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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]]) - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: ...Image:Mid_horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' Medici]]
3: ..., and later lived in [[France]] under the name '''Catherine de M餩cis''', was Queen of France as the ...
5: ...rly age, Catherine was sent to a convent to be educated; she was only fourteen when she was married (1...
7: ...royal house, would listen to such a proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived lo...
9: ...hen her maternal aunt the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County of Auvergne]]. - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
4: ...married her to the Duke of Cleves, but this political marriage was annulled four years later.
8: ... II of Navarre died, and Jeanne and her husband became rulers of Navarre.
10: ...Huguenot]] ministers which led to her declaring [[Calvinism]] the official religion of her kingdom.
12: .... Jeanne's son [[Henry IV of France|Henry]] now became "first prince of the blood."
14: ...m here she conducted peace negotiations, and in [[1570]] official talks began to marry Henry to 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... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...ce by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father [[Henr...
13: ...]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]...
16: ..., along with her half-sister, Mary, daughter of [[Catherine of Aragon]], was reinstated in the line of...
18: ...st Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth became queen in [[1558]].
20: ...lerant. Elizabeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. L... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
5: ...#256;ḏām in [[Tiberian Hebrew]], and آدم (ʾĀdam) in [[Arabic lang...
17: ...([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: ''Chava'' "life"), because she was the mother of all living. Being induce...
22: ... subject of much debate). [[Judaism]] holds the [[Cave of Machpelah]] in [[Hebron]] as the traditional...
26: .... In ''The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan'', Cain's twin sister is named Luluwa, and Abel's twin ...
28: ...re are a number of [[Pseudepigrapha|pseudepigraphical]] works about Adam and Eve: - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...til about [[1300 BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society has existed ...
27: ...round [[8th millennium BC|8000 BC]] began to desiccate the pastoral lands of [[Egypt]], eventually for...
29: ...dicates that by [[6000 BC]] they were [[herding]] cattle and [[construction|constructing]] large build...
31: ...re of [[Europe]]an, [[Middle East]]ern, and [[Africa]]n''").
33: ...wer, wealth, and territorial extent in the period called the New Empire (1567–1085 BC). - Influenza (10335 bytes)
1: ...a'''. For the digestive-system diseases commonly called "stomach '''flu'''" (and widely misunderstood...
2: ...px|Negatively stained flu virions. These were the causative agent of the [[Hong Kong Flu]] pandemic. ]...
4: ... [[astrology|astrological]] ''influences'' as the cause of the disease.
12: ...nd to have more resistance to influenza B and C because they only undergo [[antigenic drift]] and have...
14: ...uses can be further classified based on the viral capsid proteins [[haemagglutinin]] (HA or H) and [[n... - 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]]) - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ... "[[research institute]]". For purposes of [[publication]], he owned a [[printing press]] and [[paper ...
8: ...ng's court. [[Beate Bille]], Tycho's mother, also came from an important family which had produced lea...
10: ...hich they moved, and where Tycho began a Latin education until he was 12 years old.
12: ...ut also studied a variety of other subjects and became interested in [[astronomy]]. It was, however, t...
14: ... of mapping the heavens conducted from a single location over a period of several years.'' -Tycho Brah... - 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 [[&...
10: ...circ;teau de Montaigne, to which he moved back in 1570.
16: ...cted as a moderating force, respected both by the Catholic [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and ... - 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 ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
43: *[[Caspar Buberl]] (1834 - 1899)
48: *[[Alexander Calder]] (1898 - 1976)
49: *[[Alexander Milne Calder]] (1845 - 1923)
50: *[[Alexander Stirling Calder]] (1870 - 1945) - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ... died in [[1611]] somewhere in [[Hudson Bay]], [[Canada]].
3: ...of July. At this point the ship was only 577 nautical miles from the pole, but it was clear there is n...
7: ...d]]–the first Europeans to describe these locations (although [[Giovanni da Verrazano]] explored...
9: ...e [[Navigation Acts]], a set of [[Mercantilism|mercantilist]] laws England had enacted to protect its ...
11: ...age under the English flag; this time the funding came from the [[Virginia Company]] and the [[British... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
8: ...5 tons of freight with this and the weight of the car on two four wheel support trucks. Fully loaded, ...
9: ...e the weight of the train evenly, allowing significantly greater loads per [[axle]]/wheel than in [[ro...
11: ...ient use of space: a double tracked rail line can carry more passengers or freight in a given amount o...
17: ...run through cities and the countryside is impractical.
22: ...switch]]es, [[Railway signal|signals]], [[classification yard]]s, etc. - 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}} - Islam (36809 bytes)
6: ... of life" and/or "religion." [[Etymology|Etymologically]], it is derived from the same root as, for ex...
12: ...ary branches of belief, based largely on a historical disagreement over the succession of authority af...
16: ...|[[Faisal Mosque]], located in [[Islamabad]], the capital city of [[Pakistan]], was built in [[1986]]....
38: ...efinite article]] in ''Allah'' linguistically indicates the divine unity. In spite of the different na...
40: ...ah]] in Arabic, and in India, Pakistan and Turkey called "namaaz" (a [[Persian]] word)). - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ... literal meaning is "the recitation" and is often called "Al Qur'ān Al Karīm": "The Noble Qu...
6: ...names]].) The suras are not arranged in chronological order (in the order in which Islamic scholars be...
10: ... structure is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling paragraphs and comprising rough...
14: ...n Arabic. It is written in an early form of classical [[Arabic language|Arabic]] termed in English ...
16: ...akers, [[Arabic grammar]] and lexicography soon became important sciences, and the model for the liter... - Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
5: ...olars as a [[life-death-rebirth deity]]), the god carries a tapering coniferous tree. [[Medieval]] leg...
7: ...thumb|Silhouette drawing of the Three Wise Men on camels following the star of Bethlehem.]]
9: ...an tribes using the cone-shaped evergreen trees because of their triangular appearance.
11: ...[[1815]]. In the early 19th century, the custom became popular among the nobility and spread to royal ...
15: ...mas tree in Britain and among the anglophile American upper class. - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
1: ...meline tries to compile dates of important historical events that happened in or that lead to the rise...
12: * Domestication of [[sheep]] and [[goats]] in the [[Middle Ea...
13: * Circa [[8350 BC]] ? [[Neolithic]] settlement at [[Jeric...
16: * Circa [[8000 BC]]?Settlements at [[Nevali Cori]] in pre...
17: * Circa [[7500 BC]] ? [[ǡtalh?]], a very large [[Neolith...
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