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- 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]]) - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...ul ways: A rebirth of [[classical education|classical learning and knowledge]] through the rediscovery...
10: ...', etc. This terminology is particularly useful because it eliminates the need for fitting "The Renais...
17: ...urch of [[Florence]], [[Italy]]. Florence was the capital of the Renaissance]]
21: ...ethod of learning. These new ideas from the past (called the "new learning" at the time) triggered the...
23: ...oint in warfare as [[cannon]] and [[gunpowder]] became a central element. In addition, Byzantine-Greek... - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
10: ...esumably murdered by his bodyguard and Senuseret, campaigning against Lybian invaders, returned to Ilj...
12: ...872 BC]]) continued the policy of his father to recapture [[Nubia]] and other territories lost during ...
22: ... she apparently had no heirs, the Twelfth dynasty came to an end as did the Golden Age of the Middle K...
27: * [[1800 BC]] - [[Moscow Papyrus|Moscow Mathematical Papyrus]]
28: * [[1650 BC]] - [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]] - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: ...ogy]] is a type of [[chronology]] worked on for decades by scholars of [[Egyptology]].
7: ...he Egyptian calendar with attested dates in other calendaric systems, for example, Greek, Jewish, Assy...
9: ...cient world'' (1980: 83-84 and 106), has properly called it "the rather fluid chronology of the [[Phar...
13: ...revious "firm" dates cannot be supported astronomically.
15: This Menophres Era can be tied to at least four Egyptian rulers, althou... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...with some hills in the island's interior. It is located 13? north of the [[Equator]] and 59? west of t...
3: ...island's interior are also dotted with large sugarcane estates and wide [[pastures]] with many good vi...
9: ...lodoid-Barrancoid. For the next few centries, the Caribs—like the Arawak and the Salodoid-Barran...
11: ...[[Slavery|slave labor]] on [[plantation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere.
13: ...ess, Barbados always enjoyed a large measure of local autonomy. Its House of Assembly began meeting in... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
11: national_anthem = [[Zdravljica]] |
13: capital = [[Ljubljana]] |
33: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $21,695 |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 34th |
45: calling_code = 386 | - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ... [[332 BC]]. Although recent excavations reveal a cattle-[[herding]] society of peoples living in the ...
6: ...t of the [[geography of Egypt]] is in [[North Africa]]; the [[Sinai Peninsula]] is in [[Southwest Asia...
10: ... "''God's Land.''" The exact location of [[Yam (Location)|Yam]] is disputed. And it is unknown if [[Al...
14: ...c shape formed from a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces. [[Cement|Hydra...
16: ...], in the form of the [[Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri]]. An awareness of the [[Golden ratio]] s... - 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]]). - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...a martyr to the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against church doctrine.
7: ...me Giordano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint Domenico n...
10: ...ic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical element]]s: earth, air fire, water]]
13: ...icated]] for his adherence to [[Copernicus|Copernicanism]] and forced to leave for [[France]].
15: ...poraries found it easier to attribute them to magical powers. - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...an]] ''Venezia''), the city of [[canal]]s, is the capital of the region of [[Veneto]], population 271,...
6: ...tate]] (an Italian [[thalassocracy]] or ''Repubblica Marinara'', the other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pi...
10: ...gean]], including [[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]], and became a major power-broker in the [[Near East]]. By t...
12: Venice became an imperial power following the [[Fourth Crusad...
14: ...[[knight tenure]] within the city itself. The ''[[Cavalieri di San Marco]]'' was the only order of [[c... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...elow in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ... Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
37: *[[Cahit Arf]] (Turkey, [[1910]] - [[1997]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]]...
106: *[[Jonathan Borwein]] (Scotland/Canada, [[1951]]-) - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
8: ...5 tons of freight with this and the weight of the car on two four wheel support trucks. Fully loaded, ...
9: ...e the weight of the train evenly, allowing significantly greater loads per [[axle]]/wheel than in [[ro...
11: ...ient use of space: a double tracked rail line can carry more passengers or freight in a given amount o...
17: ...run through cities and the countryside is impractical.
22: ...switch]]es, [[Railway signal|signals]], [[classification yard]]s, etc. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}} - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ...n be found under "[[Classification of Native Americans]]."
5: ... with other arctic peoples not native to the American continent, such as those from arctic [[Russia]]n...
7: ...ve Canadians". First Peoples are enshrined in the Canadian Constitution with various treaty rights, so...
9: ...d the [[Mestizo]]s and [[Zambo]]s of [[Latin America]].
11: ...the [[US]] state of [[Hawaii]], natives of [[American Samoa]] (USA) and natives of [[Easter Island]] (... - Ashkelon (5935 bytes)
5: ...n was the oldest and largest seaport in ancient [[Canaan]], one of the "five cities" of the [[Philisti...
6: ...t 50 feet of accumulated rubble from successive [[Canaan]]ite, [[Philistines|Philistine]], [[Phoenicia...
8: ...hkelon was a thriving Middle [[Bronze Age]] (2000-1550 BCE) city of more than 150 acres (607,000 m&...
10: ... so capacious that later Roman and Islamic fortifications, faced with stone, followed the same footpri...
12: ...odus|Exodus]], [[Hosea]] inveighs against kissing calf-images (''Hosea'' 13:2). - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
2: ...cenaean period takes its name from the archaeological site [[Mycenae]] in the northeastern [[Argolid]]...
8: ...eek language|Greek]]. The Mycenaean era script is called [[Linear B]].
10: ...and some of the nobility underwent [[mummy|mummification]].
12: ...reek people, the [[Dorians]], although the historical validity of this theory is now doubted.
18: ...rne Furumark]] based on the material from the [[excavation]]s of [[Asine]]. He provided a list of pott... - Calcium (9166 bytes)
5: ...r">[[potassium]] – '''calcium''' – [[scandium]]</td>
7: ...owspan="3" valign="center">[[Magnesium|Mg]]<br>'''Ca'''<br>[[Strontium|Sr]] <br> <br>&...
8: <tr><td align="center">[[Image:Ca-TableImage.png]]<br>
15: ...t of elements by number|Number]]</td><td>calcium, Ca, 20</td></tr>
21: ...ty]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]] </td><td>1550 [[kilogram per cubic metre|kg/m<sup>3</sup>]], 1.... - Timeline of railway history (5902 bytes)
3: *''c''[[1550]] Horse-drawn [[wagonways]] appear in [[Germany]]...
11: ..., the world's first steam operated railway opens, carrying freight from a [[Colliery]] to a [[river po...
13: ...oves the viabillity of rail transport, and large scale railway construction begins in Britain, and the...
23: *[[1865]] [[Pullman]] [[sleeping car]] introduced in the [[USA]].
24: ...The [[First Transcontinental Railroad (North America)]] completed across the [[United States]]. - Slavery (26455 bytes)
4: ... authorities by masters who have some influence because of their status as landowners or [[wealth]]y p...
6: ...om]]''' is not usually synonymous with slavery, because serfs are considered to have had some rights.
8: ...our is now the preferred term of many scholars, because of the wide variety of ambiguities which may b...
16: In sweatshop labor cases, unfree labourers are often told that they are...
18: ...ntentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1099087810560...
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