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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...pean history]]. It marks the transitional period between the end of the [[Middle Ages]] and the start ...
5: ...anslation, used by French historian [[Jules Michelet]], and expanded upon by [[Switzerland|Swiss]] his...
10: ...Renaissance]]'', the ''[[English Renaissance]]'', etc. This terminology is particularly useful because...
19: ...orence]]. One early Renaissance figure is the [[poet]] [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] ([[1265]]–[[132...
21: ...age through ancient manuscripts and the humanist method of learning. These new ideas from the past (ca... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: ...h dynasty of Egypt|Fourteenth dynasty]], roughly between [[1986 BC]] and [[1633 BC]].
5: .... Some authorities point to cultural differences between the Eleventh and [[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt|T...
10: ... Senuseret, campaigning against Lybian invaders, returned to Iljtawy with haste to prevent a takeover ...
12: [[Senusret I]] ([[1917 BC]] - [[1872 BC]]) continued the pol...
14: Senusret's successor [[Amenemhat II]] ([[1875 BC]] - [[184... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
9: ...many of these questions while others may last for eternity.
13: ... arbitrarily established lengths of co-regencies between rulers and even overlapping dynasties. The po...
15: ...F. Brug ([[Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary]]) in his detailed and important article has observed that Theo...
17: ...allit I]] and [[Akhenaton]] were contemporaries, yet if the era's dating is maintained, their contempo...
23: ...at [[Belize]] to about 1900 BCE, equating it with 1550 BCE in radiocarbon years. His c. 10% correction s... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ...riving from South America around [[800]]. Arawak settlements on the island include [[Stroud Point]], [...
11: ...bled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish]]...
13: ... of local autonomy. Its House of Assembly began meeting in [[1639]]. Among the initial important Briti...
15: ...replaced the small holdings of the early British settlers. Some of the displaced farmers relocated to ...
25: [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] is recognized as Queen of Barbados, and thu... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
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59: ...ic]] ancestors of the present-day [[Slovenians]] settled in the area in the [[6th century]]. The Slavi...
61: ...st ever Slavic dialect documents in [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] script, were written around [[1000]]. Dur... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ...ecent excavations reveal a cattle-[[herding]] society of peoples living in the region as early as [[60...
14: ... works) was one of the main agricultural breadbaskets of the ancient world. There is evidence of ancie...
16: ... with devising the world's earliest known [[alphabet]], [[decimal system]] [http://www.math.buffalo.ed...
25: * [[2900 BC|2900 BCE]] - [[Senet]], world's oldest confirmed [[board game]]
34: ...icago.org/exhibit/ships/], [http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/navy.htm]) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
4: ...have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes...
6: ...taly]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus...
21: ...wspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint Peter</small>
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...er]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause ...
9: ...may have been disguised [[Hermes Trismegistus|Hermetic]] tracts. The writings attributed to [[Hermes T...
19: In [[1583]], he went to [[England]] with letters of recommendation from Henry III. He sought a...
21: ... whose reports to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spy master, have been found in surviving recor...
23: ...otle|Aristotelian]] natural science and his pamphlet against the [[Roman Catholic]] mathematician [[Fa... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...he [[Piave River|Piave]] (north) Rivers. The [[Venetian Republic]] was a major sea power and a [[stagi...
5: ''See also [[Veneti]].''
6: ...trategic position at head of the Adriatic made Venetian naval and commercial power almost invulnerable...
8: ...tials for the power of Venice were laid: the [[Venetian Arsenal]] was under construction in 1104; Veni...
10: ...rona, Italy|Verona]] rallied to the defence of Venetian sovereignty when it was threatened by invaders... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...ndividual powered or unpowered vehicles linked together).
8: ... wheel support trucks. Fully loaded, the contact between each wheel and the rail is the space of about...
9: ...s), than does [[road]] transport. Furthermore, together with the sleepers, the rails distribute the we...
15: ...ompany]] has taken an innovative and creative marketing stance and have achieved profitability as a re...
17: ...ing to make considerable investment in order to meet new requirements for [[security]] in the face of ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Native American (42651 bytes)
1: ...[Sioux]] in traditional dress including [[war bonnet]], about 1908]]
3: ... number of distinct [[tribe]]s, [[state]]s, and [[ethnic group]]s, many of them still enduring as poli...
5: ...Canada]]). The latter share their cultural and genetic commonality with other arctic peoples not nativ...
7: ... Canadians who belong to the same cultural and genetic mega-group of Amerindians mentioned above. The ...
19: ...] from [[Siberia]] across the [[Bering Strait]], between 17,000–11,000 years ago. - Ashkelon (5935 bytes)
6: ...iversity]] are revealing the site with about 50 feet of accumulated rubble from successive [[Canaan]]i...
8: ...oldest [[arch]]ed city gate in the world, eight feet wide, and even as a ruin still standing two stori...
12: ...as execrated repeatedly by [[Old Testament]] prophets, a proscribed Canaanite religious practice that ...
14: ...listines were among the "[[Sea Peoples]]" that upset cultures throughout the eastern [[Mediterranean]]...
18: ...most important Crusader seigneuries. [[Saladin]] retrieved the strategic port for Islam after the [[Ba... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
2: ...of Greece|ancient Greece]]. It is the historical setting of the [[epic]]s of [[Homer]] and much other ...
6: The Mycenaean period fell between the arrival of the Greeks in the [[Aegean Sea...
8: ... the [[Mycenaeans]] extended their control to [[Crete]], center of the [[Minoan civilization]], and ad...
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36: <tr><td>1550–1500<td>LHI - Calcium (9166 bytes)
17: ...eries]] </td><td>[[alkaline earth metal]]</td></tr>
21: ...|Hardness]] </td><td>1550 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], 1.75</td></tr>
29: ...) </td><td>180 (194) [[picometre|pm]]</td></tr>
44: ... </td><td>solid ([[magnetism|paramagnetic]])</td></tr>
50: ...ntific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre per mole|m<sup>3</sup>/mol]]</td></tr> - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
3: *''c''[[1550]] Horse-drawn [[wagonways]] appear in [[Germany]]...
9: ...ng passenger service on the Oystermouth Railway, better known as the [[Swansea and Mumbles Railway]]
12: ...omotive, ''[[Stephenson's Rocket|The Rocket]]'', sets a speed record of 47 km/h (29 mph) at ...
14: ...In [[Belgium]] a railway was opened on [[May 5]] between [[Brussels]] and [[Mechelen]]. It was the fir...
19: *[[1855]] the [[Panama Railway]] completed, the first [[transcontinental railway]] - Slavery (26455 bytes)
4: ...yer without explicit permission, and who will be returned if they escape. Control may be accomplished...
8: ...ed term of many scholars, because of the wide variety of ambiguities which may be attached to words li...
10: ...ent. It is not necessarily experiencing the complete lack of freedom found in chattel slavery. Many ...
20: ...o de Trabalho'' (Ministry of Labor), stated that between 1995 and [[2001]] approximately 3,500 slave l...
27: ...ave [[species]] under the banner of slavery. Societies characterized by [[poverty]], population press...
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