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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... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
12: ...orce and inspection sharpened Puritanism into a definite opposition movement.
14: ...'' turned the episcopal [[hierarchy]] into a specific target of their grievances. [[Tract]]s such as ...
16: ...n being the absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter ...
26: ...been instrumental in a number of new industries. First, export/import was dominated by Puritans. Sec...
28: ... to all Protestant denominations outside of the official Church, as well as the continuing use of the ... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
25: ...n|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
59: *[[Uriel Acosta|Acosta, Uriel]], (1585-1640), philosopher - 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... - Painting (4567 bytes)
34: ...st.]] Different types of paint are usually identified by the medium that the pigment is suspended or ...
48: *[[Spray paint]] ([[Graffiti]])
70: *[[Graffiti]]
80: *[[Figure painting]]
106: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h...
40: ...ces in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed by the wealth of the [[Order of Christ]], a... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...idely spoken outside of the country, and is the official language of nearly all [[Central America|Cent...
14: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]<sup>...
37: sovereignty_type = [[Reconquista|Unification]] |
48: ...], the [[Aranese]] dialect of [[Occitan]] is co-official<br><sup>2</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[peseta|S...
62: ...ᤩz]]) near Tartessos. In the 8th century BC the first Greek colonies, such as Emporion (modern [[Emp... - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ...n reference to non-fiction. As opposed to a [[profile]] or [[curriculum vitae]], a biography develops...
8: The first known biographies were written by [[scribes]] ...
16: ...[priest]]s used this historic period to write the first modern biographies. Their subjects were usual...
22: ...iographical writing used today. In [[1683]], the first [[English language]] biography appeared in his...
24: ...'[[Life of Johnson]]'' (first edition, [[1791]]). Filled with seemingly verbatim accounts of the write... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
3: ...[Mayflower Compact]], drafted and ratified by the first group of colonists aboard their ship, the ''[[...
5: The first settlement of the colony was New Plymouth, lat...
7: ...was surrendered by Bradford to [[The Freemen]] in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tracts of land. ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
274: *[[Evert Collier]] ([[1640]]-[[1707]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-) - Macau (16856 bytes)
15: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[Chinese language|Chinese]]...
52: ''Macau'' is the only official Portuguese spelling. In English, both ''Macao...
57: Macau was first settled by the Portuguese in [[1557]]. Beginn...
59: ... Habsburgs]] in [[1640]], Macau was granted the official title of ''Cidade do (Santo) Nome de Deus de ...
67: ...1966, the Portuguese police arrested the school officials and beat construction workers, residents, an... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...uary 1 was to be either [[New Year's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England beg...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], pr...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered b...
22: ...ein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published. - March 17 (9666 bytes)
9: ... Day]] is celebrated in [[New York City]] for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
17: ...ther Gulick]] and his wife Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in [[1912]]).
21: ...ngton, DC]], the [[National Gallery of Art]] is officially opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roose...
26: ...erranean]], the [[DSV Alvin|Alvin]] [[submarine]] finds a missing American [[hydrogen bomb]].
28: ...ssacre]]: The [[United States Army]] charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the i... - 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]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...des]]'s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English langua...
16: Although he associated with literary figures like [[Ben Jonson]] and thinkers such as [[...
20: ...passions whereby Man came into relation with Man. Finally he considered, in his crowning treatise, how...
24: ...e, and wrote a critique of the ''[[Meditations on First Philosophy]]'' of [[Descartes]], which was pri...
26: ...s opticus'') included in the collection of scientific tracts published by Mersenne as ''Cogitata physi... - 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: ...d on [[August 7]] of the same year. She died in [[1640]]. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Chimpanzee (10645 bytes)
30: ...outing Angola at some point during the 1600s. The first use of the name "chimpanzee", however, did not...
32: ...e rare specimens were baffled and described these first chimpanzees as "pygmies" of some kind or anoth...
34: ... 1800s there was still very little factual scientific information regarding chimpanzees and they were...
36: ...eings... a type of behaviour which counts as specifically human" (1925).{{ref|goodall}}
39: ...axonomy]] for more about the history of the classification of chimpanzees. - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
16: | '''[[Official language]]'''
53: ...the ''Ottoman Principality''. [[Murad I]] was the first Ottoman to claim the title of [[sultan]] (king...
57: ... II]], [[Selim I]] and [[Suleyman I]]. The scientific advantage the Ottomans had over the other Europe...
58: In 1699, for the first time in its history the Ottomans acknowledged ...
66: ... [[Gallipoli]] and [[Palestine]] campaigns, was offically sent from occupied Istanbul to take control ... - 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...
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