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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: ...ge:Mid_horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' Medici]]
3: ...h of the kings of France, and mother of three further kings of that branch.
5: ...as alive at the time, but who would become King [[Henry II of France]].
7: ...lived long enough to see his grandchildren before he died.
9: ... the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County of Auvergne]]. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
8: ...policies, however, were in many cases reversed by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]...
10: ... I, Queen of Scots]], who lived at approximately the same time.
13: ...ife had again failed to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daught...
15: ...ct, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...d her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. She reigned during a period of great religious turmoi...
9: ...uding [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...during Elizabeth's reign. Elizabeth also reduced the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] fro...
13: ... [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
16: ...ter [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 154... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
9: ...ocrates]], ([[396 BC|396]] - [[314 BC]]), philosopher
10: *[[Xenophanes]], philosopher
11: ... [[360 BC]]), [[Athens|Athenian]] knight, philosopher
16: *[[Fort?m鮥z|Xim鮥z, Fort?(d. 1533), early Spanish colonizer in Mexico - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painte...
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
22: *[[Hans von Aachen]] ([[1552]]-[[1615]])
27: *[[Andreas Achenbach]] ([[1815]]-[[1910]]) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...e central figure of the [[Dutch School (music)|Netherlands]] style.
6: ...Ercole I of [[Ferrara]] hired him for the chapel there; so Josquin returned to Italy.
8: ...'s name. While there he also wrote a setting of the [[Miserere]], Psalm 50, for five voices, widely a...
10: ...tion to them has been discovered by researchers. He remained at Cond頵ntil his death in 1521.
14: ...Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the decline of the polyphonic style. - History of California (38344 bytes)
1: ...istory of California through 1900; for events in the 20th century and beyond, see [[History of Califor...
3: ...s after European colonization means that most of the known '''history of California''' begins with Eur...
5: ...ty and wealth, first with the Gold Rush of 1849, then with its fertile agricultural lands and prodigio...
11: ...he traces of a very early inhabitation, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about...
13: ...m, and leached out the acidic [[tannin]] to make the flour edible. - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
1: ...ly 6]], [[1533]]) was an Italian poet, author of the [[epic]] poem ''[[Orlando furioso]]'' ([[1516]]),...
3: ...o thus lost the opportunity of learning Greek, as he intended.
5: [[Image:Ariosto.jpg|thumb|Statue of the poet in [[Reggio Emilia]]]]
6: ...e pittance regularly paid during the period that the poet enjoyed it.
8: ...aken and might withdraw his boon--which it seems the cardinal did. - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
1: ...ht|Portrait of Sir Thomas More by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]]]]
2: ...he [[Roman Catholic Church]], in which he became the [[patron saint]] of statesmen, lawyers, and polit...
5: ...urned to London, where he studied law with his father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]...
7: ...monastic practices, including self-punishment in the form of wearing a [[hair shirt]] and occasional [...
9: ... with an excellent classical education at a time when such learning was usually reserved for men. - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
1: ...e:Michel-eyquem-de-montaigne 1.jpg|thumb|right|Michel de Montaigne]]
2: ...nd and especially himself as the object of study. He was a [[Skepticism|skeptic]] and a [[Humanism|hum...
6: ... spoke exclusively in [[Latin]], the language of the educated class.
8: ...aux Parlement, he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de la Boé...
10: ...nherited the Château de Montaigne, to which he moved back in 1570. - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...oor to young astronomers everywhere to challenge the facts and never take anything at face value.
8: ...a, married a businessman and city councillor, Barthel Gertner.
10: ...ria Novara da Ferrara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and as...
12: ...irst observation Copernicus made in [[1497]] together with Domenico Novara, are recorded in ''De revol...
14: ...re he could observe a lunar [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortun... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...nds|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanist]] and [[theology|theologian]].
6: ...attack in his lifelong assault upon the evils of the Church.
8: ...the rest of his life as an English [[professor]]. He stayed at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]] and may ...
10: ...dus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Italian schola...
12: ... the great publisher [[Froben]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Eu... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ...opher]]s''' ''(and non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabeticall...
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...[Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas|Spanish]] [[hegemony]].
6: ... their gods, the foremost of which was [[Inti]], the sun god.
8: ...ht|A view of [[Machu Picchu]], "the Lost City of the Incas," now an archaelogical site.]]
9: ...erred to the four provinces whose corners met at the empire's capital, [[Cusco]] (Qosqo).
11: ...ng to the beliefs of the people or the artifacts they left behind. - Hank Aaron (72330 bytes)
1: ... (6,856). He won one [[World Series]] ring with the [[Milwaukee Braves]] in [[1957 in sports|1957]], ...
4: ... Championship]] two years running. In high school,he also excelled in [[football]].
6: ...o the scouts there. He then started playing with the semi-pro [[Mobile Black Bears]] for $10 a game.
8: ...year. Aaron helped lead the Clowns to victory in the [[1952 in sports|1952]] [[Negro League World Seri...
12: ...luable Player. One writer said, "Henry Aaron led the league in everything except hotel accommodations"... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ...tates]] expeditionary logs as a slave servant in the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca's party.
5: ...a [[Spanish nobility|Spanish nobleman]] with whom he developed close ties.
8: ...t-day [[Mexico]]), where they were reunited with their countrymen.
10: ...from an [[owl]], a bird that symbolized death to the Zuni.
13: ... Estevanico in later accounts is proof enough of the explorer's death. - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas]].
4: ...endoza]]. Cortés returned to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully but embittered.
6: ...riptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ...sh and English languages in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
14: ...hird Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal grandfather was a son of [[Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th ... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...ted States]], was the first European to discover the [[Mississippi River]].
3: ... [[China]]. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the [[Mississippi River]] at present-day [[Lake Villa...
5: ...pers of glory and wealth were too compelling for the poor.
7: ... for the extreme brutality with which he wielded these gifts.
9: ...inand Magellan]], who first sailed that ocean to the [[Orient]], profoundly influenced de Soto's ambit...
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