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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: Af (1105 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
9: ... Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[Paris]]
15: ...Alphonso VI of Portugal|Afonso VI of Portugal]], (1643-1683), king in 1656 - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: ... served as France's [[Religious minister|chief minister]].
6: ...ency but entrusted the government to the prime minister, [[Jules Mazarin]], who was believed to be her...
8: ... of the young King Louis to Anne's niece, the Spanish Hapsburg princess [[Maria Theresa of Spain|Marie...
12: ...view her as a brilliant and cunning woman and she is one of the central figures in [[Alexandre Dumas]]... - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
2: ...l [[microscope]]. [[Prokaryote]]s do not possess histones or nuclei. In its relaxed state, the DNA can...
8: ... The distinction between plasmids and chromosomes is poorly defined, though size and necessity are gen...
11: Two types of [[chromatin]] can be distinguished:
12: *[[Euchromatin]], which consists of DNA that is active, e.g., expressed as protein.
13: ...al stages. Heterochromatin can be further distinguished into two types: - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
2: Name = Rhode Island |
3: Fullname = The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
4: Flag = Rhode Island state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Rhode Island]] |
6: Seal = Rhode Island state seal.png | - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
9: ... Capital = [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]] |
33: ISOCode = US-PA |
36: ...vanian]] time period in [[geology]]. Pennsylvania is called the [[keystone (architecture)|Keystone]] S...
38: ...n phrase meaning "Penn's woodlands", in honor of his father. Today, two major cities dominate the stat...
40: ... of the U.S.'s most historic states. Philadelphia is often called the cradle of the American Nation. I... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...igin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
11: ...0 KYA: [[Bow (weapon)|Bow]] and [[arrow]] in [[Tunisia]]
19: * 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: ...n time. The majority of Earth's observed weather is located in the [[troposphere]].
5: ...ynamics]], and [[atmospheric chemistry]] are sub-disciplines of the [[atmospheric sciences]].
7: ==History of meteorology==
10: ...e on predicting the weather by interpreting established celestial phenomena, such as a [[Halo (optical...
12: ...e]], while [[Horace de Saussure]] completed this list of the most important meteorological instruments... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ..., his conflict with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early example of the conflict of...
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[Vincenzo Galilei]]...
7: ... time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
10: ...ligion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
12: ...ished French [[History of science and technology|historian of science]] [[Alexandre Koyr靝. The exper... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...nt of differential [[calculus]]. While they both discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their w...
4: ...nherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in the [[13th cen...
10: {{IsaacNewtonSegments}}
12: ... early life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life and achievements]].''
14: ... her new husband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmother. - 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]]
30: ...[[Roger Williams (theologian)|Roger Williams]] banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
32: *[[1636]]-[[Rhode Island Colony]] founded by Roger Williams - 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 ... - Ernest William Brown (1403 bytes)
1: ... [[1866]] – [[July 22]] [[1938]]) was a British [[astronomer]].
7: ...on]] is named after him, as is the [[asteroid]] [[1643 Brown]].
11: * [http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Brown/index.html Bruce Medal page]
23: [[Category:British astronomers|Brown, Ernest William]] - March 19 (9902 bytes)
1: '''March 19''' is the 78th day of the year in the [[Gregorian calen...
7: ...uth of the [[Mississippi River]], is murdered by his own men.
8: ...of the first [[bank robbery]] in [[United States history]] ($245,000 taken).
11: ...1914]] - [[Giuseppe Mercalli]], Italian volcanologist (b. [[1850]])
12: *[[1915]] - [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]] is photographed for the first time but was not recog... - 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]]) - 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... - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...nne and Antichrist'', in which he thanks the Archbishop for "worldly maintenance," "best earthly count...
4: Robert Abbot received his education at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge ...
5: ...1662]], Abbot appears to vanish from record, and his activities are unknown.
7: ...s Catechism for her Children'' (1646), and ''A Christian Family builded by God, or Directions for Gove...
9: ... him most oddly of all with one of the ejected ministers of 1662. - New Sweden (3805 bytes)
2: ..., [[Pennsylvania]] and [[Maryland]]. The colony existed from [[March 29]], [[1638]], to [[September]] ...
6: ...w Sweden Company]] was chartered and included Swedish, Dutch and German stockholders.
8: ...h they named [[Fort Christina]], after Queen [[Christina of Sweden]]. In the following years, some 600...
10: ...e immediate surrender of Fort Trinity and Fort Christina.
12: ...s charter for Pennsylvania, in [[1682]]. During this later period some immigration and expansion conti...
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