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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
5: ...ppearance in baptismal registers as godfather or witness.
7: ... was painted by a Russian artist in 1839 for the city of Saint-Malo.
9: ...ed and departed some fifty undiscovered harbours without serious mishap and that the only sailors he l...
13: ...ec]] where he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagay... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
4: ..., and Margaret, free from all fear of domestic sedition, could now give her undivided attention to [[S...
6: ...9]], Albrecht, who had returned from Mecklenburg with an army of mercenaries, was routed and taken pri...
10: ...kholm in pawn. Albrect failing to pay his ransom within the stipulated time, the Hansa surrendered Sto...
12: ...he complete amalgamation of [[Scandinavia]]. But with her usual prudence she avoided every appearance ...
16: ...der were well maintained; the licence of the nobility was sternly repressed; the kingdoms of Sweden an... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
8: ...– [[17 November]] [[1558]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[King of Irel...
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotl...
13: ...s been theorised by some authors to be from congenital [[syphilis]] transferred to her from her mother...
15: ...harpsichord|virginals]]. A great part of the credit of her early education was undoubtedly due to her... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...6]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[De...
14: ...questionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...y have inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other...
17: ...in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
19: | '''[[Capital]]'''
31: ...al ([[2004]])<br> - [[Population density|Density]]
52: ...as a population of more than five million. The capital is [[Bratislava]].
56: ...ween those two name forms is exactly the same as with for example [[Germany]] vs. Federal Republic of ...
63: ...f Celtic kings represent the first known use of writing in Slovakia. Since [[Anno Domini|AD]] 6, ... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...ly low, with some hills in the island's interior. It is located 13? north of the [[Equator]] and 59? w...
3: ...th large sugarcane estates and wide [[pastures]] with many good views to the sea.
5: ...s has one of the highest standards of living and literacy rates in the world and is currently accordin...
9: The earliest inhabitants of Barbados were [[Amerindian]] nomads. Three...
11: ...ght resembled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
5: native_name = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
6: common_name = the United Kingdom |
9: image_map = LocationUnitedKingdom.png |
10: national_motto = [[Dieu et mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: G...
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United Kingdom|None]]; [[English language|English]] ''... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
9: Motto = Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes) |
10: Capital = [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] |
11: LargestCity = [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]] |
12: Governor = [[Bill Richardson (politician)|Bill Richardson]] |
22: DensityRank = 45<sup>th</sup> | - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: ...|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politician
11: *[[Yakubu Gowon]] (born 1934), military leader of [[Nigeria]]
13: ...ihu Yale|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
20: ... Minoru]] (1912-1986), [[United States|US]] [[architect]]
21: *[[Tomoyuki Yamashita|Yamashita, Tomoyuki]] (1885-1946), Japanese lieutenant gen... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... modern [[astronomy]] and modern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His t...
8: ...her sister, Katharina, married a businessman and city councillor, Barthel Gertner.
10: ...he studied [[law]] and [[medicine]] at the universities of [[Bologna]] and [[Padua]]. His uncle financ...
12: ...observation Copernicus made in [[1497]] together with Domenico Novara, are recorded in ''De revolution...
14: ...n in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for the great [[Roman Jubilee|Jubilee]] of [[1... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...g of maps. He wrote the first instruction book of italic script to be published in northern [[Europe]]...
12: ...used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of longitude to aid navigation by sea, as compass courses c...
17: ...um in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and work.
22: ...phical Meditations on the Frame for the World and its Form) by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Less... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
6: ...s of monastic or semi-monastic schools. He was admitted to the [[priesthood]] and took [[monk|monasti...
8: ...dge]], he was [[Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity]], and had the option of spending the rest of hi...
10: ...t from this he had a less active association with Italian scholars than might have been expected.
12: ...eat publisher [[Froben]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe. - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ... through the southeast and midwest of today's [[United States|USA]].
5: ... became commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discov...
6: ... extreme brutality and ruthlessness when dealing with natives. In a conflict for supremacy in Nicaragu...
7: In [[1528]] de Soto led his own expedition along the coast of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find...
11: ...fter Atahualpa had been arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two m... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
5: ...ut later escaped and eventually reached [[Mexico City]].
7: ... expedition. He declined to travel with the expedition as second in command and jealously refused to ...
9: ...earlier ''La Relación'' and published under the title ''Comentarios'' (Commentary).
13: ...ount of the fate of the Pánfilo de Narváez expedition.
15: He was the lead leader with the Golden Hind, which is the name of the ship t... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: ...ue]], and are a potent reminder of the ancient habitation of Slovakia.
7: ...es. Artifacts were discovered dating to the Paleolithic Stage, including the famous Cranium Mold of a ...
9: ...commercial exchanges carried out between the [[Mediterranean]] and [[Central Europe]].
11: ...s, give evidence of human habitation in the [[Neolithic]] period. The [[pottery]] of Zeliezovce, that ...
13: ...hic deposits in Europe, and was continuously inhabited for more than 800 years by the same tribes who ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
8: ...he Lost City of the Incas," now an archaelogical site.]]
9: ...ur provinces whose corners met at the empire's capital, [[Cusco]] (Qosqo).
17: ...ici Viracocha of Colina de las Ventanas in [[Pacaritambo]] sent forth his four sons and four daughters...
19: ...om the depths of [[Lake Titicaca]] and found the city of Cuzco. They traveled by means of underground ...
21: ...of oral tradition, since the Incas did not have writing. There probably did exist a Manco Capac who be... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ...s traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ... the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into pro...
9: ...ses of power in the Kingdom and in the [[Principality of Antioch]], were [[Krak des Chevaliers]], and ...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Computer display (4276 bytes)
1: ...to be ambiguous alongside the other senses of "monitor" meaning "machine-level debugger" or "thread sy...
4: As with [[television]], several different [[hardware]] t...
11: ...0) up to 2048 by 1536 pixels (2048ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a variety of [[refresh rate]]s.
13: ...ts [[dot pitch]]. In general, the lower the dot pitch, (e.g. .24), the sharper the picture will be.
15: ...abel "glass [[teletype]]s", because of the similarity to their electromechanical predecessors. - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...ins and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. It shares borders with [[Argentina]] to the east, [[Bolivia]] to the no...
15: capital = [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]]<sup>1</sup> |
18: leader_titles = [[President of Chile|President]] |
20: largest_city = [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]] |
23: area_magnitude = 1 E11 |
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