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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ...er, there are doubts as to whether they ever physically existed.
5: ... Some (circumstantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accru...
7: ...ools of thought think that through the ages the location may have been confused with gardens that exis...
15: ...ate an alliance between the nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous...
17: ...just "hanging” but "overhanging," as in the case of a terrace or balcony. - 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]]) - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...to the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as su...
7: ...es were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
11: [[Archaeological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] ...
14: ...20195;; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...orated. Some archaeologists connect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in central [[Henan]] provin... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]...
3: ...explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the ...
5: ...ess than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe...
7: ...s of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United Stat...
9: ...he first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - 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... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...rneys along the eastern coastline of [[South America]] convinced him that a new continent had been dis...
10: ...erating his role and constructing deliberate fabrications, others have instead proposed that the two l...
12: ...nine form ''America''. (See also [[Naming of America]].) ''Amerigo'' itself is an Italian form of ''[[...
14: ...made four voyages to America, while at most three can be verified from other sources. It is now genera...
16: ...oyage. But his claim is clearly fraudulent, which casts more doubt on Vespucci's credibility. - 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... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...ith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Flore...
3: ...irst female painter to become a member of the [[Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She wa...
7: ...er father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style was just ...
10: ...e of the [[Bologna]] school (which had [[Annibale Carracci]] among its major artists).
12: ...iosi Palace]] in [[Rome]], so Orazio hired the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unf... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...orians accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost no...
8: ...and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, ar...
13: ... crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...was called Jesus ([[Matthew 1:21|Matt. 1:21]]), because he was to save his people from their sins. Th...
17: ...he dead body of her son is a common motif in art, called a [[piet?. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
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... - 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... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...b|left|250px|[[Great Western Railway]] No. 6833 ''Calcot Grange'', a [[4-6-0]] [[GWR 6800 Class|Grange...
3: ...ly detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ... one direction, and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
10: ... maintain one locomotive than many self-propelled cars.
11: ...s away from passengers. This was particularly the case for the '''steam locomotive''', but still has 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... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...enerally rare and had to be imported from other locations.
11: ... Hammurabi. The head has the wide open eyes, typical of the time period.
13: ...visible if viewed from the side. The piece was excavated at [[Nimrud]] (in northern [[Mesopotamia]]),...
16: ...lette, which was used for mixing eye make-up, was carved in relief, and portrayed the victory of [[Upp...
18: ...he most famous is the [[Great Sphinx of Giza]], located near the pyramids. It is about 60 feet high a... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...t crystaline like the sugar was originally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
5: ...ned with a specific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses in common use as a building, cont...
9: ...nd will break into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely, with the ...
13: ...[[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), which is the same chemical compound found in [[quartz]], or in its polycrys...
18: ...[Image:Glass-Ball.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shap... - Printing (4400 bytes)
4: ...producing copies of [[text]]s and [[image]]s, typically with [[ink]] on [[paper]] using a [[printing p...
6: ...hich is principally used for [[newspaper]]s and [[catalogue]]s). The largest commercial and industria...
11: ...est surviving book printed using the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[...
15: ...ssachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.
17: In ''Prints and Visual Communication'', [[William Ivins]] offers the following con... - 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]] ...
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
52: * [[1500 AD]] - The Renaissance - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: ...n]] does not take place only at the surface. Typically this is used for the production of [[pig iron]...
4: ... [[China]] in the [[1st century BC]]. However, [[cast iron]] artifacts found in China have been dated...
6: ...uel made blast furnace-based iron smelting significantly less expensive.
9: ...the middle of the mixture. The results of this localized burning was a liquid that sank to the bottom...
15: ...], reacting chemically to produce pure iron and [[carbon dioxide]], which leaks out of the furnace at ... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
1: ...t|thumb|Artists can use woodworking to create delicate [[sculpture]]s.]]
2: ...dworking''' is the process of building, making or carving something using [[wood]].
3: [[Category:Skills]]
9: ...d wooden folding-chairs. The [[list of archaeological sites|site]] of [[Fellbach-Schmieden]] in German...
13: ...eomancy]]. It mentions almost nothing of the intricate glueless and nailless joinery for which Chinese... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
13: ... years. It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
15: ... was the language both of [[Archaic]] and [[Classical]] periods of Greek civilisation. It has been stu...
17: ...blished in the city of [[Rome]] and Koine Greek became a first or second language in the [[Roman Empir...
21: ...directly from [[Koine Greek]], '''Modern Greek''' can be traced in the late [[Byzantine]] period (as e...
25: ''The historical stages of the Greek language that are placed pri...
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