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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] navigator in [[England|Englis...
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]] - 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 ... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
14: ...ified from other sources. It is now generally accepted by historians that no voyage was made in [[1497...
16: ...etermined his longitude celestially on August 23, 1499, while on this voyage. But his claim is clearly f... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: '''Diane de Poitiers''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the ... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...rgent peoples of the region — [[Egyptian|Egyptians]], [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]], [[Ancient Rome|...
11: ...9;ון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the German equivalent ''Mittelmeer''. In ...
32: ...ebanon]], [[Israel]], the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[Egypt]].
33: *'''Africa''' (from east to west): [[Egypt]], [[Libya]], [[Tunisia]], [[Algeria]] and [[Moro...
69: The Mediterranean Sea has an average depth of 1,500 [[metre|m]] and the deepest recorded po... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
46: ...tory in a war against the [[Swabian League]] in [[1499]] amounted to de facto independence from the [[Ho...
50: ...een Catholic and Protestant cantons persisted, erupting in further violence at the [[battles of Villme...
59: As a consequence of the civil war, Switzerland adopted a federal [[constitution]] in [[1848]], amendin...
176: ...uropean culture, but this conception might be deceptive. - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...s of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel ...
73: ...of [[Nazism]] in [[1933]] and the subsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Sho...
78: ...en-Gurion showed a willingness to essentially accept about 1/3 of the land that would ultimately be wo...
83: ...ict over its status. Immediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the United Nations Ge...
86: ... into ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''. In the news: Egyptian Air Force bombs Tel-Aviv, Transjordan shells J... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
9: ...uthorities claim that it was likely that the [[Egypt]]ians had cotton as early as 12,000 BC, and evide...
88: [[he:כותנה]]
92: - 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]]) - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... [[anatomist]], [[inventor]], [[engineer]], [[sculptor]], [[geometer]], and [[painter]]. He has been d...
16: ...e time afterwards, Leonardo and the others were kept under observation by Florence's [[Officers of the...
20: Leonardo kept his private life particularly secret, and there i...
22: ...of a [[Lombard]] aristocrat. Salai eventually accepted Melzi's continued presence and the three undert...
29: ...w) were cast into weapons for the Duke in an attempt to save [[Milan]] from the [[France|French]] unde... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
10: ...ck to Mantua, again in the court of Gonzaga. In [[1499]] he lost his father and succeeded him in the rep... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...ropean leaders he met. His first mission was in [[1499]] to [[Caterina Sforza]], who appeared as "my lad...
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... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: '''Giovanni Caboto''' (c. [[1450]] – [[1499]]), known as '''''John Cabot''''' in [[English la...
24: ... made for an Irish port, because of distress. Except for one ship, John Cabot and his expedition were ... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
2: ...e]] version ''João Rodrigues Cabrilho'') (ca. [[1499]] – [[January 3]], [[1543]]) was a [[Portug...
12: ...[[Santa Barbara Channel]] and around [[Point Conception]], eventually sailing as far north as the [[Ru...
19: ...e. One such example is [[Cabrillo College]] in [[Aptos, California]], another is the portion of the [[... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
233: *[[Eratosthenes]] (Ptolemaic Egypt, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C.]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
549: *[[Marsilio Ficino]], (1433-1499){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}}
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