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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...he familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...addy]] agriculture is [[Radiocarbon dating|carbon-dated]] to about 6000 BC, and associated with the [[...
14: ...皇五帝). These rulers were legendary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them...
18: ...22799;朝) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeolog...
22: ...he last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC). - 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]]. - Crocus (3680 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Liliopsida]]}}
8: {{Taxobox familia entry | taxon = [[Iridaceae]]}}
22: ...Spring Flowers'', by [[Ambrosius Bosschaert]], c. 1620 ([[Louvre Museum]])]]
24: ...al garden in [[Leiden]]. By 1620, the approximate date of Ambrosius Bosschaert's painting (''illustrat...
26: ...'' is placed botanically in the iris family ([[Iridaceae]]). These are hardy perennial plants, which h... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...the period were [[Christopher Columbus]], [[Vasco da Gama]], [[Pedro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], ...
11: ...e route to the east became far more difficult and dangerous. The [[Black Death]] of the fourteenth cen...
18: ...[Indian Ocean]] was possible. In [[1498]] [[Vasco da Gama]] made good on this promise by reaching Indi...
26: ...found the wealth it had sought in the form of abundant gold. In the Americas the Spanish found a numbe...
31: ... on the [[Gold Coast (Africa)|Gold Coast]], [[Luanda]], [[Mozambique]], [[Zanzibar]], [[Mombassa]], [[... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...o a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the ...
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
133: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
145: ...]: [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]] - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
3: ...t their home in [[Scrooby]] and sailed to [[Amsterdam]] to escape religious persecution at the hands o...
5: ...o move to a place better suited to them, and in [[1620]] set sail on the ship ''[[Mayflower]]'' from [[P...
10: ...st threat from that quarter (there were other armadas in other years and the [[Gunpowder Plot]] occurr...
12: ..., [[England]] they departed on [[September 6]], [[1620]], with 102 people aboard. Their intended destina...
15: ...]] after 65 days at sea and anchored near present-day [[Provincetown, Massachusetts|Provincetown]] on ... - Mayflower (4074 bytes)
2: ... [[United States|United States of America]]) in [[1620]], leaving Plymouth on [[September 6]] and droppi...
11: ...ather, the Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod after 65 days at sea.
21: ...rt at http://www.familyforest.com/Mayflower_Descendants.html
35: ....mayflower.org General Society of Mayflower Descendants] - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...hich had been granted a charter for the land in [[1620]].
3: ...r]]'', as it lay off-shore. On [[December 21]], [[1620]], 102 [[Pilgrims]] from the [[Mayflower]] landed...
17: ...of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620 - 1621]] - 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]]-) - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...|nomadic tribes]] coming from areas now in modern day [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]].
3: The Wall stretches over a formidable [[1 E6 m|6,350 km]] (3,946 [[mile]]s), from [[...
5: ... history. The Great Wall that can still be seen today was built during the [[Ming Dynasty]], on a much...
12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]...
18: ...0 kilometers have all but turned to rubble, and today it ends on the western end at the historic site ... - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...sen]], claimed by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 ... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...Galilei''' ([[Pisa]], [[February 15]], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [...
14: Later research, however, has validated the experiments. The experiments on falling bo...
22: ...ter. He made additional observations of them in [[1620]]. Later astronomers overruled Galileo's naming o...
26: ...e little doubt that both of them were beaten by [[David Fabricius]] and his son [[Johannes Fabricius|J...
39: ...y'' unless a [[force]] —often [[friction]]— acts upon them, refuting the accepted Aristote... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...''Johannes Kepler''' ([[December 27]], [[1571]] – [[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...
27: In August of [[1620]], Katherine, Kepler's mother, was arrested in Le...
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 — [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], [[Venus (planet)... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...Viscount St Albans''' ([[January 22]], [[1561]] – [[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 ...
37: ...re (which was that he should be released in a few days), and to be incapable of holding office or sitt... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
12: ...udson]], hired by the Dutch, explores the present-day [[Hudson River]]
20: === [[1620s]] ===
22: ...er]]''. They found [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massachusetts]]; [[Mayflower Compact]] signed
23: ...ed by the [[Dutch West India Company]] in present-day [[New York]] state
24: ...[[New Amsterdam]] founded by the Dutch in present-day [[New York City]] - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ...Colonies]]. Some historians add a fifth region – the [[frontier]] had certain unifying features...
22: ...had apparently disappeared in the middle of their daily tasks.
29: ...colonists to work, and befriended [[Pocahontas]], daughter of Chief [[Powhatan]], who was able to supp...
35: ... However, because rivers and [[creek]]s were abundant, this allowed the plantations to spread out. Th...
49: ...stablishing that settlement on [[December 21]], [[1620]]. - Jan Brueghel the Younger (1191 bytes)
1: ...mb|260px|Paradise by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. 1620). Oil on oak. Gem䬤egalerie, Berlin, Germany]] - Diwali (5677 bytes)
2: ... that is followed by North Indians. The following day, marking the beginning of a new year, for North ...
4: ...follow a different calendar, [[Shalivahana]] calendar. In South India, the new year, entitled [[Ugadi]...
8: ==Date==
10: ...ately every seven years to resynchronize the calendar with the [[season]]s.
12: ...ian dates depending on geographical location, the date of Dipavali also depends on one's location. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]...
29: ...ian)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]... - 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}}
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