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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...]]. Also, see [[International Space Station]] for ISS explorers, and for the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] n...
11: ...cisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...eorge Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Ca...
23: ... de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
9: ...(1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
14: ...thur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
20: ...nger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...e. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, at a time when such ...
7: ...esentatives of the school of [[Caravaggio]]. Artemisia was introduced to painting in her father's work...
10: ...hich had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...store her reputation, he later reneged on his promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ...influenced the [[feminism|feminist]] view of Atermisia Gentileschi during the [[20th century]] - Maine (17312 bytes)
33: ISOCode = US-ME |
36: ...|USS ''Maine'']] in honor of the state. The state is chilly, with moderately warm summers but very few...
37: ==History==
38: ...]. This has become known as the [[Missouri Compromise]] because admitting both states into the union k...
41: ...ne is [[Augusta, Maine|Augusta]] and its governor is [[John Baldacci]] (Democrat). Its two U.S. senato... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
8: ...[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
12: ...840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
13: ...([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubist]] artist - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...1590]] - Dutch spectacle-makers,Hans Janssen and his son [[Zacharias Janssen]], claimed by later write...
7: ...[[Poland|Polish]] king [[Sigismund I of Sweden|Sigismund III]].
9: * c.[[1622]] - Drebbel presents his invention in [[Rome]].
10: ..., founder of the ''Accademia dei Lincei'' (in English, ''The [[Linceans]]'').
12: ...He coins the word ''cell'' for the structures he discovers in [[cork (material)|cork]] bark. - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
1: [[image:Francis_Bacon.jpg|thumb|250px|Sir Francis Bacon]]
2: ...621]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ...s were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]].
6: Francis Bacon was born at York House, Strand [[London]].
8: ...arried William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth. - Michigan (29427 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' |
25: ...><small>(Some Upper Peninsula counties bordering Wisconsin are Central time.)</small> |
33: ISOCode = US-MI |
36: ... is derived from [[Lake Michigan]], which in turn is believed to come from the [[Chippewa]] Indian wor...
38: == History == - March 22 (9294 bytes)
1: '''March 22''' is the [[81 (number)|81]]st day of the year in the [...
5: * [[238]] - [[Gordian I]] and his son [[Gordian II]] are proclaimed [[Roman emperor...
7: ...]]: [[Algonquian]] Indians kill 347 [[England|English]] settlers around [[Jamestown, Virginia]], a thi...
9: ... from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious dissent.
10: *[[1765]] - The [[British Parliament]] passes the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp A... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – cir...
40: *[[Christoph Arnold]] ([[Germany]], [[1650]] – [[169...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]]) - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...e Scientific Revolution in the Western World. He is also known for inventing the Cartesian coordinate...
4: ...laining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creat...
6: ...ysis]]. Descartes's reflections on mind and mechanism began the strain of western thought that much la...
8: His most famous statement is ''[[Cogito ergo sum]]'' (''I think, therefore I a...
11: ... old, his mother died of [[Tuberculosis|tuberculosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society of... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...rs important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn...
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
17: | [[Ottoman Turkish]]
20: | [[Istanbul|İstanbul]] ([[Constantinople]]/[[Asit...
31: | '''[[Rise of the Ottoman Empire|Establishment]]'''
34: | '''[[Fall of the Ottoman Empire|Dissolution]]'''
43: ...an=2 style="text-align: center;" | Part of the [[History of Turkey]] series - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...f Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
3: == Foundation and early history ==
5: ...ptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [...
7: ... His successor, Raymond du Puy of Provence, established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary ne...
9: ...igious buildings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work... - Tobacco (28162 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta...
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
14: ...nish]] word "tabaco", whose roots are unclear; it is thought to derive from the [[Native American]] wo...
16: ...nificant cases of [[Nicotine Poisoning|nicotine poisoning]] are the result of concentrated forms of th...
18: ...c compounds in tobacco and tobacco smoke. Many jurisdictions have enacted [[smoking ban]]s in an effor...
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