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- Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
1: '''Veronica Franco''' ([[1546]]-[[1591]]) was a [[poet]] and [[courtesan]] of Venice dur...
3: ... badly, and she chose to leave her husband. In order to support herself she turned to the profession ...
5: ...riters into anthologies. She also founded and funded a charity for courtesans and their children.
7: ...without hardship. In 1575, a year of the [[Black Death]], she was forced to leave Venice and lost muc...
9: The life and times of Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie, "Dangerous Beauty". - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...stern Sahara]], in the west. The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers; from t...
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3: ...#1604;ديمقراطية الشعب...
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1: ...udi Arabia]] to the south and is otherwise surrounded by the [[Persian Gulf]].
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5: ...big><big>'''دولة قطر<br>Dawlat Qatar''' </big></big>
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33: ...otal (July 2003) <br> - [[Population density|Density]] - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...ast, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]] to the southeast, [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and the [[Central...
19: ...s = [[List of Presidents of Sudan|President]] |
20: leader_names = [[Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir...
24: area_magnitude = 1 E12 |
31: population_density = 15 | - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
16: government_type = Democratic [[republic]] |
17: ...er_titles = [[List of Presidents of Slovenia|President]]<br>[[Prime Minister of Slovenia|Prime Ministe...
18: leader_names = [[Janez Drnovsek|Janez Drnovšek]]<b...
20: area_magnitude = 1_E10 |
28: population_density = 96 | - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
94: *[[Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]] ([[1591]]-[[1666]])
117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]]) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ... 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 - 1668) to have invented a [[Microscope|compound ...
6: * [[1609]] - [[Galileo Galilei]] develops an ''occhiolino'' or compound microscope wi...
7: ...o'' to [[Poland|Polish]] king [[Sigismund I of Sweden|Sigismund III]].
10: ... Prince Federico Cesi, founder of the ''Accademia dei Lincei'' (in English, ''The [[Linceans]]'').
16: ...[1981]] - [[Gerd Binnig]] and [[Heinrich Rohrer]] develop the [[scanning tunneling microscope]]. - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: '''Johannes Kepler''' ([[December 27]], [[1571]] – [[November 15]], [[1...
4: ...nt to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei]].
9: ...is said to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brillian...
11: ...acizing probably led him to turn to the world of ideas, as well as an abiding religious conviction, fo...
13: ...duced to astronomy/astrology at an early age, and developed a love for that discipline that would span... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ... best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the [[scientific revolution]]. His works esta...
8: ...Nicholas Bacon]], Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. His moth...
10: ...ge of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
16: ...ce]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...s]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on num...
6: ...] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
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29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]]...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small> - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ... the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against church doctrine.
7: ...ook the name Giordano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint ...
10: ... illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical e...
11: ...covered ideas of [[Plato]]. Other influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]...
13: ...for the same reason and abandoned the Dominican order. He travelled to [[Geneva]] and briefly joined t... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...ed '''Bahrein'''''), is a [[borderless country|borderless]] [[island nation]] in the [[Persian Gulf]] ...
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36: <br /> - [[Population density|Density]] - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
30: *[[Adolf Anderssen]] (Germany, [[1818]] - [[1879]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 ...
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - State of Palestine (7675 bytes)
2: ...ual establishment of a State of Palestine to include all or part of the [[West Bank]], the [[Gaza Stri...
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5: ...1583;ولة فلسطين'''<br>'''Dawlat Filastin'''</font>
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22: | capitals_coordinates = 31° 47′ N, 35° 13′ E | - Palestine (region) (604 bytes)
1: ...been used in the past three millennia (see also [[definitions of Palestine]]). - Madrid (20882 bytes)
2: ...][[Image:Madrid-PlazaEspana.jpg|thumb|300px|Plaza de Espa�a (Spain square)]]
14: ...ted the mosque as the church of the Virgin of Almudena (''almudin,'' the garrison's granary). In 1329 ...
16: ...ity and established himself safely fortified outside its walls in El Pardo. The grand entry of Ferdin...
18: ... the population of the city was economically dependent on the business of the court itself.
20: ... the city. On [[May 2]], [[1808]] (Spanish: [[Dos de Mayo]]) the Madrilenes revolted against the Frenc...
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