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- 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]] - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...low, with some hills in the island's interior. It is located 13? north of the [[Equator]] and 59? west...
3: ...es and [[mangrove]] [[swamp]]s. Some parts of the island's interior are also dotted with large sugarca...
5: ... country in the world. The island is a major tourist destination.
7: ==History==
8: {{main|History of Barbados}} - Guyana (12153 bytes)
1: ...border with Venezuela is one that is disputed, as is the most southern part of the border with Surinam...
18: | [[English language|English]]
26: | '''[[Prime Minister of Guyana|Prime Minister]]'''
30: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 81st]] <br> 214,970 ...
35: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 156th]] - 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 - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]] also refers to him a...
4: ...lenstein]]. Early in his career, Kepler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coin...
6: ...nz]] in honor of Johannes Kepler, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonices mundi''' ("The Harm...
9: ...o have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant.
11: ...nd, compared to the other pupils, an outsider. This ostracizing probably led him to turn to the world... - Cattle (12844 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Mammal]]ia}}
15: ...amily (biology)|family]] [[Bovidae]]. They are raised as [[livestock]] for meat (called [[beef]] and ...
17: ...or [[African buffalo]]. (See [[aurochs]] for the history of domestication, and [[zebu]] for peculariti...
21: ...led a '''cow'''. The adjective applying to cattle is '''bovine'''.
23: ... hundred '''head'''". The term ''cattle'' itself is not a plural, but a [[mass noun]]. Thus one may ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
1: {{histphil}}
3: ...entury]] in [[Europe | European philosophy]], and is often thought of
4: ... science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of both [[Church]] and [[State]]...
8: ...ernment]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]]. - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
1: ==Prehistoric extinctions==
2: A large number of historical orders are extinct, e.g. [[dinosaur]]s, [[...
4: ==Historic extinctions==
6: * Pleistocene [[Megafauna]]
10: ===[[Europe]], incomplete list=== - 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}} - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...sts sought for. The most renowned goal of alchemy is the [[transmutation]] of any metal into either [...
2: ...ded as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation of the [[scientific m...
4: [[Image:Chemistry_flask.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
8: ...er connected with ancient Egypt through what linguists term a "[[folk etymology]]."
11: ...humb]], traditions, basic observations, and mysticism to fill in the gaps. - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...|analysis]], has driven many recent revisions and is likely to continue to do so. Scientific classific...
5: ...orms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classified animals based on their mea...
7: ...n Animals'') into Arabic. His original commentary is now lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Mic...
9: ...oping scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–156...
11: ... of [[entomologist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Mal...
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