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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
    14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
    21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
    23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
    38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [...
  2. Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
    3: ...ileschi''' ([[July 8]], [[1593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[...
    10: ...elden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Carava...
    12: ..., so Orazio hired the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that ...
    14: ...apped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularly cruel torture to a painter. Bot...
    18: ... Virgin Mary with Baby"''), currently in the [[Spada Gallery]], [[Rome]].
  3. Guyana (12153 bytes)
    40: <br>&nbsp;- Date
    62: ...blished three separate colonies; [[Essequibo]] ([[1616]]), [[Berbice]] ([[1627]]), and [[Demerara]] ([[1...
    78: ...ly elected; each party presenting a slate of candidates for the assembly must designate in advance a l...
    121: ...is doesn't take into account departures for [[Canada]] or [[Britain]]), and demand to emigrate remains...
    140: <CAPTION><font size="+1">'''Holidays'''</font></caption>
  4. Israel (51605 bytes)
    1: ...orders the states of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to...
    6: ...5;&#1587;&#1585;&#1575;&#1574;&#1610;&#1604;<br>("Dawlat Israil") |
    38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[May...
    60: ...Emperor [[Hadrian]] renamed ''Provincia [[Judea|Judaea]]'' to ''Provincia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Gr...
    62: ...he [[Mishnah]] and [[Jerusalem Talmud]], two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were compose...
  5. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    37: established_dates = 1801<sup>5</sup>|
    47: *[[Welsh language|Welsh]]: ''Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon''
    54: ...ions of [[England]], [[Wales]] and [[Scotland]] &mdash; are located on the island of [[Great Britain]]...
    58: ...ted Kingdom, forming [[Northern Ireland]] to this day.
    62: ...Ireland). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotl...
  6. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
    11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
    29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
    45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
    110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-)
  7. Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
    5: ...n in the table are the commonly used conventional dates marking the generally agreed point at which po...
    7: There is, however, still much dispute about dates in the Western Zhou period and earlier. It sho...
    9: ...sty itself was established in [[1636]] (or even [[1616]], albeit under a different name), while the last...
  8. Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
    2: ...Galilei''' ([[Pisa]], [[February 15]], [[1564]] &ndash; [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [...
    14: Later research, however, has validated the experiments. The experiments on falling bo...
    26: ...e little doubt that both of them were beaten by [[David Fabricius]] and his son [[Johannes Fabricius|J...
    39: ...y'' unless a [[force]] &mdash;often [[friction]]&mdash; acts upon them, refuting the accepted Aristote...
    53: ...athematical methods were the standard ones of the day. The analyses and proofs relied heavily on the [...
  9. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
    2: ...Viscount St Albans''' ([[January 22]], [[1561]] &ndash; [[April 9]], [[1626]]) was an [[England|Englis...
    8: ...mber of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married ...
    25: ...]ship fell vacant in 1594 and Bacon became a candidate for the office, Lord Essex's influence could no...
    31: ...ment session Bacon married [[Alice Barnham]], the daughter of a London merchant. Little or nothing is ...
    35: ...d in this capacity he would prosecute Somerset in 1616. The parliament of April 1614 objected to Bacon'...
  10. Dentistry (9670 bytes)
    13: ...y the [[American Dental Association]][http://www.ada.org/prof/ed/specialties/definitions.asp] and requ...
    15: ...l courses" that typically last for one to several days. There are restrictions on allowing these denti...
    20: ...mb|''Farmer at the dentist'', [[Johann Liss]], c. 1616-17.]]
    24: ...ormation contained in the [[Edwin Smith Papyrus]] dates as early as [[3000 BC]] and includes the treat...
    26: ... history of dentistry refer to the ''[http://www.idakerala.org/dentistryhome.asp Indian Dental Associa...
  11. Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
    3: ...hemia]] (now [[Czech Republic]])) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer...
    8: ...leman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark|Danish]] King's court. [[Beate Bille]], Tycho's moth...
    10: ...ter wrote that when he was around two, his uncle, Danish nobleman [[J? Brahe]], ''... without the know...
    18: ...rrelled with Parsbjerg. A subsequent duel (in the dark) resulted in Tycho losing the bridge of his nos...
    26: ...in Knudstrup Tycho fell in love with [[Kirsten J?sdatter]] who was a commoner, her father, Pastor Jorg...
  12. Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
    1: ...count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[1478]] &ndash; [[February 2]], [[1529]]), one of the most imp...
