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- List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
9: *[[Denis Auguste Affre|Affre, Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[P...
14: ...honso V of Portugal|Afonso V of Portugal]], (1432-1481), king in 1438
16: *[[Lucius Afranius (consul)|Lucius Afranius]], (fl. mid-1st century BCE), legatus of Pom...
17: *[[Lucius Afranius (poet)|Lucius Afranius]], (died 60 BCE), Roman [[poet]] - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
15: ...dynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Eg...
16: * The dates of Dynasties 1 to 10 are from Baines and Malek, ''Atlas of Ancient Egypt'' (...
17: * The dates of Dynasties 11 to 20 are from Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in ...
18: * The dates of Dynasties 21 to 26 are from Kitchen, ''Third Intermediate Period in Egypt''...
20: (This information has been supplemented from ''The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt'', edited... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
1: ...state in [[Europe]], which borders [[Germany]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Austria]] and [[Liechtenstein...
13: ... = [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Romansh]]|
30: currency = [[Swiss franc]]|currency_code=CHF|
46: ...e]] in [[1499]] amounted to de facto independence from the [[Holy Roman Empire]].
54: ...en régime''). In [[1798]], armies of the [[French Revolution]] conquered Switzerland and in [[1... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
9: ...nci", which means "Leonardo, son of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his work...
18: ...with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love so much?"
20: ...ntimately involved with any woman, nor in a close friendship with one. He also surrounded himself with...
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 year old son of a [[Lombar...
23: ... [[Niccolchiavelli]], [[Cesare Borgia]] and [[Franchinus Gaffurius]]. - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
5: ...ting hall of the Mercanzia, a cloth-merchants' confraternity, and Botticello contributed to the set th...
9: [[Image:10ec_ita.png|frame|right|Botticelli's ''Venus'' graces the first ...
11: He was influenced in his art by [[Fra Filippo Lippi]] and [[Antonio Pollaiuolo]]. The ...
14: ...ors, virgins, and the orders of angels, the whole from a design given to him by Matteo, who was a wort...
19: ...lustrate the sentiments that are actually derived from medieval courtly love. ([[Jean Seznec]]'s book ... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
3: ...isition was the result of the reconquest of Spain from the [[Muslim]]s and the policy of converting Sp...
6: ...] and [[Valencia]], there was a local inquisition from the [[Middle Ages]], as in the rest of the Euro...
20: ...d Isabella appointed [[Tom᳠de Torquemada]] in [[1481]] to investigate and punish ''[[converso]]s'' &md...
22: ...on]], who threatened to withhold military support from his kingdom of [[Sicily]]. Sixtus issued the [[...
26: ...possession of [[Greece]] and the Greek islands. [[France]], as always, was looking for signs of weakne... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
84: *[[Agostino di Duccio]] (1418 - 1481)
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865) - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...with tapping into that wealth, as well as with [[Africa]] in general, and with the legend of [[Prester...
7: ... and granted Henry a "royal fifth" of all profits from trading within the areas discovered as well as ...
11:
15: ... to Europeans on the unpromising desert coast of Africa, although the [[Periplus]] of the Carthaginian...
17: ...[1460]] the Portuguese had explored the coast of Africa as far as present-day [[Sierra Leone]]. - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
45: ...mply as ''the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottom...
47: ...tantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the [[Byzantine Empire]], it became the Ottoman...
53: ... in the east to [[Hungary]] in the northwest, and from [[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in t...
60: ...his was the [[Crimean war]] in which the English, French, Ottomans and others united against Russia.
61: ...om foreign occupation (e.g. Egypt occupied by the French in 1798, Cyprus occupied by the British in 18... - Jean Fouquet (2536 bytes)
2: ...n Fouquet''', [[1420]] - [[1481]]) was a [[France|French]] [[painter]].
6: ...yck]]s, which was the basis of early 15th-century French art, and thus became the founder of an import...
10: ...mitives]] held at the [[Biblioth豵e nationale de France|Biblioth豵e Nationale]] in [[Paris]].
12: ...awing in [[crayon]]; whilst an authentic portrait from his brush is in the Liechtenstein collection.
14: ...ompson]] at a London sale, and restored by him to France. - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
29: ...ificantly expanding it and transforming it from a fresh-water landlocked lake into a salt water sea.
51: ...on of [[Sahara]]. The shift by the Sahara Desert from a habitable region to a barren desert.
76: ... Major migration of Central Saharans into [[West Africa]] possibly due to [[climate change]] starting ...
102: * The [[Cushites]] drive the original inhabitants from [[Ethiopia]], and establish trade relations wit...
136: ...f the Caliphate under [[Al-Walid I]], who reigned from [[705]] - [[715]] ]]
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