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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...d English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] an...
27: ...g [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne...
31: ...er, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
33: ...lish service. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He ...
37: ... were removed from the ecclesiastical bench and replaced by appointees who would submit to the Queen'... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
287: *[[Pietro da Cortona]] ([[1596]]-[[1669]])
486: *[[Jan van Goyen]] ([[1596]]-[[1656]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...r his [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "...
4: ...er, Kepler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo ...
6: ...s Kepler University Linz]] in honor of Johannes Kepler, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonic...
8: ==Kepler's life==
9: ...at town, but by the time Johannes was born, the Kepler family fortunes were in decline. His father ea... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...n called the ''[[Baconian method]]''. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world throu...
21: ...im to devote himself to a life of learning. His application failed, and for the next two years he work...
25: ...e (he objected to the time span) offended many people; he was accused of seeking popularity, and was f...
29: ... a gift of a fine of ?1200 on one of Essex's accomplices.
35: ... to sit in parliament -- and to the various royal plans which Bacon had supported. His obvious influen... - August (4611 bytes)
6: ...ny days as [[Julius Caesar]]'s [[July]]. Augustus placed the month where it is because that's when [[C...
18: ...ockdoe (1504); the [[Battle of the Yellow Ford]] (1596); the First [[Battle of Curlew Pass]] (1599); the...
20: ...e two bank holidays (UK). It is typically when people go on holiday.
22: ... first and only use of nuclear weapons against people. Emperor Hirohito declared Japan's unconditional... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...tyle|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[poet]] and [[playwright]], has a reputation as the greatest of al...
4: ...und the world. Shakespeare was among the very few playwrights who have excelled in both [[tragedy]] an...
6: ...Chronology of Shakespeare plays|chronology of the plays]] attributed to him are often uncertain. His p...
8: ...d the many [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
12: ...ree that William Shakespeare{{fn|1}}—actor, playwright and poet—was one individual whose l... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
1: ...jpg|framed|Sir Francis Drake, c. [[1540]]–[[1596]].]]
2: ...s Drake''' (c. [[1540]] – [[January 28]], [[1596]]) was an [[England|English]] [[privateer]], [[Na...
9: ...orld]] under the sails of the Hawkins family of [[Plymouth]], in company with his cousin, Sir [[John H...
12: ...im an outlaw [[pirate]], but to England he was simply a sailor and [[privateer]]. On his second such v...
13: ...was unable to officially acknowledge Drake's accomplishment. Such intrigues were typical during Drake'... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
202: *[[Ren頄escartes]], (France, [[1596]] - [[1650]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]]) - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...inventing the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
4: ... to [[Teleology|ends]]—divine or natural—in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insi...
11: On March 31, 1596, Descartes was born in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [...
14: ...eling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering var...
18: ...ege of La Rochelle]] by Cardinal [[Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu|Richelieu]] in [[1627]].... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
213: *[[Jean Bodin]], (1530-1596){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
448: *[[Ren頄escartes]], (1596-1650){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}} - Scythia (22520 bytes)
1: ...a in [[Eurasia]] inhabited in ancient times by people probably speaking [[Indo-Iranian languages]], kn...
5: ...he [[Dnieper]] and [[Don]] rivers. The subject peoples in the periphery [[steppe]]s were also commonly...
13: ...putation for their [[archer]]s, and many gained employment as [[mercenary|mercenaries]]. Scythian elit...
17: ...rs, literally Amazons. It didn't offend the principles of nomadic society", according to one of the [[...
21: To date, no certain explanation exists to account for the origin of the Sc... - El Greco (2407 bytes)
1: ...500pix.jpg|thumb|200px|Baptism of Christ, painted 1596–1600]]
4: ...and portraits. Many of El Greco's works are on display at Madrid's ''[[Museo del Prado]]''.
9: ...of redefinition and reduction. In Toledo, he accomplished this by abandoning the [[Renaissance]] empha...
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