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- Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
6: ...n of [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]]. In about [[1452]], she married Sir [[John Grey]], 2nd Baron Ferre...
10: Edward IV had many mistresses, the most notorious being [[Jane Shore]], but Elizabeth in...
12: ...marriages the queen arranged for her family, the most outrageous being when her 20-year-old brother Jo...
16: ...ard IV was out of power during the [[Wars of the Roses]]. Elizabeth now, briefly, became Queen Mother...
18: ...re dead in this or the next reign. Elizabeth now lost the title of Queen Mother and was called The Dam... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthumous reception history is a lengthy one: she wa...
7: ...rt of the Duchy of Bar — a part of France whose Duke was pro-Anglo-Burgundian in loyalty. Franc...
14: ...With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of the troops. The small force she...
18: ...sh army was cut to pieces near [[Patay]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little o...
24: ...[Paris]], the Royal Court was mesmerized by the prospect of a negotiated peace offered by the Duke of ... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...c painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the [[art]] forms.
8: ...chre]] and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples ...
34: ...rking characteristics of the paint, such as [[viscosity]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying tim...
72: *[[Postmodern art|Postmodernism]]
88: A proposed and yet-unrealised development in painting is [... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and invent...
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
15: *[[Joseph Aspdin]], British inventor of cement in 1824
34: *[[Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] — [[snowmobile]]
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787...
51: ...[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
54: ... Cros]], (1842-1888) — [[phonograph]]... almost - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: '''Leonardo da Vinci''' ([[April 15]], [[1452]] – [[May 2]], [[1519]]) was an [[Italy|Ita...
7: ...a young [[lawyer]] and his mother, Caterina, was most likely a peasant girl. It has also been suggeste...
9: ...thorities therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his ...
16: ...Jacopo Saltarelli]], who was a notorious male [[prostitute]]. After two months in jail, he was acquitt...
20: ...re, been assumed that he was a [[homosexuality|homosexual]]. One of his loves may have been Gian Giaco... - 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: ...ieved to have been printed between [[1451]] and [[1452]]. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
53: *[[Agostino Carlini]] (1718 - 1790)
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
66: *[[Rossella Cosentino]]
72: *[[Cameron Cross]] (1963- )
83: *[[Alceo Dossena]] (1878 - 1937) - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...t of [[Ceuta]], on the [[North Africa]]n coast across the [[Straits of Gibraltar]] from the Iberian pe...
5: ...ore and more devoted to Christianity. For the purposes of his interest in exploration, however, the ap...
9: ...e the complicated return voyages, headed upwind, possible; without it, the brothers Ugolino and Guido ...
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15: ...stal explorations, [[Cape Bojador]] remained the most southerly point known to Europeans on the unprom... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
7: ...e and movable. Classical medical texts, such as those by [[Galen]], were widely used on the basis of a...
15: ...ribed the [[heart]] valves and determined the purpose of the [[urinary bladder | bladder]] and [[kidne...
17: ...-Saxon]] translations of classical works like [[Dioscorides]] ''Herbal'' survive from the 10th Century...
21: ...adition until [[Roger Frugardi]] of [[Parma]] composed his treatise on ''Surgery'' around about [[1180...
66: ...hite spotted leaves of Lungwort (used for tuberculosis) bear a similarity to the lungs of a diseased p... - Painter (4113 bytes)
19: ...tes back to prehistoric cave paintings, such as those in Lascaux, France. These early artworks depicte...
30: ==Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)==
32: ... "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper" are among the most renowned paintings in the world. His meticulous ...
36: Van Gogh, a post-Impressionist painter, is celebrated for his vib...
58: ...ona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci is considered the most valuable painting in the world.
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