See Also: Taine, Hippolyte (-Adolphe)(encyclopedia)
Ngami, Lake(encyclopedia)
Cloquet, Hippolyte(medicine)
LaFontaine, Sir Louis Hippolyte, Baronet(encyclopedia)
Sax, Adolphe(encyclopedia)
Adolphe (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Gubler, Adolphe(medicine)
Bouguereau, William (-Adolphe)(encyclopedia)
Thiers, (Louis-) Adolphe(encyclopedia)
Quetelet, (Lambert) Adolphe (Jacques)(encyclopedia)

Ngami, Lake (sh) and Taine, Hippolyte (-Adolphe) (sh)


Ngami, Lake (sh)




Shallow lake, northwestern Botswana, north of the Kalahari Desert.

It was a large lake, estimated at more than 170 mi (275 km) in circumference when the explorer David Livingstone sighted it in 1849. The lake varies in size with the amount of rainfall, and, although it is much smaller today than in Livingstone's time, it is rich in birdlife.


Taine, Hippolyte (-Adolphe) (sh)




born April 21, 1828, Vouziers, Ardennes, France
died March 5, 1893, Paris

French thinker, critic, and historian.

Taine came to believe as a youth that knowledge must be based on sense experience, observation, and controlled experiment, a conviction that guided his career. Teaching at the ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1864-83), he earned a reputation as one of the most esteemed exponents of 19th-century French positivism with his attempts to apply the scientific method to the study of the humanities. His works include a History of English Literature (1863-64), containing an explanation of his approach to cultural and literary history and his scientific attitude toward criticism; On Intelligence (1871), a study in psychology; and his monumental historical analysis Les Origines de la France contemporaine, 3 vol. (1876-99).