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- 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...
21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...in the 17th century would be "[[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather th...
16: ...e absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter became the...
20: ... of the Church he saw Puritanism as a potentially dangerous movement; he authorized the [[King James B...
36: ... [[United Church of Christ]]) is the direct descendant of New England Puritan congregations, although ...
59: ...and who were relatively tolerant of other faiths—at least in England; the popular image is sligh... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...#24335;部 ''Murasaki Shikibu'', c. [[973]]–c. [[1014 or c 1025]]) was a [[novelist]], [[po...
10: ...her mid fifties, which was quite old by Heian standards.
12: ...Tale of Murasaki: A Novel'' was written by [[Liza Dalby]], who is the only Westerner to have been trai...
15: * Dalby, Liza. ''The Tale of Murasaki: A Novel'' (Anch... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...ева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[p...
10: ...ed of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poe...
20: ... for five years. During the [[famine]] one of her daughters died of starvation.
22: ...the style of a [[diary]] or journal begins on the day of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in March 1917, ...
24: ...turn to, she had no way to support herself or her daughters. In [[1919]], she placed Irina in a state ... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
3: ...ldegard of Bingen''' ([[September 16]] [[1098]] – [[September 17]], [[1179]]) was a [[German peo...
24: ...saints and Virgin Mary for the holidays and feast days, and antiphons. There is some evidence that her...
26: ...nal use. Thus, "Reyan (tansy) is hot and a little damp and is good against all superfluous flowing hum...
34: ...eak and parents feel no love, leading to a bitter daughter.
37: ... of paradise. According to her, before the Fall, Adam had a pure voice and joined angels in singing pr... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
3: ...μαῖος; [[c.]] [[85]] – c. [[165]]), known in English as '''Ptolemy'''...
5: ... (in Greek ''Η μεγάλη Σύνταξι&sig...
7: ...ains a [[star catalogue]], which is probably an updated version of a catalogue created by Hipparchus. ...
11: ... than degrees of arc (the length of the midsummer day increases from 12h to 24h as you go from the equ...
16: ...g manuscripts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was redisc... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
6: ...erm of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1869]] – [[March 3]], [[1877]]</td></tr>
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[April 27]], [[1822]]</td>...
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 23]], [[1885]]</td>...
17: ;[[Schuyler Colfax]] ([[1869]]–[[1873]])
18: ;[[Henry Wilson]] ([[1873]]–[[1875]])</td></tr> - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...the period were [[Christopher Columbus]], [[Vasco da Gama]], [[Pedro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], ...
11: ...e route to the east became far more difficult and dangerous. The [[Black Death]] of the fourteenth cen...
18: ...[Indian Ocean]] was possible. In [[1498]] [[Vasco da Gama]] made good on this promise by reaching Indi...
26: ...found the wealth it had sought in the form of abundant gold. In the Americas the Spanish found a numbe...
31: ... on the [[Gold Coast (Africa)|Gold Coast]], [[Luanda]], [[Mozambique]], [[Zanzibar]], [[Mombassa]], [[... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
41: | [[Daniyal Akhmetov]]
72: ...o the Great, Middle and Little (or Small) Hordes—confederations based on extended family network...
76: ...ers began [[colonising]] the territory of present-day Kazakhstan, in particular the province of [[Semi...
78: ...n|Soviet]] rule. In [[1920]], the area of present-day Kazakhstan became an [[Republics of Russia|auton...
82: ...lopment of the agricultural sector, which to this day remains the source of livelihood for a large per... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
25: | [[Serrekunda]]
36: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date
40: | [[Dalasi]] (D)
61: ...a, but the French retained a tiny enclave at Albreda on the north bank of the river, which was ceded t...
67: ...Heads_of_State_of_the_Gambia|President]] [[Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara]], who was re-elected five times. ... - Botswana (22276 bytes)
36: | '''[[Independence]]'''<br /> - Date
58: ...a; the majority of [[Setswana]]-speaking people today live in South Africa.
73: ... a hearing. The [[constitution]] has a code of fundamental [[human rights]] enforced by the courts, an...
102: ...ressive economic record has been built on the foundation of wisely using revenue generated from [[diam...
111: ... ratings by [[Moody's Investors Service]] and Standard & Poor's. This ranks Botswana as by far the be... - Alaska (24727 bytes)
18: LandArea = 1,481,347 |
26: AdmittanceDate = [[January 3]], [[1959]] |
27: ...utian Standard Time Zone|Aleutian]]: [[UTC]]-10/[[Daylight saving time|-9]] (west of 169? 30') |
50: ... U.S. state insects|State insect]]'''||[[Libellulidae|Skimmer Dragonfly]]
66: ...Yukon Territory]] and [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]] to the east, the [[Gulf of Alaska]] and the [[P... - California (63989 bytes)
16: TradAbbreviation = Calif. |
19: LandArea = 404,298 |
31: AdmittanceDate = [[September 9]], [[1850]] |
32: ...Pacific]]: [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]-8/[[Daylight saving time|-7]] |
63: ... = [[West Coast Swing]]; folk - [[Square dance]] | - Texas (39610 bytes)
16: LandArea = 678,907 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 29]], [[1845]] |
25: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] <small>(part of west Texas...
30: HighestElev = [[Guadalupe Peak]], 2,667 |
41: * [[state flower]] — the [[bluebonnet]] (''Lupinus texensis'') - Alexander of Aphrodisias (2599 bytes)
- Mayflower (4074 bytes)
11: ...ather, the Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod after 65 days at sea.
21: ...rt at http://www.familyforest.com/Mayflower_Descendants.html
35: ....mayflower.org General Society of Mayflower Descendants] - Space (10661 bytes)
1: :''This article is about '''space''' — the scientific and philosophical concept. For ...
4: * One view of space is that it is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a set of [[dimen...
6: ... A contrasting view is that space is part of a fundamental [[abstract]] mathematical [[concept]]ual fr...
8: ...s, but treats both as features of [[spacetime]] – a conception that challenges intuitive notions...
24: ...an be considered 'space'. In particular, the boundary between space and [[Earth's atmosphere]] is con... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
45: ...e parent star, perhaps orbiting it in a matter of days. It has been hypothesised that while the giant...
59: The first and most fundamental of these advances was the [[Nicolaus Copern...
92: ! Day<br/>(days)
191: ! Day<br/>(days)
245: ...mes;10<sup>9</sup> [[kilometer|km]]<sup>2</sup> —about 11 times the area of the Earth's land mas... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
30: ... shape]] was developed by [[Clark R. Chapman]], [[David Morrison]], and [[Ben Zellner]]. These propert...
67: ...t. Multiple pairs could be taken over a series of days. Second, the two [[film]]s of the same region w...
98: ...heir provisional designation, e.g. [[(29075) 1950 DA]].
103: ...such names started to run out, others were used —famous people, literary characters, the names o...
120: ...] by [[243 Ida]] and its moon [[Dactyl (asteroid)|Dactyl]], all of which were imaged by the [[Galileo ... - Planet (8450 bytes)
28: ...or rocky: Planets that are similar to [[Earth]] — with bodies largely composed of [[Rock (geolog...
43: ...factor of 2.8; S/1993 243 (1) [[Dactyl (asteroid)|Dactyl]] by a factor of 1.3; and, most remarkably, [...
48: ...]s (those outside our solar system) discovered to date have masses which are about the same or larger ...
56: ... solar system. No interstellar planet is known to date, but their existence is considered a plausible ...
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