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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. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
   5: ...He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon whi...
   7: ...om he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the ...
   10: ...ed a volume of bawdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years he repented of this wor...
   14: ...any subject that he approached, that in this theoretic essay he suggests the possibility of teaching t...
   16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the autho...
3. Pakistan (74854 bytes)
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   54: ''See main article for detailed information: '''[[History of Pakistan]]''' (...
   62: ...into the beginning of the [[1st century]] CE, as petty rulers (such as [[Theodamas]]) and as administr...
   64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwester...
4. Vermont (39851 bytes)
   36: ...amplain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts]] to the south, [[New Hampshire]] to the east, ...
   38: ...ted by the surrounding [[13 colonies|colonies]]. Settlers who held land titles granted by the [[Provin...
   48: ...rest in meadow, uplands, lakes, ponds and swampy wetlands.
   50: ...areas of the state. Annual [[snow]]fall averages between 60 to 100 inches depending on elevation, givi...
   57: ...95 feet. The state's average elevation is 1,000 feet.]]
5. 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]])
6. Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
   2: ... and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[Unit...
   4: ...include the [[Franklin stove]], the medical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improve...
   9: ...[[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wif...
   11: ...blings of Benjamin Franklin. They included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[16...
   13: ... for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several more c...
7. 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."
8. March 23 (10340 bytes)
   13: ...at [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish settlers for [[Dunedin, New Zealand|Dunedin]], [[New ...
   16: ...[Benjamin Harrison]] opens [[Oklahoma]] to white settlement starting on [[April 22]].
   19: ...onian Institution]] and [[National Geographic Society]].
   27: ...[[1963]] - In [[London]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Grethe & J? Ingmann]] win the eighth [[Eurovision Song...
   32: *1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter [[Near-Earth asteroid]] misses the [[Earth]] by...
9. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
   1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
   16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
   32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
   33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
   52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]])
10. 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]])
11. 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}}
12. Voltaire (48640 bytes)
    4: ...er 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was ...
    8: ...n. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] backgro...
    10: ...ither inhospitable nor tyrannical. Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger brother was very fond, marri...
    12: ...edil;ois' mother, instructed him in ''les belles lettres'' and deism, and the child showed a faculty f...
    14: ...opped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it.
13. Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
    4: ...stan]], and among the earliest civilizations altogether. Ancient Elam lay to the east of [[Sumer]] an...
    7: ==Etymology==
    13: ...l, as [[Indus script|Harappan pictographs]] have yet to be deciphered. Several stages of the language ...
    17: ...Elamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
    19: .... [[4000 BC]], and during its history fluctuated between subjection to Mesopotamian and Elamite power....
14. 18th century new (49640 bytes)
    4: ...s [[1715]]-[[1789]], denoting the period of time between the death of [[Louis XIV of France]] and the ...
    6: ...n prominence. Philosophers were dreaming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of ea...
    8: ...18th century, it would radically change human society and the geology of the surface of the earth.
    12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in the [[Battle of Poltava]]]]
    22: ...aint Petersburg]] founded by [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]. [[Russia]]n [[Capital (political)|...
15. Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
    8: | align="center" | [[Image:Petersburg coat of arms 1730 to 1856.gif|130px]] <br ...
    19: | [[Area]]: || 606 [[Square kilometre|km�]]
    33: ...va]] river has been called the main street of St Petersburg]]
    36: ...2;&#769;&#1076;, [[1924]]&ndash;[[1991]]) and '''Petrograd''' (&#1055;&#1077;&#1090;&#1088;&#1086;&#10...
    38: Founded by [[Tsar]] [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] in [[1703]] as a "window to Europe"...

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