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2 days ago · In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.
2 days ago · The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
3 days ago · Two further benefices followed: in November 1465 John became canon of the royal free chapel of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, and prebendary of Kynwaston alias Stonhall, and eventually rector of Bilton in Warwickshire, before dying at the end of the 1470s.
5 days ago · Steve McQueen turned down a role in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind because the actor refused to get emotional on camera.
2 days ago · By the 1470s, when Isabella began to take a firm grip on the royal administration, the senior offices of the royal household were simply honorary titles and held strictly by the nobility. The positions of a more secretarial nature were often held by senior churchmen.
4 days ago · Cleveland Guardians: Steven Kwan goes 1-for-3 with a three-run home run in his first rehab assignment with the Lake County Captains.
2 days ago · The grange or manor house of Leyton which existed in the 1470s had probably disappeared by the late 1640s. Knotts, and the house at Diggons Cross in 1537, (fn. 93) were both replaced in the 18th century or earlier.
