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- 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-... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset|Thomas]] (later Marquess of [[Dorset]]) and [[Richard Grey|Richard]].
10: ...rs]], began to be favored over him, he changed sides.
12: ...nd|Norfolk]]. Katherine had been widowed three times and was nearly 80 years old but very wealthy. Th...
16: ...Robert Stillington]], Bishop of Bath and Wells), testified that he had carried out the ceremony.
18: ...ir safety. This may have been to protect themselves against jealous courtiers who wanted their own ba... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...didness and personal flavor, he takes mankind and especially himself as the object of study. He was a ...
6: ...Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised Protestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with ...
8: ...e was at the court of [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]]. While serving at the Bordeaux Parlement, h...
12: ...;teau where in his library he began work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]].
16: ...[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and the Protestant [[Henry of Navarre]]. - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ..., as well as a very important center of commerce (especially the [[spice trade]]) and [[art]] in the [...
6: ...568]]. In the mid-[[8th century]], the Venetians resisted the empire-building efforts of [[Peppin III|...
8: ...rsenal]] was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of the [[Brenner pass]] from Verona in...
10: ...nd the citizens of such towns as [[Bergamo]], [[Brescia]], and [[Verona, Italy|Verona]] rallied to the...
12: ...sport the men, supplies, and (especially) war horses. - Hank Aaron (72330 bytes)
1: ...League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] appearances.
3: ==Pre-professional Career==
4: ...a poor area of town populated mostly by [[minorities]]. His family later moved to a better part of Mo...
6: ...gers|Dodgers]] but did not get to show his abilities to the scouts there. He then started playing with...
8: ... [[1952 in sports|1952]] [[Negro League World Series]]. - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
3: ...[[geographic]] features and [[political]] boundaries, many often feature [[geopolitical]], [[social]],...
5: ==Atlases throughout history==
7: The earliest atlases were not called by that name at the time of their...
9: ...e first edition was published in [[Bologna]] in [[1477]] and was illustrated with a set of 27 maps, thou...
11: ...embled to Order) or more frequently "Lafreri atlases" after one of the leading publishers of the perio...
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