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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
23: *[[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacif...
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]] - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mid_horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' M...
3: ... de' [[Medici family|Medici]]''' ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy...
5: ...33), at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother was alive at the time, but who wou...
7: ...on of his royal house, would listen to such a proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Franci...
11: ...he Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition. On [[April 1]], [[1560]] she named as chanc... - 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 [... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...pped lands previously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christophe...
3: ...ography]], [[navigation]], and shipbuilding. The most important development was the invention of first...
6: ...by Arab geographer [[al-Idrisi]], was one of the most accurate world maps prior to the age of European...
7: ...r close links to the [[Levant]] created great curiosity and commercial interest in what lay further ea...
9: ...[Mongolia]] and back from [[1244]]-[[1247]]. The most famous voyage, however, was that of [[Marco Polo... - Texas (39610 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = TX |
36: ...]] in [[1845]]. It has the [[U.S. Postal Service|postal abbreviation]] '''TX'''.
42: * [[List of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
55: ...nd [[Arkansas]] on the east. To the southwest, across the [[Rio Grande]], Texas borders the [[Mexico|M...
114: * [[1519]]: [[Alonso Alvarez de Pineda]], a [[Spain|Spanis... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
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 - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
13: *[[1513]]-[[Vasco N?de Balboa]] crosses isthmus of [[Panama]], sees [[Pacific Ocean]]
15: *[[1519]]-[[HernᮠCort鳝] defeats [[Tlaxcala]], a small...
20: *1570s-[[Haudenosaunee|Iroquois League]] founded - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...i''' ([[April 15]], [[1452]] – [[May 2]], [[1519]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Renaissance]] [[arc...
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... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...]]) was a [[Florence|Florentine]] [[political philosopher]], [[musician]], [[poet]], and romantic come...
12: ...persons supposedly involved in a conspiracy to oppose Medici rule. He was briefly imprisoned, and tort...
17: ...ered more 'just' reasons of state, most notably those of [[Jean Bodin]] and [[Giovanni Botero]].
21: ...tributed to him but this was essentially NOT his position. And that is the whole point with Modern pol...
25: ...aissance and Machiavelli certainly is one of its most distinguished sons, having carefully described t... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...r of the [[Universe]]), is considered one of the most important [[discovery (observation)|discoveries]...
16: ...d that it was in Padua that he gained access to those passages of [[Cicero]] and [[Plato]] about the o...
18: ...a position at the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross in [[Wroclaw|Breslau (Wrocław)]], [[Silesia...
24: ...tween [[Teutonic Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defende...
26: ...ou have pertaining to the subject." Some have proposed that this note may have made Copernicus nervous... - 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) - 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...
34: ...es were wary of the Portuguese [[admiral]] and almost prevented Magellan from sailing, but on [[Septem... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
12: ... and set sail on the morning of [[January 18]], [[1519]], just as Velázquez arrived at the dock in pers...
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 ... - 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) - Aztec (38742 bytes)
14: ...ork of [[William Prescot]], it became adopted by most of the world, including the Mexican scholars of ...
17: ...ertain origin. Very different etymologies are proposed: the old [[Nahuatl]] word for the [[sun]], the ...
22: ...ires, it was ethnically very diverse, but unlike most European empires, it was more a system of tribut...
29: ...act that amazed the Spaniards since that was not possible in Europe at that time.
31: ...onger subject to maintenance and were eventually lost. - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
3: ...op of the ruins and, over the ensuing centuries, most of Lake Texcoco has gradually been drained.
7: ...ched atop a cactus. The Aztecs eventually came across this vision on what was then a small swampy isla...
9: ...] as Tenochtitlan grew to become the largest and most powerful city in [[Mesoamerica]]. Commercial rou...
15: ... alongside [[Paris]] and [[Constantinople]]. The most common estimates put the population at around 20... - 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...
49: ... of the controversy on indulgences the question arose of the absolute power of the pope, since the doc... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
19: ...the territory of the former Roman Empire without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The min...
33: ...nomic and cultural centres ([[Aachen]] being the most famous).
41: ...n imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to th...
43: ...peror was compelled to submit to the Pope at [[Canossa]] in 1077, after having been excommunicated. In...
46: ... the [[Knights Templar|Templars]], the [[Knights Hospitaller|Knights of St John]] and the [[Teutonic K... - Europium (8579 bytes)
62: | 1099 [[Kelvin|K]] (1519 [[Fahrenheit|?F]])
108: ...olspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffbfff" | '''Most stable isotopes'''
151: Europium is the most reactive of the [[rare earth element]]s; it quic...
154: ...hich will glow for days after a few minutes of exposure to light.
162: ... are many minerals containing europium, with the most important sources being [[bastnasite]] and [[mon...
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