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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
    47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
    66: *[[Christopher Columbus]], (1451-1506), reached [[the Americas|America]] looking for a ...
    100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
    116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer
  2. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    1: ...<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> &ndash; [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in [[Catalan]], ''Crist...
    3: ...ld be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regio...
    5: ...l]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first ...
    7: ...ates]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is c...
    21: ...rothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchine...
  3. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
    24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
    29: ...gnon|Agnon, S.Y.]], (1888-1970), [[Nobel]] prizewinning author
    35: ...ish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
    36: *[[Johannes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer
  4. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    3: '''Hannah Szenes''' (or '''Chana Senesh''') ([[July 17]],...
    7: Hannah Szenes (Senesh) was born to an assimilated Jewi...
    13: ...ugoslavia)|partisan group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border i...
    17: ...due to the appointment of a new Judge Advocate. Hannah was executed by a [[firing squad]] before the j...
    25: Hanna Shenesh was a talented poetess writing both on H...
  5. Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
    7: In 1506, upon the death of Christopher Columbus, who had ...
    11: ...ew York]] in 1882 using the bronze from English Cannons seized after the English attacked San Juan in ...
  6. Americas (7154 bytes)
    13: ...h language|French]], ''鴡ts-unien'' (''鴡ts-unienne'' for women) has been coined, but ''am鲩cain(n...
    23: ...on of [[Renaissance]] era voyagers, had died in [[1506]] (believing, to the end, that he'd discovered an...
  7. Switzerland (22270 bytes)
    48: In [[1506]], pope [[Julius II]] engaged the [[Swiss Guard]]...
    55: The [[Congress of Vienna]] in [[1815]] fully re-established Swiss indepen...
    63: ...], and although a German intervention was both planned and anticipated, it ultimately didn't occur. Th...
    99: *[[Appenzell Innerrhoden]] (Inner Rhodes) *
    129: The population varies between 15,000 (Appenzell Innerrhoden) and 1,253,500 (Z?, area between 37 km? (...
  8. Israel (51605 bytes)
    1: ...7th century BCE]] and [[Christianity]] at the beginning of the [[1st century]] CE. The name Israel tra...
    60: ...sted intermittently in the region for over a millennium until the failure of the [[Great Jewish Revolt...
    83: ...eadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and launched a guerilla war.
    87: ...the State of Israel was proclaimed. Promising to annihilate the new Jewish state (though their actual ...
    89: ...pt and came under its control, but Egypt did not annex it.
  9. List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
    7: *[[Francis Xavier|Xavier, Francis]], ([[1506]]-[[1552]]), [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary]]
    8: *[[Iannis Xenakis|Xenakis, Iannis]], ([[1922]]-[[2001]]), Greek composer
  10. Influenza (10335 bytes)
    14: ...ants of influenza A virus are H1N1 and H3N2. (Yohannes et al., 2004)
    16: ...l number of isolation, and HA and NA subtype (Yohannes ''et al'' 2004) Examples of the nomenclature ar...
    63: ... Roche P, Hampson A, Miller M, Spencer J (2004). Annual report of the National Influenza Surveillance ...
    87: [[he:&#1513;&#1508;&#1506;&#1514;]]
  11. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    2: ...too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
    4: ...distinction belongs to the [[Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano]]. However, due to the proximity of...
    12: ... Construction started under [[Pope Julius II]] in 1506 and was completed in [[1615]] under [[Pope Paul V...
    24: ... by Donato Bramante at the outset in 1503, was planned to be carried out with a single masonry shell, ...
    33: ...riptions. The top reads <small>PAVLVS V PONT MAX ANNO XIII</small>, the one just above the door reads ...
  12. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
    55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
    75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
    90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
    94: *[[Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]] ([[1591]]-[[1666]])
  13. Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
    2: ...n composer between [[Guillaume Dufay]] and [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina]], and is usu...
    6: ...uin was a member of the papal choir under [[Pope Innocent VIII]]. In the later [[1490s]] he was in [[...
    10: ...his works were often performed there, no direct connection to them has been discovered by researchers....
    14: ...ion; and his fame was only eclipsed after the beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] era, with the...
    16: ...rought together most of the contemporary trends, innovated significantly, and was also able to express...
  14. List of popes (77758 bytes)
    1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thum...
    23: ... <small>Simon Peter</small><br>'''&#1513;&#1502;&#1506;&#1493;&#1503; &#1489;&#1503; &#1497;&#1493;&#150...
    308: | '''[[Pope Innocent I]]'''<br><small>Saint Innocent</small>
    309: | Papa '''Innocentius''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
    410: | Papa '''Ioannes''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
  15. Saint Peter (16028 bytes)
    8: ...Peter's original name of Simon or &#1513;&#1502;&#1506;&#1493;&#1503; comes from the [[Hebrew language]]...
    13: While fishing in the [[Lake of Gennesaret]], Simon was called by Jesus to be his foll...
    23: ...to turn back. This story is commemorated in an [[Annibale Carracci]] painting. The [[Quo Vadis (church...
    76: ... letter ascribed to Peter that appears at the beginning of at least one version of the [[Clementine li...
  16. Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
    22: In 1506, Leonardo met [[Count Francesco Melzi]], the 15 y...
    33: ...ineer with whom he travelled throughout Italy. In 1506 he returned to Milan, now in the hands of [[Maxim...
    45: ...Gioconda'', now at the [[Louvre]] in Paris), 1503-1506. Though there is significant debate whether Leona...
    47: Leonardo often planned grandiose paintings with many drawings and sket...
    56: ..._Lisa.jpeg|thumb|''[[Mona Lisa]] (1503&ndash;1505/1506)'']]
  17. Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
    15: ...etry, with recalls [[Vergil]], [[Poliziano]], [[Sannazzaro]].
    23: ... it was his duty to investigate what Spain was planning against the Eternal City.
    32: ... Bembo]]'s ones. Pre-romantics will find in his sonnet ''Superbi colli e voi, sacre ruine'' a focal in...
  18. Thomas More (15893 bytes)
    5: ... with his father and was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barri...
    7: ... at a [[Carthusian]] monastery next to Lincoln's Inn while he considered joining the [[Franciscan]] or...
    19: ...[[Lucian]], which was published in [[Paris]] in [[1506]].
    36: ...oid. After the pope steadfastly refused such an annulment, Henry forced Wolsey to resign as Lord Chan...
    41: ...ish churchmen and aristocrats asking the Pope to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine. In [[1531]] he ...
  19. Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
    12: ...y he had no part in the plot, and maintained his innocence throughout. When [[Pope Leo X]] became [[po...
    17: ..., most notably those of [[Jean Bodin]] and [[Giovanni Botero]].
    33: ...e of Machiavelli's beliefs as his advocacy of tyranny seems to contradict his earlier works. However, ...
    45: *''Decennale primo'' (poem in terza rima), [[1506]]
    47: *''Decennale secondo,'' [[1509]]
  20. Erasmus (18332 bytes)
    10: ... rewards of independent literary activity. From [[1506]] to [[1509]] he was in Italy. He spent part of ...
    16: ...'. The edition included a Latin translation and annotations. It used recently rediscovered additional...
    32: ...ic. The [[anti-sacramentarian]]s, headed by [[Johannes Oecolampadius|&OElig;colampadius]] of [[Basel]]...
    46: ...stic world are among those translated, edited or annotated by Erasmus, including as Saint [[Ambrose]],...
    58: ...e: The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti and Desiderius Erasmus. London: Camb...

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