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- Paraguay (10959 bytes)
1: ... "this side" and "guay", meaning "river". The expression in Guarani is thought to refer solely to Asun...
22: |'''[[President of Paraguay|President]]'''
26: |[[List of countries by area|Ranked 58th]] <br> 406,750 [[square kilom...
29: |[[List of countries by population|Ranked 100th]]<br> 6,191,368<br> 15...
46: |'''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]''' - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
1: ...[[1540]]), [[Florentine]] [[historian]] and [[statesman]]. A friend and critic of [[Niccolchiavell...
3: ...ll as his ''Maxims'' (''Ricordi'') Guicciardini presents a worldview that is more skeptical and more c...
18: * ''Storia d'Italia'' (1537-1540) - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...ost importantly [[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed churches]], and [[Anabaptist]]s. It also led to the [[Coun...
5: ...lonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schism|Great Schism]]
10: ...hilipp Melanchthon]], [[Indulgences]], ''[[95 Theses]]'', [[Nicolaus Von Amsdorf]]
20: ...tion with economic, political and demographic forces that contributed to a growing disaffection with t...
22: ...un in the thirteenth century was carried to a successful conclusion. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ... [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[cartographer]] of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] n...
9: ...uced a map of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] ([[1537]]), another map of the world ([[1538]]) and a map...
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. - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. Florence is the capital of the regio...
3: ...[Europe]]an trade and finance, the city is sometimes considered the birthplace of the [[Italian Renais...
5: [[Image:FlorenceSymbol-giglio.png|thumb|right|127px|"Giglio di Fire...
9: ...e:Florence_bridges.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The bridges of Florence at sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo]...
17: Florence's recorded history began with the establishment in [[59 BC]] of a settlement ("Florent... - 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) - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
4: ...hFacade.jpg|thumb|right|Serlio's church facade of 1537 crystallized a format that lasted into the 18th c...
6: ... the air in the 1530s: several contemporary churches compete for primacy: but Serlio's woodcut put the...
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10: ...itecture]]. Later Serlio's book was in the libraries of Sir [[Christopher Wren]] and Robert Woods, the...
12: ...provided such a useful repertory of classical images that it was reprinted in 1563 and in 1572. - Germanium (8776 bytes)
20: | [[periodic table series|Series]]
26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
32: ...gn="center" bgcolor="#cccc99" | '''Atomic properties'''
58: ...="center" bgcolor="#cccc99" | '''Physical properties'''
70: | 13.63 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre per mole|m<sup>3<... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...mon descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]], which uses [[genome|genomic DNA]] [[bioinformatics|analysis]...
5: ...iest known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who cla...
7: ... translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: ...fessor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life know...
11: ...ist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628&n...
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