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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
7: ...expedition of 340 Spanish, 300 Indian allies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: He followed the coast of the [[Sea of Cortez]] northward to the [[Sono...
12: ...rand Canyon]]. [[Hernando de Alvarado]] was sent east, and found villages around the [[Rio Grande]]. Co...
14: ...the Turk was found lying about the route, or at least Coronado thought he did so, and was executed. Oth...
21: * [[Pedro de Castañeda]], translated with an extensive introductio... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...h higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...th ancient methods that have been in use for at least 6000 years (since the [[Bronze Age]]). Since the ...
13: ...nt allotrope is [[martensite]], a chemically [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the...
15: ...ace. The transformation into martensite, by contrast, occurs almost immediately, due to a lower activa... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...ers, particularly Highland pipers. In the Middle east, and the Balkans, a whole goatskin is used, cured...
25: ...arity seems to have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by [[Robert Burns]] for "[[Scots W...
40: ...e [[Biniou Brahz]], meaning Great Biniou, in contrast to the [[biniou]], the small traditional Breton b...
47: ... slow airs, and more. It dates largely from the last two centuries, being either Scottish or Irish fol...
72: ...he bagpipe used in [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], [[Asturias]] and northern region of [[Portugal]]. It h... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
30: ...ng [[Marilyn Monroe]] and [[Clark Gable]] -- the last film for both.
37: * 1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern [[California]], causing between...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953]])
56: *[[1916]] - [[Walter Cronkite]], news broadcaster
100: * [[Bah�'� Faith]] - Feast of Qudrat (Power) - First day of the 13th month o... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
36: ...bott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
46: ...rahman III]], (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain
70: ...鬡rd|Ab鬡rd, Pierre]], (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher
71: ...e Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
114: *[[Absalom]], (circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...r was residing. He immediately fled to a distant castle, and Catherine took the throne, triumphant abou...
13: ... result, Catherine the Great instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she ...
21: ...e made Russia the dominant power in the [[Middle East]] after her [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774|first ...
25: ...Olof Cronstedt]], had 200 larger and minor ships, 1000 guns, and 12,500 men. The Russian ships had some...
27: ...onarchies and a balance of power in 18th-century Eastern Europe for another century. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
16: ...hem, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips.''", ...
25: ...nt in [[internment camp]]s on the [[U.S. West]] Coast. In [[1943]] Mrs. Roosevelt, along with [[Wendell...
27: ...m eight foreign governments, paid Mrs. Roosevelt $1000 a week for advertising. When the State Departmen... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ugh one of these lodgers Gladys, aged seven, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of ''The...
7: ...her of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who...
15: Her last husband was [[Charles 'Buddy' Rogers|Charles 'Bud...
24: * [[1915]]: worked for various companies, $1000 to $2000 a week
28: * [[1919]]: A very astute business person, she founded [[United Artists]... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...n in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earliest and most famous [[n... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...rt [[Eastern Cherokee|Eastern]] [[Cherokee]] (an Eastern Cherokee with some European ancestry). In 1968...
10: ... released and was panned by critics. Amos was devastated, and started working with other artists (incl...
13: ...arthquakes]]''. Atlantic's European counterpart, East West, worked hard to promote the record. It was t...
16: ...(a #4 single in the UK), "Pretty Good Year" and "Past the Mission", which featured the vocal contributi...
33: ...elatively subdued piano sound. Its closing track "1000 Oceans" was much closer in spirit to her early so... - Sunflower (5784 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Asterales]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Asteraceae]]}}
15: ...nuus''''') is an [[annual plant]] in the Family [[Asteraceae]] with a large flower head ([[inflorescenc...
18: ...to the [[Americas]], and were domesticated around 1000 B.C. [[Francisco Pizarro]] found the [[Tahuantins...
29: ...looming stage is reached the stem freezes in its eastward direction. Thus, blooming sunflowers are not ... - Cootamundra wattle (1558 bytes)
15: ... Fabaceae]]. The Cootamundra is but one of nearly 1000 species of ''Acacia'' found in [[Australia]]. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
8: ...ost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise of i...
12: ...nturies a completely new political and social infrastructure developed across the lands of the former e...
21: ...ly. From now on, Europe was to be bi-polar, with east and west competing for power and influence in the...
23: ...Churches]] from the [[Catholic Church]] in the [[East-West Schism|Great Schism]] of 1054, one of the da...
30: ...an regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation of numerous nativ... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...story|Europe]], the [[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and North Africa. It includes the major art mov...
15: ...iconoclasm]] halted the production of art in the East. During this period Christian artists adopted the...
27: ...most of which have not survived due to natural disasters and the re-appropriation of churches to [[mosq... - Glass (26176 bytes)
30: ...compound, which lowers the melting point to about 1000 ?C. However, the soda makes the glass water-solub...
42: ...shape. In the first century BC, somewhere at the eastern end of the mediterranean, a new invention caus...
44: ...t city in the production of the material. About [[1000]] CE, an important technical breakthrough was mad...
52: ...e process secret. Around [[1688]], a process for casting glass was developed, which led to its becoming...
56: ... was etched directly into the mold, so that each cast piece emerged from the mold with the image alread... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
16: ...es of [[copper]] in [[Anatolia]], [[Iran]] and [[Eastern Europe]].
22: * 3000 BC - [[The Middle East]] employ semi-[[mass-production]]
26: ...0 BC - True iron production technology in [[Near East]].
35: * [[1000 BC]] - [[Iran|Persian]] sheet [[bronze]] work 0.0...
36: * 1000 BC - The start of true [[engraving]]. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
32: ... by modifying the [[Phoenician alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications, is still used...
38: ...en widely borrowed into the European languages: ''astronomy'', ''democracy'', ''philosophy'', ''thespia...
329: *generic toast: εις υγεί&#...
350: :Pater hēmōn, ho en tois ouranois hagiasthētō to onoma sou; - Imhotep (3367 bytes)
3: ... BC]], during the [[third dynasty of Egypt|3rd Dynasty]]. His name means ''the one who comes in peace''...
5: ...C but may perhaps go back to texts written around 1000 years earlier.
24: *** [[Third dynasty of Egypt]] - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
22: ...lined to favor and emulate their former colonial masters. Jackson admired [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] for hi...
32: ...ad been robbed by the corrupt aristocrats of the East. He won a solid victory in his [[U.S. presidentia...
34: ...ection represented a significant break from that past.
48: * it favored Northeastern states over Southern and Western (now Midweste...
55: ... "The Union: next to our liberty, most dear!," an astonishingly quick-witted riposte. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
34: ...in 1870 and, while in that post, carried out at least two hangings of condemned criminals. Political op...
62: ...about the yacht ''Oneida'' as it sailed in the [[East River]] to Long Island Sound. The surgery was con...
69: ...rom [[1928]] to [[1946]]. He also appeared on a $1000 of [[1907]], and the first few issues of [[Federa...
71: ...ndson and a New Hampshire social worker and broadcaster, is now a Grover Cleveland re-enactor.
104: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[William F. Vilas]]...
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