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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Nicholas Bacon, Thomas Gresham, Henry Balnaves, William Whittingham, Sokollu Mehmed Pa a, Diego de Landa, George Ferrers, Thomas Gargrave, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Ferenc David, Uesugi Kagetora, James FitzMaurice FitzGerald, Isabella Markham, Walerian Protasewicz, Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, Joseph Nasi, James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour, Wenceslaus III Adam, Duke of Cieszyn, Richard Cheyney, Alonso de Molina, Ulrich Schmidl, Sakugen Sh ry, John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl, Edward Fitton, Stanislaus Hosius, Johannes Stadius, Francois de Montmorency, Paulus Hector Mair, Martin Rakovsky, Richard Watts, Patrick O'Hely, Robert Horne, Cipriano Piccolpasso, William Drury, David XI of Kartli, Khayr al-Nisa Begum, Vicente Juan Masip, Alessandro Piccolomini, Filippo Negroli, Thomas Sherwood, Simao Rodrigues, Takenaka Shigeharu, Juan Fernandez Navarrete, Gerasimus of Kefalonia, Robert Pursglove, Edmund Tanner, Richard Longworth, Jean de Monluc, Marcello Venusti, Louis de Bussy d'Amboise, Hatano Hideharu, Battista Franco Veneziano, Yu Dayou, Matsudaira Nobuyasu, Katarzyna Ostrogska, William Seres, Hieronim Jarosz Sieniawski, Laurentius Petri Gothus, Giovanni Bernardo Lama, Vasilisa Melentyeva, Uesugi Norimasa, Thomas O'Herlahy, John Rudd, William Norreys, Giovanni Battista Adriani, Jean de Montluc, Mary Livingston, Matthew Hammond, Andries Vierlingh, Abu Abdallah ibn Askar, Gillis van Berlaymont, William Humfrey, Nij Haruyoshi, Roger de Saint-Lary de Bellegarde, Giambattista Canano, Isshiki Yoshimichi, John Jugge, Bessho Harusada. Excerpt: Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Mehmed-pa a Sokolovi, Cyrillic: -; born as Bajica or Bajo Nenadi (, ) 1506 - 1579) was a 16th-century Ottoman statesman. Mehmed was taken away at an early age as part of the devshirmeh system o...