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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...thers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Amer...
2: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...ate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or gett...
5: ...rica was known to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[p...
9: ...large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
17: ...Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
25: ...es de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
27: *[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United St...
36: ...nnes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer
38: *[[Rodolphus Agricola|Agricola, Rodolphus]], (1443-1485), Dutch scholar and humanist - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ...s''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the courts of several [[Franc...
9: ...[Golden Rose]]", he did not forget to present the royal mistress with a pearl necklace.
11: ...particularly when Henri entrusted Diane with the Crown Jewels of France, had the [[Chateau d'Anet]] bu...
13: ... thereafter, Catherine de' Medici banished Diane from Chenonceau to the [[Chⴥau de Chaumont]]. She s...
15: In accordance with her wishes, and to provide a resting place for her, her daughter complet... - 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... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...gland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Someti...
9: ... VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous organizations, in...
11: ...he number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...s addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wives...
18: Elizabeth's first governess was Lady Bryan, a baroness whom Elizabeth called "Muggie". At the age of... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
2: ...'kallos'' "beauty" + γραφος ''graphos'' "writing") is the art of de...
4: ...rms, called [[palaeography]]. Examples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest to both calligrap...
8: ...e earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout [[China]] to this day. Although it uses Chi...
12: ...an-shu and contained more than 3,000 characters. From that time to the present, there have been five m...
14: ...as a guide, hiragana and katakana were developed from simplified cursive versions of characters. In th... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...tself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Sir...
6: ...[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the...
21: | rowspan="2" | '''[[Pope Peter]]'''<br><small>Saint P...
23: | rowspan="2" | <small>Simon Peter</small><br>'''—... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the two were not yet distinct) and [[alch...
8: ...er, also came from an important family which had produced leading churchmen and politicians.
10: ...e [[Tostrup Castle]] until he was six years old. Around 1552 his uncle was given the command of Vordin...
12: ...purchased an [[ephemeris]] and books such as [[Sacrobosco]]'s Tractatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmo...
14: ...ct with the aim of mapping the heavens conducted from a single location over a period of several years... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as ''...
7: ...their father died; neither received any training from him.
9: ... nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distinguish him from other members of the [[Brueghel|Brueghel dynasty...
11: ...[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of winters durin...
14: ...9]], with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 [[proverb]]s]] - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
21: *[[al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna]] (Morocco, [[1256]] - [[1321]])
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]]) - 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) - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
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11: | colspan=2 style="text-align: center; background: white;" | [[Image:Ottoman 1683.png|Map of the...
45: ...ing to the Empire's position as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empire was al...
47: ...antinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the [[Byzantine Empire]], it became the Ottoman ... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...arge portions of mainland [[Mexico]] under the [[Crown of Castile|King of Castile]], in the early 16th...
4: ...ile the more prestigious title of [[New Spain|Viceroy]] was given to a high-ranking nobleman, [[Antoni...
6: Because of the controversial undertakings of Cortés and the scarcity o...
14: ... of [[Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th Lord of Monroy]], and wife Mencía de Orellana y Carvajal.
16: ...tings and actions suggest he studied [[Law]] and probably [[Latin language|Latin]]. - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
2: |+ '''[[Asteroid]]s discovered: 10'''
17: | [[1566 Icarus]] || [[June 27]], [[1949]]
23: ...June 25]] [[1960]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[astronomer]] who emigrated to the [[USA]] in [[1931]].
26: ...e proposed that [[supernova]]e could create [[neutron star]]s.
28: ...ory]], to resolve stars in the center of the [[Andromeda galaxy]] for the first time, which led him to...
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