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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... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
5: ...ily of mariners and improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a l...
9: ... losing a ship, that he entered and departed some fifty undiscovered harbours without serious mishap a...
11: ==First Voyage 1534==
13: ...ched-for [[northwest passage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] ... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary...
13: ...d of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] and his first wife, [[Catherine of Aragon]]. A [[stillbirth|...
15: ... the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
17: ..., the Princess Mary was instead contracted to her first cousin, the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V...
21: ...beth, then living in [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]]. She was not permitted to see her mother Ca... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
4: ...[[palaeography]]. Examples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest to both calligraphers and pal...
10: ... an important art in [[East Asia]] and the most refined form of East Asian [[painting]].
12: ...sive style, literally "grass writingstyles"). All five styles of writing are still in use today.
14: ..., hiragana and katakana were developed from simplified cursive versions of characters. In the hands of...
32: | [[Clerical script]] (Official script) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
1: ...97.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Carl Larsson]], ''Crayfishing'', watercolor, 1897]]
12: ...issance]] painter [[Raffaello Santi]] ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), who painted full-scale cartoons as precursors...
14: ... painted watercolors in the [[15th century]]. The first school of watercolor painting in Europe was le...
25: ...the colorant to the painting surface. Unpigmented filler is added to gouache to lend opacity to the pa...
31: ...t and is reflected back to the viewer through the film. - March (3907 bytes)
8: ...ed to use March 25 until 1752, the same year they finally adopted the Gregorian calendar.
10: ...yoi]]'' (弥生). In [[Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''maaliskuu'', of obs...
18: ... of [[Gustav I of Sweden|Gustav Vasa]]'s run in [[1520]].
21: ...s. Highlights include the [[Boeing]] Night Alight Finale. - Raphael (3466 bytes)
2: ...83]] and died on his 37th birthday, [[April 6]] [[1520]] (see the note below about earlier confusion abo...
8: ...Sacrament,'' two large, arch-shaped frescoes, the first depicting the [[philosopher]]s of Antiquity gr...
12: ...is labours, and deprived the world of further benefit from his talents, when he had only attained an a...
23: ... his 37th birthday, [[Good Friday]] [[April 6]] [[1520]]. - 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''. - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
20: ...e]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Rena...
22: ...o trade, industry, and burgeoning urban growth in fields as diverse as banking (the [[Fugger]] banking...
24: ...ulation to reach its former levels in the late <b>fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,</b> the combinati...
28: ...impatience among reformers. [[Erasmus]] and later figures like [[Martin Luther|Luther]] and [[Zwingli]...
30: ...sm caught on in the universities, requiring a redefinition of God, who was no longer a rational govern... - Nubia (8928 bytes)
9: ... at the same time as the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] of Egypt around [[3100 BC]]. It con...
13: ...ther internal evolution or invaders. There are definite similarities between the pottery of A-Group a...
15: ...ds. By the end of the reign of [[Thutmose I]] in 1520 BC all of northern Nubia had been annexed.
19: ...ntrolling Egypt itself for a period (the [[Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt|Kushite dynasty]]) in the 8th...
26: ...aced it: northernmost was [[Nobatia]] between the first and second cataract of the [[Nile River]], wit... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first known permanent settlements appeared 9,000 yea...
8: ...do-Scythian]] and [[Indo-Parthian]] kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd cen...
11: ...blishment of a number of indigenous dynasties. We find reference, in the edicts of the Mauryan Emperor...
18: ...Image:Lightmatter vishnu1.jpg|thumb|130px|right|A figurine of [[Vishnu]], a [[Hindu]] god, in the ''Na...
20: ...in [[1857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutiny|First War of Indian Independence]], resulted in Indi... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...European]] to sail the [[Pacific Ocean]], and the first to lead an expedition for the purpose of [[cir...
9: ...ong the way. It was here that Magellan would also first experience battle: when a local king refused t...
13: ... [[1513]]) and received a severe knee wound while fighting against the Moorish-Moroccan stronghold. Al...
20: ... help of Juan de Aranda, one of the three chief officials of Seville's India House, and of other frien...
22: ...thought to be the [[Rio de la Plata]], to the Pacific Ocean, forming a large bay-like [[river delta]].... - 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}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
16: | '''[[Official language]]'''
53: ...the ''Ottoman Principality''. [[Murad I]] was the first Ottoman to claim the title of [[sultan]] (king...
57: ... II]], [[Selim I]] and [[Suleyman I]]. The scientific advantage the Ottomans had over the other Europe...
58: In 1699, for the first time in its history the Ottomans acknowledged ...
66: ... [[Gallipoli]] and [[Palestine]] campaigns, was offically sent from occupied Istanbul to take control ... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
23: ...k near to him as he was returning to school. Terrified, he cried out, "Help,[[Saint Anne]]! I'll becom...
25: ==Luther's struggle to find peace with God==
31: ... most important of these was the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
37: Luther's first public challenge of papal power came in [[1517...
41: ...eter's Basilica]], agreed that Albert could pay a fine for the violation and keep both sees. Albert wo... - Argon (6952 bytes)
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44: ...ersity of Helsinki]] in 2000, but has not been confirmed.
46: ... ''chemical'' compounds of argon are presently confirmed, argon can form [[clathrates]] with [[water (...
49: ...used in lighting since it will not react with the filament in a [[lightbulb]] even under high temperat... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ...Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first known permanent settlements appeared 9,000 yea...
8: ...do-Scythian]] and [[Indo-Parthian]] kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd cen...
11: ...blishment of a number of indigenous dynasties. We find reference, in the edicts of the Mauryan Emperor...
18: ...Image:Lightmatter vishnu1.jpg|thumb|130px|right|A figurine of [[Vishnu]], a [[Hindu]] god, in the ''Na...
20: ...in [[1857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutiny|First War of Indian Independence]], resulted in Indi... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...;م in [[Persian language|Persian]]) was the first [[civilization]] based in [[Iran]], the [[Ilam...
10: The high country of Elam was increasingly identified by its low-lying later capital, [[Susa]], and g...
19: ... with the establishment of the Awan dynasty. The first attestation of the name of the kingdom is in a...
72: ...run and little beyond. Among the nations that benefitted from the decline of the Assyrians were the [[...
76: ...tyles; the use of Elamite as the first of three official languages of the empire used in thousands of... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
5: ...tholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]. He was sold in 1520 to Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, a [[Spanish nobi...
8: ...er [[Florida]]; in doing so Estevanico became the first person born in Africa known to have set foot i...
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