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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...east 3,500 years, and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of their civilization...
36: ...he [[Qin Dynasty|Qin]] (秦) Emperor lasted only twelve years, he managed to subdue great parts o...
92: ...back rooms, so his father would not see them. He only kept the most old and ugly servants, and old fur...
146: ...ired by the Ming. The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned and cannon...
148: ...the Ming economic system emphasized agriculture, unlike that of Song, which had preceded the Mongolian... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
20: ... Pierantonio had four sons and one daughter. But only the daughter, Prudenzia, survived to adulthood &...
34: ... father Orazio departed for [[Genoa]]. It is commonly believed that Artemisia followed her father (and...
42: ...trait of Gonfaloniere"''), today in [[Bologna]] (only known example of her capacity as portrait painte...
46: ...ated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some other journe...
52: ...t, and it was not possible to refuse. Orazio suddenly died in [[1639]]. Charles I was a fanatical coll... - Crocus (3680 bytes)
17: ...ons for the crocuses to bloom early, only to suddenly wither and die from a unseasonable "post-winter"...
32: The taxonomic characteristics are based mainly on the presence or absence of a prophyll (a basa... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
18: ... the West Coast of [[Africa]]. For centuries the only trade routes linking [[West Africa]] with the Me...
26: ... arrival unleashed, managed to conquer them with only a handful of men. Once Spanish suzereignancy was...
33: Portugal had some trouble expanding its empire inland, however, concentrating mostly on the coastal ...
40: ... expeditions of Cabot, Cartier and others were mainly hoping to find the [[Northwest passage]] and thu... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]] - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
10: ...ued into the reign of [[James I of England]], if only in the minds of the English, as a conditioned re...
20: ...ty percent of their population. This sickness mainly happened due to little food and poor shelter fro...
26: Pilgrims are commonly portrayed as wearing black and white clothing. ... - Mayflower (4074 bytes)
- Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
- List of painters (54090 bytes)
1151: *[[Eduard von Steinle]] ([[1810]]-[[1886]])
1152: *[[Théophile Steinlen]] ([[1859]]-[[1923]]) - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
12: ...368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]] of the [[Ming Dynasty]])
62: ...ond Book of Marvels'' said the Great Wall is the only man-made object visible from the [[moon]]. This...
64: ...ys [but] the Great Wall is almost invisible from only 180 miles (290 km) up." Astronaut [[William Pogu...
66: ...changes in lighting direction. The Great Wall is only a few meters wide - sized similar to highways an... - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
- Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
24: ...geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]] predicted that only crescent and new phases would be seen, since Ven...
39: ...esis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them. This principle was inc...
41: ...ieved this equality of period to be exact, it is only an approximation appropriate to small amplitudes...
43: ...time greater than when he and the assistant were only a few yards apart. While he could reach no concl...
53: ...d's Elements]]. This theory had become available only a century before, thanks to accurate translation... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
11: ...ief that he was physically repulsive, thoroughly unlikable and, compared to the other pupils, an outsi...
27: ... she refused to confess to the charges. However, only the courageous personal intervention of Kepler (...
40: ...t eliminate the irregular solids, because we are only concerned with orderly creation. There remain si...
46: ...served that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation [[Ophiuchus]]. (It...
54: ...to explain the behaviour of both earthly and heavenly bodies. - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
18: ... died before doing so, and Francis was left with only a fifth of that money. Having started with insu...
107: ...t.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/bacon_francis.html Online editions of Bacon's works] - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
- Colonial America (32872 bytes)
22: ...nd, found no trace of the colonists, discovering only the mysterious word "CROATOAN" carved on a tree....
29: ... a harvest, named the winter the Starving Times. Only a third of the colonists survived the first wint...
37: ...]]s out of the far-flung tobacco planters. Thus, unlike in [[Puritanism|Puritan]] New England, there w...
49: ... later relocated to [[Plymouth Colony]] on the mainland, establishing that settlement on [[December 21...
51: ...ing of [[1621]]. Later that year, the colonists enlisted the aid of [[Squanto]] and [[Samoset]], two ... - Jan Brueghel the Younger (1191 bytes)
- Diwali (5677 bytes)
- List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
443: *[[Ernst Leonard Lindel? (Finland, [[1870]] - [[1946]])
528: *[[Rolf Nevanlinna]] (Finland, [[1895]] - [[1980]])
555: *[[Paul Painlev靝 (France, [[1863]] - [[1933]])
690: *[[Richard P. Stanley]] (USA, born [[1944]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
214: *[[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius]], (AD 480-524 or 525){{fn|...
313: *[[Stanley Cavell]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
859: *[[William Stanley Jevons]], (1835-1882){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}
1061: *[[Philipp Mainl䮤er]]
1252: *[[Richard Stanley Peters]], (born 1919){{fn|O}}
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