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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region in north-ea... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ...[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Med...
5: Born in [[Florence, Italy]], she was a daughter of [[Lorenzo II de' Medi...
7: ...quence, whispers of a divorce began at court, and it seemed possible that Francis, alarmed at the poss...
9: ...l aunt the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County of Auvergne]].
11: ... Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition. On [[April 1]], [[1560]] she named as chancel... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
4: ...is married her to the Duke of Cleves, but this political marriage was annulled four years later.
14: ... began to marry Henry to the king's sister Marguerite. She died in [[Paris]] two months before the wed...
18: ...d William, Duke of Cleves, annulled in [[1545]], with no issue.
33: title=[[List of Navarrese monarchs|King of Navarre]]| - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...6]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[De...
14: ...questionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...y have inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other...
17: ...in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><sma...
7: ...]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[King of Irel...
9: ...[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...m|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baroni...
13: ...orth America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Vir... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...and how it is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she may or may not have been the ...
5: ...#256;ḏām in [[Tiberian Hebrew]], and آدم (ʾĀdam) in [[Arabic lang...
12: ...nt portraying Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with many of the "lower creatures."]]
15: ... knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou sha...
17: ...radition made into Satan) to eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, for "the serpe... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...ified Egyptian state]] formed around [[3300 BC]]. It survived as an independent state until about [[13...
29: ...ple who settled there must have realized the benefits of a more sedentary life. Scientific analysis of...
31: ...netic]] study links the maternal lineage of a traditional population from Upper Egypt to [[Eastern Afr...
33: ...pt reached the peak of its power, wealth, and territorial extent in the period called the New Empire (...
35: ...ksos]] Semites. They defeated the invaders around 1570 BC and expanded into the [[Aegean]], [[Sudan]], [... - Influenza (10335 bytes)
1: ...s being instances of influenza), see [[gastroenteritis]].}}
3: '''Influenza''' (or as it is commonly known, '''the flu''' or '''the grippe...
4: ...n the form of health care costs and lost productivity. Major genetic changes in the virus have caused ...
12: ...rgo [[antigenic drift]] and have more similarity with previous strains.
18: ... [[pandemic]]s. There is no exact scientific definition of a superflu. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...rg]] built, which became an early "[[research institute]]". For purposes of [[publication]], he owned ...
8: ...amily which had produced leading churchmen and politicians.
10: ...his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childless uncle and aunt, J? Brahe and [[Ing...
12: ...n August 21, [[1560]], particularly the fact that it had been predicted, that so impressed him that he...
14: ...m disagree. What's needed is a long term project with the aim of mapping the heavens conducted from a ... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...n his main work, the ''Essays'', unprecedented in its candidness and personal flavor, he takes mankind...
6: ...otestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with a peasant family and a tutor until he was six, a...
8: ... he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de la Boétie]] whose de...
10: ...circ;teau de Montaigne, to which he moved back in 1570.
12: ...]]'s ''Theologia naturalis'', then a posthumous edition of Boétie's works. In 1571 he retired t... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...g of maps. He wrote the first instruction book of italic script to be published in northern [[Europe]]...
12: ...used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of longitude to aid navigation by sea, as compass courses c...
15: ...world atlas, ''[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]]'' in [[1570]]. He produced his own atlas in a number of parts...
17: ...um in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and work.
22: ...phical Meditations on the Frame for the World and its Form) by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Less... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
34: *[[Karl Bitter]] (1867 - 1915)
110: *[[Vincenzo Gemito]] (1852 - 1929)
166: ...talie Krol]] [http://www.nataliekrol.com Gallery Site]
177: *[[Sol LeWitt]]
178: *[[Jacques Lipchitz]] (1891 - 1973) - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ...ate of birth are unknown, but [[September 12]], [[1570]] in England seems likely, and he is presumed to ...
3: ...ip was only 577 nautical miles from the pole, but it was clear there is no way to go further due to th...
7: ...k before reaching Novaya Zemlya. Instead the expedition headed west and eventually reached the [[Grand...
9: ...ercantilist]] laws England had enacted to protect its trade routes from the Dutch. He was soon release...
11: ...h (some claim he deliberately went too far south with the Dutch), reaching [[Iceland]] on May 11, the ... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
8: ...ical rail car can hold up to 125 tons of freight with this and the weight of the car on two four wheel...
9: ...n does [[road]] transport. Furthermore, together with the sleepers, the rails distribute the weight of...
15: ...tive marketing stance and have achieved profitability as a result.
17: ... because securing the tracks as they run through cities and the countryside is impractical.
22: ...s [[infrastructure]] such as tracks, [[railroad switch]]es, [[Railway signal|signals]], [[classificati... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}} - Islam (36809 bytes)
2: ...he submission to [[God]]" is a [[monotheistic]] faith, one of the [[Abrahamic religion]]s, and the wor...
6: ...lām'' and means one who "surrenders" or "submits" to God.
10: ...misinterpreted, or distorted by their followers. With that perspective they view the [[Qur'an]] as cor...
12: ...lam|Sunni]] , [[Shi'a Islam|Shi'ite]] and [[Kharijite]].
14: ...od." In order to become a Muslim, one needs to recite and believe these statements. All Muslims agree ... - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...am]]. [[Muslim]]s believe that the Qur'an is the literal word of God and the culmination of God's reve...
6: ... Qur'an proceeds to the longest sura, and closes with some of the shortest ones.
8: == The Qur'an as divided for reading and recitation ==
10: ...ture is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling paragraphs and comprising roughly ten...
14: ...one of the first written works in Arabic. It is written in an early form of classical [[Arabic languag... - Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
2: ... the house or used in the open, and is decorated with [[Christmas lights]] and colourful [[Christmas o...
5: ...nually for the Queen's Christmas table in the [[United Kingdom]].
9: ...niface]] attempted to introduce the idea of [[trinity]] to the pagan tribes using the cone-shaped ever...
11: ...century, the custom became popular among the nobility and spread to royal courts as far as Russia. Pri...
15: ...rations helped popularise the Christmas tree in Britain and among the anglophile American upper class. - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
1: ...]], [[Yemen]], and [[Oman]]. The Middle East with its particular characteristics was not to emerge unt...
10: === [[9th millennium BC]] ''(Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Holocene epoch)''===
13: * Circa [[8350 BC]] ? [[Neolithic]] settlement at [[Jericho]]
17:
29: ...dded, significantly expanding it and transforming it from a fresh-water landlocked lake into a salt wa...
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