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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
1: [[Image:Cartier.png|thumb|200px|right|Jacques Cartier]]
3: '''Jacques Cartier''' ([[December 31]], [[1491]] – [[S...
5: ...arance in baptismal registers as godfather or witness.
7: No contemporary portrait of Jacques Cartier has been found and the most familiar port...
9: ...tained. Considering that Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous and hitherto unknown wa... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
4: ...d attention to [[Sweden]], where the mutinous nobles were already in arms against their unpopular king...
6: ...alk?g]], and Margaret was now the omnipotent mistress of three kingdoms.
10: ...eptember 1398, in exchange for commercial privileges.
12: ...d customs and be administered by its own dignitaries, as tending in her opinion to prevent the complet...
16: ...ined; the licence of the nobility was sternly repressed; the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway were treate... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ..., however, were in many cases reversed by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Ma...
13: ...se assertions that she was created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his ...
15: ...ives]] upon the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
17: ...iage treaty was signed; it provided that the Princess Mary should marry either Francis or his second s... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...ndash; [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because ...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Ma...
12: ...tland]], on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de G...
14: ...es could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...ary ascended the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the de... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
22: | '''[[President of Slovakia|President]]'''
29: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 126th]] <br> [[1 E10 m?|49,035 km?...
32: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 103rd]]<br> 5,379,455<br> 10...
41: ... Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+2)
49: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]''' - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...of the [[Prime Meridian]], about 434.5 km (270 miles) northeast of [[Venezuela]].
3: ...ted with large sugarcane estates and wide [[pastures]] with many good views to the sea.
5: ...try in the world. The island is a major tourist destination.
9: ...d the Salodoid-Barrancoid. For the next few centries, the Caribs—like the Arawak and the Salodoi...
11: ...ght resembled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom|None]]; [[English language|...
15: largest_city = [[London]] |
17: leader_titles = [[British monarchy|Queen]]<br>[[Prime Minister ...
18: leader_names = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth...
23: population_estimate_year = July 2003 | - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
9: Motto = Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes) |
11: LargestCity = [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]] |
31: HighestElev = Wheeler Peak, 13,161 ft, 4,014 |
33: LowestElev = Red Bluff Reservoir, 2,817 ft, 859 |
38: ...nguage|Spanish]] are officially recognized languages in the state. In [[Spain|European]] [[Spanish la... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
19: ...[Akira Yamaoka|Yamaoka, Akira]] (born 1968), Japanese composer
20: ...saki|Yamasaki, Minoru]] (1912-1986), [[United States|US]] [[architect]]
21: ...ant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...most important [[discovery (observation)|discoveries]] ever, and is the fundamental starting point of ...
8: ...n and the other sister, Katharina, married a businessman and city councillor, Barthel Gertner.
10: ...rara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
12: ...a, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''.
14: ...serve a lunar [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing ... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ... [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[cartographer]] of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] n...
9: ...ercator produced a map of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] ([[1537]]), another map of the world ([[153...
12: ...as compass courses could be marked as straight lines.
15: ...e took the word [[atlas (cartography)|atlas]] to describe a collection of maps, and encouraged [[Abrah...
17: ...atormuseum in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and work. - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
6: ...y-five, but he never seems to have worked as a priest, and monasticism was one of the chief objects of...
8: ...spending the rest of his life as an English [[professor]]. He stayed at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]]...
10: ...us]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Italian scholars than mi...
12: ...der the shelter of Swiss hospitality he could express himself freely and where he was surrounded by de... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
1: [[Image:AC2_desoto77.jpg|thumb|Hernando de Soto|Image provided by...
2: ...the southeast and midwest of today's [[United States|USA]].
5: ... sword. In [[1516]], he became commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de ...
6: ...d the treason and defeated Gonzales's army. As a result, Davilas leadership was secured and de Soto ga...
9: ...ntly though, his aim was to achieve a similar success as [[HernᮠCort鳝] in the defeat of the [[Azte... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
3: ...t his own deeds could not be as great, due to forces beyond his control.
5: ... termed ''Malhado'', or Island of Doom) but later escaped and eventually reached [[Mexico City]].
7: ...n there, but [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] had already appointed [[De Soto]] to lead the...
9: ...ld. Political intrigue against him caused his arrest and return to Spain in chains, in around [[1545]...
18: ...d Patrick Charles Pautz. University of Nebraska Press 2003. ISBN 080326416X (Many other editions) - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: ...Era, and were found near Nov頍esto nad Vᨯm. These ancient tools were made by the [[Clactonian|Clac...
7: ... the Pr鶴t cave near Bojnice and other nearby sites. Artifacts were discovered dating to the Paleolit...
9: ...re the most ancient evidence of commercial exchanges carried out between the [[Mediterranean]] and [[C...
11: ...pts at coloring. These shapes reveal a developed aesthetic sense.
13: ...inhabited for more than 800 years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨o... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...ica, centred on the [[Andes|Andean]] mountain ranges. The Inca empire proved short-lived: by [[1533]] ...
6: ...Quechua, although over seven hundred local languages were spoken. The Inca leadership encouraged the w...
9: ...gions between", which referred to the four provinces whose corners met at the empire's capital, [[Cusc...
13: == Origin stories ==
17: ...]] sent forth his four sons and four daughters to establish a village. Along the way, [[Sinchi Roca]] ... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...ary Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ... pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...d into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soon grew into a substantial force.
9: ...k]]s, which in turn were divided into [[commanderies]].
13: === Knights of Rhodes === - Computer display (4276 bytes)
1: ...ut how many are connected to a computer. Once an essential component of a [[computer terminal]], comp...
3: ==Technologies==
4: ...ision]], several different [[hardware]] technologies exist for displaying the actual image:
11: ...8ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a variety of [[refresh rate]]s.
13: The sharpness of a display is described by its [[dot pitch]]. In general, the lowe... - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...des]] mountains and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. It shares borders with [[Argentina]] to the east, [[Bolivia...
14: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]] |
18: leader_titles = [[President of Chile|President]] |
19: leader_names = [[Ricardo Lagos]] |
20: largest_city = [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]] |
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