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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
14: ...ad allegedly planned to murder his wife, had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to st...
16: ...g ''[[Giuditta che decapita Oloferne]]'' (''"Giuditta decapitating Oloferne"'') ([[1612]]-13), stored ...
18: ...anged for his daughter to marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly ...
20: ... [[1651]], Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her subsequent life.
26: ...man who holds a compass. It is believed that the attractive woman resembles Artemisia itself, who - as... - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
1: '''Grace O' Malley''' ([[Irish]](c. [[1530]] -c.[[1603]]) is an important figure in Irish [[...
11: ...marriage. Later the warlike Donal was killed in battle, and Grace recaptured a castle from the Joyces ...
18: == Attack from Galway ==
19: ...ngaged in piracy and her castle at Rockfleet was attacked by an expedition from [[Galway]] who wanted ...
26: * Renaissance-central.com [http://www.rencentral.com/oct_nov_vol1/graceomalley.s... - Germany (46412 bytes)
13: | align=center colspan=2 | National [[motto]]: ''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit''<br>([[Ge...
33: ...tries by population|Ranked 14th]]<br>82,468,000 [http://www.destatis.de/indicators/e/vgr910ae.htm]<br>...
66: ...] and the [[Hanseatic League]]. In [[1530]], the attempt of the [[Protestant Reformation]] of Catholic...
71: ...by a measure of [[Klemens Wenzel von Metternich|Metternich]] repressing the liberal agitation. The ''[...
75: ...pted over military reforms. The king appointed [[Otto von Bismarck]] the new [[Prime Minister of Pruss... - Peru (12264 bytes)
14: ...al-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: None''</small>
48: ...ruvian coast in [[1532]], and by the end of the [[1530]]s Peru became a [[Viceroy]]alty and a major sour...
115: ...ent world regions. Peru's economy is one of the better-managed in Latin America.
116: ...ver the next few years, the country is likely to attract both domestic and foreign investment in the t...
121: ...s several dozen small Amerindian ethnic tribes scattered throughout the country beyond the [[Andes Mou... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]]) - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...has been occupied for millennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in t...
13: ...s]] and [[European colonization of the Americas|settlers]] appeared, they found many [[Native American...
19: ...silver. About the same time, Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a w...
50: ... inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was disc...
102: ...erved to protect the missions and other Spanish settlements in Upper California. Each of these posts f... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
5: ... where he studied law with his father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] ...
19: ... Erasmus also described More as a model man of letters in his communications with other European huma...
23: ...mong modern historians for their exceedingly unflattering portrayal of King Richard, a bias due at lea...
27: ... vehicle for discussing controversial political matters freely. It is unlikely that More, a devout an...
31: ...criticized for its slanderous ''[[ad hominem]]'' attacks. - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
16: * ''Ricordi'' (1512-1530) - 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...
48: ...stic riots took place in Z?(in 1523), Copenhagen (1530), M? (1534), Geneva (1535), Augsburg (1537) and S... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by the [[Medici]] family.
17: ... began with the establishment in [[59 BC]] of a settlement ("Florentia") for [[Roman Republic|Roman]] ...
23: ...y [[Michelangelo]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and [[Botticelli]].
32: ...East of the center on the North bank of the Arno[http://www.veteransagency.mod.uk/remembrance/remembra...
66: Across the Arno is the huge [[Pitti Palace]] lavishly decorated with the Medici fami... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
1: ...smus.jpg|thumbnail|Erasmus. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: ...s Roterodamus''' (also '''Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam''') ([[October 27]], probably [[1466]] &ndas...
6: ... monasticism was one of the chief objects of his attack in his lifelong assault upon the evils of the ...
12: His residence at Leuven exposed Erasmus to much petty criticism, from those hostile to the principles ...
17: It was the first attempt on the part of a competent and liberal-minded... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
10: ...73]] - [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton]] sells his part of [[New Jersey]] to the [[Qu...
16: ...Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a [[ham radi...
18: ...ited Kingdom|British]] & [[France|French]] naval attack on the [[Dardanelles]].
23: ...[Italy|Italian]] forces a grave defeat at the [[Battle of Guadalajara]].
26: *[[1945]] - World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack [[Berlin]]. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
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62: *[[Grigory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - )
63: *[[Charlotte Barnum]] (1860-1934)
82: *[[Bhargav Bharat Bhatt]] (India)
86: *[[Errett Bishop]] ([[1928]] - [[1983]]) - Sweden (27111 bytes)
1: ...e northeast, the [[Skagerrak]] Strait and the [[Kattegat]] Strait on the southwest, and the [[Baltic S...
3: ...ikings]], Sweden spent a couple of centuries in battles with its neighbouring countries [[Denmark]] fr...
16: national_motto = none<sup>1</sup> |
53: ...) is adopted by Carl XVI Gustaf as his personal motto in his role as Swedish monarch.
84: ...saw a significant population increase, generally attributed to the three factors of peace, [[vaccinati... - Malta (18511 bytes)
21: |[[Valletta]]
65: ...ta3_093A.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
69: ...ily influenced by Romance tongues. The Maltese written language uses the standard Latin alphabet. The...
71: ...of [[Valletta]], named after Jean Parisot de Vallette, was built.
72: ...e:Malta2_127b.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] - Confucius (21352 bytes)
4: !style="background:#ccf; border-bottom:2px solid" align=center colspan=2|Confucius
26: ...r>"Master Kong". These are two different words written with the same<br>character in Chinese.
30: ...umous name since [[1530]]. Between [[1307]] and [[1530]] his<br>posthumous name was: "The Lord Propagato...
47: :''At sixty my ear was attuned'';
52: As a child, he is said to have enjoyed putting ritual vases on the sacrifice table. As a youn... - 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}... - Akkadian language (3224 bytes)
9: * 1950 – 1530 Old Babylonian/Old Assyrian
10: * 1530 – 1000 Middle Babylonian/Middle Assyrian
16: ...mong its flaws were its inability to represent glottal stops, pharyngeal stops, and [[emphatic consona...
30: *[http://www.language-museum.com/a/akkadian-cuneiform.p...
31: *[http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/ A detailed intro... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
9: ...e area. The order came to distinguish itself in battles with the [[Islam|Muslims]], its soldiers weari...
23: ...s conducted by the Knights. Fort Saint Elmo, Valletta, Malta, May 8, 2005.]]
25: ...the Knights were re-established on [[Malta]] in [[1530]] by the order of [[Pope Clement VIII]] and Emper...
27: ...amed in memory of its valiant grand master La Valette who had sustained this siege.
29: ...e, however, had little political impact, for the Ottomans quickly rebuilt their fleet. - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully but embittered.
6: ..., as typified by the [[Black Legend]], also did little to expand understanding of Cortés as an indivi...
10: ...ando, and Fernando are all equally correct. The latter two were most commonly used during his lifetime...
36: ...h demanded that more Indians be assigned to the settlers.
47: ... horses. Then he proceeded to Tabasco and won a battle against the natives, who did not want to welcom...
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