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- 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... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ...m'''. In the [[13th century]], the Caribs arrived from South America in the third wave, displacing bot...
11: The name "Barbados" comes from a [[Portuguese colonization of the Americas|Por...
13: ...om the arrival of the first British settlers in [[1627]]–[[1628]] until independence in [[1966]], ...
15: ...o work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa; the [[slave trade]] ceased a few years before...
19: ...dos was made in [[1951]], when universal adult suffrage was introduced. This was followed by steps tow... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
41: | From the [[United Kingdom]]
62: ...olonies; [[Essequibo]] ([[1616]]), [[Berbice]] ([[1627]]), and [[Demerara]] ([[1752]]). The [[United Kin...
64: ... turbulent politics. Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom in [[1966]] and became the [...
76: ...n on the basis of [[proportional representation]] from national lists named by the political parties. ...
107: ...ons, the first from May to mid-August, the second from mid-November to mid-January. - 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
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ...]], [[1571]] at the [[Imperial Free City|Imperial Free City]] of [[Weil der Stadt]] (now part of the [...
11: Though he excelled in his schooling, Kepler was frequently bullied, and was plagued by a belief that...
15: ...o be a superb mathematician. Upon his graduation from that school in [[1591]], he went on to pursue s...
19: ...ath, Kepler was appointed Imperial Mathematician (from November [[1601]] to [[1630]]) to the Habsburg ...
32: ... [[Platonic solid]] model of the [[Solar system]] from ''Mysterium Cosmographicum'' (1596)]] - Cattle (12844 bytes)
17: ...successfully be bred with [[water buffalo]] or [[African buffalo]]. (See [[aurochs]] for the history o...
23: ...m "'''cattlebeast'''". "'''Neat'''" (horned oxen, from which we get "[[neatsfoot oil]]"), "'''beef'''"...
31: ...'s main function is to absorb water and nutrients from the digestable feed. The omasum is known as th...
33: ...lled by poachers in [[Masovia]], [[Poland]], in [[1627]], although some breeders have attempted to recre...
39: [[Image:Cow.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Friesian/Holstein cow]] - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...rk for the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution]]s, the Latin American independenc...
14: ...ne. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ...d by the ideas of [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]...
18: ...ies. If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw th...
20: ...figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]] with the axiomatic approach of Desca... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
13: * [[Aurochs]] (1627, Poland)
29: ===[[Africa]]=== - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes wa...
4: ...mena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.
6: ..., later advocated by [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], and opposed by the [[empiricist]] s...
11: ...in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [[Indre-et-Loire]], [[France]]. When he was 1 year old, his mother died of...
14: ... whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method of Ri... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
8: ...ld and silver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and have been ...
11: ...f [[mysticism]] and [[magic (paranormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and belie...
13: ...son to separate the chemical (material) dimension from the interpretive, symbolic or philosophical one...
17: ...uml;ve interpretations of some alchemists, or the fraudulent hopes fostered by others should not dimin...
19: ...istry, which provided a more precise and reliable framework for matter transmutations and medicine, wi... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
19: ...as [[binomial nomenclature]], and the name formed from the two parts is known as the [[scientific name...
23: ...p at a given layer is composed of a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the tw...
25: The groupings ([[taxa]]) of [[taxonomy]] from most general to most specific are:
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