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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
15: The city wasn't founded until March 1st, 1565 by Portuguese knight Estᣩo de Sᬠwho called it...
17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a.
42: ...ds to watch the firework display. As of 2001, the fireworks have been launched from boats, to further ... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: *[[Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
28: ...Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...y, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("B...
14: ...t, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionable. Females and female...
33: ...Duke of Somerset]] by Edward VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and...
37: ...sailed back to France from Dumbarton carrying the five-year-old Queen of Scots on board.
40: ...was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at the age of five, to be brought up for the next ten years at the... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
13: ...nnual Fiesta when Santa Feans burn [[Zozobra]], a fifty-foot puppet also called "Old Man Gloom."
43: ...ed States]], behind [[St. Augustine, Florida]] ([[1565]]). Santa Fe was the capital of [[Santa Fe de Nu...
60: ...ian]], 0.08% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 15.29% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|oth... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer
89: *[[Zhang Yimou|Yimou, Zhang]], (born [[1950]]), film director
91: ...rvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
23: *[[Riza Abbasi]] ([[1565]]-[[1635]])
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ...
167: ! width="18%" | Pontificate - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ... Tycho's father, a [[nobleman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark|Danish]] King's court. [[Bea...
22: ...r father, uncle Jorgen Brahe, had already died in 1565 of pneumonia after rescuing [[Frederick II of Den...
33: ...ntained since [[antiquity]] that the world of the fixed stars was eternal and unchangeable (a fundamen...
38: ... of the [[solar system]]. Tycho believed in a modified [[geocentric model]] known as the [[Tychonian s...
43: ...rway]], impressed with Tycho's 1572 observations, financed the construction of two observatories for T... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...el's ''The Painter and The Connoisseur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
11: ... religious [[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of win...
19: ...:image:bigfishlittlefish.JPG|Large Fish Eat Small Fish]]'' 1556, Albertina, Vienna
23: * ''The Fight Between Carnival and Lent'' 1559, Kunsthistori...
25: * ''Saul (Battle Against The Filistines On The Gilboa)'' 1562, Kunsthistorisches ... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
7: ...ia]], the son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier. In [[1565]] he took the name Giordano on becoming a [[Domin...
10: ...s are the four [[classical element]]s: earth, air fire, water]]
11: ...inas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Nicholas of Cusa]].
17: ...e our [[Sun]], that the universe was [[infinity|infinite]], with a "Plurality of Worlds", and that all...
21: ...makes a case that Bruno is the previously unidentified 'Henry Fagot' whose reports to Francis Walsingh... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
10: Montaigne married in 1565; he had five daughters, but only one survived childhood. In ...
12: ...e in his library he began work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]].
33: ... and especially himself, with utter frankness. He finds the great variety and volatility of human natu... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: ...Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first known permanent settlements appeared 9,000 yea...
8: ...do-Scythian]] and [[Indo-Parthian]] kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd cen...
11: ...blishment of a number of indigenous dynasties. We find reference, in the edicts of the Mauryan Emperor...
18: ...Image:Lightmatter vishnu1.jpg|thumb|130px|right|A figurine of [[Vishnu]], a [[Hindu]] god, in the ''Na...
20: ...in [[1857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutiny|First War of Indian Independence]], resulted in Indi... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
251: *[[Lodovico Ferrari]] (Italy, [[1522]] - [[1565]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]]) - Malta (18511 bytes)
17: |'''[[Official language]]s'''
69: ...me under the control of [[Carthage]] ([[400 BC]]) first and then of [[Roman Republic|Rome]]. The islan...
71: ...r: after this they decided to increase the [[fortification]]s, particularly in the Inner-harbour regio...
73: ... them, and the French were forced behind the fortifications. Great Britain, along with the [[Kingdom o...
75: ...Treaty of Paris (1814)|Treaty of Paris]], Malta officially became a part of the [[British Empire]] and... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ... was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permiss...
7: ..., established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near to the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]...
9: ...ings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work of either t...
15: ...order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in the politics...
17: ...y were forced to become a more militarized force, fighting especially with the [[Barbary pirates]]. Th... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: ...Age]] rock shelters decorated with paintings. The first known permanent settlements appeared 9,000 yea...
8: ...do-Scythian]] and [[Indo-Parthian]] kingdoms, and finally of the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd cen...
11: ...blishment of a number of indigenous dynasties. We find reference, in the edicts of the Mauryan Emperor...
18: ...Image:Lightmatter vishnu1.jpg|thumb|130px|right|A figurine of [[Vishnu]], a [[Hindu]] god, in the ''Na...
20: ...in [[1857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutiny|First War of Indian Independence]], resulted in Indi... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... is likely to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [...
5: ...om the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classified animals based on their means of transportation ...
9: ...wiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of lif...
11: ...tion due to the work of [[entomologist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people...
13: ...nceived, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and difference... - December 9 (7837 bytes)
6: ...[[1793]] - [[New York, New York|New York City]]'s first daily [[newspaper]], the ''American Minerva'',...
9: *[[1851]] - First [[YMCA]] in [[North America]] established in [...
12: *[[1872]] - [[P. B. S. Pinchback]] becomes the first serving [[African American]] governor of a U.S...
25: *[[1960]] - ''[[Coronation Street]]'' first airs on televisions across the [[United Kingdo...
29: *[[1987]] - [[First Intifada]] begins in the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[...
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