Belinda and Umbriel, two of Uranus's larger moons, take their names from a poem by Alexander Pope.

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Alexander Pope and Henry Fielding also had much to say on Walpole's administration.

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The fifth hand, according to Prof Nuccirelli, is that of the missing figure of Pope Alexander himself.

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In 1493, Pope Alexander VI, a Spaniard, decreed that all new lands discovered west of the Azores were Spanish.

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They were commissioned by a papal envoy, Rodrigo Borja, a Spaniard who went on to become Pope Alexander VI in 1492.

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It was, said Vasari, "a portrait of Signora Giulia Farnese with the countenance of Our Lady, and in the same picture the head of Pope Alexander adoring her".

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The time of this project coincided with a large Marian trend: in 1661, Pope Alexander VII declared the Immaculate Conception (though it didn't become a dogma of the church until 1854).

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In 1493, Pope Alexander VI divided the world between the Spanish and the Portuguese, with the latter given the rights to all the African continent had to offer, including the slave trade.

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