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- Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: ...les Cardinal Mazarin|Cardinal Mazarin]] served as France's [[Religious minister|chief minister]].
6: ...r four-year-old son was crowned King Louis XIV of France. Anne assumed the regency but entrusted the g...
12: Queen Anne's memoirs were published in 1662 by [[Fran篩s de la Rochefoucauld]]. Many view her as a b... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
2: ...ay 27]], [[1615]]), "Queen Margot" was Queen of [[France]] and [[Navarre]]. She should not be confuse...
4: ...rles IX of France|Charles IX]] and [[Henri III of France|Henri III]].
6: ...ter Henri de Navarre and eventually [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]]), the son of the Protestant [[Jean...
10: ...atherine de' Medici orchestrated the slaughter by French Catholics of thousands of Huguenots, [[St. Ba...
12: ...itle of queen. Her ex-husband would become one of France's most beloved monarchs. - Ninon de l'Enclos (3420 bytes)
2: ...]] and [[1623]] - [[October 17]], [[1705]]) was a French [[author]], and patron of the arts.
4: ... an early age. In 1632 her father was exiled from France after a duel, and when her mother died ten ye...
8: ... her accountant, a nine-year old named [[Voltaire|Fran篩s Marie Arouet]] so he could buy books.
10: ...56 at the behest of [[Anne of Austria]], Queen of France and regent for her son [[Louis XIV]]. Not lon...
14: ...r she would become a close friend with the devout Fran篩se d'Aubigne, better known as [[Madame de Mai... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ...Since her father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style wa...
18: ... marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple mov...
24: ...nd the protection of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecial...
26: ...was rising. The success and the fashion radiating from her figure fueled many voices about her private...
28: From this period we remember the [[La Conversione de... - Alphorn (1746 bytes)
3: The alphorn is carved from solid softwood, generally spruce but sometimes ...
8: ...is First Symphony (played in the orchestra by the French Horn) was an alphorn melody he heard in the R...
10: ...erni trummet in ''Syntagma Musicum'' (Wittenberg, 1615-1619). - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
12: ...[[Pope Julius II]] in 1506 and was completed in [[1615]] under [[Pope Paul V]]. [[Donato Bramante]] was ...
22: ...pear to be part of the drum, but which stand away from it like buttresses, to absorb the outward thrus...
26: ...right|300px|Light streams down into the sanctuary from the dome cupola.]]
31: ...y [[Antonio Averulino]] ([[1455]]), and preserved from the previous basilica.
33: ...ating the most recent openings:<!-- This is taken from an old source, is the inscription new since 200... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
29: *[[Franklin Adams]] - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]],...
10: ...tters of science and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the prima...
12: ...eo's experiments, in particular the distinguished French [[History of science and technology|historian...
14: ...esearch into Galileo's unpublished working papers from as early as [[1604]] clearly showed the reality...
24: ... on the opposite side of the Sun and to face away from the Earth when it was on the Earth-side of the ... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: [[Image:Shakespeare.jpg|frame|right|William Shakespeare ([[National Portrait...
8: ...tp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakespeare quotations from Shakespearean plays], the [[List of titles of w...
31: ...re.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Shakespeare's signature, from his will]]
33: ...company took its name, like others of the period, from its aristocratic sponsor, the [[Lord Chamberlai...
35: ...aker for his landlord's daughter. Legal documents from 1612, when the case was brought to trial, show ... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...non-state actors. Piracy should be distinguished from [[privateer]]ing, which was a legitimate form o...
12: ...1.8-2]) says this happened earlier, on his return from Nicomedes's court. Velleius Paterculus (''Roman...
20: ...'', and given the responsibility of eliminating [[Frankish]] and [[Saxons|Saxon]] pirates who had been...
27: ...se in 844. Vikings even attacked coasts of North Africa and Italy. They also plundered all the coasts ...
29: ... of the [[Balearic Islands]] in the 10th century. From 824 to 961 [[Arab]] pirates in [[Crete]] raided... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...' ({{lang-ar|أَلْقُرآن}} ''al-qur'ān''; its l...
6: ...umbers, but by an Arabic name derived in some way from the sura. (See [[sura|List of sura names]].) Th...
14: ...1; Arabic. There are few other examples of Arabic from that time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspen...
24: ...e, exhortation, and legal prescription. The suras frequently combine all these modes, not always in wa...
46: ...-final consonants. Some suras also include a [[refrain]] repeated every few verses, for instance [[ar... - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...as killed on the orders of the [[Conquistador]] [[Francisco Pizarro]], marking the beginning of [[Span...
11: The foreign name '''Inca Empire''' is derived from the word '''Inca''', which means "[[Emperor]]."...
19: ... ordered Manco Capac and [[Mama Ocllo]] to emerge from the depths of [[Lake Titicaca]] and found the c...
42: ... often needed to talk his way out of potential confrontations that could have easily wiped out his par...
82: ...in a [[ceremony]] to mark their [[manhood]]. Boys from noble families were subjected to many different... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...th America and then he would have to head back to France to regain funding. This article covers his tr...
7: ... the [[St. Lawrence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his ...
9: ...ries, Champlain joined another expedition to New France in the spring of [[1604]] led by [[Pierre Dug...
19: ...he men headed back, leaving Champlain with only 2 Frenchmen and 60 natives.
21: ...ois turned and fled. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred y... - Lithium (11359 bytes)
65: | 1615 K (2448 ?F)
134: ...lithium reacts easily in water and does not occur freely in nature due to its activity, nevertheless i...
142: ...thium bromide]] are extremely [[hygroscopic]] and frequently used as [[desiccant]]s.
146: ...oxide]] is employed to extract [[carbon dioxide]] from the air in [[spacecraft]] and [[submarine]]s. A...
153: ... Both men tried and failed to isolate the element from its salts, however.
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