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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ...ings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...more talent than her brothers, who worked along side her. She learned drawing, how to mix color and ho...
9: ...anna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the rea... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
3: ...re also dotted with large sugarcane estates and wide [[pastures]] with many good views to the sea.
5: ...ntry in the world. The island is a major tourist destination.
9: ...]], and [[Mapp's Cave]]. According to accounts by descendants of the aboriginal Arawak tribes on other...
11: ...lly called the island '''Os Barbados''' ("The Bearded Ones"), upon seeing the appearance of the island...
13: ...]] until independence in [[1966]], Barbados was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Bar... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
1: ... disputed, as is the most southern part of the border with Suriname (upper Corentyne river).
2: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
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13: ...''[[National motto]]: One People, One Nation, One Destiny''</small> - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - 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... - Cattle (12844 bytes)
17: Cattle were originally identified by [[Carolus Linnaeus]] as three separate ...
21: ...d for meat are [[castration|castrated]] unless needed for breeding. The castrated male is then called ...
23: ...to being gender-neutral, although it is usually understood to mean female (females of other animals, s...
33: ...via]], [[Poland]], in [[1627]], although some breeders have attempted to recreate the original gene po...
40: ... the oldest form of wealth. Their ability to provide [[meat]], dairy and draft while reproducing thems... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...ation in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...of its proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence of a supreme being. In thi...
8: ...rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]]...
10: ... and the [[Renaissance]] and [[Reformation]] preceded it (if it is thought of as a long period). Furth...
14: ...the universe where God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton ... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
2: ...[[pterosaur]]s and [[ammonite]]s. Many of these orders went extinct at the same time in any of several...
13: * [[Aurochs]] (1627, Poland)
47: *[[Schomburgk's Deer]] (1932)
101: ==No Longer Considered Extinct==
102: * [[Coelacanth]], captured Dec 21 1938, thought to be a Rock Cod, but known to ... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...y studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes was one of the key thinkers of the Scienti...
2: ...ge-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descartes Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
4: ...heless, many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late [[Aristotelianism]], the revived [[Sto...
6: ...e invention of the [[calculus]] and [[analysis]]. Descartes's reflections on mind and mechanism began ...
11: On March 31, 1596, Descartes was born in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Ind... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...Alchemy can be regarded as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation o...
4: ...|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
8: ...] of gold and silver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and hav...
11: ...ormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and beliefs have limited validity, but if w...
13: ... both an inner meaning referring to the spiritual development of the practitioner as well as a materia... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]], which uses [[g...
7: ...lle]], translated and abridged Aristotle's book ''de Anima'' (''On Animals'') into Arabic. His origina...
9: ...nce in developing scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (15...
11: ...g this knowledge to classify living beings bear a debt to the research of medical anatomists, such as ...
13: ...toria Plantarum]] was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomou...
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