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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...
111: ...reach [[India]] from [[Europe]] by sea route in [[1498]]
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), 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... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
53: ... landed, we hear little of it until about the beginning of the [[19th century]].
58: ...about 4,000 inhabitants, and it owed its modern rennaissance solely to [[Mehemet Ali (Egypt)|Mehemet A...
62: ...re renovated by [[Arabi Pasha]]. Alexandria was connected with Cairo by railway in [[1856]].
96: Two main streets, lined with colonnades and said to have been each about 60 [[metre]]...
98: ...; on the west lay the port of Eunostos, with its inner basin Kibotos, now vastly enlarged to form the ... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]]...
18: ...access to the [[Indian Ocean]] was possible. In [[1498]] [[Vasco da Gama]] made good on this promise by ...
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]] - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
20: ... in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495-1498; his ''De Fato'' and ''De Anima'' were printed al... - 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]]) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
31: ...turned under [[Louis XII of France|Louis XII]] in 1498, Milan fell without a fight, overthrowing Sforza ...
43: ...''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo)|The Last Supper]] (1498)'']]
45: ...r]]'' (''Ultima Cena'' or ''Cenacolo'', in Milan) 1498, and the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' (also known as ''La Gi...
47: Leonardo often planned grandiose paintings with many drawings and sket...
57: *''[[Annunciation (Leonardo)|Annunciation]]'' (1475-1480) - ''[[Uffizi]]'', [[Flor... - Florence (11538 bytes)
17: ...rans. The seat of a bishopric from around the beginning of the 4th century A.D., the city experienced ...
25: ...can government, influenced until his execution ([[1498]]) by the teachings of the radical Dominican prio...
57: ...the plaza commemorates that event), followed in [[1498]] by the execution of its its instigator, [[Girol...
70: ...ondone|Giotto]]) and the [[Battistero di San Giovanni (Florence)|Baptistery]] buildings are also highl...
76: ...ing the [[novel]] and film ''[[Hannibal (movie)|Hannibal]]''. - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...ibuted greatly to India's cultural landscape. Beginning around [[180 BC]], a series of invasions from ...
14: ...mic invasions in the beginning of the second millennium, much of India was ruled by the [[Delhi Sultan...
20: During the middle of the second millennium, several European countries, including the [[P...
26: ...sts in [[1998]]. Significant economic reforms beginning in [[1991]], have transformed India into one o...
32: ...rished even as far back as the [[9000 BC|9th Millennium BCE]]. - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: '''Giovanni Caboto''' (c. [[1450]] – [[1499]]), known ...
4: He was born Giovanni Caboto, but later made [[England]] his base of o...
12: ... East, of the West, and of the North, under our banners and ensignes, with five ships ... and as many ...
22: ...ot find the mainland until his third voyage, in [[1498]], and letters referring to a voyage by [[Amerigo...
24: ...of �20 a year was granted him. The next year, [[1498]], he departed again, with 5 ships this time. The... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
5: ...ey to believe he was born of poor parents "around 1498 or 1500," and then worked for his keep in the hom...
10: ...e mythical [[Strait of Anián]] that supposedly connected the [[Pacific Ocean]] to [[Hudson Bay]], pr...
12: ...e coast, he sailed through the [[Santa Barbara Channel]] and around [[Point Conception]], eventually s...
19: Although his discoveries went largely unnoticed at the time, none of his place names were p... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
8: ...ibuted greatly to India's cultural landscape. Beginning around [[180 BC]], a series of invasions from ...
14: ...mic invasions in the beginning of the second millennium, much of India was ruled by the [[Delhi Sultan...
20: During the middle of the second millennium, several European countries, including the [[P...
26: ...sts in [[1998]]. Significant economic reforms beginning in [[1991]], have transformed India into one o...
32: ...rished even as far back as the [[9000 BC|9th Millennium BCE]].
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