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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
8: ... of discontent with the [[Elizabethan Religious Settlement]], which was felt by the more radical Prote...
12: ...e outset, Puritans were simply the informed, committed, and relatively radical Protestants. As a grou...
14: ...ructure and liturgy that the monarchy required. Attempts by the [[bishop]]s of the Church of England ...
16: ...ecifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter became the backbone of the Anglican church and ...
24: ...ign of [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], a committed High Churchman, relations soured and it is gene... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
39: ... Gottlieb Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Christian Gottlieb]] (1756-1801)
43: ...rlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775)
46: ...ophie Charlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Sophie Charlotte]] (1714-1792)
59: *[[Uriel Acosta|Acosta, Uriel]], (1585-1640), philosopher - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
6: ...638]] and [[Philip I, Duke of Orl顮s]] born in [[1640]]. The marriage was not a happy one, filled with ... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ... about 6 times as long as they have been using written language. Artistic painting is considered by ma...
8: The oldest known '''paintings''' are at the [[Grotte Chauvet]] in [[France]], dated at about 32,000 y...
52: ...ve placed the painter. The word 'style' in the latter sense has fallen out of favour in academic disc...
106: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ... The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
21: ...mbol, is known as the "Cradle of Portugal." The Battle of S㯠Mamede took place nearby in 1128. (court...
29: ...s a nation to [[June 24]], [[1128]], with the [[Battle of S㯠Mamede]] by [[Afonso I of Portugal|Afons...
31: ...tugal's most historic battle of Portugal, the [[Battle of Aljubarrota]]. The victorious John was then ...
42: ... exploration of Africa. Before this voyage very little information was known in Europe about what lay ... - Spain (36498 bytes)
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Bey...
58: ... [[Iberian peninsula]] through the Pyrenees and settled throughout the peninsula, becoming the [[Celt-...
60: ..., [[Greeks]] and [[Carthaginians]] successively settled along the Mediterranean coast and founded trad...
83: In [[1640]], under [[Felipe IV of Spain|Felipe IV]], the ce...
95: ...[Spanish Morocco]] and [[Equatorial Guinea]] was attempted. A period of dictatorial rule ([[1923]]&nda... - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ...her forms of media like [[film]], based on the written accounts of individual lives. While a biograph...
8: The first known biographies were written by [[scribes]] commissioned by the various rule...
12: ...ttributed to [[John]], [[Luke]], [[Mark]] and [[Matthew]] in the [[New Testament]] of the [[Bible]] we...
22: In [[1640]], [[Izaak Walton]] published ''Life of Donne'', ...
24: ...ohnson]]'s conversations as well as many of his letters, it presented its subject to the reader with a... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
1: ...s_ship.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]The ...
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...
7: ...was surrendered by Bradford to [[The Freemen]] in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tracts of land. ...
9: ...outh County]], and [[Barnstable County, Massachusetts]]. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]]) - Macau (16856 bytes)
11: | align=center colspan=2 | <small>''National [[motto]]: none''</small>
44: Besides historical colonial relics, the biggest attractions in Macau are the [[casino]]s. Though many...
57: ...rospered as a port and was a subject of repeated attempts by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] to conquer it i...
59: ...l of Portugal from the [[Spanish Habsburgs]] in [[1640]], Macau was granted the official title of ''Cida...
76: ...al government after selection by an election committee, whose members are nominated by corporate bodie... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
30: ...eater New York. The four initial boroughs, [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], and [[The Bronx]],...
43: *[[1937]] - The first [[Cotton Bowl (game)|Cotton Bowl]] game is played in [[Dallas, Texas]].
58: *[[1971]] - [[Cigarette]] [[advertisement]]s are banned on [[United Stat...
59: ...reland]], and the [[Republic of Ireland]] are admitted into the [[European Community]].
64: **The [[Greece|Republic of Greece]] is admitted into the [[European Community]]. - March 17 (9666 bytes)
6: ...[[Gnaeus Pompeius|Pompey the Younger]] in the [[Battle of Munda]].
8: *[[1673]] - [[Jacques Marquette]] and [[Louis Jolliet]] begin their exploration ...
10: ...dom|British]] forces evacuate [[Boston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] places [[artillery...
17: *[[1910]] - [[Luther Gulick]] and his wife Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in...
20: ...39]] - [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)]]: The [[Battle of Nanchang]] between the [[Kuomintang]] and th... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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62: *[[Grigory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
82: *[[Bhargav Bharat Bhatt]] (India)
86: *[[Errett Bishop]] ([[1928]] - [[1983]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
6: ...s other books on political philosophy and other matters, providing an account of human nature as self-...
12: ...have followed his own curriculum; he was "little attracted by the scholastic learning". He did not com...
22: ...by the time of the [[Short Parliament]] he had written not only his ''[[Human Nature (book Hobbes)|Hum...
24: When in November 1640 the [[Long Parliament]] succeeded to the Short, H...
26: ...he first two sections of his work and published little except for a short treatise on optics (''Tracta... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
2: ...pg|thumb|400px|Rene Descartes Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
4: ...ejects the analysis of corporeal substance into matter and form; second, he rejects any appeal to [[Te...
6: ...]], later advocated by [[Baruch Spinoza]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]], and opposed by the [[empiricist]]...
14: :"I entirely abandoned the study of letters. Resolving to seek no knowledge other than tha...
22: ...d on [[August 7]] of the same year. She died in [[1640]]. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764) - Chimpanzee (10645 bytes)
17: ...[[species]] in the [[genus]] '''''Pan'''''. The better known chimpanzee is ''Pan troglodytes'', the [[...
30: ...take the 'pan' occurring in 'chim''pan''zee' and attribute it to [[Pan (mythology)|Pan]], a rural anci...
32: ... Prince of [[House of Orange-Nassau|Orange]] in [[1640]] and was followed by a few of its brethren over ...
34: ...). By the end of the 1800s there was still very little factual scientific information regarding chimpa...
36: ..., with less of the human egotism and patronizing attitude that had marred previous studies. Prior to ... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
6: | [[Image:Ottoman Coat of Arms.jpg|Ottoman Coat of Arms]]
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11: ...png|Map of the Ottoman Empire]]<br/><small>''The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power''</small>
13: | '''[[Motto|Imperial motto]]'''
14: ... ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra) - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
15: ...heruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of the Teutoburg Forest|Teutoburg Forest]]. Ger...
17: ...large West Germanic tribes - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons, Frisians, Thuringians, Langob...
19: ...ons and the Christian religion gave rise to the pattern of life of the medieval West.
37: ...[[Elbe]] and the [[Oder]] were submitted. In 962 Otto I was crowned emperor in Rome, taking the succes...
43: ... a weakening of the [[Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor|Ottonian]] ''Reichskirche'' and a strengthening of th...
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