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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
205: ...]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers)
221: ...1510;ות הברית]] - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...t the excavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate w...
7: ... have been found. Writings on these tablets describe the possible use of something similar to an [[Arc...
15: ...s married to Nebuchadnezzar to create an alliance between the nations. The land she came from, though,...
17: ...ns probably did not really "hang" in the sense of being suspended from cables or ropes. The name comes...
19: ... with earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted. The pillars, [[vaults]], and terraces ar... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...;ר''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ester''', [[Tiberian Hebrew]] '''ʾEstēr''') was a woman ...
7: ''Esther'' can be also be understood to mean "hidden" in Hebrew, and her na...
9: ...related [[Ashtoreth]]. The names may nevertheless be coincidentally related, as the [[Semitic language...
12: Esther was the daughter of Abihail, a [[Benjamin|Benjamite]]. She resided with her cousin [[Mordecai]...
14: ...having rid himself of [[Vashti]], chose Esther to be his wife and queen. Soon after this he gave [[Ham... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ... was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...tism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organ...
11: ...943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the Br...
13: ...n small groups. She was captured before she could begin her mission and was interned in the [[Horthy M...
17: ...he kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] ... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...s]] on his second voyage to the [[New World]]. He became the first [[Governor of Puerto Rico]] by appo...
4: ...natives had no immunity. Ponce de León, however, became rich while serving as Governor.
7: ...ed from office in 1512 and felt his good name had been damaged. Not wishing to serve Diego, Ponce de L...
12: ...cause of the vegetation in bloom he saw there, or because he landed there during [[Pascua Florida]], S...
14: ...ng at the Bay of ''Chequesta'' ([[Biscayne Bay]]) before returning to Puerto Rico.[[Image:poncedeleonb... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
5: ...ny of the major revision proposals that have also been made in that time.
7: ...ilities. Consequently, there may be discrepancies between dates shown here and in articles on particul...
9: ... remove this in the combined chronology presented below, which is the “Conventional Chronology&#...
20: (This information has been supplemented from ''The Oxford History of Ancie...
107: ...g 70 days: there is no evidence for this - it may be a later literary metaphor for chaos at the end of... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...t times, allowing for trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region — [[Egy...
11: ...ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "the middle sea", ...
39: The Mediterranean Sea is sub-divided into a number of smaller seas, each with their own designation...
40: * the [[Alboran Sea]], between Spain and Morocco,
41: * the [[Ligurian Sea]] between [[Corsica]] and [[Liguria]] (Italy), - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ... [[17th century BCE]] and [[Christianity]] at the beginning of the [[1st century]] CE. The name Israel...
6: native_name = מדינת ישראל<br>("Medinat...
60: ...[[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] פלשת ''{{unicode|Pəléšeṯ}}'')...
62: ...sed in Palestine during this period. The province became an important center of Christian pilgrimage, ...
68: ...sand Arabs. Towards the end of the century the number of Jews increased, though they were still a smal... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...th the [[Old World]] and the [[New World]]. The fiber is most often spun into [[yarn|thread]] and used...
4: ...rs dry into flat, twisted, ribbon-like shapes and become kinked together and interlocked. This interlo...
9: ...|Mexican]] caves (cotton cloth and fragments of fiber interwoven with [[feather]]s and [[fur]]) which ...
11: ...re, the fruit of which is a [[wool]] exceeding in beauty and goodness that of [[sheep]]. The Indians m...
13: ...ranches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are h... - Influenza (10335 bytes)
1: ... "stomach '''flu'''" (and widely misunderstood as being instances of influenza), see [[gastroenteritis...
4: ...ns of people. The name comes from the old medical belief in unfavourable [[astrology|astrological]] ''...
12: ...tend to have more resistance to influenza B and C because they only undergo [[antigenic drift]] and ha...
14: ... virus. Only one H subtype and one N subtype have been identified for influenza B virus. At present, t...
