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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... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A court official described the new baby as "a small, but compl...
6: ...d]], and Ferdinand-Karl ? already had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
7: ...as considered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
15: ...eing going on intermittently since [[1494]] would finally end. [[Louis XV]]'s heir was his grandson, L...
22: ...ing, Marie-Antoinette was presented with the magnificent jewels which traditionally belonged to a Fren... - 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... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...1577;ْ اِسْرَائِيل, transliterat...
13: official_languages = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Ara...
60: ...d contains many locations of great spiritual significance in Judaism, Christianity, and [[Islam]]. Sta...
73: ...ficant [[Immigration to Israel|immigration]]. The first waves of Jewish immigration to the then Turkis...
78: ...e one government. The policy was viewed as a significant defeat for the Jewish side, as it placed seve... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
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37: ...States]], while also the state with the longest official name. Rhode (pronounced "Road") Island is par...
40: In 1614 the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block visited the isla...
46: ...the first governor and [[Philip Sherman]] was the first Secretary. In 1643 [[Samuel Gorton]] founded ...
50: On [[May 18]], [[1652]] Rhode Island passed the first law in [[North America]] making [[slavery]] il... - 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]]-) - 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... - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: ...h such belief. In its broadest sense some have defined it as the sum total of answers given to explai...
5: ...men; Oil on panel by [[Adriaen van de Venne]] ([[1614]])]]
10: ...from one of two combinations of Latin roots. The first is ''re + legio'' or "re-reading," a meaning a...
12: ===Defining "religion"===
15: Beyond the above, very broad definition of religion, there are a variety of uses an... - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
5: ...tives of the [[Second Estate|nobility]] and the [[First Estate|clergy]], the remnants of [[feudalism]]...
13: ... resort to a legislature. Kings had managed their fiscal affairs by increasing the burden of the ancie...
15: This led to the long-running fiscal crisis of the French government. On the eve o...
17: ...se conflicts, but Britain had a far more advanced fiscal structure to deal with it. There was no coun...
22: ...ating the regions of France, which prevented a unified market from developing in the country. Taxes s... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...end of absolutism and people as subjects and amplifies the power of the people, boosting them to the s...
21: ...itors of the confidence and stability of France's finances.
23: ...ly of Notables would restore confidence in French finances, and allow further borrowing until the land...
25: ...ing the convocation of the Estates-General within five years, but also attempted in the meanwhile to g...
27: ...8]], and Necker again took charge of the nation's finances. He used his position not to propose new r... - Albany, New York (8184 bytes)
33: ...sent-day Albany. In [[1624]] [[Fort Orange]], the first permanent settlement in the [[New Netherland]]...
37: ...nsylvania presented the Albany Plan of Union, the first formal proposal to unite the colonies.
51: ...ian]], 0.04% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 2.15% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|othe...
62: ...ww.albanyacademyforgirls.org/admissions/facts_and_figures.htm Source])
85: ...+))+@FIELD(COLLID+workleis)) Movies of the Albany fire department, circa 1901] - 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}} - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: The '''Qur'an''' ({{lang-ar|أَلْقُرآن...
14: ... say that they were created after Muhammad. Only five [[pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions]] survive.)
16: ...cographers came to seek out Bedouin to explain difficult words or elucidate points of grammar. Partly...
18: ... "The Qur'an." The title must always include a defining adjective (avoiding conceivable confusion wit...
28: ...ch with [[metre]] and [[rhyme]]) nor [[prose]] (defined as normal speech or rhymed but non-metrical sp... - Timeline of the French Revolution (9550 bytes)
20: ...g. the aristocracy to the imposition of taxes and fiscal reforms.
21: ...nne]] replaces de Calonne as Contoller-General of Finances.
22: * [[May 25]]: First Assembly of Notables dissolved.
30: ...1789|Estates-General]] for the first time since [[1614]]
35: ...verification of credentials, in opposition to the First Estate (the clergy) and the Second Estate (the... - El Greco (2407 bytes)
2: '''El Greco''' ([[1541]] – [[April 7]], [[1614]]), a Greek [[painter]], [[sculptor]] and [[archi...
4: ...ster painter in [[Crete]], where he was born, and first trained as an icon painter. At the age of twe...
9: ...unreal; colours are pure, luminous and unearthly; figures are elongated, energised and dematerialised.... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
7: ... [[fur trading]] expedition. Although he had no official assignment on the voyage, he created a [[map]...
13: ...ded at the "point of Quebec" and set about [[fortification|fortifying]] the area against attack by bui...
15: ...er was difficult for the colonists. Of the twenty-five people who stayed for the winter only 8 survive...
21: ... pointed out the three Iroquois chiefs. Champlain fired his [[arquebus]] and killed two of them with o...
29: ... [[China]] and the [[East Indies]], as well as to find and exploit mines of precious metals in the are...
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