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  • to bring leading foreign painters to England. In 1626 he was able to persuade Orazio Gentileschi to settle in England, later to be joined by his daughter ...
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  • entered the Society of Jesus about 1626 at the age of 18 and wrote more about his work than any other Jesuit in Canada. Ragueneau described the ...
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  • Antwerp. The Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1625-1626) for the Cathedral of Antwerp is one prominent example. [[Image:Peter Paul Rubens 019.jpg ...
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  • In 1626, Peter Minuit acquired Manhattan from native people in exchange for trade goods, often said to be worth $24. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant ...
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  • #039;s son-in-law ca. 1555, but first printed in 1626) Templegate Publishers; New Ed edition, 1980. ISBN 0872431185 * Wegemer, Gerard B.Thomas ...
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  • wrote his Tian Wen Lüe in 1615.Needham, 444. In 1626 Adam Schall von Bell (Tang Ruo-wang) published the Chinese treatise on the telescope known as ...
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  • In 1626, the French Compagnie de l'Occident was created. This company expelled the Dutch from Senegal, making it the first French domain ...
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  • of the seventeenth century and first published in 1626) because the idea of determinism used to cast the pícaro as a victim clashed with the Counter ...
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  • In the seventeenth century, Francis Bacon (1561-1626) pointed out intellectual fallacies of the older tradition, and René Descartes (1596-1650 ...
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  • register his burial is recorded under the year 1626. A number of his manuscripts, sufficient to form a fourth volume of his collections of 1598–1600 ...
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  • in the southern tip of Manhattan in 1624. In 1626, Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island and Staten Island from Algonquin tribesmen in exchange ...
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  • Island, opposite Bristol, Pennsylvania, and then in 1626 at Fort Nassau, now Gloucester City, New Jersey. Peter Minuit was the Dutch Director-General ...
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  • In 1626, Miyamoto Mikinosuke, following the custom of junshi (death following the death of the lord), committed seppuku (ritual self-disembowelment ...
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  • fight off the Manchus, notably in 1626 at Ning-yuan and in 1628. Succeeding generals, however, proved unable to eliminate the Manchu threat. ...
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  • (1596 – 1650), Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626), and Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) were published in Latin. Among the last important books written ...
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  • the Magi), and Jesús y los peregrinos de Emaús (1626, English: Christ and the Pilgrims of Emmaus), both of which begin to express his more pointed and ...
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  • Shabbatai Zevi (1626 – 1676) was a rabbi and Kabbalist who claimed ... *Scholem, Gershom. 1973. Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah: 1626–1676 ...
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  • * Guarneri family of Italian violin makers, Andrea Guarneri (1626-1698), Pietro of Mantua (1655-1720), Giuseppe Guarneri (Joseph filius Andreae ...
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  • publication activities and sentenced in 1626 to a 14-year prison term. Griffis, 559-575 ===Preparations=== As many members were not be able to ...
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  • by Rabbi Isaiah Horovitz of Frankfurt am Main (died 1626), and that appealed especially to the pietistic German Jews. The end and aim of existence were ...
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