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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...[[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship co...
2: ...x|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...r whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck i...
5: ...t voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the gen...
7: ...ay" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
12: ...z, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]s
34: *[[Georg Agricola|Agricola, Georgius]] (1490-1555)
35: ...eologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
36: *[[Johannes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ...s''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the courts of several [[Franc...
5: ...mistress of the then 16-year-old Henri d'Orl顮s, later to be [[Henry II of France|King Henri II]]. Al...
9: ...et to present the royal mistress with a pearl necklace.
11: ...f jealousy on the part of Queen Catherine, particularly when Henri entrusted Diane with the Crown Jewe...
15: ...rdance with her wishes, and to provide a resting place for her, her daughter completed the funeral cha... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: ...[Image:stuart.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
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7: ...''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July...
9: ...ith her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately t...
12: ...[[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]]. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
7: ...uring a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She gr...
11: ...y Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succ... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
1: ...407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was hand written in Belgium, by Gera...
2: ...m [[Greek language|Greek]] καλλος ''kallos'' "beauty" + &gamm...
4: ...iti]] are of interest to both calligraphers and palaeographers.
10: ...hodo|Shodō]]'' 書道, in [[Korean language|Korean]], ''[[Seoyae]]'' 書藝, ...
12: ...s and unified the written form for the use of scholars. This is chuan-shu and contained more than 3,00... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ... high spiritual leaders, this title in [[English language|English]] usage generally refers to the sup...
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35: | <small>[[Tuscany|Tuscia]] (Northern Latium)</small>
105: | <small>[[Fondi]], Latium, Italy</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ...His twin brother was [[stillborn]] (Tycho wrote a Latin ode (Wittendorf 1994, p. 68) to his dead twin ...
10: ...stle to which they moved, and where Tycho began a Latin education until he was 12 years old.
12: ...e]] which occurred on August 21, [[1560]], particularly the fact that it had been predicted, that so i...
14: ''I've studied all available charts of the planets and stars and none of them match the others. ...
16: ...ycho's naked eye measurements of planetary [[parallax]] were accurate to the [[arcminute]]. (These mea... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...lgium|Belgian]] town of [[Bree]], called Breda in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from h...
5: ...ore settling in [[Brussels]] permanently 10 years later. He died there on [[9 September]], [[1569]].
9: Bruegel specialised in landscapes populated by [[peasant]]s, painted in a simpler style th...
11: ... backdrop to a religious [[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the...
14: ...ruegel Proverbs.jpg|thumb|300px|Bruegel's ''Netherlandish Proverbs'', [[1559]], with peasant scenes il... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ... [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteratio...
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
20: *[[Yousef Alavi]]
29: ...nderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
7: *[[Nicola Abbagnano]], (1901-1990)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
31: *[[Rodolphus Agricola]], (1443-1485){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202) - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
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41: ...key]]<br/><small>The [[Ottoman Flag|flag]] of the later Ottoman period</small> - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ... Aztec empire]] and brought large portions of mainland [[Mexico]] under the [[Crown of Castile|King of...
4: ...oman, [[Doña Marina]], as interpreter; she would later bear Cortés a son. When the Governor of Cuba ...
6: ...d concern for human rights, as typified by the [[Black Legend]], also did little to expand understandi...
10: ...has become common in both the Spanish and English languages in modern times, and is the name which man...
14: ...az, 5th Lord of Monroy]], and wife Mencía de Orellana y Carvajal. - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
17: | [[1566 Icarus]] || [[June 27]], [[1949]]
28: ...on|populations]]" for stars (Population I and Population II).
30: ...d variable]] stars, and identified the [[Crab Nebula]] as the remnant of the supernova of the year [[1...
32: ...ose perihelion is closer than that of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]) and the [[Amor asteroid]] [[1036 G...
36: ...] and one of the two [[Magellan (Telescopes)|Magellan]] [[telescope]]s.
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