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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 [...
17: In April [[1597]], Kepler married Barbara Muehleck. She died in [...
25: ..., [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion: distance cubed over time squared. He i...
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 ... - History of California (38344 bytes)
13: ...ne]]'' and ''[[Tongva]]''. California holds a variety of unique [[ecosystem]]s and each tribe speciali...
19: ...ve of the [[Seven Cities of Cibola]] that had streets paved with gold and silver. About the same time,...
21: ...r|La Paz]], before experiencing difficulties and returning. Cortés accompanied expeditions in [[1534]...
40: ...] to the modern California-Oregon border before returning to Spain.
48: ...com.174}} or to keep the location of his port secret from them. - 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}} - Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
5: ...today [[Tunisia]], showing the mythic triumphant return from [[India]] of the [[Greek mythology|Greek]...
7: ...e Three Wise Men on camels following the star of Bethlehem.]]
11: ...to royal courts as far as Russia. Princess [[Henrietta von Nassau-Weilburg]] introduced the Christmas ...
19: ...] and in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], where the 20 [[metre|m]] tall main civic Christmas tree is an annual...
24: ...shearing also damages the highly attractive [[symmetry]] of natural trees. In the past, Christmas tree... - Lettuce (5469 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = lightgreen | name = Lettuce}}
2: ...as iceberg lettuce]] | caption = Salinas iceberg lettuce}}
15: ...er dishes. In some places, including [[China]], lettuce is typically eaten cooked, and use of the ste...
17: ...This is called '''bolting'''. When grown to eat, lettuce is harvested before it bolts.
19: Lettuce is used as a food plant by the [[larva]]e of ... - Opera (25153 bytes)
3: ...isting of a [[drama|dramatic]] stage performance set to [[music]].
5: ...ting]]. However, the words of the opera, or [[libretto]], are [[singing|sung]] rather than spoken. The...
7: Opera draws from many other art forms. Whether the words or the music are paramount has been ...
9: ...es, such as lyric soprano, [[coloratura]], ''soubrette'', spinto, and dramatic soprano, which associat...
11: ... During the period when composers ofen used both methods of recitative accompaniment in the same opera...
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