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- 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...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h...
40: ...ces in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed by the wealth of the [[Order of Christ]], a... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - 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 - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ... Tycho's father, a [[nobleman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark|Danish]] King's court. [[Bea...
14: ...over a period of several years.'' -Tycho Brahe, [[1563]] (age 17).
33: ...ntained since [[antiquity]] that the world of the fixed stars was eternal and unchangeable (a fundamen...
38: ... of the [[solar system]]. Tycho believed in a modified [[geocentric model]] known as the [[Tychonian s...
43: ...rway]], impressed with Tycho's 1572 observations, financed the construction of two observatories for T... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
11: He is often credited as being the first western painter to paint landscapes for their ...
15: ...of-babel.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Tower of Babel'' [[1563]], oil on board]]
19: ...:image:bigfishlittlefish.JPG|Large Fish Eat Small Fish]]'' 1556, Albertina, Vienna
23: * ''The Fight Between Carnival and Lent'' 1559, Kunsthistori...
25: * ''Saul (Battle Against The Filistines On The Gilboa)'' 1562, Kunsthistorisches ... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
8: ...acute;tienne de la Boétie]] whose death in 1563 deeply influenced Montaigne.
10: Montaigne married in 1565; he had five daughters, but only one survived childhood. In ...
12: ...e in his library he began work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]].
33: ... and especially himself, with utter frankness. He finds the great variety and volatility of human natu... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
2: ...an period]]. He was the first Englishman (and the first of any nationality not on a Spanish ship) to [...
9: ...n Hawkins]]. Together, Hawkins and Drake made the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]]...
11: == First adventures ==
12: Around [[1563]] Drake first sailed west to the [[Spanish Main]], drawn by ...
13: ...ng [[Philip II of Spain]], and so was unable to officially acknowledge Drake's accomplishment. Such in... - 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... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
6: ...w side aisles, a classical face to a Gothic form, first seen in [[Leon Battista Alberti|Alberti]]'s [[...
8: It was the first volume, rather than any spectacular executed w...
10: ... was translated from a Dutch translation as ''The Five Books of Architecture'' and printed in London, ...
12: ...tory of classical images that it was reprinted in 1563 and in 1572.
26: ...ebastiano Serlio, Robert Peake, translator, ''The Five Books of Architecture,'' 1611, is available in ...
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