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James II of England, VII of Scotland
King James II of England and VII of Scotland was the last Catholic monarch to rule over England, Scotland, and Ireland. His reign, from 1685 to 1688, culminated with the... |
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Kara Mustafa Pasha, Military Leader
Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha was an Ottoman military leader and grand vizier who was a central character in the empire's last attempts at expansion into both Central Eur... |
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Robert Hooke, Natural Philosopher
Robert Hooke - natural philosopher, inventor, architect, chemist, mathematician, physicist, engineer. Robert Hooke is one of the most neglected natural philosophers of al... |
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Harvard University
Harvard University, which celebrated its 350th anniversary in 1986, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Founded 16 years after the arrival... |
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Gerrit Battem, Dutch Painter
Dutch landscape and marine painter, etcher and draughtsman. He worked in a variety of media but is best known for his gouaches. He was active in his native Rotterdam and... |
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Jan Swammerdam, Dutch Naturalist
Swammerdam was a seventeenth century Dutch microscopist and naturalist who is most famous for his microscopic observations and descriptions of insect development that wer... |
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Dieterich Buxtehude, Composer
Dieterich Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and a highly regarded composer of the Baroque period. His organ works comprise a central part of the standard organ reper... |
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The American Suffragist Movement
Seneca Falls Convention - the beginning of the American women's rights movement... |
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Marie Thérèse of Austria, Queen of France
Marie Thérèse of Austria, Queen of France. Infanta of Spain, daughter of Felipe IV, King of Spain 1621-1665 and Princess Elisabeth de France, Born 20 September 1638 Madri... |
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Louis XIV, The Sun King
Louis XIV reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from 1643 until his death at 77 years old. He inherited the Crown at the age of four, but he did not actually assu... |
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Jean Racine, French Dramatist
Jean Racine was a French dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and one of the most important literary figures in th... |
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Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmolo... |
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The Night Watch, Rembrandt
"Night Watch", 1642; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Night Watch is misnamed because of a very dark varnish that covered it until the 1940's. It should be titled The Company... |
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English History Timeline
Political & Economic History of Great Britain from the Civil War to the Twentieth Century... |
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Isaac Newton, Theory of Gravitation
Newton laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. His work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known. Newton'... |
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