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  1. Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
    4: ...trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[East Asia]].
    10: ...d that Vespucci was exaggerating his role and constructing deliberate fabrications, others have instea...
    12: ...nt [[The Americas|America]] on his world map of [[1507]]. Vespucci styled himself ''Americus Vespucius''...
    16: ...eaching 6�S, before turning around and seeing [[Trinidad]] and the [[Orinoco River]] and returning t...
  2. Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
    6: ...61]], fighting for the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] cause. (This was ironic, as Edward IV was t...
    10: Edward IV had many mistresses, the most notorious being [[Jane Shore]], bu...
    12: ...ges the queen arranged for her family, the most outrageous being when her 20-year-old brother John Woo...
    16: ...ding contract that rendered any other marriage contract invalid as bigamous. (It was said that Eleano...
    20: ...n]] and was buried on [[June 12]] in the same chantry as her husband King [[Edward IV of England|Edwar...
  3. Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
    2: ...ead and how it is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she may or may not have been ...
    11: ...0px|thumb|right|''Adam and Eve'', by [[English poetry|English poet]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[Willia...
    12: ...|200px|thumb|right|Traditional woodblock print portraying Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with many...
    13: ... means "red earth"), and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and gave him dominion over...
    15: ...oy its fruits under this one prohibition: "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt no...
  4. Americas (7154 bytes)
    6: ... and historical reasons. The [[isthmus]] of [[Central America]] is usually considered geographically ...
    8: ... plural name ''the Americas''. In many other countries, they are considered a single continent, so (a...
    23: ...ges]]. An accompanying book, ''[[Cosmographiae Introductio]]'', explains that the name was derived fr...
    25: ... however no copies survive) and that this was the true inspiration for Waldseem?
    27: ... ''Amerrique'' in [[Nicaragua]]. The gold-rich district of Amerrique was purportedly visited by both V...
  5. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
    127: *[[Gentile Bellini]] (ca.[[1429]]-[[1507]])
    188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
    206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
    219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
  6. Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
    3: ... [[Inquisition]] acting in [[Spain]] under the control of the [[Kings of Spain]]. This Inquisition was...
    6: ...Middle Ages]], as in the rest of the European countries, but not in the Kingdom of Castile & Leon!
    10: ...ted [[Abiathar Crescas]], a Jew, as his court [[astrologer]]. Jews held many prominent posts, both rel...
    14: ...and was not above using religion as a means of controlling his people. He wanted the Jewish and Muslim...
    16: ...heir. However, he did not want the [[Pope]] to control the [[Inquisition]] in Spain, as he was jealous...
  7. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
    102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
    187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}...
    191: *[[Bhartrhari]], (5th century){{fn|R}}
  8. Corinthian order (9508 bytes)
    4: ...Order, illustrated in [[Claude Perrault]]'s ''[[Vitruvius]]'', 1684]]
    6: ...is, 1684 (''illustration, left''). Perrault demonstrates in his engraving how the proportions of the c...
    8: ...rinthianCapitalDrawing.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Greco-Bactrian]] Corinthian capital, found at [[Ai-Khanoum]],...
    9: ...apital has no neck beneath it, just a ring-like astragal molding or a banding that forms the base of t...
    18: ...left''). At the Capitol the proportions of architrave to frieze are exactly 1:1. Above that, the pro...
  9. Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
    12: ...of the [[Bible]] resulted in the formation of new traditions within Christianity and his teachings und...
    14: ...of [[clerical marriage]] within several Christian traditions.
    19: ...earby [[Mansfeld]]. Having risen from the [[peasantry]], his father was determined to see his son asce...
    23: ...torm in the summer of 1505. A [[lightning bolt]] struck near to him as he was returning to school. Ter...
    25: ==Luther's struggle to find peace with God==

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