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- Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
20: ..., glamorous, flirtatious, charismatic and religiously tolerant. Elizabeth also inherited her mother's ...
33: ...unimportant [[Owen Oglethorpe]], [[Bishop of Carlisle]] had to crown her. The [[communion]] was celebr...
72: ...the [[Speech to the Troops at Tilbury]]. She famously declared, "I know I have the body but of a weak ...
74: ...s forced to return to Spain; the victory tremendously increased Elizabeth's popularity. The battle, ho...
76: ...h Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake. Also in 1595, a Spanish force under [[Don Carlos de Amesquita]... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
305: *[[Wladyslaw Czachorski]] ([[1850]]-[[1911]]) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
30: Galileo observed the [[Milky Way]], previously believed to be nebulous, and found it to be a mu...
37: ...e thing: falling or rolling objects (rolling is a slower version of falling) are [[acceleration|accele...
39: ... Aristotelian hypothesis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them. Th...
43: ...onclusion on whether light propagated instantaneously, he recognized that the distance between the hil...
53: ...ble only a century before, thanks to accurate translations by [[Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia|Tartaglia]] ... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ...hild, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant.
65: ...rsion of [[The_Americas|America]], downfall of [[Islam]] and return of [[Christ]]. The ''De cometis li...
87: *Max Caspar: ''Kepler''; transl. and ed. by C. Doris Hellman; with a new introduc... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
14: ...reverence for [[Aristotle]] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barre...
18: ...necessitated Bacon's return to England, and seriously influenced his fortunes. Sir Nicholas had laid u...
21: ...worked quietly at Gray's Inn giving himself seriously to the study of law, until admitted as an [[oute...
25: ...; in fashion, Bacon failed to become solicitor in 1595. To console him for these disappointments Essex ...
29: ...to employ him in crown affairs a few years previously, and he gradually acquired the standing of one o... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
25: ...n Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"). It lay on an island in the [[James River (Virginia)|James River]],...
31: ...mbers of [[Africa]]ns to the [[sugar]]-producing islands of the [[Caribbean]].
33: ... sought a less rebellious form of labor - African slaves.
42: ...ovince of New Hampshire]], and [[Colony of Rhode Island]].''
56: ...om of thought]]. She, too, was exiled to [[Rhode Island]]. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
14: ...87]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]]
15: ...e]] in [[1588]], further maps were published in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]....
22: ...rld and its Form) by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Cong... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
271: *[[Claus Sluter]] (14th century) - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
9: ...ake made the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]] expeditions.
12: ...New World]] [[silver]]. Drake took an immediate dislike to the Spanish, at least in part due to his mi...
13: ...ce|French]] privateers and [[Cimaroons]] (African slaves who had escaped the Spanish), Drake raided th...
16: ...eved previously, but an archipelago, or group of islands.
32: ...ew months later reached the Moluccas, a group of islands in the southwest pacific (east of today's Ind... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
42: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]] – [[1087]])
67: *[[Antonin Becvar]] ([[Slovakia]], [[1901]] – [[1965]])
104: *[[S. W. Burnham|Sherburne Wesley Burnham]] ([[1838]] – [[1921]])
133: *[[Andrew Ainslie Common]] ([[Britain]], [[1841]] – [[1903]...
162: *[[Henri-Alexandre Deslandres]] ([[France]], [[1853]] – [[1948]]) - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...] ideal, and [[bhajan]]s) as well as [[Sufi|Sufi Islam]].
4: ...uru Nanak]] is, "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim." [[Guru Gobind Singh]] reinforced these words...
18: Political pressure from surrounding Muslim nations forced the Sikhs to defend themselves a...
22: ...h;[[1518]]), a saint revered by both Hindus and Muslims. He made four distinct major journeys, which ...
26: Jetha became [[Guru Ram Das]] and vigorously undertook his duties as the new guru. He is resp... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ...he capital was [[Tenochtitlan]], built on raised islets in [[Lake Texcoco]] – the site of modern...
19: The renowned Nahuatl translator, [[Miguel León-Portilla]], suggests that it ...
34: ...''Huey Tlatoani'' (plural ''Huey Tlatoque''), translates roughly as "Great Speaker". This office gradu...
45: ... Spaniards and European scholars routinely mistranslated as "god" or "demon", referred rather to an im...
76: ===Slavery=== - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
29: ...m km² (1902); 19.9m km² maximum extent (1595)
45: ... Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottoman]] name B&a...
47: ...[[1924]]) synonymous with the [[Caliphate]], the Islamic State. In [[1453]], after the Ottomans [[Fall...
55: ...[Kenya]] and [[Aceh]] and to defend the Ottoman [[slave]] and [[spice]] trade. In Aceh, the Ottomans ...
93: ...retically also gave him overlordship over other Muslim rulers around the world. For example, among the... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
7: ...rs, but then the [[Hittites]] sacked Babylon in [[1595 BC]], installing the [[Kassite]] dynasty. Its cit...
11: ...a enjoyed a prominent status, or revolting at the slightest indication that it did not. However, the ... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
21: ...e of [[Mitanni]] in northern Mesopotamia around [[1595 BC]], while the Babylonians controlled the south....
30: ...eads from the [[stalk]]s and then use [[threshing sled]]s to disengage the [[grain]]. They then [[wind...
53: ...though they were not a major part of the economy. Slave [[women]] worked as [[weaving|weavers]], [[pre...
66: Sumerians used slings and simple bows. (the [[recurve bow]] is a la...
77: ...e]] with aisles along either side. Flanking the aisles would be rooms for the priests. At one end woul... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...ecks. Although Christians were not allowed to buy slaves, male or female, and had few other privileges...
9: ... distinguish itself in battles with the [[Islam|Muslims]], its soldiers wearing a black surcoat with a...
15: ...They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]]...
19: ...n the Magnificent]] delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this force the Knights had about 7,00...
25: ...ord the King of Sicily. Their annual fee for the island was a single [[Maltese falcon]], which they ha... - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
15: ...escription of the Universe) (Duisburg, [[1585]]-[[1595]]).
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