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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ... Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious p...
7: ...was born in [[Rome]], on [[July 8]] [[1593]], the first child of the painter [[Orazio Gentileschi]], o...
10: The first work of the young 17-years old Artemisia (even...
14: ... using a device made of thongs wrapped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularl... - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
1: ...ish [[legend]] but was in fact a larger than life figure from [[16th century]] [[Irish History]].
7: ... great seafaring family and charged all those who fished off their coasts. Their leader bore the ancie...
22: ...d and Grace's power was steadily encroached upon. Finally, when two of her sons and her brother were t... - Germany (46412 bytes)
19: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[German language|German]]<s...
35: |'''Formation<br>Unification/reunification<br><br><br>'''
51: ...e|Romany]] and [[Frisian language|Frisian]] are officially recognised and protected as minority langua...
62: ...sand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in [[1871]], when...
66: ...n strife, the [[Thirty Years War]] ([[1618]]) and finally the [[Peace of Westphalia]] ([[1648]]), that... - Peru (12264 bytes)
2: ... and south, [[Chile]] to the south, and the [[Pacific Ocean]] to the west. Peru is rich in cultural a...
18: | '''[[Official language]]s''' || [[Spanish language|Spanish]...
48: ... and fought against Chile in the [[War of the Pacific]]. After the war (and with the loss of the provi...
55: ...ue in that it doesn't belong to any of the twenty-five regions. The city of [[Lima]] is located in thi...
97: ...in Western [[South America]], bordering the [[Pacific Ocean]], between [[Chile]] and [[Ecuador]]. It a... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...lennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in the population of native i...
5: ...agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppie...
13: When the first [[European colonization of the Americas|Europe...
19: About [[1530]], [[Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán]] (President of [[... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...ism|humanist]] scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[...
7: ...he judged himself incapable of [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the re...
9: More had four children by his first wife, Jane Colt, who died in [[1511]]. He rem...
12: ...vernment, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as a liaison between t...
23: ...ng [[Richard III of England|Richard III]]'', an unfinished piece of [[historiography]] which heavily i... - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
7: * ''Storie fiorentine'' (1508-1510)
14: * ''Del reggimento di Firenze'' (1527)
16: * ''Ricordi'' (1512-1530)
17: * ''Le cose fiorentine'' (1528-1531) - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
20: ...e]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Rena...
22: ...o trade, industry, and burgeoning urban growth in fields as diverse as banking (the [[Fugger]] banking...
24: ...ulation to reach its former levels in the late <b>fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,</b> the combinati...
28: ...impatience among reformers. [[Erasmus]] and later figures like [[Martin Luther|Luther]] and [[Zwingli]...
30: ...sm caught on in the universities, requiring a redefinition of God, who was no longer a rational govern... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by the [[Medici]] family.
3: ...naissance]]. Florence is famous for its wealth of fine [[art]] and [[architecture]].
5: ...nceSymbol-giglio.png|thumb|right|127px|"Giglio di Firenze" - symbol of the city]]
7: ...ght|thumb|300px|An Overview of Florence (Italian: Firenze)]]
23: ...[[Cosimo de%27 Medici|Cosimo de' Medici]] was the first Medici family member to essentially control th... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...[[monk|monastic]] vows at about the age of twenty-five, but he never seems to have worked as a priest,...
8: ...[[England]], and [[Basel]]; yet he never belonged firmly in any one of these. His time in England was ...
10: ..., preferring the uncertain, but, as it proved, sufficient, rewards of independent literary activity. F...
14: ...ement of his time. He corresponded with more than five hundred men of the highest importance in the wo...
16: ... [[1516]] and was the basis of most of the scientific study of the Bible during the Reformation period... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
16: ...s a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham radio]] operator.
28: ... for [[Hawaii]]an statehood, which would become official on [[August 21]].
31: ...st]] for [[France]] singing "Un premier amour" (A first love).
32: ...cecraft [[Voskhod 2]] for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to [[Extra-vehicular activity|walk in s...
36: ...Oil embargo crisis]]: Most [[OPEC]] nations end a five-month [[oil]] [[embargo]] against the [[United ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]])
256: *[[Thomas Fincke]] (Denmark, [[1561]] - [[1656]]) - Sweden (27111 bytes)
1: ...pe]]. It is bordered by [[Norway]] on the west, [[Finland]] on the northeast, the [[Skagerrak]] Strait...
3: The official [[list of Swedish monarchs]] starts about a 1...
5: ...he early [[20th century]]. The country is today defined by liberal tendencies and a strong national qu...
18: official_languages = Swedish (''[[de facto]]'') <sup>2...
65: Sweden was first mentioned in the [[1st century]], by Roman his... - Malta (18511 bytes)
17: |'''[[Official language]]s'''
69: ...me under the control of [[Carthage]] ([[400 BC]]) first and then of [[Roman Republic|Rome]]. The islan...
71: ...r: after this they decided to increase the [[fortification]]s, particularly in the Inner-harbour regio...
73: ... them, and the French were forced behind the fortifications. Great Britain, along with the [[Kingdom o...
75: ...Treaty of Paris (1814)|Treaty of Paris]], Malta officially became a part of the [[British Empire]] and... - Confucius (21352 bytes)
30: ...umous name since [[1530]]. Between [[1307]] and [[1530]] his<br>posthumous name was: "The Lord Propagato...
43: :''At fifteen, I set my mind upon learning'';
46: :''At fifty, I knew the will of the heavens'';
50: ...ong]]. His father was seventy and his mother only fifteen at his birth. His father died when he was th...
52: ...it the old wisdom via a set of books called the [[Five Classics]]. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
213: *[[Jean Bodin]], (1530-1596){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Akkadian language (3224 bytes)
9: * 1950 – 1530 Old Babylonian/Old Assyrian
10: * 1530 – 1000 Middle Babylonian/Middle Assyrian
21: ...nd [[plural]]), and [[verb]] [[conjugation]]s for first, second, and third [[person]]s.
27: ...t that direct and indirect object pronouns are suffixed to the verb. Word order seems to have shifted... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ... was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permiss...
7: ..., established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near to the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]...
9: ...ings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work of either t...
15: ...order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in the politics...
17: ...y were forced to become a more militarized force, fighting especially with the [[Barbary pirates]]. Th... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...e generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Ame...
6: ...greatly expanded concern for human rights, as typified by the [[Black Legend]], also did little to exp...
14: ...fe and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro Altamirano, first cousin of Pizarro's father. Through his father...
18: ...ng period of training and experience as a notary, first in Seville and later in [[Hispaniola]], would ...
20: ...ixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life in his small provinc...
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