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- 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... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...and how it is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she may or may not have been the ...
6: ...;h in Tiberian Hebrew, and حواء (Ḥawwāʾ) in Arabic—means "...
12: ...nt portraying Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with many of the "lower creatures."]]
15: ... knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou sha...
17: ...radition made into Satan) to eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, for "the serpe... - 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]]-) - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...eur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
3: ...cords that he was born in Broghel near Breda, but it is unsure whether the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] town ...
5: ... years later. He died there on [[9 September]], [[1569]].
7: ...they were still infants when their father died; neither received any training from him.
9: ...peasant]]s, painted in a simpler style than the [[Italianate]] art that prevailed at the time. The mos... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...n his main work, the ''Essays'', unprecedented in its candidness and personal flavor, he takes mankind...
6: ...otestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with a peasant family and a tutor until he was six, a...
8: ... he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de la Boétie]] whose de...
10: ...dhood. In 1568 his father died and Montaigne inherited the Château de Montaigne, to which he mov...
12: ...]]'s ''Theologia naturalis'', then a posthumous edition of Boétie's works. In 1571 he retired t... - 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... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...([[1865]]-[[1871]]) the capital of the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [...
3: ...s famous for its wealth of fine [[art]] and [[architecture]].
5: ...|right|127px|"Giglio di Firenze" - symbol of the city]]
7: ...62.JPG|right|thumb|300px|An Overview of Florence (Italian: Firenze)]]
17: ...round the beginning of the 4th century A.D., the city experienced subsequent periods of [[Byzantine]],... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...hemy is the [[transmutation]] of any metal into either [[gold]] or [[silver]].
2: ... well be powder or liquid as a stone, had the ability to do both. The third goal was creating human li...
8: ... word, not Coptic, and have been later connected with ancient Egypt through what linguists term a "[[f...
11: ... instead on [[rule of thumb|rules of thumb]], traditions, basic observations, and mysticism to fill in...
13: ...eferring to the spiritual development of the practitioner as well as a material meaning connected to p...
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