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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
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... - 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... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
10: ...gn="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Guyana|In Detail]])
21: | [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]]
30: ... by area|Ranked 81st]] <br> 214,970 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 8.4%
33: ...r> - 700,000 of which 230,000 live in [[Georgetown]] ([[2002]])
53: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...#1616;سْرَائِيل, transliteration: ''{{unicode|Dawl...
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68: ...zantine]]s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under th...
73: Following centuries of [[Diaspora]], the [[nineteenth century]] saw the rise of [[Zionism]], the J... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: national_motto = [[Dieu et mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|F...
18: ...mes = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Tony Blair]] |
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50: ...rnish language|Cornish]]: ''An Rywvaneth Unys a Vreten Veur hag Iwerdhon Gl館'' - 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]]) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
9: ...xtend their control over the whole of China. To pretend that everything changed all at once all over C...
11: For more details on the dynasties listed here and their empero... - 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... - 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 ... - Dentistry (9670 bytes)
3: ...nia]], martyred in Alexandria by having all her teeth violently extracted, not, one would have thought...
9: ...://www.gdc-uk.org General Dental Council]), and meet their requirements as the governing body of the p...
13: ...facial radiology (the study and radiologic interpretation of oral and maxillofacial diseases), and [[o...
15: ...ate formal university training is required: [[cosmetic dentistry]], [[dental implant]], [[temporal-man...
20: ...mb|''Farmer at the dentist'', [[Johann Liss]], c. 1616-17.]] - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ... [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the two were not yet distinct) and [[alchemist]]. He had [[Uraniborg]]...
8: ...he Latinised form Tycho at around age fifteen (sometimes written Tÿcho). He was born at his famil...
10: ...d to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childless uncle an...
12: ... his uncle, he studied law but also studied a variety of other subjects and became interested in [[ast...
14: ... others. There are just as many measurements and methods as there are astronomers and all of them disa... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
10: ...ften; during one of his missions to [[Rome]], he met [[Guidubaldo da Montefeltro]], duke of [[Urbino]]...
13: ...Notably, guests used to organise intellectual competitions which resulted in an interesting, stimulati...
15: ...ontains echoes of both ancient and contemporary poetry, with recalls [[Vergil]], [[Poliziano]], [[Sann...
17: ...t his works and of those of other guests in some letters to other princes, maintaining an activity ver...
21: ...er ancient noble family. He wrote two passionate letters to her, expressing a deep sentiment, but she ... - 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: ...hakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Chronology of S...
12: ...Shakespeare{{fn|1}}—actor, playwright and poet—was one individual whose life can be clearl...
14: ...s a convenient symmetry: he died on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright co... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...lence]] committed at [[sea]], on [[water]], or sometimes on [[shore]]. It does not normally include cr...
4: ... |last=D.Archibugi |url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/piracy-challenges-global-governance |titl...
10: ...their voyages the [[Phoenicia]]ns seem to have sometimes resorted to piracy, and specialized in kidnap...
12: ...ts. After the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them p...
18: ..., and Gothic pirates landed on [[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]]. In the process, the Goths seized enormous boo... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
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...
16: ...nish along the Pacific coast of the Americas. He set sail from Plymouth, England, in December aboard t... - 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: ...''Baccalauréat'' and ''Licence'' in [[law]] in [[1616]].
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... - Inquisition (9274 bytes)
1: ...he '''Inquisition''' ([[latin]]: ''Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis Sanctum Officium'') was an office ...
7: ... Councils required secular rulers to prosecute heretics.
16: ...e year [[1184]] by a [[papal bull]], an official letter from the Pope, entitled ''Ad abolendam''; "For...
28: ... in philosophy," and the first to be "formally heretical" and the second "at least erroneous in faith"...
30: Not all prosecutions of alleged heretics, atheists and other deviations from the Cathol... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...goal of alchemy is the [[transmutation]] of any metal into either [[gold]] or [[silver]].
2: ...try prior to the formulation of the [[scientific method]].
7: ==Etymology==
8: ...cient Egypt through what linguists term a "[[folk etymology]]."
13: ...t would have been as partial and incomplete as a metaphysics devoid of physical manifestation. So the ... - 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... - Baffin Bay (763 bytes)
3: '''Baffin Bay''' is a [[sea]] between the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and [[Arctic ...
7: ...fin]], the first person to navigate the bay, in [[1616]].
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