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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]] ...
15: ==Second Voyage 1535-1536== - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
4: Her first act after her father's death in ([[1375]]) was...
10: ...heir professed object was to revictual Stockholm. Finally the [[Hanseatic League|Hansa]] intervened, a...
12: ... the union never got beyond the stage of an unratified draft. Margaret revolted at the clauses which i...
16: ...queen, an ideal despot, ruled through her court officials acting as superior clerks. But law and order...
24: ... regularly in all future. At the [[Reformation]] (1536) this was discontinued; however, to this day a sp... - 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: ...her mother Catherine, or attend her funeral in [[1536]]. Her treatment and the hatred Queen Anne had fo... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...y, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("B...
14: ...t, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionable. Females and female...
15: ...yal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died before James V, Mary would not n...
33: ...Duke of Somerset]] by Edward VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and...
37: ...sailed back to France from Dumbarton carrying the five-year-old Queen of Scots on board. - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
16: | '''[[Official language]]'''
52: ...uropean Union]] and has a population of more than five million. The capital is [[Bratislava]].
63: ...oins with the names of Celtic kings represent the first known use of writing in Slovakia. Since [[Anno...
65: ...the 8th century and its ruler [[Pribina]] had the first Christian church in Slovakia consecrated by 82...
69: ...f art. In 1467, [[Matthias Corvinus]] founded the first university in Bratislava, but the institution ... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ...aladoid]]-[[Barrancoid]] group, who were farmers, fishermen, and ceramists that arrived by [[canoe]] f...
11: ...ght resembled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|...
13: ... in [[1639]]. Among the initial important British figures was Sir [[William Courten]].
21: ...ation]], and Sir [[Grantley Adams]] served as its first and only prime minister. When the federation w...
27: ...which has 28 seats. Its members are elected every five years. The Senate has 21 members, and its membe... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom...
46: ...inority Languages]]. In each of these, the UK's official name is as follows:
52: ...>6</sup> Official estimate provided by the UK [[Office for National Statistics]]. As of April 2005, th...
54: ...untry" to "state", "nation", "union", etc, please first contribute to the extensive discussion of this...
58: ...ded Wales]] as a [[principality]]) with those of, first, [[Kingdom of Scotland]] and then [[Kingdom of... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
14: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] and [[Span...
38: ...|English]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] are officially recognized languages in the state. In [[Sp...
46:
50: ... Spain]] to his remote colony. O was made the first governor of the new [[Province of New Mexico]]...
62: ...ssouri]], for Santa Fe early in [[1822]] with the first party of traders. Wagon caravans thereafter ma... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer
89: *[[Zhang Yimou|Yimou, Zhang]], (born [[1950]]), film director
91: ...rvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]] - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...dern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His theory affected many other as...
10: ...versities of [[Bologna]] and [[Padua]]. His uncle financed his education and wished for him to become ...
12: The first observation Copernicus made in [[1497]] togeth...
16: ...Ancients on the movement of the Earth, having the first intuition of his theory. His collection of obs...
26: ...' theory. In [[1536]] his work was already in a definitive form, and some rumours about his theory had... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...suited for copper engraving of maps. He wrote the first instruction book of italic script to be publis...
12: ...ve]] in [[1564]]. He devised a new projection and first used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of ...
15: ... produced his own atlas in a number of parts, the first of which was published in [[1578]] and consist...
22: ...phicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura'' (Atlas, or Cosmographical Meditations on th... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
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... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
6: ...gainst [[Gil Dᶩda Gonzales]]; Gonzales, an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. D...
7: ...een the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]].
9: DeSoto gained much of his wealth in the trafficking of slaves and came to own large areas of lan...
11: ...Tahuantinsuyu]] capital [[Cuzco]], and became the first European to talk to the Inca ruler [[Atahualpa...
13: ...disunited with Pizarro. He returned to Spain in [[1536]], taking with him approximately 100,000 golden [... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
5: As treasurer, and hence one of the chief officers, of the [[Narváez expedition]], he, [[Mooris...
7: ...Report). Cabeza de Vaca desired to succeed [[Pánfilo de Narváez]] (whose ineptitude had caused the ...
9: ...benevolent towards the Native peoples. He was the first European to behold the [[Iguazu]] Falls, among...
13: ...n Cabeza de Vaca's account of the fate of the Pánfilo de Narváez expedition.
19: ...the River Plate, part II. London: Hakluyt, 1891. (First English edition). - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
9: ...skᬠPodkovice, Hubina, and Radošinare These findings are the most ancient evidence of commercial...
11: ... and by delicate linear decoration, revealing the first attempts at coloring. These shapes reveal a de...
15: ...ry. During the 'fluted-pottery' era, several fortified sites were built and some vestiges remain today...
19: ... expanded the building of strong and complex fortifications, the appearance of large permanent buildin...
27: ==First Arrival of the Slavs== - 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}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
6: The official language of Tahuantinsuyu was Quechua, althou...
17: ... Ocllo|Ocllo]], and Sinchi Roca is the person who finally led them to the valley of Cuzco where they f...
19: ...hey established [[Sapa Inca|Hurin Cuzco]], or the first dynasty of the Kingdom of Cuzco.
21: ...i Roca, also called Cinchi Roca, who is the first figure in Inca mythology whose existence can be supp...
30: ...s to the leaders of these lands extolling the benefits of joining his empire, offering them presents o... - 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... - Computer display (4276 bytes)
11: ...rom 640 by 480 [[pixel]]s (640״80) up to 2048 by 1536 pixels (2048ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a varie... - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...rip between the [[Andes]] mountains and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. It shares borders with [[Argentina]] to...
14: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]] |
56: ... Spanish expedition south from Peru in [[1535]]-[[1536|36]] called themselves the "men of Chilli."
64: ...rro]]'s lieutenants. Although the Spanish did not find the extensive gold and [[silver]] they sought, ...
72: ...hilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, which was greatly in...
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