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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
    66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Am...
    77: ...ns|Russian]] explorer, first European who sailed through [[Bering Strait]]
    230: *[[John Rae]], (1813-1893), travelled widely through the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
  2. Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
    68: ...irenze|Casa Buonarroti]], [[Firenze]], [[1615]]-[[1616|16]].
    69: ... Firenze|Palazzo Pitti]],[[ Firenze]], [[1615]]-[[1616|16]].
    94: ...ia'', writing in a much different form, happened three years later. [[Anna Banti]] maintains a dialogu...
  3. Guyana (12153 bytes)
    62: ...and were finally ceded the area in [[1814]]. The three became a single British colony known as [[Briti...
    105: ...e Guyanese landscape can be roughly divided into three regions: a narrow, marshy plain along the coast...
    112: ...bles in the [[bauxite]] and [[sugar]] industries threaten the government's already tenuous fiscal posi...
    117: Guyana has a diverse ethnic population: the three major groups are the (East) [[India]]ns or [[In...
    119: [[Christianity]] (50%), [[Hinduism]] (35%), and [[Islam...
  4. Israel (51605 bytes)
    1: ...Jewish minority, mostly comprising [[Muslim]], [[Christian]], and [[Druze]] [[Israeli Arab|Arab]]s. Th...
    60: ...ions of great spiritual significance in Judaism, Christianity, and [[Islam]]. Starting around 1200 BCE...
    62: ...t center of Christian pilgrimage, with a growing Christian population.
    68: ... of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the size of Jewish populatio...
    147: The Judiciary branch of Israel is made of a three-tier system of courts: at the lowest level are ...
  5. United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
    51: ...Scots]]: ''Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northren Ireland''<br/>
    54: ... nation]]s). The UK has four constituent parts, three of which &mdash; the ancient nations of [[Engla...
    56: ...ritish overseas territory|overseas territories]] throughout the world, and relationships with several ...
    97: ...[[Walter Bagehot]] asserted that the monarch had three rights: to be consulted, to advise and to warn....
    105: ...these independent nations, it retains influence, through long-standing close relations. In some Common...
  6. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    34: *[[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]] ([[1667]]-[[1719]])
    83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
    167: *[[Aaron Bohrod]] ([[1907]]-[[1992]])
    218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
    263: *[[Anthony Christian]] ([[1945]]-)
  7. Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
    7: ... Dynasties were often established before the overthrow of an existing regime, or continued for a time ...
    9: ...sty itself was established in [[1636]] (or even [[1616]], albeit under a different name), while the last...
    24: <td>The Three August Ones and the Five Emperors</td>
    111: <td>Three Kingdoms</td>
    114: ...Three Kingdoms|H]] - [[Table of Chinese monarchs#Three Kingdoms Period|E]])</td>
  8. Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
    22: On [[January 7]], [[1610]] Galileo discovered three of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]'s four largest ...
    26: ...of sunspots led to a long and bitter feud with [[Christoph Scheiner]]; in fact, there can be little do...
    70: ...navigation, the first practical method was the [[chronometer]] of [[John Harrison]].
    72: ...t fully operational pendulum clock was made by [[Christiaan Huygens]] in the [[1650s]].
    74: ...le]] and [[mirror]] combination to reflect light throughout a building, an automatic [[tomato]] picker...
  9. Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
    4: ...implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of ...
    10: ...ambridge]], in 1573 at the age of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Ba...
    21: ...d aid him toward these ends, in 1580 he applied, through his uncle, [[William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghle...
    35: ...d in this capacity he would prosecute Somerset in 1616. The parliament of April 1614 objected to Bacon'...
    49: ...t nature, the philosopher should instead proceed through inductive reasoning from fact to axiom to law...
  10. Dentistry (9670 bytes)
    20: ...mb|''Farmer at the dentist'', [[Johann Liss]], c. 1616-17.]]
    22: ...wledge of medicine and dentistry. The physical anthropologist that carried out the examinations, Profe...
  11. Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
    18: ...a fellow Danish nobleman. This occurred in the [[Christmas]] season of [[1566]], after a fair amount o...
    27: ...e became a binding [[morganatic]] marriage after three years.
    45: ...e Tycho disagreed with [[Christian IV of Denmark|Christian IV]], the new king of his country, he moved...
