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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...lso the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic theme...
9: ...usanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...located in the [[Sch?rn collection]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guida...
12: ...ed the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that Artemisia was r...
14: ...orture device in the belief that if a person can tell the same story under torture as without it, the ... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
1: ... country within the African continent and is entirely surrounded by [[Senegal]], with the [[Gambia Riv...
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46: | [[For The Gambia Our Homeland]]
48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Switzerland]], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[Luxembourg]], an...
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25: |'''[[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]]''' || [[Gerhard Schr?]]
46: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.de]] - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|...
6: ...7;שראל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>دولة اس&...
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9: image_coat = Israel-coa-medium.png | - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...bed as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[...
5: Comets are believed to originate in a cloud (the [[Oort cloud]])...
9: ...e solar wind than dust is, and follows magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. While ...
11: ... with the naked eye. Before the invention of the telescope, comets seemed to appear out of nowhere in ...
13: ...age:Cometorbit.png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ... for involvement in [[witchcraft]]. Born prematurely, Johannes is said to have been a weak and sickly...
11: ...urn to the world of ideas, as well as an abiding religious conviction, for solace.
13: ...ed to astronomy/astrology at an early age, and developed a love for that discipline that would span hi...
15: ...ng the [[University of T?n]], where he proved himself to be a superb mathematician. Upon his graduati...
25: On [[March 8]], [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary mo... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...ted in [[1603]], created '''Baron Verulam''' in [[1618]], and created '''Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621...
8: ...Cecil, Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
10: ... that his health during that time, as later, was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], ...
12: ...the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the young Lo...
14: ...Aristotle]] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious,... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...as]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]], a holiday when gifts were exchanged. ...
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
18: ...f [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]]
22: *[[1818]] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Pr...
25: ...laim under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]]. - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...s a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. ...
4: ...ter and form; second, he rejects any appeal to [[Teleology|ends]]—divine or natural—in explaining ...
6: ...computer]] and by the possibility of [[machine intelligence]], blossomed into, e.g., the [[Turing test...
13: ...tes never actually practiced law, however, and in 1618 he entered the service of Prince [[Maurice of Nas...
14: ... ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
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|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640) - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...riod of 23 years by the Angel [[Jibreel]] ([[Gabriel]]).
6: ...ghly by size, also believed by Muslims to be divinely inspired. After a short opening, the Qur'an proc...
10: ...r a month, one manzil or one juz' a day, respectively. A juz' is sometimes further divided into two [[...
14: ...e ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Islamic Arabic...
16: ...graphy soon became important sciences, and the model for the literary language remains to this day the... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
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14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written ...
45: ...h gate", due to the greeting ceremony the sultan held for foreign ambassadors at the Palace Gate. This...
47: ...ritories were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites established modern [[Turkey]] during the [[Tu...
53: ...ed as a ''[[Bey]]lik'' within the [[Seljuk Turks|Seljuk Empire]] in the [[13th century]]. In [[1299]],... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
12: ...ius Cornelius Tacitus.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descripti...
13: ...d 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advan...
15: ...[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Ro...
17: ...d to check German advances over the frontier, as well as numerous forts (e.g. at [[Wiesbaden]], [[Augs...
19: ...ingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to the pattern of life of the medi... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
12: ...ius Cornelius Tacitus.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descripti...
13: ...d 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advan...
15: ...[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Ro...
17: ...d to check German advances over the frontier, as well as numerous forts (e.g. at [[Wiesbaden]], [[Augs...
19: ...ingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to the pattern of life of the medi...
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