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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
7: ...rtrait of Jacques Cartier has been found and the most familiar portrait (see right) was painted by a R...
9: ...epidemic ashore, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the period.
11: ==First Voyage 1534==
13: ...ay [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During thi...
17: ...sons. Cartier left his main ships in a harbour close to Stadacona and used his smallest ship to conti... - Aleksandra Lisowska (1848 bytes)
3: ...'Roxelana''', '''Roxolana''', '''Roxelane''', '''Rossa''', '''Ruziac''', but more often known by her T...
5: ... in what was then [[Poland]] (now [[Ukraine]]), possibly in [[Rohatyn]]. She was captured and taken t...
7: ...up to become S?n's favourite [[concubine]]. In [[1534]] she used her influence to have S?n's firstborn ...
11: ...a]] to [[Jerusalem]], and the first to endow a [[mosque]] in Istanbul.
13: ... in a mausoleum with her husband at the [[S?niye Mosque]]. - Canada (35540 bytes)
6: ... is a country in [[North America]], the northern-most in the world and the second largest in area (aft...
21: ...ficient in energy due to its large fossil fuel deposits, [[nuclear energy]] generation, and [[hydroele...
88: ...an with explorations by [[Jacques Cartier]] (from 1534) and [[Samuel de Champlain]] (from 1603). In 1604...
90: ...nce and [[Great Britain]]. France progressively lost territory to [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]], s...
111: ...claim is not universally recognized. The northernmost settlement in Canada (and in the world) is Canad... - 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...
115: * [[1528]]–[[1534]]: [[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca|Álvar Nú... - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
1: ..., by way of pre-eminence, ''o exegetes'' ("the expositor"), was a native of [[Aphrodisias]] in [[Caria...
3: ... [[Lyceum]] and lectured on [[peripatetic]] [[philosophy]].
16: ...undeveloped reason in man is material (''nous ulikos'') and inseparable from the body.
18: ... active intellect (''nous poietikos''), through whose agency the potential intellect in man becomes ac...
20: ...along with the works of [[Themistius]] at Venice (1534); the former work, which has been translated into... - 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]]) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
3: ...he grounds used in watercolor painting vary, the most common is paper. Others include [[papyrus]], bar...
14:
23: ...a is ''[[watermedia]]''. The term ''watercolor'' most often to refers to traditional transparent water...
25: ...for body, and [[glycerin]] or [[honey]] for [[viscosity]] and to bond the colorant to the painting sur...
35: ...ferences and [[color]] clarity are typically the most difficult properties to achieve and maintain. - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...habitants after European colonization means that most of the known '''history of California''' begins ...
5: ...e, the area has gone from a [[Spain|Spanish]] outpost of interest primarily populated by [[missionary|...
10: ...Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
11: ...Woman]] on [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]] are among the traces of a very early in...
13: ...from [[mussel]] shells using stone tools, while those in the northern [[Cascade Range]] traded [[obsid... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...upreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of...
27: | <small>''post''[[42]]/''ante''[[57]] to [[64]]/[[67]](?)</smal...
315: | '''[[Pope Zosimus]]'''<br><small>Saint Zosimus</small>
316: | Papa '''Zosimus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
405: | <small>[[Frosinone]], Southern Latium, Italy</small> - 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.]] - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...ision and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly [[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed churches...
22: ...ugger]] banking family in [[Augsburg]] being the most prominent), textiles, [[Weapon|armaments]], espe...
24: But as recovery and prosperity progressed, enabling the population to reac...
28: ...no religious [[doctrine]] can be supported by philosophical arguments, eroding the old alliance betwee...
30: ... on reforming individuals through eloquence as opposed to reason. The European Renaissance laid the fo... - 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) - 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...
24: ...to have Langar. Guru Amar Das also trained 140 apostles of which 52 were women to manage the rapid ex...
30: ...ru Tegh Bahadur|Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji]]. Sikh mythos says that Guru Tegh Bahadur sacrificed himself to... - 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... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...d defence of [[pilgrim|pilgrims]]. Following the loss of Christian territory in the [[Holy Land]], the...
5: ...t]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery...
7: ...n Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order ...
9: ...s, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other est...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]] - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
5: ...that his body be interred at Jerez de los Caballeros, where other members of his family were also inte...
16: ...ond-in-command, offering a large payment for the position, but de Almagro turned him down. De Soto pac...
18: ...ain, and he received 724 marks of gold, 17,740 pesos. He married [[Inés de Bobadilla|Isabel de Bobadi...
27: ... among [[historian]]s and local politicians. The most widely used version of De Soto's Trail comes fro...
29: ...onsidered. However, this bears the handicap that most historical places have been overbuilt and more t...
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