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- Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
43: ...e [[United States]], behind [[St. Augustine, Florida]] ([[1565]]). Santa Fe was the capital of [[Sant... - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ... tail, pointed in slightly different directions — dust being left behind in the comet's orbit (s...
15: ...like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary surfaces allows them to absorb ...
29: ...0," the "Great September Comet of 1882," and the "Daylight Comet of 1910." After [[Edmund Halley]] de...
31: ...0 comets and is conducting a contest to guess the date of its 1000th comet discovery.{{hnote|SOHO (200...
45: ... things being very limited.{{hnote|Sagan, pp. 23–24}} However, the Aristotelean viewpoint proved... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Politics (7193 bytes)
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18: ... was supplanted by monarchy, and a system of [[Feudalism]] as an arrangement where a single-family dom...
23: ...llapse of the Roman Empire, Europe reverted to feudal monarchy.
30: ...wer in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles.
37: ...ary monarchies where authority was given to descendants of previous leaders. Followers submit to this ... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...Galilei''' ([[Pisa]], [[February 15]], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), was a [...
14: Later research, however, has validated the experiments. The experiments on falling bo...
26: ...e little doubt that both of them were beaten by [[David Fabricius]] and his son [[Johannes Fabricius|J...
39: ...y'' unless a [[force]] —often [[friction]]— acts upon them, refuting the accepted Aristote...
53: ...athematical methods were the standard ones of the day. The analyses and proofs relied heavily on the [... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...''Johannes Kepler''' ([[December 27]], [[1571]] – [[November 15]], [[1630]]), a key figure in th...
9: ...hen Johannes was 17. His mother, an inn-keeper's daughter, had a reputation for involvement in [[witc...
33: ...on was inconsistent with that data. Using Tycho's data, Kepler was able to formulate three laws of pla...
35: ...he five intervals between the six known planets — [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], [[Venus (planet)...
40: ...lids. Of these there are five: when viewed as boundaries, however, these five determine six distinct t... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...Viscount St Albans''' ([[January 22]], [[1561]] – [[April 9]], [[1626]]) was an [[England|Englis...
8: ...mber of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married ...
25: ...]ship fell vacant in 1594 and Bacon became a candidate for the office, Lord Essex's influence could no...
31: ...ment session Bacon married [[Alice Barnham]], the daughter of a London merchant. Little or nothing is ...
37: ...re (which was that he should be released in a few days), and to be incapable of holding office or sitt... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
3: ...the "[[Evening Star]]", and when it is visible in dark skies it is by far the brightest [[star]]-like ...
5: ...vilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have been know...
14: ... the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat.
18: ...ture, listed in the table, refers to cloud tops — the surface temperature is never below 400°...
21: [[Image:Venus globe.jpg|thumb|left|[[Radar]] image of the surface of Venus, centered at 180... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
175: ...ed by [[gas]]eous hydrogen. There is no clear boundary or surface between these different phases of hy...
201: The data showed that the magnetic field [[fluctuates]] r...
210: ...actly one year later. They provided important new data about Jupiter's magnetosphere, and took some lo...
225: ...through 150 km of the atmosphere, collecting data for 58 minutes, before being crushed by the ext...
241: ... satellites]]. For a timeline of their discovery dates, see [[Timeline of natural satellites]]. - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
147: ...'' has a period of 10 h 14 min 00 s (844.3°/[[day|d]]) and encompasses the Equatorial Zone, which ...
165: ...rmed out of. This theory is not widely accepted today, since Saturn's rings are thought to be unstable...
169: ===The dark side of the rings===
175: ...1]], [[1979]]; Backlit rings, showing the overall darkness of the rings from this angle. The thickest...
176: ...acklit rings in detail. The thick B ring appears darkest from this side.]] - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: {{dablink|This article covers the History of Californi...
3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied for mi...
11: ...re among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciatio...
