The area that became Duval County was home to the 16th-century French colony of Fort Caroline, and saw increased European settlement in the 18th century with the establishment of Cowford, later renamed Jacksonville.

Apart from copying Chinese porcelain in faience ( tin glazed earthenware ), the soft-paste Medici porcelain in 16th-century Florence was the first real European attempt to reproduce it, with little success.

Masterworks of the Early Renaissance, the High Renaissance and Mannerism make up the Museum ’ s extensive collection of 14th-to 16th-century European art.

French parterres originated in 15th-century Gardens of the French Renaissance, such as the Chateau of Versailles, and were elaborated out of 16th-century Baroque Garden à la française knot gardens, and reached a climax at Versailles and its many European imitators, such as Kensington Palace ( illustration, right ).

In 1932 he published Het verboden rijk (" The Forbidden Realm ," 1932 ), a partly historical, partly magical realist novel combining the life of a 20th-century European with that of Luís de Camões, the 16th-century Portuguese poet ( author of sonnets and the epic The Lusiads ) who spent part of his life in the Orient.

Royal Chambers feature art, period furniture, Polish and European paintings, collectibles, and an unsurpassed display of the 16th-century monumental Flemish tapestries.

A few surviving pieces of 16th-century Chinese porcelain subsequently mounted in contemporary European silver-gilt, or vermeil, show where the foundations of the later fashion lay.

Its Mediterranean habitat, elegant details of leaf and habit and dramatic show of fruit with flowers made Arbutus unedo notable in Classical Antiquity, when Pliny thought it should not be planted where bees are kept, for the bitterness it imparts to honey, but the first signs of its importation into northern European gardens was to England from 16th-century Ireland rather than from the Mediterranean basin ; in 1586 a correspondent in Ireland sent plants to the Elizabethan courtiers Lord Leicester and Sir Francis Walsingham.

** Bernardino de Escalante, 16th-century Spanish writer, author of one of the first European books on China

Poe's own work has brought back from obscurity the writings of the 16th-century Austrian diplomat Sigismund von Herberstein, who was one of the first European ethnographers of Russia.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

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In 1895, a 16th-century book manuscript containing a copy of a text written by Nestorius was discovered by American missionaries in the library of the Nestorian patriarch in the mountains at Konak, Hakkari.

Category: 16th-century American people

Category: 16th-century American people

Category: 16th-century American people

This tradition was prominent in the intellectual life of 16th-century Italy, as well as seventeenth-and 18th-century Britain and America ; indeed the term " virtue " appears frequently in the work of Niccolò Machiavelli, David Hume, the republicans of the English Civil War period, the 18th-century English Whigs, and the prominent figures among the Scottish Enlightenment and the American Founding Fathers.

Category: 16th-century American people

Category: 16th-century American people

Whatever the connection between the Mexican and her older Spanish namesake, the fused iconography of the Virgin and the indigenous Nahua goddess Tonantzin provided a way for 16th-century Spaniards to gain converts among the indigenous population, while simultaneously allowing 16th century Mexicans to continue the practice of their native religion.

A native of Lorraine, she was a member of the powerful House of Guise, which played a prominent role in 16th-century French politics.

The lempira was named after the 16th-century cacique Lempira, a ruler of the indigenous Lenca people, who is renowned in Honduran folklore for leading the ( ultimately unsuccessful ) local native resistance against the Spanish conquistador forces.

Further excavations at the Berry site throughout the 1990s and 2000s have yielded remains of native Joara settlement and burned Spanish huts, and more 16th-century Spanish artifacts, including olive jar fragments, a spike, and a knife.

The word " thesaurus " is derived from 16th-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thēsaurus, which is the latinisation of the Greek ( thēsauros ), literally " treasure store ", generally meaning a collection of things which are of big importance or value ( and thus the medieval rank of thesaurer was a synonym for treasurer ).

Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th-century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World.

From the correspondence between Landa's description of the New Year rituals and the depiction of these rituals in the Dresden Codex, it can be inferred that in 16th-century Yucatán, god K was called Bolon Dzacab ' Innumerable ( bolon ' nine, innumerable ') maternal generations ', perhaps a metaphor for fertility.

The fact that the book was acquired by a 16th-century Earl of Arundel suggests that Duke Humphrey's inscription was not entirely accurate, as New College would probably not have disposed of it.

In Little Ickford, Manor Farm or the New Manor House is a timber-framed building with a 16th-century south range and a 17th-century north block and staircase.

The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain ( Spanish: Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España ) is the first-person narrative of Bernal Díaz del Castillo ( 1492 – 1581 ), the 16th-century military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler, who served in three Mexican expeditions ; that of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( 1517 ) to the Yucatán peninsula ; the expedition of Juan de Grijalva ( 1518 ), and the expedition of Hernán Cortés ( 1519 ) in the Valley of Mexico ; the history relates his participation in the fall of Emperor Moctezuma II, and the subsequent defeat of the Aztec empire.

