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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...
11: During the reign of her husband (1547–1559), Catherine lived a quiet and passive life but ob...
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. - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
28: * [[Catherine de Bourbon]] ([[1559]]-[[1604]]). Married [[Henry I, Duke of Lorraine]... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
9: ...ne possessed an extreme intellect and a political astuteness to the point that the King trusted her to ...
13: In [[1559]], when Henri was critically wounded in a [[joust... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
19: ...iage proposition, went into hiding in [[Stirling Castle]], where preparations were made for Mary's coro...
22: ...s Queen of Scots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[1543]]. Due to the age of ...
24: ...vet mantle, with a train furred with ermine, was fastened around her tiny neck, and a jeweled satin gow...
26: ...n anointing her with the holy oil on her back, breast, and the palms of her hands. When the chill air s...
33: ...Guise hid her in the secret chambers of Stirling Castle. The French, remaining true to the [[Auld Allia... - 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... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ...ea]] (on the west), bordered by [[Syria]] on the east and north, and [[Israel]] on the south.
83: ...ernity, was called the [[Paris]] of the [[Middle East]] before the outbreak of the [[Lebanese Civil War...
99: ... [[UN Security Council Resolution 1559|Resolution 1559]], sponsored by the [[United States]] and [[Fran...
108: ...nese agencies.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4383321.stm]
116: ...//www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/international/middleeast/08cnd-beirut.html], [http://www.latimes.com/news/... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]])
1261: *[[Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen]] ([[1500]]-[[1559]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered by [[Giuseppe Pi...
42: *[[1937]] - [[Anastasio Somoza]] becomes [[President of Nicaragua]].
52: ...the Republic of Cuba]], is overthrown by [[Fidel Castro]]'s forces.
61: ...747]] explodes and crashes into the sea off the coast of [[Bombay]], killing 213. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
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>
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 October]]</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...] [[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the two were not yet distinct) and [[al...
8: ...t his family's ancestral seat of [[Knudstrup]] [[Castle]], [[Denmark]] to [[Otte Brahe]] and [[Beate Bi...
10: ...2 his uncle was given the command of Vordingborg Castle to which they moved, and where Tycho began a La...
12: ...ssed him that he began to make his own studies of astronomy helped by some of the professors. He purcha...
14: ...ust as many measurements and methods as there are astronomers and all of them disagree. What's needed i... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...f [[Bree]], called Breda in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started sign...
5: ...later married, and was in [[1551]] accepted as a master in the painters' guild of [[Antwerp]]. He trave...
9: ... from other members of the [[Brueghel|Brueghel dynasty]], but is also the one generally meant when the ...
14: ...umb|300px|Bruegel's ''Netherlandish Proverbs'', [[1559]], with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 [[pr...
22: * ''Netherlandish Proverbs'' 1559, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Gemaldegalerie, Be... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
20: ...the breakdown of monastic institutions and [[scholasticism]] in late medieval Europe, accentuated by th...
28: ...[philosophy|philosophical]] foundations of [[scholasticism]], the new [[nominalism]] did not bode well ...
30: ...orm movements that revolted against medieval scholasticism and the institutions that underpinned it wer...
42: ...nism for centuries: the neo-Platonism of the scholastics and the neo-Aristotelianism of Thomas Aquinas ...
48: ...34), Geneva (1535), Augsburg (1537) and Scotland (1559). - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1:
5: ...cas)|Native American]] tribes of the upper Gulf coast (including the Han and the Capoques of [[Galvesto...
7: ...]], [[New Mexico]] and [[Arizona]] on foot from coastal [[Louisiana]] to [[Sinaloa]], [[Mexico]], over ... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
17: ... The free [[Woolwich Ferry]] officially opens in east [[London]].
32: *1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter [[Near-Earth asteroid]] misses the [[Earth]] by 400,000 miles.
44: ...erre Simon de Laplace]], French mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1827]])
94: *[[1369]] - King [[Peter I of Castile]] (b. [[1334]])
97: *[[1559]] - [[Gelawdewos of Ethiopia|Gelawdewos]], [[Empe... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
190: *[[Jean Gaston Darboux]] ([[France]], [[August 14]],[[1842]] -...
299: * [[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]] (Scotla...
372: *[[Gaston Julia|Gaston Maurice Julia]] (Algeria, France, [[1893]] - [[...
613: *[[Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro]] (Italy, [[1853]] - [[1925]]) - Lent (7959 bytes)
3: ...o periods are the "Great Fast" and the "Nativity Fast"). The remainder of this article will discuss Len...
5: ... that of Lent, is discussed [[Easter#The_date_of_Easter|elsewhere]]. Roughly speaking, Lent starts near...
7: ...rm ''quadragesima'' or the "fortieth day" before Easter, which is preserved in the [[Romance languages]...
9: Whereas Easter celebrates the [[resurrection of Jesus]] after ...
13: ...th a great celebration of Easter, it is known in Eastern Orthodox circles as the season of "Bright Sadn... - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...urgeon at the University of [[Padua]] ([[1544]]-[[1559]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and his succes...
3: ...orrected some of the omissions and errors of his master.
9: ...[pulmonary valve]] of the heart closes during [[diastole]], preventing reflux
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