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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
3: ...on|Nebuchadnezzar II]] around [[600 BC]] (present-day [[Iraq]]). However, there are doubts as to whet...
15: ...chadnezzar's homesick wife, [[Amyitis]]. Amyitis, daughter of the king of the Medes, was married to Ne...
46: [[da:Babylons h殧ende haver]]
51: ...1493;יים בבבל]]
54: [[pt:Jardins suspensos da Babil]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...he familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...addy]] agriculture is [[Radiocarbon dating|carbon-dated]] to about 6000 BC, and associated with the [[...
14: ...皇五帝). These rulers were legendary sage-kings and moral examplars, and one of them...
18: ...22799;朝) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeolog...
22: ...he last of the six capitals of the Shang (c 1300–1046 BC). - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
15: ...strator and was stripped of his governorship in [[1500]]. - Steel (28384 bytes)
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32: ...copper-smelting sites on the [[Sinai Peninsula]], dated to about 3000 BC. Some iron oxides are effect...
34: ...] died in [[1323 BC]] and was buried with an iron dagger with a golden hilt. An [[Ancient Egyptian]] [...
40: ...artifact is a knife found on [[Cyprus]] at a site dated to [[1100 BC]].
46: ...and weapons. A mass grave in [[Hebei]] province, dated to the early third century BC, contains severa... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...ent had been discovered, a bold contention in his day when everyone, including [[Christopher Columbus]...
16: ...ng 6�S, before turning around and seeing [[Trinidad]] and the [[Orinoco River]] and returning to [[S...
18: His next voyage in [[1501]]–[[1502]] was in service of [[Portugal]], when h...
20: Little is known of his last voyage, in [[1503]]–[[1504]], not even whether it actually took pla... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]...
2: ...nly man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of Israel]], the ...
6: ...ld. Her sisters' names were Shayna and Zipke. Golda looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the Unit...
10: ... Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda oversaw the store for a short time each morning a...
12: ...up school for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...ileschi''' ([[July 8]], [[1593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[...
10: ...elden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Carava...
12: ..., so Orazio hired the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that ...
14: ...apped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularly cruel torture to a painter. Bot...
18: ... Virgin Mary with Baby"''), currently in the [[Spada Gallery]], [[Rome]]. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
17: ...e cross along with her sister Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other wom...
19: ...ople in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day of [[Pentecost]], she is one of the handful who ...
25: ...French, Spanish, and Italian, is rendered ''Notre Dame'', ''Nuestra Señora'', and ''Madonna'' r...
27: ...ome Orthodox and Catholic Christians, she was the daughter of [[Joachim]] and [[Saint Anne|Anna]]. Bef...
41: ...too much attention is focused on Mary, there is a danger of detracting from the worship due to God alo... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[P...
2: ...le interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many...
7: ... to Henry V's heirs, disinheriting Charles, the [[Dauphin]] ([[crown prince]]), and making the infant ...
12: ...d they gave her male clothing to wear (as the standard disguise used in such circumstances) and brough...
14: ... small force she eventually led included the legendary soldiers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Coun... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
17: ... guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [...
37: ...1497;גמר לעולם
39: :''החול והים
41: ...1512;ישרוש של המים
45: :''תפילת האדם - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
5: ...ives haul their trains. Increasingly common these days in passenger service is [[push-pull]] operation...
27: ...wo and a half times that of diesel power, and the daily mileage achievable was far lower. As labour co...
29: ...e in [[China]], where [[coal]] is a much more abundant resource than [[petroleum]] for diesel fuel. In...
32: ...mber of which survive and are still operational today.
60: ...cal suppliers over German ones. In the US and Canada, they are now greatly outnumbered by diesel-elect... - Medieval art (6359 bytes)
1: ...f the Holy Wisdom]] in former [[Constantinople]]—the image of Christ on the walls of the upper s...
25: ...0 and the development of regional styles from 900-1500.
27: ...f artwork was destroyed; so little remains that today any discovery sheds new understanding. After 843...
29: ...ainting]] did not appear untill around 1200 (this date has many qualifications), when it diverged from...
85: **[[Dancing in the Middle Ages]] ([[Dance]]) - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
6: ...ing this time included basalt, diorite (a type of dark, coarse-grained stone), sandstone, and alabaste...
27: ...re found together in a single grave on [[Keros]], dating from 2700 - 2750 BC.
31: ... in the shape of a bull was found in Knossos from 1500-1450 BC. In addition, there are many double-blad...
37: ...mask found in the royal tombs of Mycenae from ca. 1500 BC. Also found in a tomb were gold cups from [[V...
42: ...o Santi|Raphael]] also sculpted a statue called ''David''. Most sculptures during the Renaissance were... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...was originally, which can be seen in its [[conchoidal]] fracture.
5: ... will be concerned with a specific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses in common use as a...
20: ...s is due to the addition of compounds such as [[soda ash]] (sodium carbonate).
30: ...he melting point to about 1000 ?C. However, the soda makes the glass water-soluble, which is obviously...
32: ...ass that absorbs [[UV]] wavelengths (biologically damaging ionizing radiation). - Printing (4400 bytes)
6: [[Book]]s are usually printed today using the technique of [[offset printing]], and ...
11: ...d using the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [...
15: ...an imported press in Mexico City, Mexico. Stephen Day built the first printing press in North America ...
39: * [[Adam d'Ambergau]]
40: * [[David Bruce]] - Jewellery (4234 bytes)
30: * [[1500 BC]] - Earplugs and earrings become popular in Eg...
52: * [[1500 AD]] - The Renaissance - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
4: ... [[cast iron]] artifacts found in China have been dated as early as the [[5th century BC]], so it is p...
6: In [[1709]], [[Abraham Darby]] developed a blast furnace that could be fire...
17: - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
13: ...—such as flower pots, tables, altars, etc.—and also contains extensive instructions concer...
61: ...working to prevent cracking, splitting, and other damage due to drying
62: * shake: a crack or split in wood, caused by damage or drying
82: *[[carpentry]] – Originally a carpenter was a wagon maker but c...
83: *[[joinery]] – The joining of two or more pieces of wood toge... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
13: ...phabet|IPA]] {{IPA|/ɛˌliniˈka/}} – "Hellenic") is an [[Indo-European]] [[language...
21: ...[Byzantine]] period (as early as 11th century). Today in its '''common''' form, it is spoken by approx...
32: ...]] and, with minor modifications, is still used today.
34: ...eek state, and the most widely spoken by Greeks today.
38: ...orm, with [[Latin language|Latin]] words, the foundation of international scientific and technical voc...
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