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- 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 - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ...s''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the courts of several [[Franc... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
17: ...land. Instead, through Mary's son, it was the beginning of their reign over a united Scotland and Engl...
26: ...air struck her, she began to cry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in ...
28: ...vingston held her body straight as the Earls of Lennox and Arran kissed her cheek in fealty, followed ...
36: ...7]], the French Marriage Treaty was signed at a nunnery near Haddington.
55: ...ll Mary that, if she would marry someone (as yet unnamed) of Elizabeth's choosing, Elizabeth would ''"... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
16: ...sumptive]] to the throne of England. After Queen Anne failed to produce a male heir, Henry had her exe...
18: ...abeth's well-being, particularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare t...
20: ...ms of personality, Elizabeth was far more like [[Anne Boleyn|her mother]] than her father: neurotic, g...
33: ...Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s memory, since he found working with E...
49: ...l Elizabeth needed its assent to raise taxes in [[1566]]. The [[British House of Commons|House of Common... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
12: ...ame|right|This piece of Chinese calligraphy was penned by [[Song Dynasty]] official [[Su Shi]]. For ce...
40: | [[Running script]] (Semi-cursive Script)
48: ...o a challenge to read for those with expressive running hand script.
106: In the beginnings of Islam, the Qur'an was mostly recorded in t...
121: .... This style breaks the rules of which letters connect to those that follow. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thum...
308: | '''[[Pope Innocent I]]'''<br><small>Saint Innocent</small>
309: | Papa '''Innocentius''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
410: | Papa '''Ioannes''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
431: | Papa '''Ioannes''' Secundus, <small>Episcopus Romanus</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...[paper mill]]. His best known assistant was [[Johannes Kepler]].
18: ...n. This occurred in the [[Christmas]] season of [[1566]], after a fair amount of drinking, while the jus...
53: ...only as a computational convenience that had no connection to fact.
69: ...a nobleman at [[Landskrona]]. Apparently during dinner the elk had drunk a lot of beer and fell down t...
73: ...before it concluded, would be the height of bad manners and so he remained. His weakened state allowed... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...jpg|right|thumb|Bruegel's ''The Painter and The Connoisseur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self po...
19: ...Large Fish Eat Small Fish]]'' 1556, Albertina, Vienna
23: ...nd Lent'' 1559, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
24: ...s Games'' 1560, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
25: ...Gilboa)'' 1562, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
32: *[[Kenneth Appel]] (? - ?)
53: *[[Paul Bachmann]] (Germany, [[1837]] - [[1920]])
74: *[[Johann Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1667]] - [[1748]]) - 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}}
94: *[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
105: *[[Kenneth Arrow]], (born 1921){{fn|O}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
55: ...the Ottomans built a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestants]]...
57: ... Eventually, after a defeat at the [[Battle of Vienna]], in [[1683]], it was clear the Ottoman Empire ...
65: ... The Ottoman Empire had some successes in the beginning years of the war. The [[Allies]], including th...
66: ...nd to disband it. This army was instrumental in winning the [[Turkish War of Independence]] ([[1918]]&...
83: “The beginnings of legal reform in the Middle East were initi... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
47: ...ships, 500 men, 13 horses and a small number of cannons, he landed in the Yucatan Peninsula in [[Mayan...
49: ...ust 1519, along with 600 men, 15 horsemen, 15 [[cannon]]s, and hundreds of indigenous carriers and war...
60: ...r Cortés, besides recalling in a rather abrupt manner that the conquest of Mexico was due to him alon...
66: ...Council of Indies, both of which were already beginning to feel anxious about Cortés' rising power.
81: ..., was published. Had the Government declared him innocent, it would have greatly increased his popular... - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
17: | [[1566 Icarus]] || [[June 27]], [[1949]]
32: ...d the [[Apollo asteroid|Apollo-class asteroid]] [[1566 Icarus]] (whose perihelion is closer than that of...
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