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- 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.
28: ...04]]). Married [[Henry I, Duke of Lorraine]] in [[1599]].
39: ==Related Topics== - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
4: ...lois]] at the Royal Chⴥau in [[Saint-Germain-en-Laye]] and nicknamed '''Margot''' by her brothers, s...
6: ...d. Marguerite was made to marry Henri de Bourbon (later Henri de Navarre and eventually [[Henry IV of ...
8: ...husband, she did not answer; so King Charles IX, placed a hand on his sister's head, compelling her to...
10: ...mew's Day, Catherine de' Medici orchestrated the slaughter by French Catholics of thousands of Hugueno...
12: ...ld take seven years, but they were concluded in [[1599]] with an agreement that allowed her to maintain ... - 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... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
5: Shortcuts to highly popular [[painter]]s:
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [...
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impress...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]] - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
1: ...av Carl Larsson 1897.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Carl Larsson]], ''Crayfishing'', watercolor, 1897]]
3: ...aper. Others include [[papyrus]], bark papers, [[plastic]]s, [[leather]], [[fabric]], wood, and [[canv...
6: ...]] and the technology spread to [[Italy]] decades later. Some of the oldest paper manufactures include...
10: ...inting using pigments in a water medium on wet [[plaster]]. One well-known example of buon fresco is t...
16: ...ork with [[oil paint]], including [[van Dyck]] ([[1599]]-[[1641]]), [[Thomas Gainsborough]] ([[1727]]-[[... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...although [[Carl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
11: ...as well as an abiding religious conviction, for solace.
13: ... that he "...was taken by [his] mother to a high place to look at it." At age nine, he observed anot...
19: In December [[1599]], [[Tycho Brahe]] wrote to Kepler, inviting Kepl...
23: ...n a physical cause for this. The question of snowflakes was not resolved until the [[20th century]]. - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
7: ...pher Columbus]] lands on one of the [[Bahamas]] Islands, "discovering" the [[New World]] (for [[15th c...
8: *[[1494]]-[[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divides the New World between [[Spain]] and [[...
9: ...North American mainland, which he claims for [[England]]
14: *[[1513]]-[[Juan Ponce de Le claims [[Florida]] for Spain
15: *[[1519]]-[[HernᮠCort鳝] defeats [[Tlaxcala]], a small state neighboring the [[Aztec]] empire - August (4611 bytes)
4: ...onstellation of [[Cancer]] and ends in the constellation of [[Leo]].
6: ...named August, it was called ''[[Sextilis]]'' in [[Latin]], since it was the sixth month in the [[Roman...
10: ...ne of the [[public holidays in the Republic of Ireland]].
14: In [[Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''elokuu'', ...
18: ...rd]] (1596); the First [[Battle of Curlew Pass]] (1599); the [[Battle of Dungans Hill]] (1647); the [[Ba... - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
1: ...ompeii, provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...died after travelling across the bay with a flotilla of naval vessels to save some of those trapped in...
7: ...Pompeii provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
9: ...; the new rulers imposed their architecture and enlarged the town. It has been supposed that during th...
11: ...was forced to surrender after the conquest of [[Nola]]. It became a Roman colony with the name of '''C... - 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... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...iatic Sea]] in northeast [[Italy]]. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mou...
6: ...e]]. Venice was a [[city state]] (an Italian [[thalassocracy]] or ''Repubblica Marinara'', the other t...
8: ...8, opening a lifeline to silver from Germany; the last autocratic doge, Vitale Michiele, died in 1172.
10: ...e's stewardship of its mainland territories was relatively enlightened and the citizens of such towns ...
12: ...onstantinople]] in [[1204]] and established the [[Latin Empire]]. Considerable plunder was brought bac... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
5: ... [[Gordian I]] and his son [[Gordian II]] are proclaimed [[Roman emperors]].
7: ...amestown, Virginia]], a third of the colony's population.
8: *[[1630]] - [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] outlaws the possession of cards, [[dice]], and gaming t...
10: ...tamp Act]], the first direct tax levied from [[England]] on the American colonies.
14: *[[1894]] - The first playoff game for the [[Stanley Cup]] starts. - 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) - Dust Bowl (5196 bytes)
2: ...s [[grass]]es. It covered parts of [[Texas]], [[Oklahoma]], [[Colorado]], [[Kansas]], and [[New Mexico...
6: ...atural vegetation, the ecological balance of the plains was destroyed, leaving nothing to hold the soi...
8: ...obable based upon the 2.3 million population of Oklahoma at the time.
10: ...mb|right|300px|Buried machinery in barn lot. [[Dallas, South Dakota]], May [[1936]]]]
11: ...n, D.C.]]. That winter, red snow fell on [[New England]].
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