Joost van den Vondel

•  Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy

  Victor Amadeus I was the Duke of Savoy from 1630 to 1637. He was also titular King of Cyprus and Jerusalem. He was also known as the Lion of Susa.

  

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•  Virginia Dare

  Virginia Dare (born August 18, 1587, date of death unknown) was the first child born in America to English parents, Eleanor (or Ellinor/Elyonor) and Ananias Dare. She was born into the short-lived Virginia Colony on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, USA. What became of Virginia and the other colonists has become an enduring mystery.

  

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•  Kaspar von Barth

  Kaspar von Barth (June 21, 1587 – September 17, 1658) was a German philologist and writer. Barth was born at Küstrin in the Neumark region of Brandenburg. A precocious child, he was looked upon as a marvel of learning. After studying at Gotha, Eisenach, Wittenberg, and Jena, he travelled extensively, visiting most of the countries of Europe. Too independent to accept any regular post, he lived alternately at Halle and on his property at in Leipzig.

  

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•  Gabriel Oxenstierna

  

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•  Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick

  Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (5 June 1587 – 19 April 1658) was an English colonial administrator, admiral, and puritan. Rich was the eldest son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and his wife Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich, and succeeded to his father's title in 1619. (A younger brother was Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland.

  

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•  Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares

  Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Count-Duke of Olivares (January 6, 1587 – July 22, 1645), was a Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister. As prime minister from 1621 to 1643, he over-exerted Spain in foreign affairs and unsuccessfully attempted domestic reform.

  

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•  Jan Pieterszoon Coen

  Jan Pieterszoon Coen (8 January 1587 – 21 September 1629) was an officer of Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. A national hero in the Netherlands, for providing the impulse that set the VOC on the path to dominance in the Dutch East Indies.

  

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•  Arthur Johnston (poet)

  Arthur Johnston (c.1579–1641) was a Scottish poet and physician. He was born in Caskieben (later renamed Keithhall) near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire. His father was an Aberdeenshire laird, and his mother Christian Forbes was the daughter of the seventh Lord Forbes. Johnston is thought to have begun his university studies at one, or both, of the colleges at Aberdeen, but around 1608 he went to Italy and received an M.D. at Padua in 1610.

  

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•  Yun Seondo

  Yun Seondo (1587–1671) was a noted Korean poet of the Joseon Dynasty. He was born in Seoul, in what is now South Korea. He achieved early success as a government official, but his straightforward character made enemies at court and he was banished for imprudent criticism of those in power. Thirteen years later he returned to become tutor to the royal princes but was later banished again.

  

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•  Samuel Scheidt

  Samuel Scheidt (baptized 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era. He was born in Halle, and after early studies there, he went to Amsterdam to study with Sweelinck, the distinguished Dutch composer, which was clearly formative on his style. On his return to Halle he became court organist, and later Kapellmeister, to the Margrave of Brandenburg.

  

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•  Materialism

  In philosophy the theory of materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter; that all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. In other words, matter is the only substance. As a theory, materialism is a form of physicalism and belongs to the class of monist ontology. As such, it is different from ontological theories based on dualism or pluralism.

  

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•  Vorkuta Sovetsky

  Vorkuta Sovetskiy (also known as Vorkuta East) is a military airfield in the Komi Republic, Russia located 11 km east of Vorkuta. It contains one of the largest runways in Russia's Arctic region. Sovetskiy was built in the 1950s as a staging base for intercontinental strategic bomber strikes (as the so-called 'bounce' airdrome), and is maintained by OGA (Arctic Control Group).

  

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•  Ferdinand von Miller

  Ferdinand von Miller was a metal worker who worked for the development of the craft of bronze founding. After a sojourn at the academy in Munich and a preliminary engagement at the royal brass foundry, he went to Paris in 1833, where he learnt from Soyer and Blus the varied technique necessary for the manipulation of bronze.

  

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•  Red turban rebellion

  

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