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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
    42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
    47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
    100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
    116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer
  2. Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
    6: ===The Roman Beginning===
    9: [[Image:Susanna.jpg|left|thumb|200px| Susanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden...
    10: ... language of the [[Bologna]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
    14: ...ad committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to steal some of Orazio?s paintings. During the...
    18: ...g this period, Artemisia also painted the ''[[Madonna col Bambino]]'' (''"The Virgin Mary with Baby"''...
  3. Guyana (12153 bytes)
    62: ...blished three separate colonies; [[Essequibo]] ([[1616]]), [[Berbice]] ([[1627]]), and [[Demerara]] ([[1...
    105: ...ger interior highlands consisting mostly of [[savanna]]s and mountains, the highest being [[Mount Rora...
    136: ...ers]], [[lawn tennis]], [[basketball]], [[table tennis]], [[boxing]], and a few others.
  4. Israel (51605 bytes)
    1: ...7th century BCE]] and [[Christianity]] at the beginning of the [[1st century]] CE. The name Israel tra...
    60: ...sted intermittently in the region for over a millennium until the failure of the [[Great Jewish Revolt...
    83: ...eadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and launched a guerilla war.
    87: ...the State of Israel was proclaimed. Promising to annihilate the new Jewish state (though their actual ...
    89: ...pt and came under its control, but Egypt did not annex it.
  5. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    48: ...An R쯧hachd Aonaichte na Breatainn Mh򲠡gus Eirinn a Tuath''
    49: ...aithe na Breataine M󩲥 agus Tuaisceart na hɩreann''
    56: ...tier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The UK also has [[British overseas territory...
    60: ...surrounded by the [[North Sea]], the [[English Channel]], the [[Celtic Sea]], the [[Irish Sea]], and t...
    64: ...lands associated with these two, such as the [[Channel Islands]], the [[Hebrides]], the [[Isle of Man]...
  6. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
    55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
    75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
    90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
    94: *[[Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]] ([[1591]]-[[1666]])
  7. Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
    9: ...sty itself was established in [[1636]] (or even [[1616]], albeit under a different name), while the last...
  8. Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
    2: ...]]. Galileo's career coincided with that of [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to ...
    26: ... Fabricius]] and his son [[Johannes Fabricius|Johannes]].
    53: ...ation of mathematics to experimental physics was innovative, his mathematical methods were the standar...
    62: ...kly computing the charge of [[gunpowder]] for [[cannonball]]s of different sizes and materials. As a g...
    70: ...e method was first successfully applied by [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] in [[1681]] and was later use...
  9. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
    4: .... In the context of his time, such methods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [...
    8: ...zabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. His mother, [[Ann Cooke Bacon]] was the second wife of Sir Nicholas...
    16: ...entered ''de societate magistrorum'' at [[Gray's Inn]], and a few months later they went abroad with S...
    18: ...mself, he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn in 1579.
    21: ...r the next two years he worked quietly at Gray's Inn giving himself seriously to the study of law, unt...
  10. Dentistry (9670 bytes)
    20: ...mb|''Farmer at the dentist'', [[Johann Liss]], c. 1616-17.]]
    24: ...bworldbooks.com/articles8.htm] & [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9032043&query=Edwin%20Smi...
  11. Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
    3: ...[paper mill]]. His best known assistant was [[Johannes Kepler]].
    53: ...only as a computational convenience that had no connection to fact.
    69: ...a nobleman at [[Landskrona]]. Apparently during dinner the elk had drunk a lot of beer and fell down t...
    73: ...before it concluded, would be the height of bad manners and so he remained. His weakened state allowed...
    86: ...he nobleman and his housedog: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler: the strange partnership that revolution...
  12. Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
    15: ...etry, with recalls [[Vergil]], [[Poliziano]], [[Sannazzaro]].
    23: ... it was his duty to investigate what Spain was planning against the Eternal City.
    30: ... and 108 editions were published between 1528 and 1616. [[Pietro Aretino|Pietro Aretino's]] ''La corti...
    32: ... Bembo]]'s ones. Pre-romantics will find in his sonnet ''Superbi colli e voi, sacre ruine'' a focal in...
  13. William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
    2: ...dash; [[April 23]], [[1616]] (O.S.), [[May 3]], [[1616]] ([[New Style|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[po...
    6: ...hakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Chronology of S...
    14: ...s a convenient symmetry: he died on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright co...
    19: ...school, since he was entitled to, although this cannot be confirmed because the school's records have ...
    21: ... have been some haste in arranging the ceremony: Anne was three months pregnant. After his marriage, W...
  14. Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
    20: ...ns, was appointed to command the ''[[Classis Britannica]]'', and given the responsibility of eliminati...
    22: In the Roman province of Britannia, [[Saint Patrick]] was captured and enslaved by...
    29: ...damaged the Vatican. In 911, the bishop of [[Narbonne]] was unable to return to France from Rome becau...
    65: ...ast, collecting revenue by exacting tribute and running [[extortion]] rackets. In 1802, the menacing [...
    103: ...ile it was worth 8s in [[New York]], 7s 6d in [[Pennsylvania]] and 6s 8d in [[Virginia]]. One 18th cen...
  15. Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
    18: ... oceans met at Cape Horn was not discovered until 1616.
    26: ... behind many of his men as a small colony, but planned voyages back to the colony were never realized....
    43: ...ncouraged King Philip II of Spain to order the planning for an invasion of England.
    47: ...As the English fleet pursued the Armada up the Channel, Drake captured the Spanish galleon Rosario alo...
    54: ...Spanish gunners from [[El Morro Castle]] shot a cannonball through the cabin of Drake's flagship, but ...
  16. Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
    11: ...''Baccalauréat'' and ''Licence'' in [[law]] in [[1616]].
    16: ...icated the rest of his life to researching this connection between mathematics and nature.
    24: ...was interviewed by [[Frans Burman]] at [[Egmond-Binnen]] in 1648.
    37: ...n "evil demon" exists: a supremely powerful and cunning being who sets out to try to deceive Descartes...
    41: ... essence as it is the only thing about him that cannot be doubted.
  17. Inquisition (9274 bytes)
    7: ...structure came into being to combat heresies. Beginning in the [[12th century]], Church Councils requi...
    28: ...mned him for a "grave suspicion of heresy", and banned all his works.
    34: ...disapproval, and is often used in a non-neutral manner, and not as a neutral historical descriptor.
  18. Alchemy (42222 bytes)
    8: ...ely Greek word, not Coptic, and have been later connected with ancient Egypt through what linguists te...
    13: ... the practitioner as well as a material meaning connected to physical transformation of matter.
    17: ...e field of alchemy evolved greatly over time, beginning as a metallurgical/medicinal arm of religion, ...
    25: ...mical symbolism and theory and began to show the inner meaning of alchemical work as a [[spirituality|...
    27: ...ns are becoming more aware of the intellectual connections between that discipline and other facets o...
  19. Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
    45: ...anners, customs, modes of life". On [[May 22]], [[1616]] he left the Huron country and was back in Quebe...
  20. Baffin Bay (763 bytes)
    5: ...ral narrow channels of [[Nares Strait]]. These channels are covered year-round by the polar ice cap.
    7: ...fin]], the first person to navigate the bay, in [[1616]].

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