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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...ought of as one of the major discoverers of [[Canada]], or more specifically, the interior eastern reg...
9: ...g that Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing...
13: ...assage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cro...
15: ==Second Voyage 1535-1536==
17: ...pressive than the small and squalid village of Stadacona, more than a thousand Hurons came to the edge... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
2: ...ingborg Castle]], the daughter of [[Waldemar Atterdag of Denmark|Valdemar IV of Denmark]] and Helvig o...
4: ...86), but under such stringent conditions that the Danish crown got all the advantage of the arrangemen...
6: At a conference held at [[Dalaborg]] Castle, in March 1388, the Swedes were co...
12: ... [[Kalmar]] in June [[1397]]; and on [[Trinity Sunday]], on [[June 17]], Eric was solemnly crowned kin...
16: ... and Norway were treated as integral parts of the Danish state, and national aspirations were frowned ... - 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...
21: ...rthermore, regarded her as the only true heir and daughter of Henry VIII, although she was illegitimat...
23: ...ueen Anne lost royal favour and was beheaded in [[1536]]. The Princess Elizabeth was also degraded to a... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best...
9: ... lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that...
15: ...yal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died before James V, Mary would not n...
17: ... during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
19: The six-day-old Mary became Queen of [[Scotland]], with [[Ja... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
26: | [[Mikulas Dzurinda|Mikulᦡmp;#353; Dzurinda]]
63: ...ire]] maintained a chain of outposts around the [[Danube]]. From 20 to 50 AD, the Kingdom of [[Vannius...
67: ... Hungary, while the ethnic composition of present-day Slovakia itself became more diverse due to the a...
71: ...nium/Posony'' at that time) became its capital in 1536. But the [[Ottoman wars]] and frequent insurrecti...
85: ...s of Slovakia. Major Slovak rivers, besides the [[Danube]], are the [[Váh]] and the [[Hron]]. - Barbados (21887 bytes)
5: Barbados has one of the highest standards of living and literacy rates in the world and ...
9: ...dash;like the Arawak and the Salodoid-Barrancoid—lived in isolation on the island.
11: ...ght resembled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|...
13: ...rrival of the first British settlers in [[1627]]–[[1628]] until independence in [[1966]], Barbad...
17: ... of the leaders of this movement, Sir [[Grantley Adams]], founded the [[Barbados Labour Party]] in [[1... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
37: established_dates = 1801<sup>5</sup>|
47: *[[Welsh language|Welsh]]: ''Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon''
54: ...ions of [[England]], [[Wales]] and [[Scotland]] — are located on the island of [[Great Britain]]...
58: ...ted Kingdom, forming [[Northern Ireland]] to this day.
62: ...Ireland). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotl... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
17: LandArea = 314,590 |
25: AdmittanceDate = [[January 6]], [[1912]] |
26: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] |
46: ...542]]. Coronado camped near an excavated pueblo today preserved as [[Coronado State Monument]] in [[15...
52: ...ted Native Americans to forced labor on the haciendas and attempted to convert them to Christianity. T... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politici...
6: *[[Genrikh Yagoda|Yagoda, Genrikh Grigor'evich]] (1891-1938)
42: *[[Yasunori Mitsuda|Yasunori, Mitsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video ga...
73: ...Stephen Yenser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
121: *[[Paramahansa Yogananda|Yogananda, Paramahansa]], ([[1893]]-[[1952]]) - 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... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: '''Gerardus Mercator''' ([[March 5]], [[1512]] – [[December 2]], [[1594]]) was a [[Flanders|Fle...
9: ...Myrica]]. They worked together from [[1535]] to [[1536]] to construct a terrestrial [[globe]]. Later, Me... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
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]] ... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...th century through the southeast and midwest of today's [[United States|USA]].
6: ...reason and defeated Gonzales's army. As a result, Davilas leadership was secured and de Soto gained hi...
13: ... [[1537]], [[In鳠de Bobadilla]], the daughter of Davila. She came from one of the most respectable fa...
15: ... [[governor]] of [[Cuba]] ''y adelante de La Florida'' (meaning: all lands north of Mexico) by [[Emper...
17: == Expedition to Florida 1538-1542 == - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1: ...''Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca''' (c. [[1490]] – c. [[1559]]) was an early [[Spain|Spanish]] ex...
7: ...eaths of most of the party) as governor of [[Florida]] and return there, but [[Charles V, Holy Roman E...
24: ...t/index.html Cabeza de Vaca's ''La Relación''] – contains hi-res photography of the 1555 editio...
25: ... his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536''], hosted by the Portal to Texas History - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: ...ological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE, the Early Paleolithic Era, and...
7: ...and other nearby sites. Artifacts were discovered dating to the Paleolithic Stage, including the famou...
9: ...made of shells from Cypraca thermophile [[Gastropoda|gastropods]] of the Tertiary Period have been dis...
15: ...Neolithic Era, the geographic location of present-day Slovakia was dense trade network for goods such ...
19: ...lture of the Carpathians and that of the middle [[Danube]]. During the later Neolithic Age, a consider... - 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)
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...
32: ...Peru. T?Inca's empire stretched north into modern day Ecuador and Colombia. - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
3: == Foundation and early history ==
25: ...], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicily, who acted as the Kin...
29: ...d, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the day almost the entirety of their fleet was destroyed...
50: ...Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues until today, gaining increasing independence from its Roman ...
57: ...er, also known as the Knights of [[Malta]], and today operates as a largely charitable and ceremonial ... - Computer display (4276 bytes)
1: ...l]], computer displays have long since become standardized peripherals in their own right.
11: ...rom 640 by 480 [[pixel]]s (640״80) up to 2048 by 1536 pixels (2048ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a varie... - Chile (39914 bytes)
39: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 18]], [[1810]]...
42: time_zone = — |
44: time_zone_DST = — |
56: ... Spanish expedition south from Peru in [[1535]]-[[1536|36]] called themselves the "men of Chilli."
66: Conquest of the land that is today called Chile took place only gradually, and the ...
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