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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. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reac...
3: ...ry [[myth]] created by [[Washington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accep...
5: ...f peoples throughout time; see '''[[Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most consiste...
7: ...]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the p...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Nat... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
2: {{Infobox_Country|
48: ...outh America after Brazil and the 8th largest country in the [[world]].
52: ...ain rich in silver – reached Spain around [[1524]]. Since then, the Spaniards named the river of S...
57: ...pendence. Following the defeat of the Spanish, centralist and federationist groups waged a lengthy con...
59: ...entine nation in the late [[19th century]]: the introduction of modern agricultural techniques and int... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...uthwestern [[Europe]], and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is bordered by [...
5: ...l, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other c...
7: ...ctatorial regime in [[1974]] and the subsequent entry in the [[EEC]] (today's [[European Union]]) in [...
15:
17: ... decades, the Romans increased their sphere of control. But in [[194 BC]] a rebellion began in the nor... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall o...
64: *[[Trisha Yearwood|Yearwood, Trisha]] (born 1964), musician
68: ...egorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...sei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut
74: *[[Philip Yeo|Yeo, Philip]], industrial and systems engineer - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]])
287: *[[Pietro da Cortona]] ([[1596]]-[[1669]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
8: *[[1494]]-[[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divides the New World betwee...
17: *[[1521]]-Cortes destroys the Aztec empire
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France...
19: ...o de Soto]] discovers the [[Mississippi River]], strengthening Spanish claims to the interior of North...
27: <tr> - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
4: <tr><td>[[Image:Castiglione.jpg]]</td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Baldassare Castiglione'''</td></tr>
10: ...sions to [[Rome]], he met [[Guidubaldo da Montefeltro]], duke of [[Urbino]], and in [[1504]] Gonzaga, ...
13: ...Maria Emilia Pia; among most constant guests [[Pietro Bembo]], [[Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici|Giulia...
15: ...ntains echoes of both ancient and contemporary poetry, with recalls [[Vergil]], [[Poliziano]], [[Sanna... - 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... - 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... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
1: [[Image:Wave.jpg|thumb|250px|The tsunami that struck [[Mal靝 in the [[Maldives]] on [[December 26]...
4: ...very long [[wavelength]] (often hundreds of kilometres long), which is why they generally pass unnotic...
10: ...ch is too small to create a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of gener...
14: ...s sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Similarly, a violent ...
18: ...er, as energy from falling debris or expansion is transferred to the water into which the debris falls... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
8: ...life of an independent scholar, unhindered by country, academic ties, [[religion|religious]] [[allegia...
14: ...ntangling obligations; yet he was in a singularly true sense the center of the literary movement of hi...
16: ...of ''Instrumentum''. This edition was used by the translators of the [[King James Version]] of the Bib...
17: ...his writings, were in Latin, but were immediately translated into other languages, with his encouragem...
21: ...se. Erasmus, however, dreaded any change in [[doctrine]] and believed that there was room within exis... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
5: In [[1608]] he tried again, this time sailing farther to the east a...
7: ...vanni da Verrazano]] explored the same coast in [[1524]])–and sailing a distance up the [[Hudson R...
9: ...ntilist]] laws England had enacted to protect its trade routes from the Dutch. He was soon released.
13: ...e the eastern shores. In November the ship became trapped in the ice in [[James Bay]], and the crew mo... - 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... - Germany in the Middle Ages (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... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ... Cortés, he fought them and won, using the extra troops as reinforcements. Cortés wrote letters dire...
6: ...as an individual. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplisti...
14: ... [[Captain (OF-2)|captain]] of distinguished ancestry but slender means. Hernán's mother was Catalina...
16: ...udy at the [[University of Salamanca]] in west-central Spain. This was Spain's great center of learnin...
18: ...e two years at Salamanca, plus his long period of training and experience as a notary, first in Sevill... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
11: ...merica]]n soldiers exposing [[Benedict Arnold]]'s treason
15: ...onomer [[John Couch Adams]]; verified by German astronomer [[Johann Gottfried Galle]]
20: *[[1922]] - [[Gdynia]] Seaport Construction Act passed by the [[Poland|Polish]] parlia...
25: *[[1969]] - The [[Chicago 8]] trial opens in [[Chicago]]
56: *[[1926]] - [[John Coltrane]], saxophonist, composer (d. [[1967]])
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