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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]]... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ..._(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</sm...
7: ..., '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor...
9: ...I of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous...
11: ...ouncil|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
13: ...r of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - 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]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...sometimes referred to as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]...
13: ...is entire life. At age six, he observed the [[Comet]] of [[1577]], writing that he "...was taken by [...
25: ..., [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion: distance cubed over time squared. He i...
32: ...Solar system]] from ''Mysterium Cosmographicum'' (1596)]]
33: ...of Planetary Motion|Kepler's laws]], in which planets move in ellipses, not circles. Using that knowle... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...thods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]].
8: ... Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious in...
14: ...f science brought him to the conclusion that the methods (and thus the results) were erroneous. His re...
16: ... Paris. The disturbed state of government and society in [[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry ... - August (4611 bytes)
18: ...ockdoe (1504); the [[Battle of the Yellow Ford]] (1596); the First [[Battle of Curlew Pass]] (1599); the...
27: * [[August 19]] [[1945]] [[Vietnam]] The August Revolution succeeded. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...]] ([[New Style|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[poet]] and [[playwright]], has a reputation as the gre...
4: ...hievement is not confined to his mastery of the poetic and dramatic form; his ability to capture and c...
6: Shakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dat...
12: ...Shakespeare{{fn|1}}—actor, playwright and poet—was one individual whose life can be clearl...
14: ...3]] as his birthday. It provides a convenient symmetry: he died on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps ... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
1: ...jpg|framed|Sir Francis Drake, c. [[1540]]–[[1596]].]]
2: ...h I]]. He was second in command of the English fleet which defeated the [[Spanish Armada]] in [[1588]]...
9: ...company with his cousin, Sir [[John Hawkins]]. Together, Hawkins and Drake made the first English [[At...
12: ...he favour of [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth]].
13: ... survivor was rich for life. However, Queen Elizabeth, who had up to this point sponsored and encourag... - 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]]) - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
6: ...c geometry]], that bridge between algebra and geometry crucial to the invention of the [[calculus]] an...
11: ...ulosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Prytanee|Collège Royal Henr...
13: ...assau]], leader of the United Provinces of the [[Netherlands]]. His intention was to see the world and...
14: ...e profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking... - 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}} - Scythia (22520 bytes)
1: ...[[China]], [[Russia]], and [[Kazakhstan]] come together to the lower [[Danube]] river area and [[Bulga...
3: ...uring in from the north some time around 700 BC, settling in [[Ascania]] and modern [[Azerbaijan]] as ...
5: ...ed in mainly Greek sources resided in the steppe between the [[Dnieper]] and [[Don]] rivers. The subje...
7: Etymologically, "Old Iranian ''Saka'', [[Greek langu...
9: ... burial near [[Kerch]] ([[Hermitage Museum]], St Petersburg)]] - El Greco (2407 bytes)
1: ...500pix.jpg|thumb|200px|Baptism of Christ, painted 1596–1600]]
4: He was a master painter in [[Crete]], where he was born, and first trained as an ic...
7: ...elative obscurity. It was not until the late [[nineteenth century]] that artists and critics renewed i...
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