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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
1: [[Image:Cartier.png|thumb|200px|right|Jacques Cartier]]
3: ...e major discoverers of [[Canada]], or more specifically, the interior eastern region that would become...
5: ...nd improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a leading ship-own...
7: No contemporary portrait of Jacques Cartier has been found and the most familiar portrai...
9: ...ties can be easily ascertained. Considering that Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
2: ...October 28]], [[1412]]) was born in [[Vordingborg Castle]], the daughter of [[Waldemar Atterdag of Den...
4: ...arrangement. By this compact, moreover, the chronically rebellious Jutish nobility lost the support th...
6: At a conference held at [[Dalaborg]] Castle, in March 1388, the Swedes were compelled to ...
10: ...l Brothers]] or Vitalian Brotherhood, so called because their professed object was to revictual Stockh...
12: ...pinion to prevent the complete amalgamation of [[Scandinavia]]. But with her usual prudence she avoide... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...''. Her religious policies, however, were in many cases reversed by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of En...
13: ...s wife had again failed to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn dau...
15: ...ls]]. A great part of the credit of her early education was undoubtedly due to her mother, who not on...
17: ...is or his second son, [[Henry, Duke of Orl顮s]]. Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief advisor, managed...
19: ... appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to the Pope were abolished, and the King ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...he best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her life.
14: ...ons, who were listed in that parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first m...
15: ...emi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had go...
17: ...e birth and prophesied, "The devil go with it! It came with a lass, it will gang with a lass!" The Ste...
19: ...riage proposition, went into hiding in [[Stirling Castle]], where preparations were made for Mary's co... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
14: | align=center colspan=2 | [[image:LocationSlovakia.png]]
19: | '''[[Capital]]'''
49: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
52: ...d has a population of more than five million. The capital is [[Bratislava]].
65: ...833. The high point of this (Proto-)Slovak empire came with the arrival of [[Saints Cyril and Methodiu... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...with some hills in the island's interior. It is located 13? north of the [[Equator]] and 59? west of t...
3: ...island's interior are also dotted with large sugarcane estates and wide [[pastures]] with many good vi...
9: ...lodoid-Barrancoid. For the next few centries, the Caribs—like the Arawak and the Salodoid-Barran...
11: ...[[Slavery|slave labor]] on [[plantation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere.
13: ...ess, Barbados always enjoyed a large measure of local autonomy. Its House of Assembly began meeting in... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
9: image_map = LocationUnitedKingdom.png |
13: capital = [[London]] |
33: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $30,658 |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 15th |
45: calling_code = 44 | - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
10: Capital = [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] |
38: ...or their strong Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultural influences. For a variety of reasons, s...
42: === Native American Pueblos ===
44: ...n]] ruins indicate a presence at modern Santa Fe. Caves in the [[Sandia Mountains]] near Albuquerque c...
46: ...s in [[1540]]-[[1542]]. Coronado camped near an excavated pueblo today preserved as [[Coronado State M... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
39: ...hyn|Yascheshyn, Kerri]], ([[1985]] - [[2003]]), [[cancer]] patient
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]
134: *[[Ashikaga Yoshiteru|Yoshiteru, Ashikaga]], ([[1536]]-[[1565]]), [[Shogun]], Japanese feudal leader
146: *[[Andrew Young|Young, Andrew]], (b. 1932), American civil rights activist & diplomat
148: ...Brigham Young|Young, Brigham]], (1801-1877), American religious leader - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...es rendered were in [[Royal Prussia]] as church [[canon]], governor and administrator, [[jurist]], [[a...
8: ...ecame canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictine]] nun and the other sister, Kat...
10: ...ous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
14: ...nd Copernicus was named a canon in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for the great [[...
16: ...where in [[1503]] received his doctoral degree in canon law. It has been supposed that it was in Padua... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
4: <tr><td>[[image:mercator.jpg|200px|Gerardus Mercator]]</td></tr>
7: ...pher]] of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] named after him.
9: ...] to construct a terrestrial [[globe]]. Later, Mercator produced a map of [[Palestine (region)|Palesti...
11: ...rmapFullEurope16thcentury.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Mercator map of Europe]]
12: ...552]], he moved to [[Duisburg]] where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map ... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
6: ...[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the best education open to a young man of his day in a series of...
8: ...sh [[professor]]. He stayed at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]] and may have been an [[alumnus]].
10: ...ny positions of honour and profit throughout the academic world, but declined them all, preferring the...
12: ...s with the great publisher [[Froben]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ... the side of Pedro Arias d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Pe...
4: == Travels and Career ==
5: ...his discovery and colonization voyage through [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]].
6:
7: ...oto led his own expedition along the coast of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find a direct connection by sea b... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1: ...w World]] and is remembered as a protoanthropological author.
3: ...lating his shipwreck and wanderings in North America, he refers to his forefather's service to the Kin...
5: ...ermed ''Malhado'', or Island of Doom) but later escaped and eventually reached [[Mexico City]].
7: ...ed [[Pánfilo de Narváez]] (whose ineptitude had caused the deaths of most of the party) as governor ...
9: ...rated and wrote an extensive report on South America, which bound with his earlier ''La Relación'' an... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: ...g archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE, the Early Paleolithic E...
7: ...0,000 - 80,000 BCE) were discovered in the Pr鶴t cave near Bojnice and other nearby sites. Artifacts ...
9: ...the most ancient evidence of commercial exchanges carried out between the [[Mediterranean]] and [[Cent...
11: ... characterized by remarkable modelling and by delicate linear decoration, revealing the first attempts...
13: ...rs long, inhabited to a depth of 700 meters. This cave is one of the biggest Neolithic deposits in Eur... - 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}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...e beginning of [[Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas|Spanish]] [[hegemony]].
6: ... seven hundred local languages were spoken. The Inca leadership encouraged the worship of their gods, ...
8: ...], "the Lost City of the Incas," now an archaelogical site.]]
9: ... four provinces whose corners met at the empire's capital, [[Cusco]] (Qosqo).
11: ...word <i>Inca</i> still refers to the emperor, but can also refer to the people or the civilization, an... - 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]]. - Computer display (4276 bytes)
1: ...ation mechanism". Computer displays are sometimes called heads, especially when talking about how many...
6: * [[Cathode ray tube]] (CRT)
7: ...ve TV and computer bands ([[SVGA]], [[PAL]], [[SECAM]]; [[NTSC]]).
11: ...rom 640 by 480 [[pixel]]s (640״80) up to 2048 by 1536 pixels (2048ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a varie...
15: ... because of the similarity to their electromechanical predecessors. - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...Republic of Chile''' is a country in [[South America]] occupying a long coastal strip between the [[An...
7: native_name = República de Chile |
11: image_map = LocationChile.png |
15: capital = [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]]<sup>1</sup> |
19: leader_names = [[Ricardo Lagos]] |
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