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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
11: ...]]). [[Garcia Lopez de Cardenas]] was sent out to find this river, and found himself
12: ... Mexico]]). During his wintering he suffered from fierce attacks by the Indians.
16: ...lure, he remained governor of New Galicia until [[1544]], then retired to [[Mexico City]], where he died...
18: Men from his expedition were the first Europeans to see the [[Grand Canyon]]. - 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... - 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...
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.
40: ...was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at the age of five, to be brought up for the next ten years at the... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
16: ...the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]].
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: ...the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]], it excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from succe... - 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: ...izens fled as well). His position at Ferrara was filled by [[Jacob Obrecht]] in [[1505]], who died of...
16: ...r most of the contemporary trends, innovated significantly, and was also able to express intense emoti... - 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... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
5: ...onado as the commander of an expedition to go and find the seven golden cities and take all of their g...
10: ... himself being the first European to see the magnificent [[Grand Canyon]]. [[Hernando de Alvarado]] wa...
14: ...lure, he remained governor of New Galicia until [[1544]], then retired to [[Mexico City]], where he died... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]])
256: *[[Thomas Fincke]] (Denmark, [[1561]] - [[1656]]) - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
2: ...s' usually refers to [[European history]], scientific advances in the [[Eastern world]] will also be a...
4: ...al production dramatically. Most classical scientific treatises of [[classical antiquity]] (in [[Greek...
6: ...eved important advances in areas such as [[scientific method]]ology and [[physics]], among many others...
16: ...blems of interpretation. Given the limited scientific advances from about [[476]] to about [[1000]], t...
18: ... [[dialectic]]) and the ''quadrivium'', or scientific education ([[arithmetic]], [[geometry]], [[astro... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
8: ...nado y Anaya]], Conqueror, first [[Governor]] and first ''[[Adelantado]]'' of [[Costa Rica]]. <ref> [h...
11: ... prove this assertion. -- comment hidden as I can find no reliable source on either side of this quest...
14: ...t was made of gold, and that he could see the Pacific Ocean off to the west.
16: ...e commander of the expedition with the mission to find the seven golden cities and take their gold. Th...
18: ...nts of the existence of Cíbola are facts are verifiable, yet the existence of wealthy cities are not ... - 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... - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...] and a surgeon at the University of [[Padua]] ([[1544]]-[[1559]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and h... - Padua (12961 bytes)
7: ...d; the internal partition walls remained till the fire of [[1420]], when the Venetian architects who u...
11: ...1438]]-[[1441]]), which was cast in [[1453]], the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiqui...
17: ...cted many distinguished artists, as Giotto, [[Fra Filippo Lippi]] and Donatello; and for native art th...
22: ...t was reported able to raise two hundred thousand fighting men. [[Abano]] nearby is the birthplace of ...
36: ...virtual rebuilding of the city, their choice fell first on one of the Este family. - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
9: ...]] working in [[Alexandria]] circa A.D. 150. The first edition was published in [[Bologna]] in [[1477...
11: ...works. Although the term atlas was not in use in 1544, these works are now called "IATO" atlases - (Ita...
13: ...ing the countries of the World. This work was the first book of its kind to reduce the best available ...
21: Two different mythical figures named 'Atlas' are associated with [[mapmakin...
23: ...ciated with Dutch merchants, and a statue of this figure adorns the front of the World Trade Center in...
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