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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Ameri...
3: ...nd. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out...
5: ...Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472...
9: ...]], the [[Columbian Exchange]] of species (both those harmful to humans, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacter...
11: ...est Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and c... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...bel'' is used in modern Spanish) ([[April 22]], [[1451]] – [[November 26]], [[1504]]) was [[Kings ...
5: ...elos and his wife Leonor Alvim, Countess of Barcelos.
8: ... and his wife Beatriz Pereira, countess da Barcellos.
16: ...she was the first woman to be featured on a U.S. postal stamp, also in celebration of Columbus.
19: As a reaction, Isabella was despised by opposers to Franco. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
65: * [[3rd century BC|200s BC]]: [[Crossbow]] in [[History of China|China]]
70: ...[[Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
107: * [[1451]]: [[Concave lens]] for [[eyeglasses]]: [[Nichola...
118: * [[1609]]: [[Microscope]]: [[Galileo Galilei]] - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
1: ...mage:Weyden Deposition.jpg|right|thumb|350px|''Deposition'' by Roger van der Weyden (c.1435) Oil on oa...
15: ...ut the positions of the major elements in the composition. [[Hans Memling]] was his greatest pupil.
18: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1440]]), [[Madrid]]
19: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1443]]), Sint-Pieterskerk, [[Leuven]], [[Be...
22: * ''[[Last Judgment]]'' ([[1451]]), hospital of [[Beaune]], [[France]] - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French [[civil war]] ...
5: ...new monarchies. It is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in [[medieval warfare]].
10: ...wever, in [[1216]], the Anglo-Normans lost their possessions to France. English nobles in the [[14th c...
17: ...y. Another effect of the war was to galvanize opposition to Edward II among the English lords of Aqui...
21: ... III, being the nephew of King Charles, was his closest living male relative and was the only survivin... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: ...nting of written materials and an information explosion in [[Renaissance]] Europe.
11: ...claim Dutchman [[Laurens Janszoon Coster|Laurens Coster]] as the first European to invent movable type...
23: Subscriptions for most of the copies of the Biblia Sacra were probably ...
31: ...ad quickly, and news and books began to travel across Europe far faster than before. It fed the growi...
34: ... which is believed to have been printed between [[1451]] and [[1452]]. - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
4: ...r his explorations made under the English flag. Most notably, in [[1497]], he set sail from [[Bristol...
6: ...[Genoa]], others [[Gaeta]]. The date was around [[1451]], but he moved to [[Venice]] in his youth, and l...
12: ... will have in saide ships, upon their own proper costes and charges, to seeke out, discover, and finde...
20: ...ewfoundland|St. John's]]. He went ashore to take possession of the land, and explored the coast for so...
31: ...n, [[Basque]], Portuguese and English fishermen crossed the ocean to catch fish on the [[Grand Banks|N... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
2: ...luğu'''</big></big><br/>'''Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye'''
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
45: ...so been interpreted as referring to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its d...
47: ...capital. Following [[World War I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies...
53: ... Empire]] in the [[13th century]]. In [[1299]], [[Osman I]] declared independence of the ''Ottoman Pri... - Bosporus (3180 bytes)
2: [[Image:Bosphorus.jpeg|thumbnail|240px|right|Bosporus - Landsat satellite photo]]
3: The '''Bosporus''' or '''Bosphorus''' ([[Turkish language|Turkish]] is a [[str...
5: ...|300px|right|Fatih Sultan Mehmed Bridge over the Bosporus seen from over Rumelihisarı]]
8: ...[Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge|Fatih Sultan Mehmed (Bosporus II) bridge]], is 1090 meters long, and was c...
12: [[Image:bosporus_sat.jpg|thumb|300px|Bosporus from space, May 1996]]
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