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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 ... - 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
23: *[[Riza Abbasi]] ([[1565]]-[[1635]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: '''Robert Hooke''' ([[July 18]], [[1635]] - [[March 3]], [[1703]]), one of the greatest e...
4: ...ations of plant cells reminded him of [[monk]]s' cells. Also in 1665 he gained appointment as Professo...
6: ... as the chief assistant of [[Christopher Wren]], helping to rebuild London after the [[Great Fire of L...
12: ...hor escapement represented a major step in the development of accurate watches. The balance spring a...
14: ...multiple lenses (usually three - an eyepiece, a field lens and an objective). While he did give much a... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events fro...
28: *[[1630]]-[[Winthrop Fleet]] travels to [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]
31: *[[1635]]-[[Connecticut Colony]] founded
35: *[[1638]]-[[Delaware Colony]] founded
57: *[[1676]]-[[Bacon's Rebellion]] in Virginia - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
2: ... [[August 25]], [[1688]]) was a [[privateer]] of Welsh birth, who made a name in the [[Caribbean]] as ...
4: ...New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and when Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish shortly a...
6: ...ned to their base at [[Port Royal]], Jamaica, to celebrate.
8: ...which convinced the governor to shift his cannon, eluded the enemy's guns altogether and escaped in sa...
10: ...rilliant exploit was tarnished by the habitual cruelty of Morgan's crews. - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
25: ...s of America," owing to its great cultural and intellectual influence.
27: ...ther from the city, has a population of approximately 5.8 million residents. [[Greater Boston]] is one...
34: ...dea. These values molded an extremely stable and well-structured society in Boston. Indeed, Puritan va...
41: ...rst school in America, [[Boston Latin School]] ([[1635]]), and the first college in America, [[Harvard C...
43: ...ts in [[London]], [[Paris]] and [[Germany]], and helped to reinforce the image of Boston as a hotbed o... - 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...
14: ... ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and ...
16: ...Descartes' life and the foundation on which he develops analytical geometry. He dedicated the rest of... - 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) - 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... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
1: ...|right|''Samuel de Champlain''<br>by Th鯰hile Hamel (1870)]]
3: ...ce to regain funding. This article covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importance to...
5: ==Early Travels==
7: ... on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called ''Des sauvages'' (The Savages).
9: ...604]] led by [[Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts]]. He helped found the [[Saint Croix Island, New Brunswick|... - Sargon II of Assyria (8855 bytes)
1: ... inscriptions, he styles himself as a new man, rarely referring to his predecessors, and he took the n...
3: ...an|Marduk-apla-iddin]]. He freed all temples, as well as the inhabitants of the towns of [[Assur]] and...
4: ...-iddin conquered Babylon with the help of the new Elamite king [[Ummanigash]] and was crowned king in ...
6: In 720 Sargon moved against Elam, but the Assyrian host was defeated near Der. L...
8: ...hesim). He built new bases in [[Medes|Media]] as well, the main being Harhar and Kar-Sharrukin. In 715... - 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... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
1: :''For biblical characters named Elam, see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]].''
4: ...2700 BC]] to [[539 BC]], with a preceding [[Proto-Elamite]] period beginning around [[3200 BC]].
8: ... offspring of Elam, eldest son of [[Shem]] (see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]]).
10: ...he Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which means "Elam."
12: ==Elamite language== - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systemati...
7: ...ow lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: The next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Sw...
11: ...merdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702).
17: ... work, the ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', ran through twelve editions during his lifetime (1st ed. 1735). He...
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