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- Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...she is often known as '''Bloody Mary'''. Her religious policies, however, were in many cases reversed ...
13: ...ince of Wales]], sometimes leading to false assertions that she was created Princess of Wales, even th...
15: ...]. A great part of the credit of her early education was undoubtedly due to her mother, who not only ...
19: ...man Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to the Pope we...
21: ...ng a mere "Lady". Her place in the line of succession was transferred to the Princess Elizabeth (daugh... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...ry"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided wi...
14: ... and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...e inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other male...
19: ...], where preparations were made for Mary's coronation.
21: ==Coronation== - Argentina (30219 bytes)
7: image_map = LocationArgentina.png |
8: ...y Libertad<br>([[English language|English]]: In Union and Liberty)|
9: ...nal_anthem = [[Argentine National Anthem|Himno Nacional Argentino]] |
21: population_estimate = 39,144,753 |
22: population_estimate_year = 2004 | - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ...[[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...6]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ...[[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
31: *[[Aetion]] ([[4th century BC]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...ear's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]], a...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
16: ...t edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is publishe...
18: *[[1801]] - Legislative union of [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of...
21: *[[1808]] - Importation of [[slave]]s into the [[United States]] is bann... - Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
1: ... his own time. He is said to have been an inspiration to the [[surrealism]] movement in the [[20th cen...
5: ...rotherhood of Our Lady, an arch conservative religious group of some 40 influential citizens of 's-Her...
8: ...ith depictions of fantastic punishments of the various types of [[sin|sinners]] on the right panel.
10: ...plication of paint; this contrasts with the traditional Flemish style of paintings, where the smooth s...
22: == Bibliography == - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... were rarely constructed in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[a...
9: ...do himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leonardo" ("I, Leonardo"). Most authorities the...
11: ...n showed them to the painter [[Andrea del Verrocchio]], who subsequently took on the fourteen-year old...
12: ...d to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari]]).
16: ..., Leonardo and the others were kept under observation by Florence's [[Officers of the Night]] - a kind... - Raphael (3466 bytes)
1: [[Image:Sanzio 00.jpg|framed|right|self-portrait]]
2: ...lo Santi, Raffaello de Urbino''' or '''Rafael Sanzio de Urbino'''.
4: His life was described in [[Giorgio Vasari]]'s ''Vite.'' Born in [[Urbino]], he studi...
7: [[Image:Sanzio 01.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''[[Raphael Rooms|The Sc...
8: ... Rooms|The School of Athens]]'' and the ''Disputation on the Blessed Sacrament,'' two large, arch-shap... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: '''Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novellata''' ([[December 6]], [[1478]...
4: <tr><td>[[Image:Castiglione.jpg]]</td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Baldassare Castiglione'''</td></tr>
8: ...], a relative of Luigia Gonzaga, mother of Castiglione.
10: ...a he travelled quite often; during one of his missions to [[Rome]], he met [[Guidubaldo da Montefeltro... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
1: ...r of the [[epic]] poem ''[[Orlando furioso]]'' ([[1516]]), "Orlando Enraged".
3: ...val to France as tutor of [[Francesco Sforza]]. Ariosto thus lost the opportunity of learning Greek, a...
5: ...age:Ariosto.jpg|thumb|Statue of the poet in [[Reggio Emilia]]]]
6: ...s miserable pittance regularly paid during the period that the poet enjoyed it.
8: ...ve bought a slave by assigning him the scanty pension of 75 crowns a year, he was mistaken and might w... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...]] as a [[treason|traitor]]. More was [[canonization|canonized]] in [[1935]] by the [[Roman Catholic ...
7: ...earing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [[flagellation]].
9: ...d his daughters with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually reserve...
12: ...of requests". After undertaking a diplomatic mission to [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V, Holy Roma...
14: ... chancellor of the [[Duchy of Lancaster]], a position that entailed administrative and judicial contro... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
4: ==Biography==
6: ...ague]] in [[1483]], and then given the best education open to a young man of his day in a series of mo...
8: ...argaret's Professor of Divinity]], and had the option of spending the rest of his life as an English [...
10: ... but apart from this he had a less active association with Italian scholars than might have been expec...
12: .... He represented this lack of sympathy as persecution, and sought refuge in Basel, where under the she... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...n [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led the largest expedition of the 16th and 17th century through the southea...
5: ...nandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery and colonization voyage through [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]].
7: ...st of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find a direct connection by sea between the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] a...
11: ...en he preceded Pizarro to Cajamarca on their invasion march. After Atahualpa had been arrested, DeSoto...
13: ...urt. This period was the apex of de Soto's reputation and wealth. - List of U.S. states by elevation (16995 bytes)
6: '''List of [[U.S. states]] by [[elevation]]'''
16: ...on !! Lowest Elevation !! Mean Elevation !! Elevation Difference
98: | 98 m ([[Ohio River]])
102: | [[Iowa]]
104: | 146 m ([[Keokuk, Iowa|Keokuk]]) - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systematics|biological systematics]].
5: ...sified animals based on their means of transportation (air, land, or water).
7: ... original commentary is now lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: ...ndash;1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life known at the time.
11: ...Tyson]] (1649–1708). Advances in classification due to the work of [[entomologist]]s and the fir... - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...ealdo Colombo''' or '''Renaldus Columbus''' (c. [[1516]]-[[1559]]) was a professor of [[anatomy]] and a ...
3: ...natomica'' in which he corrected some of the omissions and errors of his master.
5: His contributions to anatomy and medicine included the following:
7: * showed that the [[lens (vision)|lens]] lies to the front of the [[eye]]ball, no...
12: ...]'s discovery of the [[circulatory system|circulation of blood]]. Harvey studied in Padua some 50 year...
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