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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ...f King [[Henry II of France]], of the [[Valois Dynasty|Valois]] branch of the kings of France, and moth...
5: ...ated; she was only fourteen when she was married (1533), at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whos...
13: Catherine unwittingly had vast influence on fashions for the next 350 years when...
21: In her taste for art and her love of magnificence and luxury,...
23: ... were merged into the French royal domain by her last surviving son, Henry III. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... fourth and penultimate monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[Eng...
13: ... to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
19: ... All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to the Pope were abolished, and the Ki...
26: ...d to reside in royal palaces. Henry's sixth and last wife, [[Catherine Parr]], was able to bring the f...
33: ...in 1553 whilst Mary was staying at [[Framlingham Castle]] in [[Suffolk]]. He did not desire that the Cr... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of...
9: ...y College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
16: ...r as he married his succession of wives. Henry's last wife [[Catherine Parr]] helped reconcile the King...
27: ...en wished to put a member of the popular Tudor dynasty to death. Mary attempted to remove Elizabeth fro...
33: ...Catholic rites. Elizabeth I's coronation was the last one during which the Latin service was used; futu... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
16: *[[Fort?m鮥z|Xim鮥z, Fort?(d. 1533), early Spanish colonizer in Mexico - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
723: *[[Lucas van Leyden]] ([[1494]]-[[1533]])
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 ...
18: ...viano Petrucci|Petrucci]], [[Pierre Attaignant]] (1533), [[Tielman Susato|Tylman Susato]] (1544), and by... - History of California (38344 bytes)
11: ...races of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about 13,0...
13: ...lized according to the particular environment. Coastal tribes were a major source of trading beads ([[...
21: An expedition in [[1533]] discovered a bay, most likely that of [[La Paz,...
36: ...lo led an expedition in two ships from the west coast of [[New Spain]]. He sailed northward and landed ...
40: ... Ferrelo]], sailed north after Cabrillo's death, past [[Point Arena|Cabo de Fortunas]] to the modern C... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
1: ... ([[September 8]], [[1474]] – [[July 6]], [[1533]]) was an Italian poet, author of the [[epic]] po...
3: ...t five of the best years of his life. Allowed at last to read classics under Gregorio da Spoleto. But a...
6: ...e question, "Where did you find so many stories, Master Ludovic?" The poet himself tells us that the ca... - 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: ...is friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his masterpiece, ''[[In Praise of Folly]]'', to him. (Ind...
23: ...he authors' allegiance to the reigning [[Tudor dynasty]], which had wrested the throne from Richard at ... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...Michel Eyquem de Montaigne''' ([[February 28]], [[1533]] – [[September 13]], [[1592]]) was an infl...
33: ...nally involved, his disdain for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from ... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... of human life as well, opening the door to young astronomers everywhere to challenge the facts and nev...
10: ... [[Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a di...
14: ...nar [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing of this rem...
16: ...mplete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastoro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where in [[1...
18: ...ively became ill. Throughout his lifetime he made astronomical observations and calculations, but alway... - 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...
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...
40: ...himself at odds with both the great parties. His last years were embittered by controversies with men t... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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)
311: *[[Hector-Neri Casta]], (1924-1991){{fn|C}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ... short-lived: by [[1533]] CE, [[Atahualpa]], the last Inca, was killed on the orders of the [[Conquista...
19: ...lished [[Sapa Inca|Hurin Cuzco]], or the first dynasty of the Kingdom of Cuzco.
32: ...Chimor]], the Inca's only serious rival for the coast of Peru. T?Inca's empire stretched north into mod...
42: ...ined for over another thirty years. In 1572, the last of the Inca rulers, [[T?Amaru]], was beheaded and...
94: ...e sees it at the right time of year when the sun casts a stunning shadow, betraying its synthetic form.... - Hank Aaron (72330 bytes)
6: Aaron's last two years of high school were spent at [[Josephin...
12: ...by the [[Boston Braves]] for $10,000. He was the last Negro League player to make the jump to the major...
34: On [[September 20]], [[1965]], Aaron hit the last home run by a Milwaukee Braves player at Milwauke...
40: ...mmate [[Eddie Mathews]] did it with the [[Houston Astros]]. At the time, Aaron was the second youngest...
42: ...move into 3rd place on the career home run list, past [[Mickey Mantle]] and behind only [[Willie Mays]]... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
5: ...ve on [[Morocco]]'s [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] coast, in 1513, at an early age. It is unclear if he wa...
8: ...aversed the continent as far as present-day southeastern [[Arizona]], and through the [[Sonoran Desert]... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ... [[Mexico]] under the [[Crown of Castile|King of Castile]], in the early 16th century. Cortés was part...
4: ... resulted in the recall of the expedition at the last moment, an order which Cortés ignored. Arriving ...
14: ...province of [[Extremadura]], in the [[Kingdom of Castile]] in Spain in 1485. His father, Martín Corté...
18: ...him a close acquaintance with the legal codes of Castile that helped him to justify his unauthorized co...
38: - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
3: ...e Soto's expedition ranged throughout the [[southeastern United States]] searching for gold and a passa...
5: ...ds to the west (which seemed at the time to be [[East Asia]]), the whispers of glory and wealth were to...
12: ...eón, Nicaragua]], and led an expedition up the coast of the [[Yucatán Peninsula]] searching for passa...
14: During 1533, Atahualpa was held captive in Cajamarca for many...
16: ...l (which later became known as [[Lima]]) on the coast. In 1535 King [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Cha...
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