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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes we...
5: ==Biography==
7: ...ly inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style was just as heavily influenced in tur...
9: ...humb|200px| Susanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...e, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Caravaggio]] without being indifferent to the language of th... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
8: Nickname = Old Dominion |
12: PostalAbbreviation = VA |
36: ...thern States|South]] or, alternately, as an extension of the [[Mid-Atlantic_States|Mid-Atlantic]]. It...
38: ...ited States, but the former was admitted to the Union as a separate state in [[1792]] while the latter...
46: ...to the whole area explored by the [[1584]] expedition of Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] along the coast of [[N... - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
5: ...]], Burmese prime minister during Japanese occupation
26: ...te]], (born 1968), British zoolologist and television presenter
45: ...a|Umaga, Tana]], (born 1973), New Zealand rugby union player
58: *[[Gabrielle Union|Union, Gabrielle]] (born 1973) United States actress
64: ...rl Herman Unthan|Unthan, Carl Herman]], Austrian violinist without hands - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ...[[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...6]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ...[[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
31: *[[Aetion]] ([[4th century BC]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...ficant break from that of [[Aristotle]]. In addition, his conflict with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]...
7: ...financial reasons. However, he was offered a position on its faculty in [[1589]] and taught mathematic...
10: ...se are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
12: ...New Sciences]]'' to determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, for instance, required accura...
14: ...escribed by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was consistent with Galileo's rep... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...r's laws of planetary motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "the first [[t...
9: ...y child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant.
11: ... of ideas, as well as an abiding religious conviction, for solace.
15: ...nt school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the position in April of [[1594]], at the age of 23.
17: ...], Kepler married Barbara Muehleck. She died in [[1611]] and was survived by two children. - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...he natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses. In the context of hi...
10: Biographers believe that Bacon received an education at home in his early years, and that his health ...
12: ...rst met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the ...
14: ...totelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives.
16: ...nry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: ...akespeare ([[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]), in the famous [[Chandos p...
2: ...glish]] [[poet]] and [[playwright]], has a reputation as the greatest of all [[writer]]s in the [[Engl...
4: ...understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world literature, Shakesp...
8: ...list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
10: ==Biography== - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ...eems likely, and he is presumed to have died in [[1611]] somewhere in [[Hudson Bay]], [[Canada]].
3: ...y Company'']], one of a small number of [[corporation]]s given [[Royal Charter]]s. In June he reached ...
7: ...uropeans to describe these locations (although [[Giovanni da Verrazano]] explored the same coast in [[...
9: ...her country's flag. This was part of the [[Navigation Acts]], a set of [[Mercantilism|mercantilist]] l...
15: ...s came to a head and in the crew mutinied in July 1611, setting Hudson, his son, and several other crew ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
117: *[[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] a.k.a. Jean-Dominique Cas...
172: *[[Giovanni Battista Donati]], ([[Italy]], [[1826]] &nda...
206: *[[Camille Flammarion]] ([[France]], [[1842]] – [[1925]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
30: *[[Giorgio Agamben]]
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{...
97: *[[Ariston of Chios]], (fl. 250 BC){{fn|R}}
131: *[[Alain Badiou]], (born 1937)
170: *[[Vissarion Belinsky]], (1811-1848){{fn|R}} - Tiger (11674 bytes)
3: ...|Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)]] | caption = Tiger }}
13: {{Taxobox_section_binomial_parens | color = pink | binomial_name =...
15: ...believed to be [[aphrodisiac]]s. From the destruction of its habitat, to the poaching for the fur, tig...
23: ...al tigers, and stripes that are brown. This variation in color is very rare, and only a handful of gol...
25: ... from their prey (few large animals have color vision as capable as that of humans, so the color is no... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ...t of the Italian team building Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the [[classical order]]s of archi...
3: Serlio went from Bologna to Rome in 1514, and worked in ...
4: [[Image:SerlioChurchFacade.jpg|thumb|right|Serlio's church facade of 1537 crystallized a format tha...
6: ...ontemporary churches compete for primacy: but Serlio's woodcut put the concept in every architect's ha...
8: ...ere assembled. Serlio took several private commissions, but the only one that has survived in any reco... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
7: ...5]], [[1603]] as part of a [[fur trading]] expedition. Although he had no official assignment on the v...
9: ...across the [[Bay of Fundy]] to found the [[Habitation at Port-Royal]] (which had been located with Cha...
13: ...came one of his passions, which he embarked on periodically for the rest of his life.
17: ==Relations and War with Indians==
19: ... of 1608, Champlain attempted to form better relations with the local Indians. He made alliances with ... - Culture of Scotland (11420 bytes)
3: ...of Union 1707|Act of Union]], others facets of nationhood not readily defined but readily identifiable...
7: ...e terms of union with England specified the retention of separate systems. The barristers being called...
9: ....udallaw.com/] to the islands as part of a devolution of power from Edinburgh to Shetland and Orkney.
11: Various systems based on common Celtic Law also survive...
13: ==Scottish education== - Bowhead Whales (5651 bytes)
2: ...image:Bowheads42.jpg|250px|Bowhead Whales]] | caption =}}
14: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Balaen...
15: ...whead_Whale.PNG|250px|Bowhead Whale range]] | caption = Bowhead Whale range}}
19: ==Description==
22: ==Distribution== - Tigers (12435 bytes)
3: ...|Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)]] | caption = Tiger }}
13: {{Taxobox_section_binomial_parens | color = pink | binomial_name =...
15: ...believed to be [[aphrodisiac]]s. From the destruction of its habitat, to the poaching for the fur, tig...
23: ...al tigers, and stripes that are brown. This variation in colour is very rare, and only a handful of go...
25: ...from their prey (few large animals have colour vision as capable as that of humans, so the colour is n... - Hudson Bay (2815 bytes)
2: ... south. The [[International Hydrographic Organization|IHO]] lists Hudson Bay as part of the [[Arctic O...
4: ...cier]]s and the shrinkage of the bay over long periods of time. Signs of numerous former beachfronts c...
6: ...st of the area, but the crew mutinied on June 22, 1611.
8: ...ny]]. This land, an area of approximately 3.9 million sq.km., would in [[1870]] be ceded to [[Canada]]... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...le East]]ern city of key importance to the [[religion]]s of [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], and [[Islam...
4: ...nal, religious, and socioeconomic groups. The section called the "Old City" is surrounded by walls and...
6: ...e country's seat of government and otherwise functions as capital. Many countries do not recognize Isr...
12: ...n between the name and ''Shalim'' the personification of dusk in [[Ugarit|Ugaritic]] myth. See also [[...
18: ...uled by [[Melchizedek]], regarded in Jewish tradition as being a priest of God and identical to [[Shem...
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