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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - 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 ... - Silk (8683 bytes)
5: ...na]], possibly as early as [[6000 BC]] and definitely by [[3000 BC]]. Legend gives credit to a Chinese...
21: ...needle, thus allowing the whole cocoon to be unravelled as one continuous thread. This allows a much s...
30: [[Venice|Venetian]] merchants traded extensively in silk and encouraged silk growers to settle in...
36: ...ave also been made from [[lyocell]], a type of [[cellulose]] fibre, and are often difficult to disting...
39: ...in the Quran without justification, many jurists believe the reasoning behind the prohibition lies in ... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...rders the [[North Sea]] to the north and west, [[Belgium]] to the south, and [[Germany]] to the east. ...
13: national_anthem = ''[[Wilhelmus van Nassouwe]]'' |
25: ...6,297,196[http://www.cbs.nl/nl/cijfers/bevolkingsteller/popclocknl.asp] |
32: Religion = [[Christianity]], [[Islam]], [[Hinduism]] ...
55: ...rlands ranked fifth on the [[2004]] [[UN Human Development Index]], behind [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[A... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
30: HighestElev = 247 |
31: MeanElev = 60 |
32: LowestElev = 0 |
37: ... Island leads some out-of-staters to erroneously believe that the entire state is an island, while it ...
42: ...d the site Providence and declared it a place of religious freedom for [[Baptist]] settlers. Historica... - 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]]
34: *[[1637]]-[[New Haven Colony]] founded
35: *[[1638]]-[[Delaware Colony]] founded
57: *[[1676]]-[[Bacon's Rebellion]] in Virginia - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...homas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
6: ...matters, providing an account of human nature as self-interested cooperation. He was a contemporary of...
12: ... Devonshire|Earl of Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with that family.
14: ...obbes believed that Thucydides' account of the [[Peloponnesian War]] showed that democratic government...
16: ...Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher. - 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) - 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: ...Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–170...
17: ... work, the ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', ran through twelve editions during his lifetime (1st ed. 1735). He... - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...ch]] mathematician [[Pierre Vernier]] ([[1580]]-[[1637]]). In some languages, this device is called a ''...
5: ...m) is used to provide an even finer additional level of precision without resorting to estimation.
8: ...est-aligned pair of indicator & data gradations yields the value of the finer additional precision.
11: ...s using decimal measure, as shown in the diagram below, the indicating scale would have 10 gradations ... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ...tice. A scientific method is essentially an extremely cautious means of building a supportable, [[evid...
6: ...for scientific inquiry is indivisible from the development of science.
9: ... elements of a scientific tradition were already well established. In ''Protagoras'' (318d-f), [[Plato...
11: ...iles abstract thought with observation. In Aristotelian science, we find the beginnings of a primitive...
13: ...m]]'' (published [[1620]]), Bacon is at pains to tell us that scientific theories (or rather ''axioms'... - Opera (25153 bytes)
5: The drama is presented using the typical elements of [[theatre]] such as scenery, [[costume]]...
9: ...s change drastically over his or her lifetime, rarely reaching vocal maturity until the third decade, ...
11: ...ied by only the continuo group (harpsichord and 'cello or bassoon). During the period when composers ...
13: ...ious music can be considered the direct heirs of melodrama. Perhaps such film scores can in some sense...
20: ...ssance]]. In this case, members of the Camerata felt certain that the "chorus" parts of Greek dramas ... - New Sweden (3805 bytes)
2: ...boro]] in [[New Jersey]], as well as others in [[Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania]] and [[Maryland]]. The co...
8: ...resent-day location of the city of [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]] which they named [[Fort Christi...
10: ...or [[Peter Stuyvesant]] - moved an army to the [[Delaware River]] in the late summer of [[1655]], lead...
12: ...icaco]] were built on the present site of [[Philadelphia]] in [[1669]].
14: ... a million Swedes moving. With the exception of Ireland, no other country had a higher percentage of i...
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