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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... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She recorded several hit songs with them, including "(If You ...
8: ...bb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Or...
10: ... other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s voice and t...
12: ...iddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pablo R...
14: ...scar Peterson]], [[Count Basie]] ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), [[Joe Pass]] ("Speak love"), [[D... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=Third President
7: | preceded=[[John Adams]]
8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]] - Albania (24647 bytes)
1: ...]] in the southwest. The country is an emerging [[democracy]] and is formally named the '''Republic of...
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11: ...lign="center" width="140" | ([[Flag of Albania|In detail]])
12: ...gn="center" width="140" | ([[Emblem of Albania|In detail]]) - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
2: ...s4.jpg|thumb|200px|Medieval Musicians. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
9: ...implicity of chant, with unison voice and natural declamation, is most common.
11: ...multiple texts and instrumental accompaniment has developed by the end of the era.
14: ...musical notation|notation]] was a relatively late development, reconstruction of this music, especiall...
17: ...ic of the 13th century uses the rhythmic modes as defined by Garlandia. - John Locke (14749 bytes)
2: ...-image-crca.jpg|400px|thumb|John Locke Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...up called the [[British Empiricists]], which includes [[David Hume]] and [[George Berkeley]]. Locke is...
6: ...found reading modern philosophers, such as [[Rene Descartes]], more interesting than the classical mat...
8: ...ed a bachelor's degree in [[1656]] and a master's degree in [[1658]]. Although Locke never became a me...
10: ...n Locke's writing of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. - Pope Pontian (1443 bytes)
1: ...r of the Liberian Catalogue of bishops of Rome, made in the fourth century (''Catholic Encyclopedia'')...
3: ..."). The inscripton "MARTUR" ("martyr") had been added in another hand.
11: Predecessor=[[Pope Urban I|Saint Urban I]]| - Pope Eutychian (1004 bytes)
1: ... "Annuario Pontificio" of [[2003]]). His original epitaph was discovered in the [[catacomb]]s of [[Pope Cal...
3: ...ditions, since there was no persecution after the death of [[Aurelian]] in 275 and blessing the produc...
5: His feast is kept on [[December 8]].
8: Predecessor=[[Pope Felix I|Saint Felix I]]| - Pope Caius (802 bytes)
1: ...[December 17]], 283. His tomb, with the original epitaph, was discovered in the [[catacomb]]s of [[Pope Ca...
6: Predecessor=[[Pope Eutychian|Saint Eutychian]]| - Pope Eusebius (1024 bytes)
2: ...e toward the [[Lapsed]], which represented the milder standpoint.
4: ...etery of Calixtus. [[Pope Damasus I]] placed an [[epitaph]] of eight [[hexameter]]s over his tomb; the epit...
10: Predecessor=[[Pope Marcellus I|Saint Marcellus I]]|
11: Successor=[[Pope Miltiades|Saint Miltiades]]|Dates=c.309-310}} - Pope Adrian I (2590 bytes)
1: '''Adrian''', or '''Hadrian I''', (died [[December 25]], [[795]]) was [[pope]] from [[772]] to...
3: ...territory ruled by the popes was invaded by [[Desiderius]], king of the [[Lombards]], and Adrian found...
4: [[Italy]] with a large army, besieged Desiderius in his capital of [[Pavia]], took that town, ...
6: ...e, and the dispute remained unsettled at Adrian's death.
8: ...ancient [[aqueduct]]s of Rome. At the time of his death, his was the longest papacy since [[Saint Pete... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...ualled, due to his understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world ...
8: ...ence on the English-speaking world shows in the widespread use of [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakes...
12: ...t through the study of considerable historical evidence.
14: ...haps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [...
17: ...an [[alderman]]. Some evidence exists that both sides of the family had [[Roman Catholic]] sympathies.... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...etribution.) Some math historians consider Archimedes to be one of history's greatest mathematicians, ...
4: ...ented the [[irrigation]] device known as [[Archimedes' screw]].
6: ...inst the invading Romans was the [[claw of Archimedes]].
8: ...wooden ship with a variety of mirrors, they concluded that the enemy ships would have had to be virtua...
10: Archimedes was killed in Syracuse by a Roman soldier in 212... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Richard M. Nixon
4: | order=37th President
7: | preceded=[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
8: | succeeded=[[Gerald R. Ford]]
11: | dead=dead - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
6: ...Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], the son of [[Sweden|Swedish]] immigrants. He grew up in [[Little Fal...
11: ...[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] later that same year.
13: ... voice on behalf of aviation activities until his death. He served on a variety of national and intern...
15: ...onsumption. These innovations are the basis of modern intercontinental air travel.
17: {{multi-video start}} - Ancient music (3386 bytes)
2: '''Ancient music''' is [[music]] that developed in literate cultures, replacing [[prehisto...
4: ...usic]]. For [[Arab music]], [[ancient history]] ended in [[622 CE]].
6: ...ete]] ([[second century AD]]), and the [[Seikilos epitaph]] (dated variously between the 2nd century BCE an...
8: ...nsidered to continue its "ancient" style and includes much [[Asian music]], [[Jewish music]], [[Greek ...
12: ...ved both [[Iraqi wars]], and attempts are being made to play a replica of it as part of a touring [[or... - Musical notation (19883 bytes)
3: ...is shown using the [[diatonic scale]], with [[accidental]]s to allow notes on the [[chromatic scale]],...
8: There is some evidence that a kind of musical notation was practiced ...
10: ...ion using this notation — is the [[Seikilos epitaph]], which has been variously dated between the [[2...
12: ...but its few surviving fragments have not yet been deciphered.
16: == Standard notation described == - Pat Nixon (3962 bytes)
7: ...all the household duties for her father and two older brothers. At 18, she lost her father after nursi...
9: ...ra in the movies—and she graduated ''cum laude'' in 1937.
13: ...ay, and were married at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California on June 21, 1940.
15: ...e [[Vice President of the United States|Vice Presidency]] on the ticket with Dwight D. Eisenhower.
17: ...ite the demands of official life, the Nixons were devoted parents to their two daughters, [[Tricia Nix...
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