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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
    66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Americas|America]] looking for a ...
    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]]
  2. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    1: ...<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> &ndash; [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in [[Catalan]], ''Crist...
    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...
  3. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    9: *[[Agasias]], Greek sculptor
    20: ...rmany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
    37: *[[Martin Agricola|Agricola, Martin]], (1466-1506), German composer
    41: *[[Agrippinus of Alexandria]], (pope 167-178), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
  4. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    11: ... In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Operations Executive|...
    13: ...d the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she could begin her mission and was in...
    17: ...efore the judges had even found her guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, ...
    37: ...500;&#1488; &#1497;&#1490;&#1502;&#1512; &#1500;&#1506;&#1493;&#1500;&#1501;
    66: :''But above my head - emptiness''
  5. Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
    7: In 1506, upon the death of Christopher Columbus, who had ...
  6. Americas (7154 bytes)
    8: ...us]] discovered America". The single-entity concept also appears thematically. For example, the five...
    23: ...on of [[Renaissance]] era voyagers, had died in [[1506]] (believing, to the end, that he'd discovered an...
    25: ...roposed, but none of them have any widespread acceptance. One alternative first proposed by a [[Bristo...
  7. Switzerland (22270 bytes)
    48: In [[1506]], pope [[Julius II]] engaged the [[Swiss Guard]]...
    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.
  8. 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...
  9. List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
    7: *[[Francis Xavier|Xavier, Francis]], ([[1506]]-[[1552]]), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary]]
  10. Influenza (10335 bytes)
    12: ...c shift]] and present a new immune target to susceptible people. Populations tend to have more resista...
    25: == Symptoms ==
    26: ...expelled by coughing, and causes the following symptoms:
    64: ...s of influenza virus in vitro and reduction of symptoms by an elderberry extract (Sambucus nigra L.) d...
    87: [[he:&#1513;&#1508;&#1506;&#1514;]]
  11. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    2: ...too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
    12: ... Construction started under [[Pope Julius II]] in 1506 and was completed in [[1615]] under [[Pope Paul V...
    17: ...isk dates back to the [[13th century BC]] in [[Egypt]], and was moved to Rome in the [[1st century]] t...
    29: ... high. On top are statues of Christ, [[John the Baptist]], and eleven of the apostles; St. Peter's sta...
    31: ...rnacchini]] to the south, and an [[equestrian sculpture]] of [[Constantine I of the Roman Empire|Emper...
  12. 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]])
  13. Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
    6: ... brother instead. From [[1486]] to [[1494]] (except the year [[1487]]-[[1488]], which he may have spe...
    10: ... plague that year, and by [[Antoine Brumel]] in [[1506]], who stayed until the disbanding of the chapel ...
    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...
  14. List of popes (77758 bytes)
    23: ... <small>Simon Peter</small><br>'''&#1513;&#1502;&#1506;&#1493;&#1503; &#1489;&#1503; &#1497;&#1493;&#150...
    36: ...tionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
    143: | <small>[[21 July]] [[230]] to [[28 September]] [[235]]</small>
    179: ...artyr, through extreme hardship; feast day [[16 September]]</small>
    279: | <small>[[17 May]] [[352]] to [[24 September]] [[366]]</small>
  15. Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
    2: ...nonization]], in favor of a more generalized concept and doctrine of sainthood where all Christians ar...
    8: ...church" (Matthew 16:17-19). In the same Holy Scriptures, [[Saint Paul]] refers to Saint Peter as Ceph...
    11: ...imon (''i.e.'', Peter) was a fisherman. The [[synoptic gospels]] all recount how his mother-in-law was...
    15: ...ck crow, he remembered what Jesus had said, and wept. (Matt. 26:31-35, 69-75; Mark 14: 26-31, 66-72; L...
    52: ...bones were supposedly buried bore the Greek inscription PETROS ENI - "Peter is within".
  16. 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...
  17. Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
    15: In [[1506]] Castiglione wrote (and played together with Cos...
  18. Thomas More (15893 bytes)
    2: ...efly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s claim...
    19: ...[[Lucian]], which was published in [[Paris]] in [[1506]].
    41: ...nry's marriage to Catherine. In [[1531]] he attempted to resign after being forced to take an oath de...
    44: ...nd. Shortly thereafter More was charged with accepting [[bribe]]s, but the charges had to be dismisse...
    46: ... Act of Succession|Act of Succession]]. More accepted Parliament's right to declare Anne the legitima...
  19. Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
    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...
    43: ...etc.,'' [[1502]] (''Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo...
  20. Erasmus (18332 bytes)
    8: ... Margaret's Professor of Divinity]], and had the option of spending the rest of his life as an English...
    10: ... rewards of independent literary activity. From [[1506]] to [[1509]] he was in Italy. He spent part of ...
    16: .... The text later became known as the ''textus receptus''. Erasmus published three other editions - in ...
    17: It was the first attempt on the part of a competent and liberal-minded sch...
    27: ...e the outcome of reform, he was thankful he had kept out of it. Yet he was being ever more bitterly ac...

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