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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
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]]. ...
17: ... possessed men's minds that she could not long control the opposing parties, and one civil war followe... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
12: ...r struggle between Catholics and Huguenots for control of the French court and France as a whole led t...
18: ...ne married William, Duke of Cleves, annulled in [[1545]], with no issue. - 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]]
86: *[[Hans Baldung]] ([[1484]]-[[1545]])
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... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
3: ...ould not be as great, due to forces beyond his control.
5: ...us [[Native American (Americas)|Native American]] tribes of the upper Gulf coast (including the Han an...
7: ...sed to give his countrymen any details of the country that might prepare them for the hardships they w...
9: ...arrest and return to Spain in chains, in around [[1545]]. He was eventually exonerated and wrote an ext...
11: ==Trivia== - July 24 (8660 bytes)
6: *[[1701]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] founded.
8: ...- [[Benjamin Bonneville]] leads the first [[wagon train]] across the [[Rocky Mountains]] by using [[Wy...
9: *[[1847]] - After 17 months of travel, [[Brigham Young]] leads 148 [[Mormon]] pione...
10: ...rly|Jubal Early]] defeats [[United States|Union]] troops led by General [[George Crook]] in an effort ...
11: *[[1866]] - [[Reconstruction]]: [[Tennessee]] becomes the first [[U.S. s... - 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... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ...sical order]]s of architecture in his influential treatise, ''Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva...
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]].
12: ...hed in Toledo by Juan de Ayala with the same illustrations as the original Italian editions. Serlio's ... - 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... - 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. - Padua (12961 bytes)
1: ...65.JPG|thumb|280px|Tronco Maestro Riviera: a pedestrian walk along a section of the "inland waterway" ...
2: ... is picturesque, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal ''piazze'', and m...
11: ...ch was cast in [[1453]], the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiquity.
13: ...llustrated by [[Mantegna]]'s frescoes, largely destroyed in [[World War II]]. Now the disused church h...
15: ...izio d'Acquapendente]], [[Galileo Galilei]], [[Pietro Pomponazzi]], [[Reginald Pole|Reginald, later Ca...
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