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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
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]] ...
17: ... site of their arrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault, a l... - Aleksandra Lisowska (1848 bytes)
3: ..., wife of [[Suleiman the Magnificent|S?n the Magnificent]] of the [[Ottoman empire]], also variously k...
7: ...led - see [[Suleiman the Magnificent|S?n the Magnificent]] for details.
9: Khourrem was to bear S?n five children and, in an astonishing break with trad...
11: ...uilding, from [[Mecca]] to [[Jerusalem]], and the first to endow a [[mosque]] in Istanbul. - Canada (35540 bytes)
1: ...d resulted in the consensus that the country's *official* name is now "Canada", not anything else. If ...
10: ...ench language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] population estimate for [[as of 2005|June 2...
15: ...Minister]], who is the head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
17: ...f Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism in Canada|bilingual]]:
21: ... and [[hydroelectric power]] capacity. Its diversified [[Economy of Canada|economy]] relies heavily on... - Texas (39610 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None''. [[English language|English...
46: * official [[state song]] — ''[[Texas Our Texas]]'...
52: ..." reputation, especially in [[Western Film|cowboy films]].
76: ...nquistador]] [[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas.
94: In 1845, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|in... - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
18: He identified the active intellect (''nous poietikos''), thro...
20: ...along with the works of [[Themistius]] at Venice (1534); the former work, which has been translated into... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
286: *[[Antonio da Correggio|Correggio]] ([[1489]]-[[1534]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
1: ...97.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Carl Larsson]], ''Crayfishing'', watercolor, 1897]]
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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.
35: ...s and [[color]] clarity are typically the most difficult properties to achieve and maintain. - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...lennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in the population of native i...
5: ...agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technology leadership.
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California golden poppie...
13: When the first [[European colonization of the Americas|Europe...
21: ...nied expeditions in [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city. - 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...
23: ...ng [[Richard III of England|Richard III]]'', an unfinished piece of [[historiography]] which heavily i... - 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... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
289: *[[Thomas Cajetan]], (1469-1534){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...uru]] ideal, and [[bhajan]]s) as well as [[Sufi|Sufi Islam]].
6: ...s. The five baptised Sikhs were named Panj Pyare (Five Beloved Ones), who in turn baptised the Guru at...
8: ...ikh Holy Scripture was compiled and edited by the Fifth Guru, [[Guru Arjan]] in AD [[1604]].(Although ...
26: ... [[1604]] he installed the [[Adi Granth]] for the first time as the [[Holy Book]] of the Sikhs. In [[1...
28: ...]] and led the Sikhs until [[1675]], when he sacrificed his life to save the [[Kashmiri Hindu]]s who h... - 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... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ... was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permiss...
7: ..., established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near to the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]...
9: ...ings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work of either t...
15: ...order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in the politics...
17: ...y were forced to become a more militarized force, fighting especially with the [[Barbary pirates]]. Th... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...tory of the modern-day [[United States]], was the first European to discover the [[Mississippi River]]...
5: ...ere filled with young men begging for a chance to find military fame after the [[Moors]] were defeated...
7: ...erica]]. He gained fame as an excellent horseman, fighter, and tactician, but was notorious for the ex...
9: ...a" below Panama), and [[Ferdinand Magellan]], who first sailed that ocean to the [[Orient]], profoundl...
11: ==First expedition – The Conquest of Peru==
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