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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region in north-ea... - 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... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
4: ...is married her to the Duke of Cleves, but this political marriage was annulled four years later.
14: ... began to marry Henry to the king's sister Marguerite. She died in [[Paris]] two months before the wed...
18: ...d William, Duke of Cleves, annulled in [[1545]], with no issue.
33: title=[[List of Navarrese monarchs|King of Navarre]]| - 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 painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
2: ...cience topics]], [[List of terms relating to algorithms and data structures]]
18: [[16-bit]] --
19: [[16-bit application]] --
27: [[28-bit]] --
34: [[32-bit application]] -- - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
11: *[[Amedeo Avogadro]], (1776-1856), Italian physicist
56: ... Emil Fischer]], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
66: ...ham (chemist)|Thomas Graham]] not to be confused with:
72: *[[Fritz Haber]], (1868-1934)
75: *[[John Haldane]], British biochemist - 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... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: ...her parts of the southwest of what is now the [[United States]]. He was born in [[Salamanca]], [[Spain...
5: ... gold. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 335 Spanish, 1,300 Mexican Indian allies, f...
8: ... the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indi...
10: ...41 the demands of his army resulted in conflicts with the Rio Grande Indians that led to the brutal [...
12: ...ira Indians (later known as [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]) were no rich people at all, the village consi... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ...mpire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to ...
7: ...choice between seeking fame and glory in a war in Italy, or trying his luck in the Spanish colonies of...
12: ...ter said. Thus warned, Cortés organized his expedition and set sail on the morning of [[January 18]],...
15: ... to say, in his narrative Cortés manipulates reality in order to achieve his overarching purpose of g...
18: ...slavery, though he proved less and less useful as it became apparent that Marina was trilingual: she s... - 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}} - Apache (7848 bytes)
3: ...d tribes of [[Native American]]s, aboriginal inhabitants of [[North America]], who speak an [[Southern...
8: ...try of these people into the American Southwest, with substantial numbers not present until the early ...
10: ...ravois]] loaded with their possessions. In April 1541, while traveling on the plains east of the Pueblo...
12: ... and they have very well-constructed tents, made with tanned and greased cowhides, in which they live ...
14: ...e Spaniards described Plains dogs as very white, with black spots, and ?''not much larger than water [... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ...excoco]] – the site of modern-day [[Mexico City]].
7: ...eals with the historical Aztec civilization, not with modern-day Nahuatl speakers.
9: ...'' was like the modern use of ''Latino'', or ''Mediterranean'': a broad term that does not refer to a ...
11: ...in Codex]] relates that after leaving Aztlan, [[Huitzilopochtli]] ordered his people not to use the wo...
13: ... should be built. This sculpture is in [[Mexico City]].]] - Navajo Nation (14007 bytes)
1: [[Image:Manuelito.jpg|thumb|right|125px|[[Manuelito]], Navajo chief]]
2: ...y, Arizona|Maricopa County]], which includes the city of Phoenix.
7: ...Arizona]], [[Utah]] and [[New Mexico]]. Located within the Navajo Nation are [[Canyon De Chelly Natio...
9: ...to the [[Apache]], and the Navajo language along with other Apache languages make up the [[Southern At...
11: ...kinii''' 'underground-house-people') reservation within the Navajo Nation's reservation at a historic ... - El Greco (2407 bytes)
2: ...4]]), a Greek [[painter]], [[sculptor]] and [[architect]] of the Spanish school, is best known.
4: ...sful career as a painter of altarpieces and portraits. Many of El Greco's works are on display at Madr...
6: ...ge:Greco_Trinity.jpg|thumb|left|200px|'' Holy Trinity'', 1577 ([[Museo del Prado]], Madrid)]]
7: ...he late [[nineteenth century]] that artists and critics renewed interest in his highly individual mann...
9: ...tion rather than misused; light is incandescent, fitful and unreal; colours are pure, luminous and une... - Zinc (12445 bytes)
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26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
81: | [[Velocity of sound]]
86: | [[Electronegativity]] - 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 | - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
2: {{Copyedit|article|date=January 2008}}
5: ...ronado had hoped to conquer the mythical [[Seven Cities of Gold]].
8: ...z, [[Majorat]]s of his family, ''[[Corregidor (position)|Corregidor]]'' of [[Segovia]] and [[Jerez de ...
11: ...mment hidden as I can find no reliable source on either side of this question, just lots of blogs and ...
13: ==Mounting the expedition== - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...in|Spanish]] ''[[conquistador]]'' who led an expedition that caused the [[conquest of the Aztec Empire...
4: ... to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully but embittered.
6: ...scriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
14: ...mpire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to ...
16: ...as to the nature of Cortés' studies, his later writings and actions suggest he studied [[Law]] and pr... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...ion deep into the territory of the modern-day [[United States]], was the first European to discover th...
3: ...expedition ranged throughout the [[southeastern United States]] searching for gold and a passage to [[...
5: ...military fame after the [[Moors]] were defeated. With discovery of new lands to the west (which seemed...
7: ...ian, but was notorious for the extreme brutality with which he wielded these gifts.
9: ...he [[Orient]], profoundly influenced de Soto's ambitions.
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