The 16th-century Jewish theologian Isaac ben Abraham, who lived in Trakai, Lithuania, penned a work called Chizzuk Emunah ( Faith Strengthened ) that attempted to refute the ideas that Jesus was the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament and that Christianity was the " New Covenant " of God.

Colossus of Rhodes, imagined in a 16th-century engraving by Martin Heemskerck, part of his series of the Seven Wonders of the World.

The early 16th-century monasteries on the slopes of the mountain are a World Heritage Site.

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, " heavy bombing during World War II devastated many of its fine historical sites and destroyed 75 percent of the city ; St. Mary ’ s Church ( 13th – 15th century ) and the 16th-century town hall have been rebuilt ".

* 6 December-Workers of the Vishva Hindu Parishad ( VHP, World Hindu Council ) tear down a 16th-century mosque located in Ayodhya, in Northern India.

" Nevertheless ," concludes Dziewanowski, " the Prince's endeavor constitutes a ( vital ) link ( between ) the 16th-century Jagiellon ( federative prototype ) and Józef Piłsudski's federative-Prometheist program ( that was to follow after World War I

The World Alliance of Reformed Churches ( WARC ) was a fellowship of more than 200 churches with roots in the 16th-century Reformation, and particularly in the theology of John Calvin.

Her symbolic role in this unique mission to the Spanish Court was intended to emphasize the international links which were forged by her 16th-century ancestor, Ieyasu Tokugawa.

Anabaptists ( Greek ἀνά " again, twice " + βαπτίζω " baptize ," thus " re-baptizers ") are Protestant Christians of the Radical Reformation of 16th-century Europe, although some consider Anabaptism to be a distinct movement from Protestantism.

The first authoritative knowledge of the earliest ballroom dances was recorded toward the end of the 16th century, when Jehan Tabourot, under the pen name " Thoinot-Arbeau ", published in 1588 his Orchésographie, a study of late 16th-century French renaissance social dance.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

In " The Complete Calvin And Hobbes ," Watterson does not name the inspiration for Calvin's character, but he does say Calvin is named for " a 16th-century theologian who believed in predestination ," and Hobbes for " a 17th-century philosopher with a dim view of human nature.

In the 16th-century invention of a suitably antique origin myth for the Dutch people that would be expressive of their self-identification as separate from their neighbors in the national struggle with Spain of the Eighty Years War for Dutch independence, the Batavians came to be regarded as their eponymous ancestors.

The first four films are historical dramas set, respectively, in the time of Christ, the U. S. Civil War, 16th-century Spain, and the late 19th-century South — the latter a fictionalized treatment of the life of Methodist evangelist, Robert Sayers Sheffey.

The Latinized name " Confucius " is derived from " Kong Fuzi ", which was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China, most probably by Matteo Ricci.

The Boulaq district, which lies in the northern part of the city, was born out of a major 16th-century port and is now a major industrial centrer.

In fact, although the Copernican heliocentric model is often described as " demoting " Earth from its central role it had in the Ptolemaic geocentric model, neither Copernicus nor other 15th-and 16th-century scientists and philosophers viewed it as such.

Its 16th-century origins are sometimes associated with Martin Luther.

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a long book devoted to language and translation, especially poetry translation, and one of its leitmotifs is a set of some 88 translations of " Ma Mignonne ", a highly constrained poem by 16th-century French poet Clément Marot.

Some existing instruments, such as those by Gasparo da Salò, were converted from 16th-century six-string contrabass violoni.

Nevertheless Galen's pre-eminence amongst the great thinkers of the millennium is exemplified by a 16th-century mural in the refectory of the Great Lavra of Mt Athos.

Some 16th-century anti-Trinitarian divines sought to reconcile Christianity, Islam and Judaism ; on the basis of very similar arguments to those presented in the Gospel of Barnabas, arguing that if salvation remains unresolved until the end times, then any one of the three religions could be a valid path to heaven for their own believers.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 3 February 1525 or 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594 ) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.

This 16th-century Spanish carpet shows stylistic influences from Europe and the Islamic art | Islamic world.

During a 16th-century peasant revolt in southern Norway, the rebels claimed, during their trial, that they expected the " Hun king Atle " to come from the north with a great host.

Shakespeare based Hamlet on the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest.

He borrowed it from the writings of the 16th-century chronicler John Mair or a 17th-century ballad presumably to make the plot of his novel more gripping.

So, for example, the 16th-century humanist scholar Polydore Vergil famously rejected the claim that Arthur was the ruler of a post-Roman empire, found throughout the post-Galfridian medieval " chronicle tradition ", to the horror of Welsh and English antiquarians.