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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
21: *[[George Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|Britis...
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
94: *[[George Everest]], (1790-1866)
111: *[[Vasco da Gama]], (1469?-1524), [[Portuguese]] navigator, first to reach [[Indi...
148: ...], (1899-2001) [[Norwegians|Norwegian]]-[[Danish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
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...
25: ... studied [[cartography]] with his brother Bartolomeo. Christopher received almost no formal education;... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
44: ...slands|Falkland (Malvinas) Islands]] and [[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]]
52: ...ain rich in silver – reached Spain around [[1524]]. Since then, the Spaniards named the river of S...
124: About 3 million people live in the city of Buenos Aires, and roughly ...
130: ...y large middle class. Many of these middle class people work in industry, own [[small business]]es, or...
145: == Geography == - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ...m [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local peoples, the [[Iberians]], forming the [[Celt-Iberian...
27: ...{{ref|independence}} while a war raged between [[Leon]] and [[Castile]]. Henry died and his son, [[Afo...
31: ...ictorious John was then acclaimed as king by the people.
40: ... expansion possible and led to great advances in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed b...
44: ...e of neo-gothic, neo-manueline, neo-islamic, and neo-renaissance styles. (courtesy IPPAR)]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
42: ...tsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video game]] music composer
74: *[[Philip Yeo|Yeo, Philip]], industrial and systems engineer
75: *[[F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas, Edward]] (1901-1964), [[World War II|WW2]...
76: *[[Michelle Yeoh|Yeoh, Michelle]] (born 1962), Chinese actor - 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]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
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 ...
23: In [[1524]] [[Pope Clement VII]] sent him to [[Spain]] as '...
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... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His theory affected many other aspects of human life as we...
16: ...His collection of observations and ideas on the theory started in [[1504]].
20: ...e up with one of the earliest iterations of the theory now known as [[Gresham's Law]]. During these ye...
24: ...c Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Olsztyn]] o...
26: ... world, and to send me as soon as possible your theories about the Universe, together with the tables ... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
22: ..., and thus a stimulus to trade, industry, and burgeoning urban growth in fields as diverse as banking ...
28: ...om. Unfortunately for the church, the crisis of theology beginning with [[William of Ockham]] in the f...
30: ...l. Thus, the ensuing revival of [[Augustinian]] theology, stating that man cannot be saved by his own ...
36: ...ar reformism. In a sense, the campaign by [[Pope Leo X]] to raise funds to rebuild the [[Saint Peter's...
42: ...ra”, making the Bible the sole measure of theology, that made the Reformation a reaction against... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...dslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have the potential to generate ...
6: ...formed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people are more familiar). However, since they are no...
10: ...olcano|volcanic eruption]], [[landslide]] or [[meteorite impact]]. However, the most common cause is a...
28: ...metre. This is often practically unnoticeable to people on ships. The energy of a tsunami passes throu...
34: ...n the nature of the source and the surrounding [[geography]]. - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...ds|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanist]] and [[theology|theologian]].
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...
23: ... ''De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio'' ([[1524]]), he analyzes with great cleverness and good hu...
38: ...m he represents throughout as the servant of the people. - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
7: ...vanni da Verrazano]] explored the same coast in [[1524]])–and sailing a distance up the [[Hudson R... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ...46]]) was a [[German people|German]] [[theology|theologian]] and an [[Augustinian]] [[monasticism|monk...
28: ...rred upon Martin Luther the degree of Doctor of Theology [Brecht, Vol. 1, pp. 126-27].
31: ...ore God. Terms like ''[[penance]]'' and ''[[righteousness]]'' took on new meaning. Soon, Luther's st...
41: ...l see]] was a violation of [[canon law]]. Pope [[Leo X]], needing money for the rebuilding of [[St. Pe...
43: ...ing of indulgences) as an abuse and asked for a theological disputation. Soon they were widely copied... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political...
12: ...ermania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [...
19: ...ed the whole map of Europe. The Eastern Germanic peoples destroyed the Western Roman Empire, but the s...
33: ...n Italy and the territories of all west Germanic peoples, including the Saxons and the Bajuwari (Bavar... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political...
12: ...ermania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [...
19: ...ed the whole map of Europe. The Eastern Germanic peoples destroyed the Western Roman Empire, but the s...
33: ...n Italy and the territories of all west Germanic peoples, including the Saxons and the Bajuwari (Bavar... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...cessful strategy of allying with some indigenous peoples against others. He also used a native woman, ...
10: ...ages in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
14: ...her parents Diego Altamirano and wife and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro Altamirano, first cousin of P...
49: ...cas|native American]] tribes such as the [[Nahua people|Nahuas]] of [[Tlaxcala (Nahua state)|Tlaxcala]...
55: ... thus renaming the city Mexico City. From 1521 to 1524, Cortés personally governed Mexico. - September 23 (7397 bytes)
38: *AD [[1158]] - [[Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany|Geoffrey Plantagenet]], [[Duke of Brittany]]
39: *[[1598]] - [[Eleonore Gonzaga]], wife of [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman...
45: *[[1852]] - [[William Stewart Halsted]], surgeon (d. [[1922]])
51: *[[1897]] - [[Walter Pidgeon]], actor (d. [[1984]])
89: ...573]] - [[Azai Hisamasa]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1524]])
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