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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...n area of 1256 km? (485 sq. miles). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 ...
15: ...s formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neighbor [[Niteró©, f...
17: The exact place of Rio's foundation is at the feet of now world famous Sugar Loaf mountain (Pã¯de-A...
23: ...Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his new empire, yet the city region was losing importance - economic ...
25: ...ital. Though many thought it was [[campaign]] [[rhetoric]], Kubitschek managed to have [[Bras�a]] bu... - 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]]... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
3: *[[Sin Ai|Ai, Sin]], poet
5: *[[Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
9: ...], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acadé©e franç¡©se
11: *[[Conrad Aiken|Aiken, Conrad]], (1889-1973), poet
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player - 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... - 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". - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
5: ...e elevation of Santa Fe is 2,132 metres (6,996 feet), compared with 1655.4 m for [[Denver, Colorado]]...
7: ...ry houses in the city are built from lumber, concrete blocks, and other materials but with stucco surf...
9: ...iques, and [[Art gallery|galleries]] line the streets of the city center and Canyon Road.
11: ...tinuing drought conditions and a widening divide between locals and recent arrivals. Still, art and to...
13: ...en Santa Feans burn [[Zozobra]], a fifty-foot puppet also called "Old Man Gloom." - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress...
54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
23: *[[Riza Abbasi]] ([[1565]]-[[1635]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
4: ...have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes...
6: ...taly]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus...
21: ...wspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint Peter</small>
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ... [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the two were not yet distinct) and [[alchemist]]. He had [[Uraniborg]]...
8: ...he Latinised form Tycho at around age fifteen (sometimes written Tÿcho). He was born at his famil...
10: ...d to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childless uncle an...
12: ... his uncle, he studied law but also studied a variety of other subjects and became interested in [[ast...
14: ... others. There are just as many measurements and methods as there are astronomers and all of them disa... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...el's ''The Painter and The Connoisseur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
3: ...ether the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] town of [[Breda (Netherlands)|Breda]] or the [[Belgium|Belgian]] town ...
5: ... soon after, and then returned to Antwerp before settling in [[Brussels]] permanently 10 years later. ...
7: He was the father of [[Pieter Brueghel the Younger]] and [[Jan Brueghel the E...
11: ... religious [[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of win... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...er]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause ...
7: ...ia]], the son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier. In [[1565]] he took the name Giordano on becoming a [[Domin...
9: ...may have been disguised [[Hermes Trismegistus|Hermetic]] tracts. The writings attributed to [[Hermes T...
19: In [[1583]], he went to [[England]] with letters of recommendation from Henry III. He sought a...
21: ... whose reports to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spy master, have been found in surviving recor... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
6: ...been the mayor of [[Bordeaux]]. His mother, Antoniette de Lopez, came from a Spanish Jewish family, bu...
10: Montaigne married in 1565; he had five daughters, but only one survived chi...
12: ...ous edition of Boétie's works. In 1571 he retired to the Château where in his library he ...
18: ...nd Italy, partly in search for a cure. He kept a detailed journal recording various episodes and regio...
20: ...returned and served until 1585, again moderating between Catholics and Protestants. The [[plague]] bro... - 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... - 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]]) - Malta (18511 bytes)
10: ...align=center width="140px" | ([[Flag of Malta|In Detail]])
21: |[[Valletta]]
48: |[[Central European Time|CET]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Cen...
53: |'''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
69: ...ay, of which the oldest is ''Barons of Djar il Bniet and Buqana''. - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...wear wooden crosses, half a metre long by half a metre wide, around their necks. Although Christians w...
9: Together with the [[Knights Templar]], who were formed ...
15: ...e their new home. His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309...
17: ... Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
19: ...h the survivors were allowed to leave Rhodes and retreated to the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. In exchange, ... - 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... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
9: ...wiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of lif...
11: ...nymus Fabricius|Fabricius]] (1537–1619), [[Petrus Severinus]] (1580–1656), [[William Harve...
17: ...735). He is best known for his introduction of a method of modern classification; he created systemati...
19: ...n lower case and an author label and publication details have to be added.
21: ...used, sometimes with one additional adjective, sometimes with another, so that no true names were fixe... - December 9 (7837 bytes)
14: ...e actress, [[journalist]], and a leading [[suffragette]], founded the [[feminist]] daily [[newspaper]]...
22: ...States]] [[nuclear weapon]] secrets for the [[Soviet Union]]
24: *[[1958]] - [[John Birch Society]] founded.
25: *[[1960]] - ''[[Coronation Street]]'' first airs on televisions across the [[United...
39: *[[1608]] - [[John Milton]], English poet, writer (d. [[1674]])
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