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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
5: ... at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother was alive at the time, but who would b...
7: ...talian peninsula, while Clement, ever needful of help against his too powerful protector, was equally ...
11: ...April 1]], [[1560]] she named as chancellor [[Michel de l'H?al]], who advocated a policy of conciliati...
15: ...oderate counsels of l'H?al to avoid siding definitely with either party, but her character and the hab...
17: ... her favourite son, the duke of Anjou, to Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]], but that did not come abou... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
10: ... led to her declaring [[Calvinism]] the official religion of her kingdom.
12: ...hole led to the outbreak of the [[French Wars of Religion]] in [[1562]]. Antoine de Bourbon chose to s...
14: ... and Jeanne fled to the Huguenot city of [[La Rochelle]]. From here she conducted peace negotiations, ...
27: * Madeleine ([[1556]])
39: ==Related Topics== - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish ...
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... - 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". - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
2: ...pg|260px]] | caption = Sunflowers display bright yellow colors.}}
9: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = ''[[Helianthus]]''}}
12: ...al_simple | color = lightgreen | binomial_name = Helianthus annuus}}
15: ...rning to face the [[Sun]], a behavior known as [[heliotropism]].
18: ...k to [[Europe]] early in the [[16th century]]. ''Helianthus'' is from the [[Greek language|Greek]] for... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ... BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society has existed for much longer.
10: The conservative dates are not supported by any reliable absolute date for a span of about three mill...
27: ...aturally migrated to the Nile river where they developed a settled [[agriculture|agricultural]] [[econ...
31: The descendants of these people may well have begun Egyptian civilization in the Nile Val...
33: ...orial extent in the period called the New Empire (1567–1085 BC). - Senet (1763 bytes)
3: ...-[[27th century BC|2700 BC]]) (See external link below). Therefore, Senet is the oldest board game who...
7: ...e and the Egyptian belief in determinism, it was believed that a successful player was under the prote...
9: ...[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]] but with apparently less religious significance.
13: ... topic of some debate. Timothy Kendall and R.C. Bell are two Senet historians who have proposed (diff... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
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39: ...]] village named "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European sett...
41: ...b/pubsvs/faq.htm#01][http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/tennessee.html] - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...e is no evidence of this. [[Photius]], while severely criticizing his lapses into indecency, highly pr...
3: ...''Leucippe''. The fragment was first published in 1567, then in the ''Uranologion'' of [[Petavius]], wit... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
8: ...Cecil, Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
10: ... that his health during that time, as later, was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], ...
12: ...the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him "the young Lo...
14: ...Aristotle]] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious,...
18: ...ney and became habitually in debt. To support himself, he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn i... - 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. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
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9: ...]. Although he never travelled extensively, he developed an interest in [[geography]] as a means of ea...
12: ...ction and first used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of longitude to aid navigation by sea, as c...
14: ... map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]]
15: ...a collection of maps, and encouraged [[Abraham Ortelius]] to compile the first modern world atlas, ''[... - 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) - July 24 (8660 bytes)
5: *[[1567]] - [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]] is...
9: *[[1847]] - After 17 months of travel, [[Brigham Young]] leads 148 [[Mormon]] pioneers ...
12: *[[1901]] - [[O. Henry]] is released from prison in [[Austin, Texas]] after servi...
18: *[[1929]] - The [[Kellogg-Briand Pact]], renouncing [[war]] as an instr...
26: ...erpreted as support for [[Quebec independence]], delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian gov... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...metaphysics, [[guru]] ideal, and [[bhajan]]s) as well as [[Sufi|Sufi Islam]].
4: ...s being practised by either religion and hence a well-known saying of [[Guru Nanak]] is, "There is no ...
6: ... five baptised Sikhs were named Panj Pyare (Five Beloved Ones), who in turn baptised the Guru at his r...
8: ... gurus are also known to have documented their revelations.) This is one of the few scriptures in the ...
14: ...dash; that is, by moderating egoism and sensuous delights, to live in a balanced worldly manner, and b... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
1: ...|right|''Samuel de Champlain''<br>by Th鯰hile Hamel (1870)]]
3: ...ce to regain funding. This article covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importance to...
5: ==Early Travels==
7: ... on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called ''Des sauvages'' (The Savages).
9: ...604]] led by [[Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts]]. He helped found the [[Saint Croix Island, New Brunswick|... - History of Ancient Egypt (27975 bytes)
3: ... BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society has existed for much longer.
10: The conservative dates are not supported by any reliable absolute date for a span of about three mill...
27: ...aturally migrated to the Nile river where they developed a settled [[agriculture|agricultural]] [[econ...
31: The descendants of these people may well have begun Egyptian civilization in the Nile Val...
33: ...orial extent in the period called the New Empire (1567–1085 BC).
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