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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marria...
2: '''Marie-Antoinette''', Queen of [[France]] and Archduchess of [[Au...
4: ...cial described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
7: ...he Austrian Empire for fifteen years before Antoinette's birth. She was considered one of the most bri...
9: ...ess's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the Empress's amusement.) - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
16: ...essive for the violence portrayed, and was interpreted as a wish of psycological revenge for the viole...
20: ...ived to adulthood — following her mother's return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Na...
22: ===The Florentine Period ([[1614]]-[[1620]])===
26: ...ntings, that the appearance of the curvy and energetic heroines is similar to her portraits and selfpo...
30: ...and with her husband. These problems lead to her return to [[Rome]] in [[1621]]. - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...1577;ْ اِسْرَائِيل, transliterat...
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68: ...zantine]]s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under th...
73: Following centuries of [[Diaspora]], the [[nineteenth century]] saw the rise of [[Zionism]], the J... - Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
37: ... and the towns of [[Middletown, Rhode Island|Middletown]] and [[Portsmouth, Rhode Island|Portsmouth]] ...
40: In 1614 the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block visited the isla...
42: ... it a place of religious freedom for [[Baptist]] settlers. Historically, the land is unique because it...
44: ... [[Anne Hutchinson]] was banished from [[Massachusetts]] for expressing her beliefs that people could ...
46: ...cretary. In 1643 [[Samuel Gorton]] founded Shawomet, which is now called [[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warw... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...thods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]].
8: ... Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious in...
14: ...f science brought him to the conclusion that the methods (and thus the results) were erroneous. His re...
16: ... Paris. The disturbed state of government and society in [[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry ... - Religion (72319 bytes)
1: '''Religion'''—sometimes used interchangeably with '''[[faith]]''' or ...
4: ...], a [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[Stupa|stupa]] built between [[8th century|750 and 850]]]]
5: ...men; Oil on panel by [[Adriaen van de Venne]] ([[1614]])]]
9: ===Etymology===
10: ...han "connect," hence interpreting "religion" as "returning to bondage." - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
2: ... [[Europe]]; only in [[Great Britain]] and the [[Netherlands]] did the common people have more freedom...
5: ...ants of [[feudalism]]. Similarly, the peasants covetously eyed the relatively greater prerogatives of ...
7: ...h the French intellectuals; furthermore, contact between the American revolutionaries and the French t...
9: ...nt from those of the bourgeoisie or they did not yet constitute independent classes or class divisions...
13: ...equal system of taxes, by borrowing money, and sometimes by selling noble titles and other privileges;... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]], the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to the ''[[ancien ...
23: ...e, and proposed a uniform land tax as a means of setting France's finances in order in the long term. ...
27: ...ropose new reforms, but only to prepare for the meeting of the nation's representatives.
31: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[August 8]], [...
33: ...made this decision, this provoked an uproar. The 1614 Estates had consisted of equal numbers of represe... - Albany, New York (8184 bytes)
1: ...280px|right|New York State Capitol Building, completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million was the most e...
5: The '''City of Albany''' lies 145 miles (233 kilometers) north of and slightly east from [[New York Ci...
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33: ...e]], the first permanent settlement in the [[New Netherland]] colony, was established in the area. The... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...God's revelation to mankind, revealed to the Prophet [[Muhammad]] over a period of 23 years by the Ang...
6: ... not due to content dispute but due to different methods of counting; the sect founded by [[Rashad Kha...
10: ...zil or one juz' a day, respectively. A juz' is sometimes further divided into two [[hizb|ahzab]] (grou...
16: ...re vocabulary. Several generations after the prophet's death, many words used in the Qur'an had become...
18: ...s contend that the Qur'an is remarkable for its poetry and grace, and that its very literary perfectio... - Timeline of the French Revolution (9550 bytes)
9: ...ir]] results in the discrediting of [[Marie Antoinette]]
30: ...1789|Estates-General]] for the first time since [[1614]]
34: * [[May 5]]: Meeting of the [[Estates-General of 1789|Estates-Gener...
37: ...hird Estate/National Assembly are locked out of meeting houses by royal decree; [[Tennis Court Oath]] ...
44: * [[July 15]]: [[Lafayette]] appointed Commander of the National Guard - El Greco (2407 bytes)
2: '''El Greco''' ([[1541]] – [[April 7]], [[1614]]), a Greek [[painter]], [[sculptor]] and [[archi...
4: He was a master painter in [[Crete]], where he was born, and first trained as an ic...
7: ...elative obscurity. It was not until the late [[nineteenth century]] that artists and critics renewed i... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
7: ...[map]] of the [[St. Lawrence River]] and, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an accoun...
9: ...abandoned the following spring [[1605]] when the settlers moved across the [[Bay of Fundy]] to found t...
13: ...ldings (each two stories tall) and also moat 15 feet wide. This was to become the [[Quebec City, Quebe...
19: ...in their war against the [[Iroquois]]. Champlain set off with 9 French soldiers and 300 Indians in ord...
21: ... shot. The Iroquois turned and fled. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the ne...
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