology (Shippensburg University)   - brief biography (Adler Institute)>/I>   - brief biography (Wikipedia)  Adler, Larry - career (Iceberg)  Adler and Sullivan - views of skyscrapers (Boston College)  Adlington Hall - brief history (Adlington Hall**)   - brief biography (Illustrated Architecture Dictionary)  Adminius - and Verulamium  Admirable Crichton - by Barrie  Admiral's Cup  Admiral's Men (actors)   - brief account (Encyclopedia Britannica)  Admiralty  Admiralty Arch  Adolphus Frederick - king of Sweden  Adonis - brief account of myth (Encyclopedia Mythica)  Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said) - brief biography (Kirjasto)  Adophe, Bruce - brief biography (Karadar)  Adorno, Theodor - brief biography (Emory University)   - and critical theory (John Hopkins University)  Adrian I - 8th-century pope  Adrian IV - and the grant of Ireland to Henry II   - brief biography   - brief biography (University of Houston) **  Adrian, Edgar Douglas   - research using EEG   - brief biography (Nobel e-Museum)  Adrian Mole (Townsend)  Adrianople - battle in AD 378   - falls to Ottoman Turks   - very brief account of battle (Leaders and Battles)   - brief account (Metropolitan Museum)  Aduwa - battle in 1896  advocate (in Scotland)   - and barrister  Ady, Endre - brief biography (Kirjasto)  Adygea - brief history (Caucasus Foundation)  Aegean art - brief account (Art History)  AEGEAN CIVILIZATION   - tour through time  Aegina - captured by Athens in 457 BC   - remains with Athens under Thirty Year Treaty   - very brief account of battle (Leaders and Battles)  Aegisthus - brief account of myth (Encyclopedia Mythica)  Aegospotami, battle in 405 BC (Leaders and Battles)  Aelgifu - brief biography (Women's History)  Aelia Capitolina - Hadrian's Jerusalem  Aelli - first bretwalda  Aeneid - of Virgil  aerobatics - brief history (Hickok Sports)  aerobics - brief history (Hickok Sports)  Aerosmith - brief account (Rock+Roll)  Aerospace Museum, Albrighton  Aeschylus   - veteran of Marathon   - brief biography (Temple University)   - brief biography (Moonstruck)  Aesop - text of the fables (Online Library of Literature)  Aesop - brief account (Malaspina)   - brief biography in Spanish (Terra)  Aesthetic Movement  Aethelbert - see Ethelbert  Aethelflaed - see Ethelfled  Afars and Issas - French Territory  AFC - in Niger  affair of the placards - in 1534  AFGHANISTAN   - dedicated site (Afghanpedia)   - brief history (Lonely Planet)   - narrative history 550 BC - 1978 (Library of Congress Country Studies)   - chronology of Ghaznavid dynasty, 977-1186 (History Files)   - civil war since 1989 (Federation of American Scientists)   - contemporary facts and figures (BBC)   - map of frontiers and towns (University of Texas**)   - index to online maps (University of Texas)  Afonso I - king of Portugal  Afonso IV - and Inês de Castro  AFRICA   - see also North Africa   - see also sub-Saharan Africa   - tour through time   - in Greek map of the world   - first sea voyage round the continent   - rock painting (Metropolitan Museum)   - and the earliest castles   - early influence of Islam (Metropolitan Museum)   - map of frontiers and towns (University of Texas**)   - index to online maps (University of Texas)  AFRICAN ART  African Association - of 1788  African Economic Community Treaty - 1991  African Lakes Company - in Nyasaland  African National Congress   - in Northern Rhodesia  African Queen, The - film 1951 (Greatest Films) V V  Afrikaans - and literature  Afrikaans and Afrikaners - origin  Afrikaner Nationalist Party - from 1914  Afrikaner Party - Botha and Smuts  Afro-Shirazi party - in Zanzibar