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- Paraguay (10959 bytes)
1: ... The expression in Guarani is thought to refer solely to Asuncibut in Spanish refers to the entire...
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43: |'''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
1: ...tesman]]. A friend and critic of [[Niccolchiavelli]], he is considered one of the major political ...
3: ...eptical and more conservative than that of Machiavelli.
10: * ''Relazione di Spagna'' (1514)
14: * ''Del reggimento di Firenze'' (1527)
15: ...''Considerazioni intorno ai "Discorsi" del Machiavelli sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio'' (1528) - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
10: ... [[Martin Luther]], [[Johann Tetzel]], [[Philipp Melanchthon]], [[Indulgences]], ''[[95 Theses]]'', [...
20: ...g disaffection with the wealth and power of the [[elite]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to th...
22: ...trade, industry, and burgeoning urban growth in fields as diverse as banking (the [[Fugger]] banking f...
24: ...herlands]] and new textile industries began to develop.
28: ...and God. New thinking favored the notion that no religious [[doctrine]] can be supported by philosophi... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
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9: ...uced a map of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] ([[1537]]), another map of the world ([[1538]]) and a map...
12: ...ction and first used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of longitude to aid navigation by sea, as c...
15: ...a collection of maps, and encouraged [[Abraham Ortelius]] to compile the first modern world atlas, ''[...
17: The Mercatormuseum in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and... - Florence (11538 bytes)
9: ...dges of Florence at sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo]]
19: ...actional strife was later recorded by the White Guelph [[Dino Compagni]] in his [[Chronicles of Floren...
21: ...anti-aristocratic movement, led by [[Giano della Bella]], that resulted in a set of laws called the [[...
23: ...Michelangelo]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and [[Botticelli]].
25: ...worldly pleasures foreshadowed many of the wider religious controversies of the following centuries. - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
4: == Travels and Career ==
5: ...n [[Panama]]. His only possessions then were a shield and his sword. In [[1516]], he became commander ...
6: De Soto gained fame as an excellent horseman, fighter, and tactician, but was kno...
9: ... large areas of land in the Spanish colonies, as well as gold mines and trade ships. Apparently though...
13: ...He settled in [[Sevilla]], where he married, in [[1537]], [[In鳠de Bobadilla]], the daughter of Davila.... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
3: ...s head there. In the prologue to his great story relating his shipwreck and wanderings in North Americ...
5: ...ve [[Estevanico]], Andres de Dorantes and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado were the only survivors of the...
7: ...ight prepare them for the hardships they would surely face.
9: ...South America, which bound with his earlier ''La Relación'' and published under the title ''Comentari...
18: ...rative of Cabeza De Vaca.'' Translation of ''La Relacion'' by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ... the Italian team building Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the [[classical order]]s of architect...
3: ...from Bologna to Rome in 1514, and worked in the atelier of [[Baldassare Peruzzi]], where he stayed unt...
4: ...hFacade.jpg|thumb|right|Serlio's church facade of 1537 crystallized a format that lasted into the 18th c...
6: ...eon Battista Alberti|Alberti]]'s [[Santa Maria Novella]] in Florence (''ca.'' 1458). The idea was in t...
8: ...nizable way is the Chateau of Ancy-le-Franc (see below), built about 1546 near Tonnerre in Burgundy. - Germanium (8776 bytes)
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17: ... [[List of elements by symbol|Symbol]], [[List of elements by number|Number]]
24: | [[group 14 element|14 (IVA)]], [[period 4 element|4]], [[p-block|p]]
46: | [[Electron configuration]] - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systemati...
7: ...ow lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: The next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Sw...
11: ...pists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]...
17: ... work, the ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', ran through twelve editions during his lifetime (1st ed. 1735). He...
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