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- Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...], thought the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[East Asia]]...
12: ...nt [[The Americas|America]] on his world map of [[1507]]. Vespucci styled himself ''Americus Vespucius''...
14: ...oyage was made in [[1497]] (which allegedly began from [[C�diz]] on [[May 10th]] of that year). Litt...
16: ...9, while on this voyage. But his claim is clearly fraudulent, which casts more doubt on Vespucci's cre...
22: ...tters, whether or not he wrote them all himself. From these letters, the European public learned abou... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
2: ...[Queen consort]] of King [[Edward IV of England]] from [[1464]] until his death in [[1483]].
6: ... claimant to the throne.) Elizabeth had two sons from the marriage, [[Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Do...
10: ...ick]], was negotiating a marriage alliance with [[France]]. When the marriage to Elizabeth Woodville ...
29: * Cecily Plantagenet (1469-1507), Viscountess Welles - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...ate, '''Eve''' (or '''Hawa''') was either created from his [[rib]] (Genesis 2.21-22), or created at th...
15: ... Garden of Eden to cultivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: "Of the tree of t...
17: ...r tradition made into Satan) to eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, for "the se...
20: ...[[Jesus]] was born, the flaming sword was removed from the Garden of Eden, making it possible for [[hu...
25: ...thumb|right|''Adam and Eve'', by [[Albrecht D? ([[1507]]).]] - Americas (7154 bytes)
13: ...referring to U.S. citizens. In [[French language|French]], ''鴡ts-unien'' (''鴡ts-unienne'' for wom...
23: ...troductio]]'', explains that the name was derived from the [[Latin]]ized version of the explorer [[Ame...
25: ...eem?s maps are alleged to incorporate information from the early British journeys to North America. T...
27: ...ld, and even changed the spelling of his own name from ''Alberigo'' to ''Amerrigo'' to reflect the imp...
29: ... death, people forgot where the name America came from, so they changed his name to Amerigo to explain... - 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]]) - 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...
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...
36: ...often used to gain repentance. Punishments ranged from public shame to burning at the stake—dead... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Corinthian order (9508 bytes)
6: ... had been placed over the basket, to protect them from the weather. An [[Acanthus (genus)|acanthus]] p...
11: ... of the way, to where the [[entasis]] begins. The French like to call these ''chandelles'' and sometim...
18: ... At the Capitol the proportions of architrave to frieze are exactly 1:1. Above that, the profiles of ...
20: ...la]] enclosure. A single Corinthian column stands free, centered within the cella. Quite mysterious, a...
21: ...|right|thumb|300px|''[[Maison Carrée]],'' Nimes, France, [[14 BCE]] ]] - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
17: ...ght|220px|The "Luther house" where Luther boarded from ages 14 to 17 while attending private school at...
19: ...opper]] mine in nearby [[Mansfeld]]. Having risen from the [[peasantry]], his father was determined to...
28: ...dered the monk to pursue an academic career. In [[1507]] Luther was ordained to the priesthood. In [[150...
31: ...hteousness, by which humans receive righteousness from God through the perfect works, life, death and ...
37: ...t the doctrine in question), thereby freeing them from the pains of purgatory.
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