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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]] - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the g...
12: ...no della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospigliosi Palace]] in [[Rome]], so Orazio hired the Tuscan...
24: ...on of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecially of the Grand...
26: ...aintings wished to have an image of the author, whose fame was rising. The success and the fashion rad...
36: ...obably born in [[1627]]. Artemisia tried, with almost no success, to teach them the art of painting. - Guyana (12153 bytes)
1: ...ith Venezuela is one that is disputed, as is the most southern part of the border with Suriname (upper...
62: ...blished three separate colonies; [[Essequibo]] ([[1616]]), [[Berbice]] ([[1627]]), and [[Demerara]] ([[1...
76: ...ament]], the National Assembly, with 53 members chosen on the basis of [[proportional representation]]...
105: ...finally the larger interior highlands consisting mostly of [[savanna]]s and mountains, the highest bei...
112: ...nment's already tenuous fiscal position and dim prospects for the future. - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...tly [[Jew]]ish with a large non-Jewish minority, mostly comprising [[Muslim]], [[Christian]], and [[Dr...
18: leader_names = [[Ariel Sharon]]<br>[[Moshe Katsav]] |
60: ...ce in Jewish religious obligations and Judaism's most important sites, including the remains of the [[...
62: ...udaism's most important religious texts, were composed in Palestine during this period. The province b...
68: ...cted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under the [[Umayyad]] Caliphate, the territ... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ... Britain''', '''Britain''' or '''England''' (the most populous of the [[home nation]]s). The UK has f...
58: ...es|included Wales]] as a [[principality]]) with those of, first, [[Kingdom of Scotland]] and then [[Ki...
64: ...lands of the North Atlantic'' (IONA) has been proposed, but is little used outside diplomatic circles.
71: ...as changed in 1927 to recognise the departure of most of Ireland, with the name '' United Kingdom of G...
74: ... and the UK rebuilding itself into a modern and prosperous nation. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
5: In most cases the dates given in the table are the commo...
9: ... messy and prolonged affair, and the Qing took almost twenty years to extend their control over the wh... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...er]], [[philosopher]], and [[physicist]] who is closely associated with the [[scientific revolution]]....
7: ...for financial reasons. However, he was offered a position on its faculty in [[1589]] and taught mathem...
10: ...ience and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the primary justific...
12: ...ate measurements of time, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the [[1600s]]. Accord...
24: ...emisphere to face the Earth when it was on the opposite side of the Sun and to face away from the Eart... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...l 9]], [[1626]]) was an [[England|English]] [[philosopher]], [[statesman]], [[spy]], [[freemason]] and...
4: ... a lawyer, but he has become best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the [[scientific ...
8: ...]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the...
14: ...] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong...
21: ...oris Partus Maximus'', but he failed to obtain a position of the kind he thought necessary for success... - Dentistry (9670 bytes)
3: ... is a professional practitioner of dentistry. In most countries, to become a qualified dentist, one ne...
5: Glossary of dental terms([http://www.dentallaw.co.uk/w...
9: ...ore obtaining a B.D.S. degree. After graduating most dentists will enter a V.T. (vocational training)...
11: ...or of Dental Medicine)]] degree after 4 years of postgraduate college education which follows 4 years ...
13: ...st, oral surgeon, pedodontist, periodontist, or prosthodontist upon satisfying certain local (U.S. "Bo... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...became an early "[[research institute]]". For purposes of [[publication]], he owned a [[printing press...
10: ...e and aunt, J? Brahe and [[Inger Oxe]], in the [[Tostrup Castle]] until he was six years old. Around 1...
12: ...acrobosco]]'s Tractatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis and [[Regiom...
16: ...he [[arcminute]]. (These measurements became the possessions of Kepler following Tycho's death.)
18: ...the [[skull]] was rimmed with green, a sign of exposure to [[copper]], not silver or gold. - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...]] – [[February 2]], [[1529]]), one of the most important [[renaissance]] authors and a diplomat...
10: ...a, again in the court of Gonzaga. In [[1499]] he lost his father and succeeded him in the representati...
