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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]]... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
11: ...n of the Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition. On [[April 1]], [[1560]] she named as...
13: ...sions to as little as 43, 38, or even fewer centimetres (17, 15, or fewer inches).
15: ...children, she was still vigorous and active. She retained her influence for more than twenty years in ...
17: ...avourite son, the duke of Anjou, to Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]], but that did not come about.
19: ...iled with the Protestants and allowed Coligny to return to court and to re-enter the council. Of this ... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
1: [[Image:JeanneIII.jpg|frame|right|Jeanne d'Albret]]
2: '''Jeanne d'Albret''' ([[January 7]] [[1528]] – [[June 9]] [[1...
10: In the first year of her reign, Jeanne d'Albret called a conference of beleaguered [[Huguenot]] m...
12: The power struggle between Catholics and Huguenots for control of the Fr...
14: ...m here she conducted peace negotiations, and in [[1570]] official talks began to marry Henry to the king... - 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". - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...hich part of Genesis is read and how it is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she ...
5: ...#256;ḏām in [[Tiberian Hebrew]], and آدم (ʾĀdam) in [[Arabic lang...
11: ...t|''Adam and Eve'', by [[English poetry|English poet]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[William Blake]] ([[1...
20: ... of Eden, making it possible for [[humanity]] to return to Paradise.
22: ...tation of how long a "year" is meant to be interpreted is the subject of much debate). [[Judaism]] hol... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ... evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society has existed for much longer.
27: ...cultural]] [[economy]] and more centralized [[society]] (see [[Nile#History|Nile: History]]). Evidence...
29: ...hat resulted from seasonal rains. The people who settled there must have realized the benefits of a mo...
31: ...ttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12495079];...
33: ...oh may or may not have actually existed and is sometimes indentified with Narmer (the last king of Dyn... - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ...health care costs and lost productivity. Major genetic changes in the virus have caused three influenz...
12: ... [[antigenic shift]] and present a new immune target to susceptible people. Populations tend to have m...
14: ...of influenza A virus are H1N1 and H3N2. (Yohannes et al., 2004)
16: ...r of isolation, and HA and NA subtype (Yohannes ''et al'' 2004) Examples of the nomenclature are A/Mos...
21: ... [[20th century]]. The most famous (and the most lethal) was the [[Spanish Flu]] [[pandemic]] (type A ... - 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...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - 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... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
6: ...been the mayor of [[Bordeaux]]. His mother, Antoniette de Lopez, came from a Spanish Jewish family, bu...
10: ...circ;teau de Montaigne, to which he moved back in 1570.
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... - 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... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
62: *[[Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] (1763 -1810)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ...ate of birth are unknown, but [[September 12]], [[1570]] in England seems likely, and he is presumed to ...
3: ...decided to return to England on the 31st. On the return voyage Hudson discovered what is now known as ...
7: ...s name. The Dutch would later claim the area and set up a colony as [[New Amsterdam]].
9: ...lag. This was part of the [[Navigation Acts]], a set of [[Mercantilism|mercantilist]] laws England had...
11: In [[1610]] Hudson managed to get backing for yet another voyage under the English flag; this time ... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...ndividual powered or unpowered vehicles linked together).
8: ... wheel support trucks. Fully loaded, the contact between each wheel and the rail is the space of about...
9: ...s), than does [[road]] transport. Furthermore, together with the sleepers, the rails distribute the we...
15: ...ompany]] has taken an innovative and creative marketing stance and have achieved profitability as a re...
17: ...ing to make considerable investment in order to meet new requirements for [[security]] in the face of ... - 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}} - Islam (36809 bytes)
4: == Etymology ==
6: ...ning "way of life" and/or "religion." [[Etymology|Etymologically]], it is derived from the same root a...
10: ...ible and the Torah have been forgotten, misinterpreted, or distorted by their followers. With that per...
12: ...vations of the teachings of certain of these prophets - notably [[Abraham]] - and therefore acknowledg...
22: #Belief in all the Prophets and Messengers (sent by God). - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...God's revelation to mankind, revealed to the Prophet [[Muhammad]] over a period of 23 years by the Ang...
6: ... not due to content dispute but due to different methods of counting; the sect founded by [[Rashad Kha...
10: ...zil or one juz' a day, respectively. A juz' is sometimes further divided into two [[hizb|ahzab]] (grou...
16: ...re vocabulary. Several generations after the prophet's death, many words used in the Qur'an had become...
18: ...s contend that the Qur'an is remarkable for its poetry and grace, and that its very literary perfectio... - Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
5: ...today [[Tunisia]], showing the mythic triumphant return from [[India]] of the [[Greek mythology|Greek]...
7: ...e Three Wise Men on camels following the star of Bethlehem.]]
11: ...to royal courts as far as Russia. Princess [[Henrietta von Nassau-Weilburg]] introduced the Christmas ...
19: ...] and in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], where the 20 [[metre|m]] tall main civic Christmas tree is an annual...
24: ...shearing also damages the highly attractive [[symmetry]] of natural trees. In the past, Christmas tree... - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
3: ... of the [[history of the Middle East]]. For more detailed information, see [[#related articles|article...
13: * Circa [[8350 BC]] ? [[Neolithic]] settlement at [[Jericho]]
16: * Circa [[8000 BC]]?Settlements at [[Nevali Cori]] in present-day [[Turke...
17: ... a very large [[Neolithic]] and [[Chalcolithic]] settlement in southern [[Anatolia]], is founded.
18: * Settlements at Sagalassos in present-day southwest Tu...
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