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- Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
20: ...he ruin. Even the stubby remnant disappeared in [[1480]], when the then-Sultan of Egypt, [[Qaitbay]], us... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...hington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round...
5: ...s of expeditions to the Americas by a variety of peoples throughout time; see '''[[Pre-Columbian trans...
11: ...ns, if not hundreds, of millions of [[indigenous people]]s, exploitation of the Americas by Europe, an...
21: ...e younger brothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister...
25: ... studied [[cartography]] with his brother Bartolomeo. Christopher received almost no formal education;... - Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
12: ...the queen arranged for her family, the most outrageous being when her 20-year-old brother John Woodvil...
20: ...nd|Edward]] in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St George's Chapel]] in [[Windsor Castle]].
28: ...82), buried in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St George's Chapel]], [[Windsor Castle]]
34: ...ord, buried in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St George's Chapel]], [[Windsor Castle]]
36: * Bridget Plantagenet (1480-1517), nun at Dartford Priory, Kent - Sackbut (3802 bytes)
4: ... Ages]], a closer to exact date would be around [[1480]]. It evolved into what we know today as the '[[T... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
42: ...tsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video game]] music composer
74: *[[Philip Yeo|Yeo, Philip]], industrial and systems engineer
75: *[[F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas, Edward]] (1901-1964), [[World War II|WW2]...
76: *[[Michelle Yeoh|Yeoh, Michelle]] (born 1962), Chinese actor - List of painters (54090 bytes)
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian pai...
51: *[[Albrecht Altdorfer]] ([[1480]]-[[1538]])
69: *[[George Ault]] ([[1891]]-[[1948]])
76: *[[Constantine Andreou]] ([[1917]]-)
83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]]) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...aߥ'', the term first used by [[Germany|German]] geographer [[Ferdinand von Richthofen]] in the [[19th...
11: ...ased the capacity for [[prehistory|prehistoric]] peoples to carry heavier loads over greater distances...
13: ...s without arousing the hostility of more settled peoples.
43: ...ons somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value...
52: ...o look at their complexion to see that they were people of another world than ours."'' ("Cathey and th... - Rhodes (9349 bytes)
9: == Geography ==
17: The island was inhabited in the [[Neolithic]] period, although little remains of this c...
41: ...]] of Egypt in [[1444]] and of [[Mehmed II]] in [[1480]]. Finally, however, Rhodes fell to the large arm...
45: ...his community were [[Ladino language|Ladino]] (Judeo-Spanish) speakers. During [[World War II]] [[Nazi... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpeg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci]]
2: ...masterly paintings, such as ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo)|The Last Supper]]'' and ''[[Mona Lisa]]''. ...
7: Leonardo was born in [[Anchiano]], near [[Vinci, Ital...
9: ...ost authorities therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not us...
11: ...ear old Leonardo as an apprentice. In this role, Leonardo also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
6: ...n countries, but not in the Kingdom of Castile & Leon!
14: ...ove using religion as a means of controlling his people. He wanted the Jewish and Muslim religions wip...
26: ...in the midst of all these threats, in August of [[1480]] the Sultan had attacked [[Italy]] itself, at th...
42: The Inquisition was removed during [[Napoleon]]ic rule ([[1808]]–[[1812]]), but reinstit...
44: ...''Moriscos'', or Moorish converts. About 125,000 people were tried by church tribunals as suspected he... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: '''Ferdinand Magellan''' (Spring [[1480]] – [[April 27]], [[1521]]; was a [[Portuga...
7: ...ontinued his education, becoming interested in [[geography]] and [[astronomy]]. Some speculate that he...
53: ...cate with the native peoples because his [[Malay people|Malay]] interpreter could understand their lan...
64: ...], [[1521]], and were guided to [[Brunei]], [[Borneo]] by Moro pilots, who could navigate the shallow ...
81: ...> <td>Juan de Acurio<!-- Acuario? -->, from [[Bermeo]]</td> <td > Pilot </td> </tr> - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
16: ...an]] according to [[Celts|Celtic]] legends. Some people think [[Newfoundland]] may have been found on ...
20: ...but fast and able. The crew consisted of only 18 people. He departed on either [[May 2]] or [[May 20]... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
5: ... [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] with 1.5 million people
46: ...a]] (Akimel O'otham) phrase, ''Ho Ho Kam'', "the people who have gone". They also lived in the [[Pueb...
49: ... west of Mesa, which was already a city of 1,000 people; and a few miles northwest of a similar farmin...
74: In [[1902]], President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] signed the [[Newlands Reclamation...
76: On [[May 18]], [[1911]], the [[Theodore Roosevelt Dam]], then the largest masonry dam... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-15...
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
46: *[[Alcmaeon of Croton]], (5th century BC){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...n end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (...
17: ...ypt in [[1444]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made ...
27: ...rez d'Aleccio]] in the Hall of St Michael and St George, also known as the Throne Room, in the Grandma...
41: ...ctive leadership, and readily capitulated to Napoleon. This was a terrible affront to most of the Kni...
43: ... in the period [[1805]] to [[1879]], when [[Pope Leo XIII]] restored a Grand Master to the Order. This...
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