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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer
119: *[[Thomas Gann]], explorer - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ld be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regio...
5: ...l]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first ...
7: ...ates]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is c...
21: ...rothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchine...
67: ...friendly. He wrote with such awe of the friendly innocence and beauty of these [[Native Americans|Indi... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
29: ...gnon|Agnon, S.Y.]], (1888-1970), [[Nobel]] prizewinning author
35: ...ish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
36: *[[Johannes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...r brother, [[Joseph II|Archduke Josef]] and ''Johanna'' in honour of Saint John the Evangelist. A cour...
13: ...red to speak German. However, when her sister Johanna-Gabriella died of smallpox in [[1762]], Maria-An...
15: ... of Austria|Maria Theresa]]'s daughters. With Johanna-Gabriella dead, it was decided that Maria-Antoni...
17: ...osses for all shoulders." Maria-Antonia left [[Vienna]] in [[April]] [[1770]], when she was fourteen. ...
19: Two and half weeks after leaving [[Vienna]], Maria-Antonia was handed over to messengers f... - Geology (12007 bytes)
12: ...of [[Aristotle]], remained authoritative for millennia. However, its interpretation of fossils was not...
14: Georg Agricola (1494-1555) wrote the first systematic treatise about [...
16: By the [[1700s]] [[Jean-Etienne Guettard]] and [[Nicolas Desmarest]] hiked centr...
36: ...y to provide the relative ages of strata or the manner in which they were formed.
48: ...han the one above it. Logically a younger layer cannot slip beneath a layer previously deposited. This... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]]...
24: ... critical. It resolved by Papal intervention in [[1494]] when the [[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divided the ...
33: ... spread across the world were chronically under manned and ill-equipped. They could not compete with ...
45: ...he Age of Exploration was unprecedented. For millennia it had been the Mediterranean economy that had ...
61: **[[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
67: ...ng nation and produced over 77,000 tons of sugar annually between 1820 - 1824, which was achieved thro...
69: By the beginning of the 19th century, Britain's heavy reliance ...
71: ... sovereign nation. Jamaica celebrated the tricentennial of British rule in 1955.
112: *[[Saint Ann, Jamaica|Saint Ann]]
135: ... maintaining strict fiscal discipline, greater openness to trade and financial flows, market liberaliz... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
94: *[[Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]] ([[1591]]-[[1666]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
8: *[[1494]]-[[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divides the New World...
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France]], explores...
28: <td align="center"><B>Beginnings to 1599</B><BR>[[History of the United States... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...n composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is usu...
6: ...uin was a member of the papal choir under [[Pope Innocent VIII]]. In the later [[1490s]] he was in [[...
10: ...his works were often performed there, no direct connection to them has been discovered by researchers....
14: ...ion; and his fame was only eclipsed after the beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the...
16: ...rought together most of the contemporary trends, innovated significantly, and was also able to express... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...f Florence after the expulsion of the Medici in [[1494]], travelling to European courts in [[France]], [...
12: ...y he had no part in the plot, and maintained his innocence throughout. When [[Pope Leo X]] became [[po...
17: ..., most notably those of [[Jean Bodin]] and [[Giovanni Botero]].
33: ...e of Machiavelli's beliefs as his advocacy of tyranny seems to contradict his earlier works. However, ...
45: *''Decennale primo'' (poem in terza rima), [[1506]] - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...dom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by th...
17: ...rans. The seat of a bishopric from around the beginning of the 4th century A.D., the city experienced ...
25: ...enzo's death in 1492 and his son Piero's exile in 1494, the first period of Medici rule ended with the r...
70: ...ondone|Giotto]]) and the [[Battistero di San Giovanni (Florence)|Baptistery]] buildings are also highl...
76: ...ing the [[novel]] and film ''[[Hannibal (movie)|Hannibal]]''. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}}
78: *[[Anniceris]], (fl. 300 BC){{fn|C}}
89: *[[Isaac ben Moses Arama]], (1420-1494){{fn|R}}
94: *[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Chile (capsicum) (7837 bytes)
11: ...nd first wrote about their medicinal effects in [[1494]].
15: [[Image:Chillies.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Cayenne chile peppers]]
18: * ''Capsicum annuum'', which includes many common varieties such a...
19: ...escens'', which includes the [[cayenne pepper|cayenne]] and [[tabasco]] peppers
20: ...test peppers such as [[habanero]]s and [[Scotch bonnet]]s - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
6: ...pain); some of them (e.g. Milan and Naples) were annexed, others (e.g. Venice and Florence) were reduc...
10: In 1494 [[Charles VIII]] of [[France]] invaded Italy unop...
25: *[[Battle of Ravenna]] Nov. 4, 1512
37: The [[Congress of Vienna]] ([[1814]]) restored a situation close to that ...
39: ...tern provinces around Venice (most of which were annexed in [[1866]], after a new war with Austria). - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
1: ...30 [[PSI]] (207 k[[Pascal|Pa]]), whereas the 70 tonne [[M1 Abrams]] has a ground pressure of just over...
18: ...zkum מזקו"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which en...
30: Tracks are moved by a [[driving wheel]] connected to the motor. The driving-wheel has teeth ar...
32: ...-like as the track droops onto the wheels after running over the driving wheel and idler. The other sy... - Lichen (7988 bytes)
25: Lichens also reproduce sexually in a manner typical of fungi, forming fungal and algal "pro...
60: [[he:חזזית]]
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