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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
5: ...ily of mariners and improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a l...
13: ...ities of gold and other riches"). In [[1534]] he set sail looking for a western passage to [[Asia]]. H...
17: ...ousand Hurons came to the edge of the river to greet the Frenchmen. The site of their arrival has bee...
19: ...rival in Stadacona as it was by then too late to return to France. Cartier and his men prepared for w...
21: During this winter, Cartier compiled a sort of gazetteer which included several pages on the manner of... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed ...
13: ... normally only given to a [[Prince of Wales]], sometimes leading to false assertions that she was crea...
15: ...e|Greek]], [[science]], and [[music]]. In July [[1520]], when scarcely four and a half years old, she e...
19: ...marriage to her annulled. In [[1533]], Henry secretly married another woman, [[Anne Boleyn]]. Shortl... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
4: ...n metal or chiselled into stone and the forms of letters used in them is called [[epigraphy]]. Epigrap...
12: ...C., under the famous [[Qin Shi Huangdi]], who perpetrated the "burning of the books", the Prime Minist...
14: ...haracters were used sometimes phonetically and sometimes ideographically. Using the kanji manyogana as...
76: * [http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/Chinese-symbols-customized.html Chinese ...
90: Arabic/Persian calligraphy is associated with geometric [[Islamic]] art (the [[Arabesque]]) on the wal... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
10: ...he [[Sistine Chapel]], begun in [[1508]] and completed in [[1514]].
12: ...issance]] painter [[Raffaello Santi]] ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), who painted full-scale cartoons as precursors... - March (3907 bytes)
12: *Names for march in some other modern languages, etymologically equivalent :
18: ... of [[Gustav I of Sweden|Gustav Vasa]]'s run in [[1520]].
19: ...end tyranny and oppression. See [http://www.harriettubman.com/] and [http://www.state.ny.us/governor/...
27: ...hristianity]], [[Easter]] occurs on a [[Sunday]] between [[March 22]] and [[April 25]], inclusive.
31: *March's [[flower]] is the [[violet (plant)|violet]]. - Raphael (3466 bytes)
2: ...83]] and died on his 37th birthday, [[April 6]] [[1520]] (see the note below about earlier confusion abo...
4: ...n [[Urbino]], he studied in [[Perugia]] under [[Pietro Perugino]]; but after moving to [[Florence, Ita...
10: ...[[Pope Leo X]] he was chief architect of [[Saint Peter's Basilica]] in [[1514]] and he was named as a ...
12: ...dle (said Fuseli); we hear him stammer; but propriety rocked the cradle, and character formed his lips...
21: ...d until 62 years after his death, and it was not retrospective. The [[Julian Calendar]] applies to hi... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...ne]] [[political philosopher]], [[musician]], [[poet]], and romantic comedic [[playwright]]. Machiavel...
10: ...work ''The Prince'' from the European leaders he met. His first mission was in [[1499]] to [[Caterina ...
12: ...iavelli and sent him into [[exile]]. Machiavelli returned to [[Sant'Andrea in Percussina]], where he d...
21: ... here is why: "The ends justify the means", is sometimes (all too often!!) attributed to him but this ...
23: ...ort and a historical Novum clearly distinguishes between the two and actually divorces them. '''Politi... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
10: * [[Martin Luther]], [[Johann Tetzel]], [[Philipp Melanchthon]], [[Indulgences]], '...
11: * ''[[Exsurge Domine]]'', [[Diet of Worms]] ([[1521]]), [[Peasants' War]]
16: ...ation in [[France]] -- [[Huguenot]]s, [[Pierre Viret]]
20: ...sually yields a lot of new thinking as to how society should be organized. This was the case leading u...
22: ...ompetitive [[overproduction]], and heightened competition to maximize economic advantage, contributed ... - Nubia (8928 bytes)
5: ...e [[Nuba Mountains]] in South [[Kordofan]]. A variety ([[Birgid]]) was spoken (at least until 1970) no...
