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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
14: ...able. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
19: ...gent until her own death in [[1560]]). Six months after her birth, in July [[1543]], the [[Treaties of...
26: ... it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heavy shaft. Then the Sword of State was presented by the [[...
31: The Treaties of Greenwich fell apart soon after Mary's coronation. The betrothal did not sit w...
44: ... Mary was also next in line to the English throne after her cousin, Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Eli... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
13: ...ards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
16: ...ragon]], was reinstated in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under t...
18: ...uld become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth became queen in [[1558]].
27: ...of succession, but Parliament would not allow it. After two months in the Tower, Elizabeth was put und...
33: ...n Catholic holder of the office, had died shortly after Mary I. Since the senior bishops declined to p... - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
5: ... and ''Lettere familiari a diversi'', in 1575 and 1580, respectively. She published books of letters and...
7: ...efore the [[Inquisition]] for [[Witchcraft|witchcraft]], but was acquitted of the charges. Her later ... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
8: ...ld sailing race in her boat ''Kingfisher'' (named after her sponsors, [[Kingfisher plc]]), and subsequ...
12: ...r latest yacht, called ''[[B&Q]]/[[Castorama]]'' (after two companies in the Kingfisher group) and unv...
14: ...ng time failed by around one and a quarter hours, after over seven days of sailing.
18: ...ome after their respective circumnavigations in [[1580]] and [[1967]]. MacArthur was also made an honora... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: |+<big><big>'''جمهوريّة...
56: ...is a [[republic]] mostly located in North-Eastern Africa.
58: ...the majority of the country is located in [[North Africa]]. It shares land borders with [[Libya]] to t...
71: ...ntrol about [[1250]] and continued to govern even after the conquest of Egypt by the [[Ottoman Turks]]...
75: ... Naguib]] as the first President of the Republic. After Naguib resigned in 1954, [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...he relatively passive [[Mediterranean]] and sail safely on the open [[Atlantic]].
15: ...giving European sailors some idea of the shape of Africa and Asia.
18: ...s could be bypassed by trading directly with West Africa by sea. It was also hoped that south of the S...
22: ...n that they hoped would bypass Portugal's lock on Africa and the Indian Ocean reaching Asia by travell...
24: ...Cape Verde]] islands; this gave them control over Africa, Asia and western South America ([[Brazil]]).... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...Africa]], and the second largest country on the [[Africa]]n continent. It is bordered by [[Tunisia]] i...
3: ...1607;ورية الجزائرية ا...
23:
60: ...dependent of Carthage, only to be taken over soon after by the [[Roman Republic]] in 200 BC. As the [...
62: ...r states, the Algerian [[Zayyanid]]s, Tunisian [[Hafsid]]s, and Moroccan [[Merinid]]s. In the fifteen... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
3: |+<big><big>'''الجمهورية ا...
23: ...ter of Iraq|Prime Minister]]''' || [[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]]</small>
60: *Draft Iraq's new constitution, which will be presented...
64: ... a Sunni Arab, as Vice Presidents. [[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]] a Shiite, whose United Iraq Alliance Party w...
70: ...ovince]]s (Arabic: ''muhafazat'', singular - ''muhafadhah'', Kurdish: پاری... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
4: |+<big><big>'''الجمهوريّة...
32: | [[Najib Mikati]] (resigned after parliamentary elections)
66: The country was named after [[Mount Lebanon]]; the word "Lebanon" (also "L...
73: Following the collapse of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after [[World War I]], the [[League of Nations]] [[F...
85: ...hey numbered more than 300,000, led by [[Yassir Arafat]]'s [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO)... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
48: ... It's the second largest country of South America after Brazil and the 8th largest country in the [[wo...
57: ...anent colony on the site of [[Buenos Aires]] in [[1580]], although initial settlement was primarily over...
69: ...ns�government, which left office 6 months early after Peronist candidate [[Carlos Saul Menem]] won t...
75: ...enem withdrew from the [[May 25]] runoff election after polls showed overwhelming support for Kirchner...
