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- Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...erable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. ...
4: Joan of Arc's campaigns were responsible for a revitalization of [...
7: ...Jeanne d'Arc''' or '''Jehanne Darc''' was born circa [[1412]] in the small village of [[Domr魹-la-Puc...
10: ... are behind her. Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New Y...
12: ... Archangel]], [[Saint Catherine of Alexandria|St. Catherine]], and [[Saint Margaret the Virgin|St. Mar... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...f European history]] into three 'ages': the Classical civilization of [[Antiquity]], the Middle Ages, ...
6: ...prising artistic sophistication, though its political and social senses were unevolved and its technol...
8: ... this connection too was lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanishe...
12: ...changes, and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared.
14: ...ple such as the [[Vikings]] were still capable of causing major disruption to the newly emerging socie... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ...mage:VAT74_0643_W.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Basilica of Saint Peter, portrayed by Viviano Codazzi in a...
2: ...n buried there, too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]]...
4: ...edra]] Petri'', the episcopal throne of the basilica's namesake when he led the Roman church, but whic...
7: ...convened in the Basilica of Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernini.]]
8: ... started construction in [[324]] of a great basilica in this exact spot, which had previously been a c... - 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]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...lti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Siricius]...
6: ...Apostles]], [[Supreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [...
7: ... has been [[Sovereign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]). - Banknote (6576 bytes)
3: ... tender]]. With [[coin]]s, banknotes make up the cash forms of all modern [[money]]. With the excepti...
5: ...ade of, such as [[silver]] or [[gold]]. However, carrying around a lot of precious metal was cumberso...
7: ..."convertibility". For example a US silver certificate from the early 20th century was "payable in sil...
9: ...ch are backed by the labor of the people of [[Ithaca, NY]].
11: ...ey. As banknotes became more widely used, they became more accepted as equivalent to precious metal. ... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...gello]], [[Florence]] [[1395]] – [[Rome]] [[1455]]), better known in the English-speaking world as...
7: ...rs after his death, but was not properly [[beatification|beatified]] until [[1984]].
9: ... but this did not limit his art, that very soon became famous. He had the patronage of [[Cosimo de' Me...
13: ...nity]] in [[Florence]], paintings that Vasari indicated as "painted by a saint or an angel".
15: ... Fiesole; in 1436 he was transferred to the Dominican convent of S. Marco in Florence. - Lorenzo Ghiberti (754 bytes)
1: ...Lorenzo Ghiberti''' ([[1378]] - [[December 1]], [[1455]]) was an important [[Renaissance]] artist, speci...
3: ...rs have twenty-eight panels each depicting a biblical scene from the [[New Testament]]. He then spent ... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...d to the [[Counter-Reformation]] within the Roman Catholic Church.
4: * Anti-hierarchical movements: [[Cathar]]ism, [[Waldensian]]ism, and others
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Sc...
13: * [[John Calvin]] and [[Geneva]]
15: * Radical Reformers -- [[Thomas_Muentzer|Müntzer]], [... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ...r many millennia, but as time progressed, tools became far more refined and complex. At some point, hu...
7: ... The rapid expansion of humankind to [[North America]] and [[Oceania]] took place at the climax of the...
12: ...wn (without the agriculture-associated additional caretaking activities like fertilization, land clear...
14: ...he development of cities has led to what has been called [[civilization]]; first in the [[Sumeria|Sum...
16: ...and [[Nazca culture|Nazca]] emerged in [[Mesoamerica]] and [[Peru]] at the end of the [[1st millennium... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: ...ype metal]] alloy and oil-based inks, a mould for casting type accurately, and a new kind of [[printin...
9: ...nto wooden blocks with the text and illustrations carved in, was in use in Europe and East Asia long b...
14: ...e indulgences, printed slips of paper sold by the Catholic Church to remit the temporal punishments in...
19: ...rs' wages for an average clerk, but it was significantly cheaper than a handwritten Bible, which could...
21: The one copy of the Biblia Sacra dated 1455 went to Paris and was dated by the binder. - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
32: *[[Miguel Berrocal]] (1933 - )
43: *[[Caspar Buberl]] (1834 - 1899)
48: *[[Alexander Calder]] (1898 - 1976)
49: *[[Alexander Milne Calder]] (1845 - 1923)
50: *[[Alexander Stirling Calder]] (1870 - 1945) - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...h tapping into that wealth, as well as with [[Africa]] in general, and with the legend of [[Prester Jo...
5: ...he remainder of his life, and as time passed he became more and more devoted to Christianity. For the ...
7: ... the sole right to authorize expeditions beyond [[Cape Bojador]] (in present-day [[Western Sahara]]). ...
9: ... the [[lateen sail]] of the Arabs, made the complicated return voyages, headed upwind, possible; witho...
13: ...vessels encountered the [[Cape Verde]] islands in 1455. - Cheyenne, Wyoming (8059 bytes)
1: ...lexterior e.jpg|225px|right|thumb|[[Wyoming State Capitol]] in Cheyenne]]
3: ...te]] of the [[United States|United States of America]]. As of the [[2000]] census, it has a populatio...
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31: ...Force Base]]), and men from Camp Carlin, a supply camp for all the northern army posts on the frontier...
33: ... named by [[Grenville Dodge]] for the Native American [[Cheyenne]] nation, one of the most famous and ... - Medieval History (23198 bytes)
2: ... three 'ages': the [[Classical civilization|classical civilization]] of [[Antiquity]], the Middle Ages...
4: ... aevus'', is spelled '''''medieval''''' in [[American English]] and sometimes '''''mediaeval''''' or '...
8: ...prising artistic sophistication, though its political and social senses were unevolved and its technol...
10: ... this connection too was lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanishe...
14: ...changes, and the institutional support for large scale chattel slavery largely disappeared. - Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
3: ...ormation]]s in Scotland and England. Major historical events in Medi�val British history include the...
5: ...ain in two distinct phases of cultural and political history.
10: ... that had fought the Romans to a standstill for decades and been conquered only with great effort were...
12: ...rding to the [[Venerable Bede]], the British king called upon two Germanic tribal leaders from Europe ...
14: ... involved in the conquest are very difficult to locate. In general, however, Bede's evidence is accept...
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