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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...x|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria...
3: ...ligious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...o Gentileschi]], one of the greatest representatives of the school of [[Caravaggio]]. Artemisia was in...
12: ...promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ...the [[feminism|feminist]] view of Atermisia Gentileschi during the [[20th century]] - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] |
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36: ...reviation of '''NJ'''. It is also the fifth smallest state. The state is named after the island of [...
39: ...and southeastern [[Pennsylvania]]. These territories were taken by the Dutch in 1654 and incorporated ... - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...ns in many languages; in English by [[Anthony Hodges]], 1638, and [[R. Smith]], 1855.)
3: ...gion'' of [[Petavius]], with a Latin translation, 1630. Nothing definite is known as to the authorship o... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 painting, is the largest church in Christendom and often used by the Pope...
2: ...int Peter]], one of the twelve [[apostle]]s of [[Jesus]] and first [[Bishop of Antioch]] and later fir...
4: ... but which is no longer used. These are the sources of the confusion.
7: ... Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernini.]]
12: ...derno]] became the chief architect later on, and designed the entrance. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ... '''carnivorous plant''' is a [[plant]] that derives some or most of its
3: especially [[insect]]s and other [[arthropod]]s. Car...
4: grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients,
5: especially [[nitrogen]], such as acidic [[bog]]s and...
6: [[Charles Darwin]] wrote the first well-known treatise on c... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...y motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] ...
4: Kepler was a [[professor]] of [[mathematics]] at the [[University of Gr...
6: ...er, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonices mundi''' ("The Harmony of the world") in Linz dur...
9: ...s said to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant...
15: ...f teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the pos... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...scount St Albans''' in [[1621]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ...erimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses. In the context of his time, such methods were co...
8: He was the youngest of five sons of [[Nicholas Bacon|Sir Nicholas Ba...
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustome...
14: ...ed barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 to 1699'''...
8: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]]
11: *[[1608]]-[[France|French]] establish colony at [[Quebec]]
12: ...enry Hudson]], hired by the Dutch, explores the present-day [[Hudson River]]
13: *[[1609]]-The [[United Provinces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to the [[Hudso... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...s|political]], and [[economics|economic]] structures.
4: ...]] government on issues of [[taxation]] and [[representation]].
6: ==Motives for exploration and colonization==
9: ...seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...uickly mounted an effort of colonization and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrati... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
1: ...olding keys, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.]]
2: ... later [[Christianity]]. Furthermore, most [[Protestant]]s do not use the title of saint in reference...
4: ... as holding the keys to the gates of heaven, as prescribed in the [[Gospel of Matthew]].
7: ...sually depicted in art holding the keys to the gates of heaven.]]
8: ...f the name Peter. When the Bible lists the Apostles, Peter is always listed first, and [[Judas Iscari... - Jan Brueghel the Younger (1191 bytes)
6: ...distinguishable from that of his parent by being less well executed and lighter.
8: ...he Younger's best works are his extensive landscapes, either under his own name or made for other arti... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...stronomer]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the...
7: ...near [[Naples]]. In [[1572]] he was ordained a priest.
9: ...t time were thought to date uniformly to the earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed...
10: ...stration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical elemen...
11: ...r influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Ni... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
7: ...kill 347 [[England|English]] settlers around [[Jamestown, Virginia]], a third of the colony's populati...
8: ...the possession of cards, [[dice]], and gaming tables.
10: ...tax levied from [[England]] on the American colonies.
11: *[[1809]] - [[Charles XIII of Sweden|Charles XIII]] succeeds [[Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden|Gusta...
12: ...[[North Carolina]], [[William Woods Holden]] becomes the first governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be remo... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
9: founded = [[September 17]], [[1630]] |
11: mayor = [[Thomas Menino]] ([[United_States_Democratic_Party|Dem]]) |
22: west_coord = 71.0573|
25: ...g" (due to the plethora of universities and colleges in the Boston area) and, particularly in the Nine...
27: ...in the Americas, and the one of the top-fifty largest in the world. - Lansing, Michigan (6961 bytes)
12: founded = [[September 17]], [[1630]] |
13: ...n|Ingham]] & [[Eaton County, Michigan|Eaton Counties]] |
14: mayor = [[Tony Benavides]] |
25: west_coord = 84.5467|
29: ...chigan|Windsor Township]] in Eaton County to the west and [[Delhi Charter Township, Michigan|Delhi Cha... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 B... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] – [[1951]])
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – [[1956]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...]] (such as the [[caste system]] and [[purdah]], respectively). Sikhism was influenced by reform movem...
4: ...s no Muslim." [[Guru Gobind Singh]] reinforced these words by saying "Regard the whole human race as ...
6: ...d Ones), who in turn baptised the Guru at his request.
8: ...n in [[Gurmukhi]] script but contains many languages including [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Sanskri...
10: ...st in many ways, many places and known by many names, is eternally One, the Sovereign and omnipotent G...
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