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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
66: ... to the [[Indies]]; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]] - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
20: .... After her mother's death in [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her su...
42: ...o famous in Rome); the "Venere Dormiente" (''"The Sleeping Venus"''), today at [[Princeton]]; the [[Es...
68: ...irenze|Casa Buonarroti]], [[Firenze]], [[1615]]-[[1616|16]].
69: ... Firenze|Palazzo Pitti]],[[ Firenze]], [[1615]]-[[1616|16]]. - Guyana (12153 bytes)
62: ...blished three separate colonies; [[Essequibo]] ([[1616]]), [[Berbice]] ([[1627]]), and [[Demerara]] ([[1...
64: The abolition of [[slavery]] in [[1834]] led to black settlement of urb...
76: [[Legislative]] power rests in the [[unicameral]] Guyanese...
78: ... is not directly elected; each party presenting a slate of candidates for the assembly must designate ...
94: * [[Essequibo Islands-West Demerara]] - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ... large non-Jewish minority, mostly comprising [[Muslim]], [[Christian]], and [[Druze]] [[Israeli Arab|...
60: ...ual significance in Judaism, Christianity, and [[Islam]]. Starting around 1200 BCE, a series of [[Hist...
68: The [[Muslim]] [[Caliphate]] conquered the land from the [[E...
119: * [[1993 Oslo Peace Accords between Palestinians and Israel]]
125: ... War]] in [[1967]], despite the signing of the [[Oslo Accords]] on [[September 13]] [[1993]], and the ... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ...is [[Northern Ireland]], which is located on the island of [[Ireland|Ireland]].
58: ...Six counties in the north-eastern portion of the island, meanwhile, remained a part of the United King...
62: ...] (often also including its smaller neighbouring islands, though never Ireland). Politically, the term...
64: ...the Irish case since 1922. An alternative, the ''Islands of the North Atlantic'' (IONA) has been propo...
74: ...f of the 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witn... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
305: *[[Wladyslaw Czachorski]] ([[1850]]-[[1911]])
324: *[[Stanislaw Debicki]] ([[1866]]-[[1924]]) - Dynasties in Chinese history (8665 bytes)
9: ...sty itself was established in [[1636]] (or even [[1616]], albeit under a different name), while the last... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
30: Galileo observed the [[Milky Way]], previously believed to be nebulous, and found it to be a mu...
37: ...e thing: falling or rolling objects (rolling is a slower version of falling) are [[acceleration|accele...
39: ... Aristotelian hypothesis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them. Th...
43: ...onclusion on whether light propagated instantaneously, he recognized that the distance between the hil...
53: ...ble only a century before, thanks to accurate translations by [[Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia|Tartaglia]] ... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
14: ...reverence for [[Aristotle]] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barre...
18: ...necessitated Bacon's return to England, and seriously influenced his fortunes. Sir Nicholas had laid u...
21: ...worked quietly at Gray's Inn giving himself seriously to the study of law, until admitted as an [[oute...
29: ...to employ him in crown affairs a few years previously, and he gradually acquired the standing of one o...
35: ...d in this capacity he would prosecute Somerset in 1616. The parliament of April 1614 objected to Bacon'... - Dentistry (9670 bytes)
20: ...mb|''Farmer at the dentist'', [[Johann Liss]], c. 1616-17.]] - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
43: ...nstruction of two observatories for Tycho on the island of [[Hven]] in [[Copenhagen]] Sound. These wer...
53: ...otion. It gained a considerable following after [[1616]] when Rome decided officially that the heliocent...
63: ...s study of [[astrology and astronomy]] simultaneously, and [[Uraniborg]] was constructed as both [[obs...
80: * John Robert Christianson: ''On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe, science, and culture in the sixt...
82: ...ho Brahe : Astronomer'' (Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, 2002) (ISBN 0766017575) (128 p. : i... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
24: On the other side, quite outrageously, Alonso de Valdes (brother of Juan de Valdes and...
30: ... and 108 editions were published between 1528 and 1616. [[Pietro Aretino|Pietro Aretino's]] ''La corti... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...dash; [[April 23]], [[1616]] (O.S.), [[May 3]], [[1616]] ([[New Style|N.S.]])), [[England|English]] [[po...
4: ... felt in all parts of the globe. He has been translated into every major living [[language]], and his...
6: ...hakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Chronology of S...
14: ...s a convenient symmetry: he died on that day in [[1616]], and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright co...
39: ...onnets|sonnets]] were published, love poems variously addressed: most to a youth (or [[Fair Lord| 'fai... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
10: ...ized in kidnapping boys and girls to be sold as [[slave]]s.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/...
12: ... pirates and held prisoner in the [[Dodecanese]] islet of [[Farmakos|Pharmacusa]].<ref>Plutarch, ''Cae...
22: ...f Britannia, [[Saint Patrick]] was captured and enslaved by [[Ireland|Irish]] pirates.
29: ...re Mediterranean. In the 14th century, raids by Muslim pirates forced the Venetian Duke of [[Crete]] t...
31: ...mia]] in the first half of the 7th century. These Slavs revived the old Illyrian piratical habits and ... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
9: ...ake made the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]] expeditions.
12: ...New World]] [[silver]]. Drake took an immediate dislike to the Spanish, at least in part due to his mi...
13: ...ce|French]] privateers and [[Cimaroons]] (African slaves who had escaped the Spanish), Drake raided th...
16: ...eved previously, but an archipelago, or group of islands.
18: ... oceans met at Cape Horn was not discovered until 1616. - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
11: ...''Baccalauréat'' and ''Licence'' in [[law]] in [[1616]].
39: ...g deceived, then surely "I" must exist. Most famously, this is known as ''cogito ergo sum,'' ("I think...
41: ...the use of the senses; however, these have previously been proven unreliable. So Descartes concludes t...
56: ...itical edition, which includes an early Dutch translation, is edited by Giovanni Crapulli (The Hague: ...
57: ...losophy. ''Man'' was first published in Latin translation in 1662; ''The World'' in 1664. - Inquisition (9274 bytes)
5: ...er religions (e.g., [[Buddhism]], [[Judaism]], [[Islam]]), the Catholic Church has a hierarchical stru...
24: ...pendent of Rome. In its dealings with converted Muslims and Jews and also illuminists, the Spanish Inq...
28: ...anon law, who advise it on specific questions. In 1616 these consultants gave their assessment of the pr... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
33: ...etween [[Egypt]], [[Greece]] and [[Rome]], the [[Islam]]ic world, and finally back to [[Europe]]. Chin...
54: ...h in turn have often survived only in Islamic translations.
56: ... through Greek and [[Arabic language|Arabic]] translations, is generally understood to form the basis ...
78: ===Alchemy in the Islamic world===
79: ...n through the years were preserved as Islamic translations. (Burckhardt p. 46) - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
9: ... [[Saint Croix Island, New Brunswick|Saint Croix Island]] settlement which was abandoned the following...
33: ...h [[Tessouat]], the Algonkian chief of Allumette Island, and offered to build them a fort if they were...
45: ...anners, customs, modes of life". On [[May 22]], [[1616]] he left the Huron country and was back in Quebe...
55: ...ity. By the spring of 1629 supplies were dangerously low and Champlain was forced to send people to [... - Baffin Bay (763 bytes)
5: ...west, [[Greenland]] in the east, and [[Ellesmere Island]] in the north. It connects to the Atlantic t...
7: ...fin]], the first person to navigate the bay, in [[1616]].
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