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- List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
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...
29: ... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#rossiPage33], employed Leonardo and permitted him to ... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
1: ...poet, author of the [[epic]] poem ''[[Orlando furioso]]'' ([[1516]]), "Orlando Enraged".
3: ...e as tutor of [[Francesco Sforza]]. Ariosto thus lost the opportunity of learning Greek, as he intende...
5: [[Image:Ariosto.jpg|thumb|Statue of the poet in [[Reggio Emilia...
6: ...he only reward he gave the poet for ''Orlando Furioso'', a piece dedicated to him, was the question, "...
8: ...eceived, and even an interview was denied him. Ariosto then boldly said, that had his eminence thought... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...me he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book publishe...
9: ...Jane Colt, who died in [[1511]]. He remarried almost immediately, to a rich widow named Alice Middlet...
12: ...f the two undersheriffs of the city of London, a position of considerable responsibility in which he e...
14: ...came chancellor of the [[Duchy of Lancaster]], a position that entailed administrative and judicial co...
17: ... describing to a listener the island of Utopia, whose layout is schematically shown above him.]] - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ..., and the first to lead an expedition for the purpose of [[circumnavigation|circumnavigating]] the [[g...
5: ...] (near [[Vila Real]], in the province of [[Tr᳭dos-Montes]] of north [[Portugal]]) or in [[Porto]]. ...
11: ...retly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was forced to return to Portugal...
20: ...werful Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, bishop of [[Burgos]] and the persistent enemy of [[Christopher Colum...
24: ... against the king of Portugal. On [[March 22]], [[1518]], King Charles approved Magellan's plan and gran... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
12: ...rdoba]] in [[1517]] and [[Juan de Grijalva]] in [[1518]] had returned to Cuba with small amounts of gold...
15: ...s reality in order to achieve his overarching purpose of gaining the favor of the king. Cortés applie...
20: ...ow known as [[Veracruz (city)|Veracruz]] ("True Cross") on Holy Thursday [[March 4]]. By establishing ...
22: ...gy is convincingly argued against by historian [[Ross Hassig]] in his book ''Time, History, and Belief...
27: ...e Tlaxcaltecas attacked his troops, but Spanish crossbows, broadswords, battle axes, horses, war dogs ... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
6: [[Guru Nanak]] was opposed to the caste system. His followers referred to ...
10: Guru Nanak's doctrinal position is clear, despite the appearance that it is ...
12: ...ch tended to erect "a wall of falsehood" around those who live totally in the mundane world of materia...
22: ...period that Nanak met [[Kabir]] ([[1441]]–[[1518]]), a saint revered by both Hindus and Muslims. ...
24: ...to have Langar. Guru Amar Das also trained 140 apostles of which 52 were women to manage the rapid ex... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ... other Christian traditions (a broad movement composed of many congregations and church bodies). His c...
31: ... sight of several central truths. To Luther, the most important of these was the doctrine of justifica...
33: ...give sins for the sake of Christ's death on the cross.
37: ...ly the merits of Jesus Christ and the saints to those in [[purgatory]] (as purgatory itself was not th...
47: ...eras)[http://newadvent.org/cathen/10095b.htm], in 1518, to inquire into the matter. Prierias recognised ... - Duffy Lewis (1516 bytes)
1: ...r who played [[Major League Baseball]] for the [[Boston Red Sox]] (1910-17), [[New York Yankees]] (191...
3: ...tter who consistently finished in the top ten in most offensive categories despite a short career whic...
5: ...in|RBI]], 612 [[Run (baseball statistics)|runs]], 1518 [[hit (baseball statistics)|hits]], 289 [[double ...
7: ...e]] at 91 years of age. He was selected to the [[Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame]] in [[2002 in sports|200...
9: ...the left field wall at Fenway Park. Duffy Lewis, Boston's first star left fielder, played the steep 10... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...pain]], to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue a livelihood in the New World. He went...
10: ...ndo are all equally correct. The latter two were most commonly used during his lifetime, but the forme...
18: ...e and later in [[Hispaniola]], would give him a close acquaintance with the legal codes of Castile tha...
26: ...anlucai, and Seville, listening to the tales of those returning from the Indies, who told of discovery...
29: ... is rife with accounts of rivalry, jockeying for positions, mutiny, and betrayal.
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