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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...nnovation, rather than a particular church. The closest analogy in the present day to the meaning of "...
5: ...e group had become so divided that "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the gr...
8: ...|Lutheran Germany]]. These contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious [[via media]] ...
10: ...s (particularly [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]), by the impositions of kings and popes. They all argued for a ...
12: ...nspection sharpened Puritanism into a definite opposition movement. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: *[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
10: ...rd|Acheson, Archibald]] (1776-1849), 2nd Earl of Gosford
44: *[[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952)
53: *[[Jose de Acosta|Acosta, Jose de]] (1540-1600)
54: *[[Jos頊uliᮠAcosta|Acosta, Jos頊uliᮝ] (1825-1891) - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
6: ...638]] and [[Philip I, Duke of Orl顮s]] born in [[1640]]. The marriage was not a happy one, filled with ... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...c painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the [[art]] forms.
8: ...chre]] and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples ...
34: ...rking characteristics of the paint, such as [[viscosity]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying tim...
72: *[[Postmodern art|Postmodernism]]
88: A proposed and yet-unrealised development in painting is [... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...]] in southwestern [[Europe]], and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is borde...
5: ...ral power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powe...
23: ...ibes|Germanic]] [[Barbarians|barbarian]] tribes, most notably the [[Suevi]] and the [[Visigoth]]s, inv...
31: ...], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most historic battle of Portugal, the [[Battle of Alj...
40: ...opments in navigation, made Portugal's expansion possible and led to great advances in geographic know... - Spain (36498 bytes)
20: ...uan Carlos I]]<br>[[Jos頌uis Rodr�ez Zapatero|Jos頌uis Rguez. Zapatero]] |
58: ...re of this period is that of the city of [[Tartessos]]. Beginning in the [[9th century BC]], [[Celtic]...
62: ... for control of the Western Mediterranean. Their most important colony was [[Carthago Nova]] (Latin na...
68: ...ajan]], [[Hadrian]] and [[Theodosius I]], the philosopher [[Seneca]] and the poets [[Martial]] and [[L...
70: Most of Spain's present languages, religion, and laws... - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ...rm is usually in reference to non-fiction. As opposed to a [[profile]] or [[curriculum vitae]], a bio...
12: ... During the reign of the [[Roman Empire]], the [[Gospels]] attributed to [[John]], [[Luke]], [[Mark]] ...
16: ...ion and knowledge. During this time, the only repositories of knowledge and records of early history ...
18: ...[knight]]s and [[tyrant]]s began to appear. The most famous of these such biographies was ''[[Le Mort...
22: In [[1640]], [[Izaak Walton]] published ''Life of Donne'', ... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
5: ...th, Massachusetts]]. By the end of that winter almost half of the settlers were dead, including their ...
7: ...was surrendered by Bradford to [[The Freemen]] in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tracts of land. ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - Macau (16856 bytes)
40: ...strative Region]] of the PRC. Residents of Macau mostly speak [[Cantonese Chinese|Cantonese]] natively...
44: ... many forms of [[gambling]] are legal there, the most popular game is [[Pai Gow]], a game played with ...
49: ...om "door", as it is geographically situated at "Cross' Door".
57: ...ugh there was no transfer of sovereignty. Macau prospered as a port and was a subject of repeated atte...
59: ...l of Portugal from the [[Spanish Habsburgs]] in [[1640]], Macau was granted the official title of ''Cida... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
12: ...egular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
35: *[[1902]] - The first [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game is played in [[Pasadena, California]...
79: **[[Velvet Divorce]]: [[Czechoslovakia]] is divided into the [[Slovakia|Slovak Re...
108: *[[1752]] - [[Betsy Ross]], American seamstress (d. [[1836]])
121: *[[1894]] - [[Satyendra Nath Bose]], Indian mathematician (d. [[1974]]) - March 17 (9666 bytes)
10: ...]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] forces evacuate [[Boston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] p...
21: ...esident [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
29: ...Stalker", commits his first two [[murder]]s in [[Los Angeles, California]] murder spree.
31: ...d injures 242 at the [[Israel]]i embassy in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]].
33: ...oyed [[Serb Orthodox]] shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: ... [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], most famous for his book ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviath...
6: ... also wrote numerous other books on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of hu...
14: ...ring the tour in contrast to the [[scholastic philosophy]] which he had learned in Oxford. His scholar...
16: ...enne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...l back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite the separate phenomena of Body, Man an... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day....
4: ...ugustine_of_Hippo|Augustine]]. In his natural philosophy, he differs from the [[Scholasticism|Schools]...
6: ...by the possibility of [[machine intelligence]], blossomed into, e.g., the [[Turing test]] and [[John S...
8: His most famous statement is ''[[Cogito ergo sum]]'' (''I...
11: ...ar old, his mother died of [[Tuberculosis|tuberculosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - Chimpanzee (10645 bytes)
26: ...onobos have longer arms and tend to walk upright most of the time.
30: ...ly just "ape". The colloquialism "''chimp''" was most likely coined some time in the late 1870s. Scien...
32: ... Prince of [[House of Orange-Nassau|Orange]] in [[1640]] and was followed by a few of its brethren over ...
36: ...ere the only species to make and use tools. The most progressive earlier studies on chimpanzees were ...
39: ...DNA]] in common with humans. It has even been proposed that ''troglodytes'' and ''paniscus'' belong wi... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...luğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
45: ...so been interpreted as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its d...
47: ...capital. Following [[World War I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies...
53: ... Empire]] in the [[13th century]]. In [[1299]], [[Osman I]] declared independence of the ''Ottoman Pri... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
19: ...the territory of the former Roman Empire without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The min...
33: ...nomic and cultural centres ([[Aachen]] being the most famous).
41: ...n imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to th...
43: ...peror was compelled to submit to the Pope at [[Canossa]] in 1077, after having been excommunicated. In...
46: ... the [[Knights Templar|Templars]], the [[Knights Hospitaller|Knights of St John]] and the [[Teutonic K...
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