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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    23: *[[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacif...
    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]]
  2. Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
    3: ... de' [[Medici family|Medici]]''' ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy...
    21: ... Fontainebleau]] in 1564 were famous for their sumptuousness. In architecture, especially, she was wel...
  3. Painting (4567 bytes)
    99: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
    100: ...eo Modigliani]], ([[1884]]-[[1920]]), Italian sculptor and painter
    107: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
  4. Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
    28: In 1519, the same year that Cortez's army landed in [[Mex...
    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...
  5. Texas (39610 bytes)
    114: * [[1519]]: [[Alonso Alvarez de Pineda]], a [[Spain|Spanis...
    125: ...xas "Declaration of Independence", making an attempt at a clear break from Mexican rule.
    128: ... de Santa Anna|Santa Anna]] himself passed into captivity.
    132: ...42]]: 1,400 Mexican troops, led by Adrian Woll, captured San Antonio again. They retreated, as before,...
    134: * [[9 September]] [[1850]]: The [[Compromise of 1850]] strip...
  6. 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]]-)
    175: *[[Francesco Bonsignori]] ([[1460]]-[[1519]])
    251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
  7. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    62: *[[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo DaVinci]], (1452-1519), [[Italy]] — [[euclidean geometry]]
    211: ...provided an influential formalisation of the concept of [[algorithm]] and computation: the [[Turing ma...
    242: ...–1995) was the inventor of the Bell [[helicopter]]
  8. Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
    15: *[[1519]]-[[HernᮠCort鳝] defeats [[Tlaxcala]], a small...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
    24: ...tween [[Teutonic Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defende...
    30: ...ticus, and having seen that the first general reception of his work had not been favorable, Copernicus...
    46: ...ted Aristarchus and Philolaus in an early manuscript of his book which has survived, stating: "Philola...
    51: ...other motion to the Earth, by which the axis is kept pointed throughout the year at the same place in ...
    53: ...hemerides]] than the then current tables based on Ptolemy's model. Furthermore, he badly underestimate...
  12. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    1: This is a partial list of [[sculptor (artist)|sculptor]]s.
    26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
    55: *[[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]] (1827 - 1875)
    116: *[[John Gibson (sculptor)|John Gibson]] (1790 - 1866)
    121: *[[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]] (1938 - )
  13. Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
    11: ...[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship east...
    24: ... the contract, Magellan and Faleiro, as joint [[captain]]s-general, would receive one-twentieth of all...
    28: ...agellan's [[flagship]], and besides Faleiro the captains for the other four were Juan de Cartegena, Go...
    34: ...lmost prevented Magellan from sailing, but on [[September 20]], Magellan set sail from Sanl?de Barrame...
    41: ...lian. A mutiny involving three of the five ship captains broke out. It was unsuccessful, mainly becaus...
  14. Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
    12: ... and set sail on the morning of [[January 18]], [[1519]], just as Velázquez arrived at the dock in pers...
    15:
    22: ...uture (such as Quetzalcoatl's return). (This concept of Mexica cosmology is convincingly argued agains...
    24: ...ing|scuttled]] (not burned as legend has it), except for one small ship with which to communicate with...
    27: ...ortés said that if the men of Tlaxcala would accept Christianity, become his allies and vassals to hi...
  15. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
    32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
    318: *[[Andrea Cesalpino]], (1519-1603)
    967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
    1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}}
  16. Aztec (38742 bytes)
    13: ... city [[Tenochtitlan]] should be built. This sculpture is in [[Mexico City]].]]
    14: ... of the work of [[William Prescot]], it became adopted by most of the world, including the Mexican sch...
    45: ...ence as distinct entities apart from these ''teixiptla'' representations of ''teotl'' (Boone 1989).
    66: ... Tlaxcala also practiced the human sacrifice of captured Aztec warriors.
    74: In the later days of the empire, the concept of ''macehualli'' also had changed. Eduardo Nogue...
  17. Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
    15: ...鳝] arrived in Tenochtitlan on [[November 8]], [[1519]]. At this time it is believed that the city was ...
  18. Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
    5: image_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 15...
    19: ..., [[1483]] in [[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] and was baptized on the feast day of [[Martin of Tours|St. Mar...
    31: ...h;he immersed himself in the teachings of the Scripture and the early church. Luther recounted that hi...
    39: ... and was disgusted at the Papacy's greed and corruption.
    53: ...ctrine of excommunication, he was led by his concept of the way of salvation to the new tenet that the...
  19. History of Germany (53864 bytes)
    12: ...nelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman fr...
    21: .... In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of...
    69: ...e Holy Roman Emperor until [[1806]] (with the exception of the years between [[1742]] and [[1745]]). H...
    71: During his reign from 1493 to 1519, [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I]...
    93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t...
  20. Europium (8579 bytes)
    62: | 1099 [[Kelvin|K]] (1519 [[Fahrenheit|?F]])
    122: | [[electron capture|ε]]
    146: ...ndard temperature and pressure|STP]] are used except where noted.</font>
    151: ... with water. Like other rare earths (with the exception of [[lanthanum]]), europium ignites in air at ...
    194: ... abundant stable isotope, 153-Eu, is [[electron capture]], and the primary mode after is [[beta minus ...

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