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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]] - 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. - 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]]
9: ...ed in the ''Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]...
11: ...[New York]] in 1882 using the bronze from English Cannons seized after the English attacked San Juan i... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
27: ... [[Protodynastic Period of Egypt|Dynasty 0]] ''circa'' 3100?2920 ===
220: *[[Ahmose I|Ahmose]] (Nebpehtyre) 1539-1514
221: *[[Amenhotep I]] (Djeserkare) 1514-1493 - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...mile|mi²]]). It is also called ''the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea'' or ''the European Mediterran...
11: ...ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "the middle sea", ...
17: ...e Black Sea is generally not. The man-made [[Suez Canal]] in the south-east connects the Mediterranean...
25: * [[Sardinia]], [[Corsica]], [[Sicily]], and [[Malta]] in the central Medit...
26: * [[Ibiza]], [[Majorca]] and [[Minorca]] (the [[Balearic Islands]]) in the western Medit... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...#1502;ְדִינַת יִשְׂרָ...
6: native_name = מדינת ישראל<br>("Medinat...
11: image_map = LocationIsrael.png |
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $22,944 | - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...], a [[shrub]] native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the [[Old World]] and the [[New ...
4: ...es of natural springs. When the cotton boll (seed case) is opened the fibers dry into flat, twisted, r...
9: ...nce that people in South America and India domesticated different species of cotton independently thou...
13: ...hern [[Europe]], without any knowledge of what it came from other than that it was a [[plant]]; people...
15: ...regions in [[Africa]], [[Eurasia]] and [[the Americas]]. - Influenza (10335 bytes)
1: ...a'''. For the digestive-system diseases commonly called "stomach '''flu'''" (and widely misunderstood...
2: ...px|Negatively stained flu virions. These were the causative agent of the [[Hong Kong Flu]] pandemic. ]...
4: ... [[astrology|astrological]] ''influences'' as the cause of the disease.
12: ...nd to have more resistance to influenza B and C because they only undergo [[antigenic drift]] and have...
14: ...uses can be further classified based on the viral capsid proteins [[haemagglutinin]] (HA or H) and [[n... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
1: ...ngst av Carl Larsson 1897.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Carl Larsson]], ''Crayfishing'', watercolor, 1897]]
3: ...[plastic]]s, [[leather]], [[fabric]], wood, and [[canvas]].
6: ...[Spain]] and the technology spread to [[Italy]] decades later. Some of the oldest paper manufactures i...
10: ...ne Chapel]], begun in [[1508]] and completed in [[1514]].
12: ...nti]] ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), who painted full-scale cartoons as precursors for tapestry designs. - 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)). ... - Raphael (3466 bytes)
2: ...arlier confusion about these dates). He was also called '''Raffaello Sanzio, Raffaello Santi, Raffael...
8: ...] he was called to [[Rome]] to decorate the [[Vatican]] ''Stanze'' (rooms), for [[Pope Julius II]]. Th...
10: ...hief architect of [[Saint Peter's Basilica]] in [[1514]] and he was named as a sort of supervisor for Ro...
12: ...funeral. His last work, the Transfiguration, was carried before him in the funeral procession. The un...
18: ...[Gregorian Calendar]]. Clearly, these statements cannot all be true. - 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.
10: * ''Relazione di Spagna'' (1514)
15: ...no ai "Discorsi" del Machiavelli sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio'' (1528) - 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... - 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]], [... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
5: ...non-Indo-European language — conventionally called [[Hattic language|Hattic]].
7: ... the two peoples to be the same, but this identification is still disputed.
11: ==Archaeological discovery==
12: The first archaeological evidence for the Hittites appeared in tablets fo...
14: ...ith the biblical Hittites. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the ea... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ... the side of Pedro Arias d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Pe...
4: == Travels and Career ==
5: ...his discovery and colonization voyage through [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]].
6:
7: ...oto led his own expedition along the coast of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find a direct connection by sea b... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
7: ...ght by [[Martin Behaim]]. In [[1496]], Magellan became a [[squire]].
9: ...llan would also first experience battle: when a local king refused to pay tribute, Almeida's party att...
11: ... [[1510]], Magellan was promoted to the rank of [[captain]]. However, after secretly sailing a ship ea...
13: ...nee wound while fighting against the Moorish-Moroccan stronghold. Although wounded and the recipient o...
15: ...ment in his country's service after [[May 15]], [[1514]]. Magellan formally renounced his nationality an...
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