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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
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]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mid_horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' M...
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...
15: ...e]], and found before her a career worthy of the most soaring ambition. She was then forty-one years o... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
12: ...s of Religion]] in [[1562]]. Antoine de Bourbon chose to support the Catholics, but was mortally wound...
14: In [[1567]] war broke out again, and Jeanne fled to the Hug... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish ...
9: ... the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scot...
17: ...ng loss to the English at the [[Battle of Solway Moss]]. In [[Falkland Palace]], her father heard of t...
19: ...her mother, who strongly opposed the marriage proposition, went into hiding in [[Stirling Castle]], wh...
31: ...y tried to change the agreement so that he could possess Mary years before the marriage was to take pl... - 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]], ... - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
23: ...ally a ''[[inflorescence|head]]'' (formerly ''composite flower'') of numerous flowers crowded together...
29: ...flowers are not heliotropic anymore, even though most flowerheads are facing the direction where the s...
34: ...rmer]]s, because they reduce [[bird]] damage and losses from some [[phytopathology|plant disease]]s. ...
38: The [[Jerusalem artichoke]] (''Helianthus tuberosa'') is related to the sunflower. The '''Mexican s...
40: ...as grown in [[Padua]]. The same seed lot grew almost 8 m (24') at other times and places (e.g. [[Madr... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
29: ...ed to this southern area of Egypt because of the hospitable climate and environment. Now exceptionally...
33: ...orial extent in the period called the New Empire (1567–1085 BC).
35: ... and were invaded by [[Indo-European]]s and [[Hyksos]] Semites. They defeated the invaders around 1570...
50: ...out in the hot sand. This left the body looking most un-lifelike, and not a very suitable home for th...
52: ...about this substance is that it is highly ''[[hygroscopic]]'': it will draw and absorb moisture. Durin... - Senet (1763 bytes)
3: ...low). Therefore, Senet is the oldest board game whose ancient existence has been confirmed.
7: ... pantheon : [[Ra|Re]], [[Thoth]], and sometimes [[Osiris]]. Consequently, Senet boards were often plac...
13: ...d R.C. Bell are two Senet historians who have proposed (different) sets of rules to play the game. - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = TN |
39: ...[[Native American]] village named "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]...
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 ... - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
3: ... to the authorship of the other works, which are lost. - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...l 9]], [[1626]]) was an [[England|English]] [[philosopher]], [[statesman]], [[spy]], [[freemason]] and...
4: ... a lawyer, but he has become best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the [[scientific ...
8: ...]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the...
14: ...] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong...
21: ...oris Partus Maximus'', but he failed to obtain a position of the kind he thought necessary for success... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...became an early "[[research institute]]". For purposes of [[publication]], he owned a [[printing press...
10: ...e and aunt, J? Brahe and [[Inger Oxe]], in the [[Tostrup Castle]] until he was six years old. Around 1...
12: ...acrobosco]]'s Tractatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis and [[Regiom...
16: ...he [[arcminute]]. (These measurements became the possessions of Kepler following Tycho's death.)
18: ...the [[skull]] was rimmed with green, a sign of exposure to [[copper]], not silver or gold. - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
5: ...f [[Pieter van Aelst|Pieter Coecke van Aelst]], whose daughter Mayke he later married, and was in [[15...
9: ...n his art is the older Dutch master [[Hieronymus Bosch]]. He is nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distin...
47: * ''Conversion Of Paulus'' 1567, Kunsthistorishes Museum Wien, Vienna
48: ... [[Cockaigne|Cockaigne]]/Land Of Milk And Honey'' 1567, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
64: ...vel in which a young art historian discovers the lost painting from ''The Months'' cycle. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...rchant" or "marketeer". Educated in [['s-Hertogenbosch]] and at the [[University of Leuven]]. Although...
12: ...He produced more maps and he was appointed Court Cosmographer to [[Duke Wilhelm of Cleve]] in [[1564]]...
14: ... map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]]
22: ...by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. ISBN 1-891... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - July 24 (8660 bytes)
5: ... [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]] is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son [[King James...
8: ...n Bonneville]] leads the first [[wagon train]] across the [[Rocky Mountains]] by using [[Wyoming]]'s [...
14: ...Bingham III]] re-discovers [[Machu Picchu]] "the Lost City of the [[Inca]]s".
15: ...nd]]'' capsizes in central [[Chicago]], with the loss of 845 lives.
18: ...igned in [[Paris]] on [[August 27]], [[1928]] by most leading world powers). - 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... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: ...article covers his travels, as they have had the most lasting importance to World History.
9: ...lowing spring [[1605]] when the settlers moved across the [[Bay of Fundy]] to found the [[Habitation a...
15: ...eople who stayed for the winter only 8 survived, most having died of [[scurvy]] and some of [[smallpox...
21: ...ay. Two hundred Iroquois advanced on Champlain's position as a native guide pointed out the three Iroq...
29: ...eutenant-general]] in New France. Charles died almost immediately, and was succeeded in the office by ... - History of Ancient Egypt (27975 bytes)
29: ...ed to this southern area of Egypt because of the hospitable climate and environment. Now exceptionally...
33: ...orial extent in the period called the New Empire (1567–1085 BC).
35: ... and were invaded by [[Indo-European]]s and [[Hyksos]] Semites. They defeated the invaders around 1570...
50: ...out in the hot sand. This left the body looking most un-lifelike, and not a very suitable home for th...
52: ...about this substance is that it is highly ''[[hygroscopic]]'': it will draw and absorb moisture. Durin...
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