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Topic: 16th Century

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Most admires:Johannes Gutenberg
Religion(s):Christian - Protestant,  Christian - Catholic,  Christian - Eastern Orthodox
Favorite artist(s):Donatello,  Giovanni Bellini,  Raphael
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Under 16th century Gutnish is still used as a written language, but it is here and under 17th century that it is pushed away as a written language and is replaced by Danish and later Swedish.
The Iberian voyages of the late 15th and early 16th centuries linked not only Europe with the Americas but laid down a communications net that ultimately joined every region of the world with every other region.
Most of the monasteries are from the 16th & 17th centuries and have beautiful mural paintings and crosses with crowns and clothes of past kings.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Although the religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries were between those who were not ready for the new paradigm, it was the context within which they were fought to produce the Enlightenment.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, Incan and Catholic beliefs were blended, revealing parallels between the two traditions.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

In the 16th/17th century blackwork designs would most likely have been executed on either silk or linen fabric with black silk and metallic threads although speckling designs are found in reds, blues and greens.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

It is probable that these Caucasian embroideries follow the tradition of 16th century Persian examples and date from the 17th century, because although the eastern and southern regions of the Caucasus were continuously being fought over with the Ottomans over the centuries, these areas had become part of the Persian Empire at this time.
Catholicism is markedly a dominating religion on the peninsula as in the 15th and 16th centuries Judaism and Islam were eradicated by ethnic cleansing of a special sort.
The Meistersingers were a German craftsmen guild of the 15th and 16th centuries which cultivated both a literary and musical heritage based on medieval legends.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Belzyce was a centre of the reformation miovement when many Protestant nobles met here at a Calvinist meeting house during the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

There are some examples of modern ships but most are of traditionally rigged vessels Schooners were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century however, much of their development took place in America from the time of the American Revolution.
Mark Harris,
Priest

A strict Puritan sect of the 16th and 17th centuries that preferred to separate from the Church of England rather than reform.
 
 
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