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- Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
5: ...ita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, and his siste...
9: ...5]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco de Almeida as a Portuguese [[viceroy]] there and est...
13: ...everal medals, Magellan was accused of illegal trade with the Islamic [[Moors]]. He had also been invo...
15: ...ame from "''Fern㯠de Magalh㥳''" to "''Fernando de Magallanes''."
20: ...he ear of Charles and the powerful Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, bishop of [[Burgos]] and the persistent ...
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval ...
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] na...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer... - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
1: [[de:seefahrer]]
8: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]]
10: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]]
24: *[[António Fernandes]]
25: *[[Pêro de Sintra]] - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...dro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], [[Juan Ponce de Le, and [[Ferdinand Magellan]].
3: ...re a combination of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the re...
6: ...isi's world map.JPG|200px|thumb|right|This map, made by Arab geographer [[al-Idrisi]], was one of the ...
7: ...iddle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close links...
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]] and... - Hourglass (3146 bytes)
1: ...our_glass_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Hourglass, image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
3: ...n to the bottom bulb, the device is inverted in order to measure another time period.
5: ... relatively approximate measurement of time is needed (for example in [[cooking]] or [[board game]]s)....
8: ...to construct hourglasses, there is no concrete evidence of their existence in ancient times. Since the...
10: ...is not until the [[14th century]] that we find evidence of their existence, appearing in a painting by... - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
3: ==Political leaders==
12: **[[Cosimo de' Medici]]
13: **[[Lorenzo de' Medici]] (a.k.a. ''Lorenzo il Magnifico'')
22: **[[Catherine de Medici]] Queen of France
23: ...f Poland]] (duchess of [[Finland]], queen of [[Sweden]]) - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...]], is named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]]. A [[terrestrial...
5: ...r: a circle with a small cross underneath ([[Unicode]]: ♀).
7: ...m [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives include ''Venerean'' and ''Veneran''.
14: ...ficantly between the night and day sides of Venus despite its extremely slow rotation (less than one r...
16: ...quite similar to Earth. A common conceptual misunderstanding regarding Venus is the mistaken belief t... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
2: ... was second in command of the English fleet which defeated the [[Spanish Armada]] in [[1588]].
7: ...e in his life. Francis was the eldest or second eldest of twelve children.
9: ... Drake made the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]] expeditions.
12: ... against the [[Spanish Empire]]; the Spanish considered him an outlaw [[pirate]], but to England he wa...
13: ... Train to the nearby port of Nombre de Dios. He made off with a fortune in gold, but had to leave behi... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
5: ...ita, Magellan had two siblings: his brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, and his siste...
9: ...5]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco de Almeida as a Portuguese [[viceroy]] there and est...
13: ...everal medals, Magellan was accused of illegal trade with the Islamic [[Moors]]. He had also been invo...
15: ...ame from "''Fern㯠de Magalh㥳''" to "''Fernando de Magallanes''."
20: ...he ear of Charles and the powerful Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, bishop of [[Burgos]] and the persistent ... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ...ion|explorer]] who is popularly credited as the modern discoverer of [[Canada]], or at least the regio...
4: ...hew]]'' looking for a sea route to [[Asia]]. He ended up in the [[North America]]n mainland, he and hi...
10: ... to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes.
12: ...eyes, regions or provinces of the heathen and infidelles, whatsoever they bee, and in what part of the...
20: ...d, and explored the coast for some time, probably departing on [[July 20]]. On the homeward voyage his... - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...mountains and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. It shares borders with [[Argentina]] to the east, [[Bolivia]] to ...
7: native_name = República de Chile |
17: government_type = [[Republic|Democratic republic]] |
18: leader_titles = [[President of Chile|President]] |
19: leader_names = [[Ricardo Lagos]] | - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...its greatest east-west width at about 5�N latitude, where it stretches approximately [[1 E7 m|19,800...
9: ...sunami]]s, caused by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and wiped out whole towns.
15: ...enches lie adjacent to the outer margins of the wide western Pacific continental shelf.
17: ...ast Pacific Rise]], which is a part of the worldwide mid-oceanic ridge. About 3000 km (1800 miles) acr...
18: ...e]]. Pelagic sediments derived from seawater include pelagic red clays and the skeletal remains of sea... - History of science in the Middle Ages (30877 bytes)
4: ...igation was renewed. Science developed in this golden period of [[Scholasticism|Scholastic philosophy]...
6: ...ong many others. These advances, however, were suddenly interrupted by the [[Black Plague]] and are vi...
14: ...not completely assimiliated by the Roman culture. Debilitated by migrations, barbarian invasions and t...
16: ... culture]] as the [[Dark Ages]]. Nowadays, most modern historians dismiss the use of the term by point...
18: ... Institutionally, these new schools were either under the responsibility of a [[monastery]], a [[cathe... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...e]]an expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day [[United States]], was the first European t...
3: ...]] searching for gold and a passage to [[China]]. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the [[Mississip...
5: ...ce to find military fame after the [[Moors]] were defeated. With discovery of new lands to the west (w...
7: ...rious for the extreme brutality with which he wielded these gifts.
9: ...at ocean to the [[Orient]], profoundly influenced de Soto's ambitions. - Space Shuttle program (41074 bytes)
2: ...esigned the External fuel tank and Morton Thiokol designed the solid rocket boosters.
4: ...erforms servicing missions. While the vehicle was designed with the capacity to recover satellites and...
6: Each shuttle was designed for a projected lifespan of 100 launches or...
10: ...t before re-entry, a task that the agency has decided is too expensive to be done without the faciliti...
12: ... after which it will be replaced by the yet-to-be-developed [[Crew Exploration Vehicle]] (CEV). - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
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23: '''Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade''' ([[March 24]] [[1893]] - [[June 25]] [[1960]])...
28: ...eda galaxy]] for the first time, which led him to define distinct "[[stellar population|populations]]"...
30: ...mnant of the supernova of the year [[1054]], and identified the optical counterparts of various [[radi...
36: ...e]] is named after him, as is [[Baade (crater)|Baade crater]], a ''vallis'' (valley) on the [[Moon]] a...
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