80: ...hey are allowed to stand for a third term or more after an interval of at least one term. The presiden... - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: ...y in eastern [[Africa]], located in the [[Horn of Africa]]. Djibouti is bordered by [[Eritrea]] in the...
4: ...1580;مهورية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa...
62: ...been occupied by several tribes, currently the [[Afar]] and the [[Somali]] [[Isa]]. These tribes had ...
64: ...ame was changed to the '''French Territory of the Afars and the Issas'''. On [[June 27]], [[1977]], th...
66: A civil war led by [[Afar]] rebels in the early [[1990s]] was stopped by ... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...ocratic Republic of the Congo]] and the [[Central African Republic]] to the southwest, [[Chad]] to the...
8: native_name = جمهورية ا...
64: After independence the Arab-led Khartoum government ...
66: ...on [[25 May]] [[1969]]. The coup leader, Col. [[Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiri]], became prime minister, and ...
70: After shortages of fuel and bread, a growing insurge... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ...[[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal de...
25: ...ly [[Berber]] with some [[Arab]], mainly expelled after the [[Christian]] reconquest or [[Reconquista]...
27: ...s son, [[Afonso I of Portugal|Afonso Henriques]] (Afonso I), took control of the county. The city of [...
29: ... 5]], [[1143]], Portugal was formally recognized. Afonso, aided by the [[Templar Knights]], continued ...
31: ...ile]] who would therefore be the King of Portugal after Fernando's death. However, the impending loss... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...e soberan�]'', such as the [[Islas Chafarinas|Chafarine]] islands, the "rocks" (es: ''pes'') of ...
60: The seafaring [[Phoenicians]], [[Greeks]] and [[Carthagini...
62: .... The Greeks are responsible for the name Iberia, after the river Iber ([[Ebro]] in Spanish). In the 6...
66: ...d century BC]], and annexed it under [[Augustus]] after two centuries of war with the Celtic and Iberi...
73: ... ruled by Muslims who had crossed over from North Africa. Much of Spain's distinctive art originates f... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]])
502: *[[Olaf Gulbransson]] ([[1873]]-[[1958]])
510: *[[Frans Hals]] ([[1580]]-[[1666]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
6: In 1975, nine years after its founding, the College for Social and Econo...
9: ...ter, had a reputation for involvement in [[witchcraft]]. Born prematurely, Johannes is said to have b...
13: ...er astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being "called out...
19: ... Kepler to assist him at Benatek outside Prague. After Tycho's death, Kepler was appointed Imperial M...
27: ... 14 months. She was released in October [[1621]] after attempts to convict her failed. Even though s... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
16: ...[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction.
21: ...stigious post would aid him toward these ends, in 1580 he applied, through his uncle, [[William Cecil, 1...
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 ... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
16: ...cause no witnesses stepped forward. For some time afterwards, Leonardo and the others were kept under ...
18: ...rtue which, joining men together with the diverse affections of friendship, makes it so that from a te...
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31: ...le-entry bookkeeping]]) for [[Mantua]], moving on after 2 months to [[Venice]] (where he was hired as ...
33: ... Milan, now in the hands of [[Maximilian Sforza]] after [[Swiss mercenaries]] had driven out the Frenc... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
8: ...hool in Bordeaux, the [[Coll觥 de Guyenne]], and afterwards he studied law in [[Toulouse]] and entere...
12: ...egan work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]].
18: ...gne suffered from painful [[kidney stone]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Germany, ...
28: ...branch of the [[University of Bordeaux]] is named after him: ''Universit頍ichel de Montaigne Bordeaux... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
20: ...mographic forces that contributed to a growing disaffection with the wealth and power of the [[elite]]...
32: ...er the [[Johannes Reuchlin|Reuchlin]] (1455-1522) affair, attacked by the elite clergy for his study o...
80: ..., but compared to the bloody and chaotic state of affairs in contemporary France, it was relatively su...
97: ...sing the Faith: Reformers Define the Church, 1530-1580.'' St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1991. ...
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