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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
5: ...ily of mariners and improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a l...
9: Very little information is available on Cartier's character...
21: ...uring this winter, Cartier compiled a sort of gazetteer which included several pages on the manner of ...
29: ...t River, an indispensable preliminary to French settlement.
33: ...nd its riches and also to establish a permanent settlement along the [[Saint Lawrence River]]. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... of the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] ...
15: ...e|Greek]], [[science]], and [[music]]. In July [[1520]], when scarcely four and a half years old, she e...
19: ...the male heir he desired; consequently, the King attempted to have his marriage to her annulled. In [...
21: ...s not permitted to see her mother Catherine, or attend her funeral in [[1536]]. Her treatment and the...
26: ...grant her a household, and the Lady Mary was permitted to reside in royal palaces. Henry's sixth and ... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
1: ... Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was hand written in Belgium, by Gerard Brils, for reading aloud ...
4: ... metal or chiselled into stone and the forms of letters used in them is called [[epigraphy]]. Epigraph...
12: ...n official index of characters and unified the written form for the use of scholars. This is chuan-shu...
14: ...na is more angular and relies on sharp angles. Written Japanese uses both scripts along with Chinese c...
50: ...gular script form may resemble each other when written in grass script. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]]) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
12: ...issance]] painter [[Raffaello Santi]] ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), who painted full-scale cartoons as precursors... - March (3907 bytes)
18: ... of [[Gustav I of Sweden|Gustav Vasa]]'s run in [[1520]].
19: ...ssion. See [http://www.harriettubman.com/] and [http://www.state.ny.us/governor/press/year03/aug27_6_...
21: ...tors will be thrilled by the roar of high-octane attack helicopters and the zoom of vintage warbirds. ... - Raphael (3466 bytes)
2: ...83]] and died on his 37th birthday, [[April 6]] [[1520]] (see the note below about earlier confusion abo...
12: ...cked the cradle, and character formed his lips."[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/3/8/11387/11387-h/1...
23: ... his 37th birthday, [[Good Friday]] [[April 6]] [[1520]]. - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
10: ...st [[Pisa]]. Louis XII was also the king who committed the five capital errors in statecraft summarize...
21: ...stify the means", is sometimes (all too often!!) attributed to him but this was essentially NOT his po...
23: ...uits: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuits] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola]) tho...
33: ...ncipe]]'' (''The Prince''). It was written in an attempt to return to politics as an advisor to [[Lore...
35: ...he Discorsi is really an analysis of a history written by the Roman Titus Livy. Machiavelli comments ... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...which emerged in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in [...
32: ...urch. [[Erasmus]] held that true religion was a matter of inward devotion rather than an outward symbo...
38: ...dualism, that each man can be his own priest (an attitude likely to find popular support considering t...
44: ...e and was teaching Bible at the [[University of Wittenberg]] when the Bible changed him. He later lame...
55: ...on. Peasants and new migrants to the cities had little understanding of [[economics]], so they had no ... - Nubia (8928 bytes)
9: ...s known from its distinctive burial rituals and pottery.
13: ...s. There are definite similarities between the pottery of A-Group and C-Group, so it may be a return ...
15: ...ds. By the end of the reign of [[Thutmose I]] in 1520 BC all of northern Nubia had been annexed.
21: ...leaving the entire region weak and vulnerable to attack.
37: Many Egyptian Nubians were forcibly resettled to make room for [[Lake Nasser]] after the con... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...rated with paintings. The first known permanent settlements appeared 9,000 years ago and developed int...
11: Southern India suffered little or no incursion from foreign lands, which facil...
18: [[Image:Lightmatter vishnu1.jpg|thumb|130px|right|A figurine of [[V...
20: ...panies finally ended with the prevalance of the latter, in the second half of 18th Century. By the yea...
40: ...scale growth in so small a period of time can be attributed to two factors, an organized civilization ... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
9: ...cal king refused to pay tribute, Almeida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]]...
13: ... was sent to [[Morocco]] where he fought in the Battle of Azamor ([[August 28]] and [[August 29|29]], ...
39: ... reached [[R�de la Plata]] on [[January 10]], [[1520]]. It was already late in the season, however, a...
41: ...onia]]. On [[March 31]], the crew established a settlement that they called Puerto San Julian. A mutin...
47: At 52? South latitude on [[October 21]], [[1520]], the fleet reached [[Cape Virgenes]] and conclu... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: *[[Archibald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
6: | [[Image:Ottoman Coat of Arms.jpg|Ottoman Coat of Arms]]
8: | style="text-align: center;" | [[Ottoman Coat of Arms]]
11: ...png|Map of the Ottoman Empire]]<br/><small>''The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power''</small>
13: | '''[[Motto|Imperial motto]]'''
14: ... ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra) - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
17: ...e" where Luther boarded from ages 14 to 17 while attending private school at [[Eisenach]].]]
28: ... On [[October 19]], [[1512]], the University of Wittenberg conferred upon Martin Luther the degree of ...
31: ...513]], as he was lecturing on the [[Psalms]] at Wittenberg. He realized that the phrase "righteousnes...
39: ...ed that they also exonerated deeds ''not yet committed'', they also encouraged sin. He had taken a tr...
41: ...|holy relics]] which always attracted crowds to Wittenberg on All Saints' Day ([[November 1]]), and Te... - Argon (6952 bytes)
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41: ...0px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
46: ...cule)|water]] when atoms of it are trapped in a lattice of the water molecules. Theoretical calculatio...
60: ...t discovered until [[1894]] by [[John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh|Lord Rayleigh]] and Sir [[Wil...
63: ... the largest moon of [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] [http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMHB881Y3E_index_0.html]. - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ...rated with paintings. The first known permanent settlements appeared 9,000 years ago and developed int...
11: Southern India suffered little or no incursion from foreign lands, which facil...
18: [[Image:Lightmatter vishnu1.jpg|thumb|130px|right|A figurine of [[V...
20: ...panies finally ended with the prevalance of the latter, in the second half of 18th Century. By the yea...
40: ...scale growth in so small a period of time can be attributed to two factors, an organized civilization ... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
13: ...e deciphered. Several stages of the language are attested; the earliest date back to the third milenni...
19: ...he establishment of the Awan dynasty. The first attestation of the name of the kingdom is in a text o...
21: ...together under a coordinated government that permitted the maximum interchange of the natural resource...
38: ...ites were able to gain revenge. Kutir-Nahhunte I attacked Samsuiluna (c. 1749 - c. 1712 BCE), Hammurab...
43: After two centuries for which little is known, the Middle Elamite period opened with... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ..., "Stephen the Black", "Stephen the Moor", and "Little Stephen") of North African origins, possibly fr...
5: ...tholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]. He was sold in 1520 to Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, a [[Spanish nobi...
8: ... had sailed with others on makeshift rafts in an attempt to reach [[Mexico]]. The group was shipwrecke...
13: ...|polyglot]] and that he was able to learn, in a matter of weeks, the languages of the Native Americans...
16: *[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/EE...
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