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  1. Printing (4400 bytes)
    15: ...[[William Caxton]]; in 1539, the Italian Juan Pablos set up an imported press in Mexico City, Mexico. ...
    18: ...kable innovations in the graphic techniques and those that were utilized to make their materials. [[Th...
    43: * [[Laurens Janszoon Coster]]
    59: * [[Imposition]]
    63: * [[PostScript]]
  2. Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
    5: ...y but not including any of the major revision proposals that have also been made in that time.
    7: ... particular rulers. Often there are also several possible spellings of the names.
    9: ...re is a 60 year discrepancy between the dates proposed by these two authors. There is no attempt to re...
    63: ===Position uncertain===
    65: *Ba (two different writings, possibly two separate kings)
  3. Arizona (24367 bytes)
    17: PostalAbbreviation = AZ |
    53: Reptile = [[Rattlesnake|Arizona Ridgenose Rattlesnake]] |
    57: Flower = [[Saguaro]] Blossom |
    61: Fossil = [[Petrified wood]] |
    87: ...rizona" and its attachment to the region. Three possible derivations are:
  4. Tennessee (19096 bytes)
    13: PostalAbbreviation = TN |
    41: ...river of the great bend".[http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/faq.htm#01][http://www.tngenweb.o...
    46: ...]], and [[Mississippian_culture|Mississippian]] whose chiefdoms were the cultural predecessors of the ...
    48: ...gee]] and [[Yuchi]] people. For unknown reasons, possibly due to expanding European settlement in the ...
    52: ...itary governor after the [[American Civil War]], mostly due to the influence of President [[Andrew Joh...
  5. Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
    1: ...em;">[[image:DESPREZ.JPG|Josquin Des Prez]]<br>''Josquin Des Prez''</div>
    2: ...naissance]]. He was the most famous European composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pier...
    6: ...f [[Ferrara]] hired him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
    8: In Ferrara Josquin wrote the exquisite ''Missa Hercules Dux Ferr...
    10: ...y border between Belgium and France, becoming provost of the cathedral there. During this time he had...
  6. 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...
  7. 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 (Wroc&#322;aw)]], [[Silesia...
    26: ...ou have pertaining to the subject." Some have proposed that this note may have made Copernicus nervous...
    28: ...if he was not convinced to publish it), when in [[1539]] [[Georg Joachim Rheticus]], a great [[mathemati...
  8. Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
    4: ...is separated into the East and West Valley, with most of the important tombs in the East Valley. The W...
    6: ...ley of the Kings|60 tombs]], starting with [[Thutmose I]] and ending with [[Ramesses X]] or [[Ramesses...
    13: ...ns were probably changed on account of this. The most serious problem are the [[shale]] layers. This f...
    16: Almost all of the tombs have been ransacked, including ...
  9. Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
    2: ...born [[1496]] or [[1500]], [[Jerez de los Caballeros]], [[Extremadura]], and died [[21 May]] [[1542]],...
    5: ...panish colonies, landing in [[Panama]]. His only possessions then were a shield and his sword. In [[15...
    13: ...the daughter of Davila. She came from one of the most respectable families of Castilia, with good conn...
    19: === 1539 &ndash; Landing in Florida ===
    23: ... arms, cannons, dogs, and pigs. The dogs &mdash; mostly Irish [[wolfhound]]s &mdash; became notorious ...
  10. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
    5: ... early years. Even his nationality is uncertain; most biographies describe him as Portuguese, but in h...
    10: ...ed, or the mythical [[Strait of Anián]] that supposedly connected the [[Pacific Ocean]] to [[Hudson ...
    14: ...report of Cabrillo's inconclusive expedition was lost; all that survives is a summary of it made by an...
    16: ...nta Catalina Island, San Miguel Island and Santa Rosa Island have all been suggested.
    19: ... One such example is [[Cabrillo College]] in [[Aptos, California]], another is the portion of the [[Pa...
  11. Tallahassee, Florida (7125 bytes)
    40: ...abor for the colony at St. Augustine. One of the most important mission sites, Mission San Luis de Apa...
    42: ...oto|Hernando de Soto]] spent the winter of 1538 - 1539 encamped at the Apalachee village of Anhaica, whi...
    46: ...idential Election]] as the capital of the state whose votes were disputed.
    66: ... 21.6% of those under the age of 18 and 8.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
    71: * [http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/archaeology/sanluis/ Mission San Luis...
  12. French language (40201 bytes)
    3: ...c]], [[Republic of the Congo]], [[Gabon]], [[Comoros]], [[Djibouti]], [[Mauritius]], [[Seychelles]].
    19: ...mittee|IOC]], [[United Nations]] and [[Universal Postal Union]]).
    25: ...Greeks|Greek]] and [[Phoenicians|Phoenician]] outposts like [[Marseille]] and the [[Vascons]] on the S...
    27:
    31: ...ul. For the history of the French language, the most important of these groups are the [[Franks|Frank...
  13. 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...
  14. Pharaoh (5346 bytes)
    6: ...Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt|Eighteenth Dynasty]] (1539-1292 BC). By the [[Twenty-second dynasty of Egyp...
    17: ...e Pharaoh was really seen as a [[god]] or if the postion he held was just viewed as [[Divinity|divine]...
  15. Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
    2: ... and "Little Stephen") of North African origins, possibly from [[Azemmour]], [[Morocco]]. He is menti...
    5: ...ility|Spanish nobleman]] with whom he developed close ties.
    8: ...roup was shipwrecked on [[Galveston Island]] and most of the men either drowned, starved, or were kill...
    10: ...ico was one of the four who would accompany [[Marcos de Niza]] as a guide in search of the fabled [[Se...
    13: ...n by the Pimas, who held him in high regard. For most historians, however, the eye-witness accounts of...
  16. 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...
  17. 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.
  18. 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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