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  1. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
    7: ..., and he decided to try to get that [[gold]]. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 340 ...
    9: ...the west of present-day New Mexico. There he was met by disappointment. Cibola was nothing like the gr...
    11: ...as sent out to the mouth of the Colorado(?), to meet [[Hernando de Alarcón]] who would be shipping su...
    12: ...und villages around the [[Rio Grande]]. Coronado set up his winter quarters in one of them, [[Tiguex]]...
    14: ...n small amounts of gold could be found. Coronado returned to Tiguex, where his main force had remained...
  2. 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: ...under the direction of her governess, the [[Margaret Pole%2C Countess of Salisbury|Countess of Salisbu...
    19: ...marriage to her annulled. In [[1533]], Henry secretly married another woman, [[Anne Boleyn]]. Shortl...
  3. Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
    7: ...8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the r...
    9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, ...
    15: ...ut [[Duke of Albany]], a royal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died bef...
    24: ...rd to the altar and put her gently in the throne set up there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep h...
    28: ...child's head, where it rested on a circlet of velvet. The Cardinal steadied the crown and Lord Livings...
  4. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    2: ..._(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</sm...
    7: ..., '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor...
    9: ...I of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous...
    11: ...ouncil|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
    13: ...r of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
  5. Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
    2: ...the central figure of the [[Dutch School (music)|Netherlands]] style.
    6: ...ara]] hired him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
    8: ...in the Duke's name. While there he also wrote a setting of the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for five voice...
    10: ...ense fame, and although he was well known to the Netherlands court and his works were often performed ...
    14: .....but [[Heinrich Isaac|Isaac]] is better able to get along with his colleagues." His fame lasted long...
  6. Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
    9: ...a Frisius]] and [[Gaspar Myrica]]. They worked together from [[1535]] to [[1536]] to construct a terre...
    12: ... where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map of Europe ([[1554]]) and he tau...
    15: ...rors). Maps of [[France]], [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]] were added in [[1585]] and of the [[Bal...
    20: *''Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet'' by Nicholas Crane, ISBN 0805066241, Henry Holt ...
    22: ...sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura'' (Atlas, or Cosmographical Medi...
  7. Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
    1: ...]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who between [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Mexico]] and ...
    5: ...ven golden cities and take all of their gold. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 335 ...
    8: ...the west of present-day New Mexico. There he was met by disappointment. Cibola was nothing like the gr...
    10: ...und villages around the [[Rio Grande]]. Coronado set up his winter quarters in one of them, [[Tiguex]]...
    12: ...n small amounts of gold could be found. Coronado returned to Tiguex, where his main force had remained...
  8. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    1: ...ted below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
    16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
    32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
    33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
    52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]])
  9. History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
    6: ...ies advanced in medieval science are today [[obsolete]], and partly because of the [[stereotype]] of M...
    14: ...t number of different cultures that were not completely assimiliated by the Roman culture. Debilitated...
    16: ...n incomplete and posed serious problems of interpretation. Given the limited scientific advances from ...
    18: ...', or scientific education ([[arithmetic]], [[geometry]], [[astronomy]] and [[music]]). From the year ...
    29: ... by notable [[Scholastics]] such as [[Robert Grosseteste]], [[Roger Bacon]], [[Albertus Magnus]], and ...
  10. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
    3: ...mage:Coronado-Remington.jpg|thumb|right|Coronado Sets Out to the North, by [[Frederic Remington]], 186...
    5: ... what are now the southwestern [[United States]] between 1540 and 1542. Coronado had hoped to conquer ...
    11: ...ews|Jewish]] family. <ref> [http://pages.prodigy.net/bluemountain1/estrada1.htm estrada1<!-- Bot gener...
    14: ...t]], towards [[New Mexico]]. When Marcos de Niza returned, he told about a city of vast wealth, a gold...
    18: ...are not supported, and Coronado tells him not to let this news reach the ears of the men in his expedi...
  11. Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
    4: ...anking nobleman, [[Antonio de Mendoza]]. Cortés returned to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully bu...
    10: ... latter two were most commonly used during his lifetime, but the former shortened form has become comm...
    18: After two years, Cortés, tired of schooling, returned home to Medellín, much to the irritation of...
    20: ...ir description of a sixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life...
    26: ...ai, and Seville, listening to the tales of those returning from the Indies, who told of discovery and ...
  12. Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
    1: ...] and a surgeon at the University of [[Padua]] ([[1544]]-[[1559]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and h...
  13. Padua (12961 bytes)
    2: ... picturesque, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal ''piazze'', and many...
    7: ...e''. The new space was refrescoed by [[Nicolo' Miretto]] and [[Stefano da Ferrara]], working from [[14...
    9: ...vernors, with its great door, the work of [[Falconetto of Verona]], [[1532]].
    11: ..." ([[Erasmo of Narni | Erasmo da Narni]]), the Venetian general ([[1438]]-[[1441]]), which was cast in...
    15: ...rizio d'Acquapendente]], [[Galileo Galilei]], [[Pietro Pomponazzi]], [[Reginald Pole|Reginald, later C...
  14. Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
    9: ...d versions of original maps made by Ptolemy, or whether they were constructed by [[medieval]] [[Greek]...
    11: ...works. Although the term atlas was not in use in 1544, these works are now called "IATO" atlases - (Ita...
    13: ...is "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", contained 53 map-sheets covering the countries of the World. This work w...
    21: ...tus]] and [[Clymene]] (or Asia), brother of [[Prometheus]]. Atlas was punished by [[Zeus]] and made to...
    27: ...tlas was [[King Atlas]], a mythical King of [[Mauretania]], in [[Libya]]. This Atlas was a wise philos...

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