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- 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]]. - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
16: LandArea = 19,231 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 18]], [[1787]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
39: ...w York State]] and had its capital at [[New Amsterdam]], now known as [[New York City]]. Some of south...
41: ...Colonel [[Richard Nicolls]] sailed into what is today [[New York Harbor]] and took over the colony. Th... - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...lourished about [[450]], perhaps later. The ''[[Suda]]'', who alone calls him "Statius", says that he ...
3: Suidas also ascribes to this author an ''Etymology'', a... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...e Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 painting, is the largest church in C...
17: ...1585]] by order of [[Pope Sixtus V]]. The obelisk dates back to the [[13th century BC]] in [[Egypt]], ...
20: ...ontana, who was probably the best engineer of the day. Fontana built the lantern the following year, a...
29: ...lly operated since [[1931]], with its oldest bell dating to [[1288]].
43: MCMLXXXIII – MCMLXXIV<br> - 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]]-) - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...arlingtonia_californica.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''[[Darlingtonia]]'': note the small entrance to the tra...
6: [[Charles Darwin]] wrote the first well-known treatise on carn...
38: ...ains two other genera, ''[[Sarracenia]]'' and ''[[Darlingtonia]]'',
39: which are endemic to [[Florida]] (for the most part) and [[California]] respecti...
49: ...nia californica'', the cobra plant, possesses an adaptation also found in - 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...
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)...
40: ...lids. Of these there are five: when viewed as boundaries, however, these five determine six distinct t... - 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]]
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]]
37: *[[1639]]-[[Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony]] signed - 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: ...as known as Virginia - somewhere in the area of today's [[New York]]. Blown off course, they came ins... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
4: ...y of the Hours records [[June 29]], [[69]] as his date of death; other scholars believe that he died o...
8: ...e Apostles, Peter is always listed first, and [[Judas Iscariot]] is always listed last.
11: .... A number of later legends mention that he had a daughter.
17: ...8-42); he undertakes a missionary journey of [[Lydda]], [[Jaffa, Israel|Joppa]] and [[Caesarea]] (9:32...
43: birth_date=[[Unknown]]| - Jan Brueghel the Younger (1191 bytes)
- Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
1: [[Image:Giordano_Bruno.jpg|thumb|Giordano Bruno]]
3: '''Giordano Bruno''' ([[1548]] – [[February 17]] [[1600]]), a.k.a. '''Bruno Nol...
7: ...nt Domenico near [[Naples]]. In [[1572]] he was ordained a priest.
9: ...ys of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A.D. and to be associ...
10: ...umb|left|200px|Woodcut illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are ... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
1: ...lendar]] (82nd in [[Leap year]]s). There are 284 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
18: *[[1941]] - [[Washington]]'s [[Grand Coulee Dam]] begins to generate [[electricity]].
26: ...]] nuclear reactor in [[Decatur, Alabama]] causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
28: ...[1978]] - [[Karl Wallenda]] of the [[Flying Wallendas]] dies after falling off a tight-rope between tw... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
41: ...ound [[streetcar]] subway in [[North America]]. Today it is known as "The T" and is run by the [[Massa...
45: ... Boston's ambiance has improved in recent years — city streets bustle with a vitality not seen s...
59: ...are built on [[Land reclamation|reclaimed land]]—two and a half of Boston's three original hills...
63: ... the public. The [[Neponset River]] forms the boundary between the city and its southeast neighbors, Q...
71: ...dies to approach 250,000 in Massachusetts. Census data does not account for this significant segment o... - Lansing, Michigan (6961 bytes)
29: ...er]] meets the [[Red Cedar River (Michigan)|Red Cedar River]]. The city occupies most of what had form... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]...
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]...
88: *[[Danilo Blanusa]], ([[Croatia]], [[1903]] - [[1987]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: ...arc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: ... Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
12: ...reeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]]) - 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}} - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ... [[Islam]] (such as the [[caste system]] and [[purdah]], respectively). Sikhism was influenced by refo...
4: ...ast to [[Bengal]] and west to [[Mecca]] and [[Baghdad]]) Guru Nanak preached to Hindus, Muslims and ot...
8: ...al authority would vest in the [[Khalsa Panth]] – The Sikh Nation. The first Sikh Holy Scriptur...
10: ...e is attributable to its single central concept – the sovereignty of the One [[God]], the Creato...
12: ...alsehood" around those who live totally in the mundane world of material desires (consumerism). This m...
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