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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
4: When she was 24 her husband ɴienne du Castel died, and Pizan became a court writer employed ...
9: ...les V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴienne du Castel, who became Charles's notary and secretary. Aft...
13: ...f France]] (1396), took her elder son, [[Jean du Castel]] (b. 1384), and reared him as his own; the boy...
19: ...'Livre de la paix'' (1412-1413), but after the disasters of the [[battle of Agincourt|campaign of Aginc...
25: ...) by Stephen Scrope for his stepfather, Sir John Fastolf, and is preserved in a manuscript at Longleat.... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
10: ...ge:JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc w...
24: ... finally came on [[September 8]], but ended in disaster when Jeanne was shot in the leg and the attack ...
36: ...which allowed the pants and tunic to be securely fastened together. For this, she was accused of the s...
40: ...ned, [as] he had burned a saint." Her ashes were cast into the [[Seine]] River.
43: ...n]] as a [[saint]] on [[May 16]], [[1920]]. Her feast day is the 2nd Sunday in May. - Chromosome (12667 bytes)
37: <td>[[Drosophila melanogaster|Fruit fly]]</td>
128: contrast to [[autosome]]s for body functions). These are X...
153: | align="right" | 10 ||align="right"| 1440 ||align="right"| 135,480,874||align="right"| 115,... - Printing (4400 bytes)
13: ... Mainz, developed European printing technology in 1440. Basing the design of his machine on a wine press... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
8: ...s [[794]]. Before inventing the printing press in 1440, Gutenberg had worked as a [[goldsmith]]. Without...
12: Previously, books were copied mainly in [[monasteries]], or (from the [[13th century]]) in commerc...
14: ...ns were extremely important, and also in the Far East.
27: ...pe the technological and communication edge over Eastern countries in the end, one of the major questio...
40: ...e (typography)|ligatures]], was passed down from master to apprentice. In Germany, the art of typesetti... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
6: ... his birthdate was long considered to be around [[1440]]: more recent scholarship has shown that he was...
8: ...ive voices, widely acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces.
10: ...y from Ferrara to his home region of Cond鬠southeast of [[Lille]] on the present-day border between Be...
14: ...ble to get along with his colleagues." His fame lasted long after his death; [[Gioseffo Zarlino|Zarlin...
16: ...y, but his reputation has grown steadily for the last hundred years, and Josquin's music is often sung ... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...edge of classic forms and ornamentation. The two masters, each in his own sphere, were to become two of...
10: ...y that the ''Saint Mark'', when inspected at the master's workshop, was disapproved of by the heads of ...
14: ...or the campanile are ''Abraham'', wrought by the master in conjunction with Giovanni di Bartolo, ''Sain...
16: ... attempt at relief sculpture. The relief, ''The Feast of Herod'', shows a power of dramatic narration a...
18: ...ptistery tomb shows how completely Donatello had mastered the forms of Renaissance architecture, even b... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
3: ...)er van der Weyden''', also known as Roger de la Pasture, Rogier de Bruxelles, (c. [[1400]] - [[June 18...
7: ...io of [[Robert Campin]], previously known as the Master of Flemalle.
9: ...ussels]] about [[1435]]. He was in [[Italy]] in [[1440]]-[[1450]], but his visit shows no result on his ...
15: ...tle, jewel-like perfection. Unlike other Flemish masters, Roger used little underdrawing for his oil pa...
18: * ''Descent from the Cross'' ([[1440]]), [[Madrid]] - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
13: ... next taking the throne (the oldest continuous dynasty in medieval European history). In 1314, the Cape...
15: ...]], his daughters were put aside in favor of the last brother, [[Charles IV of France|Charles IV]], wit...
17: ...for England, and only [[Bordeaux]] and a narrow coastal strip now remained in English possession. The r...
19: ...er yet to be born. The senior line of Capetian dynasty had ended in [[tail male]], creating a crisis on...
21: ... descendant of the senior line of the Capetian dynasty through [[Philip IV of France|Philip IV]] (Phili... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
4: ... [[justice]].<ref>{{cite news |first=M.Chiarugi |last=D.Archibugi |url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/art...
10: ...here were pirate states along the [[Anatolia]]n coast, threatening the commerce of the [[Roman Empire]]...
12: ...r is said to have insisted that he was worth at least fifty, and the pirates indeed raised the ransom t...
18: ...d [[Sea of Marmara]]. The [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] coast suffered similar attacks a few years later. In 26...
20: ...Saxons|Saxon]] pirates who had been raiding the coasts of [[Armorica]] and Belgic [[Gaul]]. - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
8: * the eighth-fastest growing metropolitan area in the U.S. (2000 ce...
49: ...l farming colony approximately four miles (6 km) east of the present city (about 22 miles west of Mesa,...
51: ...ould later become Hellinwg Mill, Mill City, then East Phoenix. As for the town that was to be built, S...
55: ...June 15]], [[1868]], with Jack Swilling as [[postmaster]].
70: ...became a trade center with its products reaching eastern and western markets. In recognition of the inc... - Hafnium (9162 bytes)
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99: | 1440 kJ/mol - Padua (12961 bytes)
2: ...e River]], 40km west of [[Venice]] and 29km southeast of [[Vicenza]], with a population of 211,985 ([[a...
7: ...[Stefano da Ferrara]], working from [[1425]] to [[1440]].
10: [[Image:SebastianSemitecolo.jpg|thumb|left 280px|This [[tempera]...
11: ... [[1453]], the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiquity.
22: ... Goths under [[Totila]], but was restored to the Eastern Empire by [[Narses]] in [[568]]. - February 22 (10772 bytes)
24: ... the United States]] to deliver a [[radio]] broadcast from the [[White House]].
41: * [[1440]] - [[Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary]...
113: *[[1890]] - [[John Jacob Astor III]], American businessman (b. [[1822]])
149: *[[Roman Catholic Church]] - [[Cathedra Petri|Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter]]
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