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- 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)
37: *[[Martin Agricola|Agricola, Martin]], (1466-1506), German composer - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
17: ... her guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought t...
37: ...500;א יגמר לעולם
52: The following lines are the last song she wrote after she was parachuted into a Pa... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...an he joined the war to conquer [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] state on the [[Iberian peninsul...
4: ...w World. He helped conquer the [[Taino]]s of the eastern part of Hispaniola, and was rewarded with the ...
7: In 1506, upon the death of Christopher Columbus, who had ...
9: ...d in the ''Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]].
12: ... Spanish for ''Flowery Passover'', meaning the [[Easter season]]. ''Pascua Florida Day'', April 2, is a... - Americas (7154 bytes)
6: ...Americas consist of the land mass located to the east of the [[Pacific Ocean]] and the west of the [[At...
23: ...on of [[Renaissance]] era voyagers, had died in [[1506]] (believing, to the end, that he'd discovered an...
25: ...been visiting the coast of North America for at least a century before Columbus' voyage and Waldseem?s ... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
48: In [[1506]], pope [[Julius II]] engaged the [[Swiss Guard]]...
55: ...e territory of Switzerland was increased for the last time, by the new cantons of [[Valais]], [[Canton ...
57: ...Sonderbund]]'') of the Catholic cantons. The war lasted for less than a month, causing fewer than 100 c...
65: ...1959]], at the federal level in [[1971]], in the last canton only in [[1990]]. In [[1979]], parts of th...
67: ...United Nations]], leaving the [[Vatican]] as the last widely recognized state without full UN membershi... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], ...
68: ...im]] [[Caliphate]] conquered the land from the [[Eastern Roman Empire]] ([[Byzantine]]s) in [[638]] CE ...
73: ...vided the mandated territory into two parts. The eastern portion, called [[Transjordan]], became the Ar...
89: ...ded into a western part annexed by Israel and an eastern part annexed by Jordan. Jordan's annexation o...
94: ... between Israel and the Arab world resulted in a lasting displacement that persists to this day; see [[... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
7: *[[Francis Xavier|Xavier, Francis]], ([[1506]]-[[1552]]), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary]] - Influenza (10335 bytes)
1: ...derstood as being instances of influenza), see [[gastroenteritis]].}}
4: ...he old medical belief in unfavourable [[astrology|astrological]] ''influences'' as the cause of the dis...
21: ...andemic]] (type A influenza, H1N1 strain), which lasted from [[1918]] to [[1919]] and is believed to ha...
39: Influenza's effects are much more severe and last longer than those of the [[common cold|cold]]. Re...
43: ... For example, people with asthma may experience [[asthma]] attacks while they have the flu, and people ... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
12: ... Construction started under [[Pope Julius II]] in 1506 and was completed in [[1615]] under [[Pope Paul V...
17: Directly to the east of the church is the elliptical [[Saint Peter's S...
22: ...60 feet (18 meters) across. It is not simply its vast scale (136.57 meters from from the floor of the c...
89: ... XII]], as well as the altar of [[Sebastian|St Sebastian]]. Even further up is the '''Chapel of the Ble... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
775: *[[Andrea Mantegna]] (ca.[[1431]]-[[1506]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]]) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
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 ... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
23: ... <small>Simon Peter</small><br>'''שמעון בן יו–...
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair o...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
43: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[26 April]]</small>
50: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[23 November]]</small> - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
2: ...ope]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and its [[Eastern Rite]]. Other [[religious denomination]]s of ...
8: ...d first, and [[Judas Iscariot]] is always listed last.
13: ...his brother [[Saint Andrew|Andrew]]. Seeing them cast a net for fish, He told them "Follow me, and I wi...
15: ...f Matthew, on the evening before the [[Passover|Feast of Unleavened Bread]] (which is called the [[Pass...
23: ... the original, housed in the [[Basilica of St. Sebastian]]. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...on, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[astronomy]], and [[civil engineering]].
7: ...ty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle Eastern]] [[slave]] owned by Piero.
12: ...t whatever he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari]]).
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 y...
25: ...spect for life led him to being a vegetarian at least part of his life, and Vasari reports a story that... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: '''Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[...
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5: <tr><td>'''Baldassare Castiglione'''</td></tr>
8: ...nzaga]], a relative of Luigia Gonzaga, mother of Castiglione.
13: ... Fregoso]], [[Cesare Gonzaga]] (a cousin of both Castiglione and the duke), and many others. Notably, g... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
7: ... rest of his life he continued to observe many monastic practices, including self-punishment in the for...
12: ...ore entered the king's service as councilor and "master of requests". After undertaking a diplomatic m...
14: ...1525]] he became chancellor of the [[Duchy of Lancaster]], a position that entailed administrative and ...
19: ...[[Lucian]], which was published in [[Paris]] in [[1506]].
23: ...he authors' allegiance to the reigning [[Tudor dynasty]], which had wrested the throne from Richard at ... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
45: *''Decennale primo'' (poem in terza rima), [[1506]]
60: ...i da Lucca,'' [[1520]] (''The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca'') - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...he never seems to have worked as a priest, and monasticism was one of the chief objects of his attack i...
8: ...niversity of Paris]], then the chief seat of scholastic learning, but already under the influence of th...
10: ... rewards of independent literary activity. From [[1506]] to [[1509]] he was in Italy. He spent part of ...
14: ...comparatively late in his life. Only when he had mastered [[Latin]] did he begin to express himself on ...
38: ... the dangers of formalism, Erasmus discusses [[monasticism]], saint-worship, war, the spirit of class a...
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