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- Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
6: ...er his death. However, in [[1643]] Parliament ratified her powers on his death. Their four-year-old so...
8: ...de Cond靝. In [[1651]], when her son Louis XIV officially came of age, her regency legally ended. How...
12: ...t and cunning woman and she is one of the central figures in [[Alexandre Dumas]]' novel, ''[[The Three... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
2: ...is''' ([[May 14]], [[1553]] – [[May 27]], [[1615]]), "Queen Margot" was Queen of [[France]] and [[...
12: ...d an icy reception. Determined to overcome her difficulties, Queen Marguerite master-minded a coup d'e...
16: ...en. Marguerite died in [[Paris]] on [[May 27]], [[1615]], and is buried in the Chapel of the Valois. Tho...
18: ==Marguerite de Valois in fiction==
20: ...vel was famously adapted into a [[1994]] [[French film]], ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 movie)|La Reine Ma... - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
2: ...de Lanclos'' ([[November 10]]? sometime between [[1615]] and [[1623]] - [[October 17]], [[1705]]) was a ...
8: Returning to Paris, she became a popular figure in the [[salon]]s, and her own drawing room b...
14: ...was a friend of Jean-Baptiste [[Racine]], another first-class French playwright. Later she would beco...
16: Ninon de l'Enclos is a relatively obscure figure in the English-speaking world, but is much be... - 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... - Alphorn (1746 bytes)
3: ...mes pine. In former times the alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an alph...
8: ... great melody that opens the last movement of his First Symphony (played in the orchestra by the Frenc...
10: ...erni trummet in ''Syntagma Musicum'' (Wittenberg, 1615-1619). - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...Jesus]] and first [[Bishop of Antioch]] and later first [[Bishop of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his ...
8: ...ine I of the Roman Empire|Emperor Constantine]] officially recognized Christianity he started construc...
12: ...dent [[Giacomo della Porta]] continued with the unfinished portions of the church. [[Carlo Maderno]] b...
20: ...46. At the time of his death (1564), the dome was finished as far as the drum, the base on which domes...
24: ...d on it. The piers at the crossing which were the first masonry to be laid, which were intended to sup... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aristotle]]. In additio...
7: ...rsity of Pisa]], but was forced to "drop out" for financial reasons. However, he was offered a positio...
10: ...losophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science....
18: ...makers. His work on the device also made for a profitable sideline with merchants who found it useful ...
20: ...humb|200px|right|It was on this page that Galileo first noted an observation of the [[natural satellit... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: ...[Chandos portrait]], artist and authenticity unconfirmed.]]
4: ...the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world literature, Shakespeare's legacy and...
6: ...] attributed to him are often uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of the ...
19: ...ce he was entitled to, although this cannot be confirmed because the school's records have not survive...
23: On [[May 26]], [[1583]] Shakespeare's first child, Susanna, was baptised at Stratford. A s... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...bringing pirates to [[justice]].<ref>{{cite news |first=M.Chiarugi |last=D.Archibugi |url=http://www.o...
9: [[File:Romtrireme.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mosaic of a [[T...
12: ...ifty, and the pirates indeed raised the ransom to fifty talents. After the ransom was paid, Caesar rai...
14: The Senate finally invested [[Pompey]] with powers to deal with... - 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]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
200: ... Fabricius]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1587]] – [[1615]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]]) - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...' ({{lang-ar|أَلْقُرآن}} ''al-qur'ān''; its l...
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... - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
6: The official language of Tahuantinsuyu was Quechua, althou...
17: ... Ocllo|Ocllo]], and Sinchi Roca is the person who finally led them to the valley of Cuzco where they f...
19: ...hey established [[Sapa Inca|Hurin Cuzco]], or the first dynasty of the Kingdom of Cuzco.
21: ...i Roca, also called Cinchi Roca, who is the first figure in Inca mythology whose existence can be supp...
30: ...s to the leaders of these lands extolling the benefits of joining his empire, offering them presents o... - 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... - Lithium (11359 bytes)
44: | [[Electron configuration]]
65: | 1615 K (2448 ?F)
68: | 13.02 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre ...
87: | [[Specific heat capacity]]
137: Because of its large [[specific heat]] (the largest of any [[solid]]), lithium i...
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