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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]]
187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for...
46: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that th...
54: ... of lobbying at the Spanish court, where he was kept on a salary to prevent him from taking his ideas ... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
9: *[[Agasias]], Greek sculptor
20: ...rmany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
36: *[[Johannes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer
41: *[[Agrippinus of Alexandria]], (pope 167-178), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
15: ...g which had being going on intermittently since [[1494]] would finally end. [[Louis XV]]'s heir was his ...
43: ...ortly after the coronation, Marie-Antoinette attempted to bring the [[duc de Choiseul]] back to court....
61: ... entire country was standing on the edge of bankruptcy. [[Louis XIV]]'s wars with [[William III of Eng...
71: ...nac]] was made the new princess' Governess. She kept this post even when Marie-Antoinette's three othe...
95: ...鰨, was terminally ill with [[tuberculosis|consumption]]. The child's condition deteriorated and Mari... - Geology (12007 bytes)
14: Georg Agricola (1494-1555) wrote the first systematic treatise about [...
22: ... [[volcano]]es, as opposed to the ''[[Neptunism|Neptunists]]'', who believed that all rocks had settle...
26: ...in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time.
33: ... and by [[Arthur Holmes]], but wasn't broadly accepted until the [[1960s]] when the theory of plate te... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
24: ... critical. It resolved by Papal intervention in [[1494]] when the [[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divided the ...
33: ... The combined empires were simply too big to be kept unchallenged, and to resist those challenges.
35: ...remained in Portuguese possession. The Dutch attempted to conquer Brazil, and at one time controlled a... - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
67: ... [[Christopher Columbus]] first landed there in [[1494]]. Columbus used it as his family's private estat...
146: ...ed out by the Spanish soon after their arrival in 1494. These Tainos (sub-Arawaks) were known for archer... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
8: *[[1494]]-[[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divides the New World... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ... brother instead. From [[1486]] to [[1494]] (except the year [[1487]]-[[1488]], which he may have spe...
14: ...rary musical practice. He possessed a vivid conception of the meaning and dramatic possibilities of t...
16: ...wards or away from perfection but as trends of adaptation and influence; as such Josquin is seen as so...
18: ... and [[Venice]]. Others were preserved in manuscript in the archives of the papal choir in [[Rome]] an... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...f Florence after the expulsion of the Medici in [[1494]], travelling to European courts in [[France]], [...
17: The word was also adopted by some of Machiavelli's contemporaries, often ...
29: ...ssibility within Modernity through which we are kept awake at night...
33: ...e]]'' (''The Prince''). It was written in an attempt to return to politics as an advisor to [[Lorenzo ...
35: ...e. (Machiavelli references this in the second chapter of The Prince, which begins with the line: "Se... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...dom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by th...
23: ...ry: in [[1345]] Florence was the scene of an attempted strike by wool combers (''ciompi''), who in [[1...
25: ...enzo's death in 1492 and his son Piero's exile in 1494, the first period of Medici rule ended with the r...
27: ...insight was [[Niccolchiavelli]], whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong lead...
34: ...he authorities who knew the flood was coming, except a phone call to the jewellers on the Ponte Vecchi... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
89: *[[Isaac ben Moses Arama]], (1420-1494){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1265: *[[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]], (1463-1494){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Chile (capsicum) (7837 bytes)
11: ...nd first wrote about their medicinal effects in [[1494]].
54: ...mal]]s, as capsaicin acts on a specific nerve receptor in mammals, and avian nervous systems are rathe... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
10: In 1494 [[Charles VIII]] of [[France]] invaded Italy unop...
26: *[[Battle of Marignano]] Sept. 13�14, 1515 - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
14: ...n simply pulling it along the ground, though attempts by [[Experimental archaeology|experimental archa...
18: ...zkum מזקו"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which en...
23: ...ows the track to be flexible and maintain its elliptical shape. - Lichen (7988 bytes)
14: ...tratum like a crust (crustose lichens); others adopt shrubby forms (fruticose lichens); and there are ...
16: ...[[cortex]]. Cyanobacteria may be held in small eruptions of or under the surface called cephalopodia. ...
31: .... The [[larva]] of a surprising number of [[Lepidoptera]] species feed exclusively on lichens. These i...
60: [[he:חזזית]]
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