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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
13: ...urther west (the [[St. Lawrence River]]) that he believed might be the much searched-for [[northwest p...
15: ==Second Voyage 1535-1536==
17: ...ntinue upriver to visit [[Hochelaga (village)|Hochelaga]] ([[Montreal]]) and arrived on [[October 2]],...
19: ... when Cartier decided to spend the winter of 1535-1536 in Canada but the decision must have been made by...
23: ...of 110 that we were, not ten were well enough to help the others, a thing pitiful to see". Cartier es... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
2: ...Atterdag of Denmark|Valdemar IV of Denmark]] and Helvig of Sonderjylland. She married, at the age of t...
4: ...nt. By this compact, moreover, the chronically rebellious Jutish nobility lost the support they had hi...
6: ...re compelled to accept all Margaret's conditions, elected her "Sovereign Lady and Ruler", and engaged ...
10: ...d by the compact of Lindholm (1395) Albrecht was released by Margaret on promising to pay 60,000 marks...
12: ...ority. To weld the united kingdoms still more closely together, Margaret summoned a congress of the th... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
3: ...px|'''Mary I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
8: ...versed by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
10: ...|Mary I, Queen of Scots]], who lived at approximately the same time.
15: ...[[Juan Lu�Vives]] upon the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
21: ...her mother Catherine, or attend her funeral in [[1536]]. Her treatment and the hatred Queen Anne had fo... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and w...
15: ...yal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died before James V, Mary would not n...
17: ... Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and...
22: Mary was crowned as Queen of Scots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[154...
24: ...y Lord Livingston in solemn procession to the Chapel Royal. Inside, Lord Livingston brought Mary forwa... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
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46: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
56: ...lic'' (in Slovak: ''Slovenská republika''). The relation between those two name forms is exactly the ...
63: ...] and [[Liptov]]. Silver coins with the names of Celtic kings represent the first known use of writing... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ..., about 434.5 km (270 miles) northeast of [[Venezuela]].
5: ...tly according to the [[UN]]'s [[UNDP]], the #1 developing country in the world. The island is a major...
9: ...ived by [[canoe]] from [[South America]] ([[Venezuela]]'s [[Orinoco Valley]]) around [[350|350 CE]]. T...
11: ...antation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere.
13: ...s was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Barbados always enjoyed a large measure of lo... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
5: ... = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
18: ...der_names = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]]<br>[[Tony Blair]] |
47: *[[Welsh language|Welsh]]: ''Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwer...
48: *<small>[[Scottish Gaelic language|Scottish Gaelic]]: ''An R쯧hachd Aonaichte na Breatainn Mh...
49: *<small>[[Irish language|Irish Gaelic]]: ''R�ht Aontaithe na Breataine M agus T... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
31: HighestElev = Wheeler Peak, 13,161 ft, 4,014 |
32: MeanElev = 5,692 ft, 1735 |
33: LowestElev = Red Bluff Reservoir, 2,817 ft, 859 |
38: ...h language|Spanish]], the state's name would be spelled ''Nuevo M骩co''.
46: ...d wandering across south New Mexico in [[1528]]-[[1536]]. [[Fray Marcos de Niza]] enthusiastically ident... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
13: *[[Elihu Yale|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
34: *[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
45: ...es, Dornford]], ([[1885]] - [[1960]]), British novelist
48: ... W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
50: ...t)|Yates, Richard]], ([[1926]]-[[1992]]), U.S. novelist - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...ory affected many other aspects of human life as well, opening the door to young astronomers everywher...
8: ..., married a businessman and city councillor, Barthel Gertner.
10: ...ion and wished for him to become a [[bishop]] as well. However, while studying [[canon law|canon]] and...
12: ...ara, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''.
14: ...ave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing of this remains to us). - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
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9: ...Myrica]]. They worked together from [[1535]] to [[1536]] to construct a terrestrial [[globe]]. Later, Me...
12: ...ction and first used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of longitude to aid navigation by sea, as c...
15: ...a collection of maps, and encouraged [[Abraham Ortelius]] to compile the first modern world atlas, ''[...
17: The Mercatormuseum in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
6: ... one of the chief objects of his attack in his lifelong assault upon the evils of the Church.
8: ... time in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English though...
12: ... of Swiss hospitality he could express himself freely and where he was surrounded by devoted friends. ...
14: ...ise seem full of contradictions. Erasmus held himself aloof from all entangling obligations; yet he wa... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
4: == Travels and Career ==
5: ...n [[Panama]]. His only possessions then were a shield and his sword. In [[1516]], he became commander ...
6: De Soto gained fame as an excellent horseman, fighter, and tactician, but was kno...
9: ... large areas of land in the Spanish colonies, as well as gold mines and trade ships. Apparently though...
13: ...d to Spain in [[1536]], taking with him approximately 100,000 golden [[peso]]s — his share of th... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
3: ...s head there. In the prologue to his great story relating his shipwreck and wanderings in North Americ...
5: ...ve [[Estevanico]], Andres de Dorantes and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado were the only survivors of the...
7: ...ight prepare them for the hardships they would surely face.
9: ...South America, which bound with his earlier ''La Relación'' and published under the title ''Comentari...
18: ...rative of Cabeza De Vaca.'' Translation of ''La Relacion'' by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
9: ... near Pieštany. Numerous necklaces made of shells from Cypraca thermophile [[Gastropoda|gastropod...
11: ...st attempts at coloring. These shapes reveal a developed aesthetic sense.
15: ...trade network for goods such as shells, amber, jewels and weapons. As a result, it became an important...
19: ...ation. After the disappearance of the Cakany and Velatice civilizations, it was the [[Lusatian]] peopl...
21: ...llowing the Slovakian rivers. The victory of the Celts marked the beginning of the later Iron Age. The... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
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|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640) - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ... and [[Quechua]], or '''Tahuantinsuyu''' in old spelling Quechua, which means Land of the Four Corners...
8: ...cchu]], "the Lost City of the Incas," now an archaelogical site.]]
11: ...nd is used as an adjective when referring to the beliefs of the people or the artifacts they left behi...
17: The Inca had two origin beliefs. In one, Tici Viracocha of Colina de las Vent...
19: ... Titicaca]] and found the city of Cuzco. They traveled by means of underground caves until reaching Cu... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ...ohn the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was s...
9: ...ght of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other estates in the a...
15: ...ll as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
19: ...nder the command of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this for... - Computer display (4276 bytes)
1: ...the other senses of "monitor" meaning "machine-level debugger" or "thread synchronization mechanism". ...
4: As with [[television]], several different [[hardware]] technolo...
8: * [[Plasma display]] (rarely seen)
11: ...by 480 [[pixel]]s (640״80) up to 2048 by 1536 pixels (2048ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a variety of ...
15: ...[teletype]]s", because of the similarity to their electromechanical predecessors. - Chile (39914 bytes)
56: ...uth from Peru in [[1535]]-[[1536|36]] called themselves the "men of Chilli."
64: ...Chile now occupies. These cultures supported themselves principally through slash-and-burn [[agricultu...
74: ...e and [[working class]]es were powerful enough to elect a reformist president, whose program was frust...
76: ...ral [[Carlos Ibáñez]], who briefly held power in [[1925]] and then again between [[1927]...
78: The [[1964]] presidential election of [[Christian Democratic Party of Chile|Ch...
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