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as his personal motto at the suggestion of his adviser Luigi Marliano, an Italian physician, in 1516. It was emblematic of Marliano's vision of a Christian empire spanning beyond the boundaries of the Old World, now that Charles also controlled territories in the New World through the Spanish crown,
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of the chivalric tradition. The motto is first recorded on the back of Charles's chair in the church of St Gudule, Brussels. Spaniards translated the original French into Latin due to the hostility they bore for the French-speaking Burgundian advisors and ministers Charles brought with him to Spain
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The motto is seen on several tiles of the Fonthill Castle, the home of Henry Chapman Mercer, the eccentric owner of the Mercer Tile company, located in Doylestown, PA.
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in 1520, an arch was set up bearing on one side, "Plus ultra", and on the other "All of Africa weeps because it knows that you have the key have to be its master".
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The motto is seen tattooed on the arm of Octane, one of the playable characters in the 2019 videogame
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continued to be used in the Burgundian Low Countries and also appeared in the wooden panelling of
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completed the first transatlantic flight between Spain and South America on a seaplane named the
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The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 6, The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25
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began to be used in Italy and Germany, together with a less successful German translation,
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The motto is used by a number of institutions around the world, including the
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Diálogo delas empresas militares y amorosas, compuesto en lengua italiana
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The motto is written on the wall tiles of the cloak room at
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and it was also associated with the desire to bring the
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is one of his possible voice lines entering a battle.
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in French. The motto was adopted some decades after
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