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  1. 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]]...
  2. 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...
  3. The Gambia (13678 bytes)
    10: ...center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of The Gambia|In Detail]])
    31: ...es by area|Ranked 158th]]<br>10,380 [[square kilometre|km&sup2;]]<br>11.5%
    48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
    59: ...y letters patent from [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. In [[1618]], [[King James I]] granted a charter to a Britis...
    61: ...Britain possession of The Gambia, but the French retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on the north bank ...
  4. Germany (46412 bytes)
    1: ...], to the west by [[France]], [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[Luxembourg]], and to the east by ...
    44: | [[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Cen...
    46: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.de]]
    66: ...he [[Holy Roman Empire]] came to be the division between [[Austria]], formerly the leading state of Ge...
    71: ... by a measure of [[Klemens Wenzel von Metternich|Metternich]] repressing the liberal agitation. The ''...
  5. Israel (51605 bytes)
    1: ...1604;&#1614;&#1577;&#1618; &#1575;&#1616;&#1587;&#1618;&#1585;&#1614;&#1575;&#1574;&#1616;&#1610;&#1604;...
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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...
  6. Comet (30542 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Hale-Bopp-large.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Comet Hale-Bopp]], showing a white dust tail and blue g...
    3: ...composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and various [[m...
    5: ...riginate via a different process, but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials...
    9: ...bital trajectory. While the solid body of the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 5...
    11: ...rding of a comet is the appearance of Halley's Comet on the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], which records the [[N...
  7. 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]])
  8. 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...
    33: ...of Planetary Motion|Kepler's laws]], in which planets move in ellipses, not circles. Using that knowle...
    35: ...rs]], [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]], [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]]; and the five classical elements.
  9. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
    2: ...ted in [[1603]], created '''Baron Verulam''' in [[1618]], and created '''Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621...
    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...
  10. January 1 (18244 bytes)
    1: ...[[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [[1752]], January 1 ...
    7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
    12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
    15: ...nce|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
    18: ...reat Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]]
  11. 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...
  12. 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}}
  13. Quran (41479 bytes)
    2: ...God's revelation to mankind, revealed to the Prophet [[Muhammad]] over a period of 23 years by the Ang...
    6: ... not due to content dispute but due to different methods of counting; the sect founded by [[Rashad Kha...
    10: ...zil or one juz' a day, respectively. A juz' is sometimes further divided into two [[hizb|ahzab]] (grou...
    16: ...re vocabulary. Several generations after the prophet's death, many words used in the Qur'an had become...
    18: ...s contend that the Qur'an is remarkable for its poetry and grace, and that its very literary perfectio...
  14. Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
    2: ...x130;mparatorlu&#x11F;u'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
    45: ...as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empi...
    53: ...[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[Hu...
    55: ... a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestants]] were helped by th...
    61: ...h in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 1876 etc.). Socially, the advent of nationalism and the y...
  15. History of Germany (53864 bytes)
    7: ...ion of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given a...
    13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust int...
    25: ...s anointed by the Church. The Frankish kings now set up as protectors of the [[Pope]], and began to ta...
    35: Between 843 and 880 the Carolingian empire was succes...
    37: ...isively defeated near [[Augsburg]] and the Slavs between the [[Elbe]] and the [[Oder]] were submitted....
  16. Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
    7: ...ion of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given a...
    13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust int...
    25: ...s anointed by the Church. The Frankish kings now set up as protectors of the [[Pope]], and began to ta...
    35: Between 843 and 880 the Carolingian empire was succes...
    37: ...isively defeated near [[Augsburg]] and the Slavs between the [[Elbe]] and the [[Oder]] were submitted....

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