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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. [[... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
6: ...gapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
37: *[[Martin Agricola|Agricola, Martin]], (1466-1506), German composer - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
7: ...gary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She con...
15: ...th other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to k...
37: ...500;א יגמר לעולם - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
7: ...o serve Diego, Ponce de León obtained title to explore the areas north of [[Cuba]].
11: ...g|thumb|left|Statue of Juan Ponce de León at the Plaza San José in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]]. The st...
14: ... Leon is buried|200px|right|Ponce de Leon resting place]]
18: ... horses and other domestic animals, and farming implements. The expedition landed on the southwest coa... - Americas (7154 bytes)
8: ...ntity concept also appears thematically. For example, the five rings of the [[Olympic flag]] represen...
10: == Peoples of the Americas ==
13: ...rm ''Americano'' is used to refer to things or people pertaining to the USA but the word ''Statunitens...
23: ...on of [[Renaissance]] era voyagers, had died in [[1506]] (believing, to the end, that he'd discovered an...
27: ...with gold. According to Marcou, Vespucci later applied the name to the New World, and even changed th... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
3: ...ages. The abbreviation is similarly used; for example, it is used as Switzerland's [[country code top-...
48: In [[1506]], pope [[Julius II]] engaged the [[Swiss Guard]]...
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... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
4: ...nothopoulos, Callistus]], patriarch of Constantinople
6: ...|Xanthopoulos, Isidore]], patriarch of Constantinople
7: *[[Francis Xavier|Xavier, Francis]], ([[1506]]-[[1552]]), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary]]
17: ...nus|Xiphilinus, George]], patriarch of Constantinople - Influenza (10335 bytes)
4: ...p>th</sup> century]], killing many millions of people. The name comes from the old medical belief in u...
12: ...and present a new immune target to susceptible people. Populations tend to have more resistance to inf...
16: ...d HA and NA subtype (Yohannes ''et al'' 2004) Examples of the nomenclature are A/Moscow/10/99 (H3N2) a...
18: ...sive to treatment. Thus, there is a tendency to apply the term to strains which cause [[epidemic]]s or...
21: ...o [[1919]] and is believed to have killed more people in total than [[World War I]]. Lesser flu pandem... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ... of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
4: ...f the Papal residence, most Papal ceremonies take place at St. Peter's. The basilica also holds a rel...
12: ...worked on the "Fabbrica di San Pietro" (as the complex of building operations were officially called)....
14: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/Lanciani/...
19: ...ft|200px|The dome designed by Michelangelo was completed by Giacomo della Porta in 1590.]] - 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]])
775: *[[Andrea Mantegna]] (ca.[[1431]]-[[1506]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
10: ... plague that year, and by [[Antoine Brumel]] in [[1506]], who stayed until the disbanding of the chapel ...
14: ...]], writing in the [[1580s]], was still using examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; a... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
17: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
23: ... <small>Simon Peter</small><br>'''שמעון בן יו–...
25: | <small>Disciple of [[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{biblevers...
171: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
357: | '''[[Pope Simplicius]]'''<br><small>Saint Simplicius</small> - Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
1: ... pallium holding keys, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.]]
2: ...lean]] [[fisherman]] and one of the twelve [[disciple]]s or [[apostle]]s of [[Jesus]] whose life was p...
8: ...Peter's original name of Simon or שמעון comes from the [[Hebrew language]]...
11: ...unts of his life or death. Before becoming a disciple of Jesus, Simon (''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherma...
15: ...ey would "fall away" from him that night. Peter replied, "Even if all desert you, I will never desert ... - 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...
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 y...
29: ... and permitted him to operate his own workshop complete with apprentices. It was here that seventy [[t...
33: ...ineer with whom he travelled throughout Italy. In 1506 he returned to Milan, now in the hands of [[Maxim... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
1: ...he most important [[renaissance]] authors and a diplomat.
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.
28: ...se found no confirmation: he died by Black Death (plague). - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...[[1516]]. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|...
7: ... father's great displeasure, More seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career in order to becom...
12: ...nfluential in the government, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as...
19: ...[[Lucian]], which was published in [[Paris]] in [[1506]].
23: ...d [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]''. Both More's and Shakespeare'... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...], [[musician]], [[poet]], and romantic comedic [[playwright]]. Machiavelli was also a key figure in [...
10: ...as other Italian [[city-state]]s on [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] missions. During this time he would draw ...
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... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ... by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the best educat...
10: ... rewards of independent literary activity. From [[1506]] to [[1509]] he was in Italy. He spent part of ...
12: ... petty criticism, from those hostile to the principles of literary and religious progress to which he ...
14: ... regenerated [[Europe]] through sound criticism applied frankly and without fear to the Catholic Churc...
25: ...o offer any tangible method of applying its principles to the existing church system. When Erasmus was...
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