16: ... first isolated, year of isolation, sequential number of isolation, and HA and NA subtype (Yohannes ''... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
6: Watercolor painting began with the invention of [[paper]] in [[China]] s...
10: ...ne Chapel]], begun in [[1508]] and completed in [[1514]].
29: ...ercolor paint is applied with brushes, but it may be applied with other implements in experimental app...
31: The paint is thinned before application to allow for lighter areas within...
35: Watercolor techniques have the reputation of being quite demanding, although they are actually no... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... [[geometer]], and [[painter]]. He has been described as the [[archetype]] of the "[[Renaissance man]]...
7: ...ely a peasant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle Eas...
9: ...cis". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of his illegitimate status.
12: ... pupils was Leonardo da Vinci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never sufficiently admired and a wo...
14: Later, he became an independent painter in Florence. - Raphael (3466 bytes)
2: ...37th birthday, [[April 6]] [[1520]] (see the note below about earlier confusion about these dates). H...
4: His life was described in [[Giorgio Vasari]]'s ''Vite.'' Born in [[Urbi...
8: ...] ''Stanze'' (rooms), for [[Pope Julius II]]. The best known of these works are ''[[Raphael Rooms|The ...
10: ...hief architect of [[Saint Peter's Basilica]] in [[1514]] and he was named as a sort of supervisor for Ro...
12: ..., and character formed his lips."[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/3/8/11387/11387-h/11387-h.htm] - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|150px|Machiavelli, ca [[1500]], in the robes of a Florentine public official]]
8: ...Nelli. His father was a lawyer of some repute and belonged to an impoverished branch of an influential...
12: ...unknown, however a symbolic tomb in his honor can be found at the [[Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze...
15: ...ince'', it was viewed in a negative light largely because the Catholic church put the work in its Inde...
23: ...n the two and actually divorces them. '''Politics becomes technique'''! - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
10: * ''Relazione di Spagna'' (1514) - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
8: ...on in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictine]] nun and the other sister, Katharina, m...
10: ...amous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
16: ...received his doctoral degree in canon law. It has been supposed that it was in Padua that he gained ac...
18: ...w years prior to his death, when he progressively became ill. Throughout his lifetime he made astronom...
20: ...rnment [[business]] and as a [[diplomat]], on the behalf of the [[Prince-Bishop]] of Warmia. - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
9: == Reformation begins ==
20: ...even revolution, since the system must eventually be adjusted or disintegrate, and the failure of the ...
22: ...e]], and [[Spain]] the move toward centralization begun in the thirteenth century was carried to a suc...
24: ...nd the [[Netherlands]] and new textile industries began to develop.
28: ...philosophical arguments, eroding the old alliance between [[reason]] and [[faith]] of the medieval per... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
5: ...er people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC and spoke a non-I...
7: ...9th century initially believed the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still disput...
12: ...nt [[Karum Kanesh]]), containing records of trade between Assyrian merchants and a certain "land of ''...
14: ...nd so, rightly or wrongly, the name "Hittite" has become attached to the civilization uncovered at Bo&...
15: ... found a royal archive with 10,000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown langu... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
5: ...then were a shield and his sword. In [[1516]], he became commander of an equestrian unit and went with...
7: ...atan]], hoping to find a direct connection by sea between the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and the [[Pa...
11: ...eSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
13: ...huantinsuyu. At this time, De Soto was famous for being the hero of the battle of Cuzco. He settled in...
15: ...esources in Peru and read a report written by [[Cabeza de Vaca]], suspected a similar wealth in [[Flor... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ... Spain in [[1522]], having circumnavigated the globe.
5: ...a, named after his grandmother, and his sister Isabel.
7: ...aught by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
13: ...gal trade with the Islamic [[Moors]]. He had also been involved in conflict with Almeida: after Magell...
15: ...ment in his country's service after [[May 15]], [[1514]]. Magellan formally renounced his nationality an...
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