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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - 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. - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
14: ...| <small>''[[National motto]]: Progress, Peace, Prosperity''</small>
59: ...y letters patent from [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. In [[1618]], [[King James I]] granted a charter to a Britis...
61: ...The 1783 Treaty of Versailles gave Great Britain possession of The Gambia, but the French retained a t...
63: ...fic in The Gambia. They established the military post of Bathurst (now Banjul) in 1816. In the ensuing...
71: ...AFPRC) seized power in a military coup d'etat, deposing the government of Sir Dawda Jawara. Lieutenant... - Germany (46412 bytes)
38: |'''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]'''<br> - Total ([[2003]])...
66: ... inter-German strife, the [[Thirty Years War]] ([[1618]]) and finally the [[Peace of Westphalia]] ([[164...
71: ...ny, the [[German Confederation]] was founded, a loose league of [[List of German Confederation member ...
73: ...d the demise of the national assembly along with most merits of the revolution.
79: ... it led to friction with neighbouring countries. Most alliances in which Germany had been involved wer... - 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... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...en described as "dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane...
5: ...ifferent process, but very old comets which have lost all their [[volatile]] materials may come to res...
9: ...d the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 50km across, the coma may be larger than the Sun, and the ta...
11: ...and the gases glowing due to [[ion|ionization]]. Most comets are too faint to be visible without the a...
17: ...highly charged [[ions]] fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and molecu... - 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]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
11: ... compared to the other pupils, an outsider. This ostracizing probably led him to turn to the world of...
15: ...estant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the position in April of [[1594]], at the age of 23.
21: ...y [[1612]] the Emperor died, and Kepler took the post of provincial mathematician in [[Linz]].
25: On [[March 8]], [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary mo...
32: ...] model of the [[Solar system]] from ''Mysterium Cosmographicum'' (1596)]] - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...ted in [[1603]], created '''Baron Verulam''' in [[1618]], and created '''Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621...
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... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
12: ...egular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
35: *[[1902]] - The first [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game is played in [[Pasadena, California]...
79: **[[Velvet Divorce]]: [[Czechoslovakia]] is divided into the [[Slovakia|Slovak Re...
105: *[[1618]] - [[Bartolome Esteban Murillo|Bartolom項steban...
108: *[[1752]] - [[Betsy Ross]], American seamstress (d. [[1836]]) - 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: ...ar old, his mother died of [[Tuberculosis|tuberculosis]]. At the age of ten, he entered the [[Society ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...he '''Qur'an''' ({{lang-ar|أَلْقُرآن}} ''al-qur'&#...
6: ...g, the Qur'an proceeds to the longest sura, and closes with some of the shortest ones.
16: ...pidly changed in response to this new situation, losing complexities of case and obscure vocabulary. S...
18: ... Qur’an. Translations are considered mere glosses. The traditions governing the translation and ...
20: ...whole text in Arabic, considering that they are closer to God in doing so. - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...luğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
45: ...so been interpreted as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its d...
47: ...capital. Following [[World War I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies...
53: ... Empire]] in the [[13th century]]. In [[1299]], [[Osman I]] declared independence of the ''Ottoman Pri... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
19: ...the territory of the former Roman Empire without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The min...
33: ...nomic and cultural centres ([[Aachen]] being the most famous).
41: ...n imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to th...
43: ...peror was compelled to submit to the Pope at [[Canossa]] in 1077, after having been excommunicated. In...
46: ... the [[Knights Templar|Templars]], the [[Knights Hospitaller|Knights of St John]] and the [[Teutonic K... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
19: ...the territory of the former Roman Empire without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The min...
33: ...nomic and cultural centres ([[Aachen]] being the most famous).
41: ...n imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to th...
43: ...peror was compelled to submit to the Pope at [[Canossa]] in 1077, after having been excommunicated. In...
46: ... the [[Knights Templar|Templars]], the [[Knights Hospitaller|Knights of St John]] and the [[Teutonic K...
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