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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]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
78: ...son|Adamson, Amandus]], (1855-1929), Estonian sculptor
124: ...Adrian VI]], (1459-1523), pope from [[1522]] to [[1523]] - Guatemala (8475 bytes)
40: [[September 15]], [[1821]]
62: ... by the [[Spain|Spanish]], who first arrived in [[1523]] and colonised the area. [[Alta Verapaz]] is kno...
84: Except for the south coastal area, and the vast lowlands... - 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]]) - Castle (27805 bytes)
48: A description of this earlier castle is given in the life of...
52: ...nd a natural rock stronghold which only needed adaptation, as at Clifford, Ludlow, the Peak and Exeter...
59: ... the garrison, used only when all else had been captured. Indeed the keep, in several crusader castles...
63: ...e), entailed the fall of the whole castle. The adoption of the concentric system precluded any such mi...
65: ...in one day by the artillery of Philip of Hesse ([[1523]]). Very heavy [[artillery]] was used for such wo... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
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>
321: ...28 December|28]]/[[29 December]] [[418]] to [[4 September]] [[422]]</small> - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...efly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s claim...
14: In [[1523]] More became the [[Speaker of the British House ...
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... - 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... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
8: ... Margaret's Professor of Divinity]], and had the option of spending the rest of his life as an English...
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...
40: ...reply, ''Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni'' ([[1523]]), Erasmus displays his skill in [[semantics]]. ... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
12: ...om was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death.
18: ...s seized enormous booty and took thousands into captivity.
22: ...an province of Britannia, [[Saint Patrick]] was captured and enslaved by [[Ireland|Irish]] pirates.
33: ...from Benevento, and all of Venice's military attempts to punish the Marians in 839 and 840 utterly fai...
52: ...ory/v012/12.2risso.html|title=Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Piracy: Maritime Violence in the Western I... - 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... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ... founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an ex...
6: ...al. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either ...
14: ...a Cortés, was an [[infantry]] [[Captain (OF-2)|captain]] of distinguished ancestry but slender means....
20: ..., and mischievous. This was probably a fair description of a sixteen-year-old boy who had returned hom...
38: ...decided to send him help. Cortés was appointed captain-general of this new expedition in October 1518...
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