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  • Kisaeng (also spelled gisaeng), sometimes called ginyeo (기녀), refers to female Korean entertainers similar to the Japanese geisha and the ...
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  • Delfzijl and Nijmegen (1591), Steenwijk, Coevorden (1592) Geertruidenberg (1593) Grol, Enschede, Ootmarsum and Oldenzaal (1597). Note that this campaign ...
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  • in Stratford-upon-Avon. From 1585 until 1592 he began a successful career ... of his plays were on the London stage by 1592. He was well enough known ...
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  • More was portrayed as a wise and honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle ...
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  • length agreeing to the repeal of the Black Acts in 1592. James, fearing that dealing too harshly with the Catholic rebels might anger many English Catholics ...
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  • to trade in the kingdom. A similar treaty in 1592 gave the Dutch a privileged position in the rice trade. Foreigners were cordially welcomed at ...
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  • Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655 C.E.) was a Catholic priest from France who was also an avid natural philosopher. He was particularly intrigued by ...
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  • Catherine de' Medici (April 13, 1519 – January 5, 1589) was born in Florence, Italy, as Caterina Maria Romula di Lorenzo de' Medici ...
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  • Warden of Christ's College, Manchester, in 1592. encyclopedia =Encyclopædia Britannica|title = John Dee| publisher = Cambridge University ...
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  • Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one of Japan's southern prefectures, and consists of hundreds of the Ryūkyū ...
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  • Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), an atomist, proposed a particle theory of light that was published posthumously in the 1660s. Isaac Newton studied ...
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  • siege of Paris in 1590--and again into Rouen in 1592--to aid the Catholic faction, resulted in refortifying the French defenses. Henry IV of France ...
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  • |Sir John Perrot||c. 1527|| September 1592 ||reputed illegitimate; married (1) Ann Cheyney and (2) Jane Pruet; had issue |- |colspan=4|By Joan Dyngley ...
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  • Japanese Red Seal Ships from around 1592, Spanish ships from Manila ... an army of 170,000 to invade Korea in April 1592, and occupied Seoul and Pyongyang ...
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  • extended their control over the coastal areas. In 1592 the Sinhalese moved their capital to the inland city of Kandy, a location more secure against attack ...
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  • 1592 ), which holds a seminal place in Chinese literature, has a Buddhist pilgrimage at the center of its narrative. In medieval Italy, Petrarch ...
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  • including Trinity College, Dublin (1592) and the British East India Company (1600). Her rule as a woman at a time when women's rule, except ...
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  • title to land. After a fort at Bihać fell in 1592, only small parts of Croatia remained unconquered. The Ottoman army was repelled for the first time ...
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  • In 1592, and again in 1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi decided to invade China (唐入り) and sent an army of 160,000 samurai to Korea. Hideyoshi's ...
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  • In 1570, this settlement was abandoned. In 1592, Antonio de Berrio established the first lasting settlement, the town of San José de Oruña ...
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