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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
23: *[[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacif... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... [[Valois Dynasty|Valois]] branch of the kings of France, and mother of three further kings of that br...
5: ...the time, but who would become King [[Henry II of France]].
7: ...proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to see his grandchildren b...
11: ...r the accession of her sickly son [[Francis II of France]] at age 15. His wife, [[Mary I of Scotland|...
13: ...e or metal. They forcefully shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38... - Painting (4567 bytes)
4: ...of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
8: ...''paintings''' are at the [[Grotte Chauvet]] in [[France]], dated at about 32,000 years old. They are ...
47: *[[Fresco]]
52: ...that an artist is associated with. This can stem from an actual group that the artist was consciously...
96: *[[Paul C麡nne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...e so-called '''Age of Exploration''' was a period from the early [[15th century]] and continuing into ...
7: ... East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close links to t...
9: ...[[Marco Polo]] who traveled throughout the Orient from [[1271]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written u...
15: ...iving European sailors some idea of the shape of Africa and Asia.
18: ... could be bypassed by trading directly with West Africa by sea. It was also hoped that south of the Sa... - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...nguage]] of the [[Hasinai]], ''tejas'', meaning ''friends'' or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers...
42: ...ist of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
50: ** flying — [[Mexican free-tailed bat]]
57: ...om you talk to (and which part of Texas they come from), Texas forms part of the [[U.S. Southern State...
62: ...ve flown over its soil: the [[Fleur-de-lis]] of [[France]], and the national flags of [[Spain]], [[Mex... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]] - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
12: *[[Manfred von Ardenne]], (1907-1997), [[Germany]]
53: *[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau|Jacques Cousteau]], [[France]] — [[Aqua-Lung|aqualung]]
56: ...illiam Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]]
62: *[[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo DaVinci]], (1452-1519), [[Italy]] — [[euclidean geometry]]
87: *[[Benjamin Franklin]], (1706-1790), [[United States|USA]] &mdas... - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
15: *[[1519]]-[[HernᮠCort鳝] defeats [[Tlaxcala]], a small...
18: ...ano]], working for [[France]], explores coastline from present-day [[North Carolina]] to [[Maine]] - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...i''' ([[April 15]], [[1452]] – [[May 2]], [[1519]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Renaissance]] [[arc...
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... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...to [[France]] to obtain terms from [[Louis XII of France|Louis XII]] for continuing the war against [[...
33: ...y, he was hoping that a strong ruler would emerge from the [[Medici]] family, uniting Italy by expelli...
35: ...man Titus Livy. Machiavelli comments on passages from Livy's history and analogizes them to situation...
48: *''Ritratti delle cose di Francia,'' [[1510]]
51: *''Andria,'' comedy translated from [[Terence]], 1513 (?) - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
1: [[image:copernicus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus]]
8: ...cus' father. His brother Andrew became canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictin...
14: ...of Warmia and Copernicus was named a canon in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for t...
16: ...o complete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastoro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where i...
18: ...e end of his studies, he came to live and work in Frombork. Some time before his return to [[Warmia]],... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
10: *[[Aleijadinho]] - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
24: *[[Frédéric Bartholdi]] (1834 - 1904)
28: *[[Wilfried Behre]]
87: *[[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865)
100: *[[Emmanuel Frémiet]] (1824 - 1910) - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...ho sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first to sail from [[Europe]] westwards to [[Asia]], the first [[E...
7: ... had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco Serrano, Magellan continued his education,...
9: ... In [[1505]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco de Almeida as a Portuguese [[viceroy]] the...
15: ...ices to the court of [[Spain]], changing his name from "''Fern㯠de Magalh㥳''" to "''Fernando de Mag...
18: ...n port of Spain, on [[October 20]], [[1517]], and from there went to [[Valladolid]] to see the teenage... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ...ern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to conquer the ...
12: ... and set sail on the morning of [[January 18]], [[1519]], just as Velázquez arrived at the dock in pers...
15: ...georgiasouthern.edu/international/pages/SECOLAS/CAFryer.htm]
18: ...), and a dialect of Nahautl spoken only to and in front of the Mexica/Aztec emperor.
20: ...ty magistrates he had appointed, all conveniently friends of his. - 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... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
7: ...to the [[empire]] of the Mexicas as distinguished from the Mexicas alone. This article deals with the ...
9: ...e of the Mexicas, Azteca means "someone who comes from [[Aztlán]]", a place commonly believed to be l...
13: ...ating the moment when '''Aztecs''' found the omen from the god [[Huitzilopochtli]] signaling the locat...
14: ...h century, as a way to distance "modern" Mexicans from pre-conquest Mexicans. This usage has been the...
19: ...s derived from ''mexictli'', "navel of the moon", from Nahuatl ''metztli'' (moon) and ''xictli'' (nave... - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
5: ...ival of the Aztecs, a tribe of people who came in from the west, that the area acquired its importance...
9: ...mmercial routes were developed that brought goods from places as far as the [[Gulf of Mexico]], the [[...
15: ...鳝] arrived in Tenochtitlan on [[November 8]], [[1519]]. At this time it is believed that the city was ... - 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: ...ed the young man needed more work to distract him from excessive [[rumination]]. He ordered the monk t...
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. - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ... they exerted influence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
5: ...known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the same reasoning, [[A...
12: ...ptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: ...ic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advancing to the [[Oder...
15: ...nz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Roman army led by [[Publius Quin... - Europium (8579 bytes)
62: | 1099 [[Kelvin|K]] (1519 [[Fahrenheit|?F]])
157: ...ery of europium is generally credited to [[France|French]] [[chemist]] [[Eug讥-Antole Demar硹]], who...
162: Europium is never found in nature as the free element; however, there are many minerals conta...
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