11) 1538. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...way to India. The Ottomans lost Aden temporarily to the Portuguese but recaptured it in Feb. 1548. 1 1539 Occupation of southern Yemen. Ottoman control spread inland...
12) Fischart, Johann. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Fischart, Johann, (yo´han fish´art) (KEY) , b. 1548, d. 1590 or 1591, German satirist and moralist. He lived in Strasbourg. He translated and paraphrased works by...
13) Pizarro, Gonzalo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Pizarro, Gonzalo, (gontha´lo pethar´ro) (KEY) , c.1506-1548, Spanish conquistador, brother of Francisco Pizarro. A lieutenant of his brother in the conquest of Peru,...
14) Sigismund II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sigismund II, or Sigismund Augustus, 1520-72, king of Poland (1548-72). Crowned in 1530 to assure his succession, he assumed the royal functions at the death of his...
15) Suarez, Francisco. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Suárez, Francisco, (franthes´ko swa´rath) (KEY) , 1548-1617, Spanish Jesuit philosopher, b. Granada. He studied at Salamanca and was ordained in 1572. He taught successively...
16) Bruno, Giordano. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Bruno, Giordano, (jorda´no broo´no) (KEY) , 1548-1600, Italian philosopher, b. Nola. He entered the Dominican order early in his youth but was accused of heresy and...
17) Stevin, Simon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Stevin, Simon, (se´mon stvin´) (KEY) , 1548-1620, Dutch engineer and mathematician. His experiments in hydrostatics showed that the pressure exerted by a liquid is...
18) harebrained. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Foolish; flighty: a harebrained scheme. The first use of harebrained dates to 1548. The spelling hairbrained also has a long history, going back to the 1500s when...
19) Carvajal, Francisco de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Carvajal, Francisco de, (franthes´ko da karvahal´) (KEY) , 1464?-1548, Spanish conquistador. For 40 years he fought in European wars before going to Mexico and subsequently...
20) Beza, Theodore. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Beza, Theodore, (be´z) (KEY) (Theodore de Beze), 1519-1605, French Calvinist theologian. In 1548 he joined John Calvin at Geneva and soon became his intimate friend...
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