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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. The Gambia (13678 bytes)
    25: | [[Serrekunda]]
    36: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br>&nbsp;- Date
    40: | [[Dalasi]] (D)
    59: ...y letters patent from [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. In [[1618]], [[King James I]] granted a charter to a Britis...
    61: ...a, but the French retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on the north bank of the river, which was ceded t...
  4. Germany (46412 bytes)
    15: ...| [[List of national anthems|National anthem]]: [[Das Lied der Deutschen]]<br>3rd stanza (''Einigkeit ...
    51: <sup>1</sup> [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Low German language|Low German]], [[Sorb...
    61: ...lector]]s of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. From ''Bildatlas der Deutschen Geschichte'' by Dr Paul Kn? (18...
    66: ... inter-German strife, the [[Thirty Years War]] ([[1618]]) and finally the [[Peace of Westphalia]] ([[164...
    78: [[Image:Reichsgruendung2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Foundation of modern Germany, Versailles, 1871. Bismarck...
  5. 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...
  6. Comet (30542 bytes)
    9: ... tail, pointed in slightly different directions &mdash; dust being left behind in the comet's orbit (s...
    15: ...like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary surfaces allows them to absorb ...
    29: ...0," the "Great September Comet of 1882," and the "Daylight Comet of 1910." After [[Edmund Halley]] de...
    31: ...0 comets and is conducting a contest to guess the date of its 1000th comet discovery.{{hnote|SOHO (200...
    45: ... things being very limited.{{hnote|Sagan, pp. 23&ndash;24}} However, the Aristotelean viewpoint proved...
  7. 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]]-)
  8. Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
    2: ...''Johannes Kepler''' ([[December 27]], [[1571]] &ndash; [[November 15]], [[1630]]), a key figure in th...
    9: ...hen Johannes was 17. His mother, an inn-keeper's daughter, had a reputation for involvement in [[witc...
    25: On [[March 8]], [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary mo...
    33: ...on was inconsistent with that data. Using Tycho's data, Kepler was able to formulate three laws of pla...
    35: ...he five intervals between the six known planets &mdash; [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], [[Venus (planet)...
  9. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
    2: ...ted in [[1603]], created '''Baron Verulam''' in [[1618]], and created '''Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621...
    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 ...
    37: ...re (which was that he should be released in a few days), and to be incapable of holding office or sitt...
  10. January 1 (18244 bytes)
    1: ... holiday when gifts were exchanged. There are 364 days remaining (365 in [[leap year]]s).
    3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
    6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
    8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
    10: ...0]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
  11. 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...
    13: ...tes never actually practiced law, however, and in 1618 he entered the service of Prince [[Maurice of Nas...
    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 [[...
  12. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
    15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn...
    19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
    20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}}
    21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
  13. Quran (41479 bytes)
    2: ...he '''Qur'an''' ({{lang-ar|&#1571;&#1614;&#1604;&#1618;&#1602;&#1615;&#1585;&#1570;&#1606;}} ''al-qur'&#...
    10: ...an in a week or a month, one manzil or one juz' a day, respectively. A juz' is sometimes further divid...
    16: ...e model for the literary language remains to this day the speech used in Qur'anic times, rather than t...
    26: ... Iblis"), and even stories (such as the story of Adam) in the Qur'an. Muslim scholars explain these re...
    41: : 'A-lam yaj`al kaydahum fa&#7693;lin)
  14. Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
    14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra)
    45: ...sition as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empire was also commonly referred t...
    47: ...ised an area of over [[1 E13 m?|19.9m km&sup2;]]&mdash;though much of this was under indirect control ...
    66: ...ng the [[Turkish War of Independence]] ([[1918]]&ndash;[[1923]]), and the [[Turkey|Republic of Turkey]...
    83: ...50) and the Ottoman Penal code (1858).&#8221; (Haddad, Y.Y., Byron H. and Ellison F., Eds.)
  15. History of Germany (53864 bytes)
    5: ...dolf Hitler]] referred to [[Nazi Germany]] (1933&ndash;1945) as the Third Reich.
    15: ...g Forest]]. Germany as far as the Rhine and the [[Danube]] remained outside the [[Roman Empire]].
    17: ...e Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube frontier.
    32: ...ce-elector]]s of the Holy Roman Empire. From ''Bildatlas der Deutschen Geschichte'' by Dr Paul Kn? (18...
    43: ...n Emperor|Henry V]] and the Pope with the [[Concordat of Worms]]. The consequences of the investiture ...
  16. Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
    5: ...dolf Hitler]] referred to [[Nazi Germany]] (1933&ndash;1945) as the Third Reich.
    15: ...g Forest]]. Germany as far as the Rhine and the [[Danube]] remained outside the [[Roman Empire]].
    17: ...e Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube frontier.
    32: ...ce-elector]]s of the Holy Roman Empire. From ''Bildatlas der Deutschen Geschichte'' by Dr Paul Kn? (18...
    43: ...n Emperor|Henry V]] and the Pope with the [[Concordat of Worms]]. The consequences of the investiture ...

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