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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...t utility vehicle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For th...
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...fonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
5: ...ourteen when she was married (1533), at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother wa...
7: ...ggle against [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]], was only too glad of the opportunity to str...
9: When her maternal aunt the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County...
11: ...ver, soon grew weary of the domination of the Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition. ...
13: ..., or even fewer centimetres (17, 15, or fewer inches). - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
4: ... thirteen, Francis married her to the Duke of Cleves, but this political marriage was annulled four ye...
6: After the death of Francis and the accession of [[Henry II of France|Henry II]] Jeanne was...
14: ...m here she conducted peace negotiations, and in [[1570]] official talks began to marry Henry to the king...
16: ==Marriages==
18: In [[1541]] Jeanne married William, Duke of Cleves, annulled in [[1545]], with no issue. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...ndash; [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because ...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Ma...
12: ...tland]], on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de G...
14: ...es could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...ary ascended the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the de... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...irgin Queen''', '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch ...
9: ...en saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VI...
11: ...ies, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baronies]] in the [[Peerage of England]], and one barony i...
13: ...ica]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen...
16: ... under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]]. - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ...2-Sistine Chapel.png|250px|thumb|right|''God creates Adam'', by [[Michelangelo]]. The mural on the cei...
2: ...esis 1.27) as Adam, depending on which part of Genesis is read and how it is interpreted. Depending on...
5: ...#256;ḏām in [[Tiberian Hebrew]], and آدم (ʾĀdam) in [[Arabic lang...
10: ==Adam in Genesis==
12: ...the Garden of Eden with many of the "lower creatures."]] - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ... about [[1300 BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society has existed for...
9: events in Egyptian history is still a subject of research.
10: The conservative dates are not supported by any reliable absolute date f...
13: ...ypt|Early Dynastic Period]] (1st–2nd Dynasties)
14: ...gdom of Egypt|Old Kingdom]] (3rd–6th Dynasties) - Influenza (10335 bytes)
1: ...flu'''" (and widely misunderstood as being instances of influenza), see [[gastroenteritis]].}}
2: ...jpg|thumb|200px|Negatively stained flu virions. These were the causative agent of the [[Hong Kong Flu]...
4: ...unfavourable [[astrology|astrological]] ''influences'' as the cause of the disease.
6: == Types ==
8: There are three types of the virus: - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...aper mill]]. His best known assistant was [[Johannes Kepler]].
5: ... his surname "Brahe". Apparently his contemporaries did so and the usage has persisted.
8: ...itten Tÿcho). He was born at his family's ancestral seat of [[Knudstrup]] [[Castle]], [[Denmark]]...
10: ...tempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childless uncle and aunt, J? Brahe and [[Inger Oxe]], in t...
12: ...ctatus de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis and [[Regiomontanus]]' De tri... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...didness and personal flavor, he takes mankind and especially himself as the object of study. He was a ...
6: ...Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised Protestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with ...
8: ...e was at the court of [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]]. While serving at the Bordeaux Parlement, h...
10: ...circ;teau de Montaigne, to which he moved back in 1570.
12: ...;teau where in his library he began work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]]. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ... [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[cartographer]] of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] n...
9: ...ercator produced a map of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] ([[1537]]), another map of the world ([[153...
12: ...as compass courses could be marked as straight lines.
15: ...world atlas, ''[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]]'' in [[1570]]. He produced his own atlas in a number of parts...
17: ...atormuseum in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and work. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
26: *[[Harry Bates (sculptor)|Harry Bates]] (1850 - 1899)
41: *[[Georges Braque]] (1882 - 1963)
42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
58: *[[Danese Cattaneo]] - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1570]] in England seems likely, and he is presumed to have died in [[1611]] somewhere in [[Huds...
3: .... At this point the ship was only 577 nautical miles from the pole, but it was clear there is no way t...
5: ...pany that there was no point funding further voyages.
7: ...ape Cod]]–the first Europeans to describe these locations (although [[Giovanni da Verrazano]] ex...
9: ...laws England had enacted to protect its trade routes from the Dutch. He was soon released. - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...a series of individual powered or unpowered vehicles linked together).
8: ...le than most other forms of land transport and saves energy.
9: ...f freight (or given number of passengers), than does [[road]] transport. Furthermore, together with th...
11: ...one of the safest modes of transport, and also makes a highly efficient use of space: a double tracked...
13: ...the major form of public transport in many countries. In [[Asia]], for example, many millions use trai... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Islam (36809 bytes)
2: ...Abrahamic religion]]s, and the world's second largest [[religion]].
6: ...ission" (understood as submission to God) and is described as a ''Dīn'' or Deen, meaning "way of ...
10: ...n]] as corrective of Jewish and Christian scriptures.
12: ...succession of authority after Muhammad's death; these are known as [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] , [[Shi'a Isl...
14: ...ecome a Muslim, one needs to recite and believe these statements. All Muslims agree to this, although ... - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...ransliterated]] as '''Quran''', '''Koran''', and less commonly '''Alcoran''') is the [[Sacred text|hol...
6: ...gest sura, and closes with some of the shortest ones.
10: ...is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling paragraphs and comprising roughly ten ayat...
14: ...uspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Islamic Arabic; others say that they were ...
16: ...emains to this day the speech used in Qur'anic times, rather than the current spoken dialects. - Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
5: ...centrate more on the miraculous "flowering" of trees at Christmastime. A branch of flowering [[Glaston...
9: ...e pagan tribes using the cone-shaped evergreen trees because of their triangular appearance.
11: ...istmas tree was introduced in [[1840]] by the duchess of Orleans.
15: ...English magazines, and copied in the [[United States]] at Christmas [[1850]] (''illustration, left'')....
17: ...ell into January. In Europe, private Christmas trees are not usually put up until at least the middle ... - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
1: ...], [[Iraq]], [[Iran]], [[Israel]], the [[Gulf States]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Yemen]], and [[Oman]]. The...
3: ...es|articles on the histories of individual countries]]. See [[Ancient Near East]] for ancient history ...
11: * [[Agriculture]] in [[Mesopotamia]]
12: * Domestication of [[sheep]] and [[goats]] in the [[Middl...
16: ... at [[Nevali Cori]] in present-day [[Turkey]] are established.
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