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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...in an era when women painters were not easily accepted, she became the first female painter to become ...
24: ...ence, Artemisia enjoyed huge success. She was accepted in the ''Accademia del Disegno'' (''"Academy of...
46: ...ly relocated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some othe...
68: ...irenze|Casa Buonarroti]], [[Firenze]], [[1615]]-[[1616|16]].
69: ... Firenze|Palazzo Pitti]],[[ Firenze]], [[1615]]-[[1616|16]]. - Guyana (12153 bytes)
62: ...blished three separate colonies; [[Essequibo]] ([[1616]]), [[Berbice]] ([[1627]]), and [[Demerara]] ([[1...
126: ... It is so similar that Guyana is included and accepted as a Caribbean Nation. Only its geographical lo...
140: <CAPTION><font size="+1">'''Holidays'''</font></caption> - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...s of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel ...
73: ...of [[Nazism]] in [[1933]] and the subsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Sho...
78: ...en-Gurion showed a willingness to essentially accept about 1/3 of the land that would ultimately be wo...
83: ...ict over its status. Immediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the United Nations Ge...
86: ... into ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''. In the news: Egyptian Air Force bombs Tel-Aviv, Transjordan shells J... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
62: ...es and Scotland (''i.e.'', the United Kingdom except for Northern Ireland). This political usage of "G...
64: ...o Britain (''i.e.'' the United Kingdom)", a description out of date in the Irish case since 1922. An a...
71: ... of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'' being adopted.
76: ...ven the German economic difficulties following adoption of the Euro, would seem to be possible in the ...
113: ...regions." [[Northern Ireland]]'s most recent attempt at home rule, with a directly elected power-shari... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
9: ...sty itself was established in [[1636]] (or even [[1616]], albeit under a different name), while the last... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
10: ...hese are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
18: ...pe to observe the [[sky]]. Based on sketchy descriptions of telescopes invented in the [[Netherlands]]...
20: ...planet)|Jupiter]]. Galileo published a full description in ''[[Sidereus Nuncius]]'' in March [[1610]]....
24: ...e Sun. By contrast, the [[geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]] predicted that only crescent and new phase...
32: Galileo observed the planet [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] in [[1611]], but took no particular notice o... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
33: ... income; but old debts and present extravagance kept him embarrassed, and he endeavoured to obtain fur...
35: ...d in this capacity he would prosecute Somerset in 1616. The parliament of April 1614 objected to Bacon'...
37: ...nd so clear was the evidence that he made no attempt at defence. To the lords, who sent a committee to...
40: ... be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart. I know I have clean hands and a clean hear...
90: at:1616 text:Prosecutes Somerset - Dentistry (9670 bytes)
20: ...mb|''Farmer at the dentist'', [[Johann Liss]], c. 1616-17.]]
24: ...gyptians]] and [[Greco-Roman]]s reveal early attempts at dental [[prosthetic]]s and [[surgery]] ([http...
54: ...cialty route would only take 2-3 years. It is accepted that only after 5 years of such training would ...
95: ...ople.htm Shayne's Dental Site (several on-line chapters cover history of Dentistry from prehistory to ... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: Tycho Brahe was born '''Tyge Brahe''', adopting the Latinised form Tycho at around age fifteen...
10: ...not lead to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childless u...
12: ...s de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis and [[Regiomontanus]]' De triangul...
38: ...er tried, but was unable, to persuade Brahe to adopt the [[heliocentrism|heliocentric model]] of the [...
53: ...ric model was contrary to both philosophy and Scripture, and could be discussed only as a computationa... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
30: ... and 108 editions were published between 1528 and 1616. [[Pietro Aretino|Pietro Aretino's]] ''La corti... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...dash; [[April 23]], [[1616]] (O.S.), [[May 3]], [[1616]] ([[New Style|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[po...
4: ...lled, due to his understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world li...
6: ...hakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Chronology of S...
8: ...y [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works.
14: ...s a convenient symmetry: he died on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright co... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
12: ...om was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death.
18: ...s seized enormous booty and took thousands into captivity.
22: ...an province of Britannia, [[Saint Patrick]] was captured and enslaved by [[Ireland|Irish]] pirates.
33: ...from Benevento, and all of Venice's military attempts to punish the Marians in 839 and 840 utterly fai...
52: ...ory/v012/12.2risso.html|title=Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Piracy: Maritime Violence in the Western I... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
9: ...h Sea]], and eventually, after the death of the captain for whom he was sailing, becoming the master o...
13: ...ted of Drake's [[Caribbean]] adventures was his capture of the Spanish Silver Train at Nombre de Dios ...
18: ... oceans met at Cape Horn was not discovered until 1616.
22: ...h ports like [[Valpara�]] as it went. He also captured Spanish ships on the journey north, making go...
24: ...h Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was discovered in [[Ma... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
11: ...''Baccalauréat'' and ''Licence'' in [[law]] in [[1616]].
22: ...cine Descartes|Francine]], born in [[1635]] and baptized on [[August 7]] of the same year. She died in...
30: ...e was interred in a graveyard mainly used for unbaptized infants in [[Adolf Fredrikskyrkan]] in Stockh...
35: ...s, he employs a method called [[methodological skepticism]]: he doubts any idea that can be doubted.
46: ...as he did, and the [[rationalist]] answer to [[scepticism]] which other rationalists have elaborated o... - Inquisition (9274 bytes)
28: ...anon law, who advise it on specific questions. In 1616 these consultants gave their assessment of the pr...
34: ...ral manner, and not as a neutral historical descriptor. - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
8: ...ic, and have been later connected with ancient Egypt through what linguists term a "[[folk etymology]]...
11: ...hem in the context of their times. They were attempting to explore and investigate nature before many ...
13: ... formed the basis of [[metallurgy]] since its inception at the end of the [[Neolithic]], would seem in...
15: ...red to be the most perfect of substances. By attempting to transmute base metals into gold, they were,...
19: ...ng to the study of alchemy than he did to either optics or physics, for which he is famous, (see [[Isa... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
7: ...rence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called...
19: During the summer of 1608, Champlain attempted to form better relations with the local Indians...
23: ...ry, he returned to France in an unsuccessful attempt, with de Monts, to renew their fur trade monopoly...
29: ...eutenant-general's name, to appoint “such captains and lieutenants as shall be expedient,”...
33: ...veled the [[Ottawa River]] giving the first description of this area. It was in June that he met with... - Baffin Bay (763 bytes)
7: ...fin]], the first person to navigate the bay, in [[1616]].
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