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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as...
7: ...times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first village...
11: ...ological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilizat...
14: ...asty|Shang]] and [[Zhou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ...
18: ...Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...udith.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on ca...
10: ...a]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...is promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ... can tell the same story under torture as without it, the story must be true. At the end of the trial ...
16: ...ditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored in the [[... - Silk (8683 bytes)
2: ... the larvae. The shimmering appearance for which it is prized comes from the fibres triangular prism-...
5: ...areas accessible to Chinese merchants, because of its texture and [[lustre]]. Because of the high dema...
11: ...eign dignitaries. The remainder was sold at exorbitant prices.
21: ...dipping them in boiling water or they are killed with a needle, thus allowing the whole cocoon to be u...
23: ...f wild silk were already being produced in the Mediterranean and Middle East by the time the superior,... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ... became a mere province of the Kingdom and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. There a...
15: capital = [[Amsterdam]]. [[The Hague]] is the seat of g...
17: largest_city = [[Amsterdam]] |
18: government_type= [[Democracy|Dem.]] [[Constitution|const.]] [[monarchy]] |
19: leader_titles = [[Dutch monarch|Queen]]<br>[[Prime minister ... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Ocean State, Little Rhody |
9: Capital = [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence...
10: LargestCity = [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] |
21: DensityRank = 2<sup>nd</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 387.35 | - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
1: ...g|thumb|A 19th century illustration of the Salem Witch Trials]]
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events from '''1600 t...
13: *[[1609]]-The [[United Provinces]] ([[the Netherlands]]) lays claim to...
24: ...] founded by the Dutch in present-day [[New York City]]
34: *[[1637]]-[[New Haven Colony]] founded - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], London)]]
4: ...lish (people)|English]] [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[L...
6: ...] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinson (scholar)|John Wilkinson]] a...
12: ...f Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with that family. - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...sequent western philosophy is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his tim...
2: [[Image:Rene-Descartes-portrait-photo-image-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descartes I...
4: ...at he will write on his topic "as if no one had written on these matters before". Nevertheless, many e...
6: ...of the [[electronic computer]] and by the possibility of [[machine intelligence]], blossomed into, e.g...
8: His most famous statement is ''[[Cogito ergo sum]]'' (''I think, therefore I am.''). - 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}} - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...en revised since Linnaeus to improve consistency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[...
7: ... Arabic. His original commentary is now lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survi...
9: ...Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life known at the time.
11: ...Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–170...
13: ...and instead classified plants according to similarities and differences that emerged from observation. - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...ch]] mathematician [[Pierre Vernier]] ([[1580]]-[[1637]]). In some languages, this device is called a ''...
3: ...lly calipers and [[micrometer]]s) and on [[theodolite]]s.
5: ...vide an even finer additional level of precision without resorting to estimation.
8: ... data gradations yields the value of the finer additional precision.
11: ...cale. Note that the vernier's 10th gradation is omitted. - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ...make predictions can then be tested [[Reproducibility|reproducibly]] in this way. The method is common...
7: ... and other superstition, there is evidence of traditional empiricism.
9: ...on sense. This denial of reality as we experience it reaches an extreme in [[Parmenides]] who argued t...
11: ...totelian science, we find the beginnings of a primitive inductive method, although one that is based o...
13: ...ad preserved and built upon [[Aristotle]]'s portrait of [[Induction (philosophy)|induction]]. Bacon de... - Opera (25153 bytes)
2: ...ris.jpg|frame|The foyer of [[Charles Garnier (architect)|Charles Garnier]]'s Op�ra, Paris, opened 18...
9: ... vocal timbre and quality and its range, or ''tessitura''. The German [[Fach]] system is an especiall...
11: ...(dry) recitative, while orchestral-accompanied recitative was called "accompagnato" or "stromentato."
13: ...e even be considered both the heirs and the competitors of [[grand opera]].
20: ... was thus conceived as a way of "restoring" this situation. A later work by Peri, ''[[Euridice]]'', da... - New Sweden (3805 bytes)
6: ...to bypass [[France|French]] and [[Great Britain|British]] merchants. The [[New Sweden Company]] was ch...
8: ... built a fort on the present-day location of the city of [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]] which the...
10: ...], leading to the immediate surrender of Fort Trinity and Fort Christina.
12: ...nt and [[Fort Wicaco]] were built on the present site of [[Philadelphia]] in [[1669]].
14: ...a higher percentage of its population go to the United States.
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