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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)
1: ...<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in [[Catalan]], ''Crist...
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... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
14: ...Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
35: ...nnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
37: *[[Martin Agricola|Agricola, Martin]], (1466-1506), German composer
50: ...ilio]], (1869-1964), [[Philippines]] independence fighter - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...hool's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmospher...
17: ... a new Judge Advocate. Hannah was executed by a [[firing squad]] before the judges had even found her ...
21: After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were info...
28: ...s sang it and this song ends some versions of the film ''[[Schindler's List]]'':
37: ...500;א יגמר לעולם - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...tment of the Spanish Crown. He is regarded as the first [[Europe]]an known to have visited what is now...
4: ...Tainos to work in the mines and to construct fortifications. The Tainos subsequently died in great num...
7: ...is rights. Ponce de León was then removed from office in 1512 and felt his good name had been damaged...
9: ...im and govern for Spain, all of which he hoped to find at Bimini and other islands. The story of Ponce... - Americas (7154 bytes)
6: ...of the land mass located to the east of the [[Pacific Ocean]] and the west of the [[Atlantic Ocean]], ...
8: ... five rings of the [[Olympic flag]] represent the five parts of the world, with a single ring represen...
13: ...d States'', while it is rare to use the more specific ''US-Amerikaner''. In [[Italy]] the term ''Ameri...
23: ...on of [[Renaissance]] era voyagers, had died in [[1506]] (believing, to the end, that he'd discovered an...
25: ...[[Newfoundland]] in [[1497]]. Supposedly, Bristol fishermen had been visiting the coast of North Ameri... - 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: ...lects this state, listing the eight "Old Cantons" first, with the city states preceding the founding c...
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... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
7: *[[Francis Xavier|Xavier, Francis]], ([[1506]]-[[1552]]), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary]] - Influenza (10335 bytes)
14: ...y one H subtype and one N subtype have been identified for influenza B virus. At present, the most com...
16: ...pecifying virus type, geographical location where first isolated, year of isolation, sequential number...
18: ... or [[pandemic]]s. There is no exact scientific definition of a superflu.
57: ...ly support their use where this would make a significant difference, e.g. in the elderly.
87: [[he:שפעת]] - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
8: ...ine I of the Roman Empire|Emperor Constantine]] officially recognized Christianity he started construc...
12: ...dent [[Giacomo della Porta]] continued with the unfinished portions of the church. [[Carlo Maderno]] b...
20: ...46. At the time of his death (1564), the dome was finished as far as the drum, the base on which domes...
24: ...d on it. The piers at the crossing which were the first masonry to be laid, which were intended to sup... - 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]]-) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...na]], and is usually considered to be the central figure of the [[Dutch School (music)|Netherlands]] s...
6: ...e]], since several times in his life he was classified legally as a Frenchman (for instance, when he m...
8: ...rote a setting of the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for five voices, widely acknowledged to be one of his ma...
10: ... plague that year, and by [[Antoine Brumel]] in [[1506]], who stayed until the disbanding of the chapel ...
16: ...r most of the contemporary trends, innovated significantly, and was also able to express intense emoti... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
23: ... <small>Simon Peter</small><br>'''שמעון בן יו–...
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ... - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
2: ...ld the office of [[bishop]], declaring that the office of bishop was a development of later [[Christia...
4: ...elieved to have been sentenced to death by [[crucifixion]] by the [[Roman Empire]]. According to trad...
8: ... Bible lists the Apostles, Peter is always listed first, and [[Judas Iscariot]] is always listed last.
11: ... disciple of Jesus, Simon (''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherman. The [[synoptic gospels]] all recount how ...
13: ...ish, He told them "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." - 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...
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 y...
23: ...her friends who are now figures renowned in their fields, or for their influence on history; these inc... - 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. - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...ism|humanist]] scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[...
7: ...he judged himself incapable of [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the re...
9: More had four children by his first wife, Jane Colt, who died in [[1511]]. He rem...
12: ...vernment, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as a liaison between t...
19: ...[[Lucian]], which was published in [[Paris]] in [[1506]]. - 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''. - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...[[monk|monastic]] vows at about the age of twenty-five, but he never seems to have worked as a priest,...
8: ...[[England]], and [[Basel]]; yet he never belonged firmly in any one of these. His time in England was ...
10: ... rewards of independent literary activity. From [[1506]] to [[1509]] he was in Italy. He spent part of ...
14: ...ement of his time. He corresponded with more than five hundred men of the highest importance in the wo...
16: ... [[1516]] and was the basis of most of the scientific study of the Bible during the Reformation period...
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