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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: ...nk Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot
62: ...Abeille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...ate the globe; [[Francis Bacon]] laid out his philosophical and political views; and English colonisat...
16: ...that time and was also declared illegitimate and lost the title of princess. Thereafter she was addres...
18: ...n referred to as "Kat". Chapernowne developed a close relationship with Elizabeth and remained her con...
25: ...ed the throne, but was [[Deposition_(politics)|deposed]] less than two weeks later. Armed with popular...
27: ... Lady Elizabeth to succeed rather than her next-closest relative, [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Stuart]], ... - Peru (12264 bytes)
24: ... of Peru|Prime Minister]]''' || [[Carlos Ferrero Costa]]
36: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || "[[Somos libres, se᭯slo siempre]]" "We are free, may we ...
48: ...ar of the Pacific]]. After the war (and with the loss of the province of [[Tarapaca]]), political stab...
53: ... are subdivided into [[province]]s, which are composed of [[district]]s. There are 180 provinces and 1...
57: ...was divided into 24 [[department]]s (''departamentos''), and many people still use this term when refe... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...]] in southwestern [[Europe]], and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is borde...
5: ...ral power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powe...
23: ...ibes|Germanic]] [[Barbarians|barbarian]] tribes, most notably the [[Suevi]] and the [[Visigoth]]s, inv...
31: ...], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most historic battle of Portugal, the [[Battle of Alj...
40: ...opments in navigation, made Portugal's expansion possible and led to great advances in geographic know... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
60: *[[Sofonisba Anguissola]] ([[1532]]-[[1625]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-) - 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.]] - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
6: ...ip encouraged the worship of their gods, the foremost of which was [[Inti]], the sun god.
8: ...ail|290px|right|A view of [[Machu Picchu]], "the Lost City of the Incas," now an archaelogical site.]]
9: ... corners met at the empire's capital, [[Cusco]] (Qosqo).
21: ...Roca, who is the first figure in Inca mythology whose existence can be supported historically.
26: ...nco Capac]], they formed the small city-state of Qosqo, or Cuzco in Spanish. In [[1438]] CE, under the... - Andes (13210 bytes)
6: ...ides of the great chains. The ''Cordillera de la Costa'' starts from the southern extremity of the con...
8: ...dorean Andes is the point on the Earth's surface most distant from its center, because of the [[equato...
12: ...descending Nazca plate is young and buoyant [[lithosphere]], which resists subduction, causing a lot o...
13: ...a del Fuego]] from the small [[Scotia Plate]]. Across the 1,000 km wide [[Drake Passage]] lie the...
15: ...ing [[Cotopaxi]], one of the highest active volcanos in the world. - Rubidium (10211 bytes)
24: | 1532 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], 0....
125: ...olspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#FF6666" | '''Most stable isotopes'''
153: [[Positron emission|β<sup>+</sup>]]<br />
193: Rubidium is the second most [[electropositive]] of the alkaline elements and can be a [[li...
196: ...m]] and [[xenon]] are more efficient for this purpose). Other potential or current uses: - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
8: ...t [[Governor]] and first ''[[Adelantado]]'' of [[Costa Rica]]. <ref> [http://genforum.genealogy.com/co...
11: The most distinguished [[scion]] of his family, Coronado ...
14: ... of [[Nayarit]], towards [[New Mexico]]. When Marcos de Niza returned, he told about a city of vast we...
16: ... his wife's estates and was lended 70,000 more pesos.
18: ...around because of "snows and fierce winds from across the wilderness".<ref name="autogenerated1" /> D... - 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. - Padua (12961 bytes)
2: ...nto large communal ''piazze'', and many bridges crossing the various branches of the [[Bacchiglione]],...
4: Padua was where most of the action in [[Shakespeare]]'s play, ''[[The...
9: ...eat door, the work of [[Falconetto of Verona]], [[1532]].
11: The most famous of the Paduan churches is the [[basilica]...
13: ... dell'Arena]], containing the Scrovegni chapel, whose inner walls are entirely covered with paintings ...
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