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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...rior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
5: ...s part of a respectable family of mariners and improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherin...
9: ...t Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing a sh...
13: ... the sons of Huron [[Chief Donnacona]], back to Europe.
15: ==Second Voyage 1535-1536== - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
4: ...nd in [[Schleswig-Holstein]], and Margaret, free from all fear of domestic sedition, could now give he...
6: ...from Mecklenburg with an army of mercenaries, was routed and taken prisoner at [[Aasle]] near [[Falk?g...
10: ...holm (1395) Albrecht was released by Margaret on promising to pay 60,000 marks within three years, the...
12: ... crowned king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The proposed act of union divided the three Rigsraads, bu...
16: ... the Danish state, and national aspirations were frowned upon or checked, though Norway, as being more... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To this end, she had almost thr...
10: ...cotland|Mary I, Queen of Scots]], who lived at approximately the same time.
13: ...y disappointed that his wife had again failed to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last chi...
17: ... with England. A marriage treaty was signed; it provided that the Princess Mary should marry either F...
19: ...with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts t... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [...
9: ...y I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]])...
14: ...that parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionabl...
15: ...ed the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mar...
17: ... of the Stewarts' reign over Scotland. Instead, through Mary's son, it was the beginning of their reig... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
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23: | [[Ivan Gasparovic|Ivan Gašparovič]]
40: | '''[[Time zone]]'''<br> - in [[European Summer Time|summer]] - Barbados (21887 bytes)
3: ...ewinds and consists of some [[marsh]]es and [[mangrove]] [[swamp]]s. Some parts of the island's interi...
9: ...'''. In the [[13th century]], the Caribs arrived from South America in the third wave, displacing both...
11: ...ght resembled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|...
13: ...6]], Barbados was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Barbados always enjoyed a large m...
15: ...sed a few years before the abolition of slavery throughout the British empire in [[1834]]. - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
8: image_coat = UK_Royal_Coat_of_Arms.png |
10: national_motto = [[Dieu et mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and...
46: ...nal language|(regional) languages]] under the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages]]....
52: ...and'' in 1927.<br><sup>6</sup> Official estimate provided by the UK [[Office for National Statistics]]...
54: ...a [[Commonwealth Realm]], and a member of the [[European Union]] and [[NATO]]. Usually known simply as... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
9: Motto = Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes) |
38: ... recognized languages in the state. In [[Spain|European]] [[Spanish language|Spanish]], the state's n...
46: ...d near an excavated pueblo today preserved as [[Coronado State Monument]] in [[1541]]. His maltreatmen...
50: ...w Mexico|Acoma]] revolted against this Spanish encroachment but faced severe suppression.
52: ...iego de Vargas Zapata]] reestablished Spanish control and returned Spanish colonists in [[1692]]. - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
16: *[[Yamagata Hiro]] (born 1964), author
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
23: *[[Yan Chia-kan]] (1905-1993), ROC politician
27: ...nkovic|Yankovic, "Weird Al"]] (born 1959), US [[parody]] musician
31: ...ssociation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... human life as well, opening the door to young astronomers everywhere to challenge the facts and never...
7: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
8: ...us' father. His brother Andrew became canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictine...
10: ...Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disc...
14: ... [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing of this remai... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ...of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] named after him.
9: ... of italic script to be published in northern [[Europe]].
11: ...6thcentury.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Mercator map of Europe]]
12: ...Wilhelm of Cleve]] in [[1564]]. He devised a new projection and first used it in [[1569]]; it had para...
15: ...[[Ptolemy]] (though introducing a number of new errors). Maps of [[France]], [[Germany]] and the [[Net... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
1: ...re provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
6: ... cared for by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the b...
8: ...of spending the rest of his life as an English [[professor]]. He stayed at [[Queens' College, Cambridg...
10: ... Press|Aldus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Itali... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
1: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: ...largest expedition of the 16th and 17th century through the southeast and midwest of today's [[United ...
5: ...doba]] on his discovery and colonization voyage through [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]].
6: ...an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeate...
11: ...he Inca ruler [[Atahualpa]] when he preceded Pizarro to Cajamarca on their invasion march. After Atahu... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1: ...the [[New World]] and is remembered as a protoanthropological author.
3: ...uld not be as great, due to forces beyond his control.
7: ...and return there, but [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] had already appointed [[De Soto]] to...
9: ...ound [[1545]]. He was eventually exonerated and wrote an extensive report on South America, which bou...
15: ...e name of the ship that Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world in. - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: The oldest surviving archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE, ...
7: Other stone tools from the [[Middle Palaeolithic|Middle Paleolithic Era...
9: ...out between the [[Mediterranean]] and [[Central Europe]].
11: ... archeological digs and burial places scattered across Slovakia, and even more surprisingly, in the no...
13: ...years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨ory. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
11: *[[John Abercrombie]], (1780-1844)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
22: *[[Robert Adamson]], (1852-1902) - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...e orders of the [[Conquistador]] [[Francisco Pizarro]], marking the beginning of [[Spanish_colonizatio...
9: ...our regions between", which referred to the four provinces whose corners met at the empire's capital, ...
11: ...oday the word <i>Inca</i> still refers to the emperor, but can also refer to the people or the civiliz...
17: ...apac|Manco]] and [[Mama Ocllo|Ocllo]], and Sinchi Roca is the person who finally led them to the valle...
19: ...he city of Cuzco. They traveled by means of underground caves until reaching Cuzco where they establis... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...id to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military...
5: ...e of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soo...
9: ...h located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], ...
15: ... surrendered to the knights. They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the ... - Computer display (4276 bytes)
1: ... meaning "machine-level debugger" or "thread synchronization mechanism". Computer displays are sometim...
9: * [[Video projector]]
11: ...rom 640 by 480 [[pixel]]s (640״80) up to 2048 by 1536 pixels (2048ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a varie...
15: ...type]]s", because of the similarity to their electromechanical predecessors.
17: ...nly display one colour either as on or off. Monochrome displays can show only levels of a single colou... - Chile (39914 bytes)
39: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 18]], [[1810]]<br>[[Feb...
56: ... Spanish expedition south from Peru in [[1535]]-[[1536|36]] called themselves the "men of Chilli."
62: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
64: ...entral valley, and Chile became part of the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]].
66: ... [[slavery]] in [[1683]] defused tensions on the frontier between the colony and the Mapuche land to t...
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