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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...in]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could r...
3: ...ated by [[Washington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the ea...
5: ... the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...iversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
9: ...Scandinavians, Columbus's voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting recognition of the ex... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
21: ...gmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ...s''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the courts of several [[Franc...
5: ...' Medici]], Diane de Poitiers would remain his lifelong true love. They had one daughter born in 1538 ...
9: ...l into her fifties, Diane possessed an extreme intellect and a political astuteness to the point that ...
11: ...au Chenonceau]] that Catherine had wanted for herself.
13: ... she was also not invited to the funeral. Immediately thereafter, Catherine de' Medici banished Diane ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and w...
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...
26: ...rd of State was presented by the [[Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll|Earl of Argyll]], and the Ca... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...'Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
7: ...d|Mary I]]. She reigned during a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... last quality, viewed with impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital m...
11: ... reduced the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to ...
13: ... member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
1: ...iltshire, England. The Bible was hand written in Belgium, by Gerard Brils, for reading aloud in a mona...
4: ...f permanent inscriptions engraved in metal or chiselled into stone and the forms of letters used in th...
8: ...ating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout [[China]] to this day. Alth...
14: ...curves of hiragana, katakana is more angular and relies on sharp angles. Written Japanese uses both sc...
16: ...ng|Chinese]] and [[Japanese painting]] based entirely on calligraphy. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...d of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roma...
6: ...Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and ...
74: | '''[[Pope Telesphorus]]'''<br><small>Saint Telesphorus</small>
75: | '''Telesphorus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
109: | '''[[Pope Eleuterus]]'''<br><small>Saint Eleutherus</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...ublic]])) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the t...
12: ...at he began to make his own studies of astronomy helped by some of the professors. He purchased an [[e...
16: ...arge the existing instruments, and construct entirely new ones. Tycho's naked eye measurements of plan...
18: ...his nose. A consequence of this was that Tycho developed an interest in [[medicine]] and [[alchemy]]. ...
22: ... to Augsburg, where he built a great quadrant, Basel, and Freiburg. He was informed about his father's... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...e Connoisseur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
3: ...name and started signing his paintings as '''Bruegel'''.
5: ...hen returned to Antwerp before settling in [[Brussels]] permanently 10 years later. He died there on [...
7: ...ter Brueghel the Younger]] and [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] who both became painters, but as they were s...
9: ...when the context does not make clear which "Brueghel" is being referred to. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ica...
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
19: *[[Selman Akbulut]] (Turkey) - 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) - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
1: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0.5em 0 1em 1e...
14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written ...
45: ...h gate", due to the greeting ceremony the sultan held for foreign ambassadors at the Palace Gate. This...
47: ...ritories were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites established modern [[Turkey]] during the [[Tu...
53: ...ed as a ''[[Bey]]lik'' within the [[Seljuk Turks|Seljuk Empire]] in the [[13th century]]. In [[1299]],... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...ernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca''' ({{IPA-es|erˈnan korˈtes}}; ...
4: ...ire, Cortés was awarded the title of ''Marqués del Valle de [[Oaxaca]]'', while the more prestigious...
6: ...sial undertakings of Cortés and the scarcity of reliable sources of information about him, it has bec...
10: ...-es|kɔrˈtɛθ|IPA}}), in his time he called himself ''Hernando'' or ''Fernando Cortés''. The names ...
14: ...araz, 5th Lord of Monroy]], and wife Mencía de Orellana y Carvajal. - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
1: ...style="border:1px solid #CCC; margin-left:15px;" cellpadding="5"
11: | [[967 Helionape]] || [[November 9]], [[1921]]
17: | [[1566 Icarus]] || [[June 27]], [[1949]]
19: | [[5656 Oldfield]] || [[October 8]], [[1920]]
23: '''Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade''' ([[March 24]] [[1893]] ...
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