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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
287: *[[Pietro da Cortona]] ([[1596]]-[[1669]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...arl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
15: ... of the T?n faculty. However, before he took his final exams he was recommended for the vacant post o...
23: ...ograph on the origins of [[snow|snowflakes]], the first known work on the subject. He correctly theori...
25: ...ed. He initially rejected this idea, but later confirmed it on [[May 15]] of the same year.
31: ==Scientific work== - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...ize an inductive methodology for [[science|scientific]] inquiry, often called the ''[[Baconian method]...
8: He was the youngest of five sons of [[Nicholas Bacon|Sir Nicholas Bacon]], ...
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precoc...
18: ... a fifth of that money. Having started with insufficient means, he borrowed money and became habitual...
25: ...nt in 1594 and Bacon became a candidate for the office, Lord Essex's influence could not secure him th... - August (4611 bytes)
10: ...till regarded as the first day of [[Autumn]]. The first Monday in August is one of the [[public holida...
14: In [[Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''elokuu'', meaning "...
18: ...4); the [[Battle of the Yellow Ford]] (1596); the First [[Battle of Curlew Pass]] (1599); the [[Battle...
22: ...shima and [[August 9]] bombing of Nagasaki in the first and only use of nuclear weapons against people...
38: ...brate the National Week of the [[Tagalog language|Filipino]] Language. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: ...[Chandos portrait]], artist and authenticity unconfirmed.]]
4: ...the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world literature, Shakespeare's legacy and...
6: ...] attributed to him are often uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of the ...
19: ...ce he was entitled to, although this cannot be confirmed because the school's records have not survive...
23: On [[May 26]], [[1583]] Shakespeare's first child, Susanna, was baptised at Stratford. A s... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
1: ...jpg|framed|Sir Francis Drake, c. [[1540]]–[[1596]].]]
2: ...an period]]. He was the first Englishman (and the first of any nationality not on a Spanish ship) to [...
9: ...n Hawkins]]. Together, Hawkins and Drake made the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]]...
11: == First adventures ==
12: Around [[1563]] Drake first sailed west to the [[Spanish Main]], drawn by ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
202: *[[Ren頄escartes]], (France, [[1596]] - [[1650]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]]) - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...scartes was one of the key thinkers of the Scientific Revolution in the Western World. He is also kno...
4: ...he [[Scholasticism|Schools]] on two major points: first, he rejects the analysis of corporeal substanc...
6: ...sophy, and Descartes and Leibniz contributed significantly to science as well. As the inventor of the ...
11: On March 31, 1596, Descartes was born in [[La Haye en Touraine]], [...
14: ...upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, ''Discourse on the Method o... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
213: *[[Jean Bodin]], (1530-1596){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Scythia (22520 bytes)
3: The Scythians first appear in Assyrian annals as ''Ishkuzai'', who...
5: The most significant Scythian tribes mentioned in mainly Greek sou...
9: ...rs.jpg|thumb|350px|Scythian warriors, drawn after figures on an [[electrum]] cup from the Kul'Oba kurg...
13: ...ch]]-wood - a wood that may have had special significance as a tree of life-renewal, since it is a dec...
17: ...Pazyryk burial found in the [[1990s]] seems to confirm at least part of the legend. It contained the s... - El Greco (2407 bytes)
1: ...500pix.jpg|thumb|200px|Baptism of Christ, painted 1596–1600]]
4: ...ster painter in [[Crete]], where he was born, and first trained as an icon painter. At the age of twe...
9: ...unreal; colours are pure, luminous and unearthly; figures are elongated, energised and dematerialised....
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