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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... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - 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]]-) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...arl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
15: ... of the T?n faculty. However, before he took his final exams he was recommended for the vacant post o...
17: In April [[1597]], Kepler married Barbara Muehleck. She died in [...
23: ...ograph on the origins of [[snow|snowflakes]], the first known work on the subject. He correctly theori...
25: ...ed. He initially rejected this idea, but later confirmed it on [[May 15]] of the same year. - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...ize an inductive methodology for [[science|scientific]] inquiry, often called the ''[[Baconian method]...
8: He was the youngest of five sons of [[Nicholas Bacon|Sir Nicholas Bacon]], ...
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precoc...
18: ... a fifth of that money. Having started with insufficient means, he borrowed money and became habitual...
25: ...nt in 1594 and Bacon became a candidate for the office, Lord Essex's influence could not secure him th... - 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...
21: ...nied expeditions in [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city. - 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}} - Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
9: ...en]], in [[Scandinavia]] the [[pagan]] kings sacrificed nine males of each species at the sacred grove...
11: ...ustria in the following years. In [[France]], the first Christmas tree was introduced in [[1840]] by t...
26: ... of [[fir]] (''Abies''), which have the major benefit of not shedding the needles when they dry out, a...
28: *[[Silver Fir]] ''Abies alba'' (the original species)
29: *[[Nordmann Fir]] ''Abies nordmanniana'' (as in the photo) - Lettuce (5469 bytes)
31: ...is type existed well before the artist's death in 1597.
48: Some lettuces (especially iceberg) have been specifically bred to remove the bitterness from their lea... - Opera (25153 bytes)
7: ... considered an important part of the performance. Finally, [[dance|dancing]] is often part of an opera...
9: ...system is an especially organized system of classification.
13: ...dered the direct heirs of melodrama. Perhaps such film scores can in some sense even be considered bot...
20: ... Peri, ''[[Euridice]]'', dating from 1600, is the first opera score to have survived to the present da...
24: ...ermedi]], were usually staged to commemorate significant state events; weddings, military victories, a...
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