13: ...s. Tribes in the [[Sierra Nevada (US)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] tre...
36: ...irst European to explore the coast of the present day State of California was Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo... - Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
13: ...en it comes into contact with [[water]]. This has damaged many tombs, particularly during [[flood]]s.
39: ...mer, ''Valley of the Kings'' (Henry Holt, 1981) – Covers the history of the exploration of the V...
40: ...Valley of the Kings'' (1996, Thames and Hudson) – Details of all the major tombs, their discover...
41: ... Valley of the Kings'' (Barnes and Noble, 1997) – A good introduction to the valley and surround...
42: ...Valley of the Kings'' (Friedman/Fairfax, 2001) – Spectacular photography of the best tombs. - Venice (22017 bytes)
10: ...jor power-broker in the [[Near East]]. By the standards of the time, Venice's stewardship of its mainl...
14: ...] systems, but the social order was entirely [[feudal]]. Church and various private properties were ti...
29: ...e city itself or from its possessions, especially Dalmatia. Those from the city were chosen by lot fro...
33: ...ecruited from the lagoon, plus feudal levies from Dalmatia and Istria. In times of emergency, all male...
92: ...ill intact after centuries of submersion. The foundations rest on the piles, and buildings of [[brick]... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...ures around the world using the raw, astronomical data collected.
10: ...Julius Caesar]] instigated [[Julian calendar|calendar reform]] and created the [[leap year]].
14: ...ts that describe their designs are conservatively dated to the first millennium BC, but their contents...
18: A text on [[Vedic astrology]] that has been dated to [[1350 BC]], was written by [[Lagadha]].
37: ...mewhat greater accuracy than the [[Gregorian calendar]]. They made detailed tables for calculating pha... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
3: ... [[Azerbaijan]]. The Seljuk Turks and their descendants, the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turks]], played ...
5: ...d himself Sultan and established a capital in Baghdad. [[Ahmed Sanjar]] was captured and held captive ...
13: * Jalal ad-Dawlah [[Malik Shah I]] [[1072]]-[[1092]]
20: * [[Dawud of Great Seljuk|Dawud]] (David) [[1131]]-[[1132]]
47: * Abu Sa'id Taj ad-Dawla [[Tutush I]] [[1085]]-[[1086]] - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
67: ...en the name of Bahrain specifically referred to today's Bahrain.
111: ... of 33 islands, Bahrain does not share a land boundary with another country but does have a 161 km coa...
115: ...n of limited arable land and coastal degradation (damage to coastlines, coral reefs, and sea vegetatio...
122: Nowadays Bahrain is a cosmopolitan society with mixed co...
133: ===Holidays=== - African American (19830 bytes)
15: Africans were sold and traded into bondage and shipped to the American South from [[1607]]...
21: ...werment, propounding ideas of black unity and solidarity and [[pan-Africanism]].
33: ...erican cultural influences in the United States today. [[Hip Hop]], [[Rock music|Rock]], [[R&B]], [[fu...
43: ...emselves had repudiated only two decades earlier—a term often associated in English with things ...
47: ...ty with others of the black African [[diaspora]]—an embracing of the notion of pan-Africanism ea... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ...d in [[1611]] somewhere in [[Hudson Bay]], [[Canada]].
7: ...claim the area and set up a colony as [[New Amsterdam]].
9: ...n November they made port at [[Dartmouth, England|Dartmouth]], where Hudson was arrested for sailing u... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]...
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]...
88: *[[Danilo Blanusa]], ([[Croatia]], [[1903]] - [[1987]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[Englis...
10: ...l (see [[Hertford College]]). The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinso...
20: ...n. Despite his interest in this phenomenon, he disdained experimental work as in [[physics]]. He went ...
30: ...rbiere]] through the [[Elzevir press]] at [[Amsterdam]] with a new preface and some new notes in reply...
36: ...uman Nature (book Hobbes)|Human Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policie]]'', and ''[[De corpore...
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