    53: ...otion. It gained a considerable following after [[1616]] when Rome decided officially that the heliocent...
    80: * John Robert Christianson: ''On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe, scien...
  12. Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
    15: ...rsi'' in which allusively, beyond the figures of three shepherds, he originally depicts the court of U...
    30: ... and 108 editions were published between 1528 and 1616. [[Pietro Aretino|Pietro Aretino's]] ''La corti...
    32: ...ecalls very intensively [[Francesco Petrarca]]'s through [[Pietro Bembo]]'s ones. Pre-romantics will f...
  13. William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
    2: ...dash; [[April 23]], [[1616]] (O.S.), [[May 3]], [[1616]] ([[New Style|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[po...
    6: ...xact dates and [[Chronology of Shakespeare plays|chronology of the plays]] attributed to him are often...
    8: ...n phrases|titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases]], and the many [[list of adaptations of Shak...
    12: ... individual whose life can be clearly mapped out through the study of considerable historical evidence...
    14: ...s a convenient symmetry: he died on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright co...
  14. Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
    10: ...ere pirate states along the [[Anatolia]]n coast, threatening the commerce of the [[Roman Empire]].
    12: ...tained an attitude of superiority and good cheer throughout his captivity. When the pirates decided to...
    14: ... months of naval warfare managed to suppress the threat. (See [[Pompey#Campaign against the pirates]])...
    16: ...red Illyria and made it a province, ending their threat.
    33: ...ilitary action against them that finally brought Christianity to them.
  15. Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
    18: ... oceans met at Cape Horn was not discovered until 1616.
    20: ...w renamed the ''Golden Hind'' in honour of Sir [[Christopher Hatton]] (after his [[heraldry|coat of ar...
    45: ...Spain&#8217;s main ports, occupying the town for three days, destroying 31 enemy ships as well as a la...
    54: ...nners from [[El Morro Castle]] shot a cannonball through the cabin of Drake's flagship, but he survive...
  16. Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
    11: ...''Baccalauréat'' and ''Licence'' in [[law]] in [[1616]].
    16: ...ms in physics, Descartes had a vision in a dream through which he "discovered the foundations of a mar...
    26: ...ffered a detrimental effect on his health due to Christina's demands for early morning study. However,...
    41: ... exists. But in what form? He perceives his body through the use of the senses; however, these have pr...
    46: ...dmitting only [[deduction]] as a method. Halfway through the ''Meditations'', he offers an [[ontologic...
  17. Inquisition (9274 bytes)
    11: There were four Inquisitions; in chronological order, they were the [[Medieval Inquisi...
    20: ...ition was never instituted in [[England]], but [[Christopher Columbus]] carried it with him to the [[N...
    28: ...anon law, who advise it on specific questions. In 1616 these consultants gave their assessment of the pr...
    38: *Some Christian fundamentalist authors like [[Jack Chick]] ...
  18. Alchemy (42222 bytes)
    1: ...e]], [[mysticism]], and [[religion]]. There were three main goals many alchemists sought for. The most...
    8: ...and have been later connected with ancient Egypt through what linguists term a "[[folk etymology]]."
    31: ...ical traditions spanning some four millennia and three continents, and their general penchant for cryp...
    54: ...yptian alchemy. Egyptian alchemy is known mostly through the writings of ancient (Hellenic) [[Greece|G...
    56: ...' of Thrice-Greatest Hermes, which is known only through Greek and [[Arabic language|Arabic]] translat...
  19. Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
    13: ...fortifying]] the area against attack by building three main buildings (each two stories tall) and also...
    21: ...ain's position as a native guide pointed out the three Iroquois chiefs. Champlain fired his [[arquebus...
    39: In 1615, Champlain is brought through the Peterborough area by [[Huron]]. He used t...
    43: ...eg by arrows, one in his knee. The attack lasted three hours until they were forced to flee.
    45: ...anners, customs, modes of life". On [[May 22]], [[1616]] he left the Huron country and was back in Quebe...
  20. Baffin Bay (763 bytes)
    5: ...ntic through [[Davis Strait]], and to the Arctic through several narrow channels of [[Nares Strait]]. ...
    7: ...fin]], the first person to navigate the bay, in [[1616]].

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