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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
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...
33: ...her such actions. It lasted until June [[1551]], costing over half a million pounds and many lives. In... - 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]], ... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ... ceiling of the [[Sistine Chapel]] is one of the most famous works of art in the world.]]
6: ...;h in Tiberian Hebrew, and حواء (Ḥawwāʾ) in Arabic—means "...
13: ...ch means "red earth"), and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and gave him dominion ov...
17: ... an unconscious state took one of his ribs, and closed up his flesh again; and of this rib he made a w...
20: ...d was removed from the Garden of Eden, making it possible for [[humanity]] to return to Paradise. - 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]]) - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...Bruegel''' (c.[[1525]] – [[September 9]], [[1569]]) was a [[Flemish]] [[painter]] known for his la...
5: ... years later. He died there on [[9 September]], [[1569]].
9: ...n his art is the older Dutch master [[Hieronymus Bosch]]. He is nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distin...
64: ...vel in which a young art historian discovers the lost painting from ''The Months'' cycle. - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
8: ...t writer [[Étienne de la Boétie]] whose death in 1563 deeply influenced Montaigne.
12: ...ymond Sebond]]'s ''Theologia naturalis'', then a posthumous edition of Boétie's works. In 1571 ...
33: ...variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features. He describes his own poor memory... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...rchant" or "marketeer". Educated in [['s-Hertogenbosch]] and at the [[University of Leuven]]. Although...
12: ...e devised a new projection and first used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of longitude to aid navi...
22: ...by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. ISBN 1-891... - Florence (11538 bytes)
17: ...xperienced subsequent periods of [[Byzantine]], [[Ostrogothic]], [[Lombard]] and [[Frankish rule]], du...
21: ...y's rise to become one of the most powerful and prosperous in Europe, assisted by her own strong gold ...
23: ...Piero]], who was shortly thereafter succeeded by Cosimo's grandson, [[Lorenzo de%27 Medici|Lorenzo]] i...
25: ...cal persecution of the widespread Florentine [[Homosexuality#History|sodomy]] and of other worldly ple...
27: ...of unusual insight was [[Niccolchiavelli]], whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under ... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...three main goals many alchemists sought for. The most renowned goal of alchemy is the [[transmutation...
2: ...diseases and prolong life indefinitely. The [[philosopher's stone]] was the key in these goals. This m...
8: ...ur together", "weld", "alloy", etc. (from ''khumatos'', "that which is poured out, an ingot"). Another...
11: ...xplore and investigate nature before many of the most basic scientific tools and practices were availa...
13: ...nterpretive, symbolic or philosophical one. In those times a physics devoid of metaphysical insight w...
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