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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: ...1501; התלויים בבבל]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...io de Janeiro (state)|state]] and a city in southeastern [[Brazil]]. The city is famous for the hotel-l...
13: ...led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of ...
15: ...as commonly called S㯠Sebasti㯠- or even St. Sebastian - instead of the currently popular, second hal...
17: ...ards and then westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowadays.
40: ...lamengo]] which composes Rio's famous [[beach]] coastline. - 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... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...anguage|Jud毭Aramaic]] '''מרים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[...
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 ... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
17: ...ecorded act of Adam was his giving names to the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, which God...
20: ...] and a flaming sword, which turned every way. [[Eastern Orthodox]] tradition says that from the time [...
46: ... he promises God that he will lead as many humans astray as he can, to which God replies that those who...
48: ...llowed to live as they pleased there, but not to taste the fruit from a certain tree. However, they bot... - 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: ...1490;מר לעולם
39: ...1492;חול והים
41: ...493;ש של המים
43: ...1489;רק השמים - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...Europe]], on the south by [[Africa]], and on the east by [[Asia]]. It covers an approximate area of [[...
6: ...eks]], [[Ancient Rome|Romans]], and the [[Middle-East]] (Arab/Persian/Semitic) cultures. The [[history ...
11: ... it is called "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "th...
17: ...ly not. The man-made [[Suez Canal]] in the south-east connects the Mediterranean Sea with the [[Red Sea...
24: ...s]], [[Crete]], [[Euboea]] and [[Rhodes]] in the eastern Mediterranean - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], ...
68: ...im]] [[Caliphate]] conquered the land from the [[Eastern Roman Empire]] ([[Byzantine]]s) in [[638]] CE ...
73: ...vided the mandated territory into two parts. The eastern portion, called [[Transjordan]], became the Ar...
89: ...ded into a western part annexed by Israel and an eastern part annexed by Jordan. Jordan's annexation o...
94: ... between Israel and the Arab world resulted in a lasting displacement that persists to this day; see [[... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
5: ... admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[1496]]. In [[1501]] More became a [[barrister]].
7: ... rest of his life he continued to observe many monastic practices, including self-punishment in the for...
12: ...ore entered the king's service as councilor and "master of requests". After undertaking a diplomatic m...
14: ...1525]] he became chancellor of the [[Duchy of Lancaster]], a position that entailed administrative and ...
19: ...is friend [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]] dedicated his masterpiece, ''[[In Praise of Folly]]'', to him. (Ind... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ... of human life as well, opening the door to young astronomers everywhere to challenge the facts and nev...
10: ... [[Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara]], a famous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a di...
14: ...nar [[eclipse]] and where he gave some lessons of astronomy or maths (unfortunately nothing of this rem...
16: ...mplete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastoro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where in [[1...
18: ...ively became ill. Throughout his lifetime he made astronomical observations and calculations, but alway... - African American (19830 bytes)
10: ...6 percent of African Americans lived in the Northeast and 18.7 percent in the Midwest, while only 8.9 p...
58: In the last decade, a growing movement has developed, spearhe...
163: ...#1488;מריקאים]] - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ... of [[Extremadura]], in the [[Castile|Kingdom of Castile]] in Spain in [[1485]], the only child of Mart...
7: ...y disappointed his parents by returning home in [[1501]] at age 16, rather than studying law like his gr...
10: ...g the indigenous [[Guanches]]) but would prove devastating in the New World.
12: ...n, "in the true interests of the realm." At the last minute, the Governor, sensing that Cortés was to...
15: ...as early as the sixteenth century doubt has been cast on the historicity of these Conquest accounts. It... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ...d as the modern discoverer of [[Canada]], or at least the region that would become that nation.
10: ...ator]], so the voyage from western [[Europe]] to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes.
12: ...sayle to all partes, countreys, and seas, of the East, of the West, and of the North, under our banners...
20: ...o take possession of the land, and explored the coast for some time, probably departing on [[July 20]]....
26: John's son [[Sebastian Cabot (explorer)|Sebastian Cabot]] later made a voyage to North America, ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
131: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]] (Italy, [[1501]] - [[1576]])
190: *[[Jean Gaston Darboux]] ([[France]], [[August 14]],[[1842]] -...
299: * [[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]] (Scotla...
372: *[[Gaston Julia|Gaston Maurice Julia]] (Algeria, France, [[1893]] - [[... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century)
302: *[[Gerolamo Cardano]], (1501-1576){{fn|R}} - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
12: ...theology|theologian]] and an [[Augustinian]] [[monasticism|monk]] whose teachings inspired the [[Protes...
19: ...Eisleben]], [[Germany]] and was baptized on the feast day of [[Martin of Tours|St. Martin of Tours]], a...
21: ...t received a Bachelor's degree in [[1502]] and a Master's degree in [[1505]]. According to his father's...
23: ..., Luther left his law school and entered the [[monastery]] there.
26: ...God escaped him. He devoted himself to [[fasting|fasts]], [[flagellation]]s, long hours in [[prayer]] a... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
71: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Frank H. Hitchcock...
155: [[he:ויליאם האוורד •... - Persian rug (6404 bytes)
5: ...Some show figures engaged either in the hunt or feasting scenes. The majority of these carpets are [[w...
12: ... the oldest pieces discovered are those found in Eastern [[Turkestan]], dating back to the third to fif...
14: ... the Pazyryk carpet is a late achievement of at least one thousand years of technique evolution and his...
16: ...he art of carpet-weaving in Persia (Iran) is at least 3500 years old.
30: ...Most famously, for the three silk hunting carpet masterpieces depicting mounted hunters and animal prey... - Caterpillar track (7234 bytes)
18: ...1493;"ם ''(or זחלים for short), which enables greater mobility than ... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...o [[names of Jerusalem]]) is an ancient [[Middle East]]ern city of key importance to the [[religion]]s ...
43: ...750) and [[Abbasid Dynasty|Abbasid]] (750-969) dynasties, the city prospered; the [[geographer]]s [[Ibn...
47: ... belief. So let it suffice to say this much, at least, that in the Temple and porch of Solomon, men rod...
49: ...city during that time. The Kingdom of Jerusalem lasted until [[1291]]; however, Jerusalem itself was r...
65: ...ly on the slope above the [[Western Wall]] (southeast), and the Armenians lived near the [[Gates in Jer...
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