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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aristotle]]. In additio...
7: ...rsity of Pisa]], but was forced to "drop out" for financial reasons. However, he was offered a positio...
10: ...losophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science....
18: ...makers. His work on the device also made for a profitable sideline with merchants who found it useful ...
20: ...humb|200px|right|It was on this page that Galileo first noted an observation of the [[natural satellit... - Extreme points of the world (6602 bytes)
13: ...h]]: 10,911 [[metre|m]] (35,797 feet) <!--- Using figure from Mariana Trench article --->below sea lev...
16: ... contenders would be in the north Atlantic or Pacific, or around the base of the Antarctic continental...
19: ...sition is at a straight-line distance of 2648 km (1645 mi) from the nearest coastline.
20: ...d (called ''Point Nemo'') lies in the South [[Pacific Ocean]] at approx. {{coor d|48|S|125|W|}}, which...
27: ...icity is located), that Felicity is legally and officially the centre of the world. [[Surrealist]] a... - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
2: '''William "Captain" Kidd''' ([[1645]]–[[May 23]], [[1701]]) is often remembered...
4: ...ission for the purpose of attacking pirates. Four-fifths of the cost for the venture was paid for by n...
6: ...k, he proceeded to Madagascar but was not able to find pirates to take in that vicinity. He became des...
8: ...unwillingness to become a pirate. In a subsequent fight a few days later, Kidd threw an ironbound buck...
12: ... Kidd reached [[Madagascar]]. Here Kidd found the first pirate of his voyage, [[Robert Culliford]] and... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
14: ...des]]'s [[History of the Peloponnesian War]], the first translation of that work into [[English langua...
16: Although he associated with literary figures like [[Ben Jonson]] and thinkers such as [[...
20: ...passions whereby Man came into relation with Man. Finally he considered, in his crowning treatise, how...
24: ...e, and wrote a critique of the ''[[Meditations on First Philosophy]]'' of [[Descartes]], which was pri...
26: ... a good reputation in philosopic circles and in [[1645]] was chosen with Descartes, [[Gilles de Roberval... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}}
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