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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...[[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of he...
14: ...ng the reign of [[Robert II of Scotland]], the Scottish Crown had been confirmed to be inherited by ma...
17: ...ith a lass!" The Stewart family had gained the Scottish throne through Marjory (daughter of [[Robert I...
31: ...e. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treaty at the end o...
33: ...n Mary. This consisted of a series of raids on Scottish territory and other such actions. It lasted un... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
18: ...h's household before [[Anne Boleyn]]'s death. [[Matthew Parker]], her mother's favourite priest, took ...
27: ...cism|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be R...
33: ...e. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accept...
35: ... Burghley|Sir William Cecil]] for advice on the matter. The [[Act of Uniformity 1559]] required the us...
41: ...s all of the estates and incomes Elizabeth inheiretted from her father [[Henry VIII]] were only hers u... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: ... The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
21: ...mbol, is known as the "Cradle of Portugal." The Battle of S㯠Mamede took place nearby in 1128. (court...
29: ...s a nation to [[June 24]], [[1128]], with the [[Battle of S㯠Mamede]] by [[Afonso I of Portugal|Afons...
31: ...tugal's most historic battle of Portugal, the [[Battle of Aljubarrota]]. The victorious John was then ...
42: ... exploration of Africa. Before this voyage very little information was known in Europe about what lay ... - 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]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
25: ...[[Jesus]] from whom, according to {{bibleverse||Matthew|16:18-19|}}, he received the keys to the kingd...
1230: | <small>[[Cittࠤi Castello]], Umbria, Italy</small>
1393: | <small>Ottobuono [[Fieschi]]</small>
1449: | <small>Benedetto Caetani</small>
1603: | <small>Giovanni Battista Cybo</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ...e Brahe]]) and one younger ([[Sophie Brahe]]). [[Otte Brahe]], Tycho's father, a [[nobleman]], was an ...
10: ...did not lead to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childle...
14: ...over a period of several years.'' -Tycho Brahe, [[1563]] (age 17).
18: ...at the [[University of Rostock]] in [[Germany]]. Attending a dance at a professor's house, he quarrell...
26: ... Knudstrup Tycho fell in love with [[Kirsten J?sdatter]] who was a commoner, her father, Pastor Jorgen... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
5: ...soon after, and then returned to Antwerp before settling in [[Brussels]] permanently 10 years later. H...
11: ...vidence of the severity of winters during the [[Little ice age]].
15: ...of-babel.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Tower of Babel'' [[1563]], oil on board]]
19: * ''[[:image:bigfishlittlefish.JPG|Large Fish Eat Small Fish]]'' 1556, Alb...
20: * ''Ass at School'' 1556, Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen, Berlin - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
6: ...ised Protestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with a peasant family and a tutor until he was...
8: ...acute;tienne de la Boétie]] whose death in 1563 deeply influenced Montaigne.
33: ...sdain for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from worldly things to pre...
35: ...his time, his belief that humans are not able to attain true certainty ([[skepticism]]), and even allu... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
12: ...]. On his second such voyage he fought a costly battle against Spanish forces, which claimed many Engl...
18: ...blished Drakes Passage but the route around the bottom of South America, south of Tierra del Fuego whe...
20: ... ''Golden Hind'' in honour of Sir [[Christopher Hatton]] (after his [[heraldry|coat of arms]]).
22: ...thward along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports like [[Valpara�]] as it wen...
24: ... inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was disc... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
4: ...set men against one another. He particularly regretted the antagonism between Hindus and Muslims as we...
8: ...Scripture is particularly unique in that it is written in [[Gurmukhi]] script but contains many langua...
10: ...wo very different faiths. Sikhism's coherence is attributable to its single central concept – th...
12: ...rom seeing the ultimate reality, as God created matter as a veil, so that only spiritual minds, free o...
52: ...n Dev]] || [[28 August]] [[1581]]||[[15 April]] [[1563]]|| [[30 May]] [[1606]]|| 43 || [[Guru Ram Das]] ... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ... his influential treatise, ''Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva''.
3: .... He lived in Venice from 1527 to 1540 but left little mark on the city.
6: ...cal face to a Gothic form, first seen in [[Leon Battista Alberti|Alberti]]'s [[Santa Maria Novella]] i...
8: ...ny spectacular executed work, that attracted the attention of Francois I. Serlio's career took off whe...
10: ...o supplement the text. Five books of his ''Architettura'' were published at intervals from 1537; two m...
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