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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ...a time when aristocratic ladies were routinely educated. She is viewed by many feminists as the origin...
4: ...Pizan became a court writer employed by various ducal and Royal households, in order to support her th...
5: ...]]'' and argued against restrictions on female education and inheritance of land. Her most notable wor...
9: ...ifteen Christine married ɴienne du Castel, who became Charles's notary and secretary. After the king'...
11: ...x'' and ''jeux a vendre''--though she took the precaution to assure her readers (''Cent balades'', No.... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...r start of the scientific revolution was the publication of ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' by...
3: ... [[mechanics|mechanical]], and [[empiricism|empirical]].
9: ...is, at that time there were very large and historically sudden changes in science, not only in its con...
11: ...ay be summarized in the following lists of significant advances in science:
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's ... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
3: ...[[Islamic art history|Middle East]] and North Africa. It includes the major art movements, national ar...
9: ...ry of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian and "Barbarian" art.
13: ...aditionally look at it based on about nine large-scale movements, or periods.
15: ...sts adopted the Roman crafts of painting, mosaic, carving and metalwork.
17: ...ontact with the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s creating what is called the [[Hiberno-Saxon]] style, and then finally... - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
1: ... from less valuable materials. However, jewellery can and has been made out of almost every kind of ma...
5: ... Further tracing leads back to the Latin word "jocale", meaning plaything.
7: ...rucifix]] in the form of jewellery, or, as is the case in many Western cultures, [[marriage|married]] ...
31: * [[1400 BC]] - Egypt Amarna period, using [[resin]] and m...
32: * 1400 BC - Deliberate addition of zinc to copper in [[P... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ...principally flourished in German-speaking lands, Scandinavia and Iberia. Although most of the instrume...
5: ...the string, which is known as ''[[bebung]]'', and can be used to give a form of [[vibrato]].
7: ... abilities of the instrument, since only one note can be played at a time on each string. As a result ...
11: ...les. [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]]'s son [[Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach]] was a great proponent o...
15: ... a magnetic pickup to provide a signal for amplification. - Nile (13738 bytes)
2: ...5|1 134|2 830|3 400 000|[[Africa]]|the [[Mediterranean]]||[[Uganda]] - [[Sudan]] -...
4: ...;نيل ''an-nīl''), in [[Africa]], is one of the two longest [[river|rivers]] on ...
12: ...s far less water than the mighty Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its ha...
18: [[Image:Nile_boat.jpg|thumbnail|left|East Africa, showing the course of the River Nile]]
20: ... the East African Rift, which is the southern African part of the [[Great Rift Valley]]. - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
11: national_anthem = [[Zdravljica]] |
13: capital = [[Ljubljana]] |
33: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $21,695 |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 34th |
45: calling_code = 386 | - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
9: ...largest single-stone statue in the world. It is located on the west bank of the [[Nile River]] within ...
11: ...upervised by [[Giovanni Battista Caviglia|Captain Caviglia]], uncovered the Sphinx' chest completely. ...
13: The body of the Sphinx was carved out of solid bedrock whose removed stones som...
15: ...ead of a man, and therefore the name is not technically accurate.
22: ...n. When compared with statues of Khafre at the [[Cairo]] Museum, it is evident that the face on the S... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ... [[332 BC]]. Although recent excavations reveal a cattle-[[herding]] society of peoples living in the ...
6: ...t of the [[geography of Egypt]] is in [[North Africa]]; the [[Sinai Peninsula]] is in [[Southwest Asia...
10: ... "''God's Land.''" The exact location of [[Yam (Location)|Yam]] is disputed. And it is unknown if [[Al...
14: ...c shape formed from a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces. [[Cement|Hydra...
16: ...], in the form of the [[Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri]]. An awareness of the [[Golden ratio]] s... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
5: ...aning varies depending on the country or geographical region. This variation even occurs within Europe...
7: ...rious areas is listed below, broadly in chronological order.
12: == The Iron Age in Africa and India ==
13: ... History of iron and steelmaking]]), dating to circa [[1200 BC]].
15: ...uperior Bantu spread across southern Africa and became rich and powerful, producing iron for tools and... - Sun (20830 bytes)
30: ...or="#ffffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''Physical characteristics'''
55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
101: ! align="left" | [[Carbon]]
122: ...n is usually referred to as ''the'' Sun, and is occasionally referred to as '''Sol''' to distinguish i...
124: ...ary stellar body around which an object orbits is called ''its'' sun, and stars in a [[multiple star s... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]]) - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
1: ...[[Syria]], as well as other points. Its influence carries over on to [[Korea]] and terminated eventual...
3: ...ugh the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Africa]].
5: These exchanges were critical not only for the development and flowering of th...
7: ...n [[1992]], when the international railway communication [[Almaty]] - [[Urumqi]] opened.
11: ...ound [[4000 BC]]. Domestication of the [[Bactrian camel]] followed later. - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ... as preserved today at the entrance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</smal...
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]]...
27: ...he following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
41: ...ople is liberated by the Byzantine emperor of [[Nicaea]], Michael Palaeologus. - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
3: '''Medieval music''' is [[classical music]] written during the [[Middle Ages]]. Thi...
9: ...support. The notation system is weak, and rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with ...
11: ...llows for complex interactions between multiple vocals lines in a repeatable fashion. The use of mult...
14: ...early secular music has survived, and since [[musical notation|notation]] was a relatively late develo...
17: ...ve entirely different rhythmic values (in the Ars Cantus Mensurabilis of approximately 1260), an innov... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: The '''geologic time scale''' is used by [[geologist]]s and other scientis...
3: ...ach period. Different spans of time on the time scale are usually delimited by major [[geology|geolog...
7: ...nges in the observed fossil assemblages. In many cases, such faunal stages have been adopted in build...
9: ...ng terminology and define universal horizons that can be used around the world.
11: ==History of the time scale== - Illinois (27007 bytes)
10: Capital = [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfiel...
11: LargestCity = [[Chicago]] |
37: ...S. state|21st state]] of the [[United States]], located in the former [[Northwest Territory]]. Its na...
39: ...]]. Most of the state's population resides in Chicago and its [[suburb]]s. The U.S. postal abbreviat...
45: ...gion was the [[Illiniwek]] Confederation, a political alliance among several tribes. The Illiniwek ga... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
2: ...ina, but the crossbow nonetheless played a significant role in the history of European medieval warfar...
5: ...nd and shoot its bolts. These bolts are typically called [[quarrel]]s, and do not depend upon lift as ...
7: ...t of what made the crossbow historically a significant force in warfare.
10: ...pically, the nut is at the end of the shelf (also called the bolt rest).
12: ...idle]], it tends to loosen over time, and must be carefully respliced when appropriate. - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...da]] or the [[Belgium|Belgian]] town of [[Bree]], called Breda in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he droppe...
7: ...unger]] and [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] who both became painters, but as they were still infants when t...
9: Bruegel specialised in landscapes populated by [[peasant]]s, painted in a simple...
11: ...drop to a religious [[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the seve...
18: ...cape with a bird trap.jpg|thumb|250px|Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap]] - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
3: ...s Roger de la Pasture, Rogier de Bruxelles, (c. [[1400]] - [[June 18]], [[1464]]) was a [[Flanders|Flemi...
7: ...ere in [[1427]] he entered the studio of [[Robert Campin]], previously known as the Master of Flemalle...
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