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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
21: *[[George Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|Britis...
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Americas|America]] looking for a ...
94: *[[George Everest]], (1790-1866)
148: ...], (1899-2001) [[Norwegians|Norwegian]]-[[Danish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in [[Catalan]], ''Crist...
3: ...hington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round...
5: ...s of expeditions to the Americas by a variety of peoples throughout time; see '''[[Pre-Columbian trans...
11: ...ns, if not hundreds, of millions of [[indigenous people]]s, exploitation of the Americas by Europe, an...
21: ...e younger brothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
28: ...w|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon
34: *[[Georg Agricola|Agricola, Georgius]] (1490-1555)
35: ...ricola|Agricola, Mikael]], (1510-1557), Finnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish la...
37: *[[Martin Agricola|Agricola, Martin]], (1466-1506), German composer - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
37: ...500;א יגמר לעולם - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
4: ...ned control of the island. As a result, Ponce de Leon was named Governor of Puerto Rico in 1509. Ponce...
7: In 1506, upon the death of Christopher Columbus, who had ...
9: ...land to the north named [[Bimini]], and Ponce de Leon was searching for gold, slaves and lands to clai...
11: [[Image:Juan Ponce de Leon statue.jpg|thumb|left|Statue of Juan Ponce de Le...
14: ...ere Ponce de Leon is buried|200px|right|Ponce de Leon resting place]] - Americas (7154 bytes)
5: == Geographical Location and Status ==
6: ...s]] of [[Central America]] is usually considered geographically part of North America. The Americas a...
10: == Peoples of the Americas ==
13: ...term ''Americano'' is used to refer to things or people pertaining to the USA but the word ''Statunite...
23: ...on of [[Renaissance]] era voyagers, had died in [[1506]] (believing, to the end, that he'd discovered an... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
48: In [[1506]], pope [[Julius II]] engaged the [[Swiss Guard]]...
54: ...n]] conquered Switzerland and in [[1803]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] imposed a new constitution, largely ...
84: ...)]], and 1 from the [[Swiss People's Party|Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC)]]. This traditional distribu...
133: == Geography ==
134: ''Main article: [[Geography of Switzerland]]'' - Israel (51605 bytes)
73: ...subsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Shoah]], or [[the Holocaust|Holocaust...
78: ...accepted tentatively [http://www.multied.com/bio/people/BenGurion.html] by Zionist leader [[David Ben-...
96: ...ad a right to transit the [[Strait of Tiran]]. Moreover, the [[Egypt]]ian blockade prior to the [[195...
98: ...successful peace conferences (see ''[[#Geography|Geography]]'' below for more).
104: ...tate that is barred from joining any of the five geographical groupings that would make it eligible fo... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
7: *[[Francis Xavier|Xavier, Francis]], ([[1506]]-[[1552]]), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary]]
17: *[[George Xiphilinus|Xiphilinus, George]], patriarch of Constantinople - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ...sup>th</sup> century]], killing many millions of people. The name comes from the old medical belief in...
12: ...] and present a new immune target to susceptible people. Populations tend to have more resistance to i...
16: ...y a standard nomenclature specifying virus type, geographical location where first isolated, year of i...
21: ... to [[1919]] and is believed to have killed more people in total than [[World War I]]. Lesser flu pand...
39: ...u [[Pandemic|pandemics]] have killed millions of people. - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
12: ... Construction started under [[Pope Julius II]] in 1506 and was completed in [[1615]] under [[Pope Paul V...
22: ...ter (almost as large as the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]]), rising to 120 metres above the floor. In the...
93: ... the entrance are the monuments to [[Pope Leo XI|Leo XI]] and [[Pope Innocent XI|Innocent XI]] followe...
97: ...he bronze used to make it was taken from the Pantheon. Underneath the baldachin is the traditional tom... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian pai...
69: *[[George Ault]] ([[1891]]-[[1948]])
76: *[[Constantine Andreou]] ([[1917]]-)
83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
95: *[[George Barker (painter)|George Barker]] ([[1882]]-[[1965]]) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
10: ... plague that year, and by [[Antoine Brumel]] in [[1506]], who stayed until the disbanding of the chapel ...
16: ...e; as such Josquin is seen as someone who simultaneously brought together most of the contemporary tre... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
23: ...ΚΗΦΑΣ'''</small><br>(Simeon Kephas)
343: | '''[[Pope Leo I the Great]]'''<br><small>Saint Leo</small>
344: | Papa '''Leo''' Magnus, <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
514: | '''[[Pope Deusdedit]]'''<br><small>(Adeodatus)</small>
549: | '''[[Pope Theodore I]]''' - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
8: ...Peter's original name of Simon or שמעון comes from the [[Hebrew language]]...
23: ...u are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and take you where you do n...
52: ...s feet, was interred with special honor. Some archeologists propose that these are the actual remains ... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpeg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci]]
2: ...masterly paintings, such as ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo)|The Last Supper]]'' and ''[[Mona Lisa]]''. ...
7: Leonardo was born in [[Anchiano]], near [[Vinci, Ital...
9: ...ost authorities therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not us...
11: ...ear old Leonardo as an apprentice. In this role, Leonardo also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
15: In [[1506]] Castiglione wrote (and played together with Cos...
19: ... of Novellata, a county near Pesaro. When [[Pope Leo X]] was elected, Castiglione was sent to Rome as ...
21: ...r, this time for Mantuan Dukes. In [[1521]] Pope Leo X conceded him the ''tonsura'' (first sacerdotal ...
24: On the other side, quite outrageously, Alonso de Valdes (brother of Juan de Valdes ...
36: ...s personality, but also details about the famous people he met and frequented, or about his diplomat a... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
19: ...[[Lucian]], which was published in [[Paris]] in [[1506]].
39: ...n parliament and proclaiming the opinion of the theologians at Oxford and Cambridge that the marriage ... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...as also a key figure in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial to European statecraft during the [[...
12: ...maintained his innocence throughout. When [[Pope Leo X]] became [[pontiff]] in [[1513]], himself a mem...
25: ...e can now see what it actually means: similar to Leonardo performing vivisections, interested with "ho...
27: ... American to call such a position a "political rodeo" where one does not know if a Player politically ...
35: ...y and analogizes them to situations in contemporaneous Italian politics. (As an example, he compares ... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...ds|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanist]] and [[theology|theologian]].
10: ... rewards of independent literary activity. From [[1506]] to [[1509]] he was in Italy. He spent part of ...
14: ...d with this. He saw himself as a preacher of righteousness. It was this lifelong conviction that guide...
17: ...ally said. Erasmus dedicated his work to [[Pope Leo X]] as a patron of learning, and he regarded this...
38: ...m he represents throughout as the servant of the people.
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