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- Pope Hilarius (5932 bytes)
1: ...' (also '''Hilarus''', '''Hilary''') was [[Pope]] from [[461]] to [[February 28]], [[468]]). He was ca...
8: ...ld leave his diocese without a written permission from his metropolitan, with a right of appeal to the...
10: ...amertus that, if in the future he did not refrain from irregular ordinations, his faculties would be w...
16: ...he Apostle, to whom he attributed his safe escape from the Council of Ephesus, are due to him, thus sa... - Pope John VII (725 bytes)
1: '''John VII''', [[pope]] from [[705]] to [[707]], successor of [[Pope John VI... - Pope Paschal I (1290 bytes)
1: '''Saint Paschal I''' was [[pope]] from [[817]] to [[February 11]], [[824]]. - Pope Silvester II (8276 bytes)
1: ...e]] (see [[List of French popes|list]]), reigning from [[999]] until his death in [[1003]].
5: ... the [[Auvergne (province)|Auvergne]] region of [[France]]. Around [[963]], he entered the monastery o...
11: ... supporting [[Hugh Capet]]. Capet became king of France, ending the [[Carolingian]] line of kings.
13: ...egate to France who temporarily suspended Gerbert from his episcopal office. Gerbert sought to show th...
27: ...Gerbert was aware of the pursuit, and hid hanging from a wooden bridge, where, suspended between heave... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...istery (Florence)|Baptistery]] gates in [[1402]], from which Ghiberti emerged victorious over [[Filipp...
10: ...gradual maturation is visible. It can be followed from a [[Gothic]] stiffness of attitude and draping ...
14: ...m life with all their angularities and deviations from the lines of beauty.
23: ...]]. At the time of its creation, it was the first free-standing [[nude]] statue since ancient times. C... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...aking world as '''Fra Angelico''' ("the Angelic [[Friar]]"), or in [[Continental Europe]] as '''Beato ...
3: [[image:fra.angelico.church.750pix.jpg|thumb|200px|'''[[Sain...
7: ...k in [[Fiesole]] about [[1418]] with the name of "Fra Giovanni da Fiesole"; "The Angelic" is a laudato...
15: ...nder, or as a follower of, [[Gherardo Starnina]]. From [[1418]] to [[1436]] he was back at Fiesole; in...
17: ... he may have studied about this time the renowned frescoes in the [[Brancacci]] chapel in the Florenti... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
9: ...nci", which means "Leonardo, son of Mister Piero, from Vinci". Leonardo himself simply signed his work...
18: ...with his assistant, Salai, "Did you play the game from behind which the Florentines love so much?"
20: ...ntimately involved with any woman, nor in a close friendship with one. He also surrounded himself with...
22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 year old son of a [[Lombar...
23: ... [[Niccolchiavelli]], [[Cesare Borgia]] and [[Franchinus Gaffurius]]. - Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
5: ...ting hall of the Mercanzia, a cloth-merchants' confraternity, and Botticello contributed to the set th...
9: [[Image:10ec_ita.png|frame|right|Botticelli's ''Venus'' graces the first ...
11: He was influenced in his art by [[Fra Filippo Lippi]] and [[Antonio Pollaiuolo]]. The ...
14: ...ors, virgins, and the orders of angels, the whole from a design given to him by Matteo, who was a wort...
19: ...lustrate the sentiments that are actually derived from medieval courtly love. ([[Jean Seznec]]'s book ... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
8: ...orn in [[Mantua]], [[Italy]] to an ancient family from [[Lombardy]] that had moved to [[Mantua]] at th...
13: ..., [[Cardinal Bibbiena]], Ottaviano and [[Federico Fregoso]], [[Cesare Gonzaga]] (a cousin of both Cast...
19: ...phael]] soon became a really close friend of him, frequently asking for his suggestions. Raphael grate...
23: ...co di Roma''), the Pope suspected him of "special friendship" for the Spanish emperor: effectively Cas...
