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- Netherlands (35958 bytes)
12: ...motto = ''Je Maintiendrai''<br>([[French language|French]]: "I will maintain")|
14: ...es = [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Frisian language|Frisian]] <sup>1</sup> |
40: established_dates = [[Eighty Years' War|From Spain]]<br/>[[May 23]], [[1568]]<br/>[[January ...
64: After gaining formal independence from the [[Spanish Empire]] under [[Philip IV of Spa...
68: ...xembourg seceded because its laws prevented women from becoming Head of State. Luxembourg turned to th... - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
11: **[[Francesco Foscari]]
15: **[[Francesco Sforza]]
22: **[[Catherine de Medici]] Queen of France
28: **[[Francis I of France]]
29: **[[Francis, Duke of Guise]] of France - Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
3: ...osch'' (pronounced as ''Boss'' in Dutch), derived from his birthplace [['s-Hertogenbosch]]. In [[Spani...
5: ...e a popular painter and even received commissions from abroad. In 1488 he joined the Brotherhood of Ou...
7: ...ll.jpg|thumb|180px|left|''Hell'', the right panel from the triptych ''[[The Garden of Earthly Delights...
8: ...elights with numerous nude figures and tremendous fruit and birds on the middle panel, and [[hell]] wi...
10: These paintings have a rough surface from the application of paint; this contrasts with t... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ... in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as '...
7: ... their father died; neither received any training from him.
9: ...s nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distinguish him from other members of the [[Brueghel|Brueghel dynast...
31: ...of Babel'' c. 1563, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam <br>
34: ...cle of 6 or 12 paintings of the months or seasons from the [[Book of hours]] of which five remain: - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...ic offices, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[1529]] to [[1532]]. More coined the word "[[...
7: ...o Lincoln's Inn while he considered joining the [[Franciscan]] order. Perhaps because he judged himse...
12: From [[1510]] to [[1518]], More served as one of the...
19: ...n continental Europe, and his friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his masterpiece, ''[[In Praise of Fol...
23: ...g [[Tudor dynasty]], which had wrested the throne from Richard at the end of the [[Wars of the Roses]]... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...mus Roterodamus''' (also '''Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam''') ([[October 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[...
6: ...s cared for by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the ...
8: ...in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in t...
10: ...e Press|Aldus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Ital...
12: ...]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe. - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
17: ...ght|220px|The "Luther house" where Luther boarded from ages 14 to 17 while attending private school at...
19: ...opper]] mine in nearby [[Mansfeld]]. Having risen from the [[peasantry]], his father was determined to...
28: ...ed the young man needed more work to distract him from excessive [[rumination]]. He ordered the monk t...
31: ...hteousness, by which humans receive righteousness from God through the perfect works, life, death and ...
37: ...t the doctrine in question), thereby freeing them from the pains of purgatory. - Beach (8328 bytes)
15: ...rass (''[[Sporobolus virginicus]]'') is spreading from the incipient [[dune]]]]
19: ...er being the slope leading down towards the water from the crest.
22: ...re older crests (the '''storm beach''') resulting from very large storm waves and beyond the influence...
29: ...s come from erosion of rocks offshore, as well as from headland [[erosion]] and [[slumping]] producing...
36: ...porary (For examples see [[Monaco]], [[Paris]], [[Rotterdam]], [[Beaches of Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] and [[Beach... - Harbor (2637 bytes)
7: ...or '''haven''' is a place where ships may shelter from the [[weather]] or are stored. Harbors can be ...
15: ==Ice-free harbors==
16: ...ar the [[geographical pole|pole]]s, being [[ice]]-free is an important advantage, ideally all-year rou...
28: ...rgest artificially created harbor is located in [[Rotterdam]], [[The Netherlands]].
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