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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
23: | [[California]]
24: | [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]]
116: | [[Carson City, Nevada|Carson City]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...aval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
22: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]]) - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
1: [[Image:Cartier.png|thumb|200px|right|Jacques Cartier]]
3: ...e major discoverers of [[Canada]], or more specifically, the interior eastern region that would become...
5: ...nd improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a leading ship-own...
7: No contemporary portrait of Jacques Cartier has been found and the most familiar portrai...
9: ...ties can be easily ascertained. Considering that Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...th higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...d alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...ults in an alloy containing too much carbon to be called steel.
11: ...ub>3</sub>C. Cementite forms in regions of higher carbon content while other areas revert to ferrite a...
13: ...t cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires extremely lit... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ter in the world, as well as the only former American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]]...
10: Her father worked as a carpenter in [[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a groc...
14: ...ather when she was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region...
20: ...s there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the kitchen. She a...
28: ...ed, "After I signed, I cried. When I studied American history as a schoolgirl and I read about those w... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
4: Adam—אָדָם in [[Standard Hebrew]],
17: ...([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: ''Chava'' "life"), because she was the mother of all living. Being induce...
22: ... subject of much debate). [[Judaism]] holds the [[Cave of Machpelah]] in [[Hebron]] as the traditional...
26: .... In ''The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan'', Cain's twin sister is named Luluwa, and Abel's twin ...
28: ...re are a number of [[Pseudepigrapha|pseudepigraphical]] works about Adam and Eve: - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...as a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...mitism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student org...
11: ...d the [[Haganah]]. February 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army...
13: ...sed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she could begin her mission and was ...
15: Szenes communicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letter... - Americas (7154 bytes)
1: ...]]'', which may refer to either the Americas (typically in languages other than [[English language|Eng...
3: ...e.JPG|250px|thumb|right|Map of America by Jonghe. Ca. 1770]]
5: == Geographical Location and Status ==
6: ...d geographically part of North America. The Americas are often also described collectively as the '''...
8: ..., with a single ring representing all of the Americas. - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...l''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: מְדִינַת יִ...
6: native_name = מדינת ישרא...
11: image_map = LocationIsrael.png |
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $22,944 | - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
42: ...1969]]. His [[Ideology#Political_ideologies|political ideology]] is known as [[Gaullism]], which left ...
45: .... Born in [[Lille]], de Gaulle grew up and was educated in [[Paris]].
47: ...ere also more [[liberal]], influenced by [[social Catholicism]]. During the [[Dreyfus affair]] the fam...
49: ==1912–1940: Military career==
50: ... was put in solitary confinement in a retaliation camp. - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...es rendered were in [[Royal Prussia]] as church [[canon]], governor and administrator, [[jurist]], [[a...
8: ...ecame canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictine]] nun and the other sister, Kat...
10: ...ous [[astronomer]]. He followed his lessons and became a disciple and assistant.
14: ...nd Copernicus was named a canon in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for the great [[...
16: ...where in [[1503]] received his doctoral degree in canon law. It has been supposed that it was in Padua... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...ne, a [[Curtiss JN4|Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"]], and became a [[stunt pilot]]. In 1924, he started training...
11: ...and custom built by Ryan Airlines of [[San Diego, California]]. He needed 33.5 hours for the trip. (Hi...
13: ... stature following this flight was such that he became an important voice on behalf of aviation activi...
29: .... Lindbergh's letters and diaries of the time indicate that he approved of Nazi policies and of Hitler...
31: ...nterests, but we also must look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of ... - Mahatma Gandhi (35350 bytes)
4: image_caption=''"[[Father of the Nation|Father of the nati...
13: ...', was the [[charisma]]tic leader who brought the cause of [[India|India's]] independence from [[Briti...
18: ...sects. He was born into the vaishya, or business, caste. At the age of 13 Gandhi married [[Kasturba Ga...
23: ...vegetarians he met were members of the [[Theosophical Society]], which had been founded in 1875 by [[H...
25: ... in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], [[South Africa]]. - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19th century, they exerted i...
5: ...h;1918 was often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the sa...
7: ... the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further ...
15: ...ius Quinctilius Varus]] was defeated by the Cheruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of...
21: ...AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of the Chur... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...miles north of [[Tyre]] and 30 miles south of the capital [[Beirut]]. Its name means ''a fishery''.
8: ...St Paul]] are said to have visited it (see ''Biblical Sidon'' below).
10: ...nally destroyed by the [[Saracens]] in 1249. It became the centre of the [[Lordship of Sidon]], an imp...
12: ...WWI]], the British took Sidon; after the war it became part of the French [[Protectorate]] in the East...
15: ...own and there is much fruit also; some fishing is carried on. The heavily-silted ancient port is now u... - Holy Land (2739 bytes)
1: ...ocuses on those areas which hold specific, significant religious importance to three monotheistic trad...
5: ...nor "Palestine" for the region, since either term can be considered as giving a specific religious gro...
15: ...ce to the [[Hijaz]], land of the holy cities [[Mecca]] and [[Medina]]. - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
1: ...x|Charles Darwin, about the same time as the publication of ''[[The Origin of Species]]''.]]
4: ...ow had a similar theory forced early joint [[publication of Darwin's theory]].
6: ...t]] as the dominant scientific theory of diversification in nature. He continued his research and wro...
12: ''For details see [[Charles Darwin's education]].''
17: ...ied when he was only eight and the next year he became a boarder at the ''[[Shrewsbury School]]''. Aft... - William Howard Taft (15237 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[Republican party]]
18: ...eing nominated for president in the [[1908 Republican National Convention]] with the backing of his pr...
22: ... the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]]. Taft later became [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Just...
24: ==Early life and career== - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ...people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19th century, they exerted i...
5: ...h;1918 was often known as the second Reich to indicate its descent from the medieval empire. By the sa...
7: ... the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further ...
15: ...ius Quinctilius Varus]] was defeated by the Cheruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of...
21: ...AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of the Chur... - Head of state (33577 bytes)
1: ... legitimacy of the state and exercising the political powers, functions and duties granted to the head...
5: ...head of state"). Though some still maintain that calling a monarch head of state is incorrect, it has...
7: In a republic, the head of state is usually called the [[president]], although some leaders have...
12: ...- 'presidential' in this context does not automatically imply a [[president]] but simply a head of sta...
14: ...t involve the power to reject or approve proposed cabinet members ''en bloc'' so it is not ''answerabi...
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