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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]]) - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
7: ... [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three day...
10: * [[1852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Pi...
12: ... of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Un... - 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. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]...
9: *[[Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist
14: ...[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
28: ..., Archbishop George]], (1562-1633), Archbishop of Canterbury
29: ...a Abbot|Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar - 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... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...' ([[Aramaic language|Jud毭Aramaic]] '''מרים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[S...
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... - Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ... Persia|Artaxerxes II]]), and heroine of the Biblical [[Book of Esther]] which is named after her.
7: ...at Esther hid her nationality and lineage as Mordecai had advised. In addition [[God]]'s workings are ...
9: ...Hebrew rendition of the latter name is the phonetically unrelated [[Ashtoreth]]. The names may neverth...
12: ...n|Benjamite]]. She resided with her cousin [[Mordecai]], who held some office in the household of the ...
14: ...anged on the [[gallows]] he had intended for Mordecai; and the Jews established an annual feast, the f... - 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... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...] on his second voyage to the [[New World]]. He became the first [[Governor of Puerto Rico]] by appoin...
4: ...tives had no immunity. Ponce de León, however, became rich while serving as Governor.
6: [[Image:Agueybana.JPG|right|thumb|Cacique Agueybana greeting Juan Ponce de León]]
7: ...s. Ponce de León was then removed from office in 1512 and felt his good name had been damaged. Not wish...
9: ...ed in the ''Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...1463;ת יִשְׂרָאֵל, [[transliteration]]...
6: ...1502;דינת ישראל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>د...
11: image_map = LocationIsrael.png |
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $22,944 | - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ... America|Central]] and [[South America|South American]] countries.<!--
11: image_map = LocationSpain.png |
15: capital = [[Madrid]] |
20: leader_names = [[Juan Carlos I of Spain|Juan Carlos I]]<br>[[Jos頌uis Rodr�ez Zapatero|Jos頌u...
35: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $24,803 | - 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]]). - 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. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
7: ...sant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle ...
9: ...s". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of his illegitimate status.
14: Later, he became an independent painter in Florence.
16: ...e]]. After two months in jail, he was acquitted because no witnesses stepped forward. For some time af...
20: ...al]]. One of his loves may have been Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno (nicknamed Salai (Little Devil)). ... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
1: [[Image:Machiavelli.jpg|thumb|150px|Machiavelli, ca [[1500]], in the robes of a Florentine public off...
3: ...elli was also a key figure in [[realist]] [[political theory]], crucial to European statecraft during ...
10: ...ouis XII was also the king who committed the five capital errors in statecraft summarized in ''The Pri...
12: ...lic tomb in his honor can be found at the [[Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze]].
15: ...as viewed in a negative light largely because the Catholic church put the work in its Index – a ... - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
1: ...avelli]], he is considered one of the major political writers of the [[Italian Renaissance]].
3: ...cciardini presents a worldview that is more skeptical and more conservative than that of Machiavelli.
8: * ''Diario di Spagna'' (1512)
9: * ''Discorso di Logrogno'' (1512)
15: ...no ai "Discorsi" del Machiavelli sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio'' (1528) - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
4: <tr><td>[[image:mercator.jpg|200px|Gerardus Mercator]]</td></tr>
7: ...pher]] of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] named after him.
9: ...] to construct a terrestrial [[globe]]. Later, Mercator produced a map of [[Palestine (region)|Palesti...
11: ...rmapFullEurope16thcentury.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Mercator map of Europe]]
12: ...552]], he moved to [[Duisburg]] where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map ... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...ly. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by the [[Medici...
21: ...ano della Bella]], that resulted in a set of laws called the [[Ordinances of Justice]] ([[1293]]).
23: ...f the Ciompi]]. After their suppression, the city came under the sway ([[1382]]-[[1434]]) of the [[Alb...
25: ...can prior [[Girolamo Savonarola]], whose monomaniacal persecution of the widespread Florentine [[Homos...
27: ...have often been seen as a legitimisation of political expediency and even malpractice. Commissioned by... - 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)
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