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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... - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
3: ...tables of her day. She even had a brief liaison with King Henri III of France. She was listed as one ...
5: ...o anthologies. She also founded and funded a charity for courtesans and their children.
7: ...hough surviving records suggest reasonable prosperity.
16: ... http://www.jazzbabies.com/home/franco.htm along with
17: one of her most famous statements. The portrait is attributed to Tintoretto. - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
2: ...orn [[July 8]], [[1976]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[sailor]] from [[Whatstandwell]] near [[Mat...
6: ...ng Association]] Yachtsman of The Year in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and "Sailing's Young Hope" in [[Fr...
8: ...quently MacArthur was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for services to sport.
12: ...etre]]) [[trimaran]] was built in [[Australia]], with many of the components specifically arranged to ...
18: ...ome after their respective circumnavigations in [[1580]] and [[1967]]. MacArthur was also made an honora... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: |+<big><big>'''جمهوريّة...
24: | '''[[Capital]] and Largest City'''
36: ...tal (2003) <br /> - [[Population density|Density]]
40: | from the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br />[[28 February]], [[1922]]<br ...
58: ... It is bordered to the north and east by the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and the [[Red Sea]], respectively. - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...ading routes and partners to feed burgeoning [[capitalism]] in Europe. In the process, Europeans encou...
3: ...hips that could leave the relatively passive [[Mediterranean]] and sail safely on the open [[Atlantic]...
7: ...y further east. The [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[...
9: ...ient from [[1271]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written up as ''[[Travels]]'' and the work was read th...
11: ...st [[Ottoman Empire]] further limited the possibilities for Europeans. - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...referring to the four islands which lay off that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in [...
3: ...1607;ورية الجزائرية ا...
23:
35: ...bsp;- Total: <br> - [[Population density|Density]]:|| [[List of countries by population|Ranked 34...
60: ... most notably [[Numidia]], and seized the opportunity offered by the Punic Wars to become independent ... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...ed by the United Nations Secretary General and politicians in both the USA and the UK (as reported by ...
3: |+<big><big>'''الجمهورية ا...
19: | '''[[Capital]]''' || [[Baghdad]]
27: ... (July 2004) <br> - [[Population density|Density]] || [[List of countries by population|Ranked 44...
30: ...[3 October]] [[1932]] from the [[United Kingdom|British]] - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ... a country in the [[Middle East]], along the [[Mediterranean Sea]] (on the west), bordered by [[Syria]...
4: |+<big><big>'''الجمهوريّة...
25: | '''[[Capital]]'''
39: <br /> - [[Population density|Density]]
66: ... language|Aramaic]] word ''laban'' which means "white" and refers to snow-capped mountains. An Arabi... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
11: capital = [[Buenos Aires]] |
13: largest_city = [[Buenos Aires]] |
15: leader_titles = [[President of Argentina|President]]|
18: area_magnitude = 1_E12 |
26: population_density = 14 | - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: ...e [[Horn of Africa]]. Djibouti is bordered by [[Eritrea]] in the north, [[Ethiopia]] in the west and s...
4: ...1580;مهورية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa...
22: | '''[[Capital]]'''
29: | [[Dileita Mohamed Dileita]]
36: <br /> - [[Density]] - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ... the north, the [[Red Sea]] to the northeast, [[Eritrea]] and [[Ethiopia]] to the east, [[Kenya]] and ...
8: native_name = جمهورية ا...
16: capital = [[Khartoum]] |
18: government_type = [[Authoritarian]] [[regime]] |
19: leader_titles = [[List of Presidents of Sudan|Pre... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...ddition, Portugal includes several [[island]] territories in the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], such as ...
5: ...th centuries]], Portugal was a major economic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]...
7: ...and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
12: ===Lusitania===
13: ...tanian|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitania|Roman Lusitania]]''''' - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ..., and the tiny [[Parsley Island]] ([[Disputed territories|disputed]]). Due to the [[Spanish colonisati...
15: capital = [[Madrid]] |
17: largest_city = [[Madrid]] |
19: leader_titles = [[Kings of Spain|King]]<br>[[President of th...
23: area_magnitude = 1 E11 | - 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]]-) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
4: ... [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei]].
6: ...nz (Austria) was renamed [[Johannes Kepler University Linz]] in honor of Johannes Kepler, since he wro...
9: ...aid to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant.
13: ...outdoors" to see it and that the moon "appeared quite red."
15: ...tant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the position in April of [[1594]], at the age of 23. - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...'Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ...context of his time, such methods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]...
8: ...of Sir Nicholas, a member of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, ...
10: ...3 at the age of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
14: ..., which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...ut were rarely constructed in his lifetime. In addition, he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [...
7: ...y a peasant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|...
9: ...did not use his father's name because of his illegitimate status.
11: ...n apprentice. In this role, Leonardo also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[Pietro Perugino]].
12: ... he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari]]). - 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: ...egan work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]]. - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...t]]s. It also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]] within the Roman Catholic Church.
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schism|G...
20: ...wealth and power of the [[elite]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to the financial and moral co...
22: ...ional restrictions on the exercise of their authority. In [[England]], [[France]], and [[Spain]] the m...
24: ...e to exclude [[peasant]]s from [[common land]]s. With trade stimulated, landowners increasingly moved ...
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