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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: ...her parts of the southwest of what is now the [[United States]].
3: ...nado expedition.jpg|thumb|500px|The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.]]
7: ...old]]. He set out in 1540, joined by a large expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 sl...
9: ... the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indi...
11: ...r six Zuni pueblos. He also sent out various expeditions. [[Melchior Diaz]] was sent out to the mouth ... - 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.) - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><sma...
7: ...]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[King of Irel...
9: ...[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...m|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baroni...
13: ...orth America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Vir... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ... him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: ...site ''Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae'', which is written on a ''[[cantus firmus]]'' derived from the mu...
10: ...two thirds of the citizens fled as well). His position at Ferrara was filled by [[Jacob Obrecht]] in ...
14: ... beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the decline of the polyphonic style.
16: ...ly, and was also able to express intense emotion with economy of means. - 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... - 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... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...glish language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ...[[Ralph Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil) - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
2: ... [[Middle Ages]] - the ''middle'' period in a traditional schematic [[Periodization|division of Europe...
4: ...nd [[translation|translating]]. Notwithstanding, with the beginning of the [[Renaissance of the 12th c...
6: With this view the medieval men of science went in se...
14: ...olic Church|Catholic Church]], being the only institution to survive the process, maintained what was ...
16: ... on previous ignorance about the period combined with popular [[stereotype]]s. - 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... - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...] and a surgeon at the University of [[Padua]] ([[1544]]-[[1559]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and h...
3: He published a book of [[anatomy]] entitled ''De re anatomica'' in which he corrected some...
8: * showed that [[artery|arteries]] expand with each [[heart]]beat - Padua (12961 bytes)
2: ...]] and [[Ugo Foscolo]]. The city is picturesque, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into ...
7: ... till the fire of [[1420]], when the Venetian architects who undertook the restoration removed them, t...
9: ...]], the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great door, the work of [[Falconetto of Verona]]...
10: ...Two Christians before the Judges'', hangs in the city's [[cathedral]].]]
11: ...irst full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiquity. - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
3: ...olitical]] boundaries, many often feature [[geopolitical]], [[social]], [[religious]] and [[economic]]...
9: ...d with a set of 27 maps, though scholars say that it is not known whether the printed maps were engrav...
11: ...544, these works are now called "IATO" atlases - (Italian, Assembled to Order) or more frequently "Laf...
13: ...le maps to a uniform size. It was an immediate critical and commercial success.
15: ...Mercator’s]] "Atlas, Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi ..." (Atlas, or Descripti...
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