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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...lorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[Hi...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ex...
8: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]] - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mid_horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' ...
3: ...]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici''', and later lived in ...
5: ...arseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother was alive at the time, but who would become K...
7: ...uld listen to such a proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to se...
13: ... or metal. They forcefully shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38,... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
2: ...h; [[June 9]] [[1572]]) was Queen of [[Navarre]] from [[1555]] to [[1572]], wife of [[Antoine de Bourb...
6: ...the blood," who would become heir to the French throne if the Valois line died out.
12: ...olics, but was mortally wounded at the siege of [[Rouen]]. Jeanne's son [[Henry IV of France|Henry]] n...
14: ...ne fled to the Huguenot city of [[La Rochelle]]. From here she conducted peace negotiations, and in [[... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish ...
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... - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
15: ... to face the [[Sun]], a behavior known as [[heliotropism]].
18: ...early in the [[16th century]]. ''Helianthus'' is from the [[Greek language|Greek]] for "sunflower".
23: ... the next by approximately the [[golden angle]], producing a pattern of [[spiral]]s where the number o...
25: ...Sunflowers.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Sunflowers being grown commercially in [[Fargo, North Dakota|Fargo]] [...
27: ===Heliotropism=== - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...nt Egypt|ancient unified Egyptian state]] formed around [[3300 BC]]. It survived as an independent sta...
5: ==Egyptian chronology==
8: Egyptian history is broken into several different periods according to th...
10: ...llennia. There is a recommended revision of the chronology of Egypt.
23: * [[Egyptian chronology]] (for further discussion) - Senet (1763 bytes)
1: '''Senet''' is a [[Board game|board game]] from [[Ancient Egypt|ancient Egypt]].
3: ...ard game are those of Senet, found in a painting from the tomb of Merknera ([[33rd century BC|3300]]-[...
5: Another painting of this ancient game is from the [[Third Dynasty]] tomb of [[Hesy]] (c. [[27t...
7: ... other useful objects for the dangerous journey through the [[underworld]], and the game is referenced...
13: ... and R.C. Bell are two Senet historians who have proposed (different) sets of rules to play the game. - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
11: ... = [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] (largest [[metropolitan area]] is Nashville) |
39: ...amed [[Tanasi]] (or "Tanase") in present-day [[Monroe County, Tennessee]]. The town was located on a r...
41: ...d are uncertain. Some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier [[Yuchi]] or possib...
43: ...ence during the [[1750s]]. In [[1788]], [[North Carolina]] named the third county to be established in...
46: ...abited the [[Tennessee River]] Valley prior to Cherokee migration into the river's headwaters. - Achilles Tatius (1791 bytes)
1: ...passages and digressions, although tedious and introduced without adequate reasons, are the best part ...
3: ...''Leucippe''. The fragment was first published in 1567, then in the ''Uranologion'' of [[Petavius]], wit... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...yist]]. He was knighted in [[1603]], created '''Baron Verulam''' in [[1618]], and created '''Viscount ...
4: ...mplies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of h...
10: ... 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
14: ...ilosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives.
16: ...[Gray's Inn]], and a few months later they went abroad with Sir [[Amias Paulet]], the English ambassad... - 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]] - 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...
14: ... map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]] - 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]]) - July 24 (8660 bytes)
5: *[[1567]] - [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]] is...
6: *[[1701]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] founded.
7: ...ll]] advances toward [[Niagara]] to halt [[Jacob Brown]]'s [[United States|American]] invaders.
8: ...le]] leads the first [[wagon train]] across the [[Rocky Mountains]] by using [[Wyoming]]'s [[South Pas...
10: ...ed States|Union]] troops led by General [[George Crook]] in an effort to keep Yankees out of the [[She... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ... Granth Sahib]], the Sikh holy book. It departs from some of the social traditions and structure of [...
4: ...ain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyond what...
6: ...s successor and to lead the Sikh community. This procedure was continued, and the tenth and last Guru,...
10: ...rance that it is a blend of insights originating from two very different faiths. Sikhism's coherence i...
12: ...es (consumerism). This materialism prevents them from seeing the ultimate reality, as God created matt... - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
3: '''Samuel de Champlain''' ([[c.]][[1567]] – [[ 25 December]] [[1635]]) was a [[Fran...
7: ...nd, on his return to France on [[September 20]], wrote an account of his travels called ''Des sauvages...
9: ...[Bay of Fundy]] to found the [[Habitation at Port-Royal]] (which had been located with Champlain's ass...
19: ...e Champlain]]. Having had no encounters with the Iroquois at this point many of the men headed back, l...
21: ...ed and fled. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years. - History of Ancient Egypt (27975 bytes)
3: ...nt Egypt|ancient unified Egyptian state]] formed around [[3300 BC]]. It survived as an independent sta...
5: ==Egyptian chronology==
8: Egyptian history is broken into several different periods according to th...
10: ...llennia. There is a recommended revision of the chronology of Egypt.
23: * [[Egyptian chronology]] (for further discussion)
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