    5: <tr><td>'''Baldassare Castiglione'''</td></tr>
    10: ... of his missions to [[Rome]], he met [[Guidubaldo da Montefeltro]], duke of [[Urbino]], and in [[1504]...
    17: ..., though in a literary form, like with [[Ludovico da Canossa]].
    21: ... Mantua, where he married Ippolita Torelli, descendant of another ancient noble family. He wrote two p...
  13. William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
    2: ...dash; [[April 23]], [[1616]] (O.S.), [[May 3]], [[1616]] ([[New Style|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[po...
    6: ...between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Chronology of Shakespeare plays|chronolo...
    8: ...any [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
    12: ...espeare{{fn|1}}&mdash;actor, playwright and poet&mdash;was one individual whose life can be clearly ma...
    14: ...be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [[Feast Day]] of [[Saint George]], [[patron saint]] of Engla...
  14. Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
    4: ...llenges global governance |date=2009-04-09 |accessdate=2009-04-09 |publisher=[[Open Democracy]]}}</ref...
    29: ...im raiders [[Sack of Rome (846)|sacked Rome]] and damaged the Vatican. In 911, the bishop of [[Narbonn...
    31: ...] tribe settled the land of [[Pagania]] between [[Dalmatia]] and [[Zachlumia]] in the first half of th...
    39: ...[[North Sea]] and the Baltic Sea was seriously in danger of attack by the pirates.
    47: ...vilization.ca/aborig/haida/havwa01e.html|title=Haida Warfare}}</ref>
  15. Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
    1: ...sDrake.jpg|framed|Sir Francis Drake, c. [[1540]]&ndash;[[1596]].]]
    2: ...he English fleet which defeated the [[Spanish Armada]] in [[1588]].
    7: ...n and could be as early as [[1535]]. The [[1540]] date is taken from a portrait painted quite late in ...
    12: ...se attack in violation of a truce agreed to a few days before, nearly costing Drake his life. From the...
    13: ..., Drake raided the waters around [[Dari鮬 Panama|Darien]] (in modern [[Panama]]) and tracked the Silv...
  16. Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
    1: ...closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes was one of the key thinkers of the S...
    6: ...n Locke|Locke]], [[George Berkeley|Berkeley]] & [[David Hume|Hume]]. Leibniz, Spinoza, and Descartes w...
    11: ...''Baccalauréat'' and ''Licence'' in [[law]] in [[1616]].
    16: ...ivotal point in young Descartes' life and the foundation on which he develops analytical geometry. He...
    22: Although Descartes never married, he fathered a daughter [[Francine Descartes|Francine]], born in [[...
  17. Inquisition (9274 bytes)
    5: ...ike many other religions (e.g., [[Buddhism]], [[Judaism]], [[Islam]]), the Catholic Church has a hiera...
    7: ...in Jerusalem]] to deal with the heresy of the [[Judaizers]], who had contended with the Jerusalem fact...
    16: ...fficial letter from the Pope, entitled ''Ad abolendam''; "For the purpose of doing away with". The Inq...
    28: ...anon law, who advise it on specific questions. In 1616 these consultants gave their assessment of the pr...
    38: *Some Christian fundamentalist authors like [[Jack Chick]] and [[Albert...
  18. Alchemy (42222 bytes)
    11: ...ticism]] and [[magic (paranormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and beliefs have...
    17: ...latanism, and in the end providing some of the fundamental [[empirical knowledge]] of the fields of ch...
    23: ...ans of [[electrolysis]] or [[sonic cavitation]] &mdash; were the pivot of the [[cold fusion]] controve...
    25: ...ks such as ''[[The Tao of Physics]]'' and ''[[The Dancing Wu Li Masters]]''.
    27: ... As the obscure &mdash; ''hermetic'', of course &mdash; language of the alchemists is gradually being ...
  19. Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
    3: '''Samuel de Champlain''' ([[c.]][[1567]] &ndash; [[ 25 December]] [[1635]]) was a [[France|Fren...
    21: ... a group of [[Iroquois]]. A battle began the next day. Two hundred Iroquois advanced on Champlain's po...
    43: ...ed their journey by land. They followed the [[Oneida River]] until they found themselves at an Iroquoi...
    45: ...anners, customs, modes of life". On [[May 22]], [[1616]] he left the Huron country and was back in Quebe...
    55: ...to the city. By the spring of 1629 supplies were dangerously low and Champlain was forced to send peo...
  20. Baffin Bay (763 bytes)
    5: ...the north. It connects to the Atlantic through [[Davis Strait]], and to the Arctic through several na...
    7: ...fin]], the first person to navigate the bay, in [[1616]].

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