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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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]]
187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]] - 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...
70: ... Pitti di Firenze|Palazzo Pitti]], [[Firenze]], [[1618]]-[[1619|19]].
88: ...ncommon and difficult choice, but also not an exceptional one. Before Artemisia, between the end of t... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
1: ...unded by [[Senegal]], with the [[Gambia River]] emptying into the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in its center. I...
59: ...y letters patent from [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. In [[1618]], [[King James I]] granted a charter to a Britis...
67: ...first broken by a violent, unsuccessful coup attempt in [[1981]].
69: In the aftermath of the attempted coup, [[Senegal]] and The Gambia signed the 198...
80: ...ctions_in_the_Gambia|election]] took place in [[September]] [[1996]], in which retired Col. [[Yahya A.... - Germany (46412 bytes)
66: ... inter-German strife, the [[Thirty Years War]] ([[1618]]) and finally the [[Peace of Westphalia]] ([[164...
73: ... power, rejected crown and constitution. This prompted violent rollbacks by the monarchs, and the demi...
75: ...lm I]] and the increasingly liberal parliament erupted over military reforms. The king appointed [[Ott...
95: ...nd]], violating the Versailles Treaty, in an attempt to rebuild national self-esteem. Emboldened, Hitl...
134: ...23]], [[1949]], the Federal Republic of Germany kept a notably low profile in international relations.... - 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... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...ce. Comets typically move in highly [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits, the [[aphelion|aphelia]] of which m...
9: ...tational interactions, falling into extremely elliptical orbits that bring them very close to the [[Su...
13: ...Cometorbit.png|thumb|400px|Comets have highly elliptical orbits. Note the two distinct tails.]]
17: ...d molecules. In these collisions, the ions will capture one or more electrons leading to emission of X...
21: ... explain why comets get perturbed into highly elliptical orbits, including close approaches to other [... - 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]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
15: ...t the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the position in April of [[1594]], at the age o...
25: On [[March 8]], [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary mo...
27: ... She was released in October [[1621]] after attempts to convict her failed. Even though she was subj...
40: ...e universe was created, there were no numbers except the Trinity, which is God himself… For, th...
46: ...tober 17]], [[1604]], Kepler observed that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the c... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...ted in [[1603]], created '''Baron Verulam''' in [[1618]], and created '''Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621...
33: ... income; but old debts and present extravagance kept him embarrassed, and he endeavoured to obtain fur...
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...
91: at:1618 fontsize:XS text:Lord Keeper - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregoria...
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
15: ...discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
28: *[[1892]] - [[Ellis Island]] opens to begin accepting immigrants to the [[United States]].
50: ...Sudan]] achieves independence from the [[Egypt|Egyptian Republic]] and the [[United Kingdom|United Kin... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
13: ...tes never actually practiced law, however, and in 1618 he entered the service of Prince [[Maurice of Nas...
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... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
504: ...hemia, Princess Palatine|Elisabeth of Bohemia]], (1618-1680){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}} - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...he '''Qur'an''' ({{lang-ar|أَلْقُرآن}} ''al-qur'&#...
6: ...an consists of [[114 (number)|114]] [[sura]]s (chapters) with a total of 6,236 [[ayat]] (verses; the e...
14: ...r Muhammad. Only five [[pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions]] survive.)
24: ...an mixes narrative, exhortation, and legal prescription. The suras frequently combine all these modes,...
52: ...women aught of that which ye have given them; except (in the case) when both fear that they may not be... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
47: ... I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites established...
53: ...st to [[Hungary]] in the northwest, and from [[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in the north. ...
59: ...Janissaries]] were disbanded, and a modern conscripted army was formed.
61: ...defending itself from foreign occupation (e.g. Egypt occupied by the French in 1798, Cyprus occupied b...
76: ...g the characteristic Ottoman culture. After the capture of Constantinopole (later dubbed Istanbul) in ... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
12: ...nelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman fr...
21: .... In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of...
69: ...e Holy Roman Emperor until [[1806]] (with the exception of the years between [[1742]] and [[1745]]). H...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t...
116: ...pire. In 1803, under the ''"[[Reichsdeputationshauptschluss]]"'' (a resolution of a committee of the I... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
12: ...nelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman fr...
21: .... In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of...
69: ...e Holy Roman Emperor until [[1806]] (with the exception of the years between [[1742]] and [[1745]]). H...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t...
116: ...pire. In 1803, under the ''"[[Reichsdeputationshauptschluss]]"'' (a resolution of a committee of the I...
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