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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
111: *[[Vasco da Gama]], (1469?-1524), [[Portuguese]] navigator, first to reach [[Indi...
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ... if the distances were calculated in Roman miles (1524 meters or 5,000 feet) rather than [[nautical mile...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
52: ...ain rich in silver – reached Spain around [[1524]]. Since then, the Spaniards named the river of S...
162: ...al $20 billion loan, but immediate action seemed unlikely. The peso's peg to the dollar was abandoned ...
177: ...ietnam]]ese, and [[China|Chinese]] followed. The only official language is [[Spanish language|Spanish]...
217: ...et.net Argentina] - Search engine of Argentinean only web pages. - Portugal (61755 bytes)
17: ...out. Rome sent numerous legions, but success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill...
25: ...Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Arab]], mainly expelled after the [[Christian]] reconquest or [...
31: ...g Ferdinand]] was dying with no male heirs. His only child, a single daughter, married King [[John I ...
42: ... ''feitoria'' (a trading post) for commerce with inland Africa thus, circumventing the Arab [[caravan]...
47: ...ip III]] tried to further enforce integration, openly attacking the Portuguese nobility that was not i... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
91: *[[Arvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]]
110: *[[Yoannis XIII of Alexandria]], ([[1483]]-[[1524]]), Coptic Pope - List of painters (54090 bytes)
554: *[[Hans Holbein the Elder]] (ca.[[1465]]-[[1524]])
1151: *[[Eduard von Steinle]] ([[1810]]-[[1886]])
1152: *[[Théophile Steinlen]] ([[1859]]-[[1923]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
9: ...ce the [[Viking]]s to reach the North American mainland, which he claims for [[England]]
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
21: ...ing a deep sentiment, but she unfortunately died only 4 years later, when Castiglione was in Rome agai...
23: In [[1524]] [[Pope Clement VII]] sent him to [[Spain]] as '...
36: ...rs are another point of interest, describing not only the man and his personality, but also details ab... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
16: He would have then visited Frombork only in [[1501]]. As soon as he reached this town, he...
24: ...c Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Olsztyn]] o...
42: ...liocentric hypothesis did not survive, so we can only speculate about what led him to his conclusions....
49: ...ium coelestium'' ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres") in the year of his death [[1543]], eve...
53: ... than Ptolemy's. With this change his system had only uniform circular motions, correcting what seemed... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
30: ... that man cannot be saved by his own efforts but only by the grace of God, would erode the legitimacy ...
38: ...d urban middle class in the North), and that the only true authority is the [[Bible]], echoing the ref...
61: ...[Peasants' War]] of the lower classes in Germany (1524), show that discontent was not confined to any on...
78: ...rds were not an active force, or, at least, certainly not a mass movement. The different character of ...
102: ===Online Resources=== - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
4: ...hy they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in the ocean.
18: ...aking, tsunamis generated from these mechanisms, unlike the ocean-wide tsunamis caused by some earthqu...
21: ... a tsunami is better understood as a new and suddenly higher sea level, which manifests as a shelf or ...
22: ... ships and boulders can be carried several miles inland before the tsunami subsides.
28: ...bed, unlike surface waves, which typically reach only down to a depth of 10 m or so. - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...e references in his writings. He was almost certainly [[illegitimate]]. His father was a [[priest]] n...
14: ...oductivity began comparatively late in his life. Only when he had mastered [[Latin]] did he begin to e...
21: ...arship which he regarded as his purpose in life. Only as an independent scholar could he hope to influ...
23: ...ut had a right to the forgiving mercy of God, if only he would seek this through the means offered him...
25: ...er those of form or were evils of a kind curable only by a long slow regeneration in the moral and spi... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
3: ... on the 17th of July. At this point the ship was only 577 nautical miles from the pole, but it was cle...
7: ...vanni da Verrazano]] explored the same coast in [[1524]])–and sailing a distance up the [[Hudson R...
11: ...n managing to turn around the southern tip of Greenland and continue west.
21: ...graphy at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''] - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
31: ...life, death and resurrection of [[Jesus]]. It is only this righteousness that makes a sinner just befo...
39: ...d that indulgences did nothing to save souls and only lined the pockets of the clergy. Because he beli...
41: ...an Order|Dominican]] friar [[Johann Tetzel]] was enlisted to travel throughout Albert's sees and sell ...
66: ...of the mendicant orders, many holidays which led only to disorder; the suppression of nunneries, begga...
69: ...onsists in the words of promise given to belief. Only these three can be regarded as sacraments, in vi... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
50: ...-people and the Teutonic Order, moved into the thinly populated Slav territories east of the Oder ([[B...
82: In 1524 the [[Peasants' War]] broke out in [[Swabia]], [[...
110: ... the nobility and citizenry, an "[[enlightenment|enlightened]] [[absolutism]]" was established in Prus...
151: ...ssia and [[Denmark]] over [[Schleswig]], which - unlike [[Holstein]] - was not part of the German Conf...
196: In 1888 Kaiser Wilhelm I died, followed only 99 days later by his son [[Friedrich III, German... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
50: ...-people and the Teutonic Order, moved into the thinly populated Slav territories east of the Oder ([[B...
82: In 1524 the [[Peasants' War]] broke out in [[Swabia]], [[...
110: ... the nobility and citizenry, an "[[enlightenment|enlightened]] [[absolutism]]" was established in Prus...
151: ...ssia and [[Denmark]] over [[Schleswig]], which - unlike [[Holstein]] - was not part of the German Conf...
196: In 1888 Kaiser Wilhelm I died, followed only 99 days later by his son [[Friedrich III, German... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...e Aztec empire]] and brought large portions of mainland [[Mexico]] under the [[Crown of Castile|King o...
4: ...elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an expedition which he partly funded. His enm...
10: ...ll equally correct. The latter two were most commonly used during his lifetime, but the former shorten...
20: ... of a sixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life in his small ...
26: ...here of Spain's southern ports of Cadiz, Palos, Sanlucai, and Seville, listening to the tales of those... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
89: ...573]] - [[Azai Hisamasa]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1524]])
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