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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
395: *[[Jan van Eyck]] ([[1390]]-[[1441]]) - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: [[Image:Arnolfini.jpg|thumb|250px|''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]'', painted 1434]]
3: ...] [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[painter]] and one of the first to popularize [[oil painting|oil paint]]. It i...
11: ...rawing his salary at [[Bruges]], yet settled in a fixed abode at [[Lille]].
13: ...ed the duke's choice. After his return he settled finally at Bruges, where he married, and his wife bo...
15: ...w give proof of Van Eyck's extensive practice. As finished works of art and models of conscientious la... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
1: ...ince of [[Portugal]], looms large as an important figure in the early days of European [[colonial]] ex...
7: ...ortugal]]'s minority, and in return received a confirmation of this tax. Henry also arranged for the ...
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15: ...mmander of one of Henry's expeditions, became the first European known to pass the cape in [[1434]].
17: ...sels sailed from Lagos on Henry's behalf, and the first private mercantile expeditions began. At some ... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...uru]] ideal, and [[bhajan]]s) as well as [[Sufi|Sufi Islam]].
6: ...s. The five baptised Sikhs were named Panj Pyare (Five Beloved Ones), who in turn baptised the Guru at...
8: ...ikh Holy Scripture was compiled and edited by the Fifth Guru, [[Guru Arjan]] in AD [[1604]].(Although ...
22: ...as during this period that Nanak met [[Kabir]] ([[1441]]–[[1518]]), a saint revered by both Hindus...
26: ... [[1604]] he installed the [[Adi Granth]] for the first time as the [[Holy Book]] of the Sikhs. In [[1... - George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
27: ... [[May 26]], [[1974]]. He was promoted once, to [[first lieutenant]], on the November [[1970]] recomme...
34: ...nistration]] (MBA) degree in [[1975]], and is the first U.S. president to hold an MBA degree.
36: ...ml] News of the arrest was uncovered by the press five days before the [[U.S. presidential election, 2...
45: ... sale, Spectrum 7 made Bush its Chief Executive Officer. Spectrum 7 lost money, and in [[1986]] it was...
47: ...gy in 1990. As Harken Energy reported significant financial losses within a year of this sale (as did ... - Padua (12961 bytes)
7: ...d; the internal partition walls remained till the fire of [[1420]], when the Venetian architects who u...
11: ...1438]]-[[1441]]), which was cast in [[1453]], the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiqui...
17: ...cted many distinguished artists, as Giotto, [[Fra Filippo Lippi]] and Donatello; and for native art th...
22: ...t was reported able to raise two hundred thousand fighting men. [[Abano]] nearby is the birthplace of ...
36: ...virtual rebuilding of the city, their choice fell first on one of the Este family.
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