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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...cia]] or [[Portugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic O...
3: ...etting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas,...
5: ...t]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472) of two, led by [[João Vaz C...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isle...
11: ...]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...oyaged to and wrote about [[the Americas]]. His exploratory journeys along the eastern coastline of [[...
16: ...etermined his longitude celestially on August 23, 1499, while on this voyage. But his claim is clearly f...
18: ... not mention the broad estuary of the [[Rio de la Plata]], which he must have seen if he had gotten th...
20: ...ndash;[[1504]], not even whether it actually took place. Amerigo Vespucci died in [[Seville]], [[Spain... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: '''Diane de Poitiers''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the ...
15: ... provide a resting place for her, her daughter completed the funeral chapel built near the chⴥau. - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...''' is a part of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by [[Europe]]...
6: ...r trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region — [[Egyptian|Egyptians]], [...
11: ...on" (הים התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adap...
13: ...iterranean Sea and its surrounding regions when employed in informal speech.
63: ...up and then collision of the African and Eurasian plates and the [[Messinian Salinity Crisis]]. - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
3: ...ages. The abbreviation is similarly used; for example, it is used as Switzerland's [[country code top-...
46: ...tory in a war against the [[Swabian League]] in [[1499]] amounted to de facto independence from the [[Ho...
63: ...II]], and although a German intervention was both planned and anticipated, it ultimately didn't occur....
65: ...population and the cantons voted in favor of a completely revised federal [[constitution]].
67: ... in May 1992. Switzerland has not advanced this application since the rejection, by referendum, of the... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...and it is a [[Jewish state]]. Israel was the birthplace of [[Judaism]] in the [[17th century BCE]] and...
60: ... Israel is not limited to Judaism, it is also the place where [[Christianity]] was born, and contains ...
73: ...bsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Shoah]], or [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]]...
78: ...ted, but the [[White Paper of 1939]] policy was implemented well into the end of [[WW2]], and enforced...
83: ...bly, the Palestinian Arab leadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and l... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...ber]] that grows around the seeds of the [[cotton plant]], a [[shrub]] native to the tropical and subt...
3: ...ts-growing-in-a-field.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
9: ...o. There is clear archaeological evidence that people in South America and India domesticated differen...
13: ... the ends of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to fe...
26: ...ants that have been selectively bred so that each plant grows more fiber. In 2002, cotton was grown on... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-)
959: *[[Jan Bogumil Plersch]] ([[1732]]-[[1817]]) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
9: ...of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his works "Leonardo" or "Io, Leonardo" ("...
18: ...his relations with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love...
29: ... and permitted him to operate his own workshop complete with apprentices. It was here that seventy [[t...
45: ...s, and did not travel without it. Thousands of people see it each year in the Louvre, perhaps drawing ...
47: ...ration of the Magi]]". After extensive, ambitious plans and many drawings, the painting was left unfin... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...he most important [[renaissance]] authors and a diplomat.
10: ...ck to Mantua, again in the court of Gonzaga. In [[1499]] he lost his father and succeeded him in the rep...
15: In [[1506]] Castiglione wrote (and played together with Cosimo Gonzaga) his eclogue ''T...
17: ...r princes, maintaining an activity very near to diplomacy, though in a literary form, like with [[Ludo...
23: ... V, it was his duty to investigate what Spain was planning against the Eternal City. - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...], [[musician]], [[poet]], and romantic comedic [[playwright]]. Machiavelli was also a key figure in [...
10: ...ropean leaders he met. His first mission was in [[1499]] to [[Caterina Sforza]], who appeared as "my lad...
12: .... He died in Florence in [[1527]] and his resting place is unknown, however a symbolic tomb in his hon...
27: ...cally speaking rides Power or Power rides all the Players.
35: ... in contemporaneous Italian politics. (As an example, he compares the way in which Roman generals use... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ...Italy|Italian]] [[navigator]] and [[exploration|explorer]] who is popularly credited as the modern dis...
4: ...rations and is best known as John Cabot for his explorations made under the English flag. Most notabl...
6: Cabot's birthplace is uncertain; some references give [[Genoa]], ...
10: ...a route to the west for himself. He went with his plans to England, because he incorrectly thought [[s...
16: ...]] according to [[Celts|Celtic]] legends. Some people think [[Newfoundland]] may have been found on (o... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
2: ...n]]. Cabrillo was the first [[Europe|European]] explorer to navigate the coast of present day [[Califo...
12: ...irs. There Cabrillo stepped out of his boat and splintered his shin when he stepped on a jagged rock....
16: The final mystery about Cabrillo is his place of burial. He died on [[January 3]], [[1543]] ...
19: ...ildings in California bear his name. One such example is [[Cabrillo College]] in [[Aptos, California]]... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]])
572: *[[Michel Plancherel]] (Switzerland, [[1885]] - [[1967]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
549: *[[Marsilio Ficino]], (1433-1499){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}}
907: *[[Johannes Kepler]], (1571-1630){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
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