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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]], ... - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
3: ... III of France. She was listed as one of the foremost courtesans of Venice in the "catalog," ''Il Cata...
5: ... and ''Lettere familiari a diversi'', in 1575 and 1580, respectively. She published books of letters and...
7: ...re, though surviving records suggest reasonable prosperity.
17: one of her most famous statements. The portrait is attributed t... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
14: ...04]] to break the west–east transatlantic crossing time failed by around one and a quarter hours...
16: ...Cape Horn]] and back to the equator again. She crossed the finishing line near the French coast at [[...
18: ...ome after their respective circumnavigations in [[1580]] and [[1967]]. MacArthur was also made an honora... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: |+<big><big>'''جمهوريّة...
28: | [[Hosni Mubarak]]
56: ...ian Arabic|Egyptian dialect]]) is a [[republic]] mostly located in North-Eastern Africa.
62: ...t|ancient civilization]] and some of the world's most stunning ancient monuments, including the [[Giza...
67: ...943;γυπτος'' "aiguptos", which in turn is derived from the ancient [[Egy... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...pped lands previously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christophe...
3: ...ography]], [[navigation]], and shipbuilding. The most important development was the invention of first...
6: ...by Arab geographer [[al-Idrisi]], was one of the most accurate world maps prior to the age of European...
7: ...r close links to the [[Levant]] created great curiosity and commercial interest in what lay further ea...
9: ...[Mongolia]] and back from [[1244]]-[[1247]]. The most famous voyage, however, was that of [[Marco Polo... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
3: ...1607;ورية الجزائرية ا...
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60: ...long the coast. Berber kingdoms began to emerge, most notably [[Numidia]], and seized the opportunity ...
62: ...he Berbers adopted [[Islam]] ''en masse'', but almost immediately expelled the Caliphate from Algeria,...
66: ...im Algerians remained outside of French law, and possessed neither French citizenship nor the right to... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
3: |+<big><big>'''الجمهورية ا...
32: | '''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]''' (PPP)<br> - Total ([[2...
49: ...nging the political face of Iraq, which had been mostly dominated by its [[Sunni]] minority since its ...
64: ...en appointed the new [[Prime Minister of Iraq]]. Most power will be invested in him. The new Governmen...
97: ...as a small coastline with the [[Persian Gulf]]. Close to the coast and along the [[Shatt al-Arab]] the... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
4: |+<big><big>'''الجمهوريّة...
71: ...ic home of the [[Phoenicia]]ns, Semitic traders whose maritime culture flourished there for more than ...
78: ...sed with prosperity built on [[Beirut|Beirut's]] position as a regional center for finance and trade.
85: ...n]] (PLO). In the early [[1970s]], difficulties arose over the presence of Palestinian refugees, and f...
87: ...re a number of mostly [[Maronite]] militias, the most important of which was the one linked to the [[K... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
11: capital = [[Buenos Aires]] |
13: largest_city = [[Buenos Aires]] |
57: ...n [[July 9]], [[1816]]. Argentines revere Gen. [[Jos頤e San Mart�], who campaigned in Argentina, Ch...
67: ...hizers. They restored basic order, but the human costs of what became known as "El Proceso," or the "[...
69: ...ice 6 months early after Peronist candidate [[Carlos Saul Menem]] won the [[1989]] presidential electi... - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: The '''Republic of Djibouti''' ({{lang-ar|جيبوتي}}, Ǧ...
4: ...1580;مهورية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa...
70: ...s - at 200 voting booths - across the country. Opposition parties boycotted, describing the poll as "r...
102: ...production to [[fruits]] and [[vegetables]], and most food must be imported. There are few natural re...
111: ...t 35%. The remainder is formed by [[Europe]]ans (mostly [[France|French]] and [[Italy|Italians]]), [[A... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
8: native_name = جمهورية ا...
43: time_zone = [[Moscow Time|MSK]] |
72: ...ccess to basic health care services, and little prospects for productive employment in the small and w...
85: ...slamist ideologue. Al-Turabi was stripped of his posts in the ruling party and the government, parliam...
92: ... mid-1990s Sudan gradually began to moderate its positions as a result of increased US pressure follow... - 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... - Spain (36498 bytes)
20: ...uan Carlos I]]<br>[[Jos頌uis Rodr�ez Zapatero|Jos頌uis Rguez. Zapatero]] |
58: ...re of this period is that of the city of [[Tartessos]]. Beginning in the [[9th century BC]], [[Celtic]...
62: ... for control of the Western Mediterranean. Their most important colony was [[Carthago Nova]] (Latin na...
68: ...ajan]], [[Hadrian]] and [[Theodosius I]], the philosopher [[Seneca]] and the poets [[Martial]] and [[L...
70: Most of Spain's present languages, religion, and laws... - 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]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
11: ... compared to the other pupils, an outsider. This ostracizing probably led him to turn to the world of...
13: ...er astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being "called out...
15: ...estant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the position in April of [[1594]], at the age of 23.
21: ...y [[1612]] the Emperor died, and Kepler took the post of provincial mathematician in [[Linz]].
32: ...] model of the [[Solar system]] from ''Mysterium Cosmographicum'' (1596)]] - 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... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
7: ...a young [[lawyer]] and his mother, Caterina, was most likely a peasant girl. It has also been suggeste...
9: ...thorities therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his ...
16: ...Jacopo Saltarelli]], who was a notorious male [[prostitute]]. After two months in jail, he was acquitt...
20: ...re, been assumed that he was a [[homosexuality|homosexual]]. One of his loves may have been Gian Giaco...
29: ... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#rossiPage33], employed Leonardo and permitted him to ... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
8: ...t writer [[Étienne de la Boétie]] whose death in 1563 deeply influenced Montaigne.
12: ...egan work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]].
18: ...gne suffered from painful [[kidney stone]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Germany, ...
33: ...variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features. He describes his own poor memory... - 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...
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