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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...tember 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly thought of as one of the m...
9: ...may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the period.
13: ...at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France...
15: ==Second Voyage 1535-1536==
17: ...]] ([[Montreal]]) and arrived on [[October 2]], [[1535]]. Much more impressive than the small and squal... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
13: ...t as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...e, where he was found among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this perio...
17: ...ster Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other women (John 19:26). Mary cr...
19: Of the roughly 100 people in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day...
27: ...was conceived. They took her to live in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] when she was three years old, muc... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...he [[Green Mountains]] in the west and [[Lake Champlain]] in the northwest. It borders [[Massachusetts...
38: ...amous for its scenery, [[dairy]] products and [[maple syrup]], Vermont has long been known for its [[L...
44: ...iver itself is part of New Hampshire). [[Lake Champlain]], the major lake in Vermont, is the sixth-lar...
46: ...northwest off Lake Champlain is the fertile [[Champlain Valley]]. In the south of the valley is [[Bomo...
48: ... state is covered by forest, the rest in meadow, uplands, lakes, ponds and swampy wetlands. - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
13: ...[European colonization of the Americas|European explorers]] and [[European colonization of the America...
16: ===European exploration===
19: ...s, and gems. The Spaniards conjectured that these places may be one and the same.
21: ...Cortés accompanied expeditions in [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city. - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...[[1516]]. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|...
7: ... father's great displeasure, More seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career in order to becom...
12: ...nfluential in the government, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as...
19: ... (Indeed, the title of Erasmus's book is partly a play on More's name, the word ''folly'' being ''mori...
23: ...d [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]''. Both More's and Shakespeare'... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
22: ...he booming armaments industry. Accumulation of surplus, competitive [[overproduction]], and heightened...
24: ...the combination of both a newly abundant labor supply as well as improved productivity, were mixed ble...
30: ...volt against [[Aristotle|Aristotelian]] logic, it placed great emphasis on reforming individuals throu...
42: ... in [[Europe]] of humanism for centuries: the neo-Platonism of the scholastics and the neo-Aristotelia...
44: ...arlier people who called for reformation, for example, he did not know the teachings of [[Jan Hus]] un... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...nd [[Gaspar Myrica]]. They worked together from [[1535]] to [[1536]] to construct a terrestrial [[globe]...
12: ...]] where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map of Europe ([[1554]]) and he t...
20: *''Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet'' by Nicholas Crane, ISBN 0805066241, Henry H... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ... by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the best educat...
12: ... petty criticism, from those hostile to the principles of literary and religious progress to which he ...
14: ... regenerated [[Europe]] through sound criticism applied frankly and without fear to the Catholic Churc...
16: ...hree other editions - in [[1522]], [[1527]] and [[1535]].
25: ...o offer any tangible method of applying its principles to the existing church system. When Erasmus was... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
7: ...f his birth is unknown and could be as early as [[1535]]. The [[1540]] date is taken from a portrait pai...
9: ...orld]] under the sails of the Hawkins family of [[Plymouth]], in company with his cousin, Sir [[John H...
12: ...im an outlaw [[pirate]], but to England he was simply a sailor and [[privateer]]. On his second such v...
13: ...was unable to officially acknowledge Drake's accomplishment. Such intrigues were typical during Drake'...
16: ...e Pacific coast of the Americas. He set sail from Plymouth, England, in December aboard the ''Pelican'... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
15: ...eon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
33: *[[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]], (1436-1535){{fn|R}}
391: *[[Frederick Copleston]], (1907-1994)
896: *[[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], (born 1933){{fn|O}}
897: *[[Mordecai Kaplan]], (1881-1983){{fn|R}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...in Christian pilgrims traveling to visit the birthplace of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]]...
9: ...s in the Holy Land were the work of either the Templars or Hospitallers, at the height of the Kingdom ...
15: ...His successor [[Fulkes de Villaret]] executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309]] after over two ...
17: ...] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knights a priority target.
25: After seven years of moving from place to place in [[Europe]], the Knights were re-established... - Iron (23778 bytes)
51: ... </td><td>[[1 E3 K|1808 K]] (1535 ?[[Celsius|C]] / 2795 ?[[Fahrenheit|F]])</td></tr...
143: == Applications ==
144: ...h strength make it indispensable, especially in applications like [[automobile]]s, the [[hull (ship)|h...
156: ...d increasingly in the Middle East, but did not supplant the dominant use of [[bronze]].
159: ... technology, but instead the disruption of the supply of [[tin]]. This period of transition, which oc... - Chile (39914 bytes)
56: ...]'s first Spanish expedition south from Peru in [[1535]]-[[1536|36]] called themselves the "men of Chill...
64: ...panish [[conquistador]]s, who came from Peru in [[1535]] seeking [[gold]] but were turned back by the lo...
66: ... settlements. Subsequent major insurrections took place in [[1598]] and in [[1655]]. Each time the Map...
74: ...ird and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national afflue...
78: ... excessive. At the end of his term, Frei had accomplished many noteworthy objectives, but he had not f... - Tropical savanna (1816 bytes)
1: ...ons and often cause seasonal floods. Much of the plant life on savannas is adapted to this seasonal a... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
11: ...n]] of his family, Coronado went to [[Mexico]] in 1535 at about age 25, with the entourage of [[Viceroy]...
16: ...component carried the bulk of the expedition's supplies, and traveled by sea under the leadership of H...
21: ....<ref>Winship. P. 60</ref> Once the scouting and planning was done, Coronado led the first group of s...
23: ... described. Instead, it was just a complex of simple [[pueblo]]s constructed by the [[Zuni]] Indians....
30: ...o the [[Hopi]] territory to acquire scouts and supplies that could be used to find this river. Members... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...ssful strategy of allying with some indigenous peoples against others. He also used a native woman, [[...
6: ...cal trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ...es in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
16: ... a pale, sickly child by his [[biographer]], [[chaplain]], and friend [[Francisco López de Gómara]]....
18: ...al career. However, those two years at Salamanca, plus his long period of training and experience as a... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...6/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] explorer and [[conquistador]] who, while leading the f...
5: ...ertainty is that he spent time as a child at both places, and he stipulated in his will that his body ...
7: ...ever schemes for the extortion of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|native villages]] for their cap...
12: ... the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's tents.<ref>MacQuarrie. Pp. 57-...
14: ...rom Atahualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy. - Judge (10187 bytes)
5: ...luates and passes judgement on something. For example, a judge at a [[fair|county fair]] might award p...
17: ...[[adversarial system]] of [[justice]] under the applicable rules of [[civil procedure]].
19: ...generally decides issues of law, i.e. which law applies and what the law requires, while the [[jury]] ...
23: ... by [[consensus]] or [[majority]] and the judge applied it to the facts as he saw them. This practice...
27: ...bes, usually black or red, and sit on an elevated platform during trials (known as the '''bench'''). T... - Green alga (4059 bytes)
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5: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plantae]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
7: ...{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightblue| plural_taxon = Divisions}}
13: ...the [[Charales]], the closest relatives of higher plants, full differentiation of tissues occurs.
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