Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below 17 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
30: ... several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other pla... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...]], and argued that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
7: ...) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South Ameri...
9: ...s voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting recognition of the existence of the [[New Worl...
33: ...e post [[São Jorge da Mina]] at the [[Guinea]] coast.
39: ...[Indies]] (then roughly meaning all of south and east [[Asia]]) by sailing west across the Ocean Sea (t... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
36: *[[Johannes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
15: ...g which had being going on intermittently since [[1494]] would finally end. [[Louis XV]]'s heir was his ...
27: ...apsburg princess]] to talk to a lady with such a past. Du Barry therefore set about to make Marie-Antoi...
28: [[Image:Versailles_castle.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The [[Palace of Versaille...
32: ...tiful and ambitious aristocrat, [[Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac|Gabrielle, Comtesse de P...
57: ...gardens were re-designed to suit the queen's new tastes. - Geology (12007 bytes)
3: ...heid|rheic]] upper [[Mantle (geology)|mantle]] ([[asthenosphere]]) via processes that are collectively ...
5: [[Astrogeology]] refers to the application of geologic ...
12: ...he work on rocks ''Peri lithōn'' by [[Theophrastus]], a student of [[Aristotle]], remained authori...
14: Georg Agricola (1494-1555) wrote the first systematic treatise about [...
26: ...theory that Earth's features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged thereafter. T... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
7: ...sity and commercial interest in what lay further east. The [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hope...
11: ... blocked travel and trade. The land route to the East was always be too long and difficult for profitab...
15: ...]] that European thoughts returned to the fabled East. These explorations have a number of causes. [[Mo...
18: ...Henry the Navigator was exploration of the West Coast of [[Africa]]. For centuries the only trade route...
22: ...and the Indian Ocean reaching Asia by travelling east. - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
67: ... [[Christopher Columbus]] first landed there in [[1494]]. Columbus used it as his family's private estat...
86: ...]. He has been since re-elected three times, the last being in [[2002]]. Jamaica's constitution requir...
94: ...re given basic training at JDF Training Depot Newcastle. As on the British model NCOs are given several...
98: ...t and the JDF Air Wing (National Reserve). The Coast Guard element is divided between sea-going crews ...
126: ...his reason, all major cities are located on the coast. Chief towns include the capital [[Kingston, Jama... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
460: *[[Domenico Ghirlandaio]] ([[1449]]-[[1494]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
553: *[[Ambrosius Holbein]] ([[1494]]-[[1519]])
723: *[[Lucas van Leyden]] ([[1494]]-[[1533]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
8: *[[1494]]-[[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divides the New World...
18: ...a Verrazano]], working for [[France]], explores coastline from present-day [[North Carolina]] to [[Main... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ...r the Duke's brother instead. From [[1486]] to [[1494]] (except the year [[1487]]-[[1488]], which he ma...
8: ...ive voices, widely acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces.
10: ...y from Ferrara to his home region of Cond鬠southeast of [[Lille]] on the present-day border between Be...
14: ...ble to get along with his colleagues." His fame lasted long after his death; [[Gioseffo Zarlino|Zarlin...
16: ...y, but his reputation has grown steadily for the last hundred years, and Josquin's music is often sung ... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...f Florence after the expulsion of the Medici in [[1494]], travelling to European courts in [[France]], [...
60: ...i da Lucca,'' [[1520]] (''The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca'') - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...dom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by th...
23: ... from behind the scenes, his power coming from a vast [[patronage]] network and his alliance to the new...
25: ...enzo's death in 1492 and his son Piero's exile in 1494, the first period of Medici rule ended with the r...
32: ...], British and Commonwealth soldiers a few miles East of the center on the North bank of the Arno[http:...
40: ...[Western Schism|Great Schism]]) along with the catastrophic effects of the [[Black Death]] were to lead... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
89: *[[Isaac ben Moses Arama]], (1420-1494){{fn|R}}
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century) - Chile (capsicum) (7837 bytes)
9: ...nd named a "pepper" because of its similarity in taste (though not in appearance) with the Old World [[...
11: ...nd first wrote about their medicinal effects in [[1494]].
49: ...le of a "constrained risk" like riding a roller coaster, in which extreme sensations like pain and fear... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
10: In 1494 [[Charles VIII]] of [[France]] invaded Italy unop...
37: ...]], dividing Italy between Austria (in the north-east and Lombardy), the [[kingdom of Sardinia]], the k...
39: ... (under papal rule until [[1870]]) and the north-eastern provinces around Venice (most of which were an... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
18: ...zkum מזקו"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which en... - Lichen (7988 bytes)
60: [[he:חזזית]]
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).