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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...cle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fict...
28: ...[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast...
30: ...st Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other places
31: *[[Nicolas Baudin]] - [[18th century]] [[France|French]] ex...
38: ... - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ...terina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici''', and later lived in [[France]] under the name '''Catherin...
5: ... of Urbino, and a French princess, [[Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne]]. Having lost both her parents a...
7: ...n at court, and it seemed possible that Francis, alarmed at the possible extinction of his royal house...
11: ...of France]] at age 15. His wife, [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary, Queen of Scots]], little disposed to medd...
13: ...primary means of support was the [[corset]], with laces and stays made of whalebone or metal. They for... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
4: ...t this political marriage was annulled four years later.
10: ...guered [[Huguenot]] ministers which led to her declaring [[Calvinism]] the official religion of her ki...
14: ... in [[Paris]] two months before the wedding took place.
39: ==Related Topics== - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: ...[Image:stuart.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
7: ... [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish ...
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... - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
2: ... sunflower.jpg|260px]] | caption = Sunflowers display bright yellow colors.}}
3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = lightgreen}}
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plantae]]}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}} - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
20: * [[Late Period of Egypt|Late Period]] (26th–31st Dynasties)
27: ...nium BC|8000 BC]] began to desiccate the pastoral lands of [[Egypt]], eventually forming the [[Sahara]...
29: ...erding]] cattle and [[construction|constructing]] large buildings.
31: ...y links the maternal lineage of a traditional population from Upper Egypt to [[Eastern Africa]] [http:...
33: ...orial extent in the period called the New Empire (1567–1085 BC). - Senet (1763 bytes)
7: ...[Osiris]]. Consequently, Senet boards were often placed in the grave alongside other useful objects fo...
11: ==How to play==
13: ...s who have proposed (different) sets of rules to play the game. - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
4: Flag = Tennessee state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Tennessee]] |
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
11: ...LargestCity = [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] (largest [[metropolitan area]] is Nashville) |
13: PostalAbbreviation = TN | - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...[[Hercher]], 1858. There are translations in many languages; in English by [[Anthony Hodges]], 1638, a...
3: ...'Uranologion'' of [[Petavius]], with a Latin translation, 1630. Nothing definite is known as to the au... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...He was knighted in [[1603]], created '''Baron Verulam''' in [[1618]], and created '''Viscount St Alban...
4: ...entific revolution]]. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for [[science|scient...
8: ...Ann Cooke Bacon]] was the second wife of Sir Nicholas, a member of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church,...
10: ...y years, and that his health during that time, as later, was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, C...
16: ...magistrorum'' at [[Gray's Inn]], and a few months later they went abroad with Sir [[Amias Paulet]], th... - 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... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ...1512]] – [[December 2]], [[1594]]) was a [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[cartographer]] of German descent...
9: ...another map of the world ([[1538]]) and a map of Flanders ([[1540]]). During this period he learned [[...
14: ... map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]]
15: .... Maps of [[France]], [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]] were added in [[1585]] and of the [[Balkan]]...
17: The Mercatormuseum in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator... - 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]]) - July 24 (8660 bytes)
5: ... Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]] is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son [[King James I|King Jame...
9: ... Valley, resulting in the establishment of [[Salt Lake City]].
15: *[[1915]] - Passenger ship ''[[Eastland]]'' capsizes in central [[Chicago]], with the l...
16: ...aries of modern [[Turkey]], is signed in [[Switzerland]] by [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]] and other countri...
21: *[[1937]] - [[Alabama]] drops [[rape]] charges against the so-calle... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ... ideal, and [[bhajan]]s) as well as [[Sufi|Sufi Islam]].
4: ...nd that it set men against one another. He particularly regretted the antagonism between Hindus and Mu...
6: .... This procedure was continued, and the tenth and last Guru, Guru Gobind (AD [[1666]]–[[1708]]) ...
8: ...njabi]], [[Sanskrit]], [[Bhojpuri]] and [[Persian language|Persian]].
10: ... True Name, although manifest in many ways, many places and known by many names, is eternally One, the... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
1: ...l-de-champlain-s.jpg|thumb|right|''Samuel de Champlain''<br>by Th鯰hile Hamel (1870)]]
3: ...cle covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importance to World History.
7: ... on the voyage, he created a [[map]] of the [[St. Lawrence River]] and, on his return to France on [[S...
9: ...hamplain lived until 1607 while he explored the Atlantic coast.
13: On [[July 3]], 1608 Champlain landed at the "point of Quebec" and set about [[fort... - History of Ancient Egypt (27975 bytes)
20: * [[Late Period of Egypt|Late Period]] (26th–31st Dynasties)
27: ...nium BC|8000 BC]] began to desiccate the pastoral lands of [[Egypt]], eventually forming the [[Sahara]...
29: ...erding]] cattle and [[construction|constructing]] large buildings.
31: ...y links the maternal lineage of a traditional population from Upper Egypt to [[Eastern Africa]] [http:...
33: ...orial extent in the period called the New Empire (1567–1085 BC).
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