Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below 10 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...t utility vehicle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For th...
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...fonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...d that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...hout running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the...
5: ...s likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniv...
9: ...ficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...s. This monarch is known by a variety of other names including ''Isabel I of Castile'' and ''Isabel La...
5: ...Count de Barcelos and his wife Leonor Alvim, Countess of Barcelos.
8: ...by Inez Perez, and his wife Beatriz Pereira, countess da Barcellos.
16: ...ear on a United States coin, an 1893 [[United States Commemorative Coin|commemorative]] quarter, celeb...
18: The regime of [[Francisco Franco]] claimed the prestige of the Catholic Monarchs. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
3: ...so known as Roger de la Pasture, Rogier de Bruxelles, (c. [[1400]] - [[June 18]], [[1464]]) was a [[Fl...
9: ...t his visit shows no result on his style, which owes nothing to Italian models; and he returned to [[B...
15: ...n the composition. [[Hans Memling]] was his greatest pupil.
18: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1440]]), [[Madrid]]
19: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1443]]), Sint-Pieterskerk... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...England acted as a province (or a group of provinces) within the Anglo-French unit" that was both batt...
5: ...ts in the early growth of nations and new monarchies. It is often viewed as one of the most significan...
8: ...gland around 150 years later in the [[Norman Conquest]] of [[1066]], defeating the [[Anglo-Saxon]] lea...
10: ...art of the nobility to gain wealth and increase prestige.
13: ...ip, count of Evreux]], who became [[List of Navarrese monarchs|king consort Philip III of Navarre]]. - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: ...ock printing already in use there. By combining these elements into a production system, he allowed fo...
9: ...he time, but due to the complex nature of the Chinese writing system, printed material was not as abun...
11: ... whether Gutenberg knew of these existing techniques or invented them independently. Some also claim D...
14: ...irst efforts enabled him to mass-produce indulgences, printed slips of paper sold by the Catholic Chur...
19: ...s the equivalent of approximately three years' wages for an average clerk, but it was significantly ch... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...r made [[England]] his base of operations and is best known as John Cabot for his explorations made un...
6: ...[Genoa]], others [[Gaeta]]. The date was around [[1451]], but he moved to [[Venice]] in his youth, and l...
10: ...to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes.
12: ..., regions or provinces of the heathen and infidelles, whatsoever they bee, and in what part of the wor...
16: ...land]] may have been found on (one of) these voyages. - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
31: | '''[[Rise of the Ottoman Empire|Establishment]]'''
43: ... center;" | Part of the [[History of Turkey]] series
45: ... the [[Osmanlı]] dynasty. In diplomatic circles it was often referred to as the ''[[Sublime Porte...
47: ...s were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites established modern [[Turkey]] during the [[Turkish W...
53: ...Eastern culture|East]] and the [[Western Culture|West]]. - Bosporus (3180 bytes)
3: ...uhisarı and Rumelihisarı. The depth varies from 36 to 124 meters in midstream.
6: ...stanbul]] (population at least 11 million) straddles it.
16: ...ford (river)|ford]]" or "ox passage"; the name comes from a [[Greek mythology|Greek myth]] about [[Io ...
18: ... today as [[Gallipoli]], and the Cimmerian Chersonesus, known today as the [[Crimea]].
20: ...gh: several international treaties have governed vessels using the waters. including the [[Montreux Co...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).