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- Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...e [[United Provinces]] ([[1581]]–[[1795]]). After the Napoleonic era, Holland became a mere prov...
62: ...1568]] the [[Eighty Years' War]] started and in [[1579]], the northern half of the Seventeen Provinces d...
64: ...IV]], the Dutch grew to become one of the major seafaring and economic powers of the [[17th century]] ...
68: After briefly being incorporated in the [[First Fren...
72: ...le with mental retardation and other disabilites. After the war, the Dutch economy prospered again, be... - Flag of California (3028 bytes)
11: ...fornia by his namesake, Sir [[Francis Drake]] (in 1579), and made good American colonial claims on the l... - California (63989 bytes)
89: ...t [[Economy of California|economy]] in the world (after the rest of the U.S., [[Japan]], [[Germany]], ...
101: ...ly dissolved and abandoned. For a quarter century after the achievement of Mexican independence in 182...
109: ...tant upper California numbered around 4,000. But after gold was discovered, the population burgeoned ...
113: ...ental Railroad|first transcontinental railroad]]. After this rail link was established, hundreds of th...
128: ...urs. Superior Court judges serve six-year terms, after which they may run for re-election. Unlike th... - Levant (3602 bytes)
8: ...greement ("capitulations") with the Grand Turk in 1579 (Braudel).
11: ...ould neither be classified as Mesopotamian, North African, or Arabian, they were referred to as "Levan...
14: ...took over [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] in the aftermath of the [[World War I|First World War]], th... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
16: ...[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction.
18: ... he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn in 1579.
29: ... to improve. She had begun to employ him in crown affairs a few years previously, and he gradually acq...
37: ...His public career ended in disgrace in 1621 when, after having fallen into debt, a Parliamentary Commi...
45: ...y. In March, 1626, he came to London, and shortly after, when driving on a snowy day, he was inspired ... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...alization in the population of native inhabitants after European colonization means that most of the k...
21: ... [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city.
38: After Cabrillo's voyage in [[1542]] the concept of [...
40: ... chief pilot [[Bartolomé Ferrelo]], sailed north after Cabrillo's death, past [[Point Arena|Cabo de F...
45: On [[June 17]], [[1579]], Sir Francis Drake landed somewhere above Spain... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
15: In [[1579]] he arrived in [[Toulouse]], where he briefly ha...
21: ...u). John Bossy's ''Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair'' (Yale UP, 2002), makes a case that Bruno is...
27: ... he concluded, erroneously, that it might now be safe to return to Italy.
37: ... Prohibitorum]]'' in [[1603]]. Four hundred years after his execution, official expression of "profoun...
43: ....]], or like [[Blaise Pascal]]'s nearly a century after Bruno, had its center everywhere and its circu... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
7: ... was [[Richard Mylwaye]]. He was reportedly named after his [[godfather]] [[Francis Russell, 2nd Earl ...
9: ...cult waters of the [[North Sea]], and eventually, after the death of the captain for whom he was saili...
13: ...y [[France|French]] privateers and [[Cimaroons]] (African slaves who had escaped the Spanish), Drake r...
16: ...elican'', with four other ships and over 150 men. After crossing the Atlantic two of the ships had to ...
20: ...n Hind'' in honour of Sir [[Christopher Hatton]] (after his [[heraldry|coat of arms]]).
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