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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]] - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
33: ISOCode = US-NJ |
36: ...named after the island of [[Jersey]] in the [[English Channel]].
38: == History==
39: ...den|Swedes]] in the mid-1600's as part of the Swedish colony of [[New Sweden]], which included parts o...
41: ... two friends who had been loyal through the [[English Civil War]]: [[George Carteret|Sir George Carter... - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ... There are translations in many languages; in English by [[Anthony Hodges]], 1638, and [[R. Smith]], 1...
3: ... with a Latin translation, 1630. Nothing definite is known as to the authorship of the other works, wh... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...i in a 1630 painting, is the largest church in Christendom and often used by the Pope.]]
2: ...hop of Rome]]. Tradition holds that his [[tomb]] is below the baldochino and [[altar]]. [[Pope]]s ha...
4: ... namesake when he led the Roman church, but which is no longer used. These are the sources of the con...
6: ==History==
8: ...eviously been a cemetery for pagans as well as Christians. - 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 - Carnivorous plant (44834 bytes)
1: ...e prey trapped inside ]]A '''carnivorous plant''' is a [[plant]] that derives some or most of its
4: grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients,
6: ...[Charles Darwin]] wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
8: ==Trapping mechanisms==
10: There are five basic trapping mechanisms exploited by carnivorous plants. These - 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... - 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. - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 to 1699'''.
10: *[[1608]]-Popham Colony dissolved
11: *[[1608]]-[[France|French]] establish colony at [[Quebec]]
27: === [[1630s]] ===
28: *[[1630]]-[[Winthrop Fleet]] travels to [[Massachusetts B... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
1: {{Ushistory}}
2: ...cessful colonies were soon established. The colonists who came to the [[New World]] were by no means ...
4: ...[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] government on issues of [[taxation]] and [[representation]].
9: ...the same time, the intellectual growth of the Renaissance led to the development of [[seafaring]] tech...
11: ...here that [[Christopher Columbus]] left Spain on his famous westward voyage. He sought for Asia, but ... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
1: ... and pallium holding keys, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.]]
2: ...nthood where all Christians are saints and non-Christians are not.
4: ...asilica of Saint Peter]] in [[Vatican City]]. He is often depicted in art as holding the keys to the ...
7: ...e:Stpeter statue.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Saint Peter is usually depicted in art holding the keys to the g...
8: ...s listed first, and [[Judas Iscariot]] is always listed last. - Jan Brueghel the Younger (1191 bytes)
1: ...l the Younger Paradise.jpg|right|thumb|260px|Paradise by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. 1620). Oil on oa...
4: ...el the Younger''' ([[1601]]-[[1678]]) was a [[Flemish]] [[painter]], son of [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]]...
6: ...nature. His work is distinguishable from that of his parent by being less well executed and lighter.
8: ...s, either under his own name or made for other artists such as [[Hendrick van Balen]] as backgrounds.
11: *[[List of Belgian painters]] - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...r to the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against church doctrine.
9: ...raced a sort of [[pantheism|pantheistic]] [[hylozoism]], and not the [[Trinity]].
11: ...y the ideas of [[Copernicus]] and by the newly rediscovered ideas of [[Plato]]. Other influences inclu...
13: ...ted]] for his adherence to [[Copernicus|Copernicanism]] and forced to leave for [[France]].
15: ...on an elaborate system of mnemonics, but many of his contemporaries found it easier to attribute them ... - 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...
8: *[[1630]] - [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] outlaws the poss...
9: ... from [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] for religious dissent. - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
9: founded = [[September 17]], [[1630]] |
25: ...uffolk County, Massachusetts|Suffolk County]]. It is the unofficial capital of the region known as [[N...
27: ...imately 5.8 million residents. [[Greater Boston]] is one of the top-ten largest metropolitan areas in ...
29: ==History==
30: ...Main article: [[History of Boston, Massachusetts|History of Boston]]'' - Lansing, Michigan (6961 bytes)
2: '''Lansing''' is the capital city of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michi...
10: seal = LansingMIseal.jpg|
12: founded = [[September 17]], [[1630]] |
29: The place is located in the south central part of the lower pe...
31: ...iful, fertile, well irrigated land. Largely comprised of rolling plains, Lansing's and its surroundin... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...ian]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by...
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
22: ...Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni]] (Uzbekistan, [[973]] - [[1048]])
40: *[[Aristotle]] (Greece, [[384 BC|384 B.C.]] - [[322 BC|32...
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - 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...
58: *[[Francis Baily]] ([[Britain]], [[1774]] – [[1844]]) - 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}} - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...]] ideal, and [[bhajan]]s) as well as [[Sufi|Sufi Islam]].
4: ...g of [[Guru Nanak]] is, "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim." [[Guru Gobind Singh]] reinforced the...
6: ... Beloved Ones), who in turn baptised the Guru at his request.
8: ... Holy Scripture is particularly unique in that it is written in [[Gurmukhi]] script but contains many ...
10: ...n many ways, many places and known by many names, is eternally One, the Sovereign and omnipotent God (...
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