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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
5: ...ated; she was only fourteen when she was married (1533), at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whos...
7: ...ible that Francis, alarmed at the possible extinction of his royal house, would listen to such a propo...
11: ...l de l'H?al]], who advocated a policy of conciliation.
13: ...ly shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38, or even fewer centimetr...
15: ... the troubled period of the [[French Wars of Religion]]. At first she listened to the moderate counsel... - 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... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...ry I]]. She reigned during a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ...ted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous organizations, including [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]...
16: ...der the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]].
18: ...d to as "Kat". Chapernowne developed a close relationship with Elizabeth and remained her confidante a...
20: ...tic, glamorous, flirtatious, charismatic and religiously tolerant. Elizabeth also inherited her mother... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
3: ... X|X, Malcolm]], ([[1925]]-[[1965]]), US Black Nationalist leader
7: ...s]], ([[1506]]-[[1552]]), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary]]
16: *[[Fort?m鮥z|Xim鮥z, Fort?(d. 1533), early Spanish colonizer in Mexico - 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]]) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...opean composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is...
6: ...fter the murder of Duke Sforza, he left this position, going to work for the Duke's brother instead. ...
10: ...orks were often performed there, no direct connection to them has been discovered by researchers. He ...
14: ...examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; and his fame was only eclipsed after the beginn...
16: ...icantly, and was also able to express intense emotion with economy of means. - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...ory of California''' begins with European exploration.
5: ...hen with its fertile agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with its high-technolog...
11: ...dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about 13,000 years ago.
13: ...icas|European explorers]] and [[European colonization of the Americas|settlers]] appeared, they found ...
16: ===European exploration=== - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
1: ... poet, author 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... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...Michel Eyquem de Montaigne''' ([[February 28]], [[1533]] – [[September 13]], [[1592]]) was an infl...
6: ...nd developed some very progressive views on education there, and he and had been the mayor of [[Bordea...
8: ... in the country, he was sent to study at a prestigious boarding school in Bordeaux, the [[Coll觥 de G...
12: ...'s ''Theologia naturalis'', then a posthumous edition of Boétie's works. In 1571 he retired to ...
16: During this time of the [[Wars of Religion]] in France, Montaigne, himself a [[Roman Cathol... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...e itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His theory affected many other aspects of hu...
5: ==Biography==
10: ...gna]] and [[Padua]]. His uncle financed his education and wished for him to become a [[bishop]] as wel...
12: ...with Domenico Novara, are recorded in ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium''.
16: ...ntuition of his theory. His collection of observations and ideas on the theory started in [[1504]]. - 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... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
30: *[[Giorgio Agamben]]
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{...
97: *[[Ariston of Chios]], (fl. 250 BC){{fn|R}}
131: *[[Alain Badiou]], (born 1937)
170: *[[Vissarion Belinsky]], (1811-1848){{fn|R}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...ro]], marking the beginning of [[Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas|Spanish]] [[hegemony]].
9: ... ''tawantin suyu'' in [[Quechua]] is "the four regions between", which referred to the four provinces ...
11: ... but can also refer to the people or the civilization, and is used as an adjective when referring to t...
21: ...know of these myths mostly by means of oral tradition, since the Incas did not have writing. There pro...
23: == Emergence and Expansion == - Hank Aaron (72330 bytes)
1: ...home run]]s in a career (755), surpassing the previous mark of 714 by [[Babe Ruth]]. Aaron also holds...
3: ==Pre-professional Career==
4: ...anded. His team won the [[Negro High School Championship]] two years running. In high school,he also ...
8: ...s played an exhibition against the Clowns the previous year. Aaron helped lead the Clowns to victory i...
10: ==Professional Career== - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ...ed States|Southwestern]] [[United States]] expeditionary logs as a slave servant in the Spanish explor...
8: ...a]], and through the [[Sonoran Desert]] to the region of [[Sinaloa]] in [[New Spain]] (present-day [[M...
13: ...storians, however, the eye-witness accounts of various associates, and the lack of references to Estev... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...t began the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas]].
4: ...oy]] was given to a high-ranking nobleman, [[Antonio de Mendoza]]. Cortés returned to Spain in 1541 w...
6: .... As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either da...
14: ... Ovando y Cáceres]], the third Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal grandfather was a son of [[Rodrig...
16: ...re of Cortés' studies, his later writings and actions suggest he studied [[Law]] and probably [[Latin... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ... who, while leading the first [[Europe]]an expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day [[Unit...
3: A vast undertaking, de Soto's expedition ranged throughout the [[southeastern United Stat...
5: ...dalgos]] of modest means in [[Extremadura]], a region of poverty and hardship from which many young pe...
7: ...nt horseman, fighter, and tactician, but was notorious for the extreme brutality with which he wielded...
9: ... [[Orient]], profoundly influenced de Soto's ambitions.
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