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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
48: *[[Pedro Álvares Cabral]], (c. 1467-c. 1520), [[Portuguese]] navigator, discovered [[Brazil]]...
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]] - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...Cartier''' ([[December 31]], [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|exp...
5: ...alo is recognized by its frequent appearance in baptismal registers as godfather or witness.
37: ...ips were dispatched home with some minerals on September 2.
39: ...ngboats for a reconnaissance of the Saguenay on September 7. Having reached Hochelaga, bad weather an...
43: ...Malo and his nearby estate, and died aged 66 on September 1 [[1557]] from an epidemic. He died before ... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [...
13: ...ay [[18 February]] [[1516]]. She was [[baptism|baptised]] on the following Wednesday with [[Thomas Wo...
15: ...e|Greek]], [[science]], and [[music]]. In July [[1520]], when scarcely four and a half years old, she e...
19: ...male heir he desired; consequently, the King attempted to have his marriage to her annulled. In [[153...
26: ... religion and royal position. The Lady Mary attempted to reconcile with her father by submitting to h... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
4: ...or [[palaeography]]. The study of permanent inscriptions engraved in metal or chiselled into stone and...
14: ...s on sharp angles. Written Japanese uses both scripts along with Chinese characters, and basic calligr...
28: | [[Seal script]]
32: | [[Clerical script]] (Official script)
36: | [[Regular Script]] (Block script) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
12: ...issance]] painter [[Raffaello Santi]] ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), who painted full-scale cartoons as precursors... - March (3907 bytes)
8: ...arch 25 until 1752, the same year they finally adopted the Gregorian calendar.
18: ... of [[Gustav I of Sweden|Gustav Vasa]]'s run in [[1520]].
21: ... thrilled by the roar of high-octane attack helicopters and the zoom of vintage warbirds. Highlights i... - Raphael (3466 bytes)
2: ...83]] and died on his 37th birthday, [[April 6]] [[1520]] (see the note below about earlier confusion abo...
4: ...moving to [[Florence, Italy|Florence]] he soon adopted the styles of [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]] an...
23: ... his 37th birthday, [[Good Friday]] [[April 6]] [[1520]]. - 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... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed churches]], and [[Anabaptist]]s. It also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]]...
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schi...
15: ...rmers -- [[Thomas_Muentzer|Müntzer]], [[Anabaptists]], [[Menno Simons]]
20: ...ng the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Renaissance]] church.
32: ...mony and ritual. Going back to ancient texts, scriptures, from this viewpoint the greatest culmination... - Nubia (8928 bytes)
1: ...ay '''Nubia''' is the region in the south of [[Egypt]], along the [[Nile]] and in northern [[Sudan]], ...
3: ...l|250px|right|Nubian Wedding near [[Aswan]], [[Egypt]] ]]
9: ...he [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] of Egypt around [[3100 BC]]. It consisted of semi-nomadic...
11: ...his is uncertain, but it was perhaps caused by Egyptian invasions and pillaging that began at this tim...
13: ...increased so did wealth and stability. By the Egyptian sixth dynasty Nubia was divided into a series ... - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period referred to as Indi...
38: ...t, and jungle. All of these environments are susceptible to unpredictable periods of flood, drought, a...
58: ''[[Chandragupta Maurya]]'', a famed Hindu monarch, founded the [...
64: Between the [[Maurya]] and [[Gupta]] empires, northern India was ruled by smaller k...
68: ...he [[Shunga period]] is known for its art and sculpture. - 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...
39: ... reached [[R�de la Plata]] on [[January 10]], [[1520]]. It was already late in the season, however, a... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}}
1472: *[[Sosan Hyujong]], (1520-1604){{fn|R}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
47: ... I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites established...
53: ...st to [[Hungary]] in the northwest, and from [[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in the north. ...
59: ...Janissaries]] were disbanded, and a modern conscripted army was formed.
61: ...defending itself from foreign occupation (e.g. Egypt occupied by the French in 1798, Cyprus occupied b...
76: ...g the characteristic Ottoman culture. After the capture of Constantinopole (later dubbed Istanbul) in ... - 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... - Argon (6952 bytes)
1: ...rine]] | right=- | above=[[neon|Ne]] | below=[[krypton|Kr]] | color1=#c0ffff | color2=green }}
20: {{Elementbox_ionizationenergies4 | 1520.6 | 2665.8 | 3931 }}
32: ...isotope|syn]] | hl=35 [[day|d]] | dm=[[Electron capture|ε]] | de=? | pn=37 | ps=[[chlorine|Cl]...
69: ...s, decays to stable Ar-40 (11.2%) by [[electron capture]] and by [[positron emission]], and also trans...
71: ...ironment, it is also produced through [[neutron capture]] by K-39 or [[alpha decay|alpha emission]] by... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
8: ...]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period referred to as Indi...
38: ...t, and jungle. All of these environments are susceptible to unpredictable periods of flood, drought, a...
58: ''[[Chandragupta Maurya]]'', a famed Hindu monarch, founded the [...
64: Between the [[Maurya]] and [[Gupta]] empires, northern India was ruled by smaller k...
68: ...he [[Shunga period]] is known for its art and sculpture. - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
10: ... later capital, [[Susa]], and geographers after [[Ptolemy]] called it ''Susiana''. Though primarily ce...
13: ...uch links are at best conjectural, as [[Indus script|Harappan pictographs]] have yet to be deciphered....
17: ...sel, Proto-Elamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
19: ...and texts in the undeciphered [[Proto-Elamite script]] continue to be present until ca. [[2700 BC]]. T...
24: ...e: ca. 3200 BC – 2700 BC (Proto-Elamite script in Susa) - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
5: ...tholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]. He was sold in 1520 to Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, a [[Spanish nobi...
8: ... sailed with others on makeshift rafts in an attempt to reach [[Mexico]]. The group was shipwrecked on...
13: ...Native Americans. It is also said that he was accepted as a deity by some Native American tribes becau...
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