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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
16: ...essive for the violence portrayed, and was interpreted as a wish of psycological revenge for the viole...
20: ...ived to adulthood — following her mother's return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Na...
26: ...ntings, that the appearance of the curvy and energetic heroines is similar to her portraits and selfpo...
30: ...and with her husband. These problems lead to her return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]].
38: ... the artistic novelties of the period and enough determination to live as a protagonist during this wo... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
46: ...lement in the New World which was at [[Jamestown Settlement|Jamestown]] in the [[Virginia Colony]] in ...
48: ...eded by Virginia [[History of Washington, DC|was retroceded to Virginia]] effective [[1847]], and is ...
59: ...he Burgesses met to make laws for the colony and set the direction for its future growth; the Council ...
61: ...enant Governor''', '''Attorney General''', '''Secretary of the Commonwealth''', '''State Treasurer''',...
67: ...llowing Presidential elections (1997, 2001, 2005, etc). - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
7: *[[U Thant]], UN Secretary General
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
19: *[[Joze Udovic|Udovic, Joze]], (1912-1986), poet
33: *[[Sabine Ulibarr�libarr�Sabine]], American poet
53: *[[Sigrid Undset|Undset, Sigrid]], (1882-1949), ''Kristin Lavransdatter'' - 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]]) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ..., particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
7: ...Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[161...
10: ...hysics, between the tension and the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejec...
12: ...eriments reported in ''[[Two New Sciences]]'' to determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, ...
14: ...plicated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was c... - 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: ...], Kepler married Barbara Muehleck. She died in [[1611]] and was survived by two children.
23: In [[1611]], Kepler published a monograph on the origins of...
25: ..., [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion: distance cubed over time squared. He i... - 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 ... - 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 ... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ...eems likely, and he is presumed to have died in [[1611]] somewhere in [[Hudson Bay]], [[Canada]].
3: ...decided to return to England on the 31st. On the return voyage Hudson discovered what is now known as ...
7: ...s name. The Dutch would later claim the area and set up a colony as [[New Amsterdam]].
9: ...lag. This was part of the [[Navigation Acts]], a set of [[Mercantilism|mercantilist]] laws England had...
11: In [[1610]] Hudson managed to get backing for yet another voyage under the English flag; this time ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - 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}} - Tiger (11674 bytes)
15: ... lakes and rivers. Tigers hunt alone, and their diet consists primarily of medium-sized [[herbivore]]s...
19: ...9') in length. Of the more common subspecies, Corbetts Tigers are the smallest and Amur Tigers the lar...
25: ...entify people. This is not, however, a preferred method of identification, due to the difficulty of re...
27: ==Method of killing==
39: ...[habitat fragmentation]] and [[inbreeding]]. In Vietnam, almost three-quarters of the tigers killed en... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ...al treatise, ''Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva''.
6: ...r in the 1530s: several contemporary churches compete for primacy: but Serlio's woodcut put the concep...
10: ...ve Books of Architecture'' and printed in London, 1611. Its example countered the influence of the engr...
14: ...d several books of woodcuts of designs for stage setting (''Scenographies'') in Paris 1545, exercises ...
26: ..., translator, ''The Five Books of Architecture,'' 1611, is available in a Dover reprint (1982). - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
7: ...[map]] of the [[St. Lawrence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an accoun...
9: ...abandoned the following spring [[1605]] when the settlers moved across the [[Bay of Fundy]] to found t...
13: ...ldings (each two stories tall) and also moat 15 feet wide. This was to become the [[Quebec City, Quebe...
19: ...in their war against the [[Iroquois]]. Champlain set off with 9 French soldiers and 300 Indians in ord...
21: ... shot. The Iroquois turned and fled. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the ne... - Culture of Scotland (11420 bytes)
3: ...the [[Act of Union 1707|Act of Union]], others facets of nationhood not readily defined but readily id...
7: ...]. The terms of union with England specified the retention of separate systems. The barristers being c...
9: ...part of a devolution of power from Edinburgh to Shetland and Orkney.
23: ...wever banknotes issued by any of the four banks meet with common acceptance. See [[British banknotes]]...
33: ...t. Scotland does however send its own team to compete in the [[Commonwealth Games]]. - Bowhead Whales (5651 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Cetacea]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_subordo_entry | taxon = [[Mysticeti]]}}
12: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''B. mysticetus'''''}}
14: ...al | color = pink | binomial_name = Balaena mysticetus | author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linneus]] | date ...
15: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:cetacea_range_map_Bowhead_Whale.PNG|250px|Bowhead Wha... - Tigers (12435 bytes)
15: ... lakes and rivers. Tigers hunt alone, and their diet consists primarily of medium-sized [[herbivore]]s...
19: ...9') in length. Of the more common subspecies, Corbetts Tigers are the smallest and Amur Tigers the lar...
25: ...entify people. This is not, however, a preferred method of identification, due to the difficulty of re...
27: ==Method of killing==
39: ...[habitat fragmentation]] and [[inbreeding]]. In Vietnam, almost three-quarters of the tigers killed en... - Hudson Bay (2815 bytes)
4: ...mber of rivers and has formed a characteristic vegetation known as ''[[muskeg]]''. Much of the landfor...
6: ...st of the area, but the crew mutinied on June 22, 1611.
17: [[New York City]] harbor is sometimes called '''Hudson's Bay'''.[http://www.brookly... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
4: ...opulation/new_2004/tab_3.pdf]), it is a richly [[heterogeneous]] city, representing a wide range of na...
6: ...1949 Armistice Agreements|1949 cease-fire line]] between [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]], also known as the ...
12: ...'' ("city of Salem"). Some consider a connection between the name and ''Shalim'' the personification o...
20: ...vercoming other ritual centers such as Shilo and Bethel. Near the end of the reign of King Solomon, t...
22: ...ugh recent achaeological finds may push the date yet earlier (see [[Tel Dan Stele]]), around the ninth...
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