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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...tember 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly thought of as one of the m...
9: ...may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the period.
13: ...at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France...
15: ==Second Voyage 1535-1536==
19: ... when Cartier decided to spend the winter of 1535-1536 in Canada but the decision must have been made by... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
12: ...ries, as tending in her opinion to prevent the complete amalgamation of [[Scandinavia]]. But with her ...
24: ... regularly in all future. At the [[Reformation]] (1536) this was discontinued; however, to this day a sp... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
13: ... created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his wife had again failed to p...
21: ...her mother Catherine, or attend her funeral in [[1536]]. Her treatment and the hatred Queen Anne had fo...
23: ...ex, Richmond and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence.
39: ...il|Privy Counsellors]] had been implicated in the plot to put the Lady Jane Grey on the Throne. She c... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
15: ...yal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died before James V, Mary would not n...
26: ...[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heav...
28: ... the prelates and peers who knelt before her and, placing their hands on her crown, swore allegiance t...
31: ...nce with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treat...
40: ...omising childhood. With her marriage agreement in place, she was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at th... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
56: ...wo name forms is exactly the same as with for example [[Germany]] vs. Federal Republic of Germany or [...
65: ...ritorial expansion under King [[Svatopluk I|Svätopluk]].
71: ...nium/Posony'' at that time) became its capital in 1536. But the [[Ottoman wars]] and frequent insurrecti...
73: ...n]] promoted by the Hungarian government. For example, all three Slovak high schools and [[Matica slov...
93: ...groups include [[Roma (people)|Roma]], [[Czech people|Czech]]s, [[Rusyns|Ruthenians]], [[Ukrainians]] ... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ... arrived from South America in the third wave, displacing both the Arawak and the Salodoid-Barrancoid....
11: ...dos and used them as [[Slavery|slave labor]] on [[plantation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving ...
15: ...ica, most notably [[South Carolina]]. To work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa; the [[...
17: Local politics were dominated by plantation owners and merchants of British descent. ...
25: ...Commonwealth]], with a ceremonial [[president]] replacing the Queen. - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ...[[European Union]] and [[NATO]]. Usually known simply as the '''United Kingdom''' or the '''UK''', it ...
64: ...) has been proposed, but is little used outside diplomatic circles.
69: ...land was on the brink of economic ruin and was deeply unpopular with the broader Scottish population.
71: ...nd]]. This was also an unpopular decision, taking place just after the unsuccessful United Irishmen Re...
74: ...he 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witnessed ... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...ral influences. For a variety of reasons, some people in other parts of the U.S. sometimes mistake it ...
44: ...est inhabitants of the New World. The [[Pueblo people]] built a flourishing sedentary culture in the [...
46: ...]]. His maltreatment of the Pueblo people while exploring the upper Rio Grande valley led to long-stan...
64: ...ving as a teamster, cook, guide, and hunter for exploring parties until [[1840]].
74: ...l at [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]] in [[1851]]. The people of New Mexico would determine whether to permit ... - 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]]
128: *[[Mike York|York, Mike]], ice hockey player
134: *[[Ashikaga Yoshiteru|Yoshiteru, Ashikaga]], ([[1536]]-[[1565]]), [[Shogun]], Japanese feudal leader - 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 ...
26: ...ctures in Rome outlining Copernicus' theory. In [[1536]] his work was already in a definitive form, and ... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...Myrica]]. They worked together from [[1535]] to [[1536]] to construct a terrestrial [[globe]]. Later, Me...
12: ...]] where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map of Europe ([[1554]]) and he t...
20: *''Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet'' by Nicholas Crane, ISBN 0805066241, Henry H... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
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...
25: ...o offer any tangible method of applying its principles to the existing church system. When Erasmus was... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
11: ... where his men raped the sacred virgins in the Temple of the Sun. With a group of fifty men, he discov...
13: ...disunited with Pizarro. He returned to Spain in [[1536]], taking with him approximately 100,000 golden [...
15: ...his goods and equipped an expedition into the unexplored lands. His mission was to conquer, to settle,...
21: ...vana]] had, just shortly before his arrival, been plundered and burned down by French pirates. De Soto...
23: ...rida, in Bradenton (south of Tampa). He named the place ''Espiritu Santo'' after the Holy Ghost. De So... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1: ...sh; c. [[1559]]) was an early [[Spain|Spanish]] explorer of the [[New World]] and is remembered as a p...
5: ...the Capoques of [[Galveston Island]], which the explorers termed ''Malhado'', or Island of Doom) but l...
7: ...ling mostly in this small group, Cabeza de Vaca explored what are now the [[U.S. state]]s of [[Texas]]...
9: ...ly sensitive and benevolent towards the Native peoples. He was the first European to behold the [[Igua...
13: ... Mexican filmmaker Nicolás Echevarría. The film plot is base on Cabeza de Vaca's account of the fate... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
11: ...pottery, in several archeological digs and burial places scattered across Slovakia, and even more surp...
19: ...people who expanded the building of strong and complex fortifications, the appearance of large permane...
21: ...es that took place between the Scytho-Thracian people and the [[Celtic]] tribes, advancing from the So...
31: ... years BCE, evolving from sedentary indigenous peoples in the midst of Celtic and Germanic tribal move...
35: ... Slav presence is also found in the writings of [[Pliny the Elder]] ([[79]] CE) and of [[Tacitus Corne... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
514: *[[Desiderius Erasmus]], (1466-1536){{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}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
11: ...adjective when referring to the beliefs of the people or the artifacts they left behind.
26: The Inca people began as a tribe in the Cuzco area around the [[...
30: ...st accepted the rule of the Inca as a ''fait accompli'' and acquiesced peacefully. The ruler's childre...
36: ...uyu was a patchwork of languages, cultures and peoples. The components of the empire were not all unif...
42: ... subject tribes. Cuzco was definitively lost in [[1536]]. The Inca leadership retreated to the mountain ... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]]...
9: ...s in the Holy Land were the work of either the Templars or Hospitallers, at the height of the Kingdom ...
15: ...His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309]] after over two ...
17: ...] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
25: After seven years of moving from place to place in [[Europe]], the Knights were re-established... - Computer display (4276 bytes)
1: ...component of a [[computer terminal]], computer displays have long since become standardized peripheral...
4: ... different [[hardware]] technologies exist for displaying the actual image:
7: * [[Liquid crystal display]] (LCD). They can receive TV and computer bands...
8: * [[Plasma display]] (rarely seen)
11: ...rom 640 by 480 [[pixel]]s (640״80) up to 2048 by 1536 pixels (2048ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a varie... - Chile (39914 bytes)
56: ... Spanish expedition south from Peru in [[1535]]-[[1536|36]] called themselves the "men of Chilli."
66: ... settlements. Subsequent major insurrections took place in [[1598]] and in [[1655]]. Each time the Map...
74: ...ird and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national afflue...
78: ... excessive. At the end of his term, Frei had accomplished many noteworthy objectives, but he had not f...
80: ...APU), and the Independent Popular Action, won a [[plurality]] of votes in a three-way contest. The [[N...
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