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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...6]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[De...
14: ...questionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...y have inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other...
17: ...in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.) - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><sma...
7: ...]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British monarchs|Queen of England]] and [[King of Irel...
9: ...[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...m|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baroni...
13: ...orth America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Vir... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...ddition, Portugal includes several [[island]] territories in the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], such as ...
5: ...th centuries]], Portugal was a major economic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]...
7: ...and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
12: ===Lusitania===
13: ...tanian|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitania|Roman Lusitania]]''''' - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ...[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
15: ...llo Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]]
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
105: *[[Georg Baselitz]] ( [[1938]]-) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...tenure of [[Pope Siricius]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a sourc...
6: ... [[Archbishop]] and [[metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servor...
7: ...been [[Sovereign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]).
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 Sep...
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 Oct... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...rg]] built, which became an early "[[research institute]]". For purposes of [[publication]], he owned ...
8: ...amily which had produced leading churchmen and politicians.
10: ...his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childless uncle and aunt, J? Brahe and [[Ing...
12: ...n August 21, [[1560]], particularly the fact that it had been predicted, that so impressed him that he...
14: ...over a period of several years.'' -Tycho Brahe, [[1563]] (age 17). - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...eur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
3: ...cords that he was born in Broghel near Breda, but it is unsure whether the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] town ...
5: ...painters' guild of [[Antwerp]]. He travelled to [[Italy]] soon after, and then returned to Antwerp bef...
7: ...they were still infants when their father died; neither received any training from him.
9: ...peasant]]s, painted in a simpler style than the [[Italianate]] art that prevailed at the time. The mos... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...n his main work, the ''Essays'', unprecedented in its candidness and personal flavor, he takes mankind...
6: ...otestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with a peasant family and a tutor until he was six, a...
8: ...acute;tienne de la Boétie]] whose death in 1563 deeply influenced Montaigne.
10: ...dhood. In 1568 his father died and Montaigne inherited the Château de Montaigne, to which he mov...
12: ...]]'s ''Theologia naturalis'', then a posthumous edition of Boétie's works. In 1571 he retired t... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
2: ...he first Englishman (and the first of any nationality not on a Spanish ship) to [[circumnavigation|cir...
7: ... [[1540]] date is taken from a portrait painted quite late in his life. Francis was the eldest or seco...
9: ...glish [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]] expeditions.
12: ...on-Spaniards and their [[Catholicism]]. His hostility is said to have been increased by the incident a...
13: ...couraged Drake's raids, signed a temporary truce with King [[Philip II of Spain]], and so was unable t... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...oly book. It departs from some of the social traditions and structure of [[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]] (...
4: ... wanted to go beyond what was being practised by either religion and hence a well-known saying of [[Gu...
6: ...in AD [[1699]] ; and thus gave a distinctive identity to the Sikhs. The five baptised Sikhs were named...
8: ...s including [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Sanskrit]], [[Bhojpuri]] and [[Persian language|Persian]].
10: ...the "True Name" because he wanted to avoid any limiting terms for God. He taught that the True Name, a... - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
1: ...n his influential treatise, ''Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva''.
3: ...ce from 1527 to 1540 but left little mark on the city.
6: ...but Serlio's woodcut put the concept in every architect's hands.
8: ...bleau|Châ´¥au of Fontainebleau]], where a team of Italian designers and craftsmen were assembled. Serl...
10: ...that were the main inspiration for [[Jacobean architecture]]. Later Serlio's book was in the libraries...
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