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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...t utility vehicle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For th...
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...fonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
10: *[[Alphonso I of Portugal|Afonso I Henriques of Portugal]], (1109-1185), first king of Portuga...
15: ...Alphonso VI of Portugal|Afonso VI of Portugal]], (1643-1683), king in 1656 - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: ...France]]. During her relatively brief reign, [[Jules Cardinal Mazarin|Cardinal Mazarin]] served as Fra...
6: ...rusted the government to the prime minister, [[Jules Mazarin]], who was believed to be her lover.
8: ... niece, the Spanish Hapsburg princess [[Maria Theresa of Spain|Marie-Th鲨se of Austria]].
12: ... cunning woman and she is one of the central figures in [[Alexandre Dumas]]' novel, ''[[The Three Musk... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
1: ...the two chromatids touch, and where the microtubules attach. (3) Short arm. (4) Long arm.]]
2: ...]] proved that chromosomes are the carriers of genes.
4: == Chromosomes in eukaryotes ==
5: .... The ends of the chromosomes are special structures called ''[[telomere]]s''. DNA replication begins ...
7: ==Chromosomes in bacteria== - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]...
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37: ...act that every point in the state is within 30 miles of [[sea water]].
42: ...land]], and once from the [[Native American]] tribes which lived on the land. - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelp...
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36: ...of four [[U.S. state|state]]s of the [[United States]] of America that is called a [[commonwealth]]. I...
38: ... Water Gap]] provide popular recreational activities. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...rth]]'s atmosphere. They are [[temperature]], [[pressure]], [[water vapor]], and the gradients and int...
5: ...]] are sub-disciplines of the [[atmospheric sciences]].
10: ...icting the weather by interpreting established celestial phenomena, such as a [[Halo (optical phenomen...
12: ...[1780]] with the hair [[hygrometer]], which measures [[humidity]].
14: ...gation of the dependence of gas [[volume]] on [[pressure]] which lead to [[thermodynamics]] and [[Benj... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...f thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
7: ... explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
10: ...on. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
12: ... determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, for instance, required accurate measurements of ...
14: ...he experiments and even indicated the particular results that led to the time-squared law (Drake, 1973... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...work for [[classical mechanics]]. Newton also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm...
4: ...r's laws of planetary motion]]. He would expand these laws by arguing that [[orbit]]s (such as those o...
6: ...nomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular mom...
17: ...l|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:
19: ...ge of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss Storey married someo... - 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... - Ernest William Brown (1403 bytes)
1: '''Ernest William Brown''' ([[November 29]] [[1866]] &ndas...
3: ... motion and compiled extremely accurate lunar tables. He also calculated the orbits of [[Trojan aster...
5: ...7]], the [[Bruce Medal]] in [[1920]] and the [[James Craig Watson Medal]] in [[1936]].
7: ...on]] is named after him, as is the [[asteroid]] [[1643 Brown]].
15: ===Obituaries=== - March 19 (9902 bytes)
8: ...ite of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken).
10: ... of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]...
13: ...rsuit of [[Pancho Villa]], the first [[United States]] air-combat mission in history.
14: .... Congress]] establishes [[time zone]]s and approves [[daylight saving time]].
15: ...d States Senate]] rejects the [[Treaty of Versailles]] for the second time (first time was on [[Novemb... - 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]]) - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...rn World. He is also known for inventing the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and a...
2: ...rait-photo-image-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descartes Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Cl...
4: ...ne had written on these matters before". Nevertheless, many elements of his philosophy have precedents...
6: ... the [[Turing test]] and [[John Searle]]'s "[[Chinese room]]" argument.
11: ...he age of ten, he entered the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Prytanee|Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand]] a... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...hanks the Archbishop for "worldly maintenance," "best earthly countenance", and "fatherly incouragemen...
5: ...ot appears to vanish from record, and his activities are unknown.
7: ...lded by God, or Directions for Governors of Families'' (1653).
9: ...323; Palmer's Nonconf. Mem. ii. 218, which confuses him most oddly of all with one of the ejected min... - New Sweden (3805 bytes)
2: ...ey|Bridgeport]]) and [[Swedesboro, New Jersey|Swedesboro]] in [[New Jersey]], as well as others in [[D...
6: ...d]], [[Bremen-Verden|Germany]], [[Swedish Estonia|Estonia]], and [[Swedish Livonia|Latvia]]. They soug...
8: ... Sweden]]. In the following years, some 600 [[Swedes]] and [[Finns]] settled in the area.
10: ...eprisal, the Dutch - led by governor [[Peter Stuyvesant]] - moved an army to the [[Delaware River]] in...
12: ...ettlement and [[Fort Wicaco]] were built on the present site of [[Philadelphia]] in [[1669]].
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