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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ldest continuous major [[civilization]]s, with written records dating back at least 3,500 years, and w...
14: ... of the Grand Historian|Historical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiogr...
15: ...s.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle bones]] or ...
28: ...[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
14: ...ad allegedly planned to murder his wife, had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to st...
16: ...g ''[[Giuditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored ...
18: ...anged for his daughter to marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly ...
20: ... [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her subsequent life.
22: ===The Florentine Period ([[1614]]-[[1620]])=== - Crocus (3680 bytes)
22: ...Spring Flowers'', by [[Ambrosius Bosschaert]], c. 1620 ([[Louvre Museum]])]]
24: ...usius]] at the botanical garden in [[Leiden]]. By 1620, the approximate date of Ambrosius Bosschaert's p...
26: ...). These are hardy perennial plants, which have little resemblance to the other members of the iris fa...
30: ...tens'', or genus ''Pulsatilla'') belongs to the buttercup family ([[Ranunculaceae]]). - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
9: ...ent from [[1271]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written up as ''[[Travels]]'' and the work was read thr...
11: ...s. The rise of the aggressive and expansionist [[Ottoman Empire]] further limited the possibilities fo...
22: ...uista]]'' that the large nation became fully committed to looking for new trade routes and colonies ov...
26: ...like Africa or Asia the Caribbean islanders had little to trade with the Spanish ships. The islands t...
31: ...r]], [[Mombassa]], [[Socotra]], [[Ormuz]], [[Calcutta]], [[Goa]], [[Bombay]], [[Malacca]], [[Macau]], ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ...60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
15: * 12 KYA: [[Pottery]] by [[Jomon]] in [[Japan]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
123: * [[1645]]: [[Vacuum pump]]: [[Otto von Guericke]]
136: ...1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle)]] - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
3: ...secution at the hands of their countrymen. They settled in [[Leiden]] for 12 years, but by [[1617]] a ...
4: ...s_ship.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
5: ...o move to a place better suited to them, and in [[1620]] set sail on the ship ''[[Mayflower]]'' from [[P...
6: ...grimschurch.jpg|thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
7: ...grimworkers.jpg|thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] - Mayflower (4074 bytes)
2: ... [[United States|United States of America]]) in [[1620]], leaving Plymouth on [[September 6]] and droppi...
11: ...[[Dartmouth, England|Dartmouth]]. On the second attempt, the ships reached the Atlantic, but once aga...
13: As a result of the delay, the settlers did not arrive until the onset of winter, whi...
15: Before disembarking, the settlers wrote and signed the [[Mayflower Compact]].
17: ... set sail from [[Plymouth Colony]] in [[Massachusetts]] on a return trip to [[England]], arriving back... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...hich had been granted a charter for the land in [[1620]].
3: ...e of [[Cape Cod Bay]] in southeastern [[Massachusetts]].
5: ...olonial ventures in America. When the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] got its new charter in [[1691]], Pl...
9: ...outh County]], and [[Barnstable County, Massachusetts]].
17: ...of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620 - 1621]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]]) - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
5: ...her north than the current Great Wall, and very little remains of it. A defensive wall on the northern...
12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]...
22: ...and workers were under perpetual danger of being attacked by brigands. Because many people died while ...
26: ...03]], the Chinese government still had no laws written to protect the Wall nationwide. However, Beijin...
40: ... and restricted stairways and entries to confuse attackers. - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
5: ...sen]], claimed by later writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 ... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
7: He attended the [[University of Pisa]], but was forced t...
10: ...h) or other thinkers (such as [[Aristotle]]) in matters of science and to the separation of science fr...
14: ...licated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was co...
22: ...ter. He made additional observations of them in [[1620]]. Later astronomers overruled Galileo's naming o...
26: ...h [[Christoph Scheiner]]; in fact, there can be little doubt that both of them were beaten by [[David ... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ...erman state of [[Baden-W?berg]], 30 km west of Stuttgart's city center). His grandfather had been Lor...
15: In [[1587]], Kepler began attending the [[University of T?n]], where he proved ...
27: ...ths. She was released in October [[1621]] after attempts to convict her failed. Even though she was ...
52: To his disappointment, Kepler's attempts to fix the orbits of the planets within a se...
54: ...e did not discover [[gravity]], he seems to have attempted to invoke the first empirical example of a ... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
21: ... himself seriously to the study of law, until admitted as an [[outer barrister]] in 1582. In 1584 he t...
25: ...s for a time excluded from the court. When the [[attorney-general]]ship fell vacant in 1594 and Bacon ...
29: ...th Essex, a fortunate move considering that the latter would be executed for treason in 1601; and Baco...
31: ...e Barnham]], the daughter of a London merchant. Little or nothing is known of their married life: mode...
35: ...d to stay, but a law was passed that forbade the attorney-general to sit in parliament -- and to the v... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
1: [[Image:SalemWitchcraftTrial.jpg|thumb|A 19th century illustration of the ...
8: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]]
9: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Popham Colony]] in [[Maine]]
20: === [[1620s]] ===
22: ...nd [[Plymouth Colony]] in present-day [[Massachusetts]]; [[Mayflower Compact]] signed - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and the...
4: ...e [[frontier]] had certain unifying features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the lat...
11: ...d wealth and power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Eur...
13: ...y close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans we...
16: ...]]. At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a colonia... - Jan Brueghel the Younger (1191 bytes)
1: ...mb|260px|Paradise by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. 1620). Oil on oak. Gem䬤egalerie, Berlin, Germany]] - Diwali (5677 bytes)
5: references: [http://www.hindutemple.org/brochures/tamil_new_year_c...
6: [http://www.saja.org/stylebook.html#D] (Diwali definit...
26: ...in which he killed the demon [[Ravana]]. It was getting dark, so people along the way lit oil lamps to...
38: ...ratipanda and Bhaiya Dooj or the Teeka Ceremony [http://www.leicester.gov.uk/departments/page.asp?pgid...
40: ...rinidad and Tobago can be found at http://www.visittnt.com/ToDo/Events/Divali/Introduction.htm - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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29: ...ian)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
62: *[[Grigory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
82: *[[Bhargav Bharat Bhatt]] (India) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: *[[Archibald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}...
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