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- 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... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]]) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
7: He attended the [[University of Pisa]], but was forced t...
10: ...h) or other thinkers (such as [[Aristotle]]) in matters of science and to the separation of science fr...
14: ...licated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precision of the results was co...
22: ... they would occasionally disappear; something he attributed to their movement behind Jupiter. He made ...
26: ...h [[Christoph Scheiner]]; in fact, there can be little doubt that both of them were beaten by [[David ... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ...erman state of [[Baden-W?berg]], 30 km west of Stuttgart's city center). His grandfather had been Lor...
15: In [[1587]], Kepler began attending the [[University of T?n]], where he proved ...
27: ...ths. She was released in October [[1621]] after attempts to convict her failed. Even though she was ...
52: To his disappointment, Kepler's attempts to fix the orbits of the planets within a se...
54: ...e did not discover [[gravity]], he seems to have attempted to invoke the first empirical example of a ... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
21: ... himself seriously to the study of law, until admitted as an [[outer barrister]] in 1582. In 1584 he t...
25: ...; in fashion, Bacon failed to become solicitor in 1595. To console him for these disappointments Essex ...
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... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
14: ...87]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]]
15: ...e]] in [[1588]], further maps were published in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]....
22: ...rld and its Form) by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Cong...
26: * [http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/guide/gmillatl.html L...
27: * [http://www.walkingtree.com/ Mercators Atlas] - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
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11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
34: *[[Karl Bitter]] (1867 - 1915)
44: *[[Rembrandt Bugatti]] (1884 - 1916)
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]] - 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... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
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10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
136: *[[Pablo Cottenot]] ([[France]])
150: *[[William Rutter Dawes]] ([[Britain]], [[1799]] – [[1868]]... - 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...
54: ...Hargobind]] || [[30 May]] [[1606]]||[[19 June]] [[1595]]|| [[3 March]] [[1644]]|| 49 || [[Guru Arjan]] |... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
27: ...due to an increase in trade, itself a result of better roads and communications. This trade seems to ...
47: ...litical practices of the Mexica. Huitzilopochtli attained this central position after the founding of ...
64: ...in battle, Aztecs killed the warriors after the battle.
72: ..., although the sons of ''pillis'' had access to better resources and education, so it was easier for t...
74: ...for the city (Sanders, William T., ''Settlement Patterns in Central Mexico. Handbook of Middle America... - 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) - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
7: ...rs, but then the [[Hittites]] sacked Babylon in [[1595 BC]], installing the [[Kassite]] dynasty. Its cit...
15: ...and Cyrus established himself at Ecbatana, thus putting an end to the empire of the Medes. Three years...
17: In [[538 BC]] Cyrus invaded Babylonia. A battle was fought at [[Opis]] in the month of June, wh...
19: ... had excited a strong feeling against himself by attempting to centralize the religion of Babylonia in... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
2: ...uthern part of [[Mesopotamia]] from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until the time of [[Babylo...
21: ... of Egypt|Egyptians]] and the [[Hittites]]. The Hittites defeated Mitanni but were repulsed by the Bab...
24: ...able)|leek]]s and [[mustard]]. They also farmed cattle, [[sheep]], [[goat]]s, and [[pig]]s. They used ...
28: ...[raking|raked]] thrice, and pulverized with a [[mattock]].
37: ...re advanced materials and techniques, such as [[buttress]]es, [[recess]]es, [[half column]]s, and [[cl... - 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.]]
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.
31: ... the victory at Lepanto the Knights continued to attack pirates, and their base became a centre for [[... - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
15: ...escription of the Universe) (Duisburg, [[1585]]-[[1595]]).
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