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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ... the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford Motor Company's]] large [[Sport utility vehicle|SUV]], see [[Ford Exped...
11: ...Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
12: *[[Jorge Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first t...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
16: *[[Pedro de Alvarado]] - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...egno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, at ...
7: ...r father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style was just a...
10: ... (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...si. Even though Tassi initially promised to marry Artemisia in order to restore her reputation, he lat...
14: ... of the trial Tassi was imprisoned for just one year. The trial has subsequently influenced the [[femi... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention i...
7: ...language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
11: * 50 KYA: [[Bow (weapon)|Bow]] and [[arrow]] in [[Tunisia]]
37: * 3500 BC: [[Carts]] in [[Sumer]]
54: ...oke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
5: Shortcuts to highly popular [[painter]]s:
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] ...
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painte... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
11: *[[Archimedes]], (circa 287 BC-212 BC), [[Greece]]
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
13: ...m George Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
14: ...,(1927 - June, 1996)of the [[Canada|Canadian]] Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potat... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... of authority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
4: ==Early career==
7: ... this time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
10: ...rom [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of...
12: ...of the [[1600s]]. According to Koyr鬠the law was arrived at deductively, and the experiments were mer... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...calculus]]. While they both discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collabo...
4: ... light was composed of [[particle]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]). He was the first to realise that...
6: ... in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of [[star]]s.
8: == Early life ==
12: ... more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life and achievements]].'' - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: {{dablink|This article covers the History of California through 190...
3: ...the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in the population of native inhabitan...
5: ...terest primarily populated by [[missionary|missionaries]] and fur trappers, to a land of opportunity a...
11: ...e age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about 13,000 years ago.
13: ...n [[Cascade Range]] traded [[obsidian]], used for arrowheads, axe heads, and knives. Tribes in the [[... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: ...t Gallery]]), in the famous [[Chandos portrait]], artist and authenticity unconfirmed.]]
2: '''William Shakespeare''' (April [[1564]]; [[baptism|baptised]] [[April...
4: ...ntinually performed all around the world. Shakespeare was among the very few playwrights who have exce...
6: ...sive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 years.
8: ...]], and the many [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works. - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because...
7: ...]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint Domenico near [[Naples]]. In [[1572]] he was ordained a priest.
9: ...y to the earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A...
10: ...e spandrels are the four [[classical element]]s: earth, air fire, water]]
11: ...omas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Nicholas of Cusa]]. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
7: *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869-1910), German chemist
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and min...
9: *[[Johan August Arfwedson]], (1792-1841), Swedish chemist
10: *[[Svante Arrhenius]], (1859-1927), Swedish chemist and physic...
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American ch... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...t|astrological charts]] were drawn up by cultures around the world using the raw, astronomical data co...
4: ...nets will move an appreciable amount during a comparatively short time.
8: ...[http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]Early [[culture]]s identifed celestial objects with [...
10: ...lendar|calendar reform]] and created the [[leap year]].
14: ...o the first millennium BC, but their contents appear to be much older. - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ..., portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]]
3: ...s main shorelines were mapped. Cook was also a [[cartographer|map maker]].
7: ...and James, Sr., who worked as a day laborer on a farm. As a child, Cook moved with his family to [[G...
8: ...n 1755 on the eve of the [[Seven Years War]] to start again at the lowest level in the British [[Royal...
10: ...d chartofcook.jpg|thumb|200px|James Cook's 1775 Chart of Newfoundland]] - March 20 (10075 bytes)
1: ...gorian Calendar]] (80th in [[Leap year]]s). There are 286 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
11: ... regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
12: *[[1848]] – King [[Ludwig I of Bavaria]] abdicates.
13: *[[1852]] – [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' i... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[a...
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
10: *[[Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar]] ([[1930]] - )
11: *[[Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi]]
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [...
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872...
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[18...
24: ...[Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi|Albumasar]] ([[Persia]] [[787]] - [[886]])
26: *[[Harold Alden]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1890]] &ndas... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
6: ...s|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
8: ==Early life and education==
10: ...the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinson (scholar)|John Wilkinson]] and he had some influence on Ho...
12: ...aron of Hardwick (and later [[Duke of Devonshire|Earl of Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connectio...
14: ...wed that democratic government could not survive war or provide stability and was thus undesirable. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}}
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764) - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...Malacca]]. The lowest point on earth—the [[Mariana Trench]]—lies some 10,911 m (35,797 ft)...
5: ...e world's oceans combined), the majority of which are found south of the equator. (See: [[Pacific Isla...
7: ...gular margins lie many seas, the largest of which are the [[Celebes Sea]], [[Coral Sea]], [[East China...
9: ...arthquake]]s. [[Tsunami]]s, caused by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and wiped o...
15: .... Most of the trenches lie adjacent to the outer margins of the wide western Pacific continental shelf... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
3: ... century]] been preoccupied with the question of large-scale patterns and trends in the development of...
7: ... communication can be practically instantaneous. Earlier, most natural philosophers worked in relative...
9: ...lishing process, as well as the internal disciplinary limitations to the scientific publication proces...
13: ...erested in empirical inquiry, and also more familiar with and more educated about the subject.
15: ...ope, in a practical sense it has usually centered around wherever it could find the most funding.
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