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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... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...vement]] which brought about a period of [[scientific revolution]] and artistic transformation, at the...
5: ...[19th century]]. ''Rebirth'' is used in two ways. First, it means ''rediscovery'' of ancient classical...
10: ...cularly useful because it eliminates the need for fitting "The Renaissance" into a chronology that pre...
17: ...Fiore.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] church of [[Florence]], [[Italy]]. Florence ...
19: ... Alighieri|Dante]] ([[1265]]–[[1321]]), the first writer to embody the spirit of the Renaissance... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
5: ... reign to reunite Egypt, bringing an end to the [[First Intermediate Period]]. Some authorities point ...
8: ...nsition into the illusturous Twelfth dynasty. The first Pharaoh of the Twelfth dynasty (Amenemhat I), ...
10: ...t their capital remained at Thebes. Amenemhet pacified any unrest in Egypt by force and curtailed the ...
12: ...e [[Nubia]] and other territories lost during the First Intermediate Period. The Lybians were subdued.
18: ...t kingdom even more dependent on Egypt. He was deified at the end of the Middle Kingdom and worshipped... - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
5: ...sider the creation of an Egyptian chronology a difficult task. As Dr. Robert A. Hatch of the Universit...
13: ...ling modern Egyptian chronology, so the previous "firm" dates cannot be supported astronomically.
21: ...hres]] was a king of the [[fifth dynasty of Egypt|fifth dynasty]] that had begun with [[Userkaf]] and ...
23: ...uthorities in different decades offered different figures (5513, 5568, 5700, 5730, or 5770) years for ...
29: ...heliacal rising]] of [[Sirius]] took place on the first day of the seventh year of [[Sesostris III]] o... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ...aladoid]]-[[Barrancoid]] group, who were farmers, fishermen, and ceramists that arrived by [[canoe]] f...
11: ...bled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish]]...
13: ... in [[1639]]. Among the initial important British figures was Sir [[William Courten]].
21: ...ation]], and Sir [[Grantley Adams]] served as its first and only prime minister. When the federation w...
27: ...which has 28 seats. Its members are elected every five years. The Senate has 21 members, and its membe... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Slovenian language|Slovenian]],...
59: ...a|Carantania]], the first Slovenian state and the first stable Slavic state, was formed in the [[7th c...
61: ... surviving written documents in Slovenian and the first ever Slavic dialect documents in [[Latin alpha...
65: ...e [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]], officially declared on [[29 November]] [[1945]]. Prese...
74: ...tional Assembly has 90 seats, which are partially filled with directly elected representatives, and pa... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
14: ...ns. From the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] or before, the Egyptians [[Mining|mi...
16: ...e roots of the [[Scientific method#History|Scientific method]] may be traced back to the ancient Egypt...
25: ...2900 BC|2900 BCE]] - [[Senet]], world's oldest confirmed [[board game]]
42: * [[1600 BCE|1550 BCE]] - [[Ebers papyrus|Ebers Medical Papyrus]], ...
53: ...AO/bswbao0804ancient.html] from the [[1st century|first]] or [[2nd century|second century]] found in t... - 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]]-) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ...
167: ! width="18%" | Pontificate - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
7: He was born named Filippo in [[Nola]], in [[Campania]], the son of Gio...
10: ...s are the four [[classical element]]s: earth, air fire, water]]
11: ...inas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Nicholas of Cusa]].
17: ...e our [[Sun]], that the universe was [[infinity|infinite]], with a "Plurality of Worlds", and that all...
21: ...makes a case that Bruno is the previously unidentified 'Henry Fagot' whose reports to Francis Walsingh... - Venice (22017 bytes)
6: ... other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pisa]], and [[Amalfi]]). Its strategic position at head of the Adriati...
10: ...r west as the [[Adda River]], were known as "Terrafirma", and were acquired partly as a buffer against...
12: ...]], symbol of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the men, supplies, and (especial...
16: ... [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] peers to resign the office and retire into [[monastery|monastic]] seclusio...
24: ...that Venice became perhaps the most elegant and refined city in [[Europe]], greatly influencing [[art]... - 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]]) - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: .... The underlying support maintains the rails at a fixed distance ([[Rail gauge|gauge]]) apart. Usually...
8: ...t is one of the most [[energy efficiency|energy efficient]] means of mechanised land transport known. ...
9: ...ute the weight of the train evenly, allowing significantly greater loads per [[axle]]/wheel than in [[...
11: ...est modes of transport, and also makes a highly efficient use of space: a double tracked rail line can...
15: ...nd creative marketing stance and have achieved profitability as a result. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}} - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ...rehensive tribal list can be found under "[[Classification of Native Americans]]."
7: ...terms "[[First Peoples]]" and "Native Canadians". First Peoples are enshrined in the Canadian Constitu...
11: ... [[American continent]]) are a diversity of [[Pacific Islanders]] including: [[Native Hawaiians]] (als...
21: ... freed of its ice cover. There are a number of difficulties in this theory — in particular, grow...
26: ...], who arrived either by sailing across the [[Pacific Ocean]] or by following the land route through [... - Ashkelon (5935 bytes)
5: ...argest seaport in ancient [[Canaan]], one of the "five cities" of the [[Philistines]], north of [[Gaza...
8: ...hkelon was a thriving Middle [[Bronze Age]] (2000-1550 BCE) city of more than 150 acres (607,000 m&...
10: ...re so capacious that later Roman and Islamic fortifications, faced with stone, followed the same footp...
12: ...e ruins of a small ceramic tabernacle was found a finely cast bronze statuette of a bull calf, origina...
14: ...t [[Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon|Nebuchadnezzar]] finally fell in [[600s BC|604 BCE]], burnt and destr... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
10: ..., and some of the nobility underwent [[mummy|mummification]].
36: <tr><td>1550–1500<td>LHI
41: The ''LHI pottery'' is known from the fill of the [[shaft graves]] of [[Lerna]] and the se...
49: ...ly spread '''LHIIIIA1''' pottery was originally defined by the material from the Ramp house at Mycenae...
51: ...ded into two subphases by E. French, based on the finds from Mycenae and the West wall at Tiryns.<br> - Calcium (9166 bytes)
21: ...ty]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] </td><td>1550 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], 1....
35: <td>[[Electron configuration]] </td><td><nowiki>[...
50: ... </td><td>26.20 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre ...
64: <td>[[Specific heat capacity]] </td><td>63...
103: ...onium]] and [[uranium]]. This element is also the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust. It... - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
3: *''c''[[1550]] Horse-drawn [[wagonways]] appear in [[Germany]]...
4: *[[1761]] First [[iron]] [[rail tracks|rails]] laid at [[Bath,...
5: ...otland|Scottish]] engineer [[James Watt]] invents first [[steam engine]] able to turn wheels.
7: *[[1803]] Arguably, the world's first public railway, the [[Surrey Iron Railway]] op...
8: *[[1804]] World's first Steam [[locomotive]] built by [[Richard Trevit... - Slavery (26455 bytes)
1: ...ing the [[labor]] of the person concerned. A specific form, known as '''chattel slavery''', implies th...
3: ==Definitions==
4: ...ey escape. Control may be accomplished through official or tacit arrangements with local authorities ...
10: ...enerally accepted that payment of a [[wage]] signifies "[[free labour]]", with quite different disadva...
22: ==Annual ''Trafficking in Persons'' report==
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