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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...aval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
22: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]]) - 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. - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...rneys along the eastern coastline of [[South America]] convinced him that a new continent had been dis...
10: ...erating his role and constructing deliberate fabrications, others have instead proposed that the two l...
12: ...nine form ''America''. (See also [[Naming of America]].) ''Amerigo'' itself is an Italian form of ''[[...
14: ...made four voyages to America, while at most three can be verified from other sources. It is now genera...
16: ...oyage. But his claim is clearly fraudulent, which casts more doubt on Vespucci's credibility. - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ... courts of several [[France|French]] kings, and became notorious as the mistress of King [[Henry II of...
5: ...filled his duty by marrying the noble foreigner [[Catherine de' Medici]], Diane de Poitiers would rema...
9: ...ch that when [[Pope Paul III]] sent the new Queen Catherine the "[[Golden Rose]]", he did not forget t...
11: ...[[Chⴥau de Chenonceau|Chⴥau Chenonceau]] that Catherine had wanted for herself.
13: ...t invited to the funeral. Immediately thereafter, Catherine de' Medici banished Diane from Chenonceau ... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...mile|mi²]]). It is also called ''the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea'' or ''the European Mediterran...
11: ...on" (הים התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adap...
17: ...e Black Sea is generally not. The man-made [[Suez Canal]] in the south-east connects the Mediterranean...
25: * [[Sardinia]], [[Corsica]], [[Sicily]], and [[Malta]] in the central Medit...
26: * [[Ibiza]], [[Majorca]] and [[Minorca]] (the [[Balearic Islands]]) in the western Medit... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
1: ...has a strong tradition of [[neutral country|political and military neutrality]], but also of internati...
3: ''Confederatio Helvetica'' (CH), the [[Latin]] version of the official nam...
10: image_map = LocationSwitzerland.png |
14: capital = [[Bern]] |latd=46|latm=57|latNS=N|longd=...
18: ...Switzerland)|Pres. 2005]])</small><br>[[Micheline Calmy-Rey]]<br>[[Christoph Blocher]]<br>[[Hans-Rudol... - Israel (51605 bytes)
11: image_map = LocationIsrael.png |
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $22,944 |
35: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 30th |
46: calling_code = 972 | - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...], a [[shrub]] native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the [[Old World]] and the [[New ...
4: ...es of natural springs. When the cotton boll (seed case) is opened the fibers dry into flat, twisted, r...
9: ...nce that people in South America and India domesticated different species of cotton independently thou...
13: ...hern [[Europe]], without any knowledge of what it came from other than that it was a [[plant]]; people...
15: ...regions in [[Africa]], [[Eurasia]] and [[the Americas]]. - 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]]) - 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)). ... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: '''Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], ...
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5: <tr><td>'''Baldassare Castiglione'''</td></tr>
8: ...onzaga]], a relative of Luigia Gonzaga, mother of Castiglione.
10: ...ck to Mantua, again in the court of Gonzaga. In [[1499]] he lost his father and succeeded him in the rep... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
1: [[Image:Machiavelli.jpg|thumb|150px|Machiavelli, ca [[1500]], in the robes of a Florentine public off...
3: ...elli was also a key figure in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial to European statecraft during ...
10: ...ouis XII was also the king who committed the five capital errors in statecraft summarized in ''The Pri...
12: ...lic tomb in his honor can be found at the [[Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze]].
15: ...as viewed in a negative light largely because the Catholic church put the work in its Index – a ... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ... popularly credited as the modern discoverer of [[Canada]], or at least the region that would become t...
4: ...oute to [[Asia]]. He ended up in the [[North America]]n mainland, he and his men being the first [[Eur...
6: ... he moved to [[Venice]] in his youth, and later became a Venetian citizen.
8: ...mage:Johncabotbonavista.jpg|left|thumb|150px|John Cabot in Bonavista, Newfoundland]]
10: ...for himself. He went with his plans to England, because he incorrectly thought [[spices]] were coming ... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
2: ...]. He also helped found the city of [[Oaxaca, Oaxaca]], in [[Mexico]].
5: ...rth and parentage are also unknown, but events in Cabrillo’s life lead Kelsey to believe he was born...
8: Rodríguez Cabrillo shipped for [[Havana]] as a lad and joined ...
10: ... providing a route for the [[Northwest Passage]]. Cabrillo, who had started life as a shipbuilder's bo...
11: ...ght|The Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California]] - 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 philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}}
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