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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. - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...ghting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] cause. (This was ironic, as Edward IV was the Yorki...
10: ...eth Woodville became common knowledge, it was the cause of considerable rancour on Warwick's part, and...
12: ...ry wealthy. The queen also married her sister, [[Catherine Woodville]], to her 11-year-old ward [[Hen...
16: ... Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
18: ...zabeth now lost the title of Queen Mother and was called The Dame Elizabeth Grey. She and her other c... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]]) - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...s main work, the ''Essays'', unprecedented in its candidness and personal flavor, he takes mankind and...
6: ... exclusively in [[Latin]], the language of the educated class.
8: ...]. While serving at the Bordeaux Parlement, he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[&...
16: ...cted as a moderating force, respected both by the Catholic [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and ...
20: ...d and served until 1585, again moderating between Catholics and Protestants. The [[plague]] broke out ... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...an]] ''Venezia''), the city of [[canal]]s, is the capital of the region of [[Veneto]], population 271,...
6: ...tate]] (an Italian [[thalassocracy]] or ''Repubblica Marinara'', the other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pi...
10: ...gean]], including [[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]], and became a major power-broker in the [[Near East]]. By t...
12: Venice became an imperial power following the [[Fourth Crusad...
14: ...[[knight tenure]] within the city itself. The ''[[Cavalieri di San Marco]]'' was the only order of [[c... - Hank Aaron (72330 bytes)
1: ...rk of 714 by [[Babe Ruth]]. Aaron also holds the career marks for [[RBI]] (2,297), extra-base hits (1...
3: ==Pre-professional Career==
4: ...His family later moved to a better part of Mobile called [[Toulminville]], where he was brought up and...
8: ...y scout [[Ed Scott]] to play for the [[Negro American League]] champion [[Indianapolis Clowns]] after ...
10: ==Professional Career== - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
3: ...tical]] boundaries, many often feature [[geopolitical]], [[social]], [[religious]] and [[economic]] [[...
7: ...not called by that name at the time of their publication.
9: ...e first edition was published in [[Bologna]] in [[1477]] and was illustrated with a set of 27 maps, thou...
11: ...atlas was not in use in 1544, these works are now called "IATO" atlases - (Italian, Assembled to Order...
13: ...maps to a uniform size. It was an immediate critical and commercial success.
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