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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n tr...
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the r...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, ...
15: ...ut [[Duke of Albany]], a royal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died bef...
24: ...rd to the altar and put her gently in the throne set up there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep h...
28: ...child's head, where it rested on a circlet of velvet. The Cardinal steadied the crown and Lord Livings... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...ok of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[U...
12: In [[1612]], despite her early talent, Artemisia was denied...
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... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...43_W.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a 1630 paintin...
2: ...f the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
4: ...asilica also holds a relic of the ''[[Cathedra]] Petri'', the episcopal throne of the basilica's names...
7: ...atican Council convened in the Basilica of Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by...
8: ...n this exact spot, which had previously been a cemetery for pagans as well as Christians. - 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]]) - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
7: * [[1612]] - Galileo presents ''occhiolino'' to [[Poland|P...
15: ...[[1953]] - [[Frits Zernike]], professor of [[theoretical physics]], [[Nobel Prize]] in Physics for his... - 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 [...
21: ...bsequently named [[Kepler's Star]]. In January [[1612]] the Emperor died, and Kepler took the post of p...
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... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: *Some time between [[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]]...
8: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]]
9: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Popham Colony]] in [[Maine]]
13: *[[1609]]-The [[United Provinces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to the [[Hudson Valley]] ar...
17: *[[1612]]-[[Tobacco]] cultivation introduced to [[Jamesto... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
4: ...| [[Image:Saturn (planet) large.jpg|250px|The planet Saturn]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click ima...
9: | [[1 E12 m|1,426,725,413]] [[kilometre|km]]<br>9.537 070 32 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
12: | 8.958 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>59.879 AU
52: ! align="left" | [[Equator]]ial [[diameter]]
55: ! align="left" | [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
17: | [[1 E12 m|4,498,252,900]] [[kilometre|km]]<br>30.068 963 48 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]
20: | 28.263 [[Tera|T]][[metre|m]]<br>188.925 AU
60: ! align="left" | [[Equator]]ial [[diameter]]
63: ! align="left" | [[geographical pole|Polar]] diameter
70: ...15 km2|7.619×10<sup>9</sup>]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]] - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and th...
13: ...f Great Britain|Britain]], [[France]], and the [[Netherlands]]. The lands that now make up the [[Unit...
16: ...h Monarchs|Queen]] [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]]. At this time, however, there was no official ...
25: ...alled [[Virginia]] (named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"). It lay on an island in t...
27: ... colonists had little incentive to protect their settlement or work towards its long-term growth. - 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 ... - 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}} - 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... - Storks (8536 bytes)
26: ...m]] (6 [[foot|feet]]) diameter and about 3m (10 feet) in depth. A stork's nest may be utilized for man...
78: ...Hague|"The Hague", administrative capital of the Netherlands]]; the national bird of [[Denmark]]; and ...
80: ...symbol of [[childbirth]]. In Victorian times the details of human reproduction were a difficult subjec...
82: ...rs of developing [[vein]]s that soon fade, are sometimes still called "stork bites".
90: ...same phonetic value. <!-- Oh, well, the same "phonetic value" as a human "ba" -- I guess that explains... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
10: ...rted_in_China How Christmas Started in China - LoveToKnow Christmas<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>...
14: ...phenomenon, and, sometimes, as part of retail marketing campaigns.
20: ...uch as gift-giving, sending Christmas cards, and setting up decorated trees in their homes; children, ...
29: ...n'' (the big day). Commercialization and open markets are however bringing more secular Christmas cele...
34: ... especially prevalent in [[Bethlehem]] and [[Nazareth]].
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