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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
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...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...ome the first european-inhabited area of that country.
5: ...ily of mariners and improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a l...
7: ...s Cartier has been found and the most familiar portrait (see right) was painted by a Russian artist in...
13: ...and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagaya]] and [[Taignoagny]], the so...
17: ... to visit [[Hochelaga (village)|Hochelaga]] ([[Montreal]]) and arrived on [[October 2]], [[1535]]. Mu... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
13: ...her from her mother, who presumably would have contracted the disease from Mary's father. Whether or ...
15: ...e|Greek]], [[science]], and [[music]]. In July [[1520]], when scarcely four and a half years old, she e...
17: ...s eager for an alliance with England. A marriage treaty was signed; it provided that the Princess Mar...
21: ...[[Europe]], furthermore, regarded her as the only true heir and daughter of Henry VIII, although she w...
23: Mary confidently expected her troubles to end when Queen Anne lost royal favour an... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
8: ...te its beauty. Calligraphy, in essence, is an abstract art.
12: ...., under the famous [[Qin Shi Huangdi]], who perpetrated the "burning of the books", the Prime Ministe...
14: ...with Chinese characters, and basic calligraphy instruction is still common in Japanese lower education...
48: ... part of the character as well as each character stroke. Though brushpen has been used for over two th...
50: ...pt is notorious for its economy of individual penstrokes. Quite often different characters written in ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]]) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: ...n the [[12th century]] the conquering [[Moors]] introduced papermaking to [[Spain]] and the technology...
12: ...ainted full-scale cartoons as precursors for tapestry designs.
23: ...'watercolor'' most often to refers to traditional transparent watercolor or [[gouache]] (an opaque for...
29: Traditionally, watercolor paint is applied with brus...
31: ...allow for lighter areas within the painting. This transparency provides watercolor its characteristics... - March (3907 bytes)
4: ...f [[Pisces]] and ends in the sign of [[Aries]]. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constel...
8: ... starting the year in March continued in some countries for a long time. January 1 was only instituted...
18: ... of [[Gustav I of Sweden|Gustav Vasa]]'s run in [[1520]].
19: ...ce to humanity and recognize all individuals who struggled to end tyranny and oppression. See [http:/...
20: *[[March 17]] is [[St. Patrick's Day]], one of the [[public holidays in the R... - Raphael (3466 bytes)
1: [[Image:Sanzio 00.jpg|framed|right|self-portrait]]
2: ...83]] and died on his 37th birthday, [[April 6]] [[1520]] (see the note below about earlier confusion abo...
4: ... [[Urbino]], he studied in [[Perugia]] under [[Pietro Perugino]]; but after moving to [[Florence, Ital...
12: ...noured with a public funeral. His last work, the Transfiguration, was carried before him in the funer...
14: ...erred in the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]], the country's most honored place. - 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! - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
20: ...conomic, political and demographic forces that contributed to a growing disaffection with the wealth a...
22: ...d]], [[France]], and [[Spain]] the move toward centralization begun in the thirteenth century was carr...
24: ...y]], and the [[Netherlands]] and new textile industries began to develop.
28: ...hinking favored the notion that no religious [[doctrine]] can be supported by philosophical arguments,...
30: ...he Northern humanists in its reinforcement of the traditional use of [[Latin]] as the great unifying c... - Nubia (8928 bytes)
5: ...e 8th and 9th centuries AD. It is considered ancestral to modern day Nobiin.
13: As trade between Egypt and Nubia increased so did wealt...
15: ...ds. By the end of the reign of [[Thutmose I]] in 1520 BC all of northern Nubia had been annexed.
19: ... by the [[Roman Empire|Romans]]. The Kushites did trade with the Romans, and were also a source of mer...
21: ...g small armies of mercenaries. They fought for control of what is now Nubia and its surrounding territ... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...f [[Madhya Pradesh]] are found the earliest known traces of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] roc...
8: ...round [[180 BC]], a series of invasions from [[Central Asia]] followed, with the successive establishm...
11: ...an philosophy|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
20: ...agara Empires]] to progressively colonise the country. This process unfolded under the aegis of the me...
23: A prolonged and remarkably non-violent struggle for independence, the [[Indian independence ... - 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... - 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}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
45: ...'the Porte'', from the [[French language|French]] translation of the [[Ottoman language|Ottoman]] name...
47: ...much of this was under indirect control of the central government(see ''Main article: [[State organiza...
53: ... [[Suleiman I]] in the [[16th century]], when it stretched from the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east to [[...
55: ...[spice]] trade. In Aceh, the Ottomans built a fortress and supplied huge cannon. The [[the Netherlan...
57: ...lemate with their European and Asian neighbor countries, the European development went into overdrive.... - 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== - Argon (6952 bytes)
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32: ...c radioisotope|syn]] | hl=35 [[day|d]] | dm=[[Electron capture|ε]] | de=? | pn=37 | ps=[[chlor... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ...f [[Madhya Pradesh]] are found the earliest known traces of human life in [[India]]: [[Stone Age]] roc...
8: ...round [[180 BC]], a series of invasions from [[Central Asia]] followed, with the successive establishm...
11: ...an philosophy|philosophy]] flourished under the patronage of these kings.
20: ...agara Empires]] to progressively colonise the country. This process unfolded under the aegis of the me...
23: A prolonged and remarkably non-violent struggle for independence, the [[Indian independence ... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
8: The Elamites called their country ''Haltamti'' (in later Elamite, ''Atamti''), bor...
10: ...lemy]] called it ''Susiana''. Though primarily centred in the province of [[Khuzestan]] for the durati...
17: ...lamite period; 3100?2900 BCE, Iran, kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.]]
19: ...dating to ca. [[2650 BC]]. But we can only really trace Elamite history from records dating to beginni...
21: ..., this was done through a federated governmental structure. - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
5: ...tholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]. He was sold in 1520 to Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, a [[Spanish nobi...
8: ...exico]]), where they were reunited with their countrymen.
10: ...istrust, partially because his medicine gourd was trimmed with feathers from an [[owl]], a bird that s...
13: ...e was accepted as a deity by some Native American tribes because of his knowledge of herbs and medicin...
16: ...ndbook/online/articles/EE/fes8.html Estevanico entry] at the [[Handbook of Texas]]
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