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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]...
3: ...explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the ...
5: ...ess than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe...
7: ...s of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United Stat...
9: ...he first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - Printing (4400 bytes)
4: ...producing copies of [[text]]s and [[image]]s, typically with [[ink]] on [[paper]] using a [[printing p...
6: ...hich is principally used for [[newspaper]]s and [[catalogue]]s). The largest commercial and industria...
11: ...est surviving book printed using the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[...
15: ...ssachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
17: In ''Prints and Visual Communication'', [[William Ivins]] offers the following con... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ...spar van Weerbeke]] and [[Loyset Comp貥]]. In [[1476]], after the murder of Duke Sforza, he left this ...
8: ...n on a ''[[cantus firmus]]'' derived from the musical letters in the Duke's name. While there he also...
10: ...tween Belgium and France, becoming provost of the cathedral there. During this time he had immense fa...
14: ...ing together the many streams of contemporary musical practice. He possessed a vivid conception of th...
16: ...most of the contemporary trends, innovated significantly, and was also able to express intense emotion... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
7: ...sant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle ...
9: ...s". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of his illegitimate status.
14: Later, he became an independent painter in Florence.
16: ...e]]. After two months in jail, he was acquitted because no witnesses stepped forward. For some time af...
20: ...al]]. One of his loves may have been Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno (nicknamed Salai (Little Devil)). ... - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
3: ...'[[The Birth of Venus]]'': a revived ''Venus Pudica'' for a new view of pagan [[Antiquity]] (Uffizi, ...
5: ... worked beside him, but he made his name in his local Church of Ognisanti, with a Saint [[Augustine]] ...
7: ...illustration, right'') was at the Medici villa of Castello.
11: ...ly were undoubtedly useful for granting him political protection and creating conditions ideal for his...
13: ...delicate requirement in such a subject. The heretical notions seem to be [[Gnosticism|gnostic]] in cha... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...elow in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ... Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
37: *[[Cahit Arf]] (Turkey, [[1910]] - [[1997]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]]...
106: *[[Jonathan Borwein]] (Scotland/Canada, [[1951]]-) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
39: ...tarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
55: *[[John Bahcall]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1934]] – )
109: *[[William Wallace Campbell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1862]] – ...
110: *[[Annie Jump Cannon]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1863]] – [[...
111: *[[Luigi Carnera]] ([[Italy]], [[1875]] – [[1962]]) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...tate under the King of Sicily. The medi涡l Order can be said to have come to an end following its eje...
5: ...rno]] in [[Italy]] were given permission by the [[Caliph]] Haroun el Raschid of [[Egypt]] to rebuild t...
7: ...epulchre]] in Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem bu...
9: ...e [[Krak des Chevaliers]], and [[Margat]], both located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The propert...
15: ...s well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
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