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- Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...ce by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father [[Henr...
13: ...]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]...
16: ..., along with her half-sister, Mary, daughter of [[Catherine of Aragon]], was reinstated in the line of...
18: ...st Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth became queen in [[1558]].
20: ...lerant. Elizabeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. L... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...le]]. In addition, his conflict with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example ...
4: ==Early career==
10: ...sophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
14: ...howed the reality of the experiments and even indicated the particular results that led to the time-sq...
18: ...ses. He published his initial telescopic astronomical [[observation]]s in March [[1610]] in a short tr... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...ory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientif...
4: ...ler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei...
9: ...fortunes were in decline. His father earned a precarious living as a [[mercenary]], and abandoned the...
11: ...ied, and was plagued by a belief that he was physically repulsive, thoroughly unlikable and, compared ...
13: ... of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being "called outdoors" to see it and that the moon "appear... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...odology for [[science|scientific]] inquiry, often called the ''[[Baconian method]]''. Induction implie...
10: ...ater, was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1573 at the age of 13, living for th...
12: ...y his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the young Lord Keeper."
16: ...of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction.
18: ... with insufficient means, he borrowed money and became habitually in debt. To support himself, he took... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...ocial]], [[religion|religious]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
4: ... recognize four regions in the lands that later became the eastern United States. Listed from north t...
9: ...nd colonization in many ways. A revival in classical learning sparked an interest in [[geography]] an...
11: ...rative [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]].
16: ...ing of colonies was piecemeal and variable. Practical considerations such as [[business|commercial ent... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
4: <tr><td>[[image:mercator.jpg|200px|Gerardus Mercator]]</td></tr>
7: ...pher]] of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] named after him.
9: ...] to construct a terrestrial [[globe]]. Later, Mercator produced a map of [[Palestine (region)|Palesti...
11: ...rmapFullEurope16thcentury.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Mercator map of Europe]]
12: ...552]], he moved to [[Duisburg]] where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
43: *[[Caspar Buberl]] (1834 - 1899)
48: *[[Alexander Calder]] (1898 - 1976)
49: *[[Alexander Milne Calder]] (1845 - 1923) - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
7: ...fe, [[Protestant]] farmers. (Edmund Drake later became a [[preacher]]). His maternal grandfather was [...
9: ...rth Sea]], and eventually, after the death of the captain for whom he was sailing, becoming the master...
12: ... due to his mistrust of non-Spaniards and their [[Catholicism]]. His hostility is said to have been in...
13: ...e Drake's accomplishment. Such intrigues were typical during Drake's era.
16: ...d to be abandoned on the east coast of South America. During the course of the voyage, Drake discovere... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
39: ...tarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
55: *[[John Bahcall]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1934]] – )
109: *[[William Wallace Campbell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1862]] – ...
110: *[[Annie Jump Cannon]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1863]] – [[...
111: *[[Luigi Carnera]] ([[Italy]], [[1875]] – [[1962]]) - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...ture of [[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]] (such as the [[caste system]] and [[purdah]], respectively). Sikhis...
4: ...[Sri Lanka]], east to [[Bengal]] and west to [[Mecca]] and [[Baghdad]]) Guru Nanak preached to Hindus,...
6: [[Guru Nanak]] was opposed to the caste system. His followers referred to him as the g...
10: ... Creator. Guru Nanak called God the "True Name" because he wanted to avoid any limiting terms for God....
12: ...il, so that only spiritual minds, free of desire, can penetrate it by the grace of the Guru (Gurprasad... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ... mythology|mythology]] and cultural heritage. The capital was [[Tenochtitlan]], built on raised islets...
7: ...Mexicas alone. This article deals with the historical Aztec civilization, not with modern-day Nahuatl ...
9: ...their city of origin. Their use of the word ''Azteca'' was like the modern use of ''Latino'', or ''Med...
11: ... Mexica. The [[conquistadores]] knew them as "Mexica".
13: ...tzilopochtli]] signaling the location where their capital city [[Tenochtitlan]] should be built. This... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
19: | '''[[Capital]]'''
26: | ''ca'' 40 million
29: ...m km² (1902); 19.9m km² maximum extent (1595)
45: ...tolia]], the [[Middle East]], part of [[North Africa]], and south-eastern [[Europe]]. It was establish...
47: ...ar I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites establish... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
2: ... was [[Babylon]]. The earliest mention of Babylon can be found in a tablet of the reign of [[Sargon of...
7: ...rs, but then the [[Hittites]] sacked Babylon in [[1595 BC]], installing the [[Kassite]] dynasty. Its cit...
11: ...ominent status, or revolting at the slightest indication that it did not. However, the Assyrians alwa...
15: ...potamia]]. Meanwhile, Nabonidus had established a camp in the desert, near the southern frontier of hi...
17: ...A public mourning followed, lasting six days, and Cambyses accompanied the corpse to the tomb. - Sumer (14409 bytes)
5: ...ed as a [[language isolate]] in [[Linguistics]] because it belongs to no known language family, as com...
10: ...us [[city-state]]s, each centered on a temple dedicated to the patron [[god]] of the city and ruled ov...
14: ...ome to suggest that Gilgamesh really was a historical king of Uruk.
16: ...at of '''Eannatum''' of Lagash, who annexed practically all of Sumer, including Kish, Uruk, Ur, and [[...
18: ...n Gulf to the Mediterranean. He is the last ethnically Sumerian king before the arrival of the Semiti... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...tate under the King of Sicily. The medi涡l Order can be said to have come to an end following its eje...
5: ...rno]] in [[Italy]] were given permission by the [[Caliph]] Haroun el Raschid of [[Egypt]] to rebuild t...
7: ...epulchre]] in Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem bu...
9: ...e [[Krak des Chevaliers]], and [[Margat]], both located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The propert...
15: ...s well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]]. - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
3: ...tical]] boundaries, many often feature [[geopolitical]], [[social]], [[religious]] and [[economic]] [[...
7: ...not called by that name at the time of their publication.
9: ...]], a [[geographer]] working in [[Alexandria]] circa A.D. 150. The first edition was published in [[B...
11: ...atlas was not in use in 1544, these works are now called "IATO" atlases - (Italian, Assembled to Order...
13: ...maps to a uniform size. It was an immediate critical and commercial success.
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