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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
7: ...rance]]. Francis, still engaged in his lifelong struggle against [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charl...
17: ... and joined the Catholic party. Having failed to crush the Protestant rebellion by arms, she resumed, ...
21: ...hateau Fontainebleau|Palace of Fontainebleau]] in 1564 were famous for their sumptuousness. In architect... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...eth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed with impatience by ...
11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|...
18: ...l-being, particularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker be...
20: ...abeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. Luckily, she ...
27: ...d; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsely rumoured to be pregnant, Elizabeth was allowed to re... - Painting (4567 bytes)
69: *[[Constructivism]]
99: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
106: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
67: ...t received the [[Royal Assent]], the Third [[Home Rule Act 1914]]'s implementation was suspended until...
69: ...ed unrecognised internationally except by Lenin's Russian Republic. Nevertheless the Republic's [[?rea...
75: ...wever, through the lack of an effective command structure by its opponents, the anti-treaty IRA, and I...
77: ...ted, the Irregulars showed a major talent for destruction and the economy of the Free State suffered a...
81: ...reland". Though this state's ''constitutional'' structures provided for a [[President of Ireland]] ins... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
69: ...a time when Scotland was on the brink of economic ruin and was deeply unpopular with the broader Scott...
111: ...the UK debated giving Ireland [[home rule]]. Home rule was given to [[Northern Ireland]] in 1920: it w...
113: ...ently suspended. Unlike federalism, however, home rule parliaments have no constitutional status or ri...
155: ... may all be taken as precedent - indeed the last true war in which the British military fought alone w...
197: ...Shakespeare.jpg|frame|[[William Shakespeare]]<br>(1564 to 1616)]] - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ...]]. [[Pope]]s have been buried there, too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and wa...
8: ...fficially recognized Christianity he started construction in [[324]] of a great basilica in this exact...
12: ...composed of many valuable artistic elements. Construction started under [[Pope Julius II]] in 1506 and...
20: ...eath (1564), the dome was finished as far as the drum, the base on which domes sit. The dome was vault...
22: ...s (not to the public) all around the base of the drum; they are dwarfed by the monumental scale of the... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
210: *[[Rush Brown]] ([[1948]]-)
211: *[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] ([[1568]]-[[1625]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787) —...
67: *[[Rudolf Diesel]], (1858-1913), [[Germany]] — [[...
93: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642), [[Italy]] — [[thermometer]]
103: * [[William Gruber]] — [[View-master]]
114: *[[Rudolf Hell]], (1901-2002) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...'Galileo Galilei''' ([[Pisa]], [[February 15]], [[1564]] – [[Arcetri]], [[January 8]], [[1642]]), ...
22: ...ations of them in [[1620]]. Later astronomers overruled Galileo's naming of these objects, changing hi...
37: ...o Viviani]], it is not now generally accepted as true. However, Galileo did perform [[experiment]]s in...
62: ...s. As a geometric instrument, it enabled the construction of any regular [[polygon]], computation of t...
66: ...first to use a [[refracting telescope]] as an instrument to observe stars, planets or moons. - March (3907 bytes)
8: ...stituted as [[New Year's Day]] in [[France]] in [[1564]]. [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]] and her colon...
18: ...in honour of [[Gustav I of Sweden|Gustav Vasa]]'s run in [[1520]].
19: ...e to humanity and recognize all individuals who struggled to end tyranny and oppression. See [http://...
30: ...November in all years and on the same day as [[February]] in regular years (one day later in bissextil... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: [[Image:BruegelPortrait.jpg|right|thumb|Bruegel's ''The Painter and The Connoisseur'' drawn c...
3: ...his name and started signing his paintings as '''Bruegel'''.
5: ...nd then returned to Antwerp before settling in [[Brussels]] permanently 10 years later. He died there ...
7: ...her of [[Pieter Brueghel the Younger]] and [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] who both became painters, but as...
9: ...eant when the context does not make clear which "Brueghel" is being referred to. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...il [[1564]]; [[baptism|baptised]] [[April 26]], [[1564]] ([[Old Style|O.S.]]); – [[April 23]], [[1...
14: ... [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], [[England]], in April [[1564]], the son of [[John Shakespeare]], a glove-maker...
23: ...aughter, Judith, were baptized soon after on [[February 2]], [[1585]].
67: ...9]], and [[Edmund Malone|Edmund Malone's]] ''Variorum Edition'' (published posthumously in [[1821]]) i...
188: ...onfusion. Modern editors have the task of reconstructing Shakespeare's original words and expurgating... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
1: [[Image:Giordano_Bruno.jpg|thumb|Giordano Bruno]]
3: ... 17]] [[1600]]), a.k.a. '''Bruno Nolano''' or '''Bruno the Nolan''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philoso...
7: ...n [[Nola]], in [[Campania]], the son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier. In [[1565]] he took the name Giord...
9: ....D. and to be associated with [[Neoplatonism]]. Bruno embraced a sort of [[pantheism|pantheistic]] [[...
10: ...ft|200px|Woodcut illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the fo... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ... copper engraving of maps. He wrote the first instruction book of italic script to be published in nor...
12: ...rt Cosmographer to [[Duke Wilhelm of Cleve]] in [[1564]]. He devised a new projection and first used it ...
14: [[Image:Mercator World Map.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his fath...
15: ...ublished in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
45: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]] (1475 - 1564)
173: *[[Wilhelm Lehmbruck]]
182: *[[Bruce McLean]]
196: *[[Michelangelo]] (1475 - 1564) - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
8: ...ion to what is now called astrology. Ancient constructions with astronomical [[alineation]]s (such as ...
57: ...rp.300pix.jpg|thumb|left|200px Gallileo Gallilei (1564-1642) crafted his own telescope and discovered th...
62: ... [[telescope]] to observe the sky, and after constructing a 20x [[refractor telescope]] he discovered ...
66: ...composed into its component colors; this fact is crucial for most of the 20th-century research.
85: ...ting time for astronomy, with each advance in instrumentation leading to a new breakthrough in the und... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
23: ...Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[1557]...
69: *[[Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky]] ([[Russia]], [[1883]] – [[1953]])
75: *[[Biruni]] ([[Persia]] [[973]] - [[1048]])
85: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Dalmatia]],... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
120: *[[Averroes]] (or ''Ibn Rushd''), (1126-1198){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
158: *[[Bruno Bauer]], (1809-1882){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
231: *[[Rudjer Boscovich]], (1711-1787){{fn|C}}
257: *[[Constantin Brunner]], (1862-1937)
258: *[[Emil Brunner]], (1889-1966){{fn|R}} - Hippocampus (8957 bytes)
12: ...ast a lifetime, the hippocampus ceases to play a crucial role in the retention of the memory after a p...
14: ...bility to learn new skills (playing a musical instrument, for example), suggesting that such abilities...
30: The anatomist Giulio Cesare Aranzi (circa 1564) first used the term [[hippocampus]] for describi...
31: The Russian [[Vladimir Bekhterev]] noted the role of the...
33: ...lateral removal of various medial-temporal lobe structures (including the hippocampus) to relieve freq... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
30: ...Cape Horn and the other turns north to form the Peru or [[Humboldt Current]].
34: ...monsoon region, the typhoon region, and the [[doldrums]]. Mid-latitude westerly air streams occur in b...
36: ...ed than the other climatic regions, two major doldrum areas lie within the ocean, one located off the ...
46: ...Zealand, and the Philippines. These islands are structurally associated with the nearby continents. Hi...
48: ...line island building. Coral reefs are low-lying structures that have built up on basaltic lava flows u...
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