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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Am...
77: ...ns|Russian]] explorer, first European who sailed through [[Bering Strait]]
111: *[[Vasco da Gama]], (1469?-1524), [[Portuguese]] navigator, first to reach [[Indi...
230: *[[John Rae]], (1813-1893), travelled widely through the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...p://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]'''Christopher Columbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1...
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided...
5: ...tence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the inventio...
13: ...ature reads ''[[Chi-Rho|Xpo]] ferens'' ("Bearing Christ").
21: ...daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had three younger brothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolo... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
52: ...ain rich in silver – reached Spain around [[1524]]. Since then, the Spaniards named the river of S...
59: ...sh;especially the western pampas—came from throughout Europe.
65: ...carried out terrorist acts with a frequency that threatened public order. The government resorted to a...
67: ... exercised power through a junta composed of the three service commanders until [[December 10]], [[198...
71: ...cipitated an outflow of capital that gradually mushroomed into a 2-year [[recession]], which led to a ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...ical roots in the democratic revolution that overthrew a dictatorial regime in [[1974]] and the subseq...
25: ... with some [[Arab]], mainly expelled after the [[Christian]] reconquest or [[Reconquista]]). In [[868]...
40: ...their own objective, searching for the legendary Christian Kingdom of [[Prester John]].
47: ...frica and, despite having no son and heir to the throne, decided to go personnaly into battle, where h...
53: ...his brother, King Miguel, a conservative who overthroned Queen Maria I, led to the civil war between 1... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
110: *[[Yoannis XIII of Alexandria]], ([[1483]]-[[1524]]), Coptic Pope
120: *[[Jean-Christophe Yoccoz|Yoccoz, Jean-Christophe]], mathematician - List of painters (54090 bytes)
34: *[[Christoph Ludwig Agricola]] ([[1667]]-[[1719]])
83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
167: *[[Aaron Bohrod]] ([[1907]]-[[1992]])
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
263: *[[Anthony Christian]] ([[1945]]-) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
7: *[[1492]]-[[Christopher Columbus]] lands on one of the [[Bahamas]...
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
15: ...rsi'' in which allusively, beyond the figures of three shepherds, he originally depicts the court of U...
23: In [[1524]] [[Pope Clement VII]] sent him to [[Spain]] as '...
32: ...ecalls very intensively [[Francesco Petrarca]]'s through [[Pietro Bembo]]'s ones. Pre-romantics will f... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
8: ...hop]] governor of [[Warmia]], raised him and his three other siblings after the death of Copernicus' f...
18: ... to his death, when he progressively became ill. Throughout his lifetime he made astronomical observat...
24: ...c Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Olsztyn]] o...
51: ... to the Earth, by which the axis is kept pointed throughout the year at the same place in the heavens;...
64: ...ent moving during daytime, and its annual moving through the Zodiac) are nothing else than effects of ... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
28: ...ntually contribute to the second major schism of Christendom. Unfortunately for the church, the crisis...
30: ...t placed great emphasis on reforming individuals through eloquence as opposed to reason. The European ...
46: ... God such that talk of mediation through any but Christ alone is unbiblical. Because they saw these te...
61: ...[Peasants' War]] of the lower classes in Germany (1524), show that discontent was not confined to any on...
64: ...ion, the substances of the body and the blood of Christ and of the bread and the wine were held to coe... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
22: ...y onrushing tide which forces its way around and through any obstacle. Most of the damage is caused by...
24: ...onal equivalent of the [[inverse square law]] in three dimensions.
28: ... people on ships. The energy of a tsunami passes through the entire water column to the sea bed, unlik...
68: ...y recorded in [[Judaism|Jewish]], [[Christianity|Christian]], and [[Islam|Islamic]] texts.
79: ...s]] above sea level. Tsunami waves were observed throughout the [[Indian Ocean]], the [[Pacific Ocean]... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
10: ... was offered many positions of honour and profit throughout the academic world, but declined them all,...
14: ...that guided Erasmus as he regenerated [[Europe]] through sound criticism applied frankly and without f...
16: ...wn as the ''textus receptus''. Erasmus published three other editions - in [[1522]], [[1527]] and [[15...
17: ...afterwards he began the publication of his ''Paraphrases of the New Testament'', a popular presentatio...
21: ... had done in the cause of a sound and reasonable Christianity, and urged him to join the Lutheran part... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
3: ...pewell'' to find a northeast passage to [[Asia]] through the [[Arctic Ocean]] via the [[North Pole]]. ...
7: ...vanni da Verrazano]] explored the same coast in [[1524]])–and sailing a distance up the [[Hudson R...
17: ...s de Laet]] in his work ''Nieuwe Wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Indien'' (''New World or the des... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ...sulted in the formation of new traditions within Christianity and his teachings undoubtedly impacted u...
14: ...radition of [[clerical marriage]] within several Christian traditions.
26: ...good works to please [[God]] and to serve others through prayer for their souls. Yet peace with God es...
31: ..., by which humans receive righteousness from God through the perfect works, life, death and resurrecti...
33: ...in God's promise to forgive sins for the sake of Christ's death on the cross. - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schlesw...
17: ...obardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube frontier.
19: ...and. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to the pattern of life o...
23: ...r Papal authority were established to spread the Christian faith in the German lands.
37: ...winning the Langobardic (Lombard) crown. Outside threats to the kingdom were contained when in 955 the... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schlesw...
17: ...obardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube frontier.
19: ...and. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to the pattern of life o...
23: ...r Papal authority were established to spread the Christian faith in the German lands.
37: ...winning the Langobardic (Lombard) crown. Outside threats to the kingdom were contained when in 955 the... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...ses instead of punished for mutiny. After he overthrew the Aztec empire, Cortés was awarded the title...
14: ...ro Altamirano, first cousin of Pizarro's father. Through his father, Hernán was a twice distant relat...
42: ...e capital of Cuba and as a man of affairs in the thriving colony. He missed the first two expeditions,...
47: ...ecame a very valuable interpretor and counselor. Through her help, Cortés learned from the Tabascans ...
55: ... thus renaming the city Mexico City. From 1521 to 1524, Cortés personally governed Mexico. - September 23 (7397 bytes)
89: ...573]] - [[Azai Hisamasa]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1524]])
94: ...[1900]] - [[William Marsh Rice]], American philanthropist and university founder
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