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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ...dici family|Medici]]''' ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''...
5: ...ated; she was only fourteen when she was married (1533), at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whos...
11: During the reign of her husband (1547–1559), Catherine lived a quiet and passive life...
13: ... she enforced a ban on thick waists at court attendance during the 1550s. For nearly 350 years, women'...
19: ...nd, after that failed, by the [[St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre]]. However, although Catherine is blam... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: '''Mary I''' ([[18 February]] [[1516]] – [[17 November]] [[1558]]) was [[List of Britis...
13: ... Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
17: ...hen suggested that the Princess Mary wed, not the Dauphin, but his father Francis I, who was eager for...
19: ...mpted to have his marriage to her annulled. In [[1533]], Henry secretly married another woman, [[Anne B...
21: ...rthermore, regarded her as the only true heir and daughter of Henry VIII, although she was illegitimat... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British m...
16: ...abeth, and she, along with her half-sister, Mary, daughter of [[Catherine of Aragon]], was reinstated ...
18: ...rticularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her de...
44: The Queen found a dangerous rival in her cousin, the Catholic Mary Stu...
53: ... a Catholic, [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]]. Lord Darnley was murdered in [[1567]] after the couple ha... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
16: *[[Fort?m鮥z|Xim鮥z, Fort?(d. 1533), early Spanish colonizer in Mexico - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...ween [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is usually considere...
6: ...[[Milan]] from [[1459]] to [[1474]], and his birthdate was long considered to be around [[1440]]: mor...
10: ...n of Cond鬠southeast of [[Lille]] on the present-day border between Belgium and France, becoming prov...
14: ...and was much in demand. Duke Ercole I sent an (undated) letter to his secretary with the interesting ...
16: ...towards or away from perfection but as trends of adaptation and influence; as such Josquin is seen as ... - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: {{dablink|This article covers the History of Californi...
3: Although the present-day State of [[California]] has been occupied for mi...
11: ...re among the traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciatio...
13: ...s. Tribes in the [[Sierra Nevada (US)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] tre...
21: An expedition in [[1533]] discovered a bay, most likely that of [[La Paz,... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
1: ... ([[September 8]], [[1474]] – [[July 6]], [[1533]]) was an Italian poet, author of the [[epic]] po...
3: .... Allowed at last to read classics under Gregorio da Spoleto. But after a short time, studying which h... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: '''Sir Thomas More''' ([[7 February]], [[1478]]–[[6 July]], [[1535]]), posthumously known also ...
9: ...hter by her previous husband. More provided his daughters with an excellent classical education at a...
17: ...dition of ''Utopia.'' The traveler Raphael Hythloday is depicted in the lower left-hand corner descri...
19: ...inental Europe, and his friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his masterpiece, ''[[In Praise of Fo...
27: ...book in which a fictional traveler, Raphael Hythloday, describes the political arrangements of an imag... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...quem de Montaigne''' ([[February 28]], [[1533]] – [[September 13]], [[1592]]) was an influential...
10: Montaigne married in 1565; he had five daughters, but only one survived childhood. In 1568 ...
33: ...ithout truly getting emotionally involved, his disdain for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his atte... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...y (observation)|discoveries]] ever, and is the fundamental starting point of modern [[astronomy]] and ...
10: ...ara]], he met his teacher [[Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed h...
14: In [[1497]] his uncle was ordained the bishop of Warmia and Copernicus was named...
22: ...bing his ideas about the heliocentric hypothesis—available to his friends. From there he continu...
24: ...Teutonic Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Ol... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...otterdam''') ([[October 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dut...
6: ...ven the best education open to a young man of his day in a series of monastic or semi-monastic schools...
8: ...th the leaders of English thought in the stirring days of King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]: [...
16: ...omne, diligenter ab Erasmo Rot. Recognitum et Emendatum''. The edition included a Latin translation a...
21: ...m, it seemed to the straightforward Luther an avoidance of responsibility due either to [[cowardice]] ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn...
19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}}
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ... ranges. The Inca empire proved short-lived: by [[1533]] CE, [[Atahualpa]], the last Inca, was killed on...
11: ...the word '''Inca''', which means "[[Emperor]]." Today the word <i>Inca</i> still refers to the emperor...
17: ...[[Pacaritambo]] sent forth his four sons and four daughters to establish a village. Along the way, [[S...
28: ... Picchu]], either as a family home or as a [[Camp David]]-like retreat.
30: ...to the Inca nobility, and, with luck, marry their daughters into families at various corners of the em... - Hank Aaron (72330 bytes)
6: ... at this young age that before his fifteenth birthday he was playing on a semi-pro team, the [[Pritche...
8: ...s mother wanted Aaron to attend college in [[Florida]]. But with the promise to finish high school, o...
12: ... led the league in everything except hotel accommodations".
14: ...ond base during a spring training game. The next day Aaron made his first spring training start for t...
21: ...seball All-Star Game|All-Star Games]] for Aaron – only [[Willie Mays]] and [[Stan Musial]] appea... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
8: ...e region of [[Sinaloa]] in [[New Spain]] (present-day [[Mexico]]), where they were reunited with their...
10: ...t the [[Zuni]] village of [[Hawikuh]] (in present-day [[New Mexico]]); the tribe regarded him with mis... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...ter to [[Cuba]], where he received an ''[[encomienda]]'' and, for a short time, became alcalde (magist...
6: ...ions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ..., and is the name which many people know him by today.
14: ...who later conquered the [[Inca]] empire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Franci...
36: ...ony. Cortés continued to build a reputation as a daring and bold leader. He became secretary for Gove... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ... expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day [[United States]], was the first European to dis...
3: ...the banks of the [[Mississippi River]] at present-day [[Lake Village, Arkansas]].
5: ... to seek their fortune elsewhere. Two towns—[[Badajoz]] and [[Barcarrota]]—claim to be his birthpl...
9: ...e, [[Juan Ponce de León]], who discovered [[Florida]], [[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]], who discovered th...
12: ...ers. The Spanish captured Atahualpa, and the next day de Soto was again sent to the camp of the Incan ...
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