13: ...Cardinal Bibbiena]], Ottaviano and [[Federico Fregoso]], [[Cesare Gonzaga]] (a cousin of both Castigli...
15: ...06]] Castiglione wrote (and played together with Cosimo Gonzaga) his eclogue ''Tirsi'' in which allusi...
17: ...gh in a literary form, like with [[Ludovico da Canossa]]. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: ...ational Portrait Gallery]]), in the famous [[Chandos portrait]], artist and authenticity unconfirmed.]...
2: ...dash; [[April 23]], [[1616]] (O.S.), [[May 3]], [[1616]] ([[New Style|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[po...
4: ...ng of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world literature, Shakespeare's lega...
6: ...hakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Chronology of S...
12: ...r, playwright and poet—was one individual whose life can be clearly mapped out through the study... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...crew. The term has been used to refer to raids across land borders by non-state actors. Piracy should...
4: ...d Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]] (UNCLOS) of 1982, consists of any criminal acts of violen...
9: [[File:Romtrireme.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mosaic of a [[Trireme|Roman Trireme]] in [[Tunisia]]....
10: ... and [[Ancient Rome|Romans]]. The island of [[Lemnos]] long resisted Greek influence and remained a ha...
12: ...d prisoner in the [[Dodecanese]] islet of [[Farmakos|Pharmacusa]].<ref>Plutarch, ''Caesar'' 1-2.</ref>... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
12: ...ivateer]]. On his second such voyage he fought a costly battle against Spanish forces, which claimed m...
13: ...he Silver Train to the nearby port of Nombre de Dios. He made off with a fortune in gold, but had to l...
16: ..., with four other ships and over 150 men. After crossing the Atlantic two of the ships had to be aband...
18: ... oceans met at Cape Horn was not discovered until 1616.
24: ..., [[1579]], Drake landed somewhere above Spain's most northerly claim at Point Loma. Drake found an e... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ... is a reaction to his writings, which have been closely studied from his time down to the present day....
4: ...ugustine_of_Hippo|Augustine]]. In his natural philosophy, he differs from the [[Scholasticism|Schools]...
6: ...by the possibility of [[machine intelligence]], blossomed into, e.g., the [[Turing test]] and [[John S...
8: His most famous statement is ''[[Cogito ergo sum]]'' (''I...
11: ...''Baccalauréat'' and ''Licence'' in [[law]] in [[1616]]. - Inquisition (9274 bytes)
5: ...to then focus on dealing with heresy, and those whose beliefs or practices deviated sufficiently from ...
7: ...y]], Church Councils required secular rulers to prosecute heretics.
16: ... by local [[bishop]]s, which in Greek is ''episcopos''. The episcopal Inquisition was not very effecti...
18: ...he job as decreed by the Pope. Individuals were chosen from different orders and secular clergy, but p...
28: ...it, judging both to be "foolish and absurd in philosophy," and the first to be "formally heretical" an... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...three main goals many alchemists sought for. The most renowned goal of alchemy is the [[transmutation...
2: ...diseases and prolong life indefinitely. The [[philosopher's stone]] was the key in these goals. This m...
8: ...ur together", "weld", "alloy", etc. (from ''khumatos'', "that which is poured out, an ingot"). Another...
11: ...xplore and investigate nature before many of the most basic scientific tools and practices were availa...
13: ...nterpretive, symbolic or philosophical one. In those times a physics devoid of metaphysical insight w... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...article covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importance to World History.
9: ...lowing spring [[1605]] when the settlers moved across the [[Bay of Fundy]] to found the [[Habitation a...
15: ...eople who stayed for the winter only 8 survived, most having died of [[scurvy]] and some of [[smallpox...
21: ...ay. Two hundred Iroquois advanced on Champlain's position as a native guide pointed out the three Iroq...
29: ...eutenant-general]] in New France. Charles died almost immediately, and was succeeded in the office by ... - Baffin Bay (763 bytes)
3: ... across from north to south. It is not navigable most of the year because of the presence of large num...
7: ...fin]], the first person to navigate the bay, in [[1616]].
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