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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
23: *[[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacif...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... de' [[Medici family|Medici]]''' ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy...
7: ...e in France. She was young, a foreigner, in a country that had little weight in the great world of pol...
11: ...ry being completely under the influence of his mistress, [[Diane de Poitiers]], Catherine had little a...
13: ...ions to as little as 43, 38, or even fewer centimetres (17, 15, or fewer inches).
15: ...d her influence for more than twenty years in the troubled period of the [[French Wars of Religion]]. ... - Painting (4567 bytes)
68: *[[Abstract art|Abstract]]
69: *[[Constructivism]]
81: *[[Illustration]]
82: *[[Industry|Industrial]]
84: *[[Portrait]] - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ... were traveled around the world to search for new trading routes and partners to feed burgeoning [[cap...
3: ...] in [[Iberia]]. These that were a combination of traditional European and Arab designs were the first...
7: ...e Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close li...
9: ...]] to [[1295]]. His journey was written up as ''[[Travels]]'' and the work was read throughout Europe.
11: ...difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic empires that had long battled the... - Texas (39610 bytes)
25: ...TimeZone = [[Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]]<br />[...
44: * [[state tree]] — the [[pecan]]
52: ...th an area of [[1 E11 m?|690,000]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]], Texas forms the second-largest...
57: Texas lies in the south-central part of the United States of America. Depending...
70: ...a]] Tribes of Texas, the [[Kickapoo]] Traditional Tribe of Texas, and the [[Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo]] of... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
175: *[[Francesco Bonsignori]] ([[1460]]-[[1519]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
10: *[[Thomas Ahearn]], inventor of the electric stove in [[1892]]
13: ...orge Armstrong]] — [[hydraulic crane]], Armstrong breech-loading gun
24: ...rdeen]], (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
25: *[[Trevor Baylis]], (1937- ) — [[clockwork radio]...
37: ... Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor of the [[transistor]] - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
8: *[[1494]]-[[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divides the New World betwee...
15: *[[1519]]-[[HernᮠCort鳝] defeats [[Tlaxcala]], a small...
17: *[[1521]]-Cortes destroys the Aztec empire
19: ...o de Soto]] discovers the [[Mississippi River]], strengthening Spanish claims to the interior of North...
27: <tr> - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ..., he helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[astronomy]], and [[civil engineering]].
11: ...do also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[Pietro Perugino]].
22: ...rneys throughout Italy. Though Salai was always introduced as Leonardo's "pupil", he never produced an...
26: [[image:leonardo_self.jpg|thumb|left|[[Self-portrait]] in [[red chalk]], circa 1512 to 1515]]
31: ...t man to describe [[Double-Entry_Booking|double-entry bookkeeping]]) for [[Mantua]], moving on after 2... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...ce after the expulsion of the Medici in [[1494]], travelling to European courts in [[France]], [[Germa...
15: ...s works and the name is now associated with the extreme view point. Notwithstanding the mitigating the...
17: ...ies, often used in the introductions of political tracts of the sixteenth century that offered more 'j...
21: ...tify the means", is sometimes (all too often!!) attributed to him but this was essentially NOT his pos...
25: ...w Epoch without dogmatic constraints! His insight truly is novel! - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...f human life as well, opening the door to young astronomers everywhere to challenge the facts and neve...
8: ... his father, a wealthy businessman and [[copper]] trader, died. Little is known of his mother, Barbara...
10: ...[Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a dis...
14: ...r [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing of this rema...
18: ...ely became ill. Throughout his lifetime he made astronomical observations and calculations, but always... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
22: *[[Pietro da Barga]]
33: *[[Treffle Berthlaume]] (1803 - 1884)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
190: *[[Pietro Masni]]
195: *[[Ivan Mestrovic|Ivan Meštrović]] (1883 - 1962) - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
5: ...brosa]] (near [[Vila Real]], in the province of [[Tr᳭dos-Montes]] of north [[Portugal]]) or in [[Por...
7: ...ion, becoming interested in [[geography]] and [[astronomy]]. Some speculate that he may even have been...
9: ...perience battle: when a local king refused to pay tribute, Almeida's party attacked, conquering the [[...
13: ...f several medals, Magellan was accused of illegal trade with the Islamic [[Moors]]. He had also been i...
15: ...at he would have no further employment in his country's service after [[May 15]], [[1514]]. Magellan f... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ...llín (Spain)|Medellín]], in the province of [[Extremadura]], in the [[Castile|Kingdom of Castile]] i...
7: ...ween seeking fame and glory in a war in Italy, or trying his luck in the Spanish colonies of the [[New...
12: ... and set sail on the morning of [[January 18]], [[1519]], just as Velázquez arrived at the dock in pers...
15: ... generally accepted that Cortés does not write a true “history,” but rather combines history with...
18: ...less useful as it became apparent that Marina was trilingual: she spoke Maya, Nahuatl (the language of... - 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}} - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ...'''Aztecs''' were a [[Mesoamerica]]n people of central Mexico in the [[14th century|14th]], [[15th cen...
14: ... is increasingly applied. The Museo Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, for example, refers to these ...
19: The renowned Nahuatl translator, [[Miguel León-Portilla]], suggests that...
22: ...ke most European empires, it was more a system of tribute than a single system of government. [[Arnold...
24: ===Tribute, trade, and roads=== - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
3: ...s now central [[Mexico]]. The city was largely destroyed in the [[1520s]] by [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conqu...
5: ...re. It was not until the arrival of the Aztecs, a tribe of people who came in from the west, that the ...
9: ...oped, and the Aztec empire came to dominate other tribes all around Mexico. The small natural island w...
15: ...im with great pomp. Some of the conquistadors had traveled as widely as [[Venice]] and [[Constantinopl...
17: ...was destroyed. The rest of the city was either destroyed, dismantled or buried as Mexico City was buil... - 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== - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
5: ...e [[Low Countries]], and parts of northern and central [[Italy]]. But its sovereign was usually the Ge...
10: ...[[Germanic tribes]], [[Confederations of Germanic Tribes]], [[Germania]], [[Germania Inferior]], [[Ger...
15: ...e Rhine. Roman forts were built at [[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to sec...
17: ... the emergence of a number of large West Germanic tribes - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons,...
19: ...heir own ancestral land. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to t... - Europium (8579 bytes)
25: | 5244 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], no data
44: | [[Electron configuration]]
47: | [[electron|e<sup>-</sup>]]s per [[energy level]]
53: | [[Crystal structure]]
62: | 1099 [[Kelvin|K]] (1519 [[Fahrenheit|?F]])
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