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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He ...
2: ...Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ... time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get ...
5: ...first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of th... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...al monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. S...
9: ...]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed with impat...
11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|ho...
16: ...on after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Successio...
18: ...daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbish... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Madison
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg|thumb
4: | order=4th President
7: | preceded=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
8: | succeeded=[[James Monroe]] - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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10: | '''Order:''' || 16th President
15: | '''Predecessor:''' || [[James Buchanan]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]] - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ba]] (also known as Gulf of [[Eilat]]), and the [[Dead Sea]].
16: government_type = [[Parliamentary democracy]] |
17: leader_titles = [[Prime Minister]]<br>[[President]] |
18: leader_names = [[Ariel Sharon]]<br>[[Moshe Katsav]] |
22: area_magnitude = 1 E10 | - Agathocles (2843 bytes)
5: ...e in about [[343 BC]], he learned his father's trade, but afterwards entered the army. In [[333 BC]] h...
7: ...shed or murdered some 10,000 citizens, and thus made himself master of Syracuse, he created a strong a...
9: ...After several victories he was at last completely defeated ([[307 BC]]) and fled secretly to Sicily.
12: ...ing a fresh attack on Carthage at the time of his death.
14: ...gathocles restored the Syracusan democracy on his death bed and - Agis II (2300 bytes)
1: ...]) was a [[Eurypontid]] king of [[Sparta]], the eldest son of [[Archidamus]] and half brother of [[Age...
3: ...bably in [[427 BC]], and as king was the chief leader of Spartan military
6: ...tory within his grasp when he unaccountably concluded a four months' truce and withdrew his forces.
8: ...thens, which was ended in spring 404 by the surrender of the city.
10: Subsequently he invaded and ravaged [[Elis]], forcing the Eleans to ackn... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...nd 320 BCE. Pytheas was the first Graeco-Roman to describe the [[Midnight Sun]], the [[Polar Aurora|au...
4: ...e Moon. In northern [[Spain]], he studied the [[tide]]s, and may have discovered that they are caused ...
6: ...es, Land's End, Plymouth, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Iceland, Britain's east coast, Kent, [...
8: ... took advantage of a temporary lapse in the blockade, known to have taken place around the time he tra...
10: ...ek as ''Prettanike'', which [[Diodorus]] later rendered ''Pretannia''. This supports theories that the... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
5: ''For details, see the main [[Pre-Colonial America]] artic...
10: ''For details, see the main [[Colonial America]] article.'...
12: ... which was distinct from that of its European founders.
15: ''For details, see the main [[History of the United States...
17: ...ring this period the United States won its independence from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] during t... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
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6: [[Military history of the Confederate States]]
14: |Result||Defeat of seceding CSA
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27: | width="50%" valign="top"|[[Confederate States of America]]<br />[[Image:starsnbars.p... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...had roots of power back to the days of the [[Crusade]]s, all fell during or after the war.
4: The causes of World War I were complex developments by themselves (see [[#Diplomatic and po...
6: ...s the last direct major conflict of the war. The defeat of [[Germany]] in the war and failure to reso...
8: ...n diplomatic ineptitude as well as a tremendous tide of nationalism that swept the European continent ...
10: ... on the home front due to food shortages, [[genocide]], and ground combat. - Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
3: ...'s "Migrant Mother," an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States]]
7: *[[1931]] - [[Japan]] invades [[Manchuria]]
15: ...33]] - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] becomes President
26: *[[1933]] - [[Montevideo Conference]]
32: *[[1934]] - [[Federal Housing Administration]] - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ... horrendous casualties, as high as twenty million dead.
11: ...e Minster [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet ...
13: ...des that they could stay there and that neither side would use force to push the other out. This tacit...
15: ...e to vie for the allegiance of the developing and developed world in the postwar years.
17: ...f-interest. [[World War II]] resulted in enormous destruction of infrastructure and populations throug... - Pope Pelagius I (1629 bytes)
1: ..., or districts, into which [[Italy]] was then divided. Pelagius accompanied [[Pope Agapitus I]] to [[...
3: ...6]]. Totila sent Pelagius to Constantinople in order to arrange a peace with Justinian I, but the Emp...
5: ...mpromise between the various Christian factions under one Church in the form of the "[[schism of the T...
8: Predecessor=[[Pope Vigilius|Vigilius]]| - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...on's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the [[Bourbon Dynasty, Restored...
5: ..., following Napoleon's final [[Battle of Waterloo|defeat at Waterloo]] and the [[Treaty of Paris (1815...
12: ...ld, and the United Kingdom's industrial economy made it the most powerful commercial nation as well.
13: ...gal system, with clearly redacted [[code of law|codes]] compiling the basic laws.
14: ..., but on the basis of human culture, origin, and ideology. - Ship (18843 bytes)
1: [[Image:Genoa 139a.jpg||thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ... a boat". Often local [[law]] and regulation will define the exact size (or the number of [[mast (sail...
4: ... have a [[bowsprit]] but this was not part of the definition. The same economic pressures which increa...
10: ... [[volume]] rather than weight, and are used when describing merchant ships for the purpose of tolls, ...
12: ... ship-owners could load their vessels until their decks were almost awash, resulting in a dangerously ... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Fitzgerald Kennedy
4: | order=35th President
7: | preceded=[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
8: | succeeded=[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
11: | dead=dead - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Herbert Hoover
4: | order=31st President
7: | preceded=[[Calvin Coolidge]]
8: | succeeded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
11: | dead=dead - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
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7: |Ordered:|| [[4 October]] [[1861]]
15: |Fate:|| Lost at sea, [[31 December]] [[1862]]
33: ...nclad [[CSS Virginia|''Virginia'']] of the [[Confederate States Navy]].
35: ...y of wood. After the Battle of Hampton Roads, the design of ships and the nature of naval warfare chan... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ... years of civil war that followed, Octavian would defeat such enemies as [[Marcus Brutus]], [[Gaius Ca...
5: ...[police force]] and the world's first [[fire brigade]]. He finished, repaired or rebuilt almost every ...
7: ...borders he established to become the [[natural borders]] for the Empire for over 400 years. His surnam...
10: ...ble but undistinguished family of the equestian order on [[September 23]], [[63 BC]]. His father was t...
12: ...y against Caesar’s orders that turned the tide of the battle and granted Caesar his last victory...
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