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- St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
17: Directly to the east of the church is the elliptical [[Saint Peter's S...
22: ...60 feet (18 meters) across. It is not simply its vast scale (136.57 meters from from the floor of the c...
89: ... XII]], as well as the altar of [[Sebastian|St Sebastian]]. Even further up is the '''Chapel of the Ble...
91: ...e entrance (not an original detail). Along the pilasters are niches housing 39 statues of saints who fo...
97: ...is right hand), [[Saint Andrew|St Andrew]] (southeast, spread upon the cross which bears his name) and ... - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
10: * [[1624]] - Galileo presents his ''occhiolino'' to Prince...
15: ... in Physics for his invention of the [[phase contrast optical microscope]]. - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...gan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
4: ...ian to [[Rudolf II|Emperor Rudolf II]], and court astrologer to [[Albrecht von Wallenstein|General Wall...
13: ...o look at it." At age nine, he observed another astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]]...
15: ...for the vacant post of teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. ...
33: ...t circles. Using that knowledge, he was the first astronomer to successfully predict a [[transit of Ven... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
23: *[[1624]]-[[New Netherlands]] founded by the [[Dutch West... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
7: ...ign to recover the throne for the [[Jacobite]] dynasty.
9: ...feat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel [[Banastre Tarleton]] at the Battle of [[Cowpens]] in [[So...
46: ...1560]] - [[Gaspard Bauhin]], Swiss botanist (d. [[1624]])
50: *[[1763]] - [[John Jacob Astor]], American entrepreneur (d. [[1848]])
137: * [[1997]] - [[Clyde Tombaugh]], astronomer (b. [[1906]]) - Palermo (10618 bytes)
6: ...n around a natural harbour on the north-western coast of Sicily. The Phoenician name for the city may h...
8: ...t, Sicily and Palermo came under the rule of the Eastern [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] Empire.
10: This lasted until the [[9th century]], when [[Muslim]] forc...
14: The Norman dynasty did not last, and Sicily in [[1194]] fell under the control of...
16: ...he kingdom of the [[Two Sicilies]] inflicted a devastating blow on the elite of Palermo, as the city wa... - Albany, New York (8184 bytes)
5: ...145 miles (233 kilometers) north of and slightly east from [[New York City]], and slightly to the south...
17: founded = [[1624]] |
27: time zone = Eastern|
33: ... first trading post near present-day Albany. In [[1624]] [[Fort Orange]], the first permanent settlement...
67: ...any's downtown lies the Empire State Plaza. The Erastus Corning Tower stands 589 feet (180 meters) high... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
90: *[[Louis Boyer (astronomer)|Louis Boyer]] ([[France]])
132: *[[Josep Comas Sol ([[Spain]])<!--Last name = "Comas Solᦱuot;, list under C -->
166: *[[Terence Dickinson]], ([[Canada]]), astronomer and author
202: *[[Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer)|Charles Fehrenbach]] ([[France]], [[1914]... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century)
217: *[[Jakob B?]], (1575-1624){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...le covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importance to World History.
9: ...lived until 1607 while he explored the Atlantic coast.
27: ...d the land and built a wall "to see how it would last during the winter." Then, in order to increase hi...
29: ...d finding the easiest way to [[China]] and the [[East Indies]], as well as to find and exploit mines of...
43: ...n the leg by arrows, one in his knee. The attack lasted three hours until they were forced to flee. - Oslo (11319 bytes)
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39: Oslo was destroyed by fire in [[1624]], and was rebuilt at a new site across the bay, ...
41: ...tion has not appreciably changed this during the last century. While continuing to be the main cause o...
43: ...ral successive bursts of construction both in infrastructure and building mass, as the authorities kept...
52: * [[Akershus Fortress|Akershus Castle and Fortress]]
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