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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
17: ...eign over a united Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in F...
22: ...ots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[1543]]. Due to the age of the Queen an...
26: ...ry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped...
33: ...VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and kidnap the infant queen, but...
35: On [[September 10]] [[1547]], known as "Black Saturday", th... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) wa...
16: ...lizabeth was the [[heir presumptive|heiress presumptive]] to the throne of England. After Queen Anne f...
27: ...|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be Roman...
33: ...tthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s memory, sin...
39: ...eth remained independent in her diplomacy. She adopted a principle of "England for the English". Her o... - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
5: ... and ''Lettere familiari a diversi'', in 1575 and 1580, respectively. She published books of letters and... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
10: ...003]] she captained a round-the-world record attempt for a crewed yacht in ''Kingfisher 2'', but was t...
14: ...sing the yacht, her first significant record attempt in [[2004]] to break the west–east transatl...
16: She began her attempt to break the solo record for sailing non-stop aro...
18: ...ome after their respective circumnavigations in [[1580]] and [[1967]]. MacArthur was also made an honora... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: |+<big><big>'''جمهوريّة...
6: ... Arab Republic of Egypt 1984.png|125px|Flag of Egypt (since 1984)]]
7: ...40px" | [[Image:Coat of arms of Egypt.png|80px|Egypt COA]]
9: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Flag of Egypt]]
10: ...ign="center" width="140px" | [[Coat of Arms of Egypt|The Great Seal of the Republic]]<!-- - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
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... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
3: ...1607;ورية الجزائرية ا...
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62: ...ttacking and taking over many coastal cities, prompting some to seek help from the [[Ottoman Empire]]. - Iraq (19222 bytes)
3: |+<big><big>'''الجمهورية ا...
49: ...surgency|volatile]] while the new government attempts to re-establish [[national security|security]] i...
64: ...o major tasks ahead of them. The first is to attempt to reign in the insurgency which has blighted the...
106: ...tion of the program has revealed significant corruption, with highly placed U.N. officials being bribe...
108: ... economy has to a great extent shut down and attempts are underway to revive it from the damages of th... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
4: |+<big><big>'''الجمهوريّة...
85: ...after the [[1967 Arab-Israeli war]] and [[Black September]], and by [[1975]], they numbered more than ...
87: ...upying Lebanon for reasons of their own, and by September of that year, they were openly feuding. The...
91: ...s for Lebanon suffered a severe setback on [[14 September]] [[1982]], with the assassination of the Ph...
97: ...is predecessor, [[Selim al-Hoss]], refused to accept his dismissal in Aoun's favour. Lebanon was thus... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
57: ...anent colony on the site of [[Buenos Aires]] in [[1580]], although initial settlement was primarily over...
61: ... necessary, the governments of the [[1930s]] attempted to contain the currents of economic and politic...
67: ...by the [[United Kingdom]] in an unsuccessful attempt to seize the [[Falkland Islands|Falklands/Malvina...
71: ...most of the 1990s. Unfortunately, widespread corruption in the administrations of President Menem and ...
128: ...sed by the effects of the monetary policy which kept the US dollar exchange rate artificially low, the... - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: The '''Republic of Djibouti''' ({{lang-ar|جيبوتي}}, Ǧ...
4: ...1580;مهورية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa...
62: ...had regular trade contacts with the Arabs, and adopted [[Islam]] as their religion.
72: ... 1999, taking over from his uncle, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, who had ruled the country since its independ...
104: ... the [[franc]] to the US dollar. Per capita consumption dropped an estimated 35% over the last seven y... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...ent. The capital is [[Khartoum]]. It borders [[Egypt]] to the north, the [[Red Sea]] to the northeast,...
8: native_name = جمهورية ا...
40: established_dates = From [[Egypt]] and the [[United Kingdom]] <br> [[January 1]], ...
58: ...d in turn influenced [[Ancient Egypt|Pharaonic Egypt]].
62: ...e survived until being overwhelmed by an Anglo-Egyptian force under [[Horatio Kitchener|Lord Kitchener... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
31: ...nding loss of independence to Castile was not accepted by the majority of the Portuguese people, which...
40: In [[1418]] two captains of Prince Henry the Navigator, were driven by...
85: ...l Europe during Napoleon's era. The alliance is kept through [[NATO]], a military organisation in whic...
93: ... mainland Portugal. Download an [http://www.igeoe.pt/downloads/500mil/500mil_24bits2.zip official map]...
127: ...and rises 14 m bellow the sea surface. It last erupted in 1720 and formed an island, it remained above... - Spain (36498 bytes)
48: ...]]: [[peseta|Spanish Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, which are in the [[GMT]] t...
77: ...ain|Felipe II]], became King of [[Portugal]] in [[1580]], as well as of the other Iberian Kingdoms (coll...
83: ...ut was quickly returned to the Spanish Crown, except [[Rosellon]].
95: ...nish Morocco]] and [[Equatorial Guinea]] was attempted. A period of dictatorial rule ([[1923]]–[...
97: ...s politically and economically isolated and was kept out of the [[United Nations]] until [[1955]], whe... - 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]]) - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
13: ...er astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being "called out...
15: ...t the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the position in April of [[1594]], at the age o...
27: ... She was released in October [[1621]] after attempts to convict her failed. Even though she was subj...
40: ...e universe was created, there were no numbers except the Trinity, which is God himself… For, th...
46: ...tober 17]], [[1604]], Kepler observed that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the c... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
21: ...stigious post would aid him toward these ends, in 1580 he applied, through his uncle, [[William Cecil, 1...
33: ... income; but old debts and present extravagance kept him embarrassed, and he endeavoured to obtain fur...
37: ...nd so clear was the evidence that he made no attempt at defence. To the lords, who sent a committee to...
40: ... be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart. I know I have clean hands and a clean hear...
94: ...ze:XS text:Viscount St. Albans; Charged with corruption, retires from public life. - 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... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ... as the object of study. He was a [[Skepticism|skeptic]] and a [[Humanism|humanist]].
12: ...egan work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]].
18: ...land and Italy, partly in search for a cure. He kept a detailed journal recording various episodes and...
33: ...n for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from worldly things to prepare...
35: ...umans are not able to attain true certainty ([[skepticism]]), and even alludes to [[cultural relativit... - 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...
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