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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ... of the school of [[Caravaggio]]. Artemisia was introduced to painting in her father's workshop, showi...
14: ...trial Tassi was imprisoned for just one year. The trial has subsequently influenced the [[feminism|fem...
16: ...um of Naples]], is impressive for the violence portrayed, and was interpreted as a wish of psycologica...
18: ...became a successful court painter, enjoying the patronage of the [[Medici]] and [[Charles I of England...
24: ...hew of the great [[Michelangelo]]): busy with construction of a maison to celebrate the notable ancest... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
23: *[[Riza Abbasi]] ([[1565]]-[[1635]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]]) - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
2: '''Robert Hooke''' ([[July 18]], [[1635]] - [[March 3]], [[1703]]), one of the greatest e...
4: ...1665 he gained appointment as Professor of [[Geometry]] at [[Gresham College]].
8: ...ke displays a man's head that some have argued portrays Hooke. Both these claims remain in dispute, ho...
14: ...r outstripped the capabilities of any previous instruments.
16: ...'s other significant achievements include the construction of the first [[Gregorian telescope|Gregoria... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
1: ...mb|A 19th century illustration of the Salem Witch Trials]]
17: *[[1612]]-[[Tobacco]] cultivation introduced to [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] by [[J...
28: *[[1630]]-[[Winthrop Fleet]] travels to [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]
31: *[[1635]]-[[Connecticut Colony]] founded
45: *[[1655]]-English take control of [[New Sweden]] - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
2: '''Sir Henry Morgan''' (c. [[1635]] - [[August 25]], [[1688]]) was a [[privateer]] ...
4: ...ckman when the Spanish settlements at Vildemos, [[Trujillo]] and [[Granada, Nicaragua | Granada]] were...
6: ... shields]] in taking the third, most difficult fortress. The governor of Panama, astonished at this da...
8: ...vacuating the place, and finally by an ingenious stratagem faking a landward attack on the fort, which...
10: ...r in Jamaica, to levy war on the Spaniards and destroy their ships and stores, the booty gained in the... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
17: metro pop = 5.8 million |
27: ...[Greater Boston]] is one of the top-ten largest metropolitan areas in the United States, the fifteenth...
32: Boston has an illustrious history that spans nearly four centuries. Its...
34: ...These values molded an extremely stable and well-structured society in Boston. Indeed, Puritan values ...
38: ...production, [[leather]] goods, and machinery industries. - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...he Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
2: [[Image:Rene-Descartes-portrait-photo-image-crca.jpg|thumb|400px|Rene Descarte...
4: Descartes frequently contrasted his views with those of his predecessors. In...
6: ...uch later, impelled by the invention of the [[electronic computer]] and by the possibility of [[machin...
13: ...ntention was to see the world and to discover the truth. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}...
191: *[[Bhartrhari]], (5th century){{fn|R}} - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
5: ...e [[Low Countries]], and parts of northern and central [[Italy]]. But its sovereign was usually the Ge...
10: ...[[Germanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germania Inferior]], [[Ger...
15: ...e Rhine. Roman forts were built at [[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to sec...
17: ... the emergence of a number of large West Germanic tribes - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons,...
19: ...heir own ancestral land. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to t... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...France to regain funding. This article covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importanc...
5: ==Early Travels==
7: ...ance on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called ''Des sauvages'' (The Savages).
9: Instructed by [[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]] to make a...
23: ...would become an exclusive warehouse for their fur trade and, in return, the Rouen merchants would supp... - Sargon II of Assyria (8855 bytes)
1: ...ecessors, and he took the name '''Sharru-kinu''', true king, after [[Sargon of Akkad]], a mighty king ...
4: While Sargon was thus trying to gain support in Assyria, Marduk-apla-iddin...
6: ...troyed [[Raphia]] and won a victory over Egyptian troops. On his way back, he had [[Samaria]] rebuilt ...
8: ...oned troops in Parsuash (original home of Persian tribe, on lake [[Urmia]]) and Kar-Nergal (Kishesim)....
10: ...by incursions of the Cimmerians, a nomadic steppe tribe. One Urartian army had been completely annihil... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
5: ...e [[Low Countries]], and parts of northern and central [[Italy]]. But its sovereign was usually the Ge...
10: ...[[Germanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germania Inferior]], [[Ger...
15: ...e Rhine. Roman forts were built at [[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to sec...
17: ... the emergence of a number of large West Germanic tribes - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons,...
19: ...heir own ancestral land. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to t... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
8: The Elamites called their country ''Haltamti'' (in later Elamite, ''Atamti''), bor...
10: ...lemy]] called it ''Susiana''. Though primarily centred in the province of [[Khuzestan]] for the durati...
17: ...lamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
19: ...dating to ca. [[2650 BC]]. But we can only really trace Elamite history from records dating to beginni...
21: ..., this was done through a federated governmental structure. - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...], who classified animals based on their means of transportation (air, land, or water).
7: ...bic. His original commentary is now lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives....
11: ...merdam]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702).
17: ...fetime (1st ed. 1735). He is best known for his introduction of a method of modern classification; he ...
19: ...cies. When a species is further subdivided, the [[trinomial nomenclature]] is used. For a scientific n...
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