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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...aval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
22: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]]) - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...ba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
4: *[[Patriarch Acacius|Acacius, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Consta...
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world ti...
6: *[[Bernard Accama|Accama, Bernard]] (1697-1756), Dutch painter
7: ...irk Acevedo|Acevedo, Kirk]] (born 1974), Puerto Rican actor - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech architect
5: *[[Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
9: ...al writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
13: *[[Thomas Aikenhead|Aikenhead, Thomas]], (died 1697), hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
16: ...[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...nized sound(s). The question of what the art form called music actually consists of is something that ...
4: ...psilon;χνη)) by way of the Latin ''musica''. It is ultimately derived from ''mousa'', the G...
6: Later, in Rome, ''ars musica'' embraced [[poetry]] as well as what we now thin...
8: ...a instrumentalis]]. Of those, only the last - musica instrumentalis - referred to music as performed s...
10: ... be heard - music refers strictly to the mathematical proportions. From this concept later resulted th... - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
22: *[[Darlene Quaife|Quaife, Darlene]], Canadian writer
27: ...[Johann Joachim Quantz|Quantz, Johann Joachim]], (1697-1773), composer
30: *[[Don Quarrie|Quarrie, Don]], (born 1951), Jamaican athlete
31: *[[Paul Quarrington|Quarrington, Paul]], Canadian writer
33: *[[Juda Quastel|Quastel, Juda]], British/Canada biochemist - 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]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
50: ...]] grants charter for a new colony, [[Province of Carolina]]
54: ...lina|Charleston]]) founded in present-day [[South Carolina]]
66: *[[1689]]-[[King William's War]] (1689-1697), part of the wider [[War of the Grand Alliance]]... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
2: [[Image:Locke-John-portrait-photo-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Image provided by [htt...
3: ...enment]] period. Locke has been placed in a group called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [...
6: ...Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical material taught at the University.
8: ...ee in [[1658]]. Although Locke never became a medical doctor, he earned a bachelor of medicine in [[16...
10: ...m had a major impact on Locke's natural philosophical thinking - an impact that resonated deeply in Lo... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...an]] ''Venezia''), the city of [[canal]]s, is the capital of the region of [[Veneto]], population 271,...
6: ...tate]] (an Italian [[thalassocracy]] or ''Repubblica Marinara'', the other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pi...
10: ...gean]], including [[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]], and became a major power-broker in the [[Near East]]. By t...
12: Venice became an imperial power following the [[Fourth Crusad...
14: ...[[knight tenure]] within the city itself. The ''[[Cavalieri di San Marco]]'' was the only order of [[c... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
1: ... The Maya were part of the [[Mesoamerica|Mesoamerican]] [[Pre-Columbian]] cultures. Contrary to popula...
5: ...y Maya and their neighboring Pre-Classic Mesoamerican civilization, the [[Olmec]] culture. The Olmec ...
9: ... faded after spreading its influence into the [[Yucatan]] peninsula, present-day [[Guatemala]], and ot...
11: ...d stone slabs usually called ''stelae'' (the Maya called them ''Tetun'', or "Tree-stones"), which depi...
13: ...[obsidian]]; see also: [[Obsidian use in Mesoamerica]]. - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ...[[1715]]) was a [[England|English]] explorer, sea captain, and scientific observer. He was the first E...
4: ...674]] he worked as a plantation manager on [[Jamaica]], but he soon returned to the sea,
7: ...h settlements in [[Peru]] before returning to the Caribbean.
9: ...t across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], calling at [[Guam]] and [[Mindanao]]. Leaving Swan a...
11: ...Dampier returned to England in [[1691]] via the [[Cape of Good Hope]], penniless but in possession of ... - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
1: [[Image:Captain_Kidd.jpg|right|thumb|200px|]]
2: ...enock]], [[Scotland]]. He later emigrated to America settling in [[New York]]. There he married Sarah ...
6: .... As the voyage progressed Kidd’s actions became increasingly more like those of a pirate than a...
8: ... mutinous. They wanted to take the Dutch ship but Captain Kidd refused, according to Gilbert stating h...
10: ...prize and only later realised that he had in fact captured an English ship. Kidd tried to persuade hi... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...ts to the [[glass harmonica]], and possibly [[bifocals]].
17: ...ptember 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[July 9]], [[1699]]), Ebenezer ([[Sep...
21: ...t son. His schooling ended at ten and at 12 he became an [[apprenticeship|apprentice]] to his brother...
23: ...Franklin a forum for agitating for a variety of local reforms. His intelligence combined with a great... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...elow in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ... Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
37: *[[Cahit Arf]] (Turkey, [[1910]] - [[1997]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]]...
106: *[[Jonathan Borwein]] (Scotland/Canada, [[1951]]-) - 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]]) - 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]]. - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19th century, they exerted i...
5: ...h;1918 was often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the sa...
7: ... the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further ...
15: ...ius Quinctilius Varus]] was defeated by the Cheruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of...
21: ...AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of the Chur... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ...people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19th century, they exerted i...
5: ...h;1918 was often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the sa...
7: ... the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further ...
15: ...ius Quinctilius Varus]] was defeated by the Cheruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of...
21: ...AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of the Chur... - Maya (24836 bytes)
1: ... The Maya were part of the [[Mesoamerica|Mesoamerican]] [[Pre-Columbian]] cultures. Contrary to popula...
5: ...y Maya and their neighboring Pre-Classic Mesoamerican civilization, the [[Olmec]] culture. The Olmec ...
9: ... faded after spreading its influence into the [[Yucatan]] peninsula, present-day [[Guatemala]], and ot...
11: ...d stone slabs usually called ''stelae'' (the Maya called them ''Tetun'', or "Tree-stones"), which depi...
13: ...[obsidian]]; see also: [[Obsidian use in Mesoamerica]].
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