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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
12: ...ased the new name on the Latin form of Vespucci's first name, taking the feminine form ''America''. (S...
14: ...y 10th]] of that year). Little is known about the final voyage.
16: ...etermined his longitude celestially on August 23, 1499, while on this voyage. But his claim is clearly f...
22: ...the European public learned about America for the first time; its existence became generally known thr... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ...ber 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the courts of several [[France|French]] k...
5: ...France|King Henri II]]. Although King Henri II fulfilled his duty by marrying the noble foreigner [[Ca...
9: ... that the King trusted her to write many of his official letters and to even sign them jointly with th... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
11: ...on" (הים התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adap...
67: The first solid evidence for the ancient dessication of ... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
3: ... official name, avoids choosing one of the four official languages. The abbreviation is similarly used...
13: official_languages = [[German language|German]], [[Fr...
46: ...tory in a war against the [[Swabian League]] in [[1499]] amounted to de facto independence from the [[Ho...
48: ...lity acquired during the earlier wars, suffered a first setback in [[1515]] with the Swiss defeat in t...
63: ...n invasion was never initiated. Modern historical findings, such as the research done by the [[Bergier... - Israel (51605 bytes)
13: official_languages = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Ara...
60: ...d contains many locations of great spiritual significance in Judaism, Christianity, and [[Islam]]. Sta...
73: ...ficant [[Immigration to Israel|immigration]]. The first waves of Jewish immigration to the then Turkis...
78: ...e one government. The policy was viewed as a significant defeat for the Jewish side, as it placed seve...
83: ...ecided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. Fulfillment of the [[1947 UN Partition Plan]] would hav... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...both the [[Old World]] and the [[New World]]. The fiber is most often spun into [[yarn|thread]] and us...
3: ...eld.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
4: ...interlocked form is ideal for [[spinning]] into a fine [[yarn]].
9: ...co|Mexican]] caves (cotton cloth and fragments of fiber interwoven with [[feather]]s and [[fur]]) whic...
13: ...ople in the region, familiar only with [[animal]] fibers ([[wool]] from [[sheep]]), could only imagine... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
12: ...nci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never sufficiently admired and a wonderful grace in all his a...
16: ...urviving legal records of the [[Podest? and the Officers of the Night.
18: ...in the sixteenth century. Rocke reports that in a fictional dialogue on ''l'amore masculino'' (male lo...
23: ...her friends who are now figures renowned in their fields, or for their influence on history; these inc...
29: From around 1482 to 1499 [[Ludovico Sforza]], [[Duke]] of [[Milan]] [http:... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
10: ...n his duties would have included representative offices for the court; for instance, he accompanied hi...
13: Urbino was at that time the most refined and elegant among [[Italy|Italian]] courts, a ...
15: ...eclogue ''Tirsi'' in which allusively, beyond the figures of three shepherds, he originally depicts th...
21: ...[[1521]] Pope Leo X conceded him the ''tonsura'' (first sacerdotal ceremony) and here begins Castiglio...
25: ... letter in which the nuncius used hard terms to define the ''Sacco'' and Valdes' comments. - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
1: ...a [[1500]], in the robes of a Florentine public official]]
3: ...omedic [[playwright]]. Machiavelli was also a key figure in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial ...
6: ...[Image:Macchiavelli01.jpg|thumb|Statue at the [[Uffizi]]]]
7: [[Image:Firenze.PalVecchio.Machiavelli.JPG|thumb|200px|Bust ...
10: ... his son, [[Cesare Borgia]], and these characters fill a large space of ''The Prince''. - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: '''Giovanni Caboto''' (c. [[1450]] – [[1499]]), known as '''''John Cabot''''' in [[English la...
4: ...the first [[Europe]]ans since the [[Viking]]s verifiably known to have done so.
10: ...]]'s discovery of 'the Indies' that he decided to find a route to the west for himself. He went with h...
12: ...treyes, regions or provinces of the heathen and infidelles, whatsoever they bee, and in what part of t...
22: ...nce the Vikings: [[Christopher Columbus]] did not find the mainland until his third voyage, in [[1498]... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
2: ...a]] while sailing for [[Spain]]. Cabrillo was the first [[Europe|European]] explorer to navigate the c...
10: ...his venture (two or three ships), and stood to profit from any trade or treasure.
14: A notary's official report of Cabrillo's inconclusive expedition ...
16: The final mystery about Cabrillo is his place of burial....
19: ... and offering views of both San Diego and the Pacific Ocean. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]])
256: *[[Thomas Fincke]] (Denmark, [[1561]] - [[1656]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}}
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