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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... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
86: *[[Filippo Addis|Addis, Filippo]], (1884-1974), writer - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
1: ...nt of [[North America]], bordering both the [[Pacific Ocean]] and the [[Caribbean Sea]].
19: | '''[[Official language]]'''
20: ...|Spanish]] (Official), (Indigenous languages of official status as well, particularly Maya)
62: ... by the [[Spain|Spanish]], who first arrived in [[1523]] and colonised the area. [[Alta Verapaz]] is kno...
64: ...uatemala became independent of Spain in [[1821]], first as a part of the [[United Provinces of Central... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
318: *[[Gerard David]] (ca.[[1450]]-[[1523]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Castle (27805 bytes)
1: ...the logical development of a [[Fortification|fortified enclosure]]. The term is most often applied to ...
4: Castles also figure prominently in [[History of Japan|Japanese hi...
8: ... home. Castles were made by their owners for specific purposes, or evolved into new purposes over time...
10: * First and foremost castles were places of protection...
24: ...inseparably connected with the subjects of [[fortification]] (see also [[siegecraft]]) and [[domestic ... - 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
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ...
167: ! width="18%" | Pontificate - 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...
14: In [[1523]] More became the [[Speaker of the British House ... - 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... - 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: ..., preferring the uncertain, but, as it proved, sufficient, rewards of independent literary activity. F...
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... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...bringing pirates to [[justice]].<ref>{{cite news |first=M.Chiarugi |last=D.Archibugi |url=http://www.o...
9: [[File:Romtrireme.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mosaic of a [[T...
12: ...ifty, and the pirates indeed raised the ransom to fifty talents. After the ransom was paid, Caesar rai...
14: The Senate finally invested [[Pompey]] with powers to deal with... - 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... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...e generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Ame...
6: ...greatly expanded concern for human rights, as typified by the [[Black Legend]], also did little to exp...
14: ...fe and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro Altamirano, first cousin of Pizarro's father. Through his father...
18: ...ng period of training and experience as a notary, first in Seville and later in [[Hispaniola]], would ...
20: ...ixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life in his small provinc...
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