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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
17: ...om an inexact translation of the Greek word [[kremastos]] or the Latin word [[pensilis]], which means n...
51: ...1493;יים בבבל]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
30: ... several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other pla... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ion. Successive [[Dynasties in Chinese history|dynasties]] developed systems of bureaucratic control, w...
14: ...sties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三É...
16: === Xia Dynasty ===
18: ...match the Shang [[oracle bones]] or the [[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings...
20: === Shang Dynasty === - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...]], and argued that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
7: ...) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South Ameri...
9: ...s voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting recognition of the existence of the [[New Worl...
15: ...strator and was stripped of his governorship in [[1500]].
33: ...e post [[São Jorge da Mina]] at the [[Guinea]] coast. - 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... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...ing out from European docks were travelling to [[East Asia]].
16: ...yage. But his claim is clearly fraudulent, which casts more doubt on Vespucci's credibility.
18: ...]. On this voyage he sailed southward along the coast of [[South America]]. If his own account is to be...
20: Little is known of his last voyage, in [[1503]]–[[1504]], not even whet... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...anguage|Hebrew]] '''גּוֹלְדָּה מֵ...
57: "I have faced difficult problems in the past but nothing like the one I'm faced with now in le...
71: ... order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"- Golda Meir - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
42: ...e [[Detroit Institute of Arts]] (notable for her mastery of the "chiaroscuro" effects of the candle lig...
52: ...ittent during this second neapolitan period. The last known letter to her mentor is dated [[1650]] and ...
57: ...- the chance to choose the hilt of the sword! At last don't you think that the only aim of Giuditta is ...
88: ... one. Before Artemisia, between the end of the [[1500]] and the beginning of [[1600]] other woman paint... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...ies of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, are based on [[fa...
23: == Roman and Eastern Orthodox traditions ==
25: ...Madonna'' respectively). Among Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox she is called ''[[#Theotokos|Theotoko...
31: According to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition, between three and fifteen ...
41: ...cting from the worship due to God alone. By contrast, certain documents of the Second Vatican Council,... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
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. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
17: ... her guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought t...
37: ...1497;גמר לעולם
39: :''החול והים
41: ...1512;ישרוש של המים
45: :''תפילת האדם - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive motive power resources. Separate loco...
29: ...eum]] for diesel fuel. India has switched in the last decade from steam-powered trains to electric- and...
74: ...ited Kingdom]] (750V and 1500V); [[Netherlands]] (1500 V); [[Belgium]], [[Italy]], [[Poland]] (3000 V), ... - 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...
25: ...0 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500.
27: ...most of which have not survived due to natural disasters and the re-appropriation of churches to [[mosq... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...f dark, coarse-grained stone), sandstone, and alabaster. Copper, gold, silver, shells, and a variety o...
8: ...2700 BC were discovered at [[Tell Asmar]]. Many masterpieces have also been found at the Royal Cemeter...
27: ...ands, a group of islands in the Aegean Sea, southeast of [[Athens]]. Cycladic culture developed potter...
31: ... in the shape of a bull was found in Knossos from 1500-1450 BC. In addition, there are many double-blad...
37: ...mask found in the royal tombs of Mycenae from ca. 1500 BC. Also found in a tomb were gold cups from [[V... - Glass (26176 bytes)
42: ...shape. In the first century BC, somewhere at the eastern end of the mediterranean, a new invention caus...
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...
77: ...ss]] process invented in the [[1950s]] by Sir [[Alastair Pilkington]] of [[Pilkington Glass]], in which...
115: ...id not break into pieces, he fabricated a glass-plastic composite to reduce injuries in [[car accident]... - Printing (4400 bytes)
15: ... Venice in 1469, and the city had 417 printers by 1500. In 1476, a printing press was developed in Engla... - 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]].
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
52: * [[1500 AD]] - The Renaissance - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: A '''blast furnace''' is a type of [[furnace]] for [[smeltin...
4: ...1150]] and [[1350]]. It is unclear whether the blast furnace was independently developed there, or whe...
6: ...]], and the use of a [[coal]]-derived fuel made blast furnace-based iron smelting significantly less ex...
9: ...heated air was blown into the middle, thus the "blast", allowing combustion in the middle of the mixtur...
17: - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
13: ...uscript of Lu Ban"), although it was written some 1500 years after his death. This book is filled largel...
75: * wasting: quickly removing wood during carving, usually...
76: * waste: wood that will be removed in the finished work,...
82: ...working, at other times carpentry refers to the least-skilled level of woodworking and larger projects,...
83: ...without the use of nails, screws, or other metal fasteners. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
32: ...s found in the [[Linear B]] tablets dating from [[1500 BC]]. The [[alphabet]] normally used, was probabl...
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;
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