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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.
24: *[[William Baffin]], ([[1584]]-[[1622]])
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
3: *[[Sin Ai|Ai, Sin]], poet
9: ...], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
11: *[[Conrad Aiken|Aiken, Conrad]], (1889-1973), poet
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
21: *[[Henry Ainsworth|Ainsworth, Henry]], (1571-1622), English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar - 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... - Maine (17312 bytes)
38: ...ting both states into the union kept the balance between [[slave]] and free states. Maine's original c...
53: ...lude [[James Blaine]], [[Edmund Muskie]], [[Margaret Chase Smith]], [[William Cohen]], [[George J. Mit...
74: ...to the sea has been aptly summed up by American poetess [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] of Rockland and Ca...
81: ... the case of Maine there has been a partially offsetting rise in land also, due to the melting of heav...
92: ...Maine's largest city surpassed [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] as New England's busiest port (by tonn... - 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)
9: * c.[[1622]] - Drebbel presents his invention in [[Rome]].
15: ...[[1953]] - [[Frits Zernike]], professor of [[theoretical physics]], [[Nobel Prize]] in Physics for his... - 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 ... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
40: ... Canal]] in 1825, which brought large numbers of settlers.
46: .... It was a development that not only transformed Detroit and Michigan, but permanently altered the soc...
50: Since [[World War II]], Detroit's industrial base has eroded as auto companie...
55: *[[1622]] [[ɴienne Br? and his fellow explorers from [[G... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
7: ...lgonquian]] Indians kill 347 [[England|English]] settlers around [[Jamestown, Virginia]], a third of t...
8: *[[1630]] - [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] outlaws the possession of cards, [...
9: ...- [[Anne Hutchinson]] is expelled from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious dissent.
21: ...]] - Closed since [[1939]], the [[London gold market]] reopens.
27: ... twentieth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for the [[Netherlands]] singing "Ding-a-dong." - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – ) - 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... - 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}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...x130;mparatorluğu'''</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... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...wear wooden crosses, half a metre long by half a metre wide, around their necks. Although Christians w...
9: Together with the [[Knights Templar]], who were formed ...
15: ...e their new home. His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309...
17: ... Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
19: ...h the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, ... - Tobacco (28162 bytes)
14: ...okah]]. Tobacco is also chewed, "dipped" (placed between the cheek and gum), and consumed as finely po...
16: ...in as little as one half of a cigar or three cigarettes; however, only a fraction of the nicotine cont...
24: ...Europeans arrived in America, and early European settlers in America learned to smoke and brought the ...
28: ...pped to England. By the time John Rolfe died in [[1622]], Jamestown was thriving as a producer of tobacc...
32: ... the [[James River]], and [[Petersburg, Virginia|Petersburg]] on the [[Appomattox River]].
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