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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]]) - 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...
31: ==Third Voyage 1541-1542==
33: On [[May 23]], [[1541]] Cartier departed [[Saint-Malo]] on his third vo... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
14: ...d in [[Paris]] two months before the wedding took place.
18: In [[1541]] Jeanne married William, Duke of Cleves, annulle... - 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 painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
489: *[[El Greco]] ([[1541]]-[[1614]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-) - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
2: ...' [[List of programmers]], [[List of computing people]], [[List of computer scientists]], [[computer s...
19: [[16-bit application]] --
34: [[32-bit application]] --
75: [[8514 (display standard)]] --
107: [[APL programming language]] -- - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
137: *[[Paracelsus]], (1493-1541), alchemist
142: *[[John Pople|John A. Pople]], (1925-2004), [[theoretical chemistry|theoreti...
143: *[[Roy J. Plunkett]], (1910-1984), discoverer of [[Teflon]]
171: *[[K. Barry Sharpless]]. (1941- ) [[2001]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistr... - 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...
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...
26: ...isco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] into the territories explored by DeVaca to search for what came to be known... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
8: ... city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indians. Marcos was s...
10: ...[[Hernando de Alarcón]] who would be shipping supplies for Coronado. [[Pedro de Tovar]] was sent nort...
12: ...n as [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]) were no rich people at all, the village consisted mostly of thatched...
14: ...e back with him. Although the expedition was a complete failure, he remained governor of New Galicia u...
28: ...o the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the buffalo plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, as told by him... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
12: ...er-in-law, to lead an expedition, officially to explore and trade with the rumored new lands to the we...
15: ...rpose of gaining the favor of the king. Cortés applies the classical rhetorical figure of evidentia a...
22: ...gods and Christ (to whom Quetzalcoatl was often implicitly compared).
24: ... seen the results of this sort of plunder and had plans to build a working empire of his own. He order...
29: ..., [[La Malinche]] relayed a rumor that the locals planned to murder the Spaniards in their sleep. Alth... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
329: *[[Pierre Charron]], (1541-1603){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}}
898: *[[Andreas Karlstadt]], (c. 1480-1541) - Apache (7848 bytes)
3: ...e. The Apache peoples migrated from the Northern Plains into the Southwest relatively recently. Note...
8: ...ical evidence suggests a recent entry of these people into the American Southwest, with substantial nu...
10: ...ssessions. In April 1541, while traveling on the plains east of the Pueblo region, [[Francisco Corona...
12: ...in the skins of the cattle, with which all the people in this land clothe themselves, and they have ve...
14: ... for hauling loads by modern northern Canadian peoples. Recent experiments show these dogs may have p... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: The '''Aztecs''' were a [[Mesoamerica]]n people of central Mexico in the [[14th century|14th]], ...
9: ...ebates in Mexica scholarship), so this name was applied to other cultures of the same cultural group. ...
11: ...eaving Aztlan, [[Huitzilopochtli]] ordered his people not to use the word Azteca, instead they should ...
14: ...logia e Historia, for example, refers to these people as Mexica.
22: The Aztec [[Empire]] is not completely analogous to the empires of European history... - Navajo Nation (14007 bytes)
7: ...ment]] landmark and stretch across the [[Colorado Plateau]] into [[Arizona]], [[Utah]] and [[New Mexic...
9: ...term from the [[Navajo language]] that means ''people''. The Navajo are closely related to the [[Apach...
11: ...Ooz魧'' or '''Ayahkinii''' 'underground-house-people') reservation within the Navajo Nation's reserva...
17: ...ical evidence suggests a recent entry of these people into the American Southwest, with substantial nu...
19: ...ssessions. In April 1541, while traveling on the plains east of the Pueblo region, [[Francisco Corona... - El Greco (2407 bytes)
2: '''El Greco''' ([[1541]] – [[April 7]], [[1614]]), a Greek [[paint...
4: ...and portraits. Many of El Greco's works are on display at Madrid's ''[[Museo del Prado]]''.
9: ...of redefinition and reduction. In Toledo, he accomplished this by abandoning the [[Renaissance]] empha... - Zinc (12445 bytes)
162: == Applications ==
167: * [[Brass]], in turn, has wide application because of its strength and [[corrosion]] ...
170: ...rn]] in the summer and windburn in the winter. Applied thinly to a baby's diaper area (perineum) wit...
174: * Zinc stearate is a lubricative plastic additive.
185: ...extraction of impure forms of zinc was being accomplished as early as AD [[1000]] in [[India]] and [[C... - Chile (39914 bytes)
64: ...t, [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]], was founded in [[1541]] by [[Pedro de Valdivia]], one of [[Francisco Pi...
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... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
16: ...component carried the bulk of the expedition's supplies, and traveled by sea under the leadership of H...
21: ....<ref>Winship. P. 60</ref> Once the scouting and planning was done, Coronado led the first group of s...
23: ... described. Instead, it was just a complex of simple [[pueblo]]s constructed by the [[Zuni]] Indians....
30: ...o the [[Hopi]] territory to acquire scouts and supplies that could be used to find this river. Members...
38: ==Exploration of the Colorado River== - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...ntonio de Mendoza]]. Cortés returned to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully but embittered.
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... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...6/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] explorer and [[conquistador]] who, while leading the f...
5: ...ertainty is that he spent time as a child at both places, and he stipulated in his will that his body ...
7: ...ever schemes for the extortion of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|native villages]] for their cap...
12: ... the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's tents.<ref>MacQuarrie. Pp. 57-...
14: ...rom Atahualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy.
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