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- 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... - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
5: ... and ''Lettere familiari a diversi'', in 1575 and 1580, respectively. She published books of letters and... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...ry 7]], [[2005]], broke the world record for the fastest solo [[circumnavigation]] of the [[Earth|globe...
10: ...n ''Kingfisher 2'', but was thwarted by a broken mast in the [[Southern Ocean]].
12: Her latest yacht, called ''[[B&Q]]/[[Castorama]]'' (after two companies in the Kingfisher g...
14: ...cord attempt in [[2004]] to break the west–east transatlantic crossing time failed by around one ...
16: ... She crossed the finishing line near the French coast at [[Ushant]] at 2229 [[Coordinated Universal Tim... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: |+<big><big>'''جمهوريّة...
46: ...T]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+2)<br/>[[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]] ([[Coordinated Uni...
56: ...ect]]) is a [[republic]] mostly located in North-Eastern Africa.
58: ...o the northeast. It is bordered to the north and east by the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and the [[Red Sea]],...
60: The vast majority of Egypt's population inhabits the banks... - 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. - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...g to the four islands which lay off that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in [[1525]].
3: ...1607;ورية الجزائرية ا...
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60: ... Empire]] then retained a precarious grip on the east of the country until the coming of the [[Arab]]s ... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...]] to the east. It has a very narrow section of coastline at [[Umm Qasr]] on the [[Persian Gulf]]. A ne...
3: |+<big><big>'''الجمهورية ا...
49: .... Saddam's absolute and particularly bloody rule lasted throughout the [[Iran-Iraq War]] ([[1980]]&ndas...
97: ...astline with the [[Persian Gulf]]. Close to the coast and along the [[Shatt al-Arab]] there used to be ...
104: ...raq suffered economic losses from the war of at least [[US dollar|US$]]100 [[billion]]. After hostiliti... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ...ea]] (on the west), bordered by [[Syria]] on the east and north, and [[Israel]] on the south.
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83: ...ernity, was called the [[Paris]] of the [[Middle East]] before the outbreak of the [[Lebanese Civil War...
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/... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
48: ...he north, [[Brazil]] and [[Uruguay]] in the northeast and [[Chile]] in the west. It's the second larges...
57: ...anent colony on the site of [[Buenos Aires]] in [[1580]], although initial settlement was primarily over...
61: ...sion of agriculture and foreign investment in infrastructure. Conservative forces dominated Argentine p...
80: ...or a third term or more after an interval of at least one term. The president appoints [[cabinet (gover...
88: ...rly known as ''capital federal''), marked with an asterisk: - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: ...a, on the [[Arabian Peninsula]], 20 km from the coast of Djibouti, is [[Yemen]].
4: ...1580;مهورية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa...
70: ...rcent of approximately 197,000 registered voters cast their ballots - at 200 voting booths - across the...
102: ...location and status as a free trade zone in northeast Africa. Two-thirds of the inhabitants live in the...
104: ...ta consumption dropped an estimated 35% over the last seven years because of [[recession]], [[civil war... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...o the east, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]] to the southeast, [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and the [[C...
8: native_name = جمهورية ا...
98: ...hr al Jabal]], [[Blue Nile, Sudan|Blue Nile]], [[East Equatoria]], [[Junqali]], [[Kassala (state)|Kassa...
106: ...y flat plains, though there are mountains in the east and west. The climate is tropical in the south; a...
113: ...1999, Sudan began exporting crude oil and in the last quarter of 1999 recorded its first trade surplus,... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...rtugal is bordered by [[Spain]] to the north and east and by the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the west and sou...
5: ...t flow of different [[civilization]]s during the past 3100 years. [[Iberians|Iberian]], [[Celt]]ic, [[P...
7: ...ubsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
15: ...C]], the [[Carthaginians]] occupied the Iberian coasts. In this period several small tribes occupied th...
21: ...|right|230px|The [[10th century|10th-century]] [[Castle of Guimară¥³]], a national symbol, is known as ... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...al]], [[Gibraltar]] and [[Andorra]]. To the northeast, along the [[Pyrenees]] mountain range, it border...
60: ...]] successively settled along the Mediterranean coast and founded trading colonies there over a period ...
62: ...iterranean coast on the East, leaving the south coast to the Phoenicians. The Greeks are responsible fo...
66: ... Empire]], [[Hispania Taraconensis]] in the northeast, [[Hispania Baetica]] in the south and [[Lusitani...
77: ...ain|Felipe II]], became King of [[Portugal]] in [[1580]], as well as of the other Iberian Kingdoms (coll... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
510: *[[Frans Hals]] ([[1580]]-[[1666]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...gan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
4: ...ian to [[Rudolf II|Emperor Rudolf II]], and court astrologer to [[Albrecht von Wallenstein|General Wall...
13: ...er astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being "called out...
15: ...for the vacant post of teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. ...
33: ...t circles. Using that knowledge, he was the first astronomer to successfully predict a [[transit of Ven... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
21: ...stigious post would aid him toward these ends, in 1580 he applied, through his uncle, [[William Cecil, 1...
29: ...a Queen's Counsel, but missed the appointment of Master of the Rolls. During the next few years, his f...
37: ...B. showed a failure of character in striking contrast with the majesty of his intellect. He was corrupt...
40: ...was the justest judge, that was in England these last fifty years. When the book of all hearts is opene...
56: ... Bacon's Personal Life Story" and Mark Twain's last book , "Is Shakespeare Dead" are good starting po... - 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]]).
25: ...spect for life led him to being a vegetarian at least part of his life, and Vasari reports a story that...
29: ...n Cavallo" [[horse]] [[statue]] (see below) were cast into weapons for the Duke in an attempt to save [... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
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, ...
33: ...nally involved, his disdain for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from ... - 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: ...articularly amongst the radical reformers. Iconoclastic riots took place in Z?(in 1523), Copenhagen (15...
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