13: ...e pottery of A-Group and C-Group, so it may be a return of the ousted Group-As, or an internal revival...
15: ...ds. By the end of the reign of [[Thutmose I]] in 1520 BC all of northern Nubia had been annexed.
23: ...north gene flow through the Nile Valley. {{ref|genetic}} Similarly, linguistic evidence suggests that ...
26: ...ngdoms replaced it: northernmost was [[Nobatia]] between the first and second cataract of the [[Nile R... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ... the [[Indus Valley Civilization]], which peaked between the [[26th century BC|2600 BC]] and the [[20t...
20: ...ered out by the European powers. Initial rivalry between the French and the English companies finally ...
26: ...f the country. Nonetheless, it has held itself together as a [[secular]] democracy. India has unresolv...
36: ... called the Harappan civilization, which thrived between [[2800 BC|2800 BCE]] and [[1800 BC|1800 BCE]]...
38: ..., these difficult conditions were also a great asset to the development of its early civilizations. Th... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...18 members of the crew and one ship of the fleet returned to Spain in [[1522]], having circumnavigated...
11: ...ermission, he lost his command and was forced to return to Portugal.
24: ...int [[captain]]s-general, would receive one-twentieth of all profits and they and their heirs would ga...
34: ... from sailing, but on [[September 20]], Magellan set sail from Sanl?de Barrameda with 270 men.
37: ...rrived at the [[Cape Verde]] Islands, where they set course for Cape St. Augustine in [[Brazil]]. On [... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...x130;mparatorluğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
45: ...as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empi...
53: ...[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[Hu...
55: ... a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestants]] were helped by th...
61: ...h in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 1876 etc.). Socially, the advent of nationalism and the y... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ...ns and church bodies). His call to the Church to return to the teachings of the [[Bible]] resulted in ...
19: ...ing risen from the [[peasantry]], his father was determined to see his son ascend to [[civil service]]...
23: ... [[lightning bolt]] struck near to him as he was returning to school. Terrified, he cried out, "Help,[...
26: ... to serve others through prayer for their souls. Yet peace with God escaped him. He devoted himself to...
28: ... Bachelor's degree in the ''[[Sentences]]'' by [[Peter Lombard]] (the main textbook of theology in the... - Argon (6952 bytes)
20: {{Elementbox_ionizationenergies4 | 1520.6 | 2665.8 | 3931 }}
26: {{Elementbox_magnetic | nonmagnetic }}
32: ...ntbox_isotopes_decay | mn=37 | sym=Ar | na=[[synthetic radioisotope|syn]] | hl=35 [[day|d]] | dm=[[Ele...
34: ...=[[1 E9 s|269]] [[year|y]] | dm=[[beta emission|β<sup>-</sup>]] | de=0.565 | pn=39 | ps=[[potass...
36: ...ic radioisotope|syn]] | hl=32.9 [[year|y]] | dm=β<sup>-</sup> | de=0.600 | pn=42 | ps=[[potassium... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ... the [[Indus Valley Civilization]], which peaked between the [[26th century BC|2600 BC]] and the [[20t...
20: ...ered out by the European powers. Initial rivalry between the French and the English companies finally ...
26: ...f the country. Nonetheless, it has held itself together as a [[secular]] democracy. India has unresolv...
36: ... called the Harappan civilization, which thrived between [[2800 BC|2800 BCE]] and [[1800 BC|1800 BCE]]...
38: ..., these difficult conditions were also a great asset to the development of its early civilizations. Th... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...stan]], and among the earliest civilizations altogether. Ancient Elam lay to the east of [[Sumer]] an...
7: ==Etymology==
13: ...l, as [[Indus script|Harappan pictographs]] have yet to be deciphered. Several stages of the language ...
17: ...Elamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
19: .... [[4000 BC]], and during its history fluctuated between subjection to Mesopotamian and Elamite power.... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
5: ...tholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]. He was sold in 1520 to Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, a [[Spanish nobi...
8: ...me the first person born in Africa known to have set foot in what is now the [[continental United Stat...
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