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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. [[... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
52: ...named the river of Solís, Río de la Plata (River of the Silver).
57: ...y establishing the [[Viceroyalty of the R�de la Plata]] in [[1776]], and Buenos Aires became a flour...
63: ...r, known as [[Evita]] ([[1919]]-[[1952|52]]), played a key role in developing support for her husb...
65: ...to a number of emergency decrees, including the implementation of special executive authority to deal ...
67: ...til [[December 10]], [[1983]]. The armed forces applied harsh measures against terrorists and many sus... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ...s]], forming the [[Celt-Iberian]]s. Early Greek explorers named the region "[[Ophiussa]]" (Greek for "...
21: ...radle of Portugal." The Battle of S㯠Mamede took place nearby in 1128. (courtesy IPPAR)]]
25: An [[Islam]]ic invasion took place in [[711]]. Many of the ousted nobles took ref...
29: ...as formally recognized. Afonso, aided by the [[Templar Knights]], continued to conquer southern lands ...
31: ...torious John was then acclaimed as king by the people. - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
12: ...xander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
31: ...ional Basketball Association|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
110: *[[Yoannis XIII of Alexandria]], ([[1483]]-[[1524]]), Coptic Pope
128: *[[Mike York|York, Mike]], ice hockey player - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
554: *[[Hans Holbein the Elder]] (ca.[[1465]]-[[1524]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
18: ...iovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France]], explores coastline from present-day [[North Carolina]]...
19: *[[1542]]-[[Hernando_de_Soto_(explorer)|Hernando de Soto]] discovers the [[Mississip... - 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). - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... over the traditional [[geocentric theory]] (that placed [[Earth]] at the center of the [[Universe]]),...
10: ...omer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
16: ...ined access to those passages of [[Cicero]] and [[Plato]] about the opinion of Ancients on the movemen...
20: ...tensively on government [[business]] and as a [[diplomat]], on the behalf of the [[Prince-Bishop]] of ...
24: ...c Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Olsztyn]] o... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
22: ...he booming armaments industry. Accumulation of surplus, competitive [[overproduction]], and heightened...
24: ...the combination of both a newly abundant labor supply as well as improved productivity, were mixed ble...
30: ...volt against [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]] logic, it placed great emphasis on reforming individuals throu...
42: ... in [[Europe]] of humanism for centuries: the neo-Platonism of the scholastics and the neo-Aristotelia...
44: ...arlier people who called for reformation, for example, he did not know the teachings of [[Jan Hus]] un... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...ted when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landsl...
4: ... deep [[ocean]]; it simply has a much smaller [[amplitude]] (wave heights) offshore, and a very long [...
6: ...rmed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people are more familiar). However, since they are not ...
10: ...by any disturbance that rapidly [[displacement|displaces]] a large mass of [[water]], such as an [[ear...
12: ...here denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as subduction. - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ... by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the best educat...
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...
23: ... ''De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio'' ([[1524]]), he analyzes with great cleverness and good hu...
25: ...o offer any tangible method of applying its principles to the existing church system. When Erasmus was... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ...d navigator in the early seventeenth century. His place and date of birth are unknown, but [[September...
7: ...vanni da Verrazano]] explored the same coast in [[1524]])–and sailing a distance up the [[Hudson R...
13: ...and spent the next months continuing to map and explore the eastern shores. In November the ship becam...
15: ...e spring of [[1611]], Hudson wanted to continue exploring, but the crew wanted to return home. Eventua...
17: ...West India'') from [[1625]]. The same situation applies to the voyage of [[Adriaen Block]]. - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] |
10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
12: ...gs inspired the [[Protestant Reformation]] and deeply influenced the [[doctrine]]s of [[Lutheran]], [[...
14: ...f the [[German language]] and added several principles to the art of [[translation]]. Luther's [[hymn]...
26: ... to monastic life, the effort to do good works to please [[God]] and to serve others through prayer fo... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political u...
7: ...he two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given at the be...
12: ...mania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[S...
19: ... the whole map of Europe. The Eastern Germanic peoples destroyed the Western Roman Empire, but the sta... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political u...
7: ...he two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given at the be...
12: ...mania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[S...
19: ... the whole map of Europe. The Eastern Germanic peoples destroyed the Western Roman Empire, but the sta... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...ssful strategy of allying with some indigenous peoples against others. He also used a native woman, [[...
6: ...cal trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ...es in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
16: ... a pale, sickly child by his [[biographer]], [[chaplain]], and friend [[Francisco López de Gómara]]....
18: ...al career. However, those two years at Salamanca, plus his long period of training and experience as a... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
13: ...lark Expedition|Lewis and Clark]] return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.
15: *[[1846]] - Discovery of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] by French astronomer [[Urbain Le V...
36: *[[480 BC]] - [[Euripides]], playwright (d. [[406 BC]])
38: ...1158]] - [[Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany|Geoffrey Plantagenet]], [[Duke of Brittany]]
50: *[[1895]] - [[Johnny Mokan]], baseball player (d. [[1985]])
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