25: ... both, the Pope and Valdes, in two famous letters from [[Burgos]]. Valdes received a very long and sev... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
1: [[image:copernicus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus]]
8: ...cus' father. His brother Andrew became canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictin...
14: ...of Warmia and Copernicus was named a canon in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for t...
16: ...o complete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastoro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where i...
18: ...e end of his studies, he came to live and work in Frombork. Some time before his return to [[Warmia]],... - Carthage (20744 bytes)
1: [[Image:Carthage_location.png|right|frame|A map of the central [[Mediterranean Sea]], sh...
3: ...ted on the eastern side of [[Lake Tunis]], across from the center of modern [[Tunis]] in [[Tunisia]]. ...
6: ... was founded by [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]] settlers from the city of [[Tyre]], bringing with them the ci...
8: ...the city began a systematic conquest of both the African interior and the coastal lands.
10: ...reading its control along the North African coast from modern [[Morocco]] to the borders of [[Egypt]].... - Sea (3330 bytes)
5: ...e [[Dead Sea]]. The [[Sea of Galilee]] is a small freshwater lake with a natural outlet, but the term ... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
15: *[[Antoine Baum]], (1728-1804), French chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
31: ...Skłodowska-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist - George Eastman (2821 bytes)
11: ...Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]], the national men's music fraternity.
15: ...in 1954, Eastman was honored with a postage stamp from the United States Post Office. - Florence (11538 bytes)
9: ...ght|thumb|300px|The bridges of Florence at sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo]]
17: ...[[Byzantine]], [[Ostrogothic]], [[Lombard]] and [[Frankish rule]], during which the population may hav...
19: Reviving from the 10th century and governed from [[1115]] by an autonomous commune, the city was...
23: ...the city from behind the scenes, his power coming from a vast [[patronage]] network and his alliance t...
28: ...later a [[Duchy of Lucca|Duchy]]) was independent from Florence in all Tuscany. - Sicily (18450 bytes)
6: ...r = Salvatore Cuffaro <br/>(''[[House of Freedoms]]'') |
24: ...sala]], [[Corleone]], [[Castellammare del Golfo]] Francavilla di Sicilia, and [[Abacaenum]] (now [[Tri...
43: ...h trains are loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland. Officially, the Stretto di Messin...
47: ...ional and international flights (mainly European) from to [[Palermo International Airport]] and [[Cata...
52: ...o d'India]] (from Palermo), [[Vincenzo Bellini]] (from [[Catania]]), as well as the [[sculpture|sculpt... - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...woven with astronomy, and not completely separate from it until about 1750‑1800 in the [[Western...
26: The other important names of astronomers from India are [[Madhava]] and [[Nilakantha]].
50: ...y cultured, and many important works of knowledge from [[ancient Greece]] were translated into Arabic,...
54: ...[[Medieval university|Universities]]"). The model from the Greeks most remembered through the [[Middle...
62: ...observe the sky, and after constructing a 20x [[refractor telescope]] he discovered the four largest [... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
13: ...from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture.
14: ...al law]], and quickly restored order. He resigned from the army in March 1779 on account of ill health...
18: ...fe were married for twelve years, until her death from [[cancer]].
20: ...umel. When she realized her fortune was dwindling from her husband's land speculation, they separated ...
24: ...n]]. He served in the [[New_York_State_Assembly]] from [[1784]] to [[1785]], but Burr became seriously... - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
11: ...hancellor of Germany|chancellor]]) of [[Germany]] from [[1933]] to his death. He was leader of the [[N...
15: He led Germany from the depths of post-[[World War I]] defeat to be...
20: ...z]] in the province of [[Upper Austria]], not far from the [[German Empire|German]] border in what was...
24: ...s was impossible since the Jews had been expelled from Graz in the [[15th century]] and were not allow...
25: ... Hitler's profession his family moved frequently, from [[Braunau]] to [[Passau]], [[Lambach]], [[Leond... - Belle Boyd (1031 bytes)
2: ...War]]. She operated from her father's hotel in [[Front Royal]], and provided valuable information to ...
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