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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... - 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... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
23: *[[Riza Abbasi]] ([[1565]]-[[1635]])
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
229: *[[Jacques Callot]] ([[1592]]-[[1635]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: ...ntury]], played an important role in the [[scientific revolution]].
6: ...ild London after the [[Great Fire of London|Great Fire]] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Roy...
12: ... uncoils with a natural periodicity, allowing for fine adjustment of the period of ticks. Modern sprin...
14: ...]. However, Hooke's microscopes achieved 30x magnification, which far outstripped the capabilities of ...
16: ...ar]]. He also receives credit with inventing the first practical [[universal joint]], sometimes calle... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
31: *[[1635]]-[[Connecticut Colony]] founded - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
2: '''Sir Henry Morgan''' (c. [[1635]] - [[August 25]], [[1688]]) was a [[privateer]] ...
4: ...[[New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and when Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish shortly...
6: ... in vain attempted to drive out the invaders, and finally Morgan consented to evacuate the place on th...
8: ...som as the price of his evacuating the place, and finally by an ingenious stratagem faking a landward ...
28: [[Category:1635 births|Morgan, Henry]] - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
25: ... with an economy based on education, health care, finance, and high technology. Its nicknames include ...
27: ...fifteenth in the Americas, and the one of the top-fifty largest in the world.
38: ...ding ports, exporting products such as [[rum]], [[fish]], [[salt]] and [[tobacco]]. It was chartered ...
41: ...97]], the [[Tremont Street Subway]] opened as the first underground [[streetcar]] subway in [[North Am...
59: ...lls were used as a source of material for the landfill. Only Beacon Hill, the smallest of the three or... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...scartes was one of the key thinkers of the Scientific Revolution in the Western World. He is also kno...
4: ...he [[Scholasticism|Schools]] on two major points: first, he rejects the analysis of corporeal substanc...
6: ...sophy, and Descartes and Leibniz contributed significantly to science as well. As the inventor of the ...
14: ...upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method o...
22: ...ughter [[Francine Descartes|Francine]], born in [[1635]] and baptized on [[August 7]] of the same year. ... - 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}} - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...ain''' ([[c.]][[1567]] – [[ 25 December]] [[1635]]) was a [[France|French]] [[geographer]], [[draf...
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... - Sargon II of Assyria (8855 bytes)
3: Beset by difficulties at the beginning of his rule, Sargon made ...
12: ...ia and parts of Parsuash. The reliefs show the difficulties of the terrain: the war-chariots had to be...
16: ...or fled into the mountains, having been warned by fire-signals. Sargon claims to have destroyed 430 em...
22: ...ge to Babylon, and Marduk-apla-iddin fled. He was finally captured in the swamps of the [[Shatt-el-Ara...
28: ...-Sharrukin in 706, although it was not completely finished yet. - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...;م in [[Persian language|Persian]]) was the first [[civilization]] based in [[Iran]], the [[Ilam...
10: The high country of Elam was increasingly identified by its low-lying later capital, [[Susa]], and g...
19: ... with the establishment of the Awan dynasty. The first attestation of the name of the kingdom is in a...
72: ...run and little beyond. Among the nations that benefitted from the decline of the Assyrians were the [[...
76: ...tyles; the use of Elamite as the first of three official languages of the empire used in thousands of... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... is likely to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [...
5: ...om the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classified animals based on their means of transportation ...
9: ...next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad v...
11: ...merdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702).
13: ...nceived, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and difference...
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