Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
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- A native or inhabitant of ___ (plural)
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- The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world
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- Kind and easy to get along with
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- A seaport in northwestern Italy
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- A large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman
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- Navigational instrument for finding directions
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- The state capital of Ohio
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- The king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella
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- A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element
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- A unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when
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- The act of ___ something
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- The queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of
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- An island in the West Indies
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- A quarter of the circumference of a circle
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- A vessel that carries passengers or freight (plural)
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