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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.
24: *[[William Baffin]], ([[1584]]-[[1622]])
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]... - 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 ... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
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38: ...Union as a separate state in [[1792]] while the latter broke away from Virginia during the [[American ...
44: ...n what now is Virginia were the [[Powhatan]], [[Nottaway]], [[Meherrin]], [[Pohick]], [[Monacan]], [[S...
46: ...ement in the New World which was at [[Jamestown Settlement|Jamestown]] in the [[Virginia Colony]] in [... - 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]]) - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
21: ...il admitted as an [[outer barrister]] in 1582. In 1584 he took his seat in [[parliament]] for [[Melcombe...
25: ...s for a time excluded from the court. When the [[attorney-general]]ship fell vacant in 1594 and Bacon ...
29: ...th Essex, a fortunate move considering that the latter would be executed for treason in 1601; and Baco...
31: ...e Barnham]], the daughter of a London merchant. Little or nothing is known of their married life: mode...
35: ...d to stay, but a law was passed that forbade the attorney-general to sit in parliament -- and to the v... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and the...
4: ...e [[frontier]] had certain unifying features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the lat...
11: ...d wealth and power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Eur...
13: ...y close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans we...
16: ...]]. At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a colonia... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
9: ...mes Trismegistus|Hermetic]] tracts. The writings attributed to [[Hermes Trismegistus]] were, in Bruno'...
13: In [[1576]] he left Naples to avoid the attention of the [[Inquisition]]. He left [[Rome]] fo...
15: ...ut many of his contemporaries found it easier to attribute them to magical powers.
17: ...Mondi'' (''On the Infinite Universe and Worlds'', 1584). In ''Cena de le Ceneri'' he defended the theori...
19: In [[1583]], he went to [[England]] with letters of recommendation from Henry III. He sought a ... - 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 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}... - Rome (33048 bytes)
15: ...e="border-bottom:3px solid gray;"|<small>City [[motto]]: ''Senatus Populusque Romanus – [[SPQR]]...
31: ...colspan=2 style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;"|[http://www.comune.roma.it/ www.comune.roma.it]
49: Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the [[Palatine Hill]] and [[Seven hills...
52: ...insula, by the [[1st millennium BC]]. Pieces of pottery have been discovered that indicate the area of...
53: ...ns (''Etrusci'' or ''Tusci'' in [[Latin]]) were settled north of Rome in [[Etruria]] (modern [[Tuscany... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
4: ...ion of 704,900 (as of [[December 31]], [[2004]] [http://www.cbs.gov.il/population/new_2004/tab_3.pdf])...
12: ...is]] 14:18 for the city. Similarly the [[Amarna Letters]] call the city ''Uru Salim'' in [[Akkadian]],...
34: ...d killing as many as half a million Jews, and resettling the city as a [[pagan]] [[polis]] under the n...
38: === Arab, Crusader, and Early Ottoman Rule (638-1800s)===
41: ...storians of the time, the Caliph [[Umar ibn al-Khattab]] personally went to the city to receive its su...
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