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- 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... - 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 [...
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17: ... decades, the Romans increased their sphere of control. But in [[194 BC]] a rebellion began in the nor... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
66: *[[Giussepe Arcimboldo]] ([[1527]]-[[1593]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jp...
6: ...aly]], [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus ...
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small>
28: | '''Petrus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
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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... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: [[Image:Thomas More.png|250px|thumb|right|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Hans Holbein the Young...
2: ...man Catholic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and politicians.
5: Born in Milk Street, [[London]], Thomas More was the eldest son of...
12: ...eror|Charles V]], More was knighted and made undertreasurer in [[1521]]. As secretary and personal ad...
14: ...tion that entailed administrative and judicial control of much of northern England. - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
3: ...Machiavelli ([[May 3]], [[1469]] - [[June 21]], [[1527]]) was a [[Florence|Florentine]] [[political phil...
10: ...ce after the expulsion of the Medici in [[1494]], travelling to European courts in [[France]], [[Germa...
12: ...d himself to literature. He died in Florence in [[1527]] and his resting place is unknown, however a sym...
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... - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
11: * ''Consolatoria'' (1527)
12: * ''Oratio accusatoria'' (1527)
13: * ''Oratio defensoria'' (1527)
14: * ''Del reggimento di Firenze'' (1527) - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...nce was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by the [[Medici]] family...
3: A centre of medieval [[Europe]]an trade and finance, the city is sometimes considered ...
17: ...erienced subsequent periods of [[Byzantine]], [[Ostrogothic]], [[Lombard]] and [[Frankish rule]], duri...
19: ... of whom was [[Dante Alighieri]]. This factional strife was later recorded by the White Guelph [[Dino ...
21: ...n strong gold currency, the [[guilder|florin]] (introduced in [[1252]]), the eclipse of her formerly p... - 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: ...s published three other editions - in [[1522]], [[1527]] and [[1535]].
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... - 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}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...pire a large portion of western South America, centred on the [[Andes|Andean]] mountain ranges. The In...
19: ...Lake Titicaca]] and found the city of Cuzco. They traveled by means of underground caves until reachin...
21: ...icate that the Inca were a relatively unimportant tribe until the time of Sinchi Roca, also called Cin...
24: ...sion.png|thumb|350px|right|Inca expansion (1438 - 1527 CE)]]
26: The Inca people began as a tribe in the Cuzco area around the [[12th century]] ... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ...sical order]]s of architecture in his influential treatise, ''Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva...
3: ...i, he began as a painter. He lived in Venice from 1527 to 1540 but left little mark on the city.
6: ...reatise can be taken by the church facade (''illustration, right'') in the first published volume. It ...
8: ...cis I of France|Francis I]], to advise on the construction and decoration of the [[Chⴥau de Fontaine...
10: ... Sir [[Christopher Wren]] and Robert Woods, the entrepreneur who laid out [[Bath]]. - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
1: ...sh language|English]] [[alphabet|alphabetical]] [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]s).
18: * [[John Dee]] (England, [[1527]] - [[1608]])
31: * [[Torsten H䧥rstrand]] (Sweden, ([[1916]]-[[2004]])
57: * [[Strabo]] (Roman Empire, Greece, [[63 BC|63 B.C.]]/[[6... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
5: ...mmour from west Africa by the trans-Saharan slave trade. He was converted to [[Roman Catholic Church|R...
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]] - 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... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
4: ...1,000 as of 2000 estimates. Population of the [[metropolitan area]] (urban area plus satellite towns) ...
6: Madrid is the capital not only of the country but also of the [[Madrid (province)|province]] a...
14: ...he IX Century, when [[Mohamed I]] ordered the construction of a small palace (in the same place that i...
16: ...nd and Isabella into Madrid signalled the end of strife between Castile and Aragon.
18: ... to control the [[Spanish Indies]], but Madrid controlled Seville. Aside from a brief period, 1601 - 1...
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